Newsweek's Eleanor Clift disclosed on the McLaughlin Group -- seemingly without any compunction for how she was outing her fellow journalists as behaving the same way as Barack Obama's campaign staff, but I suppose we already knew that intuitively -- that John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for VP was greeted by “literally laughter” in “very many newsrooms.”
From the show taped on Friday at Washington, DC's CBS affiliate and airing at various times over the weekend around the nation, mostly on PBS stations:
ELEANOR CLIFT: This is not a serious choice. It makes it look like a made for TV movie. If the media reaction is anything, it's been literally laughter in many places across news-
JOHN McLAUGHLIN, TALKING OVER CLIFT: Where is that? See that?
CLIFT: In very, very many newsrooms.
Audio: MP3 clip which matches the video (13 seconds, 80 Kb)
She doesn't meet the initial threshold of being seen as a credible President should the need arise for her to step into that position. She's been in the Governor's office since 2006 and before that, her elective experience was in the Wasilla City Council where she then became Mayor. Population five thousand, five-hundred and five. I guess that's where she learned about the budget. It seems to me this is a blatant attempt to woo disaffected Hillary voters and it is such a misreading of what women care about.
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This is a pick on the par of Dan Quayle where the first President Bush went for the youth vote. And Dan Quayle had a lot more experience on the national stage than this woman does. Now maybe she'll perform fine, but I thought the verbal factor was pretty high this morning and she doesn't apparently know very much about foreign policy or most domestic issues.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center




















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Newsroom Laughter
August 31, 2008 - 02:06 ET by Cool ArrowAnd in Heartland America, Stock prices of GE and NYT get a matter-of-fact: "Don't surprise me none"
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Mr. Baker, I think the word
August 31, 2008 - 08:30 ET by motherbeltMr. Baker, I think the word Reveals should have been "Claims."
Let them laugh
August 31, 2008 - 12:36 ET by matthewleonmartinit worries me not.
I am worried about the convention, though.
The Republicans need this week to introduce her to the world and without it, McCain suffers.
I agree matthewleon
August 31, 2008 - 12:59 ET by Dee BunkThe media needs to give equal time for at least the prime time hours for them to do that. Whether it's recorded speeches or campaign appearances, it's the right thing to do. I'm sure the media will just relish the fact that they can justify their lack of coverage of Republicans and their issues, so I won't hold my breath expecting them to do the right thing.
McCain and Republicans are doing the right thing. The media and the Dems never do. They are using tragedy once again to wish death and destruction for political gain and they are thrilled that Republicans won't even get equal time in a place where the media usually can't get out of it.
This really is kind of fitting because the Obamamessiah and the media are all about silencing conservatives and this gives them an excuse to ingore them and they will never give them the equal time back. The fact that they claim a fairness doctrine is needed for radio only is beyond belief.
It seems the MSM is becoming a Cloistered Society
August 31, 2008 - 02:12 ET by JayTeeI'm laughing at the MSM all the time, along with laughing at the "Selected" candidate of their choice.
The MSM seems to be having conversations with themseleves more and more, and involving the audience less and less. People will not "tune in" and patiently hear this bashing of their candidate and their personal choice, nor do audiences want to listen to CBS do an echo chamber broadcast of PBS and MSNBC.
It's a mutual admiration society, one that has an audience, but that audience is shrinking every so slowly due to abortion......they are NOT reproducing as fast as the (as Rush says) Guns, Jesus, and Baby making Palin's wanna be's.
Keep talking and laughing about the candidate of choice by conservatives....but don't expect to be paid for insults to Americans who support the Troops, love the 2nd amendment, and are the pro-life giving Christians of fly over America.
NY loves NY.
Conservatives love ditto heads.
The Republican Revolution will not be Televised
You are right!
August 31, 2008 - 16:23 ET by Red JeepAbsolutely. It seems on these news shows are just a get together for "journalists" to talk to themselves, show they are good soldiers for the DNC by parroting the DNC talking points of the day, so they get invited to the right parties. They might get an audience of 1 to 2 % of the population watching if lucky.
Seems they are scared about the Palin choice.
Just think how much they would help prevent global warming if 1 or 2 networks just shut down. As another writer wrote earlier this week many of these stations like MSNBC are a waste of electricity.
I bet she owns the book "I
August 31, 2008 - 02:12 ET by FairlightI bet she owns the book "I Hate My Neck."
Back off, Fairlight!
August 31, 2008 - 09:20 ET by Mica the MagnificentLet's give Eleanor a little space here, Fairlight.
Just because she wears a bandana around her neck doesn't mean she's hiding her wrinkly, drooping, prickly-heated, vericosed neck.
Things may be tough at Newsweek with their circulation in trouble.
She could be planning a bank robbery.
The Democrats again are underestimating their enemy
August 31, 2008 - 02:39 ET by donsalimanJust like they belittle Bush by underestimating him,they are now doing the same with Palin.
When I was out for sports,one of my coaches always warned us before a match with a team weaker than us,never underestimate your opponent.
Will they ever learn?
Correction...sailor...they are misunderestimating Palin
August 31, 2008 - 02:58 ET by JayTeewith a B A in Journalism, you would think Palin would be welcomed by the MSM ? I thought they hated George Bush because they did not like the way he talked....but the MSM reaction to Palin shows the MSM just hates republicans in general, and will eat their own, if the abortion fails.
The Republican Revolution will not be Televised
If Palin had a (D) behind
August 31, 2008 - 17:25 ET by ThisnThatIf Palin had a (D) behind her name, she would be lauded by these pompous MSM a$$es.
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I doubt
August 31, 2008 - 09:56 ET by 10ksnookerThese yahoos in the newsrooms know how it effects women when they hear them say 'she isn't ready'.
I think what these "news
August 31, 2008 - 11:18 ET by BuxomAnnieMcGreggorI think what these "news rooms" are missing [and it certainly is the BIG story here] is how a conservative woman is firing up the base AND that the conservative base is more than READY to have the fairer of genders LEAD us. We've never been afraid to have a powerful woman lead us.... we've just been leery of the perspective of that power by the women offered thus far.
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It's a poll we're not likely to see on NB officially, but...
August 31, 2008 - 11:24 ET by sarcasmoI wonder how many here would prefer a Palin/McCain ticket to McCain/Palin? I suspect it would be a vast majority 'round these parts. Charged-up conservatives, at least as much as Hillary's angry PUMAs, might be why McCain's odds have improved so substantially over the past 24 hours despite strong European anti-Bush sentiment.
JMR
The tax & spend drug war looks racist in the real world.
Definitely Sarc - I'd much prefer Palin/McCain
August 31, 2008 - 11:47 ET by Dee Bunkbut just the fact that he picked her gives me hope. I have been very impressed with the way McCain has conducted himself post primary. There is a stark difference between him and Obama and McCain trumps him on change, character and experience.
A Palin/McCain ticket would be better against Obama/Biden too because it would compare Palin to Obama and McCain to Biden and it's soooooooo clear that in each case the Republican as way more integrity and experience.
Obama and Biden are all popularity and no substance. They are 100% players in the good old boy - power first, country second network.
dbl
August 31, 2008 - 12:12 ET by Dee Bunkdeleted
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August 31, 2008 - 12:22 ET by serfer62I certainly would prefer MacNasty on the bottom of the ticket.
Bingo! Well said. The
August 31, 2008 - 12:41 ET by celatorBingo! Well said.
The major media report only half the news. Why are they surprised they have only half the potential audience?
I wonder how much this hag
August 31, 2008 - 02:43 ET by Seabeach4348I wonder how much this hag and others in her fantasy world of "...very, very many newsrooms..." will be laughing if "the chosen One" loses to McCain! I believe that Sarah Palin as McCain's VP just brought that possibility closer to reality.
I did not listen to BHO's big speech the other night.Honestly, I cannot stand the sight or sound of the guy, but from what I've gleaned his suck-wad lackies in the lamestream news got the speech they wanted.
I wonder if Eleanor Jump-off-a-Clift is also aware that "...very, very many..." thought that Hussein's speech was condescending, empty, angry, and with a tone of panic. Perhaps "dem chickens comin' home to roost" for Barry, and for the first time he realizes that there is a very good chance that he will lose the election.
Counterpoint...
August 31, 2008 - 02:50 ET by dodecahedronIn living rooms around the country, the name "Newsweek" is greeted by laughter.
question
August 31, 2008 - 07:24 ET by sawing battaMs. Clift
As an insightful reporter, do you see any connection between the sentiment above and your magazine's lethargic P&L?
Eleanor Clift was one of
August 31, 2008 - 03:12 ET by Rush FanEleanor Clift was one of the reasons I discontinued Newsweek after subscribing to it for many years. It was about that same time that I completed the transformation from an independent to a conservative.
The Drive-By media is pulling out all the stops in an effort to disparage Sarah Palin. They realize (1) that the conservative base has been energised. (2) Many independents, especially women, are wowed by this selection. (3) Biden was not the best choice Obama could have made.
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“a reflection of a young life with a biography remarkably thin by the standard of presidential candidates.” ~ Charles Krauthammer on Barack Obama
The U.S. Constitution says
August 31, 2008 - 03:15 ET by IamTinmanNo Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
That's it! No other requirements are specified. John McCain and Sarah Palin meet those requirements. Eleanor and her gaggle of cluckers can go peck in the dirt.
John McCain earned his nomination and chose Sarah Palin. Hockey Mom Palin also runs a family, a business, marathons, and oh by the way a state government. Her approval level in Alaska is some 8 times higher than the approval level of that sorry congress which includes Obama, Biden, and McCain, and is way, way, way, higher than the media that pays Eleanor Clifts salary.
Eleanor ought to be asking the tough questions like "Why couldn't the democrats come up with better candidates than an empty suit and a big mouth who has already been rejected by the voters year?".
Excellent post
August 31, 2008 - 22:08 ET by doug1950When I read what that hag said I had the exact same thoughts as you. The U.S. Constitution says she does meet the threshold and Eleanor and the MSM do not get to decide what if any threshold is established, the American People do by their vote.
ELEANOR CLIFT: This is not
August 31, 2008 - 03:40 ET by MidAmericaELEANOR CLIFT: This is not a serious choice. It makes it look like a made for TV movie. If the media reaction is anything, it's been literally laughter in many places across news-
Around here that's what's refered to as a lie. Of course what she is trying to do is set up a storyline to Quayle-inize Palin, to make her into a joke. The media was successful in destroying Dan Quayle and this is an example of their attempt to do it again against Palin.
I think "screams of terror"
August 31, 2008 - 03:46 ET by robert108I think "screams of terror" is more accurate; the leftie heads are really exploding over this. She has swept Obama off the front pages.
ELEANOR CLIFT: This is not
August 31, 2008 - 04:19 ET by Jack BauerShe muse "if the media reaction is anything." Err, no... maybe 20 years ago, but not any longer. I wonder if Clift ever wonders why ordinary folks don't take her seriously.
Really, Eleanor?
August 31, 2008 - 05:29 ET by motherbeltExactly how many newsrooms did you check in with?
We now have a new variation on the "some say" theme!
Democrats and pundits: Do you really want to have to point out that the Democrat Presidential candidates' sparse experience is more than that of the Republican VP candidate?
It was a nervous laugh.
August 31, 2008 - 06:44 ET by AntiMediaIt was a nervous laugh.
But Hillary the lawyer and wife of Bill?
August 31, 2008 - 06:50 ET by ChasvsSo a govenor, Mayor. business woman isn't good?
But a schemeing lawyer, wife of a govenor and Bitch is right for the job? Senator? Like BHO she's been runnig for prez since she took office!
Maybe, Sarah Palin is EXACTLY what we need! And she's just running for VP!
We have a Racist. Marxist, State Senator running for PresidenT. now that's something to LAUGH about Eleanor
The verbal factor
August 31, 2008 - 07:08 ET by momdmDoes anyone know what Clift is referring to when she said "Now maybe she'll perform fine, but I thought the verbal factor was pretty high this morning .."?
No
August 31, 2008 - 09:44 ET by Kirk Hall"Verbal factor" jumped out at me as well. Huh?
Neither of you are
August 31, 2008 - 17:38 ET by ThisnThatNeither of you are sophisticated enough to grasp the intellectual fine points of MSM-speak. MSM and liberals make up their terms and definitions as they go along: Verbal factor; marriage; what "rich" is; what "is" is; and so on. To join this club, you have to be willing to suspend all logical thought; all history of society, the sciences, and religion; and become very emotive. Unless you do this, you are doomed to being forever unsophisticated, and not worthy of discussion or consideration.
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I think "verbal factor"
August 31, 2008 - 19:37 ET by motherbeltI think "verbal factor" means she spoke coherently. ;-)
In other words, she was "articulate."
just hearsay
August 31, 2008 - 07:23 ET by SickofLibsAnd what would Clift know about a 'newsroom'?
it's a good thing
August 31, 2008 - 07:52 ET by Catherwoodfor the left and the dims to overlook and underestimate the impact of palin is a good thing for republicans. The more the dims underestimate her, the more impact she will have on the election. It seems very appropriate that the dims should let down their guard and Palin should deliver a 'left' hook straight to the jaw.
clift
August 31, 2008 - 07:58 ET by regimeofterrorA RANK partisan liberal and feminist Clift thinks her poop don't stink and that she is probably more qualified than Palin. What a bitter snooty, haughty, insignificant and miserable woman. Clift and the rest of the hacks can laugh all they want because the public is done laughing at them, they are just done buying their piece of trash "products."
Saddam Hussein and terrorism. The rest of the story...
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Nervous laughter..
August 31, 2008 - 08:10 ET by aeroveloBecause she is not the lame, cynical, old news VP pick that Biden is. This woman lives conservatism and it will show in what she says, what she does.
I believe she will inspire women all over America by showing that a strong and confident woman is a conservative woman.
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Ask yourself: Do I want a good paying job, or do I want a government hand out. Its that simple!
Clift is a Sexist
August 31, 2008 - 08:16 ET by allanfLet's face it. Clift is an anti-woman sexist. There can be no other conclusion.
Charlie Crist of Florida has the same experience level as Palin, and he did not receive this criticism. Clift's false messiah, has even less experience than Palin, and she lauds him.
why, elinor?
August 31, 2008 - 08:33 ET by sawing battaWhy do you feel women are inferior?
Why does Newsweek feel Alaska is not a real state, but Arkansas is?
Does Newsweek hate women?
(what a tangled web you weave, lefties)
Thanks SB.......
August 31, 2008 - 17:24 ET by connmanI've heard the media a few times already in the past 48 hours how she is the Gov of (snicker snicker) Alaska population not many. But slick never took any media flack for being Gov of Arkansas (snicker snicker).
Chris Matthews: Obama's Win a 'Magic Moment,' Like 'Camelot'
This town needs an enema! - The Joker
And Joe Biden is Senator of
August 31, 2008 - 17:46 ET by ThisnThatAnd Joe Biden is Senator of (snicker snicker) Delaware population not many. But the MSM doesn't point that out, do they? Wonder why?
Delaware is ranked 45th in population. Alaska is 47th. The esteemed Vermont (can you say Socialist Senator and Howard Dean?) is ranked 49th. I haven't heard the MSM snicker when Dean was running for President; and I haven't heard them say he wasn't right for the job as DNC chairman because of his state's population (he was Govenor there, remember)?
So this is just sour grapes on the part of the MSM, Dims, and liberals in general. They got sucker-punched, and they know they have lost the battle and the White House.
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Like Ray Wylie Hubbard says about Delaware in the song
August 31, 2008 - 17:59 ET by jefflebowskititled "Screw You, We're From Texas,"
"I like the USA and the other states, they're OK,
But Texas is where I want to be and I don't care if I go to Delaware anyway."
Ol Ray Wylie speaks for Lebowski there!
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I just might have to
August 31, 2008 - 08:18 ET by Captain RepusI just might have to re-think my pro-life position after seeing Eleanor Clift, an obvious example of a failed abortion.
When all of the liberals
August 31, 2008 - 08:31 ET by cocodrieWhen all of the liberals jump on the destroy your enemy bandwagon, you know you did something right.
Sounds like a real blunder to me.
August 31, 2008 - 08:42 ET by pbthinkerDon't tell me that McCain has lost the "newsroom" vote!!! OMG, what will he do without that. If Eleanor Clift thinks this is a bad pick, that her compatriots will just laugh at, then it must be really, really, good.
Democrats: Stuck on Stupid since 2000.
Yes sir, it is the living rooms of America vote that counts
August 31, 2008 - 09:22 ET by JWFI wonder how much laughing was going on in the living rooms of America?
If they are anything like ours, I would say not much.
Who in heck is Eleanor Clift?
August 31, 2008 - 08:47 ET by Ole_SargeAnd why does any utterance of hers mean anything?
WE in the "fly-over" Land of America have no need of the "chattering classes" you know, those that make or break someone by their unending chattering, usually media celebrity types. Since when do they have more than the one vote all the rest of us have?
I gotta admit, I love that Governor Palin and her family own and use guns!
By the way, she is the sitting Governor of the Largest State, it's about time to louts started to refer to her by her title, as they do for Madame Speaker and that Junior Senator from New York.
Never mind their "messiah-now-g-d" another JUNIOR Senator.
Newsroom Laughter
August 31, 2008 - 08:47 ET by Jarhead68Yeah, I bet they're laughing. It's a nervous laughter because they just got skunked by the dumb old man. Remember the "dream ticket" that the socialist fools wanted? Well, Palin is a dream on her own. LOL.
McCain 63% Hussein 37%
I guess the dems still haven't learned much from previous
August 31, 2008 - 15:09 ET by IamTinmanexperience. Remember that "Dumb" texas governor that was nowhere near as smart as Gore and then Kerry? Won the presidency twice didn't he?
Poor Elanor needs to get out more ...
August 31, 2008 - 08:57 ET by drewinmass61I'm sure all her lefty "journalist" friends feel the same way about Palin. What Elanor doesn't get is that there are a lot of people in this country that identify with Palin, not some desperate, biased dinosaur. The shock and desperation of Elanor and her comrades will be laughable when Palin speaks eloquently about the conservative views this country needs to embrace.
Hypocrisy
August 31, 2008 - 09:05 ET by iveseenitallThe choice of Palin simply exposes the phony hypocrisy of "liberals". After all we've heard from them about "sexism", they are going out of their way to demean this woman. This reveals the true nature of "liberals". As we've found with the media, no one can believe a word they say. They are about as deep as a puddle after a summer shower.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
The journalists may have
August 31, 2008 - 09:05 ET by lehmanThe journalists may have been laughing after the announcement , but I don't think they are now. The look on Andrea Mitchell's face Friday night was priceless. I thought she was going to cry. The reality of their "Messiah" losing is setting in.
lehmnan
August 31, 2008 - 09:13 ET by Cool ArrowShe reminded me of Judy Woodruff on CNN during the Bush/Gore recount. Flushed face and grudging output.
Torches & Pitchforks
brokaw
August 31, 2008 - 09:20 ET by sawing battaPawlenty just mentioned on MTP that Palin may have MORE experience than Obama...
Brokaw countered that Obama has been vetted over the last 18 mos due to his massive amount of TV time....[pick up jaw] whereas Palin was unknown.
Tom, being on TV isnt a qualification, sorry to break the news to you.
Brokows performance on this
August 31, 2008 - 12:31 ET by Captain RepusBrokows performance on this mornings MTP was disgraceful. I have never seen such a snarky, sarcastic, hateful display of partisan journalism in my life. Then he follows it up with a panel of 3 liberal whackos and one RINO. Fortunately for us the producers screwed up and put on Bartalomo who pretty much gave the rest of the panel a well deserved gut-shot.
you watched that embarrassment too?
August 31, 2008 - 19:07 ET by JnobleI woke up this morning and put that on for some background noise while getting dressed and noticed right away that every one of Brokaw's questions could have been written word for word by an Obama staffer. Plus he also looked really annoyed the whole time. What a tool!
Sawing Batta
August 31, 2008 - 19:14 ET by MrShyAnd also, YES, he WAS thoroughly vetted over the course of the last 18 months, and LOTS of unsavory stuff was uncovered that a "normal" (oops, I'm a racist!) candidate would have not withstood, but of course the PC/guilt-ridden MSM had his back through it all.
* * * SOCKS THE CAT '08 * * *
For REAL Change
Assuming it is true,
August 31, 2008 - 09:12 ET by Joe C.it would be entirely consistent with the bias, double-standards, condescension, and elitism of the leftists, in which I include the legacy MSM.
Let's see how much the
August 31, 2008 - 09:16 ET by Free StinkerLet's see how much the newsrooms laugh Wednesday morning, November 5th. ;-)
Sarah Palin - This is what a Conservative looks like !
Why I hate talking head shows
August 31, 2008 - 09:24 ET by w3Why did no one ask her how she knows this about newsrooms across the country at the moment the announcement was made? Is Eleanor Clift a psychic or does she just remotely sense these things?
If there was laughter in news rooms across the country, it was probably the nervous laughter of a bunch of Obama supporters as it began to dawn on them that McCain had just co-opted the weekend news coverage and that Obama's convention bounce would be over by Saturday midnight.
I remotely sensed the living rooms of middle America and there was laughter there, too. Shouts of joy and surprise at the brilliant move Senator McCain made. Trust me on this. I know.
Right, because the Elite Media is always getting it right NOT
August 31, 2008 - 09:27 ET by lareeGive me a break, the elite media gets it wrong all the time so they prove once again it is all about their smugness. What happens when she gets sworn in? It won't be because of the failure of their celeberity candidate Obama right. It is getting so that I get more accurate news from the National Enquirer and TMZ.
Cool Arrow, I think there
August 31, 2008 - 09:38 ET by lehmanCool Arrow, I think there will be a lot of flushed faces and grudging output within the next two months, especially on CNN and MSNBC. We're in for some fun times watching the reporters try to defend their "boy" as he goes down the drain.
Can't wait
August 31, 2008 - 09:39 ET by 10ksnookerUntil a real newsroom comes on the air -- Pajamas TV.
Did Elanor Clift think that most people were laughing at the creamed up drive by media, and her ? I hate to break it too her, but they are.
I was listening today while the plans in the drive by media were being laid to ambush Sarah Palin with questions on Waziristan, as if she knows where that is -- Laugh laugh. The trap is being set out. My guess is Gov Palin will skip right over it.
It is doubtful the drive by media knows how stupid they sound to Americans watching them. They are going to find out.
snooker
August 31, 2008 - 09:47 ET by Cool ArrowIs Michelle Malkin firing one up?
Torches & Pitchforks
I know for a fact that Clift is lying
August 31, 2008 - 09:47 ET by KylerkI listened to Monica Crowley's Saturday afternoon radio show yesterday. As usual - Monica was also one of the guests on McLaughlin's show and she talked about how the Palin selection was announced while they were taping on Friday morning and all of the panelists on the show learned about it together. So there is no way Clift could have known that McCain's decision was greeted with "literally laughter" in "very many newsrooms" at that point in time. As a matter of fact - Monica described Clift's initial reaction as being rather angry. Giving her the initial impression that McCain's pick of Palin was a good one.
Clift is an asp.
August 31, 2008 - 09:55 ET by pocomocoYou must take anything that Clift says with a grain of venom.
Eleanor Clift?
August 31, 2008 - 10:27 ET by rammingspeedEleanor Clift has long been known as the most idiotic idiot in the left wing journalist cabal. She has no room to talk about a lack of credibility. And, of course, the fanatically leftist newsrooms all over the place jeered Palin's choice.
Eleanor Clift is probably right
August 31, 2008 - 10:40 ET by jefflebowskiI'm sure there was a lot of laughter in newsrooms across the country when Palin was selected just as there will be lots of tears when Obama goes down in flames in November.
One thing that this election cycle has proved with out a doubt...the unbelievable lack of objectivity of the Old Media. May they die a rapid death.
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Let me see now. Laughter
August 31, 2008 - 11:17 ET by GregELet me see now. Laughter in American mainstream media newsrooms over a Republican VP pick. Ok yea, number one, what's her point? And number two, what's new?
Idiots
August 31, 2008 - 11:35 ET by Solrac7Me thinks the news anchor/commentator has confused the laughter. What I imagine she heard was nervous laughter as opposed to a belly laugh. The communist demoncrats know that their goose is cooked. Barack Hussein will be spending his time in the gulag after spoiling the communist manifesto for America! On the other hand, how about joining his buddy Osama in that cave in Pakistan?Our new Vice President Sarah Palin is just what the country needs, and I believe her perceived inexperience, meaning not a beltway insider, is a huge plus. Yes, I am that confident!
laughter in news rooms
August 31, 2008 - 11:26 ET by sawing battaall this laughter in the liberal news rooms is awakening the sleeping giant. huge influx of contributions to mccain/palin.
laugh lefties and keep laughing.
All I know is rats fight
August 31, 2008 - 11:30 ET by ConservativeRexAll I know is rats fight back the hardest when cornered. Now the dimocrats are cornered. Congratulations to Mrs Palin!
The clueless Clift probably doesn't want to know what many...
August 31, 2008 - 11:39 ET by ThalpyThe clueless Clift probable doesn't want to know what many think about her alleged journalistic attributes. We view very many newsrooms with contempt and rage. If it weren't illegal, there would be a bounty on them.
Even I laughed
August 31, 2008 - 11:58 ET by I.am.DILLIGAFwhen I heard that McCain picked Gov. Palin for his VP the reason I was laughing was McC finally got Obammy where he wants him and OB knows it now. You know he is sweating and trying to figure out how to recoup his soon to be major losses.
"If your opponent is quick to anger, seek to irritate him"--Sun Tzu
Guns and Violence are not the answer but they are one solution to the problem== SARG
Dilli, I had a good
August 31, 2008 - 12:18 ET by celatorDilli, I had a good reaction when I heard McCain had picked Palin. I yelled "CHECKMATE!!" My wife was upstairs and she heard me and called down, "Who are you playing chess with down there???" My response: "With Obama and the Fiberals (that's what we call em here)." She was even happier than I was when I told her about Palin.
The major media report only half the news. Why are they surprised they have only half the potential audience?
Eleanor who?
August 31, 2008 - 11:58 ET by KJ_sezOh... her? I'm sure Clift's comments are due to a lack of journalistic experience in U.S. MSM newsrooms - including her own.
When are the media Conservatives going to do their job!
August 31, 2008 - 12:19 ET by Lame CherryOne expects Ms. Clift to be the woman hating shrew she is as she can not stand herself in not having any substance, but instead degrading a mother of a child with downs syndrome, but the problem in this is not Clift. The PROBLEM IS MONICA CROWLEY AND THAT SIMP JAY what's his name McGlaughlin puts on.
When Clift says this garbage Crowley just sits there toothy grinning with her mini dress on not making any points.
Jay from National Review sits there and lets Clarence Page attack him as a racist for making a comment minorities because he is a white guy.
Why in this world didn't Jayster shoot back, "IT NEVER STOPPED YOU PAGE FROM JUDGING WHITE PEOPLE ALL THESE YEARS!"
Maybe Mr. Baker you can feature that in your next post in Clarence Page's racist attack which was as equally repulsive as Clifts.
Neither of which was repulsed by the very people who are that platform supposedly to be the voice of Conservatives.
Let Clift laugh as real Zogby polls show that Gov. Palen in actual voters has opened the lead. It should be 10 points after the convention.
Gov. Palen in strategy has the ability to make this a landslide as she has now secured Reagan Country, broadened the southern state margin and now McCain can focus on deer hunting, football fans from Wisconsin to Pennsylvania which were leaning McCain, but now will vote Gov. Palin.
Clift has no idea how bad this is for liberals as now Rush Limbaugh can appeal to the PUMA Hillary Clinton supporters to return the favor Republicans did in voting for Hillary, in their voting for Gov. Palin for a defeated Obama means Hillary can run again in 2012.
This is what the Clinton's are tactically moving for, so it might as well be made public and end this Barack Obama charade so America does not have to go through impeachment hearings on fake birth certificates, money fraud in Rezko for both Biden and Obama and the entire Biden Delaware syndicate impeached for false Grand Jury indictment of Lawrence Sinclair where now they have been forced to drop charges in that illegal arrest which involved state and federal agencies in a criminal conspiracy.
Why is it that the "Conservative" media is not speaking one word of this and all the pundits online are recycling the same worn out nonsense spinning in place.
The stories are there and they have depth and backing of facts and the best being discussed is that putrid Bill Maher and crotchety old Clift.
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Relax...
August 31, 2008 - 12:33 ET by Joe C.it's only Sunday morning. Wait 'til Monday for Rush, 4 days of a much better convention on all networks, and a real bounce in the polls - not a blip that disappears overnight.
I have to admit, I too am
August 31, 2008 - 12:38 ET by pbanks7I have to admit, I too am a bit disappointed with the experience of Ms. Palin.
This is a pick on the par of Dan Quayle where the first President Bush went for the youth vote.
And yet, the MSM is in the tank for Obama, and Quayle was more qualified than Obama:
Quayle was hammered mercilessly for reading P-O-T-A-T-O-E off a cue card, and Obammy gets a freebie for implying we have 59 states. Yes, 59 - he said they wouldn't even let him go to Alaska and Hawaii, so add two.
And let's not leave off the experience Palin has running a business. The MSM will brush that off, but the Obamessiah was a community organizer in Chicago (Ooooh). I'll bet a community organizer is also called a shakedown artist in some communities.
MSM - shaping all the perceptions you need to believe, then confirming it with a poll.
Did she mean vary?
August 31, 2008 - 15:11 ET by Crash"In very many newsrooms."
Really ... could you be specific? Eleanor the announcement just broke the day you taped this appearance on the McLaughlin Group. So ... how is it that you'd know how many newsrooms were literally laughing? Don't tell me you read their blogs.
Perhaps Obamaphiles in the MSM were tickled silly.
I can assure you and your ilk, Ms. Clift, that after the McCain campaign raised $4 Million dollars on the very day of John McCain's laughable announcement ... John McCain got the last laugh.
Hey Brent
August 31, 2008 - 15:55 ET by JoelCTBrent Baker: "...how she was outing her fellow journalists as behaving the same way as Barack Obama's campaign staff..."
But you repeat yourself, Brent.
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August 31, 2008 - 16:19 ET by dahliatraversWhat matters is that Eleanor is standing strong for Sisterhood.
Yeah I heard the whining
August 31, 2008 - 17:50 ET by bigtimerYeah I heard the whining nasal voiced screech today...
that John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin for VP was greeted by “literally laughter” in “very many newsrooms.”
Yeah Clift....sure I bet...the look of shock by all your buddies on all networks were sounds of laughter coming out...NOT!..
Looked more like they all needed to have a spare pair of underwear at the ready....because you know what they were doing in their pants...and still are...
...along with you sweetheart!
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Eleanor Clift
August 31, 2008 - 18:07 ET by afuela lib journalist of the lowest order. Absolutely irrelevant.
We know the Palin nomination got under your skin and is causing you some serious itching.
Won't see or hear her next Sunday either.
Goodbye
What Eleanor doesnt know or
August 31, 2008 - 18:28 ET by misterbee241What Eleanor doesnt know or understand, is in many living rooms, mine included, she's always greeted with laughter. And some groans, as in, how can one woman be so stupid? Did she learn that someplace or did she come by it naturally?
Laughter..
August 31, 2008 - 18:43 ET by BarrackClift greeted with laughter followed by a "click" of the remote.
www.benbarrack.com
Palin's better looking
August 31, 2008 - 18:33 ET by BarrackIs Clift a little too sensitive about her own attractiveness?
www.benbarrack.com
HaHaHaHaHa
September 1, 2008 - 15:49 ET by NorthCoasterA laugh a minute Eleanor!
Eleanor Clift...
September 1, 2008 - 17:40 ET by jawebster1is an asset to the Republican Party. How is that you say? Well. everytime she shows her face or opens her mouth on TV, she gains votes for Republicans and loses votes for Democrats. I say, let's have more of Clift, not less. And what a wonderful world this will be!
Oh boo-hoo my widdle feewings is hurt....
September 1, 2008 - 22:04 ET by cest moiThe faux newsies have devolved into the media equivalent of poo-flinging chimps.
Their attempts to politically influence anyone with an IQ over the temperature of ice cream is getting more and more surreal.
Egad, y'all.
Insider
September 2, 2008 - 00:00 ET by ToddonCapeCodFolks, I don't know how many times over the past 20 or so years that I have been hearing grumblings from the electorate: "SIGH. Insiders are running again." You had Gore and Lieberman run in 2000, and lost -- insiders. Kerry and Edwards were both in the Senate -- insiders. Sarah Palin is about as far away from the Beltway as you can get, in America, so she is a frickin breath of fresh air!
I frankly don't care what Clift and Kondrake, and all these other inside the Beltway elitists think of Sarah Palin. Their comments are more proof of what Americans already believe: that these people are sorely out of touch with mainstream America! And I really hope this election stings these idiots in their asses, just for this reason!
So, talk all you want, and all you can, you pointy-headed elitists. I really am praying it all turns around on you in November!