NPR's Totenberg: If GOP Picked New Contender at the Convention, 'Elite Media' Would 'Glom Onto' Him and Savage Him
On Friday's Inside Washington on selected PBS stations, Charles Krauthammer floated his curiosity about what would happen if the Republicans chose a new candidate for the fall election if Romney or Santorum couldn't get to the magic delegate number. Mark Shields joked about how it would be unfair to pick to someone who hasn't slogged across the country and then made a fat joke: "Chris Christie, have a little ice cream, and come in."
There goes svelte Shields again. NPR reporter Nina Totenberg promised the elite media would savage a new Republican candidate and pick apart everything "he" has ever done or said (no females are apparently allowed in this exercise):
TOTENBERG: The elite media will then glom onto this person, and everything he has ever done that might be slightly untoward or controversial will come out. [Italics mine, emphasis hers.] And he will never have had this kind of glare on him, and he will make gaffes. You've seen this all through the primary campaign. Everybody's made gaffes. You have to get used to that. You have to grow into the job of being a national candidate. There's no time to do that.
She wasn't buying Krauthammer's thesis that a new choice might be "electric." Experience shows this could well be the case if one considers the savage media reaction to two recent vice-presidential surprise picks: Dan Quayle in 1988 and Sarah Palin in 2008. Both received exactly what Totenberg described.
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Like the press already has not already savaged all of them?
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 9:58pm.
Totie Fields is exhibiting a little senile dementia mixed with some hallucinatory ranting.
The press has already savaged ALL of the Republican candidates, and if a new candidate is chosen at the convention the savaging will happen anyway. It's like predicting rain when the drops are already falling.
Perhaps somebody should remind her that she needs to return to her crypt.
Exactly
Submitted by tcm14 on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:32pm.
The media will savage the GOP candidate whether they are picked at the convention or not, whether it is a man or a woman, whether they are black or white, whether it is 2012, 2016, or 2020. That is what needs to be talked about more.
Not to defend...
Submitted by loxmyth on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:49pm.
but what she is saying here is that the current crop of candidates have all had a year or so to get used to being savaged, where someone new will not know how to handle it all. To go with the rain analogy, the current candidates all know to wear their rain coats, a new person is gonna get drenched.
I think the key bit here is the admission that they plan to savage whoever the Republican's pick...ya know, just like they aren't, and never have, and never will, do with Obama.
lox
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 11:18pm.
While I'm not disagreeing with you, even the ones currently running have no idea just how savage the libs will be when we finalize our candidate.
There will be the usual suspects on television news, every moonbat in Hollyweird will be howling non-stop, sit com and dramas on TV will have storylines rewritten to have a mimic of our candidate in it.
It's up to us to not go wobbly. We just have to keep supporting whoever it is regardless of what they say. Look at the Dems. If Baraka Soetoro were to hold a baby upside down on the White House steps, slit it's throat and begin drinking the blood, every liberal talking head would rave about how great it was. Of course it helps that they are mentally ill, but we need to close ranks the same way.
One Canidate Knows Full Well
Submitted by stratman on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:23am.
I'm sure Gingrich has not forgotten the unrelenting rabid Leftist attacks from the 1990's.
All of them probably know it from their past.
Submitted by drsamherman on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 7:28pm.
Gingrich from the 1980s and 1990s, Santorum from his battle to retain his senate seat and certainly Romney from two presidential campaigns and at least one gubernatorial campaign.
And I completely agree that Totie is admitting that the press will be doing a full court attack once the GOP nominee is finally named at the convention.
I hope the GOP at least has the sense to stop thinking it needs to be polite or stick to some artificial level of civility in this election. We have already seen what the press did in the last election and in the midterms, and the GOP should plan accordingly to fight on their level.
Sun Tzu's advice to know your enemy or act at your peril is certainly should be the adage for the Republicans. The Democrats and the Obamedia are already pulling out every filthy trick they can, and the Republicans better be prepared with a response. This time, they WILL have to fight on the Democrat's level.
Elite media
Submitted by driguana on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:02pm.
Elite Media!!!! The so-called "elite media" is scum....so is Totenberg!
She IS Right
Submitted by NC Boy on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:04pm.
The media would have to go into a frenzy because they would only have a couple of months to save their candidate.
Michelle Obama's butt is fat.
Submitted by Ars21689 on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:06pm.
If they can say it about Christie, I can say it about her. *Sticks tongue out and acts like a child (or liberal)*
The media is the enemy...
Submitted by d1carter on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:13pm.
The media is the enemy...
Says someone
Submitted by bobsmom on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:23pm.
who wishes ANYONE would "glom" onto her. Sorry, antibiotics can be more costly than birth control Nina, don't think you'll get too many takers.
Hire Her
Submitted by CJohnson on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:39pm.
What a novel idea. 5$ says she gets wassename shlutz 's job for coming up with it.
REALLY???????????
Submitted by GregE on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 10:53pm.
OH WOW!!!!!!! I had NO IDEA that would be the case!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Nina!!! I hope they pay her WELL because she's THE BEST!!!
⇒ Hey, little GlomWorm
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 11:38pm.
Nina, like how you glommed onto Jesse Helms, hoping he'd get AIDS from a transfusion?
That kind of glomming?
Cool,
Submitted by Trix Rabbit on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 11:50pm.
Not only that but she also said that one of his grandchildren would get it as retributive justice.
She later claimed that her comments were "dumb" and that, "I haven't said anything that stupid on the air in 15 years."
That is an outright lie. She has never stopped saying anything that wasn't stupid, mendacious, contemptible, and vulgar.
And to think that this wretched hag is paid by taxpayer's money.
For the MSM: In your pomp and all your glory, you're a poorer man than me. As you lick the boots of death born out of fear.
Ian Anderson "Wind up"
⇒ Just shows to go ya'
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Fri, 03/16/2012 - 11:57pm.
She was really expressing her wish that social conservatives would find a way to suffer from the same disease that primarily strikes the most liberal of liberals.
It's something like wishing black people were more susceptible to skin cancer, or whites were more susceptible to sickle cell anemia.
Totenberg is a shameless shill.
Very good response.
Submitted by Semus on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 3:39am.
Very good response.
They still don't get it...
Submitted by Jimi Streets on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:29am.
The American People, by and large, could not care any less than we already do about what the MSM has to say. About anything. Especially politics.
True it certainly is, that the media would do the dems' dirty work, it just matters less and less.
These elitist doofuses will surely be the last ones to admit it, so far lost in their thick haze of arrogance as they are.
Nina Totenberg's gaffe
Submitted by CO2Maker on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 3:28am.
That's when a politician or reporter accidentally speaks the truth: "The elite media will then glom onto this person, and everything he has ever done that might be slightly untoward or controversial will come out. Because that's what we do, we tear Republican candidates apart and call it objective reporting. Reporters travel with a producer, a cameraman, a soundman, and someone in charge of the wood chipper."
BTW, does her name translate to "Little girl from the city of the dead"?
Tell me one Republican they
Submitted by Semus on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 4:02am.
I believe Krauthammer may be correct on this, this convention just might be electric, thats what scares the left and that's why they're pushing Romney.
Tell me one Republican they don't savage. They always seem to savage anyone who wishes the best for and likes this country.
Note to Totenberg and Charlie Atlas Shields more people know you're shills and you're audience is shrinking. People are beginning to see through this facade of your's and what they see nothing but hatred and disdain for people in general. That's the only thing that explains your supporting an ideology responsible for murdering and enslaving hundreds of millions of people in the twentieth century.
Barry never did anything. . .
Submitted by rickbren on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 9:07am.
. . . "slightly untoward or controversial. . ."
~I love it
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 10:02am.
The MSM is so arrogant they openly refer to themselves as 'elite'. LOL
The opposites say. . .
Submitted by DontFeedTheTrolls on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 10:06am.
And if the Dems dump Obama (never happen, but) and pick, say, Clinton, the MSM will hail it as exciting, intelligent, profound, unique, the smartest thing they could do, historic, wise, the best thing for all of humanity, and on and on, ad nauseum.
Say it and own it: The Elite Liberal Media Is Biased.
Submitted by needle on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 10:47am.
'Elite Media' Would 'Glom Onto' Him and Savage Him
Just like they did with Hillary and Obama, eh Nina? NOT!
Well, Nina, with your own Elitist Liberal month, you just made the case publicly that the 'Elite Media' is biased. You’ve known it all along. The rest of your Elite Media friends have known it all along. We all have known it all along.
You have made the case. And when YOU make THIS CASE, the case IS CLOSED.
NOW SAY IT! The Elite Liberal Media Is Biased.
The truth will set you free. And, much more importantly, the truth will finally set our country free.
SAY IT! The Elite Liberal Media Is Biased.
We need to drive a wooden stake through the taboo of speaking the truth.
We need to roll away the huge stones that have been covering up and suppressing thousands of major news stories for decades in this country, so we can start the process of ridding our country massive Liberal corruption of all descriptions, and start cleaning up the mess Liberals have made of our country, and especially of our society.
Go ahead, Nina, say it: The Elite Liberal Media Is Biased.
Say it! Say it! Say it! And own it.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Here is she bragging...
Submitted by seen the light on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 11:14am.
and reveals what she knows is true. I have always thought the MSM these days is actually coordinated in their attack. They are organized and on the same page. They know the big microphone they have and they use it for their ends. These are liars to the end.
Attack the media and you attack the Democrats, because the media are Democrats doing their bidding. It's as simple as that.
Mark Shields making fat jokes???
Submitted by Dave in PA on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 11:30am.
Mark Shields should try looking in the mirror sometime. He's one of the last people on the planet that should be mocking anyone's weight. His third chin just about covers his belly button.
it would certainly be interesting
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 11:51am.
......if The GOP picked a new contender. Who would be in the running? Palin, Christie?
Who? Who? Who?
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:12pm.
Let's glom onto the MSM pushed idea of a brokered convention like a good little gerber baby sucking up the MSM gerber food propaganda and push it here hoping to start a conversation to break up the monotony that is our lonely stupid life. Mmmmmmkay? Never mind that it feeds into the MSM meme, let's do it. Do it. Do it. Do it.
Ahh getting personal again?
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:52pm.
Gerber baby? I like your me luv u long time impression better. Me hatez teh trolliez, so aye becomze try trolliez myselfz
Whatever.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:10pm.
Sorry. Did I not stick to your defined narrative and/or topic you wanted to discuss? You want some names now? Or will you just improperly mimic everything I have said once again?
Whatever. I will repeat my point as you once again missed it.
Second time. Broken down so your simple mind can grasp it.
1. The MSM pushed idea of a brokered convention.
2. You bought it.
That ^^^^ RIght up there. ^^^^ Why I posted what I posted and which you refused to refute.
1. You suck up the Rush Limbaugh advertisers running away gerber food propaganda..
2. You suck up the Santorum wants to ban porn he don't like gerber food propaganda.
3. You suck up the brokered convention gerber food propaganda.
Understand now?
Let's save us all 16 posts.
Shawn: I actually understood it the first time
If you say I made a mistake
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:19pm.
And can prove it, I usually admit it when I am wrong like I did with Rush Limbaugh. However when people call me a tard, I tend to not want to talk to that person
Notice a trend here?
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:38pm.
You continue to whine, fill your diapers, and try to take it off on a tangent. While I continue to emphasise the point I made originally which you refuse to touch.
1. The MSM pushed idea of a brokered convention.
2. You bought it.
Shawnwahs: it would certainly be interesting ......if The GOP picked a new contender.
A new contender in a brokered convention, the gerber baby food MSM propaganda you swallowed whole, burped, and asked for more.
Three times.
Romney: We're Not Going to a Brokered Convention
+++
Daily Kos: Our goal should be a brokered convention...
+++
To hear former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove tell it, the odds of a brokered convention for Republicans this summer are slim and none. Actually, his exact words were: "The odds are greater that there's life on Pluto than that the GOP has a brokered convention."
Once again, I ain't just making crap up or sucking up the MSM gerber baby food propaganda.
no this is silly
Submitted by shawn. on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:58pm.
Edit
Never mind. Not worth it.
Big surprise Nina Death mountain(=English for German Totenberg)
Submitted by russedav on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:19pm.
Of course you vile degenerate savages savage others by definition; it's what savages do, being uncivilized barbarians as you are. Hilarious that they imagine those of us who rather have functioning brains consider the blather of these mindless, infantile, lawless immoral degenerate fascist obamanation (see www.obamanation.com & www.blackgenocide.org) whores deserving incarceration and even execution to be worth adult consideration.
As usual, the WSJ opinion page has a good take on this.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:53pm.
Romney's Not to Blame for the GOP's Primary Slog
In 2008, 80% of the Republican delegates were chosen before March. This year, only 13% were.
The Republican presidential nomination contest is dragging on because Mitt Romney is a weak front-runner—right? That's the media narrative, but in fact the 2012 race was always going to be a long slog, regardless of which candidates were running. For that we can thank changes to the electoral calendar and the campaign-finance system.
Read the whole thing.
~One of these days
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 1:56pm.
I'll get a subscription.
Pshaw.
Submitted by The Vet on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:40pm.
I see the fine print at the bottom of every piece in the opinion pages ---> Hat tip - WB.
~LOL!
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 3:50pm.
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Sarah Palin is the winning ticket for 'our' base and victory.
Submitted by Founders1791 on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:04pm.
The GOP star quarterback on issues, values, and integrity, is Governor Sarah Palin and is the ‘only’ one in our line up that has ‘electricity’ where ever she goes. She draws the crowds to hear her message, which is ‘our message’.
You can’t purchase electricity (Romney). You can’t purchase a reputation (Romney) that you don’t have (abortion, gun control, mandates).
Sarah Palin is literally ‘hated’ by the left because she is the single greatest threat to their base and orthodoxy. Socialism, Woman, Families.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/palin_tracker/
Liberal Socialist Democrats “have no one” that comes even close to Sarah Palin. They are apoplectic over the fact she naturally posses what they cherish; electricity, accomplished, good looks, good family, leadership, and American hutzpah! She ROCKS!
[14 YEARS] Public experience: Governor 3 fiscal years, Mayor 6 fiscal years, City Council 4 fiscal years, Oil & Gas Chairwoman 1 year, [18 YEARS] Private experience: Small Business owner in commercial fishing (88-06)
That is a terrific Resume in any objective persons view.
The number one Muckraker and Crony Capitalist Buster, in the field is Governor Sarah Palin, and the GOP are clueless how to harness that “Ace” and leverage the peoples distrust and anger at crooked politicians and the ‘elite ruling class’ on both sides.
Name the last politician that ‘walked the talk’ of integrity and honesty, and gave up $118,000 in salary, because she would ‘not go along, to get along'? Yep…Sarah. http://juneauempire.com/stories/011804/sta_palin.shtml
Her selfless acts and determined desire to give the people of Alaska 'fair and honest' government required bold 'rogue' moves. Just last year, one of her victims went to jail!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/nationnow/2011/10/kott-kohring-alaska-po...
She ran the affairs of over 19,605 employees and an Operating budget of $13.4 Billion, larger than Bank of Ireland, Hershey, VISA, or Charles Schwab. It is a big deal, to any objective person. She did it with 93% bipartisan support (highest ever) before she became a ‘national threat’ to Socialist Democrats for 4 years running now.
http://www.wnd.com/2007/08/43047/
When the 'Real Game Changed' occurred... February 26, 2008 - The American Spectator
http://spectator.org/archives/2008/02/26/que-sarah-sarah#
John McCain ran one of the most idiotic campaigns ever. He accepted the government $75 million and its limits. He would not attack Obumbles. He suspended his campaign and became the butt of jokes on late night TV. He pulled out of Michigan when he had the nations Hockey Mom on his side. His advisers (Schmidt) were so bad 'they' became damaged goods.
Sarah, Todd, and Piper Palin are seen on a boat in Wasilla, Alaska, on July 3, 2009.
http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/images/csm...
America is tired of the bigotry towards woman. Especially accomplished conservative woman, like Governor Sarah Palin.
If the GOPe want to win in a blow out fashion....it's Governor Sarah Palin.
~Major advantage over anyone else
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:12pm.
The media has nothing left to use on her, their ammunition has already been expended over the past 4 years.
The kick-back from their pop guns could be jarring
Submitted by needle on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 5:53pm.
I look forward to the MSM repeatedly trying to fire their puny anti-Palin pop guns again and again, and in the process proving that they are completely joined at the hip with the Democratic party and disconnected from proper journalism except via pretense.
At this point the MSM can only reveal more about themselves than about Sarah Palin. And there is much to be revealed.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
Ms. Deadmountain is right
Submitted by sherlock1 on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 2:20pm.
Ms. Totenberg ("Deadmountain") is right, the media would "glom onto" any new candidate, but I doubt they could bludgeon them with an ugly-stick as savagely as cruel fate evidently did to her. I think the stupid-stick got in a few whacks too.
Stupid Totenberg
Submitted by pcnav on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 8:45pm.
NPR's Totenberg: "If GOP Picked New Contender at the Convention, 'Elite Media' Would 'Glom Onto' Him and Savage Him"
They are going to do that anyway so what's the difference?
Yes, Nina ...
Submitted by LibertyAtStake on Sat, 03/17/2012 - 10:23pm.
... But at least they would have less time to coordinate their vicious and vile attacks.