Salon Editor Joan Walsh KICKS BUTT!!! (Rush Limbaugh, Afghanistan, extremist, borders)
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We are extremely fortunate that our voters were wise enough to elect a President that does not listen to Cheney. We just went through 8 years with a President who did, and we paid a huge price for that. Many thousands paid the ultimate price and we're still counting. To have this guy continue to spew his venom is embarrassing to our Nation and frankly, dangerous.
Oh, how cool. I've always thought that I'd enjoy having a conversation with her.
I wish I could have spent some time actually talking with her more. As it was, all we did was exchange a few pleasantries. I expressed my admiration for her work, she asked how we felt about the inauguration, where we were from, etc. She was seated at the table right next to me, but she was talking with a gentleman and taking some notes which ended up being included in this piece (we're the people from Los Angeles she says she met), so I didn't want to be rude and take her full attention away from him. . .
"I hiked away from the Capitol in a happy multiracial crowd, unbelievable numbers of families and a remarkable number of people in wheelchairs. Nobody rushed anyone. I reunited with my daughter at the packed Le Bon Cafe, on 2nd and Pennsylvania, which had wireless service and the nearest coffee to the Capitol. There was a line out the door; happy people were sharing crowded tables (in the two hours I was there, we met people from Boston, Detroit, Los Angeles and Madison, Wis.). When we got inside, Dr. Arnett Girardeau, 80 years old in a blue Obama cap, kindly invited us to share his table. I asked him what he thought about the day's events. "I never thought I'd live to see it," he said. "You know, when Barack talked about his father not being served in some restaurants here 60 years ago, he was talking about me," Girardeau said. "I was a freshman at Howard University in 1947, and there were still separate accommodations here.""
In fact, here is a picture of her conducting that interview. . .
She's on Hardball right now and she is FURIOUS. I wish text on a screen could truly convey her outrage. If and when the clip gets put up online, I hope I can find it and post it here. In the meantime, I'll just have to transcribe her words.
Ron Christie has the gall to say: "I don't want him [President Obama] to act zealously. I want him to show some emotion. He's not showing the right emotion. And it's not a Republican attack or a Ron Christie attack, look at what Maureen Dowd said in the New York Times this morning. She said that he appeared like Dr. Spock [Matthews interrupts to correct him that it's Mr. Spock], this sort of a little bit detached, aloof. And I think Chris, frankly, this is a time of war. As much as Joan, and as much as many on the Democratic Left don't like to admit it, we are dealing with very serious issues right now."
[Cross-talk when Joan interrupts to say she admits that, and he reprimands her for cutting him off]
Ron Full-of-Gall Christie continues: "We are looking for the President of the United States on Christmas Day, when you have a radicalized Muslim trying to take down an American airliner on Christmas Day, to reassure the American people. I think he could have come out and said, "We are assessing the facts, we're assessing the situation. We'll get back to you," but I think that's what all Americans, not Republicans or Democrats, but Americans want from their President."
<snip another question from Chris Matthews>
". . .Christmas Day is one of the most holiest days in the Christian religious faith. This was a radicalized Muslim who tried to kill 300 Americans on Christmas Day. I wanted my President to come out and say, "We recognize this was an act of terror by a radicalized Muslim on Christmas Day and we're going to have this situation under control."
Okay Mr. Christie, you want emotion? Fasten your seatbelt for the wrath of Joan Walsh. . .
Joan Her-Fury-Knows-No-Bounds Walsh: "Richard Reid was a radicalized Muslim 3 days before Christmas. I had relatives flying and it was 2001 -- I was actually scared to death at that point, as were a lot of Americans. But nobody thought to bray about President Bush staying on his vacation because that wasn't the climate at the time. The climate right now is that Republicans use everything they can to undermine and delegitimize this President, and it's actually un-American. It's traitorous in my opinion. Do you want to give aid and comfort to our enemies? Continue to treat this President like he wasn't elected and he doesn't know what he's doing! He knows what he did, he knows what he's doing. I'm proud of him, I believe that he has the stalwart, resolute nature to get this done. In my opinion, sometimes he goes too far. But to talk about him like he's some Socialist out to lunch is just outrageous!"
WOO HOO! You Go, Girl!
She was awesome, as was Rachel later on. Maybe these women can show some of the democrat males how to grow a pair because the guys sure are being quiet while the president is being beat up on by these opportunistic shills for the neo cons.
She was awesome, as was Rachel later on. Maybe these women can show some of the democrat males how to grow a pair because the guys sure are being quiet while the president is being beat up on by these opportunistic shills for the neo cons.
She was awesome, as was Rachel later on. Maybe these women can show some of the democrat males how to grow a pair because the guys sure are being quiet while the president is being beat up on by these opportunistic shills for the neo cons.
I'm watching her now. Her 'Record Scratch' segment was excellent. I was extremely glad to see her throw down the 'fact check' gauntlet, though I doubt anyone will pick it up. That would require actual critical thinking and stuff.
We're at war, We're at war, let's say it a thousand times... so someone please tell me when these effete punk ass chicken hawks are going to step up to the plate instead of the nearest microphone and shoulder a weapon? Puleeeze, I couldn't watch Cheney's house boy of another second!
Nothing worse than a brother getting ***** slapped by a smarter white woman, frankly Joan seems to have more balls than this chump.
She was awesome, as was Rachel later on. Maybe these women can show some of the democrat males how to grow a pair because the guys sure are being quiet while the president is being beat up on by these opportunistic shills for the neo cons.
NBC would do good to have Rachel host MTP. Gregory is limp and annoying to me.
I agree where are the democrats. They have let the President have to do all the work. It is past time for them to get a spine and expose all the hatred the republicans are spewing. Ron Christie has cause me to almost PUKE. I truly like Joan and Rachel.
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