All the Presidents going back for “generations” before Obama were “evil”? Williams likely meant to say past presidential victors were seen as the “lesser of two evils,” but a greater percent of voters cast their ballot for Ronald Reagan in 1984 (58.7%) -- when plenty of Americans outside the media were excited about re-electing that President -- and George Bush in 1988 (53.7%) than chose Obama (52.8%).
Williams soon insisted “none” of his personal excitement over Obama's presidency “is about a party” since, he quite seriously maintained, “none of us have a party in my line of work. We all try to call balls and strikes down the center.” Yet, Williams proceeded to trumpet how “we have a dazzling family in the White House. I don't think they take a bad picture” and tout how Obama “has an enormous brain. He's a hugely capable man.” Then, the “down the center” Williams endorsed Obama's “stimulus” plan: “If we can rebuild the United States, which everybody agrees it needs doing, and put these people to work, use that trillion dollars to help fellow citizens who are going to have it rough in these coming months and years...”
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Seeing the primary role of the federal government is to resolve his driving challenges in Manhattan and speed up his commute to DC, Williams contended:
We got a Willis Avenue bridge up here in Harlem that shouldn't be anywhere in our nation. It's an embarrassment. East River Drive, West Side Highway, La Guardia airport, and then go West. The Acela high-speed train slows down to 25 miles an hour to go through a rickety, leaking old tunnel in Baltimore. That's the best rail system we've got. We can't have that. So there's no shortage of things to do from East Coast to West. If we can rebuild the United States, which everybody agrees it needs doing, and put these people to work, use that trillion dollars to help fellow citizens who are going to have it rough in these coming months and years, that's what they're talking about in Washington.As for the New York City roadways and bridges, they are in a city and a state controlled by liberal Democrats with big spending governments, so why aren't their roads and bridges the best in the nation?
Williams did at least resist taking Letterman's bait when Letterman blamed the “bereft” Bush administration for all the problems Obama must fix.
From the Monday, January 26 Late Show with David Letterman on CBS; closed-captioning corrected against the video by the MRC's Brad Wilmouth:
DAVID LETTERMAN: Paint for us the word picture about the inauguration. It was something for the ages.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: It was stunning. I happen to think it was the largest crowd ever assembled in Washington.
LETTERMAN: We’re talking about three million people in the streets there at the mall.
WILLIAMS: For a public event. It was absolutely stunning. People with tears in their eyes. Dave, people lining up, and this is something I just can't wrap my arms around, to buy merchandise with any depiction -- this is a guy we just elected President. It's not a rock star or an athlete or an actor. This is our President. To see people, whatever your politics, that excited about our new chief executive after a line of what the ordinary voter would maybe describe as bad choices or choices of evils, for years, generations. [audience laughter] It is unbelievable to me. And, again, this is absent politics. This has to do with history and excitement. As events go, it was a stunner.
...WILLIAMS: I’d like to say something because, you know, people were in tears on the air on Inauguration Day. My friend Juan Williams works for Fox News. It’s impossible to watch the clip of Juan without crying yourself. None of this is about a party. None of us have a party in my line of work. We all try to call balls and strikes down the center. But we have seen an extraordinary thing that our country has just done. We have a dazzling family in the White House. I don't think they take a bad picture.
....
LETTERMAN: The symbolic import of this is not lost on anyone. But another part of the thing which is great, we actually have a guy who might be able to live up to this incredible challenge.
WILLIAMS: I think regarding temperament and training, intellectual vigor, this guy is a, is an, has an enormous brain. He's a hugely capable man. He's going to need everybody's help, though. When he says it's time to put away childish things, you can read all sorts of tangents in that one sentence in his inaugural address. I think it's time for eyes on the ball. As I always say, we got a Willis Avenue bridge up here in Harlem that shouldn't be anywhere in our nation. It's an embarrassment. East River Drive, West Side Highway, La Guardia airport, and then go west. The Acela high-speed train slows down to 25 miles an hour to go through a rickety, leaking old tunnel in Baltimore. That’s the best rail system we've got. We can't have that. So there’s no shortage of things to do from East Coast to West. If we can rebuild the United States, which everybody agrees it needs doing, and put these people to work, use that trillion dollars to help fellow citizens who are going to have it rough in these coming months and years, that's what they’re talking about in Washington. The Republicans just want accountability.
—Brent Baker is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Media Research Center
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→ Williams is lying
January 28, 2009 - 02:07 ET by Cool ArrowI didn't vote for Bill Clinton, but I did not see him as evil the first time he ran for President.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
Good morning Cool
January 28, 2009 - 02:19 ET by cocodrieNo party my ---.
The bible says satan is the father of lies but Williams is his wholesale distributor.
Jesus Loves You
→ Morning coco
January 28, 2009 - 02:21 ET by Cool ArrowI don't deny that slick-tongued devil had me fooled, but I didn't see Clinton as particularly evil.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
Cool
January 28, 2009 - 02:27 ET by cocodrieI didn't think he was as bad at that time either. I opposed him on two issues from the beginning - guns and babies.
Jesus Loves You
Yep, 52% of the vote certainly indicates a lack of 'evil'
January 28, 2009 - 13:30 ET by bpjamBut apparently 48% of Americans didn't see Obama as being an option and those were voters who never even got to choose a candidate of their own. A 89 yr old man who started every sentence with 'my friends' managed to get 48% of the vote despite spending half of his time trying to convince Republicans that he WASN'T a Republican like them. And despite total economic collapse (so sayeth the media), only a whopping 2% of America changed over to the side of Obama to tilt the election.
One would think that in a country where 'everybody is celebrating His election' that more than 2% of the voters would have made the difference. One would think that Obama would have felt safe enough with such tremendous popularity to simple write His own legislation and save our country all by Himself.
Hmmm.. But he seems to still want to make the GOP sign onto his suicide pact of socialism.
No, it took a bit in office for Clinton's mask to be revealed.
January 28, 2009 - 02:29 ET by CKA in Red State USABut it's shocking to see Democrat/liberal/leftist trash all those Democrat presidents before Obama.
Or, then, maybe it isn't.
The advocacy/adversary media turned against the Clintons.
But they way they revere Kennedy, you'd think Williams would have better control of his tongue.
Sorry. Forget that Democrats, liberals and leftists lack that ability.
Actually CKA
January 28, 2009 - 09:15 ET by ahusserIt took one day. One of his first official acts was the executive order allowing homosexuals in the military. ("don't ask don't tell").
Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster
Thanks. It's been so long I'd forgotten that. . .
January 28, 2009 - 11:32 ET by CKA in Red State USASeems WJC and BHO have more in common than I thought.
There's only 50, you know
January 28, 2009 - 03:57 ET by easygoerReagan and Nixon both won 49 states. Reagan did best him in electoral votes, but Nixon won a popular vote landslide even greater than Reagan's. Nixon's margin was 61% - 37%. And this was after the Watergate break in. So much for the media template that everyone hated Nixon.
Naivete
January 28, 2009 - 02:13 ET by NorthCoasterThe first interview of President Obama is on Al Aribya and that indicates what Brian?
NAIVETE!
Williams clearly cannot see
January 28, 2009 - 02:11 ET by SpaceManSpiffWilliams clearly cannot see Obama for who he is. I voted McCain because he wasn't the Socialist/Conman.
→ C'mon Spiff
January 28, 2009 - 02:18 ET by Cool ArrowOf course he sees. He's representing the same point of view that absolves the parent company (GE) of giving aid to Iran.
Williams and Brokaw watch the same dirty movies Olbermann and Chrissy do before going to sleep at night. Even use the same flashlight batteries.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
You're quite likely correct
January 28, 2009 - 10:30 ET by SpaceManSpiffYou're quite likely correct that he follows the routine you described, but it's my opinion that he's worn the blinders long enough to have forgotten they are there. He's a full fledged cult member now.
" regarding temperament and
January 28, 2009 - 03:56 ET by kg" regarding temperament and training, intellectual vigor, this guy is a,
is an, has an enormous brain. He's a hugely capable man. He's going to
need everybody's help, though."
Williams is awed bcause a Democrat politician is finally smarter than the "journalists" at MSNBCABCCBSNPRNBC. And the help Obama needs can only be filled by the dinosaur media such as Williams who whole hartedly promote everything Obama.
Democrats (journalists included) love to tout how smart they are. Look back at the last election where Kerry's only offer to the voters was he would do thing "smarter and better" and he was full of ideas. Ever notice how he pushed all those "ideas" in the Senate after the election. And actually Obama is not much different.
Obama doesn't really know what he is doing. So contrary to what Williams thinks, the election once again came down to the 'lesser of two evils'. Add to that BDS and you end up with an Obama victory.
"Forget change, I want improvement!"
KG This is prescient
January 28, 2009 - 09:35 ET by ahusserAs soon as I read how brainy Obama is. I immediately thought of THIS (you tube-G rating). The ears match too! Biden is there too! Pay careful attention to the words because they convey the real message of the present administration! LOL.
Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster
The election of '08 was a flaming Marxist vs. a mere socialist
January 28, 2009 - 02:14 ET by R D HelmI don't know, but that sounds like two evils to me.
-Dave
Our clueless political leaders are about to drive us all over a cliff. The time to HITM is now-before we go over.
I'll second that
January 28, 2009 - 02:29 ET by Michigeezer"The election of '08 was a flaming Marxist vs. a mere socialist."
He's right, of course. Not.
January 28, 2009 - 02:26 ET by CKA in Red State USAIf we take a generation to be a span of either 25 years or 50 years, then "in generations," means at least 50 or 100 years.
Thus, that would take us back to Eisenhower as the last "good" president, or Teddy Roosevelt, if we chose the 50-year length.
That's two Republicans, no matter how young Brian slices his hyperbolic, Obama-slobbering cake.
Regardless, Williams suffers, as do the rest of the advocacy/adversary media do, with HUTA syndrome.
With Democrats, liberals and leftists, it is incurable, especially once they've been Obamafied through pod transfers as he and they all have..
BRIAN WILLIAMS - DOLT
January 28, 2009 - 04:01 ET by SgthulkaThe Ted Baxter of 2009.
Not only the fact he won
January 28, 2009 - 04:47 ET by taterNot only the fact he won with 52% of the vote...but he couldn't even wrap up his own party until the convention.
That truly was like picking between two evils.
www.theholyrosary.org
"There is no problem, I tell you, no matter how difficult it is, that we can not resolve by the prayer of the Holy Rosary." -Sister Lucia
Through the Looking Glass
January 28, 2009 - 06:47 ET by richb313We are in Wonderland folks. We are through the looking glass. Pay close attention for the next 2 or 3 months. Obama, with his high approval ratings, will bring about a fundamental change to this country that we will not be able to change once it has been enacted. I do not think that Obama believes he is doing anything wrong. He is the product of his education (Indoctrination). He really believes he will be doing good while pushing his agenda. Remember the road to hell is paved in good intentions.
We will not be able to change thier minds. They are convinced in thier hearts they are correct. I am very afraid for this country. It would be easier to defeat this crowd if thier intents were actually evil. I am very afraid for the survival of this nation. If Obama, and the Democrat Congress, are allowed to proceed unhindered we as a nation may never be able to recover. There is a real danger that the Monetary systems of the world could collapse yet no action, or even a discussion of this problem is being presented. There is a real problem with the way the Financial Markets have been allowed, through various regulations, have been allowed to nearly bankrupt an entire economy by inventing various investment schemes. They had to put all that money somewhere.
Wall Street has close ties with Washington, both with Democrats and Republicans. Our elected representatives and senators no longer represent We the People. They are the paid lackeys of various special intrest groups. How is it that Gietner got confirmed? He was Wall Streets Choice. No amount of outrage from the elecorate could stop the confirmation. The calls and e-mails were overwhelmingly to not confirm this man. The ratio was at least 9 to 1 against confirmation. Right now the next election is not until Nov 2010. That is forever in the minds that run Washington. They are counting on all of you to have forgotten by then.
Through the Looking Glass
January 28, 2009 - 06:50 ET by richb313We are in Wonderland folks. We are through the looking glass. Pay close attention for the next 2 or 3 months. Obama, with his high approval ratings, will bring about a fundamental change to this country that we will not be able to change once it has been enacted. I do not think that Obama believes he is doing anything wrong. He is the product of his education (Indoctrination). He really believes he will be doing good while pushing his agenda. Remember the road to hell is paved in good intentions.
We will not be able to change thier minds. They are convinced in thier hearts they are correct. I am very afraid for this country. It would be easier to defeat this crowd if thier intents were actually evil. I am very afraid for the survival of this nation. If Obama, and the Democrat Congress, are allowed to proceed unhindered we as a nation may never be able to recover. There is a real danger that the Monetary systems of the world could collapse yet no action, or even a discussion of this problem is being presented. There is a real problem with the way the Financial Markets have been allowed, through various regulations, to nearly bankrupt an entire economy by inventing various investment schemes. They had to put all that money somewhere.
Wall Street has close ties with Washington, both with Democrats and Republicans. Our elected representatives and senators no longer represent We the People. They are the paid lackeys of various special intrest groups. How is it that Gietner got confirmed? He was Wall Streets Choice. No amount of outrage from the elecorate could stop the confirmation. The calls and e-mails were overwhelmingly to not confirm this man. The ratio was at least 9 to 1 against confirmation. Right now the next election is not until Nov 2010. That is forever in the minds that run Washington. They are counting on all of you to have forgotten by then.
I agree about perhaps the unchangeable changes he's making...
January 28, 2009 - 11:40 ET by CKA in Red State USAYes, I fear for what's happening to our country.
Yes, he's the product of his Marxist, Black-Liberation, Columbia-and-Harvard-universities indoctrination, as well as that cesspool called the Chicago Political Machine.
But the urgency with which he moves makes me think that he and his tribe know what they're doing is fundamentally wrong.
They want this blitzkreig, though, while the Republicans remain confused and leaderless and impotent, and the public, for or against him, remains either awed or dulled by his ascenscion.
From a Christian perspective, though, it's clear that the Lord God has removed His hand, in small and large ways, from America.
Maybe it's payback for killing 50 million unborn or just-born children, making America a far more efficient killing machine (at about 1.2 million, give or take, annually since Roe v. Wade) than the Nazis ever were.
Maybe it's how we've allowed the assault on the family and not stopped the homosexual agenda from infecting everything.
Whatever, we may be reaping what's been sown.
And pretend-Christian/Christian-in-name-only Barack Obama appears to be working against civility and freedom and economic independence, as well as national sovereignty.
Tough, tough times ahead.
Dyslexia
January 28, 2009 - 06:48 ET by Red JeepBrian suffers from dyslexia. Every time he spells his name he writes Brain.
Brian Williams not only
January 28, 2009 - 07:21 ET by motherbeltBrian Williams not only said the former Presidents were evil for the past generation, he said all the candidates were evil! He said a "choice" of evils.
Now for another of his points. He says they calls ball and strikes down the middle; they are objective. Then he calls the Obama family "dazzling" and says of Obama himself I think regarding temperament and training, intellectual vigor, this
guy is a, is an, has an enormous brain. He's a hugely capable man.
Enormous brain? Here we go with the Beschloss thing again; the smartest guy to ever be President. How do they know this? They don't. He's hugely capable???? You know this after one week in office, Brian?
Here's what Michael Medved said about Obama's first week (comparing him to Jimmy Carter):
displaying some of the nastiness, small-mindedness, insecurity, and self-righteousness that notably characterized the Georgia Peanut. The Inaugural Address included graceless digs at President Bush that undermined the promised theme of “unity,” while touchy, grumpy comments to the White House press corps stunned reporters who had previously displayed their infatuation with the new president. The odd remarks scolding Republicans with a reminder that “I won” and warning them not to listen to Rush Limbaugh, hardly characterize a self-confident, optimistic, coalition-building leader in the style of FDR, JFK or Ronald Reagan.
But he's biased, and you're not, I guess.
Yup, you're right Brian; time to keep our eye on the ball...and call those balls and strikes down the middle and recognize the greatness of The Obama.
At long last, Sir, have you no shame?????
Sickening
January 28, 2009 - 08:13 ET by nadadhimmiWilliams is the farthest thing from a "journalist". He is a sycophant of the worst order. An ass kisser equaled only by his fellows in the old media. Williams would be easier to listen to if he wiped Obamas' semen off his lips.
Motherbelt
January 28, 2009 - 09:25 ET by ahusserIf Williams is calling all candidates evil in the last generation (about 20 years) He is including Democrats Clinton, Gore, Kerry, Dukakis in the mix of "evil". Apparently Williams is a true believer and cult follower in extremis and truly believes this is the Age of Aquarius and Obama is the messiah, the one, and savior and all others pale in comparison to the wonderful most exalted one. This is not only very sickening but extremely scary.
Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster
Speaking of presidential
January 28, 2009 - 09:36 ET by ThatDudeSpeaking of presidential intelligence... I'd read some study that tried figuring out the iq of 20th and 21st century presidents. Jimmuh Cahteh topped the list, followed by Nixon. They rated both Bushes very low. Obama was also included in it and came in at around 120. Far be it for me to point out that that's roughly average. However, as my example here helps to illustrate, being smart doesn't necessarily mean you possess common sense or will achieve.
Obama's head is noticeably petite.
January 28, 2009 - 07:11 ET by ekslibWilliams says, "I think regarding temperament and training, intellectual vigor, this guy is a, is an, has an enormous brain."
For almost a decade we heard from the libs, "Karl Rove is Bush's brain."
Who does Obama's thinking for him?
I assume that is why
January 28, 2009 - 07:15 ET by 10ksnookerthe idiot hawkers are no longer on TV, becasue sales were so good.
Who buys this crap andymore?
Brian Williams = P L Dolt
January 28, 2009 - 07:28 ET by sbourgI think "Partisan, Leftist Dolt" is a helluva lot worse than mere "Dolt". It would be fine if our media celebs were just idiots with no agenda. But when they continually push a Leftist economic agenda they are unknowingly (remember, they're 'dolts') helping to move us towards economic catastrophe, which, with Obama/Pelosi/Reid, we are certainly doing. Congrats Brian, for the economic suicide you're helping us commit.
BTW, Brian, there is no "ordinary" voter. You're a complete fool for thinking and saying that.
Obama's Groupthink
January 28, 2009 - 08:00 ET by The Smokin FrogIs Brian joking? “None of us have a party in my line of work. We all try to call balls and strikes down the center.” That's ludicous! The left wing media's view of itself is nothing short of delusional.
Everyone would like the roads repaired and the bridges repaired. I thought that's what my exorbitant taxes were going to already. At least that is what they tell me every election. This is a complete sham. A smoke and mirror show. Their plan is just creating a block of permanent 'gimmes' for their future elections.
If our country hadn't been exporting the millions of jobs that actually created products, we would have all of our fellow Americans working. But we exported job 'creation' to countries with cheap slave labor and we have been reduced to a nation of needy people that just want cheap t-shirts. And we have replaced Americans in this country with H1B replacement workers because they are cheaper. That is why we have no jobs. Our founding fathers would not have shed their blood for this nor for the Obama Socialist Takeover as the fix.
I'm glad people are excited. Excitement is good. But they can't tell me what they are excited about. The electorate has become stupid, thanks to our stellar media and school systems. The left is all about appearances and feelings. I really don't 'think' they can 'think' anymore. Maybe it is just too late for them. It's all just groupthink.
Pure nonsense!
January 28, 2009 - 08:05 ET by c5thenThis elections was DEFINITELY a choice between the lesser of two evils as almost all of the other Presidential elections have been in the last 20 years or so. The main difference this year was that the electorate chose the greater of the two evils instead of the lesser.
Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!
Alan Keyes / Sarah Palin - 2012
Empty Suit Meets Empty Head
January 28, 2009 - 08:10 ET by allanfFor some reason, left wingers cannot grasp 58,343,671 people voted for John McCain. So an awful lot of people don't share the wingers enthusiasm.
Terminator 4;
January 28, 2009 - 09:20 ET by ahusserThe Rise of the Girly-Men.
Change: When the winds of change blow hard enough, the most trivial of things can become deadly projectiles. From a Poster
I think Obama's brain is
January 28, 2009 - 09:31 ET by eaglewingz08I think Obama's brain is William's second favorite organ of Obama's. Bend Over Brian should be his new moniker.
Brian Williams
January 28, 2009 - 10:16 ET by east tennessee johnDoes this moron have a make-up person whose sole job is to remove the brown spots from his lips? First choice in generations? Doesn't that indict such Dem stalwarts as FDR, LBJ, Wilson , Truman , Stevenson ? The question has never been answered, When and where has the government ever allocated resources more efficiently than the private sector regarding stimulating the economy? Afterall, a microcosm of government success in allocation of resources has been the now 45 year, $7 trillion dollar ,Great Society . Have the single party urban areas of this country, ruled almost exclusively by Democrats attained any meaningful change, that was unattainable by using non governmental means? Are the schools better? Jobs created? Economic viability redeveloped or created by this 45 year experiment in government replacement of the private sector? It's hard enoigh trying to hold an intelligent conversation about economic policy but when uneducated fools pop-off under the influence of hero worship, just because they're afaird and don't know what to do or what actually works in the real world. Brian who pays your salary and how's that overinflated sum generated? Your fear, which is a byproduct of your ignorance is dangerous to the rest of us, you useful idiot.
"We all try to call balls
January 28, 2009 - 10:27 ET by HockeyKid"We all try to call balls and strikes down the center."
Isn't that the line Rather tried to use in defending his actions in Memogate? Apparently Comrade Brian is too dense to even come up with own self-righteous tired cliche. If ignorance is bliss, that guy's on a permanent high.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
None of us have a party in
January 28, 2009 - 10:35 ET by fitzfongNone of us have a party in my line of work. We all try to call balls and strikes down the center.
Center of what? Red Square? If Brian Williams actually believes that he and his ilk try to call balls and strikes down the center, he isn't fit to cover the journalistic equivalent of a tee-ball game.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." -Winston Churchill
Better be glad
January 28, 2009 - 10:35 ET by StarAZYou are pleasant and jokey and seem to have some brain cells, Brian, despite these blatantly ridiculous remarks, so just be glad MSNBC is so bad, people choose...er, the lesser evil. (Since you like things down the middle--that would be you.)
Wow
January 28, 2009 - 10:47 ET by well99It is to early in the morning to watch this.That was pathetic.Brian needs a beach towel to wipe off the brown spot from his nose.His head is so far up Obama's butt he is tickling his tonsils.Brian is lying out his butt.This was pure lies as he pandered to Obama.I am surprised he wasnt on his knees with his head on the floor praying to Obama as he preached Obamanism.This is just sick.
Old Media Kamikazi
January 28, 2009 - 11:02 ET by celatorOld Media Kamikazi journalists keep insisting on continuing their dive bomb runs on everything they consider conservative. We watch and hear them day, after day, lining us up in their sights, and coming after us.
In the end, they commit professional suicide, and we survive. Brian Williams and the other information "gate keepers" are too far gone to grasp they are engineering the demise of Old Media. Can't happen too soon, can it?
For liberal Democrats and the Old Media, everything is crisis, chaos, calamity and catastrophe. That justifies stealing your property and liberties.
Is the man in the Whitehouse evil? Let's see what God says...
January 28, 2009 - 11:16 ET by vrwc13God began it…Genesis 2:9
And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
God defined it…Psalm 52:3
You love evil rather than good, falsehood rather than speaking the truth.
God warns about it…Proverbs 17:13
If a man pays back evil for good, evil will never leave his house.
God will judge you for it…Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.
God supports pro-life…Luke 6:9
Then Jesus said to them, "I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?"
God knows who knows Him…3 John 1:11
Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil but what is good. Anyone who does what is good is from God. Anyone who does what is evil has not seen God.
the man in the Whitehouse's record:
Sen. Obama received the following scores on NARAL Pro-Choice America's Congressional Record on Choice.
v
a woman might face judgement on her own "choices", the man in the Whitehouse might face judgement on all "choices" on "his watch", about 3000/day...
YES! Please rebuild the United States for us, Barack (and MSNBC)
January 28, 2009 - 11:44 ET by krendler“we have a dazzling family in the White House."
Do we? Why exactly are they "dazzling"? I seem to have families in my neighborhood that are no more or no less dazzling than the Obamas.
"I don't think they take a bad picture”
Wow.
Obama “has an enormous brain.
I didn't realize his brain had been measured.
Is he articulate as well? Oh, yes. He is. He's incredibly articulate. And incredibly attractive, as we've been informed 24/7 by the MSM for the past 12 months.
You sure are a fair, open-minded reporter, Brian, and you make it
clear repeatedly that there's no possible way that you could be prejudiced against black people!!! Obama's family is so attractive. And Obama has a large brain!!!! Gush. Gush. Gush.
"He's a hugely capable man.”
On what body of work does Williams base this assement? His 6 years as a state senator, representing the 13th district in Chicago? What? Is there anyone in the entire federal government who has a more paltry list of accomplishments than Barack Obama?
Then, the “down the center” Williams
endorsed Obama's “stimulus” plan: “If we can rebuild the United States,
which everybody agrees it needs doing,
Yes. We need to just flat out start from scratch and rebuild this country. After all, Bush and Cheney destroyed it and stripped us of our civil liberties. As Williams' colleague Brokaw told us, the United States in its current state in comparable to Czecloslovakia under the communists. "Everybody" agrees with that.
OK--enough with the smarts
January 28, 2009 - 12:15 ET by StarAZI heard our president has an IQ of 138. I know at least 10 people an IQ that high or higher. They also write books, though most of them can make do with one memoir and maybe just a few novels or policy books. How about emotional IQ--the coolness thing. This can mask insecurity, too--just cruise along. Why are we supposed to bow down to this guy as so brilliant. I don't get it. The people he picked showed some lack of acuity, in my book. And plunging in and calling a Dem laundry list bill a rescue bill is also questionable. I am not saying he is stupid--but all this adoration--Brian Williams probably has an IQ of 138, not that you'd know it from these breathless comments.
→ StarAZ
January 28, 2009 - 12:23 ET by Cool ArrowMaybe he's so smart he just realized he'd forgotten more than he'd ever known about himself, prompting a whole new mamoir.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
StarAZ, I doubt that
January 28, 2009 - 13:06 ET by Trix RabbitStarAZ,
I doubt that Williams has an IQ of 138. But if he does, then it is certainly not self-evident.
Sycophantic toadies lack the brains, balls, and ambition to use their intelligence.
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
Ian Anderson "Wind up"
The Late Liberal Show
January 28, 2009 - 13:37 ET by blazermaniacWhat would anyone expect from Williams, when he is on the second rate Letterman show. They are both loony liberals, so anyone knew that the spew coming out of the NBC Anchor?, was going to be pro-Obama.
"O" Dumbo
January 28, 2009 - 13:53 ET by rick007He's not a raceist. He agrees with killing all races of babies.
But it will be far more Blacks then whites or Latinos.
→ Not quite rick
January 28, 2009 - 14:05 ET by Cool Arrow512 of every 1000 black pregnancies end in
abortion. Nor do many know that 37% of all aborted babies are black.
This is despite the fact that blacks comprise only 12% of the
population.
I know it's not customary for White Liberals to publicly cheer genocide, but their glee is obvious.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
The greater they build Obama up....
January 28, 2009 - 15:08 ET by ToddonCapeCodThe harder he will fall....
"...and all the world wondered after the beast." Rev. 13:3
Depiction of Gaptooth and the Breck Boy of NBC
January 28, 2009 - 15:42 ET by Lord ErondLetterman <3 Williams
"What you can not enforce, do not command" -Sophocles-
Evil is as Evil does
January 28, 2009 - 17:25 ET by rick007"O" Dumbo is ok with killing babies but to the MSM thats not Evil.
The ten Comandments say Tho shalt not kill!!!!!!!!
I guess he is a muslim
Where Did All These Socialist Talkingheads Come From?
January 28, 2009 - 17:42 ET by RogerCfromSDBrian Williams is, without doubt, an utter dumbass. His comments of late have transcended his usual inanity. To claim that Obama is somehow the only non-evil candidate in a long time demonstrates just how tightly his sphincter is wrapped around his neck.
A nation cannot be free without a free, unbiased media. We are not free.
→ RogerC
January 28, 2009 - 17:45 ET by Cool ArrowYour description gives new meaning to "shooting from the hip"
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
Brian Williams
January 28, 2009 - 17:58 ET by bobmacI attended the Al Smith dinner a few years back and Williams was the speaker.The idea of the dinner is to make it a light night with humor instead of rancor.Anyway,Williams is giving his speech and he's getting some laughs when an older guy on the dais goes down.Now people are gathering around the guy and it's taking a little time.Not wanting to lose the roll he was on Williams starts his speech trying to get laughs while this older guy is still down.I always thought that was strange and I also thought that Williams was missing a chip.
Williams says "We all try
January 28, 2009 - 18:02 ET by bigtimerWilliams says "We all try to call balls and strikes down the center"
Say what!
He's a damned liar and we all know it.
I couldn't read anymore....and I sure as heck won't listen to this pretty boy..never have much, never will.
Useless tripe as far as I am concerned.
→ bigtimer
January 28, 2009 - 18:07 ET by Cool ArrowNow that's funny.
A good umpire would not call all balls down the center.
Only strikes would be "down the center"
It's an admission by Williams that it depends on who's at bat.
Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country - Khalil Gibran
Brian-Did "Gorby - tear down that wall" bring tears to your eyes
January 28, 2009 - 18:55 ET by Gary HallWilliams: The Acela high-speed train slows down to 25 miles an hour to go through a rickety, leaking old tunnel in Baltimore. That's the best rail system we've got. We can't have that.
Result: Bet cha. In 2012 - the Acela train will be no different - well, maybe a bit more rickety.
Reagan: 1982. We can't have the world held hostage by this imperialist Soviet Union -- Mr. Gorby - tear down this wall.
Result: No more wall. No more USSR
Observation: Bet cha Brian Williams is a heck of a lot more excited about the train tunnel possibilities than he ever was about tearing down that wall.
(;~/ gary