New MSNBC Host Wagner: Pro-Waterboarding GOP Candidates Building 'House of Crazy'
Well, that didn't take long. It took about half an hour into her new noon Eastern program Now with Alex Wagner for the host to attack the Republican presidential field as insane. And true to MSNBC form, her panel of liberal journalists largely agreed with her.
"When I watched that waterboarding segment, all I could think of is these Republican candidates are putting another brick on the house of crazy that they are building for themselves," Wagner complained after airing a montage of GOP presidential contenders in Saturday's CBS-National Journal foreign policy debate regarding their views on the controversial enhanced interrogation technique. [MP3 audio available here; video follows page break]
"I mean, we are now, the conversation moves ever-more right every single time they have" a debate, Wagner griped.
"Right, this is a hard-right moment in the Republican Party, no question," Politico writer Maggie Haberman agreed.
"So far, these Republican debates have been, they [are like] much of the early work of the Marx Brothers," HDNet's Dan Rather quipped.
For his part, panelist John Heilemann dismissed the waterboarding views of GOP candidates as problematic in the general election, but in doing so praised President Obama as having run "a basically pretty conservative administration and because he's been very successful in foreign policy."
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Sorry Dan.
Submitted by NeoKong on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 2:15pm.
The only "Marx" is on your side of the aisle.
Now go scare up some phony documents .
Okay she's a cute little thing...
Submitted by Hozeking on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 2:46pm.
....to be sure, but when did MSNBC think I care what a little girl says?
I am sure her mommy cares, but I don't know how to explain
Submitted by Lipton on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 2:52pm.
the other dozen fewers.
Taking their eye off the ball
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 2:58pm.
The GOP candidates must stay focused on Obama's abysmal economic record. The MSM will get them sidetracked on things like abortion, GTMO, gay marriage, etc. in order to splinter the voters.
It's not wrong for candidates to state their views on these issues, but they must always bring the discussion back to jobs and the national debt, because if the country collapses under the weight of economic stagnation and insurmountable debt, the other issues won't matter anyway.
So I guess our Pro-assassination
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 3:02pm.
president is mainstream?
Wagner Favors Abolishing Second Amendment
Submitted by libBuster on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 3:49pm.
This from Real Clear Politics:
Well, I'm going to be pilloried for this. I think get rid of the second Amendment, the right to bear arms. I just think in the grand scheme of the rights that we have; the right of assembly, free speech, I mean, owning a gun does not, it does not tally on the same level as those other Constitutional rights. And being more discreet about who gets to have a firearm and right to kill with a firearm, I think is something that would be in our national interest to revisit that."
Another Brick in the Wall Against Insanity
Submitted by Avitar on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 3:54pm.
We found out what we know about 9/11 through water boarding and we killed Osama bin Ladin with information that was developed from the waterboarding.
Benchmarking,
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 4:13pm.
near 100% walk away from water boarding, and near 100% don't walk away from assassination.
Bush brought Saddam Hussein forth to be prosecuted. Obama has, as I hear the Dems tout, two assassinations going for him.
We don't need no education...
Submitted by lsudolemite on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 9:39pm.
We don't need no thought control.
All in all, it's just another brick in the wall...
of stupidity.
THE GENIUS & WIT OF CURRY
Submitted by Sgthulka on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 3:56pm.
She's filling the Contessa Brewer chair at NBC these days.
She's another female Ted Baxter - If Baxter were black and female.
Hey Lady-you're the first
Submitted by helomech on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 5:46pm.
Hey Lady-you're the first guest at The House of Crazy!!!!!!!!!! Try the waterboarding special!
........dumba$$ liberals
Who is this lady? Never heard
Submitted by Martin2717 on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 6:58pm.
Who is this lady? Never heard of her.