'Today': Natalie Knocks W for Reminding Congress He's Commander-in-Chief

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The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States. -- U.S. Constitution Article II, Section 2.
The faces occasionally change at "Today," but the bias remains the same. Natalie Morales sat in for Meredith Vieira this morning, but the show didn't lose a liberal beat, as Natalie knocked President Bush for his temerity in asserting his constitutional role as Commander-in-Chief.

Chatting with Tim Russert at about 7:10 A.M. EDT, Morales offered this take on W's comments of yesterday:
NBC'S NATALIE MORALES: Tim, what was striking yesterday was the aggressive tone the President took with Congress yesterday, with lawmakers, saying it is not their job to manage the war. Not since Vietnam has there been such a clash between the executive and the legislative branches. If the President is trying to build support, did he lose some of that yesterday?

View video here.

Bonus points to Morales for working a Vietnam allusion in there. But on the larger point, what did the president say that Natalie found so "aggressive"? Here is the relevant passage from his remarks:

I don't think it makes sense [for Congress to tell] our military how to conduct operations or deal with troop strength . . . I don't think Congress ought to be running the war. I think they ought to be funding the troops.
What is "aggressive" about a president fulfilling his constitutional role? If any branch is being aggressive, is it not the House of Representatives that, in adopting a resolution calling for the withdrawal of almost all combat troops from Iraq by April 1, 2008, is clearly exceeding its constitutional perogative?

But Morales saw things only in political, not constitutional, terms, and predictably put the onus on Pres. Bush to make concessions to the Dem-led Congress.

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About the only thing this p

About the only thing this person is qualified to opine on is mascara clumps.

It's doubtful that anyone in

It's doubtful that anyone in the drive-by media remembers what they were tought in school about the constitution and separation of powers, anyway.  Oh, wait...  Do they still actually teach that subject in any school these days?

Unfortunately, we had to drop

Unfortunately, we had to drop the Constitution from the curriculum. There was no room after we added additional course requirements in multiculturalism and saving the environment.

...and sex ed, and self-estee

...and sex ed, and self-esteem building, and the benefits of socialism, and how to prepare for a left-wing protest.   

So can I assume you're all

So can I assume you're all with me, and agree that socialist schooling can not ever work even with "reforms," and should therefore be abolished in favor of the free market? Good! (Please, try actually-voting that way, if you'd like better education-results!)
JMR

Back to basics

You will all be happy to know that England is going back to basics in its lower schools.

Our real problem, then, is not our strength today; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure our strength tomorrow. Dwight Eisenhower

But what happened to all that

But what happened to all that time recovered from banning bad and hurtful things like tag, recess, monkey bars, and dodgeball?

I always refer back to commen

I always refer back to comments by former CBS newsman Roger Mudd, who said in an interview that whenever he addresses journalism students at colleges, he tells them to take courses outside of the communications/journalism curriculum . . . to get a good familiarization with history, political science and other social sciences, the English language, and general science.    The newsroom stuff can always be learned on the job.

Since George W. Bush WON in 2

Since George W. Bush WON in 2000 the democrats have been trying desperately to strip him of his Constitutional rights, duties, and defined position as President of the United States.  Everything he has done within his Presidential rights under the Constitution has been loudly argued by the democrats (and just as loudly echoed by the willing MSM) as something criminal or illegal ... or even 'never done before in the history of our country', ignoring the previous Presidents' exercising (and surpassing) such presidential rights and duties (but we're NOT allowed to bring up past presidents ... especially Clinton, when comparing and contrasting).

The democrats and the MSM operate on the idea (and to some degree they're right) that the American public is too stupid to know the truth, and not swallow the dishonesty they are trying to shove down our throats.

Being preached Constitutional reasoning by a network bimbo who is nothing more than a tool for the DNC is quite the comedy of errors ...

MSNBC Staff meeting:Pretty? C

MSNBC Staff meeting:

Pretty? CHECK

Dumb as a box of rocks? CHECK

Can read left wing talking points with a straight face? CHECK

Never read and/or doesn't understand the Constitution? CHECK

Okay, put her on the air!!!

Forgot

Ah, but you forgot about the last revision of the constitution. The new rules are as such:

1. Executive Branch: Only when liberals with no moral values occupy the office, may any powers exist.

2. Legislative Branch: Only liberal, MSM butt kissers with communist leanings have any right to legislate.

3. Judicial Branch: Only liberals with no regard for life or the rights of individuals may serve.

4. Media Branch: They shall rule over all other branches. Only those with liberal (communist) leanings may express any opinions or have a right to exist. ALL others shall keep their big food traps shut.  

If the President is trying to

If the President is trying to build support, do he lose some of that yesterday?

How could he possibly lose more support with what he said yesterday? If she had any kind of knowledge about what's important to Republicans she would be asking if he, in fact, GAINED any support. But I don't expect an anchor babe from NBC to understand both sides of the politial spectrum. 

The reason Bush's approval rating has been so low is because there's no sense from his base that he has the balls to stand up to the defeatocrats and call them on their crap. He'll never raise his approval numbers by pandering to the left, but he WILL raise them by finally growing a pair and telling congress to do their job and let him do his.  

HH -I agree.  What does he h

HH -

I agree.  What does he have to lose?  I think W should have a primetime speech in which he gets tough with the Congress about their claiming defeat, how the Iraqi people are finally feeling their freedom and are aiding our troops in killing and capturing the enemy (who the Iraqi people have finally come to recognize and want removed).

Bush should loudly remind the democrats that while they bitch and moan about the new Iraqi government (in its infancy) not reaching benchmarks, the democrats, since taking control of the Congress, have done NOTHING they (via Nancy Pelosi) promised (threatened) would happen in the first 100 days they would be in charge.

I'd say the blasted poll numbers just might jump up a couple/few if W took off at least one glove ...

I saw an excerpt of his comme

I saw an excerpt of his comments yesterday, and thought to myself -- why did the President think he had to say these things? Then I realized -- he must be as amazed as I am that Congress, the MSM, and libs everywhere don't really understand the Constitution of the United States. As amazing as that is...

TnT -Oh, they understand the

TnT -

Oh, they understand the Constitution ... They just operate under the assumption that the masses don't.  In doing so, they can say anything the President does is unConstitutional, and people believe them.

Ain't that the truth. And whe

Ain't that the truth. And where does this come from? Could it be that the teachers are not taught the fundamentals themselves? Is it somehow considered "un-American" to learn about our Constitutional form of Government, because the participants were all white men?

I'm still astounded by the attempts of dims to try to abolish the Electorial College, claiming that it renders our voting "un-democratic". They don't even realize that our way of casting Presidential votes is yet another form of checks and balances cleverly instituted by our founding fathers. All the libs want is to destroy anything and everything that has worked for hundreds or thousands of years, in order to get their "instant gratification".

TnT -Puhleeze! You really exp

TnT -

Puhleeze! You really expect today's education system to actually teach?  Just look what they are doing in England ... Who needs to learn about the greatest and bravest person in G.B's 20th Century history ... and how he fought one of the world's worst villains, anyway??

Schools told to dump Churchill and Hitler from history lessons

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23404098-details/Schools+to+dump+traditional+curriculum+in+favour+of+trendy+life+lessons/article.do

Natalie

Another flat-chested know-it-all anchorette from the Drive-Bys. 

If you want to see the babes, they're over on Fox News Channel.

Gordo

Melmac

C'mon, Gordon. She is pretty

C'mon, Gordon. She is pretty hot.

Her IQ is to be questioned, though.

I bet she has nice legs thoug

I bet she has nice legs though.

The Wizard of Libs

"Liberalism is a Mental Disorder"

Say it to yourself 5 times and click your heels.

Another newsbunny...

    Another ethnically correct newsbunny reciting the required verbiage to nail down some Upper West Side cocktail party invites. Hey, a girl's gotta do what she's gotta do in the big city, right?

Yeah, she gave good MSM oral

Yeah, she gave good MSM oral ...

Can we withdraw our taxes b

Can we withdraw our taxes because Congress isn't meeting its obligations on Immigration reform and Social Security reform among other things? What a joke that they sit in judgment of a new government. They can't even manage their own corruption and incompetence.

I have to tell you I am sick

I have to tell you I am sick to death of these arrogant, bubble-headed, so called journalist telling President Bush he has no right to Presidential powers! Who does this Morales think she is anyway?

The "most hostile"?

The "most hostile"? To what exactly?   

http://www.classicalvalues.com/archives/2007/07/most_hostile_to.html

Very nicely done.

Good post.The original post t

Good post.

The original post that your link's author references for his post is a nice read as well.

Beautiful, but dumb.  Seems

Beautiful, but dumb.  Seems to be the job description these days on LiberalNews.

Yep, the only requirements

Yep, the only requirements are good looks and the ability to read (the only differences between Natalie's current job and being a stripper are the reading-requirement part & getting less exercise on the job) which is why news-reader salaries MUST eventually go down from bloated/stratospheric to "market." I'd say a girl as hot as Natalie is probably worth at most $100K a year presently, and (just as with strippers & pro athletes) less as her looks/youth wane.
JMR

How about citizen strippers

How about citizen strippers Sarc? Did you read the blog where they compared Journalist to surgeons? I said comparing to salesmen would be more appropriate. But now, I think you are on to something - Citizen strippers! That would work too. ; )

Some of these journalists s

Some of these journalists seem about as cerebral as some local strippers I know. (Speaking of local sex-for-the-price-of-a-lapdance news, I'm still grinning ear to ear about the "happy ending" of this story!)  "I always knew McCain's campaign sucked!" is only round-one of the bad jokes swamping my mind...
JMR

that is a good one sarc!

that is a good one sarc!

I have an un-natural advantage here

I have an un-natural advantage, as one can always count on Florida these days for maximum political weirdness beyond other states. I'm starting to wonder whose campaign is getting most of the McCain defectors as his campaign implodes. I assume it's Thompson's not-yet-an-official-campaign, because Fred was a big McCain supporter last time, but not-yet-official campaigns might have a tough time paying political consultants -- speaking of vastly-overpaid professions...
JMR

Natty Morales is who CBS should have Hired

I maintain that the biggest problem liberals have is they hire women, who talk and make them look frumpier so people are listening to them and end up hating them.

Hillary Clinton is a perfect example of late as when she opens her mouth and her dudded down look, people hate her.....but when she shuts up her ratings rise.

Of present, Perky Couric is looking like some matron crossed with Lizzy Borden and people are being forced to listen to what she said and no one likes the liberal biased lies.

Now behold Natty Morales, like a al Jazeera pin up queen, most of what she says in a report no males are listening to as they are seeing a babe and just like all guys they hear bits and pieces and then think, "Oh crap I don't like this woman, but I like looking at her and there is no harm in looking."

Same way with the NFL sideline "reporters". Everyone knows they are not plumpers for reason and every guy watching is thinking this woman doesn't know diddle about football, but the audience tolerates it.

It is only when liberals lie or mask their message behind babes that it gets ratings. That is why the morning show babes all have like Perky has their skirts cut to Tennessee with the emphasis on the SEE. Perky is behind a desk now and lost the only thing she had going for her and her ratings are plummeting as teh audience is now being forced to watch a frumpy, old growly matron.....just like Hillary Clinton. No one likes that just like they didn't like it in school.

CBS should have hired Natty, put her on the desk, short skirts and the ratings would have soared as guys would have watched and not listened and liberal women would have watched because they want to be like the popular girl.

For those who think the above might be sexist.......just tune into the BBC World sometime as of this week viewers got to see Jane with a blouse that looked like beachware and Karin so tighted up it looked like her clothes were painted on.

The liberal BBC figured it out. Pretty up the news and no one pays attention. Americans got this this hag factor going on in women to not make plumper women feel bad and the greying ghost factor in men so every one thinks daddy is talking on television....and the problem is people are listening and not watching which is turning them off.

Rather was wrong in CBS being tarted up. Katie was tarted down and matroned up and nobody wants to watch that nor listen to it.

See it works, I didn't bother to explain to Natty that Reagan had a hell of time with democrats fighting them over Pershing, Libya and Central America, Bush 41 had the same problems with democrats on Panama, central Europe and Iraq. Natty would know that if she invested more time in reading history than looking pretty, crossing her legs perfectly as the exec "interviews" her and promising with a smile more will come if she is hired.

Once again, not me, but an actual story from Joan Lundin at GMA on ABC where the execs were talking about the "girl with the nice legs in the interview".

That is how Natty, Perky, Di and the rest including Mrs. Moonves got their jobs and climb the ladder. The dirty big world of liberal media.

Liberals do better at selling the news when they sell sex instead of news.

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

Morales and all of her ilk ob

Morales and all of her ilk obviously have not been taught about Govt. or how our Republic works....

They show it every single day.....unfortunately ..the rest of this country of the younger generations most likely have not learned how our Constitution Republic is suppose to function...by the wisdom of our Forefathers.

They really are just simple twits as a whole, I feel that a lot of them do not realize how ignorant they portray themselves daily.

Thank goodness now for other venues to teach others the real truth ..no matter how they try to form it to their likings or their bosses liking...

You know...agenda, agenda, agenda.

C'mon, George, kick some Democrat butt!

Bush aggressive?  If anything, he lets himself be pushed around too much.  The Administration needs to turn the heat all the way up on Congress.

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

I'm telling you ... I notice

I'm telling you ... I notice his f-ing poll numbers climb when he pushes back.