Charlie Rose: Obama Campaign 'So Giddy That They Want to Run Naked'
By Matthew Balan | January 27, 2012 | 18:46
Charlie Rose boosted a jaw-dropping line from Politico's Roger Simon on Friday's CBS This Morning, which concluded that the Republican presidential debates were hurting the party's chances at defeating President Obama: "It is said that in Chicago, where they are running the Obama campaign, that they're so giddy that they want to run naked in Millennium Park" [audio available here; video below the jump].
Simon's actual sentence in his Thursday piece was more graphic:
These debates are making the Obama staffers in Chicago so giddy that after each one they are tearing off their clothes, running through Millennium Park and howling at the moon. And why shouldn't they? The American people, after being treated to hour upon hour of Republican candidates...are slowly discovering something: Barack Obama doesn't look that bad any more.
The CBS anchor made his paraphrase of the Politico writer's line in a remark to correspondent Norah O'Donnell. The head-turning remark from Rose prompted co-anchor Gayle King to laugh off-camera and reply, "That's a visual." O'Donnell also laughed, and stated that "they don't want to interfere with these debates. They think the more the American people watch these debates, they get a better understanding of their opponents, the Republicans. This president is trying to stay above the fray at this point."
Rose has certainly revealed his liberal leanings since he began his stint on the new CBS morning show. The previous morning, he took issue with Florida Senator Marco Rubio for attacking the President's State of the Union address. The journalist replied, "I saw him honoring the military of America and a lot other things where we should be coming together. That doesn't seem to be divisive."
On January 17, the anchor threw the race card at Newt Gingrich, hinting that the former House Speaker should apologize for a supposedly insensitive comment about food stamps. Two days later, Rose trumpeted a line from the front page of the New York Times about "Romney riches...being seen as new hurdle."
The transcript of the relevant portion of the segment on Friday's CBS This Morning, which began at the top of the 8 am Eastern hour:
CHARLIE ROSE: Norah, it is said that in Chicago, where they are running the Obama campaign, that they're so giddy that they want to run naked in Millennium Park-
GAYLE KING (off-camera): (laughs) That's a visual, that's a visual-
NORAH O'DONNELL: (laughs) Yeah-
ROSE: I think Roger Simon said that or some- (laughs)
O'DONNELL: They don't want to interfere- yeah, they don't want to interfere with these debates. They think the more the American people watch these debates, they get a better understanding of their opponents, the Republicans. This president is trying to stay above the fray at this point.
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Yeah, and maybe they'll piss
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 6:55pm.
Yeah, and maybe they'll piss and defacate all over the park while they're at it - along with having public sex and doing drugs. Of course, some of them will be rifling the clothes from the naked ones for money, cigarettes, and dope...............they'll just act like their counterparts in the OWS bowel movement.
Please.......
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:01pm.
Make sure not to tell Chris Matthews of the possibility of a naked Obama.
Political Correctness - the belief that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
I'm not buying it. In 2008,
Submitted by tcm14 on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 7:02pm.
I'm not buying it. In 2008, everybody was sure that the Democratic party had been destroyed by the battle between Hillary and Obama. All we heard about was this giant schism in the party, how it was a party divided, and Hillary's supporters were going to vote for McCain because they were so upset. And that turned out just fine for the Democrats.
Neither am I.
Submitted by dr-go on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 7:33pm.
Even Bubba entered the fray and it didn't harm the cause one bit.
I guess they are giddy
Submitted by MrLuigi on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 7:51pm.
Having the media in your hip pocket should make any political party giddy.
But you have to have pants on
Submitted by miss911ninja on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:30pm.
in order to have the media in your hip pocket!
Unless? You're running around giddy and nekkid?
Reading between the lines...
Submitted by KevinB on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 7:28pm.
"they're so giddy that they want to run naked in Millennium Park"
conservative translation...
"the kool-aid is extra strong in Chicago"
They've got nothing else...
Submitted by amyshulk on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 7:39pm.
They've got nothing else... Too bad it will work on the uninformed.
Ronald Reagan
The George .H.W. Bush WH was giddy when . . .
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 8:06pm.
. . . Clinton won the Dem nomination in '92. They thought Bush had it in the bag -- an inexperienced governor from Arkansas against an incumbent President who had just run a very successul war and held a 90% approval rating.
Ross Perot
Submitted by hbest on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 9:23pm.
old ross helped willie win the first one. split the repubs.
I've heard it both ways, Ross
Submitted by MightyMouth on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 9:58pm.
I've heard it both ways, Ross took as many or more from Clinton.
it was speculated due to
Submitted by TruthMonger on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 5:46pm.
it was speculated due to lackluster campaigning that 41 didnt really want a second term either - so that was a clinton booster indeed
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Gallup
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:46pm.
Not at all. He hit the 80s for a stretch in 1991, but look at the numbers leading up to election time of 1992. Terrible numbers. Everyone always says Perot took Bush voters, but with Bush approval numbers as bad as they were, I don't think a wide majority of the Perot vote was a would-be Bush vote at all unless those Bush approval numbers had no real reflection of the vote.
http://webapps.ropercenter.uconn.edu/CFIDE/roper/presidential/webroot/presidential_rating_detail.cfm?allRate=True&presidentName=Bush%20(G.H.W.)#.TyNtmm1VXHQ
How he had those low numbers, yet Obama is in the mid-40s or higher is nuts. Shows how uninformed and gullible too many people are getting to be, and where our nation might be headed because of it.
Political Correctness - the belief that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
Run naked??
Submitted by grammajane on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 8:04pm.
Hope tingles, schultz and madcow don't join in the run!!
Thanks
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:50pm.
http://gamesprays.com/images/icons/family-guy-puke-2941_preview.gif
Political Correctness - the belief that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
⇒ Yep, running naked
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 8:28pm.
They want so badly to speak in unison, those words immortalized by Madeline Kahn in "Blazing Saddles".
It's always about Barack.
That's because the comrade Dear Ruler has no clothes
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 9:05pm.
-Dave
⇒ Chicken Dinner Dave!
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 9:07pm.
We have a winner!
YES!
Submitted by miss911ninja on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:35pm.
SCORE!
Just wait........
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:00pm.
Once the Republican primaries are over and a candidate is named, all this crap going now will be a memory and then its one on one. Well wait....no, it's one on thousands of Obama media boobs.
Freedom of the Press, my arse.
Political Correctness - the belief that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
Let's see how "giddy" they'll be after Obama loses the election-
Submitted by PrairieSky on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:12pm.
Instead of gleefully running naked in Millennium Park, they'll be throwing themselves off of Navy Pier into Lake Michigan.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
Skinny Dipping!
Submitted by miss911ninja on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:36pm.
When they throw themselves into Lake Michigan!
Yep..."Skinny Dipping" desperate, defeated Democrat style!!
Submitted by PrairieSky on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:43pm.
And I'd pay good money to see it!!! LOL!
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction...It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them (our children) to do the same." ~President Ronald Reagan
".....Barack Obama does not
Submitted by big.league.slider on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:13pm.
".....Barack Obama does not look that bad anymore...."
That's hilarious. And it shows how out of touch Democrats are. Apparently, the Dem's haven't heard any of Obama's recent speeches. His administration has been so bad that he is actually campaigning against his own record.
There will be three major candidates in the 2012 presidential election. The GOP candidate, President Obama, and candidate Obama. The only hope candidate Obama has of winning is to run against President Obama.
The should enjoy it while they can...
Submitted by krendler on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:19pm.
Wait till the general comes. Obama's going to get so much garbage dumped over his head that no one's going to remember what Gingrich said about Romney not being a conservative.
Fun topics to keep at the forefront:
- his disastrous record
- all the stuff from the last time around in 08 (hammer those wounds HARD): Rev. Wright, a wife who was never proud of her country, typical clinging white person, disparaging a police officer who was just doing his job, etc
- never-ending class warfare
- constant bashing of the very concept of free markets
Their giddiness is going to be short-lived.
That's IF the GOP and
Submitted by Slyrr on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:34pm.
That's IF the GOP and Republicans have the guts to go after Obama and go after him hard.
I have doubts. They all seem afflicted with McCain Syndrome - too scared of going after the poor little black man.
To the libutard media:
Submitted by Slyrr on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:26pm.
Dear liberal media:
We've already seen enough of the media slobbering over Obama with his shirt off, thanks. Watching you slobbering over him naked is just disgusting.
Sincerely,
Everyone
How many more elections........
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 10:31pm.
.........with liberals getting an automatic 5-10% headstart, due to a completely biased media acting as an advertising agency for the Democrat Party, is America going to take? My guess is, as many as the nation is in existence.
Freedom of the Press, my arse.
Political Correctness - the belief that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
Rose is a shill moron. Recall
Submitted by jdhawk on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 12:46am.
Rose is a shill moron.
Recall this little ditti with Brokaw in which they are sitting around Rose's table and between the two of them can't figure out who Obama is; that they know nothing about him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=IL&hl=en&v=hzMas1bVidw
Isn't That Illegal?
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Sat, 01/28/2012 - 9:24am.
I mean, conjuring up images of David "Meathead" Axelrod in the nude. OWSers are the defecators of Earth.
White race baiters are white race traitors.
Obama, The President of America's white trash.