Cokie Whacks Weir on 'Who's Looking After Baby?' Question

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You might have thought Bill Weir would have learned.  Yesterday, CNN's John Roberts was roundly condemned for suggesting Sarah Palin might neglect her Down Syndrome baby while running for VP.  But Weir, the weekend co-anchor of Good Morning America, posed a very similar question this morning. Coke Roberts, to her credit, called him out on it. Weir's guest during GMA's opening half-hour was McCain political director Mike Duhaime.
BILL WEIR: I must ask.  Adding to the brutality of a national campaign, the Palin family also has an infant with special needs. What leads you, the senator and the governor to believe that one won't affect the other in the next couple of months?

MIKE DUHAIME: In terms of her personal life?  You know, to the extent people want to look at her, she's got an incredible life story: five children, the son going into the military, she's got a  --
Weir brusquely interrupted, virtually shouting.
WEIR: She has an, she has an infant with special needs. Will that affect her campaigning?
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DUHAIME: I don't believe it will affect her campaigning. I don't believe it will affect her at all.

Co-anchor Kate Snow then interviewed ABC News contributor Cokie Roberts.  Snow began by accentuating the negative about Palin, reading from Gail Collins' nasty column in today's New York Times.

KATE SNOW: Let me ask you about Gail Collins this morning, columnist in the New York Times, has written a really scathing column this morning talking about the choice and basically suggesting that the only reason the governor was chosen was because she is a woman.  And let me quote from Gail Collins.  She says: "the idea that women are going to race off to vote for any candidate with the same internal plumbing is both offensive and historically wrong." What do you think?

Responding, Cokie whacked Weir for his crude question, suggesting it could backfire on people looking to undermine Palin.

COKIE ROBERTS: That's correct, that women do not necessarily vote for women. However, if you get a lot of questions about who's taking care of the children, it might make people angry enough to vote for her.

Bada-bing, Bill!

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


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Hillary did ok with her

Hillary did ok with her special needs child - Bill.

Sexism is good and alive in

Sexism is good and alive in the liberal mind it seems.

The Rocky Mountain Collegian: Illustrating Idiocy

dodecahedron

WOW! Right on the money! Wish I had wriiten that.

Thanks

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"They support fakes, they nominate fakes, they promote and market fakes, and they look at real stories and condemn them as fakes." ~ Rush Limbaugh on Democrats and the Drive-By Media

Is this really considered

Is this really considered "journalism"?

When one journalist quotes another journalist to yet another journalist and asks said journalist "what do you think of what that other journalist said?"

 

Fox and Friends this morning

Some stupid liberal bimbo on Fox News this morning made a remark that Palin was a smart choice because she would get the sympathy vote because she has a baby with Down Syndrome.

 

sympathy vote

That's part of the democrats' strategy to getting themselves elected. You have to be a victim or know a victim or want to be a victim to get that extra boost with the sympathy vote to get elected. They don't realize how insulting they sound when they actually talk about it in public.

By the way, I just read Gail (brownteeth) Collins' article, and from what I gather it's better to nominate an inexperienced black man for President, but not an "inexperienced" woman for VP. That's logic for ya! 

translation of this clown's remarks

read bw the lines translation:

[I'm in a panic...this appt hurts the liberals. i dont know how to condemn this woman...i need to say something negative...hmnn....here goes.....

i hope (for the sake of getting my candidate in office) that she (that right wing zealot who didnt abort her child even though it might not end up as tv friendly as Paris Hilton) is ridden with guilt or overworked due to he overly large family (who makes an abnormally large carbon footprint and most likely drives a, gasp!, SUV) to the extent that it negatively impacts her ability to campaign (do the job the press hasnt done in correcting the record on OBIDEN) from Alaska (boonies!)...pls, pls let my words place some doubt in the voters minds, please dont let this woman succeed....oh, please. If this doesnt work, i might have to get even nuttier in my talking points...but then again, that might score me points with msdnc and cnn.]

 

Deja foo!

Didn't we have this problem in the 1920s where the political elite complained, "If women go out and vote and get jobs, who's going to take care of the children?"

Well, the Earth is still turning, isn't it?

The libs can't stand it when..

their definition of the perfect feminist...is a successful Republican from Alaska!

you're right

she must drive them bananas...

Where are all the women's groups???  Nat. Org. for Women???  Hello?

crickets.  

Isn't it hilarious to see

Isn't it hilarious to see liberals who for years have championed farming out kids to day care so Mommy can have a career suddenly "concerned" that this Mommy might "neglect" her child????

The same women will now tsk-tsk themselves silly if she brings a Nanny along on the campaign trail for help. Suddenly, NO ONE can replace Mommy....not even Daddy.

It's going to get ugly when all their heads start exploding!

 

Plus the fact that she's a

Plus the fact that she's a former beauty pageant contestant just makes the libs' heads about to explode!

And

She successfully gained elective office without having to ride on her husband's coat tails.

Cokie knows

The Democrat play book well, and where all the land minds are planted.

Go Cokie! Women are going to see just how Sexist the Dem party

really is. It's nice that we had it first with Hillary so they can't just
justify their sexism like their blatant racism towards Black
Republicans.

The liberal Kirsten Powers has a great article

"A BRILLIANT TRAP MAKES DEMS THE MALE CHAUVINISTS

Oh, yeah, Dee.... the whole

Oh, yeah, Dee.... the whole time I was reading that I was nodding my head.

Kirsten made some noises yesterday more like what the rest of the libs are saying. But I have to hand it to her: in that column she put aside the emotion and analyzed the situation from a strategic angle.

MB - women aren't as willing to throw each other under the bus

as African American's are. I don't think they are going to stand for this.

Democrat African American's either stay silent or join in when blatant racism is thrown at Black Republicans. I don't think Democrat women will. It's a different psyche - The Dems keep African Americans from thinking they can do things on their own and need their help, whereas most women who are Dems don't want help, they are motivated by wanting to help others. I think this is going to wake many of them up to how the Dem party doesn't really help people and it's all about power.

Sexism

What a prima donna anchor! From which blow-dried salon did they find this creep? He asked a stupid question, then demanded an answer, and then dismissed his guest with barely-disguised contempt.

And what an insightful, hard-hitting question! Will it affect her campaigning? That question merely highlights this anchor's sexism. He must assume that Palin, until now, has been home nursing the baby. I guess he can't imagine how she could make arrangements to provide the special needs that the baby has. And wait, even more unimaginable ... maybe the husband and family could pitch in! Wow, family, what a concept! 

She's a governor, nitwit.

All I can say is hello, this is the liberal media. For all the women who haven't realized it before, I hope you see now what lies beneath the media's surface. This is Feminism's first line of defense. Gotta make you feel comfortable, eh?

Political Jiu Jitsui

This is an act of political jui jitsui by McCain. Democrats can't help but trip themselves up on this nomination.  No experience (not like  Barack), who will take care of the kids ...

Keep going Roberts, Weir and company.

I guess in Bill Weir's mind

I guess in Bill Weir's mind a woman belongs in the bedroom and the kitchen. Or maybe in Bill Weir's mind if a woman chooses a career she is incapable of having children. Either way he comes across as an arrogant pig. Women should take notice and say no to the male dominated left. Perhaps they will find that they can make better progress with the Republican Party.

Remember when Nancy Pelosi became speaker she was holding a baby and the liberal media was all excited that Nancy could be a leader with a motherly touch. Now the tables are turned and the liberal media are struggling to bring themselves to give any praise to Palin.

Just as the NAACP gave Clarence Thomas the finger, so will "women's" groups give Palin the finger. You're only black if you're a liberal, and you're only a woman if you're liberal. Blacks and women need to realize how intolerant the left really is!

Cokie Roberts

There still is hope for her!

Palin is smart, talented and accomplished

I can't wait for the debates.

Biden is a smarmy, vile, coward.  Palin has more guts, more balls in her little finger than Obama and Biden put together.  Let the media go to bat for Obabiden, they don't know what they are dealing with...

 

They haven't bothered to report on Alaska politics, and don't know anything about the acres of crap that Palin has already slogged through.   

She will blow them away like yesterdays lint.

thg... that is what I

thg...

that is what I posted somewhere yesterday...she will just dust the little piece of lint called Biden off her shoulder when she is done with him in the debate...

...and she won't need any protection from the msm, because they will be ready to pounce on her every word, unlike how they protected the screeching one after her debate with Lazio.

I am really looking forward to it.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

I do have to say that I'm al little worried about the debates

I don't know how she'll do. I still think it was an excellent pick though no matter what happens because he wasn't going to get this kind of excitement and attention with anyone else.

Dee

Dee,

from what I hear Palin will be mopping the floor with Biden.

 

Sarah Palin - This is what a Conservative looks like !

Free

I know far, far less about Sarah Palin than you do.  However....

Biden makes some big bloviating dem-talking point statement.

Sarah shakes her head a bit, looks over her glasses at him, then pauses for a moment.  Looks into the camera, smiles (like she can't believe she heard such a demented old fart say such a stupid thing).

Then she blows his ass away.  Game, set, match. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Right on B !

Right on B !

Obama is all about change . . . and picks a Washington Insider. McCain . . . I'm no fan, believe me . . . but he had the sense to pick someone solid.   How solid?  Newsbusters links to Slublog who says that Palin has brought in 4.9 Million already for McCain that's one day . . .

Free

It's only going to get better....

PopT's little epileptic fit aside.

It's all good.

I loved Obama's "challenge" to debate McCain...on judgement.

Uh, oh, uh, um, well, um, you know, um....that's above my pay grade.

Riiiight.

I'd love to be a Biden staffer about now, preparing him for a debate with Sarah Palin. 

"Well, boss, uh, oh, um....well, um, you know, um....try not to be a jerk!".

:D 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

B

How would you like to be the Biden staffer who suggests these gems?

  • On foreign policy, ask Palin if she even has a passport.  - Lets Palin discuss her trip to Iraq (before even Obambi went)
  • On experience, ask her why she think's she's ready to be one heartbeat away from the presidency -Let's Palin explain the difference between executive experience (Mayor & Governor) and legislative experience (Senator)
  • On Taxes bring up how she changed the tax system for Oil companies - Lets Palin describe how she took on the corrupt, entrenched, old boy networkthat was in the pocket of "Big Oil"

LOL!  I'm predicting a Biden meltdown.

Sarah Palin - This is what a Conservative looks like !</

Glad to hear it Free

I know you are the expert. It's so cool how you picked her out so long ago. I'd have never have heard of her if it were not for you. You are responsible for my being able to be excited at the announcement. Thanks!

(blush)

(blush)

Afternoon Dee... You

Afternoon Dee...

You shouldn't be worried about Palin, she is no sweet angel...she didn't get to where she is by being one, she is a lot like McCain in her politics, playing both sides of the aisle...PT has made some good points (I don't give a rats rear about the pot thing though), just wished he would be more happy about this strategically after Thursday nights socialistic screed by the Chicago gang Soros backed sock-puppet...I still feel the anger from his words.

She will do just fine...

I am so looking forward to it.

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

Hi BT - and now I'm double sure

because you know the most in general about a wide range of politicians than anyone I know.