A major media denigration of Republican VP nominee Sarah Palin as a “wacko right-winger” didn't come on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN or even MSNBC, but on FNC from a regular contributor to the network: Morton Kondrake, who was hostile all last week to Palin in his appearances on Special Report with Brit Hume. Wrapping up the “Ups and Downs” segment on FNC's Beltway Boys this weekend with an “Up” for Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's performance during Hurricane Gustav, Kondracke inserted the gratuitous insult into his agreement with co-host Fred Barnes that Hurricane Katrina would have turned out better if Jindal were in charge three years ago:
If Jindal had been Governor of Louisiana in 2005, everything would have been different and he would be John McCain's running mate instead of this wacko right-winger.
Earlier in the half-hour show, Kondracke, a DC media veteran now with Roll Call, asserted that Palin “is very far right.”
At another point, however, he conceded that journalists were hoping their reporting would uncover “deep, dark secrets” which would force her to withdraw or become an anchor around John McCain:
I don't deny that a lot of our colleagues were hoping that she would, you know that there would be deep, dark secrets and that she'd turn out to be Tom Eagleton or Geraldine Ferraro...
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Mort gone over the line
September 7, 2008 - 00:08 ET by well99Maybe he has a contract with MSNBC.He would fit right in.
Kondreky
September 7, 2008 - 08:02 ET by Dan LaHoodhis justification was that Sarah is no Bobby JindaL. Bobby is as conservative if not more conservation than Guv Palin, Mort is looking a little talk showvanistic, eh Mooorton! Get back to Mclaughlin where no one will ever see you again.
Mort's
September 7, 2008 - 00:13 ET by bigtimerMort's mortified...
...along with the rest of the msm.
Poor babies...
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
BIGTIMER...
September 7, 2008 - 07:28 ET by danybhoyI agree with you on this 1, Mort & MSM are worried, I believe that El-Rushbo may have hit on it. McCain is on the top of the ticket, but instead of the person on the top of the ticket leading the party, it is his #2 Palin, that looks set to lead the party. Even if McCain becomes the 44th President, Palin will front the GOP. Bobby Jindal will also be in the mix as well, & Mort, like all good libs, knows that this mean trouble for the Dems. That was a Reagan-esque performance by Sarah Baracuda in my hometown of St.Paul last week, & a few people on the left know it. The ones who don't are the ones trying to say she's a joke. At the risk of sounding like John Kerry, I BELIEVE the joke will be on the Dems on November 4.
BTW, note to the band Heart, thank you for being so public about your (Wilson sisters) anger about the use of the "Baracuda" for Palin. You might want to call The Dixie Chicks for advise about the coming backlash to your political pissing. You could have been smart & kept your mouths shut, just sell a few CDs/downloads of Baracuda & maybe other tunes, & make a comment about it IF some media types called. This will bite you in the @$$ down the road. I just hope that Ann gets the bigger bite, since she has the bigger @$$.
"...it's still We The People, Right?" Megadeth
He and Bill Schnieder...
September 7, 2008 - 00:13 ET by AgentAmerican...can play in the tub with Olbermann
Drill ANWAR
Cartoon idea
September 7, 2008 - 06:19 ET by Red JeepThat's a great visual idea for a cartoon, all 3 of them as little boys in a bathtub! Possible caption: The Bathtub Boys plot anti-Palin spin.
Shame on Kondracke for
September 7, 2008 - 00:24 ET by jdhawkShame on Kondracke for making such a biased and out of touch statement. He is old enough to remember and even have voted for President Kennedy (D). There is not one issue that Governor Palin and President Kennedy would not see eye to eye on.
Shame on the dimocrat party for this gives you some idea how far to the left they have gone since that day.
If the right and left wings
September 7, 2008 - 04:28 ET by motherbeltIf the right and left wings are now farther apart than ever, guess who moved.
Get a grip, Mort.
Who put sand in his
September 7, 2008 - 00:28 ET by MikeknaJWho put sand in his shorts?
I'm tired of a conservative being called "far right." Someone who is socially conservative, fiscally conservative, and a national security conservative is not far right. They're just conservative. Conservative does not equal "far right."
Clam up, Kondracke.
"Look, when Keith anchors, he plays it straight down the line.”
-MSNBC President Phil Griffin
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According to left-wingers,
September 7, 2008 - 04:30 ET by motherbeltAccording to left-wingers, there ARE no "left-wingers." There are only moderates ("normal" people) and right-wing extremists.
Words of a child
September 7, 2008 - 00:38 ET by Kevin HalpernOne would think such a childish comment is beneath someone of Mort's stature ... but apparently not. Anybody who doesn't agree with Mort's views is a "wacko right-winger."
I am becoming more and more
September 7, 2008 - 00:49 ET by jkwtradingI am becoming more and more convinced each passing day, the hippie, SDS
generation is now wearing suits, gray haired but still retain their old
childish habits of the 1960's. I am also certain they feel they are
running out of time to create the "utopia" they desired from their 60's
ambitions.
We are just seeing these former army jacketed ,long haired people looking like everyday society but still clinging to their former youth. Each day they expose themselves more and more after literally being in the closet for 40 years.
Kondrake, token liberal....
September 7, 2008 - 00:54 ET by ScrapironKnodrake has always been another token liberal on FOX along with Greta and Colmes. I change channels everytime they come on so he being another left wing idiot doesn't concern me and only helps McCain/Palen, but will get him fired in the near future. FOX is a leading cable network but can lose that in a flash. Maybe as soon as his slimey remarks gets spread around.
Old, Retired and glad of it.
I have no doubt in my mind
September 7, 2008 - 00:54 ET by MrSnugglesI have no doubt in my mind that there would be no less hate and vitriol against Jindal if he was named the VP because of his catholic faith and belief in intelligent design. the meme would be "Jindal beliefs in ID!! he wants your kids to learn ID and not evolution! OMG he is a right wing wacko extremist!!!!!11"
Wacko Left-winger
September 7, 2008 - 02:10 ET by jawebster1There is one reason and one reason alone Kondrake called Palin a "Wacko Right-winger" and that is because she is pro-life. Kondrake is in favor of killing innocent babies after conception if the mother so desires. This makes him a "Wacko Left-winger" in my book. I wrote Fox and suggested they replace him with Kirsten Powers, but I forgot to add that they should rename the show "The Beltway Duo". Even Juan Williams would not stoop as low as Kondrake did.
Kirsten Powers
September 7, 2008 - 03:22 ET by well99She may be a liberal but she has principles which Mort doesnt.Kirsten and Susan Estrich hammered the media for thier cheap shots.
I've been very impressed by
September 7, 2008 - 04:29 ET by Jack BauerI've been very impressed by the total fairness of the liberal Democrat Kirsten Powers.
I don't agree with a word she says about the issues, but she quickly picked up on the sexist response of the Obama campaign to the Palin pick.
She gets it. Many ordinary working mom, Democrat voting women are going to vote for Palin ... and the more the left attacks Palin with a blood lust frenzy that resembles a rabid Rottweiler, the more it helps Palin.
Fortunately for conservatives, the Crazy Left helps them once again.
As to Mort Kondrake. The guy has gone completely off his rocker.
There have been so many attacks
September 7, 2008 - 05:10 ET by well99Most decent folks are angry.This isnt politics as usual.This is plain character assasination.the msm thinks everyone is to stupid to see it but they are wrong.
well -- I just read this in
September 7, 2008 - 06:21 ET by Jack Bauerwell -- I just read this in the Weekly Standard. I LOVE THIS quote...
Jack
September 7, 2008 - 18:00 ET by well99About frelling time.They dont owe the msm anything.They need to let the msm know they wont put up with all these lies and half truths.
Mort
September 7, 2008 - 06:55 ET by kiwikitis quite a good commentator (compared to other leftists) except that he's got a huge chip on his shoulder about canadian health care which he'd like to see here. I assume he understands that anyone like Sarah Palin who understands that a capitalist system of healthcare is what really works, would make socialized health care less likely. His remarks reflect that. As Ann Coulter pointed out so well, the left has no evidence so they just name-call.
kiwi
September 7, 2008 - 18:02 ET by well99I use to think he was decent but over the last 5 or 6 months it seems to me he has lost his objectivity.
Sorry, But Kirsten Powers has Already Been Spoken For
September 7, 2008 - 22:29 ET by Rush FanSorry jawwebster 1, but I beat you to Kirsten Powers. I sent an email to FoxNews quite a while ago strongly suggesting that Kirsten replace Alan Colmes, who I have come to despise. Colmes is not only a liberal fool, but is often stupid as well!
Now you have to admit that if you had a choice between replacing Colmes or Kondrake, Colmes would win hands down (or is it hands up).
Then again, I guess Kirsten Powers could replace both Colmes and Kondrake. NEVERMIND!
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Alan Colmes
September 8, 2008 - 11:14 ET by jawebster1I've gone back and forth on Alan Colmes. It is true the guy is an irritant but he serves his purpose. He makes a good pinata and his arguments don't win him any new fans except from the left. Kirsten Powers is a pleasant woman and she puts the best posssible face on her liberal positions. People would think, well, she's a liberal, so maybe liberals aren't so bad after all. That thought would never occur when it comes to Alan Colmes.
jawebster 1 - Good Point
September 9, 2008 - 21:08 ET by Rush FanI sometimes forget that there are a lot of independents and Reagan Democrats who watch Hannity and Colmes. They may be just as irritated with Alan Colmes as I am, and transfer their irritation to all liberals. And that's a good thing!
The article Kirsten Powers wrote that appears in the N.Y. Post today titled How Obama Blew It shows me that there are even some liberals who can be thoughtful and fair. I say some because I believe most liberals today are like Alan Colmes, programmed fools.
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The liberal media continues to sacrifice ethics and morals for the greater cause: This time for the Election of a Democrat to the Presidency of the United States.
Wacko right winger= believes
September 7, 2008 - 06:08 ET by USA4freedomWacko right winger= believes that the second amendment is
Real
Thinks that life begins at conception.
Thinks that government spends too much
Money
Thinks that if you find corruption in
You stop it.
Likes to fish and hunt.
Hell I just found out that I’m a right wing wacko..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
I think I will just cling to
September 7, 2008 - 06:13 ET by USA4freedomI think I will just cling to my guns and God, and hell yes I’m bitter..
Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.
Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.
USA, I guess that
September 7, 2008 - 09:06 ET by msh1973USA,
I guess that includes me as well. I consider myself to be in good company.
rightwing nutjob
September 7, 2008 - 06:24 ET by JWFI and I alone will determine who can sign up for the rightwing nutjob club.
She is not ready. Most politicians don't make the cut. Only Cheney made it.
Write
September 7, 2008 - 07:26 ET by DingbatWrite Foxnews.com and tell them what you think. I do it everytime I see Mort on the tube. He's started making Allan Colmes look like a genius. I don't mind Libs on Fox, but how about intelligent ones? Like Juan.
This is but another
September 7, 2008 - 07:57 ET by gueinThis is but another statement in a series that have been uttered by Kondrake. The first was a subtle jab that she didn't write her own speech that was delivered during the convention. Now we have the latest jab. As a regular viewer of the Beltway Boys on FNC, I found this statement by Mort very troubling. When the news began to surface that Sarah was going to be the pick for McCain, he pontificated on how this was a major blunder by the campaign. Now that he has been proven wrong on a number of levels, I suppose he feels the need for vindication of his original utterance that picking her was a mistake. I guess it only proves that a talking head can be human as well.
FIrst thing out of his mouth
September 7, 2008 - 09:57 ET by Kirk HallBrit goes to Mort right after Sarah Palin's speech and the first thing out of his mouth was "She did not write the speech.." What a tool.
Yeah, because McCain,
September 7, 2008 - 10:00 ET by Free StinkerYeah, because McCain, Obama, and Biden all write their own. /Sarcasm Off
The ignorance of these guys is astonishing!
Well, except for Biden. He
September 7, 2008 - 11:12 ET by ckc1227Well, except for Biden. He just borrows someone elses and claims it as his own.
ckc
September 8, 2008 - 08:52 ET by Cool ArrowThat would be Teddy Joe RuxBiden.
Uhhh, My Christian Faith
Mort Klondike
September 8, 2008 - 08:48 ET by welderforeKenneth J Roberts
No I did not spell his name wrong it is a joke just like the person of Krankdrake or what ever his name is , yes you might say he is a dummy , he just set our resolve to back McCain and his great VP .So I guess we are all right wing nuts, better then a Wright winged nut. Obama and the whole bunch can't sleep at night knowing their change thing has been derailed and a real change person is on the scene, you see the left can't stand competition they think it should be a cake walk to the presidency. Nothing worth doing is easy ask McCain sometime he can tell you all about difficult times. We sit here in our homes nice an cool in the summer and warm and toasty in the winter and we complain the government is not doing enough , yes they are not doing anything but spending our money on pork and letting the defense of our country go to the dogs. we need more in the oil reserve not take it out , I will stand ready to do my part and pay the high prioces at the pump to make sure we have enough oil to fight if the need arises. In the mean time the congress controlled by the democrats are doing nothing to get the job done as they promised they would do. They are to busy filling their pockets with money from people like T.Boone and the whole lot of green nuts wanting to destroy our country .