Evan Thomas, Editor at Large with Newsweek, on Friday night likened Sarah Palin to Louisiana's infamous demagogic Democrat of the 1920s, Huey Long. On Inside Washington, a weekly show produced and aired over the weekend by Washington, DC's ABC affiliate, but first broadcast Friday night on the local PBS station, Thomas reacted to Palin's suggestion in the VP debate that the Vice President has a legislative role:
Here's what's disturbing: Either she didn't know, because actually the legislative role is just about zero as Biden says, or scarier she has a little bit of Huey Long in her. The kind of -- you could see her being a demagogue, saying “I got to do this, the rules are in the way, to heck with the rules, let's do it.”
Earlier on the October 3 show, Thomas (Newsweek's bio), until 2006 Newsweek's Assistant Managing Editor and before that the magazine's Washington bureau chief, contended she reflected the worst aspects of President George W. Bush:
The thing that worries me the most is she has this George Bush quality to make up her mind before she has the facts and she's dogmatic and, you know, she's impulsive, and the things that get you into trouble when you're President of the United States.
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"to make up her mind before
October 3, 2008 - 21:24 ET by ThisnThat"to make up her mind before she has the facts and she's dogmatic"
Sounds exactly like Thomas and the rest of the MSM, if you ask me.
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yeah...
October 4, 2008 - 00:16 ET by Jnoble..kinda like how Joe Biden (aka "The dumbest man in the Senate" according to Mark Levin) wasted no time in declaring that climate change is absolutly 100 percent no doubt about it man made?
Facts shamacts, according to liberals.
NewsWeek did not stop there...
October 3, 2008 - 21:31 ET by TheSterHowie Finemann let loose on Olby Friday nite!!
Ster.
People like Thomas crack me up!
October 3, 2008 - 21:40 ET by IamTinmanI doubt that Evan Thomas has ever met Governor Palin. How he can see Huey Long In her and not in Obama or Biden both notorious BSers is beyond me. Unless of course he has also drunk the kool-aid. Given the mandatory Bush connection I guess he's been chugging it!
I believe this was just after Biden said his role would be the contact between congress and the White House. That would seem to be a legislative role to me as well as the tie breaking role outlined in the constitution.
Doesn't Editor at Large mean "No Known Skill Set?"
Obama's Marxist Medical Murders of Americans
October 3, 2008 - 22:17 ET by Lame CherryHuey Long got nailed by the same people who are screwing America over now, who supported FDR and who are supporting Barack Obama.
Long celebrated when FDR's communist programs were stuck down by the US Supreme Court. He stated that the Court had saved America from fascism.
I can see why comrade Thomas is comparing Gov. Palin to Huey Long, but he knows very well it isn't a thing to do with a wink and a nod. It has to do with Gov. Palin is going to gut his communist programs and save America from Obama's Marxist medical murder of Americans.
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Ignorance on display
October 3, 2008 - 22:21 ET by Reaver“Here's what's disturbing: Either she didn't know, because actually the legislative role is just about zero as Biden says, or scarier she has a little bit of Huey Long in her.”
I can’t believe they keep saying this. Can we put this to rest?
Article. I. Section 3
The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.The Senate shall chuse their other Officers, and also a President pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the Office of President of the United States.
Would someone explain to these nattering nabobs that the Vice President is the President of the senate? Sara Palin has read the constitution Evan Thomas and these other idiots obviously have not.
the real point!
October 3, 2008 - 22:54 ET by CANCON1cancon1
The true ideas displayed here are that of an old fashioned progressive, disowning his own and turning it back into fear of a past he knows all too well. Old fashioned scare mongering will somehow convince people that the attached words are new. An old idea dressed up once again to to put fear into people. Let us not forget that these people are well trained, and have many decades of failed ideas to which they can pull failed nugets from , like the slight of hand that so facinates the weakminded, it is easy to train people to hear one sentence or one reference to a perceived ill and generalize it. What is scary about this man is that he still is provided a paycheque.
Vice Presidency
October 3, 2008 - 22:43 ET by easygoerJoe Biden is a lawyer. He has also been a senator for 36 years. And yet he stated that Article 1 of the Constitution grants the VP its role. It is Article 2 that provides the Executive branch its enumerated powers. Article 1 deals with Legislative branch.
And Palin is the one who doesn't understand the role of the VP? Palin is not a lawyer and except for her time on the Wasilla City Council, she is not a legislator. But if she had said what Biden did the MSM would be all over her.
Biden was so disingenuous when he went on about Cheney's effect on the role of the VP. Does anyone really believe that if Biden or anyone else, regardless of party, became VP; that they would not want to have the same position of influence and power that Cheney has had in the last eight years?
I guess Biden aspires to become the kind of VP that will revert the office to the position it had when FDR's VP John Nance Garner said the job wasn't worth "a bucket of warm piss"?
Is that what he's going to throw away 36 years seniority in the Senate for?
Vice Presidency
October 3, 2008 - 23:04 ET by CANCON1cancon1
No, he's going to throw it away because " if you knew how the folks in his community are suffering too" you would have to take on this calling. I don't know about anyone else but I would be damned if I could live in that part of town.
I have property in Florida FOR SALE.
Ofcourse the current VP has been an influential figure, but his role completely overblown due to the Boogyman effect needed. There must be a man behind that curtain. A smart insider is taken as VP by a Preisdent with a father who was also the President, but no, Dick, just be quiet and sit over there. Ya right.
It must be painful for Evan
October 3, 2008 - 23:54 ET by jdhawkIt must be painful for Evan Thomas to see Newsweek subscribers slowly but surely ebb away. But, I guess he is doing his "duty" as one of the many liberal propagandists shilling for the DNC.
How many people have you had to fired this year, Thomas? How is the content being reduced to reflect ever tighter budgets? Cutting back on "hard" news stories, adding fluff, lots of readers letters, etc? So, Thomas, how does the magazine differ from National Inquirer exactly?
By the way, Thomas, what is the average age your readers? Shouldnt you add more Geritol ads? Maybe those prostrate medicine advertisers arent so bad after all? Nah . . . I know you will still trash big pharma, right?
Thomas, are the boys over at the Washington Post, your owners, laughing at the nasty turn of events that have befallen your "news" magazine? Or are they in a similar situation?
Are you going to be shown the door, a la Couric, when this election is over and Senator McCain is President McCain?
Evan Thomas' worthless opinion
October 4, 2008 - 00:14 ET by nkviking75The thing that worries me the most is she has this George Bush quality
to make up her mind before she has the facts and she's dogmatic and,
you know, she's impulsive, and the things that get you into trouble
when you're President of the United States.
The people who have actually worked in the Bush Administration say that the President likes to have lots of information and a variety of opinions from his staff before he makes decisions. Thomas' real problem with Bush is that he doesn't make decisions the MSM likes.
As for his opinion of Palin's characteristics, I feel certain he has to be guessing about what she's like. The effort to destroy Sarah Palin makes it much more difficult for the MSM to learn what she's really like. That's assuming they care. What Evan Thomas thinks isn't worth one of the electrons wasted to broadcast his opinion.
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
you nailed it
October 4, 2008 - 00:23 ET by JnobleDude, that's exactly it
"...Bush doesn't make decisions the MSM likes"
That's why they hate him and have been working 24-7-365 for the last eight years to destroy him and ANYTHING he wanted to do and ANYONE in his administration.
Personally, he'll always have my respect. He's been right on the tax issues, right on the war, wishy-washy on the social things, and a stand up guy who took all these years of unfair abuse from all corners and never lashed out
If 9-11 never happened, we weren't at war with anyone, no Iraq, Katrina never happened, economy stayed strong....I wonder what excuse they would hate on him for? They'd come up with something....
Evan Thomas--not worth
October 4, 2008 - 04:24 ET by Andrew H.Evan Thomas--not worth reading or listening to--ever--just another, sigh, mainstream media little bitch who doesn't know enough to work a real job.
Liberalism is a convenient lie.
Huey Generis
October 4, 2008 - 07:17 ET by Copperhead RidgeMan, if you're going to accuse someone of being a Huey Long, you better list reasons for the thought.
If there is someone who is like the Kingfish in this race it's Barack Obama. He demagogues issues. He has questionable associations with corrupt political players from a traditionally corrupt city. He has brashly made leaps for power with very little experience. He insists that people put their hope in him. He has a hard core throng of unquestioning followers. He encourages the followers to "get in the face" of their opponents.
Maybe the mysterious "H" in Barry's name stands for "Huey." Huey, Herod, Hugo, Hussein, it can stand for so much.
At least Huey made reforms (most of them damaging to freedom) and didn't prowl around preaching that he was an agent of change when he hadn't changed a danged thing.
Things went kind of bad for the Kingfish in the end. It's what happens when people have their hopes toyed with.
Most importantly just like
October 4, 2008 - 07:37 ET by Gat New YorkMost importantly just like Huey, Obama deeply believes in redistribution of wealth.
During the debate Biden made
October 4, 2008 - 07:50 ET by dscottDuring the debate Biden made a cryptic reference to Dick Cheney and his role in the Senate. Biden seemed to be very upset about Cheney's actions. What was going on with that?
I think we will need to coin a new ID in the GOP: Dick Cheney Repub.
Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.
Tit for Tat
October 4, 2008 - 09:38 ET by CaringwhiteguyUsing the same rationale as Thomas I guess it's OK to say that Obama has a bit of Daniel Ortega, a bit of Che', a bit of Putin, a bit of Farrakhan, a bit of Angela Davis, a bit of Mayor Daley, a bit of Eddie Haskel and A LOT OF NORMAN THOMAS (Evan's grandfather) in him.
Huey Long? No, Ronald Reagan
October 4, 2008 - 10:05 ET by iveseenitallHey, Evan Thomas. Sarah doesn't have any Huey Long in her. But she sure has alot of Ronald Reagan. Too bad for you, Evee boy!
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Vice President has zero legislative role?
October 4, 2008 - 19:46 ET by ClintACKIs the Senate still in session?
Wouldn't it be fun if Dick Cheney were to take a trip down the street and pick up his gavel for an afternoon? Just to make the point...
Why would anybody except a Liberal...
October 5, 2008 - 15:28 ET by jawebster1read Newsweek? It has become a mouthpiece for the DNC along with Time, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, PBS, New York Times, Daily Worker, Washington Post, Daily KOS, Media Matters, Huffington Post, Rolling Stone and many more too numerous to mention. Jim Webster
Tom Hayden explains attacks on Sarah Palin
October 6, 2008 - 09:46 ET by Retired Geek"Sarah Palin is a mortal threat to the possibility of Obama winning. The reason is simple: if she can add a couple of points to McCain from defecting white women and the newly-energized right wing religious base without losing more independent votes, McCain pulls ahead in some key states." Tom Hayden
Who is Tom Hayden?
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The Former SDS president Tom Hayden.
Michael Klonsky (former blogger on the Barack Obama official website) remembers Hayden plotting to spread nails on a highway; another SDS leader recalls Hayden encouraging activists to firebomb police cars.
“Today the Republican Party is directly carrying out the war, which obviously will make a lot of people favor changing the presidency despite the uncertainty of what the Democratic candidate will do when in office.” Tom Hayden