The McLaughlin Group isn’t the hot buzz-machine show it used to be in the 1980s, but this weekend’s show brought a classic Eleanor Clift explosion. When Pat Buchanan mocked Barack Obama’s abilities at political street brawling, and suggested he needed surrogates like the ones Nixon had – John Connally, Bob Dole, Spiro Agnew – Clift scowled and said "What a Hall of Evil!" Bob Dole’s a super villain?
BUCHANAN: Here’s what he needs, John. What Obama needs more than anything else is, cause he's not good at it [fighting back]. He needs surrogates. Remember Nixon? We had John Connally, Bob Dole, and Spiro Agnew doing the cutting –
CLIFT: Oh God! What a, what a Hall of Evil! [Buchanan laughs heartily, even though she’s dead serious.] I don’t think he needs a Bob Dole or Spiro Agnew.
BUCHANAN, talking over her: Forty-nine states, Eleanor, forty-nine states!
CLIFT: And impeachment follows!
This is the latest proof of John Harwood's Media Maxim. In a discussion of Karl Rove and liberal bias in 2005, Harwood declared:"I believe it is true that a significant chunk of the press believes that Democrats are incompetent but good-hearted, and Republicans are very efficient but evil."
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Bob Dole
August 25, 2008 - 12:03 ET by Sergeant ROCKHall of evil??
Are you kidding me?
Clift
August 25, 2008 - 12:08 ET by Cool ArrowJust when they're doing documentaries on Helen Thomas and you've got your hopes the old buzzard will retire, another old buzzard starts circling.
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I suppose if the crazy Ms.
August 25, 2008 - 12:40 ET by Chris NormanI suppose if the crazy Ms. Clift just has to be on television spewing her insane inanities, it might as well be from the liberal isolation cell on PBS, with John McLaughlin as her caretaker.
McNotObama '08
Kudos to Clift
August 25, 2008 - 12:56 ET by acumenFor providing such a stark contrast of what/who constitutes evil:
Left Hall of Evil - John Connally, Bob Dole, and Spiro Agnew.
Right Axis of Evil - Iran, Iraq, and North Korea.
CLIFT: Oh God! What a,
August 25, 2008 - 13:00 ET by Jack BauerEleanor Clift's voice alone
August 25, 2008 - 13:55 ET by greenfairieEleanor Clift's voice alone belongs in the Hall of Evil. Yikes!
Her voice is the reason I
August 25, 2008 - 14:24 ET by bigtimerHer voice is the reason I watch the show very seldon...let alone her total leftist insanity.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
definition of Hall of Evil
August 25, 2008 - 15:29 ET by theduck61.Those people who've been kicking out keisters for decades.
2.Swiftboating- to tell a first person account of an event that differs from yours...and to have documentation...at least all that hasn't been suppressed by the original event chronicaler.
3.Karl Rove style campaing- see definition #1
There's only one person more
August 25, 2008 - 16:00 ET by marpelThere's only one person more hideous than Clift and that's Helen Thomas...ugh....I just made myself sick...
I absolutely have to use my
August 25, 2008 - 16:02 ET by HumanEventsI absolutely have to use my mute button every time Eleanor Clift speaks. Problem is, she interrupts so rudely and often that it's hard to mute every word every time (I often have to hear that shrill, "Excuse me!"). And even muting is not enough. When the camera is on her I can't look at that angry, obnoxious face of hers. I look at her dress (so I'll know when she's finally done spewing her garbage).
And as for Pat Buchanan "laughing heartily" even though she was dead serious, it seems to me that Pat, sadly, is afraid of her. Pat will get passionate and forceful when debating anyone else. But with Eleanor this rarely happens. He either looks at her with a concerned and timid looking expression or laughs heartily. Also seems like at least once every show Pat has to say, "I agree with Eleanor." I never heard Eleanor say that to Pat.
Kudos to Monica Crowley, on the other hand. She's willing to take Eleanor on (and pays the price of incurring Eleanor's venom as a result).
I can only think of one thing to say on the plus side for Eleanor Clift: She doesn't nauseate me as much as Bill Maher does.
Hi HE... Heck half the
August 25, 2008 - 16:09 ET by bigtimerHi HE...
Heck half the time Clift and Buchanan have been agreeing when it came to the war and such over the years...
That is another reason I just don't watch it so much anymore...
Plus her constant screeching shrill Excuse me!....Excuse me!....while she is constantly interrupting.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Eleanor Crappola...
August 25, 2008 - 16:11 ET by Clear thinkerI know Bob Dole, not intimately, but I know him. He's a great guy and so far from being evil it's beyond comprehension.
Eleanor, you are a big dope!
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she's the original model for Joy Blowhard
August 25, 2008 - 19:01 ET by wizardjrI stopped watching this show years ago. She's one of the reasons. She's a completely out of touch limosine liberal. Now a days she looks like an animatronic VI Lenin with a wig.