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Scatterbrained is to kind to describe Mika.
Submitted by acaiguana on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:27am.
Is the new mantra going to be, "It's Rush's Fault?"
Rather than Bush?
ACA
...
Quoted from: 'Acaiguana notes from the Underground' (Soon to be at theaters near you)
The new liberal tactic....
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:33am.
Six degrees of Rush Limbaugh.
It's the Chewbacca Offense
Submitted by retrocon on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:48am.
"If Chewbacca lives on Endor, it must be Rush's fault."
Great analogy, mb
Submitted by Galvanic on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 12:17pm.
That's exactly the game they are playing, and airheads like Mika Brzezinski are just the kind of players the MSM wants: people whose grasp of world situations and events is so weak as to play the game without questioning it.
Rewind to Piers Morgan asking Ann Romney, "Is your husband anti-woman?"
Ann Romney >>>> Mitt Romney >>>>> Republicans >>>>> RCC/Rush Limbaugh >>> "War On Women."
The threads are often weak, but it doesn't matter when the Dems and the MSM echoes are playing the game.
I think
Submitted by chiefpayne on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 1:27pm.
were I Ann Romney, I would have answered "Well Piers, if you are asking if he is gay, the answer is NO."
Rush would LOVE the attention!
Submitted by MightyMouth on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:14am.
On a side note:
Have you ever noticed that "fact" checking sites like Politifact.com hardly ever fact check Rush? There is a good reason for that, Rush is 99.7% right and that kind of record doesn't fit the Politifact template of cherry picking Republicans for Pants on Fire quotes.
They don't fact check Rush for two reasons: They know...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:37am.
it would be a waste of time and resources and they don't want people who don't listen to Rush to know how accurate he is.
Good thing...
Submitted by Me1976 on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 4:42pm.
....they'll only have to change one letter. Could get quite confusing if they had to change two.
Saved me the time to send an e-mail
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:29am.
This happened under Obama, this happened under Obama, this happened under Obama.
See, if you repeat stupidity enough shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, it makes it true.
She is nothing but a Fluke......
She can't even say epithet
⇒ You know what?
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:31am.
When President Obama goes to Oklahoma to approve an already approved section of pipeline, it's just like he's digging up Matthew Shepard and stringing his lifeless body on that fence again.
Why does the President hate homosexuals?
Yes, Mika. We understand.
Cool
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:17am.
That was so unhinged that I could imagine any number of liberals saying that on TV...with a straight face.
They are so easy to figure out.
⇒ It's easy Tug
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:28am.
All you have to do is find something you need to defend, and instead of contrasting it with something totally unrelated and decidedly hideous, make a comparison.
It's like. "The Green Movement is offended that Ted Kennedy wasn't buried with his butt sticking out of the ground, supplying an eco-friendly bicycle rack for visitors."
All I need do is find one person, who collects clippings for mulch, who thinks it's funny, and suddenly the statement is absolutely true.
Speaking of "straight faces"
Submitted by Blonde on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:44am.
It has become my preference to watch certain videos with the sound off....having read the transcript first. I
t's rather comical watching Mika with the sound off....the human emoticon's face runs the gamut from a to b.
Try it with the Obama "Al Green" video.....you can see he's getting ready, getting ready, getting ready....and then he does it, is pleased that he did it the way he wanted to....then throws out his hand "Am I the GREATEST, or what?".
Sometimes watching the video with the sound of is far more telling than hearing it....the body language telegraphs so much.
Handy Reference Guide to Obama's Gaffes and Goofs ~ Currently Numbering 200 (and Counting)
Try it with...
Submitted by adamsmith on Fri, 03/23/2012 - 10:45am.
MSNBC's resident Vagitarian anchor, Rachel Maddow.....Up until 1975, homosexuality was listed as a Psychiatric illness. Sound off and the genius Rhodes nitwit proves it in spades....
Mika's brain works like this: A) Someone said good about Obama-Squirm and Smile
B) Someone said bad about Obama-Squirm and look like sucking on lemon
That's about all the thought process than goes on in Brzbimbo's head....
Crazy Larry is a gas with the sound of too. And throw Schultzie into the mix too. I'm still waiting for him to stroke out on the air live. I'd actually put the sound on to enjoy that fully......
If it wasn't for Daddy and her..
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:31am.
Also Meeeeeka, you notice your hero can take the time to call and remark on what a talk show host says, but can't remark when a million dollar donor calls someone far, far worse a name?
I'll give Mika a pass on this.
Submitted by DumbCanuck on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:34am.
Given what she actually said, I don't think it was Mika's intention to connect Rush to this tragedy, so I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.that It just came out the wrong way
I think she was using the Rush fiasco as an anecdote to illustrate that if this can happen, anything can happen.
If I'm wrong, please feel free to speak up. I can take it.
"There... Are... Four... Lights!"
I'll be honest with you, DC,
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:44am.
I'll be honest with you, DC, I don't have a clue what, if any, "connection" Mika might have been trying to make, and I'm not sure she did either.
I think she was just trying to sound, well, smart, by tossing in another current story, just to show that she pays attention to what's going on.
Exactly-
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:09am.
But isn't just great that everytime she tries to sound smart she sounds so, well, stupid?
Breast size-IQ
Breast size-IQ
Which will it be today?
mb
Submitted by bkeyser on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:53am.
If Mika were driving a car at 80 mph...
⇒ On a 79-mile pier
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:29am.
How long would it take . . .
how long would it take....
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:42am.
Bubbles to be overcome by math anxiety
DC... MC.....
Submitted by OldJarhead77 on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:49am.
I think your both right I am also not convinced that she was "connecting" the two. Thats not to say she wasn't trying to. I think she was throwing Rush's name out there to try and connect his name to everything bad (throwing it against the wall to see if it sticks sorta thing) you know heres one:
In France today the French police shot and killed the terrorist that killed seven French citizens, Rush Limbaugh who made disparging remarks on Sandra Fluke is said to be happy with what happened to Mohammed."
Nothing really to do with the story but the name is attached to it none the less.
Update: I think you are
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:52am.
Update: I think you are right, DC. She wasn't connecting this to Limbaugh.
I think she was actually (and yes I'm serious about this) dissing the president!
After re-reading it a couple of times, I think Mika was trying to make the point that if the President of the United States could involve himself in the case of Rush Limbaugh calling someone a name, perhaps he should stir himself on this, a much more important event.
Yeah, I know, Mika criticizing Obama is a stretch, but I think it's a possibility.
But if she were
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:11am.
It would be by accident, kind of like stepping into a pile of dog doo.
I think that's it exactly.
Submitted by dave_worrell on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 3:36pm.
I think she was saying if the president steps in and acts when a radio host says something he probably shouldn't have then he should be stepping in now.
He shouldn't have involved himself in the Rush thing, so her point kind of falls flat.
At least a grand jury has finally been convened and a real investigation will happen.
A real investigation, worrell, as opposed to a ---
Submitted by matthewdean on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 8:50pm.
fake, sham. phony, illegitimate one?
I don't think grand juries actually do investigations; and convening one likely means no more than going over what has been done already.
Grand juries are made up of regular, every day citizens; not trained investigators, forensic specialists, or mind readers.
Like any jury, they review and then act upon what is presented to them; and may request/require more in depth information or clarification if they deem it necessary.
MD
I heard this live this
Submitted by Seashell on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:34am.
I heard this live this morning and literally just scratched my head. It just made no sense, but considering who said it, I understood.
Could one expect any less from Bubbles?
Submitted by KyWriter on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:34am.
Logic isn't really her strong suit.
Mika's so cute when she puts
Submitted by motherbelt on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:38am.
Mika's so cute when she puts on that "very serious" face.. Sort of like a four-year-old pretending to be an adult....
You have to admire her....she's just so darned earnest!!
DumbCanuck
Submitted by Molecule on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:49am.
...maybe, because to tell you the truth, I really don't know WHAT the heck she meant. "...look at ourselves..." ...why?! I didn't have a dang thing to do with this.
I've never watched this woman
Submitted by NOLAgirl on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:50am.
and I hope I never have to. I did read the transcript of the segment and it's fairly incoherent. I get the impression, like several of you posters pointed out, that she is trying to sound relevant and intelligent. Sorry that didn't work out for her.
Here again, Rush is blamed
Submitted by NCfairandbalanced on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 9:53am.
Here again, Rush is blamed but all the others using that "s" word and worse (like Mahar, Sharpton etc...).
Here's Mika being exposed for the bias she spews: This tragic event in FL really isn't about politics...Republican or Democrat. And of course it isn't about "hate speech" on the airwaves either.
I think even Mika believes the first is true: not a political party issue. But she does believe hate speech had something to do with it. EVEN if we concede her point, why just Rush? Why not the others?
Hmmmm.....
To some people (read the
Submitted by Bettendor on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:43am.
To some people (read the left), anything and everything is about politics. Politics is their god. They see a tragic story such as this, and they have to inject politics in there and connect it to their current boogeyman (Rush Limbaugh). Never mind the fact that the only connection Limbaugh has to this shooting is that they are both in Florida.
"You just don't get it." - Pa Grape
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Hey, lets look on the positive side. At least she didn't do...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:31am.
what Obama and most Liberals do and blame it on Bush. That's something!
Listening to NPR yesterday
Submitted by inquiringmind on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:01am.
Listening to NPR yesterday morning doing a report on this shooting and they referred to the gunman as a white Hispanic.
I have no clue if both of his parents are Hispanic or just one but to referr to him in this manner is race baiting plain and simple.
Side note: if it turns out that one of his parents is white then by definition we have a white African American President. At least that is how NPR sees it.
White Hispanic
Submitted by dave_worrell on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 3:26pm.
I think he does have one non-hispanic parent, but I can't swear to that.
White Hispanic is actually a specific classification. Hispanic is an ethnicity, not a race. You have both black and white hispanics.
Having said that, they're obviously race baiting when they call him a white hispanic, whether they're correctly using the term or not. If the guy had been pulled over and beaten by police, they wouldn't be calling him a white hispanic. They'd be calling him hispanic or hispanic-American or something.
They're bending over backwards to emphasize the race deal, and this was not a racial thing. This is one bozo trying to be Rambo and gunning down an innocent kid.
Knee (and other) jerk reaction
Submitted by Pilgrim1949 on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:06am.
Well, I personally think it's the fault of Ozymandias-on-the-Potomac's administration and the empty-cranium types he appoints to "rule" over us peasants.
After all, none other that HHS Secretary Superfluous herself told us that the best way to deal with people who confront you (and how bad it is to call them jerks, among other things) is to civilly and sweetly say, "You're being a jerk!"
Yup, diffuses the situation every time.
So I think Secretary Syllabus is creating a climate of aggressive hostility.
Riiiiight????
That's right, Mika, just nod your empty little head in agreement.
"Ye canne change the laws of physics....." but some politicians believe that with the right legislation you can pretend they don't really apply to your own pet projects...
Liberal media no longer even pretends
Submitted by katiejane on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:04am.
The level of insanity the Left is routinely sinking to just makes me shake my head and wonder if there is any thing they wouldn't say. Most of the media don't even make a pretense of not being Dem water carriers. The partisanshop is so pervasive I do think they see it as being the normal. But they still act offended when the Right calls them on being DNC tools.
Airhead
Submitted by sngnsgt on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:13am.
This brings new meaning to the term airhead. This gal is a sicko. They wonder why their numbers are low. Well folks, this is why.
Look closely at her left ear.
Submitted by JLin on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 2:15pm.
You'll see an air valve.
Scarborough
Submitted by Largebill on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:30am.
Everyone is jumping on Mika's stupidity and ignoring Scarborough's. Makes one wonder if she is kept around so people don't realize what a mindless POS he is. He's babbling about howpeople should be fired over a case where he is foolishly buying into the media narrative and ignoring the actual facts of the case which aren't getting publicized because reality is less inflammatory than creating a race war.
Buying into the narrative?
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:58am.
He helps steer the narrative.
Not to worry
Submitted by JLin on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 2:14pm.
The Democrat m.o. is tired and overused like the little boy crying wolf. No one listens to this any more except the race baiters who love stories like this. There is some concern that they may get excited and act out.
Whom will they hit up for cash though? Where is the really big money?
The Conversation:
Submitted by BBallleaper on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 10:57am.
Joe: So this is a very important story...
Mika: Of course, but couldn't we take a few moments to focus on my beautifully sculpted breasts?
Joe: Well Mika, I don't really think that would be appropr.....
Mika: Well excuse me! I am the co-host and I am very beautiful and these cost me a lot of money!!
Joe: Moving on, new economic data indicates that......
Mika: Well, I never!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If they cost her a lot of money
Submitted by KornKing on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 2:07pm.
She should ask for a refund
LOL
Submitted by JLin on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 2:13pm.
Yes... sculpted. How much did they cost? Firm, like unripened casabas. May I? Does the carpet match the drapes?
She's incredibly
Submitted by fivestring_assassin on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:15am.
stupid,,,,isn't she?
This type of mindless partisanship is the reason I have...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:25am.
programmed my TV to skip her channel. I don't even want to glimpse at it for a split second while channel surfing for fear of being counted amoung their Nielsen ratings. (Just in case they count split second viewers.)
P.S. I'm looking forward to listening to Rush in about 40 some minutes from now. (I can't name one Liberal in the entire world that I would look forward to listening to...but I can name many Conservatives.)
Racial slur
Submitted by ferv888 on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:31am.
CNN went all out and hired a group of experts to listen to the tape and reported they could not say a racial slur was cast.
FERV888
Never Die
Submitted by rayb1 on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:47am.
Mikia is an example of someone being told to keep it alive at all costs. With the "Rush" escapade passing into obscurity the liberals are losing a lot of ammunition, so they need a mouthpiece to at least keep it to the forefront.
Weak
Submitted by feisty on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:50am.
What an incredibly weak connection. This is a news story that SHOULD be uniting people. People who demand that justice is served. Instead the Left is using it to divide people as much as possible, and turning it into a partisan issue. It's not. The shooter was likely a bad guy and he needs to be brought to justice. All of us could be brought together in our collective desire to see justice. Not violence, not hatred. JUSTICE. Al Sharpton and Van Jones see everything through a racial (even though the shooter was hispanic), myopic lens. They do society a disservice. They could be appealing to the masses, and instead they use opportunities to push divisive messages, rile up anarchists and communists, and let their message (whatever it is) to be fueled by hatred.
The White House Media, NBC/MSNBC, The Washington Post...
Submitted by Conservator on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 11:50am.
...etc. have received Obama's general election talking points memo and have 'Rushed' to air and publish their propaganda. Limbaugh's comments had nothing to do with this tragic shooting and the death of Trayvon Martin. Scarborough is the real disgrace to Florida for allowing and being part of the left's politicization of this horrific event.
She would "go further!"
Submitted by CobraMan on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 12:13pm.
"I’d go further. I’d go further. Because if this unfolds the way it appears it’s unfolding, you know, in a country where its leader can talk about a radio host calling someone a name, we ought to be looking at ourselves and this situation really closely from the top down."
Look at what she's saying: Our Dear Leader needs to Do Something.
"And, quite frankly, it is, they’re looking at audio tapes right now of the cell phone, and there might have been a racial epithet."
It's a Racial Assassination. It's a Hate Crime! The federal government MUST step in and Do Something!
Joe want's the Governor to Do Something because he doesn't like how the local authorities handled this. But that's not good enough for Mika. She want's Obama to Do Something, to ether fire the police who didn't charge the man in question with a crime or put him in prison for "hate crimes." Make Obama the Judge, the Jury, and the Executioner. That's her wish, her desire. That may be fine for her while Obama is the president. But, I wonder: would she wish the same if, say, Romney was the President, or in that situation, would she prefer for the local authorities to handle this? After all, the security guard in question IS a Hispanic, a.k.a, a minority.
Here's how I read this entire exchange: both Joe and Mika don't like how the First Responders, a.k.a, the local authorities, handled that First Response, so, THEY MUST BE FIRED! And, why? Because the kid was a minority, shot by someone who looks like a Typical White Man, and the Typical White police are just protecting one of their own, ya know? Of course, now that we know that the guy wasn't a "typical white man," that he's actually a Hispanic, a minority, himself, well, let's focus entirely on the Typical White Police Force, with their Typical White nonchalant attitudes towards minority "victims" instead. After all, we can't let a good Racial Tragedy go to waste now, can we? It's obvious that Joe and Mika can't.
The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. The US Constitution
Unless you're a fetus. The US Supreme Court
Or Anwar al-Awlaki.
Gag
Submitted by Aubrey on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 12:58pm.
She really is an obnoxious idiot. Just a joke.
There ARE no words to describe this friggin idiot!
Submitted by NJRightWinger12 on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 1:32pm.
I just used two, but still,,
Mika Brezinski
Submitted by Steve Cakouros on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 1:38pm.
The Left is desperate but not disparate. They all use the same tactics: distortion and double standards.
It is deeply frustrating to witness collective insanity.
Limbaugh is the real Toulouse murderer!
Submitted by JLin on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 2:02pm.
Mika, move to your daddy's native Poland and open a tater farm. You can use that beak as a plow.
Wow
Submitted by JLin on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 2:05pm.
This chick makes dumb Pollocks look positively Einsteinian.
Bill Maher had it right
Submitted by JayVee on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 2:27pm.
To slightly paraphrase Bill Maher: "It's not that she has breasts; it's that she's such a boob!"
Why is this tragedy a national news story?
Submitted by h2ojoe on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 2:28pm.
Yes, it is tragic that Trayvon Martin was killed. But with all the problems facing our country, I don't understand how a killing of a kid in Florida is of national interest. Bread and circuses?
I listened to Mika B. once
Submitted by ctmom on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 4:01pm.
and read the transcript 3 times and her statement still doesn't make any sense. Is she on drugs?
One, two, three.
Submitted by Herbster on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 4:10pm.
One: Mika the (Practicing) moron.
Two: A "Rush" to judgment.
Three: Limbaugh caused Hurricane Katrine - with help from Bush.
Mika has her job because she is ZBig's kid
Submitted by WarEagle01 on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 4:34pm.
If she wasn't ZBig's kid, she would probably be a hostess at IHOP.
Couldn't make it, War Eagle01
Submitted by Herbster on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 7:01pm.
Mike did apply at I-HOP. She could say, "House of" after three hours of coaching, but, "Pancakes" has TWO syllables and that was an impossible task.
Let's face it....this woman couldn't pick SH _ _ with the chickens.
Cue Dan Aykroyd, "Mika, you ignorant SL-
Submitted by Phryj1 on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 4:46pm.
-OBBERING, BABBLING, MORONIC OBAMAPOLOGIST!"
What? What did you think I was going to say?
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
more distractions
Submitted by Mutantone on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 7:02pm.
More and more distractions form the real issues at hand like the growing debit and unemployment or the failed companies that got rich subsides, all with ties to Obama's campaign just makes me wonder how much got kicked back to his reelection funds?
Or the overt avoidance of the Constitution separation of church and state to mandate laws against the principals of various religion. How about mandating that pork be served once a day for meals I wonder how Muslims would take to that? We should be looking at the relevant topics for this coming election not the misdirection that the man behind the curtain wants us to focus on.
⇒ Did a search on this thread
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 7:16pm.
Have found no mention that police found Zimmerman with a bloody nose and blood on the back of his neck.
I agree the 911 call is damaging.
MSNBC has organized a protest in hopes of whipping up another Sharpton-incited murder.
Obviously Sharpton and MSNBC think Zimmerman is Jewish. Sharpton has quite a track record hating Jews.
yo mika
Submitted by D'saredumbpeople on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 8:48pm.
care to comment on the 49 shooting and 10 killed this weekend in chicago, along with a six year old year caught in gunfire. I guess thats rush's fault to.
you are the most stupid thing on tv...no one is in second place.