Joan Walsh: GOP 'The Party of Old White Men'
Less than 24 hours after Salon's Joan Walsh trashed Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's Mormon faith, she was invited on MSNBC to attack him and his colleagues further.
Appearing on Hardball, Walsh said of the GOP, "They’re writing off women, they're writing off Latinos, they’re writing off Asians, they’re writing off young people. It’s really the party of old white men basically" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
JOAN WALSH: We’re talking about making the climate so horrible for immigrants that they will leave. That is, there’s a whole theory around it. And it’s quite right-wing. It’s not even just a funny word. It’s actual, it’s an actual policy and program where they’re, you know, passing all these laws to make people’s lives miserable.
And they’re not going after the Latino vote. They really are, I mean, it is their last stand. It’s like they’re writing off women, they're writing off Latinos, they’re writing off Asians, they’re writing off young people. It’s really the party of old white men basically.
Quite comically, the segment ended with host Chris Matthews saying, "Maybe we ought to have lie detector tests for these politicians. Wouldn't that be interesting?"
I'm all for it, Chris. How 'bout you?
Let's also have lie detectors for television anchors, hosts, and their contributors so that the public will know when folks supposedly giving them the news aren't telling the truth.
Somehow I doubt there'd be a lot of takers in the liberal media ESPECIALLY at MSNBC.
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Yeap, just looked in the
Submitted by Liberallies on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 7:28pm.
Yeap, just looked in the mirror and i saw an old white man. oh wait....
i actually saw a Latino male who is 36 year olds. I called my younger and older siblings and they also didn't see an old white man in the mirror. Especially my 4 sisters...LOL
These Left wing radicals are such idiots.
this woman is just plain
Submitted by TruthMonger on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:19pm.
this woman is just plain stupid, what ignorance
and how do you 'write off' latino votes anyway? and why the hell does there have to be a 'latino vote?' what's wrong with just trying to appeal to PEOPLE? that's what Republicans do...
Congratulations Jimmy Carter!
Pretty much makes her a
Submitted by MightyMouth on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:20pm.
Pretty much makes her a racist and genderist. In other words, a femi-nazi!
Shame on you, Mighty...
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:27pm.
Don't you know the proper terminology? According to Whoraldo Rivera, it's "racialist." ;)
Whoraldo Rivera
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:22pm.
Never heard that before. Excellent!
Truth be told...
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:52pm.
That moniker is not of my creation. That belongs to Blonde.
What a relief
Submitted by MrLuigi on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:16pm.
If you listen to Joan Walsh and other left wing ideologues it's only old white males who are opposed to Obama's socialist agenda. That of course is what they want people to believe. Pure propaganda.
If you listen to Joan Walsh
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:10am.
your head will explode just like the aliens in "Mars Attacks".
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
The irony is hilarious since
Submitted by winston smith on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 4:47pm.
The irony is hilarious since Joan Walsh works for a cable network of 'old white men', MSNBC, who have yet to hire a regular black host and yet they are constantly carping and crowing about the preceived racism and discrimination of the GOP and/or FOX. Joan, you are a shameless, self-promoting hypocrite.
Joan is a whore...
Submitted by jmigyanka@msn.com on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 7:36pm.
...a she should just keep ironing my shirts and cleaning the bathroom!
Illegal aliens - Joan Walsh - not immigrants
Submitted by Gary Hall on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 7:38pm.
JOAN WALSH: We’re talking about making the climate so horrible for immigrants that they will leave.
Illegal aliens - Joan Walsh - not "immigrants."
And why not? After all, that's exactly what a majority of the voters want:
National survey from the liberal Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, on the AZ illegal immigrant enforcement bill SB - 1070. The survey summarized the supposedly contentious measures in the bill (the measures the Obama administration blocked in court):
And also, this:
The Republicans hold the "populist" ground here - would someone please inform them and the national media about that?
(;~/ gary
so funny
Submitted by oldfart on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 3:07am.
I will get my 1/2 Italian, and the reast Irish and Cherokee spouse to call her up and tell her what a stupid bitch she is.
Joan won't be able to get a word in edgewise.
LOL
Joan Walsh - here's a list of illegal aliens that we want out.
Submitted by Gary Hall on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 7:50pm.
From a March 2011 Government Accounting Report, GAO: CRIMINAL ALIEN STATISTICS Information on Incarcerations, Arrests, and Costs
• The number of criminal aliens incarcerated in California rose to 102,795 in 2009, a 17 percent increase since 2003
• Many are also repeat offenders. GAO auditors say that, based on a survey, criminal alien inmates have been arrested an average of seven different times.
Pretty easy math there -- 102,795 (picture this) X's 7 crimes each ='s over 700,000 crimes. In California's prisons and jails alone. Imagine how many have not been arrested and sentenced. I propose that we need a much larger Gitmo available.
(;~/ gary
Ahh, another Joan Walsh quote to make my day
Submitted by djwolf12 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 7:59pm.
M-BS-NBC: The place for ignorant, unattractive progressive trash. THAT MEANS YOU, MS. WALSH.
Joanie
Submitted by lilium479 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:15pm.
She means like Dodd, Schumer, Frank, et al.
All the diversity she speaks of are on the plantation mining for votes.
Liberal racist and sexist comments posing as analysis
Submitted by MidAmerica on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:16pm.
I know lotsa White women who are sick of obama and the direction of the country.
I dunno, I see Harry the
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:17pm.
I dunno, I see Harry the Weasel, and a whole clown parade of other Senators and Representatives coming from the 'D' side of the aisle...............plus I see Ms. Botox, Nurse Ratchett and other 'female' (do we have proof??) Democrat politicians..........and I've got to think that this old battleaxe - who is ONE of them - is as delusional as they come.
And I know that there are a number of 'old white men' in the Republican party, but if I'm not mistaken, there were a LOT of younger and mixed race Repubs elected during the 2010 mid-terms................men and women.
This is just another standard lie from the out-of-date Democratic handbook..................and lest I be accused of being 'racist', I see quite a few 'old', and definitly STUPID (although not any more stupid than their 'white' counterparts) 'black' people - men and women - in the Democrat party too. But that is probably an 'incendiary' statement, right???
Sorry to rain on your parage, joan (actually, no I'm not)...
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:25pm.
but there are a GOOD amount of conservatives below 25 years old. Example: me.
Have we been demoted???
Submitted by bigdaddy on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:26pm.
I thought we were the Racist, Sexist, Homophobic, White Old Men.
Damn, and I had been working so hard to keep my "Triple-A" Rating up.
Oh, shut up, Ms. Walsh. Just. shut. up.
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:26pm.
Go away mad if you want to. Just go away.
Democrats: The party of Rich White Guilt.
Submitted by drsamherman on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:26pm.
Joan:
If you are such a self-loathing Caucasian, give all of your money away and move to a third world nation to do volunteer work. Otherwise, shut the hell up.
We minorities are sick of being exploited by white guilt liberal manure like you. Go away.
Speaking of which...
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:55pm.
This song fits her perfectly. WARNING: Given it is NOFX (one of the worst bands to ever exist), it is probably NSFW. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkrHYHqChlI
kinks
Submitted by Hog_Flambe on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 12:08am.
A version...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgkunNlqOpc
Garret Johnson's version...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2qasexk_Bs
As for Joan, anyone remember mad libs?
" Joan Walsh reminds me of _____ ______ ______ __ ___ ____."
What party does Joan belong to?
Submitted by wimom on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:37pm.
The party of old, haggish, misfit, progressive, shrill, harpy, women. Must be BFF's with the poodle of the DNC.
Better than...
Submitted by gmonsen on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:39pm.
Well, its better than the Dems being a party of old (and not very attractive) white women, like Joan.
At least -- were it true -- if we were a party of old white men, we are intelligent old white men... Not just intelligent as in adding and subtracting, but in common sense and judgement.
We are not driven by a cult of Klennex, where our decisions are based on other-worldy Utopian.
And, there are an awful lot o us Ole White Men, even i many of us are Hispanic or Greek or Italian or... A lot of us...
I'm a
Submitted by bobsmom on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:39pm.
middle aged white woman Joan, and my advice to you having seen the pic accompanying this article is, "just pucker up and blow", and I ain't talking about how easy it is to whistle either sweetie.
As an astonishingly good looking hunk
Submitted by BBallleaper on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:08am.
of American white male, an Anglo-Saxon God created for the enjoyment and pleasure of ALL women, as a rough muscled white American boy toy,...one look at your photo Joan (or John) made me gag. Zaftig is NOT pleasing to men. Helmet hair is NOT pleasing to men. YOU are not pleasing to men. I think your best hope is paying for it on Craig's List!
I am sorry if this sounds
Submitted by pilgrim4jc on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:42pm.
I am sorry if this sounds mean, but I just can't look at this lady? She is just plain scarry. Just saying...
History lesson
Submitted by jakesnake on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 8:59pm.
I guess Joan forgot that polling overwhelming showed that the R's wanted Colin Powell and later, Condi Rice for President. They refused to run.
The latest polling shows Marco Rubio the choice for V.P.
Sarah Palin was and is very popular with the R's and was the V.P. choice.
Then we have Herman Cain.
Of course, Joan had ugly words for all of them.
Joan is worth a laugh, nothing more.
self-loathing
Submitted by notinstl on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 9:07pm.
bitch
Wishful thinking--short memory of 2010 election shellacking
Submitted by merly1 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 9:10pm.
EOM
Missed a few words
Submitted by Tjexcite on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 9:15pm.
but give it time she and those like her will add them. like racist, rats, and vermin. Just give it time and loud and every time them mention any GOP.
Writng off?
Submitted by WestHoustonGeo on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 9:17pm.
So women and Latinos aren't attracted to family values, religion and work ethic?
I disagree, but don't listen to me, I'm an old white guy...married to a hot Peruvian prolife Catholic anti-illegal-alien woman who actively campaigns for Conservatives.
We have a Consevative Latino son also actively campaigning and another just waiting to be 18 - and lots and lots of Conservative South/Central American LEGAL immigrants for friends. And some of them are recent converts to Conservatism, thanks to bho!
No, I don't think the "lady" is correct.
Very good,
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 9:25pm.
I work with many legal immigrants from all over. They all pretty much feel that way, and they have to deal with an incompetent immigration office for their efforts.
Just like anything else, when you earn it, you respect it.
No dummy, latinos care only
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:41pm.
No dummy, latinos care only about amnesty, women care only about abortion, gays care only about gay rights, blacks care only about being able to vote without ID, asians only care about.... well you get the point. Since republicans oppose law breaking, murder, destruction of traditional marriage, election fraud, etc. all minorities MUST vote democrat.
I guess if you care about fair elections, family values, and abiding by the law you are just an old white fuddy duddy.
"It’s really the party of old white men basically"
Submitted by WarEagle01 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 9:48pm.
Just like those guys who founded the KKK and all those villains from the Civil Rights era like Lester Maddox and Bull Connor....oh wait...actually they were all Democrats. Just like you Joan Walsh!
My Hispanic wife says hi.
Submitted by MrSnuggles on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:33pm.
My Hispanic wife says hi.
Just keep repeating the lie
Submitted by GregE on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:36pm.
Party of old white men.
Conservatives are against immigration, instead of being specific to say "ILLEGAL" immigration.
Keep repeating the lie long enough..........you know how it goes.
Ugly Pig-Woman
Submitted by Bill Brasky on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 10:48pm.
Just when you think the liberals have run out of truly stupid people... apparently it is a bottomless pit. This hole makes a living as a political commentator? Good grief!
Have you ever been to a GOP precinct meeting?
Submitted by lrgon on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:00pm.
The average age is geezer-genarian.
The GOP is going to lose in November due to the fact that Obama will capture the younger voter - the ones that are turning away from the Geriatric Old Party due to kids being turned off by Neocon war, war and more war. Who in the world wants to be part of a geezer party that is dying off and sending young people to die for United Nations driven "no win wars!"
Nonsense,
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:07pm.
You dont know what your talking about.
Just like Paul and his typical follower.
Last I looked, we have had dimwits in charge for about 5 yrs, and were still at war.
But like the typical libtard, the only one you hold responsible is the Right.
right Irgon*
Submitted by cajun2 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:07pm.
Couldn't agree with you more. Patriotic Americans, who were willing to sacrifice their lives to protect this country are now old geezers. Young people today are self absorbed spoiled brats. They care nothing for their country, only what their country can do for them...And they dont have the courage to put on a uniform and defend our freedoms, the ones they so take for granted.
Well said!!!
Submitted by NC Cop on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:17pm.
Well said!!!
Hey Irksome - I'd say that L.
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:18pm.
Hey Irksome - I'd say that L. Ron Paul is the most 'geezer-like' candidate in this years election from ANY party!!!! And tell me something else, if you can. I know a number of people over here in Asia/Hawaii who were big Obama supporters - you know,they bought into the whole hype and chains thingy - but now they're sporting L. Ron Paul stickers on their cars. What's up with that??
Re: Ron Paul....
Submitted by Hog_Flambe on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 1:32am.
Far as I can tell, since I've been paying attention...
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72... I was in the 3rd grade. Ms. Beck, my teacher ...
( my dad cautioned me about her wrath. Some 25 years after his smack to the side of the head, I had mine in the same cloak room :-D)
... introduced the class to electoral procedures.
Fast forward..... to date, I'm guessing it's her fault that I eventually found my way to the founding documents.
Ron ain't nuts.....
And, no. Ms. Beck is not a relative of Mr. Paul.
Re: Ron Paul....
Submitted by Hog_Flambe on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 1:43am.
Far as I can tell, since I've been paying attention...
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72... I was in the 3rd grade. Ms. Beck, my teacher ...
( my dad cautioned me about her wrath. Some 25 years after his smack to the side of the head, I had mine in the same cloak room :-D)
... introduced the class to electoral procedures.
Fast forward..... to date, I'm guessing it's her fault that I eventually found my way to the founding documents.
Ron ain't nuts.....
And, no. Ms. Beck is not a relative of Mr. Paul.
OK Hog..............so what's
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 2:01am.
OK Hog..............so what's your point, since it seemed to be good enough to write twice?? And how does it relate to what I said to Irksome - and how he was talking about the old white guys in the Republican party???
"Ron ain't nuts....."
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 2:24am.
Yeah, he is......
I'm still waitin'
Submitted by killa37 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 2:38am.
I'm still waitin' (Obamaspeak) for somebody to tell me why 2008 Boy Barry voters are now switchin' to L. Ron Paul. It seems like polar opposites to me............but then again, I remember a guy I knew (a 'progressive' - whatever the hell that meant!!) who said that he was, deep in his heart, an anti-establishment, anti-big government sort of guy.........but since that wasn't really an option, he said that Obama 'was his man'!!! I was dumbfounded at his rationale, and called him out on it.............but he was too locked into his mindset to see, or understand, what was so obvious to me.
Awww, if only
Submitted by UpNorth on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 2:06am.
Ronpaul and Doug MacArthur, AKA Dougout Doug, were in charge, ole Irksome Irgon would be all for anything the military did. But, as the gynecologist in chief isn't in charge, he just can't support the American Military.
MSNBC: The network of
Submitted by Slyrr on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:01pm.
MSNBC: The network of poo-flinging chimpanzees.
Really, Slyrr?
Submitted by Kaleidoscopic God on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:06pm.
Do you really think poo-flinging chimpanzees deserve to be compared to those cretins?
Joan Walsh's lie is easily
Submitted by Darks Shadow Show on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:06pm.
Joan Walsh's lie is easily disproven: I am a young man, not old; I also have Native American blood in me. Sure, there's mostly European, but based on liberal logic I can call her a racist now.
Buckle up, it's going to be a bumpy ride!
Submitted by neutron on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:28pm.
For the next 8 months, the LSM use their airtime to perform NON-STOP push polling that declares Obama the winner, and the Dems will capture the House and keep the Senate.
Hang on! If the LSM were actually powerful, the LANDSLIDE of 2010 (when Reps won everything from the Nationals down to the Locals (dog catcher, too) would never have happened.
The LSM is no longer powerful. Even as they bray (like donkeys) for the Dems, the general public and average voters no longer buy their BS.
Hold on tight, and buckle up; it will get really bumpy, but we will win!
Miss Walsh
Submitted by rusino on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:24pm.
.......Is a hysteric! One more extreme,radical,left wing,liberal/progressive, intolerant Democrate.
Hate to break it to Joan, but..
Submitted by greggy on Wed, 02/29/2012 - 11:52pm.
in the historic landslide congressional midterms, in which Democrats were absolutely shellacked, it took a LOT more than the "old, white, male" vote to trounce them at the polls.
Republicans will make a big mistake in the upcoming election if they fail to adequately remind the public of why they were swept into control of the House, and nearly took the Senate, in the mid-terms - the public acted in response to the over-reach of a President whose true agenda they began to understand - the re-making of America into a nation other than the one designed in the Constitution.
How quickly the nation has forgotten how massively they intended to expand government, and to expand the intrusiveness of government, through things like cap and trade, for just one example. Two years after the fact, new information continues to emerge about the deleterious effects of the health care bill that the Democrats "had to pass (without even the most superficial review), so the public could find out (after-the-fact) what was IN the bill."
How quickly many in the public have forgotten how harmful the cap and trade bill would have been for many industries, who were already reeling, and the profoundly bad effect this would have had on unemployment.
What too many people fail to realize, is that if Obama is re-elected, and particularly if he is re-elected with even a slim majority in the House, they will not be getting the Obama we've been seeing since the Republicans took the House and nearly won the Senate - they'll be getting the crusading community organizer who will resurrect cap and trade, and every other intrusive government expansion program he possibly can.
This country elected a man to defend and uphold a Constitution that he believes is "fundamentally flawed". Is the country dumb enough to do it again, then try to correct the mistake two years later, after so much damage is already done?
I hope not..
What else do you expect from MSLSD?
Submitted by Old Europe on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 12:03am.
Joan Walsh insulting old, white males? Is she anti-white? A racist? How could it be? A Democrat a racist? Oh yeah, I forgot: The Democrats are the party of the KKK.
Walsh=fem-racist.
Submitted by Pinetree3 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 12:05am.
Walsh=fem-racist.
Old white men
Submitted by gkstephens on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 3:42am.
This old white man is neither Democrat nor Republican but I am a small-government, fiscal conservative. I would consider voting for a small-government, fiscally conservative Democrat if I could find one. Guess what..............
SALON: MAGAZINE FOR POST-MENOPAUSAL WRITERS
Submitted by Sgthulka on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 5:32am.
That's why Joan is there.
This coming from an old white
Submitted by NCfairandbalanced on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 7:00am.
This coming from an old white woman!
Joan Walsh's new show:
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 8:21am.
"The Idiot's A Broad"
Simple Refutation:
- Marco Rubio
- Sarah Palin
- Allen West
- Michelle Bachmann
- Herman Cain
- Michelle Malkin
- Bobby Jindal
- Ann Coulter
- Armstrong Williams
- Jan Brewer
- Thomas Sowell
That's just off the top of my head (although I have to admit it took some cogitation to come up with the list, since I typically don't think of people in terms of categories).
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Walsh is too blinded politically to see
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 9:58am.
While she thinks in terms of appealing to demographic categories of people, conservatives try to appeal to all Americans. The No. 1 issue: Unemployment and the economy. That transcends color, gender, age, and sexual orientation.
NOEL: "Let's also have lie detectors for television anchors, hosts, and their contributors so that the public will know when folks supposedly giving them the news aren't telling the truth."
Here, here! I'm all for that. We expect politicians to lie. When George Stephanopoulus was asked if Bill Clinton had kept all his promises, the former Clinton toadie replied, "He kept all the promises he intended to keep." It's in their blood.
But when journalists lie like they do on MSNBC, they betray a professional ethic and the public's trust. I'm all for wiring them up for a polygraph. They could make a reality TV show testing representatives from each network and newspaper; even I would find worth watching.
Isn't there an app?
Submitted by gwalt on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:09am.
Isn't there an app that a lie detector? We can just hold the smartphone to the speaker and the app should reveal whether they are lying or not. Might be fun! We could track the Mostly $hit Nothing But Communists wanchors/guests like Drone Walsh.
"A lot of briefing for a 2 hr. special with Dan Rather. Saw the show & wonder why we bothered". Ronald Reagan
This pinhead woman exhibits
Submitted by Smartypants on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 10:56am.
This pinhead woman exhibits the classic double-standard of the msm. Any minorities that are associated with the Republican party are immediately excoriated and destroyed. We have Sarah Palin; she was unacceptable to the left. We have Herman Cain--equally unacceptable. Any minorities that deign to be associated with Republicans are criticized and name-called as some kind of traitor. Yet, at the same time, the media continues with its charade that somehow Republicans are nothing but "old white men". This is only because the media wants the Republican party to be about nothing but old white men. This really has nothing to do with race, ethnicity or sex. It has to do with politics. Ms. Walsh really does not want there to be a Republican party, not in the traditional sense anyway. She would be perfectly fine with two liberal parties.
And the first polygraph
Submitted by Gman0208 on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 3:19pm.
should be taken by BHO, then DONOTHING Reid, and then the biggest liar in history, FORMER(and God willing never to be again) Speaker of the House, Nancy "We'll just have to pass it, so you can see what's in it" Pelosi.
Joan Walsh: Old, White, Ugly AND Stupid
Submitted by Motormouth KOS on Thu, 03/01/2012 - 3:34pm.
Salon Magazine? Not absorbent enough to serve its ideal purpose, toilet paper.
Salon Magazine? Based in Frisco, the epicenter of perversion, creeps and anti-American libutards. I cheer the earthquake that will cleanse us of this scab.
Joan Walsh? Overweight, under-intelligent and uninformed.
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