Team Hillary: Penn Skedaddle 'Disgusting' -- We'll Deal With Him Later

Photo of Mark Finkelstein.
  • Bookmark and Share

"We'll deal with him later." -- Clinton co-chair Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, on Mark Penn.

"It's disgusting for him to do this . . . that's just disgusting." -- Clinton supporter Hilary Rosen.

Mark Penn sleeps with the fishes. Metaphorically speaking only, of course.

On this evening's Tucker, Clinton's chief campaign strategist came in for some industrial-strength opprobrium from two prominent members of Team Hillary for his attempt to flee what might be a sinking ship.

View video here.

Story Continues Below Ad ↓

The LA Times has reported that:

Penn said in an e-mail over the weekend that he had "no direct authority in the campaign," describing himself as merely "an outside message advisor with no campaign staff reporting to me."

"I have had no say or involvement in four key areas -- the financial budget and resource allocation, political or organizational sides. Those were the responsibility of Patti Solis Doyle, Harold Ickes and Mike Henry, and they met separately on all matters relating to those areas."

First up was the ever-smiling Stephanie Tubbs Jones, congresswoman from Ohio and Clinton campaign co-chair.

TUCKER CARLSON: Mark Penn, the chief strategist of the Clinton campaign, quoted as you know today in the LA Times saying basically "yeah, there's this Clinton campaign. Don't know too much about it. Not that involved in it." Here's a guy that took $10 million from the campaign you're co-chairing and now he's distancing himself from that campaign before it's even over. Why is he still working there?

STEPHANIE TUBBS JONES: You know what? That's not my decision to make. Mark Penn was hired by Hillary Clinton and the people early on in the campaign. I'm doing my job; I'm not worried about Mark Penn. We'll deal with him later.

CARLSON [laughing]: I bet you will! Congresswoman, I appreciate your coming on; thank you very much.

TUBBS JONES: It's always good to be with you. Happy to be back.

CARLSON: Good luck with dealing with Mark Penn later. Who-o-o-o-h! I love the, the ominousness of that.

A bit later, Tucker chatted with Jeanne Cummings of Politico.com and Clinton endorser Hilary Rosen. After Carlson and Cummings agreed that this was very bad form on Penn's part, Rosen unloaded.

HILARY ROSEN: You know, short of Bill Clinton there was no bigger foot in that campaign.

CARLSON: Thank you for saying that.

ROSEN: Than Mark Penn.

CARLSON: That's right; we didn't imagine that, did we, no?

ROSEN: No. There's no imagining that. And it's disgusting for him to do this, particularly since Hillary Clinton's actually doing pretty well these last few days

CARLSON: All of a sudden, yeah!

ROSEN: And I think most people on her team would say, actually, everybody's getting along better. Over the last couple of weeks people are looking at more strategy and people are feeling, and Hillary herself is feeling most optimistic: that's just disgusting.

CARLSON: Thank you for being, I mean this, thank you for being so honest about that. Sometimes in current campaigns it's like you live in this parallel universe where nothing that is obviously true is actually true, and no one admits it, and thank you, I mean, that comports with everything I've heard.

Recapping: Camp Clinton finds Mark Penn "disgusting" and will "deal with him later." Sweet dreams!

—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.


Comments Policy

All comments are owned by whoever posted them and are subject to our terms of use. They should not be assumed to represent the views of NewsBusters.

Viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Carville admitted it once:

Carville admitted it once: "Being with the Clintons is like being with the Mafia. Once you're in with them, you're in for life."

Life.

Don't buy any green bananas there Mr. Penn. 

 

 

 

 

 

speaking of fruit

He wasn't seen recently with an orange was he?

(please don't tell me I have to explain this.) 

When a liberal speaks, the truth is busy elsewhere.

Sleeping with the fishes.

The only question remaining about Penn is will his death be an unexplained suicide or will he simply disappear? What will that make, 51-52 unexplained deaths connected with the Clinton Machine?

 

 

Old, Retired and glad of it.

The only question remaining

The only question remaining about Penn is will his death be an unexplained suicide or will he simply disappear?

C'mon, they'll just ruin his career. They're not going to kill him.

 

 

SMG,


C'mon, they'll just ruin his career. They're not going to kill him.

If you say so. :-)

I dunno

That button on Tubbs Jones lapel that read Mark Penn Must Die may have been a clue.

 

Mica,

I don't know, either, but if I were Mr. Penn, I believe I would be busying myself looking up present job offerings in Siberia, along with the current available real estate there.

Either that, or start praying really hard that Mars is somehow magically colonized in the next 36-72 hours. :-O

[I am, of course, just kidding here, but I think that HRC is the last person on this planet that I would want that cheesed off at me.]

Can you say Mark Penn is fish food?

LOL-And I find it more than ironic that, when I read it, the add in the middle of this article was the aquarium screen saver.

LOL: Our brilliant ad

LOL: Our brilliant ad algorithm at work ;-)

Is that an Al Gore dancing

Is that an Al Gore dancing joke???

 

motherbelt,

LOL-I'm not sure that Al Gore and rhythm should ever appear in the same sentence. I mean, he definitely ain't got it, and then some.

You guys are very, very

You guys are very, very sharp!

Mark,

You know, in looking at the above pic of Mr. Penn, it is almost 90% of the way toward the classic "deer in the headlights" look.

LOL-About two or three passes through Photoshop should just about do it.

Nah, that's just the look

Nah, that's just the look he'll have on his face when he fall to his knees and begs hillary to spare him. I sure wish I could take out a life insurance policy on Penn. I have a feeling it would be paying any day now. :>)

Financial Fraud?

John Coleman, founder of the Weather Channel, was on Fox & Friends this morning (6:50am) asking the question: Is Al Gore committing financial fraud with his carbon-credits scheme? He really blasted the whole Global Warming thing, claiming that it's all based on "bad science", and NOT CAUSED by CO2 at all.

Wow. That's gotta hurt. And Fox & Friends played video of tractors piling up snow mounds this winter while Coleman was talking.

Now, I don't know if the world is warming up or not. But for Al Gore to completely eliminate the effect of the Sun on our climate is the act of a fool -- and it's about time people like John Coleman really start to challenge this fool's hypothese -- excuse me, I meant "Settled Science".

___________________________________ 

If you can read this, thank a teacher. If it is in English, thank a Soldier. - My barber

Penn

Two words... "Vince Foster."

FATBOY...

 Mark Penn takes $10,000,000 of Clinton ca$h to run Hillary's campaign, & then bails when it looks bleak? What an effing tool. I can't stand Hillary Rotten Clinton, & even I think she's getting shafted.

Mark Penn has done to her what a few CEO's have done over the years, they get paid big money to run whatever they were hired to run, whether or not they do a good job. Too often they run it into the ground, like Ken Lay. Smells like a political version of corperate corruption to me.

Nobody with a brain who is serious about elected office should even consider hiring this guy, & no news network with any credablity would hire hire this fat @$$ , so I'm expecting him to be hired by MSNBC by St.Patrick's Day. Which is 2 weeks away. So anyone want to take a crack at who hires him & when to be an "expert" for the upcoming political season?

 

"Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

Does the name Bob Schrum

Does the name Bob Schrum come to mind..he's still called on as a pundit..has had nothing but losers....

SPOT ON...

 I forgot about Schrum, I don't know if he's ever had a winner. His record is way under 500 though.

 

 "Some of us are wise, some of us are otherwise"  Mark Levin

I just have visions of the

I just have visions of the great Darth Vader moment in Return of the Jedi:

"Leave them to me, I will deal with them myself."

I think an angry Hillary might actually be a little scarier than Darth Vader. Come to the dark side indeed!

Nothing is going to happen

Nothing is going to happen to Penn.  The defeatocrats love a loser.  Just think back to every dimocrat that you have ever known.  How many weren't losers? 

Penn just becomes another in a long line of 'em. 

After Tuesday, billary will, with any luck, join him.