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Pundits Serve Gingrich As Turkey, Bash-berry Sauce for Hillary
by The Editors
Sunday, November 28, 1999 -- NEW YORK (AmpolNS) -- The Beltway is bereft of pols -- and a large number of pundits -- on big holiday weekends at the end of the year.
But the Sunday politi-blab shows still managed to scrape together a few decent guests along with losers like Newt Gingrich, now a paid pundit for the Fox family of networks.
In fact, Gingrich was the weekend's top "turkey", with the fake "odd couple" of punditry, Mary "Mad"-alin and Cueball Carville, also turning up as a double helping of artificial-ingredient stuffing.
It was a feast of posturing, pap, and prevarication. Pass the Pepto...
Fox News Spin-Day
Tony Snow covers more ground, carves a slice o' Gingrich
Make no mistake -- Tony Snow, for all his conservative spinning, still manages to cover more ground in a more interesting manner than any of the competition.
"The Battle in Seattle -- is the WTO more like the WWF?" and "Newt Gingrich -- He's baaaaaack!" were his topics one and two.
We knew that he would not be serving up Newt as the Thanksgiving Weekend "turkey," but stop and think: most of the truly influential pols and spinmeisters were taking the weekend off. Inviting Newt -- who is being shunned like a leper by his own party -- is now the equivalent of the bottom of the barrel.
But we were also pleasantly surprised by Tony's decision to lead with the WTO confab in Seattle. Putting that story above the expected road to the coronation of Dubya was a gutsy move -- trade is usually a boring issue, but Tony, Roger Ailes, and the Fox staff are correct to give this issue first billing.
Tony got off on the wrong foot by asking his guest, Teamster president James Hoffa, if there was going to be "violence" in Seattle -- an attempt to cast pro-unionists as Leninist thugs. Hoffa instead answered by discussing his issues with the WTO "faceless bureaucracy" that "overrules the Supreme Court of the United States -- does that sound like a good idea? We want [people] to have the right to organize unions... laws against exploitation of workers [and] children."
Clever move by Hoffa -- "stealing" the issue of an organization "stomping" on American sovereignty from the GOP.
Tony tried to trip him up: "So you want the WTO to dictate to other countries?" Hoffa said "No way." Tony argued that "you can't have the same conditions in Mexico, in Great Britain." Hoffa cited the strength of unions in the UK -- and said that unions would benefit workers in the "communist economy" of China.
Another element of Hoffa's savvy politicking -- making labor look like it is shifting to the right and toward more "free" markets, but with a twist. But Hoffa should have pushed the point more. And there is a problem: so many industrial laborers in China are actually members of the Red Army, making such a scenario impossible to bring into reality.
Hoffa cited the threat of foreign companies using "holes" in the law to "dump" car parts, textiles and other goods -- and castigated the lack of laws to cover the holes in trade agreements.
And Tony asked about that all-important "endorsement" -- an attempt to point out the fact that they Teamsters have not endorsed Gore yet. But Hoffa took Tony down a couple of notches, essentially saying it's too far early -- and that they are talking to both Bradley and Gore. No GOPers were named -- so Tony asked about the possibility of the Teamsters endorsing Pat Buchanan, and Hoffa praised him as the only candidate talking about trade, but said that his positions on other issues would likely preclude an endorsement.
And Hoffa tied labor to environment -- attacking nations that are destroying rain forests in the quest to do quick and dirty business.
Hoffa was at one point given a wide berth to give his capsule "trade policies hurt the United States" speech toward the end -- and Tony asked Hoffa about the possibility of a boycott of the Redskins! You've gotta love Fox, with their repeated and lame attempts to tie politics to sports -- but in this case, it made sense, since FedEx owns an interesting the Redskins' stadium, and are currently in a dust-up with unions.
[Spots: Tropicana, Dell]
Tony then turned to "Jesse Jackson's most controversial cause in years" -- his attempt to get seven kids involved in a huge fistfight during a Decatur, Illinois high school football game back into school (they've been suspended for two years under a "zero tolerance" disciplinary rule). Rev. Jackson, their guest, stated some facts that seem to be ignored by big media: that no weapons were used, that alternative schools should have been offered at the outset, and that a case-by-case examination did not happen -- so "the same person... made a common ruling of expulsion." He called once again for an immediate review of the rulings.
Mort Kondracke asked Jackson, "Why have you made this a cause celèbre?... You've won!" Jackson would not concede so much -- he continued calling for a case-by-case review. Tony said that since the Decatur school system instituted zero tolerance, violent incidents dropped from 25 to 9 this year -- then misstated the rules on expulsion! Jackson vigorously corrected Tony -- and pointed out that Chicago, his home town, uses case-by-case review and appeal.
Talk turned to election 2000 and racism. Mort lobbed Jackson a softball that allowed him to talk about racial division in the workplace and access to loans. Mort: "Is Bradley better than Gore" on this issue? Jackson would not play along, instead calling for the "surplus culture" to help the "deficit culture." Talk then turned to the WTO meeting in Seattle. "You can't let China in and leave Cuba out... we cannot compete with prison labor, child labor, slave labor."
Tony asked if Jackson expected to see a resurgence in labor actions; Jackson deflected to "the haves greenlining the redlined zones." Does he support private investment of Social Security money? No, Jackson came out vigorously against the idea.
Tony tried to make Jackson look like a bigot by asking him about Paige Patterson's plan to send thousands of his followers to proselytize in Chicago -- then asked Jackson, "What's the difference between his proselytizing in Chicago and you proselytizing in Decatur?"
C'mon, Tony, that was a dumb spin question -- and Jackson's reply, "Because we're not proselytizing" -- only made it look dumber.
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The next guest -- GOP arch-loser Newt Gingrich. We suspected that this would be an attempt to "sanitize" Gingrich, who is in the middle of a very messy divorce and is tainted by the revelation that he has carried on a six-year affair with congressional aide Callista Bisek, a woman more than twenty years his junior.
Tony asked Newt if he left the Speakership because "people found out" he was having an affair. Newt categorically denied it. he said that he left because the GOP lost ground in the House -- then segued into his latest dumb "big ideas": nobody should pay more than 25% of their income in taxes, and privatizing Social Security.
We've got news for you, Newt -- most of your rich backers don't pay any taxes!
And as for the real reason that you quit Congress: you may be right about the affair, but we think it has more to do with some very damning credit card transactions.
Is his political career over? "I don't have a clue," he replied.
We were roaring with laughter! It is over, Newt -- you adulterous hypocrite. You are a laughingstock -- and probably won't even be invited by your own party to the fifth anniversary of "your" revolution!
And Juan asked him about the divorce mess. Naturally, Newt deflected -- bashing Clinton as he went into the "lying to a grand jury" and "rule of law" song and dance.
Okay. let's level the playing field. If Newt and Callista Bisek committed adultery under the "rule of law" -- something Clinton did not do with Ms. Lewinsky -- they should both pay the price. As for Clinton "lying" under oath, we know he was using the same definition of "sexual relations" Newt is known to use.
Juan then asked whether the GOP agenda is dead, and Newt bored us with more of his moribund "big ideas" -- like a missile defense system that would benefit companies he could potentially lobby for -- or steer money to politicos for. Juan mocked Newt, saying that the GOP's approval was continuing to drop. Amazingly, Newt did not "dis" the numbers, saying instead that "big ideas" would win seats for the Republicans.
Newt seems oblivious -- America is on to the GOP's "big ideas" that benefit nobody but greedheads.
Tony then asked Newt about McCain's issues -- big tobacco tax increases and campaign reform -- and Newt tried to characterize McCain as a hopeless underdog only doing well in New Hampshire while Bush is doing "extremely well... he's in favor of cutting taxes... a strong national defense... discipline [in education]... we will have a nominee with solutions."
Well... there's no doubt where Newt stands. And that's very good news -- for Bush's opponents. Having adulterer and hypocrite Newt's support should sandbag the Dubya campaign -- especially if DOJ gets on the stick and finally indicts Newt for what look to be clear-cut violations of campaign finance law.
[Spots: Anna and the King, Dell, Prodigy, Toyota, Fox shows]
Tony then asked Hillary Clinton's campaign spokesman, Howard Wolfson, if Hillary was "absolutely" going to run for the Senate in New York. Wolfson gave about an absolute "yes" as can be given before going into a litany of her issues. Tony asked if Hillary would run a "clean" campaign, and Wolfson derided Rudy Giuliani for praising himself for running a clean campaign while his surrogates have run three negative ads. Tony: "What do you think of Gail Sheehy's book?" Howard: "Not much... politics is about issues." Tony: "Did Suha Arafat set up the First Lady?" Wolfson: "Mrs. Clinton was furious... we're going to continue to fight for a safe and secure Israel." Tony asked why Hillary didn't fire back, and Howard said she in fact did -- but was not going to cause an international incident -- then said that Rudy might have gotten up, stomped around and complained, but that Hillary is not the sort of person who would provoke an incident.
We loved it -- not only for the vision of the petulant "Manhattan Mussolini" acting like his usual hateful self, but for Wolfson already using Rudy's bad temper against him!
Fred "The Weasel" Barnes called Wolfson "weasely." Juan said that the Senate race was going to be great because there are real issues -- and that Hillary can't get over being a carpetbagger.
Wrong and wrong, Juan -- Rudy will see to it that the race goes negative, and Rudy himself is looked upon as a "campaign cash carpetbagger" for his embarrassing trip to Little Rock.
There was a little talk about whether there was racism in the military, and Mort Kondracke said that there is as a result of a de facto racist society. Juan pointed out the wealth gap between blacks and whites -- and that the military is ignoring racial issues.
Tony then brought up the latest anti-McCain "rumor" -- that his so-called "short temper" is the result of "going crazy" in Vietnam. The Weasel tried to "prove" there was no whispering campaign by saying that Mort's magazine Roll Call could find no evidence of it! But Kondracke said there must be a grain of truth -- citing Elizabeth Drew's daring whistle-blowing Washington Post article.
Nobody mentioned Admiral Jim Stockdale's own whistle-blowing -- a few days ago, he revealed that he got a call from a member of the Bush team asking what he know about McCain's "instability." Bad move by Dubya's morons -- good move by Ross Perot's former running mate!
This Weak
Spam and Cockie prove their journalistic worthlessness and hatred of all things Clinton once again!
Cockie opened the show with an attack on Hillary Clinton, who was defended by the able Sen. Robert Torricelli (D- NJ) and slammed by Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Cabbage Patch), a man most famous for leading the charge against campaign finance reform.
George Will came up with some bullshit "weakness" for Giuliani -- that no GOP statewide candidate in New York has ever won an election without the Conservative Party endorsement -- which Giuliani won't get.
Ha, ha, ha -- yeah, George, like that's his ONLY weakness.
"The Torch" reminded Sam that pro-choice activists will never trust Giuliani and the Conservative Party won't either. "He is a man in a very difficult posture."
Donaldson then hit Hillary again, asking how she "divorces" herself from being First Lady and being only a U.S. Senate candidate. Mitch McConnell said that "we don't think the government should be underwriting her trips to New York..." blah, blah, blah. McConnell said that her security ménage will hurt her so badly that she will lose votes each time she "ties up traffic" because of her Secret Service protection.
Hey Mitch -- real New Yorkers stay off the streets when the Prez is in town -- they've done so ever since Ronnie Reagan regularly messed up traffic patterns with his oversize entourage.
The Torch reminded Sam that Hillary is only 3-5 points behind Giuliani and has not advertised yet -- unlike Giuliani and some very crazy Republican Jews (oxymoronic, no?).
Cockie hit both Bill and Hillary -- "Should Bill Clinton be campaigning for Hillary?..." followed by "I mean will it hurt her?"
We were laughing out loud! Sure, Crocky -- a man with an 82% positive rating - we say he should campaign for Hillary, you mo'fo'in creep!
McConnell then said that he has had very public differences with McCain because McCain wants to raise taxes -- and "was" for campaign finance reform. "But, of course I would vote for him if he gets the nomination," he said (sounding a bit disdainful).
Cockie, who looked liked the Mother Monster from Alien III this morning, turned to Torricelli for his comment on McCain. "Sure, he has a temper. I have a temper, and so does Bill Clinton. There's an insidious campaign against McCain from his own party. I didn't go to Vietnam, but I have an unbreakable relationship with my peers who did. It is not fair. It is not right. And I will continue to defend Senator McCain although it is not usual to defend a candidate from the other party!" That shut Spam, Cockie, and the rest of the naysayers up.
Now Spam and Cockie move to two "high-tech" guests: Steve Case, the ass from AOL who steals your money by charging you a few hundred bucks a year NOT to be able to really surf the net, and Jeff Bezos, a genius (amazon.com) who is today's king of E-Commerce through expansion to selling everything on earth -- including auctions by Sotheby's auction house.
Case, who has 20 million prisoner subscribers, said the shopping services are "free."
But of course they aren't. Case assumes that people will keep paying AOL. Sure! Dream on, Steve. The only thing that keeps those subscribers on your system are the filthy chat rooms you sponsor.
Sam asked a good question: "Will you put all stores and malls out of business?" Case lied and said "No." He then drones on about changing the world for the "positive." Bezos said people will keep shopping in a physical way - but they will shop on line (75 million of them) "to avoid the crowds!!!" -- Ha, ha, ha -- a subliminal message, Jeff?
Sam reminded Case that he has a value of $187 billion dollars (market cap), and Case told Sam that the Internet capability will be embedded in your life -- as SurfAssured.com is offering today with its body- worn tiny computers that allow you to surf the net where you are on earth.
Sam wants to know why Bezos will lose $550 million this year. Bezos said that this is a strategic decision, planned so all the investment dollars are going to service our customers of the future.
Case -- in a move that had us rolling with laughter -- said that he can't tell Sam if the President is an AOL subscriber because he protects the identity of all AOL members...
...although he was just convicted in civil court of doing just the opposite.
The biggest laugh of all, Condoleezza Rice (George DumbBellYou's "genius" foreign policy advisor) was up next. Now, she is a wonderful woman -- but has no chance to teach BushBaby much, because of IQ hurdles even she cannot jump.
Cockie said that "Condo" is not well known. Rice wants "internationalism" and was once BushDaddy's Russian advisor and addressed the GOP conventions as the leading token black woman Republican (oxymoronic, ain't it?) and was flashed around as this token on TV screens around the world. The message: "THE GOP LIKES BLACKS"
Cockie wanted to know how well her "Pupil" is doing. Condo said he is not a pupil, THE Governor is running this show. He asked me whether women and children were still being killed in Chechnya "as a joke."
Sure, Condo, and his 71 average at Yale was a joke too.
"He's very much driving this train," she said.
But is she referring to the "trains" he used to pull at his frat house with sorority coeds?
We do love the name Condoleezza -- but that's about it.
Cockie asks how Condo would like being Secretary of State? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha -- we only hope. Condo calls George Shultz -- the Himmler of the BushDaddy Administration and a still-working aide to wanna be Führer Bush - a good friend! Yeah, Condo, but he wouldn't live next door to your brothers and sisters -- perhaps anymore that you would? Where do you live, by the way?
Funny that Condo teaches at Stanford, which has been cheerfully able to lower its admissions of "unqualified Blacks" under the tutelage of her "brothers" who pushed Prop 206, a racist "people's" amendment to California law. She said that Americans "will resonate with" BushBaby's foreign policy. Yes, they will resonate all right -- with migraines gained as if their heads were in the bells of St. Patrick's Cathedral!!!
Next up was John Sweeney - President of the AFL-CIO. He said he does not want China in the World Trade Organization, but he still supports Gore.
George Staphylococcus said that globalization hasn't been good for all working Americans -- although he supported it when he was chief Judas to Clinton.
Bill Kristol said all the leading candidates (not including Pukeanan) are for globalization.
Will attacked Torricelli for saying he will raise $65 million from business, which is pro-globalization.
San talked about farming and whether it is dead. He said it is -- except for large corporate farming -- a "freebee" to his owners at ADM, the corporate sponsor helping to kill family farms.
Staphylococcus, who looks about 15 years older since he realized that Americans hate him by the tens of millions, began talking about slavery. He said, "Look at college campuses where kids demonstrate against slave labor." Cockie adds, "Yeah, if you know they exist," snidely as usual.
What an ass.
Sam made fun of the President's Christian view that Serbs and Croats should forgive each other. He calls it a "Biblical" view and laughs at it.
Staphylococcus defended the President who "did the right things" in Turkey, and Cockie -- the moron-ette -- said that the Turkish administration is "the most progressive in history!!!" Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Sure, that is why they murder journalists, clergy and others who disagree with them, you stupid Louisiana Hale Boggs cretin!
"Democrats hate abolishing anything but the Defense Department," said "Migraine Maniac" George Will.
Kristol said that free media -- such as the debates -- will matter more and McCain "may" beat Bush in New Hampshire.
Sam said AL GORE uses fear! What a laugh!! Sam uses the Willie Horton ads as the example!!! Yeah, sure -- as if Gore made that decision.
God, we cannot believe anyone looks at This Week without laughing.
Concerning the upcoming debates, Will said, "No one expects much from Bush, so he'll do well." Now that had us laughing once again. Will said Bush will win by 30 points in South Carolina. Cockie said, "He's a fine boy from a fine family."
Yeah, right: a family who headed the most disreputable CIA in history, a mother who has a temper worse than McCain's. And lets not forget the lousy-grade, coke-snorting, womanizing, frat boy BabyBush "Blutarski" who made a deal with Daddy's hand-picked judge to help "poor people" for a few months rather than go to jail.
All in exchange for a cover-up -- an affirmative action justice program called "expungement" among the rich.
Will also said Bush "did well" in his one on one interview last week and IN HIS FOREIGN POLICY ADDRESS! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha... sure!
But the truth is that we want BushBaby to get the GOP nod. He'll be sooooooooooooo easy to beat! Even Pukeanan might take him.
That was it for This Weak.
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The McLaugh-In Group
Inane, insane John bashes Berger, public schools, supports voucher isolationism!
Issue One: "GOP Isolationism -- or Your Imperialism?" Sandy Berger had slammed the GOP for isolationism in what John McLaugh-In called an "unusually partisan" speech -- then used the Pilgrims, Huguenots and Federalist Papers to bolster his own anti-globalist views!
Ummmm, John, you're 200 years late!
John continued to slam the "Clinton doctrine" of "interventionism," citing John Quincy Adams as the man with a better idea (isolationism)!
We were half expecting McLaugh-In to call for a return to slavery and disenfranchisement of women and non-landowning men!
Question: should we expand internationalism to human rights? Michael Barone surprised by sounding moderate -- pointing out the power and influence of America and supporting a sort of "multilateralism." Eleanor Clift called isolationism "a straw man... the real question is [deployment of] our military power." Someone named Eric Felten claimed that Clinton "failed time and again to line up his ducks in Congress."
Eric, you idiot, he does not need to "line up" moronic "ducks" like Jesse Helms or ex-cheerleader Trent Lott -- they're more useful as enemies!
Clarence Page called American interventionism "inconsistent," citing intervening for Kurds in Iraq but not in Turkey. Huh? Last time we checked, Clarence, Saddam Hussein was not on the same friendly terms with America that Bulent Ecevit is.
Eleanor responded to some isolationist blather from Barone by saying that President Bush had pushed for a more activist, interventionist approach to diplomacy!
Issue two: plug George Bush while slamming public education. It's pretty clear where Jack Welch... er, McLaugh-In stands on education as he slammed the "dismal" quality of public schools that have "failed" students. McLaugh-In called the "progressive education movement" founded by John Dewey the problem, with its "child-centered, critical thinking" approach. He cited the misinterpretation of results from a program called "Operation Follow-Through," calling rote memorization more important than making kids think -- this comes from the well-known educational publication Investor's Business Daily, by the way.
But John failed to discuss the underfunding of public schools at local, state and federal levels -- with large percentages of local money having shifted over the last 30 years from educational expenses to meeting state and local regulations. Naturally, local administrators will rob from education to pay for meeting mandates -- as conservatives undermine the schools at the federal and media level.
Barone the moron called for closing "progressive" public schools -- and falsely claimed that kids of the poor are being shortchanged by "fuzzy-headed thinking."
We'd say there are bigger issues "short-changing" kids of the poor in this country, Barone.
Except for Eleanor Clift, the panel came out extremely pro-private schools.
Issue three: Jerry Falwell talks to (shock!) gay Christians. John correctly called it "unprecedented," and even mentioned the former working relationship between Falwell and gay Christian leader Mel White.
Is he sincere or merely playing smart politics? Barone said he was being sincere; Eleanor called Falwell's move "a huge concession" by the Christian Right; Eric Felten talked about fighting violence, as did Clarence Page.
Ridiculous-as-usual predictions:
Barone -- Vincente Fox will give La Bedista a run for his money in Mexican July elections.
Clift -- More House GOP retirements will make it easier for Dems to take the House next year.
Felten -- Hillary will not run for the Senate in New York.
Clarence -- Hillary will run.
Mad John -- Chinese capital will flee once they join WTO -- and no one will trust Chinese banks!
Ha, ha, ha -- hey, readers, do you trust your bank?
Face the Nation
The longer view
With all of the major politicos out of town, Bob Schieffer welcomed a panel of distinguished and not-so-distinguished "historians," including Taylor Branch, David "Moron-iss" Maraniss, Douglas Brinkley and Cornel West for the annual "step back and assess" tète-a-tète.
Okay -- so the talk shows were scraping this weekend. Schieffer at least managed to turn a sow's ear into somewhat of a silk purse.
Branch called the state of the nation "outstanding... to a remarkable degree" with a nation "poised to regain its optimism."
Got news for you, Taylor -- economy's doing great, an impeachment coup was soundly trounced -- we're already optimistic!
Cornel West cited moves toward spiritual reawakening; Brinkley talked about America being able to reduce its military presence worldwide
Does Clinton deserve credit? Moron-iss said to an extent yes -- and, to be fair, Clinton understood how the economy was changing and pushed the nation in that direction.
Moron-iss betrayed his partisanship when Gloria Borger asked what America was looking for in the next president, and Moron-iss said "Not Al Gore." Brinkley disagreed with Moron-iss -- and turned talk to trade and "the new sense of globalization [and] the Internet era... The major players [in the presidential race] are for free trade." Cornel West praised Bill Bradley's "authenticity" in addressing issues, especially race. Schieffer asked if southern black voters would determine Bradley's level of success, and West deftly dodged.
In response to a question from about Clinton's greatest achievement, Branch cited Clinton's ability to renew America's belief in itself. "Is there any grand achievement?" asked Schieffer, and Brinkley cited "pact-o-mania," including his grassroots push for trade pacts, and nuclear disarmament.
Cornel West called the Lewinsky flap a "moral blotch" on the "Clinton legacy" -- but also decried lingering child poverty. Moron-iss, playing shrink, claimed that Clinton's "tremendous drive" pushes him to do good and bad things.
After the break, Schieffer questioned Borger on her U.S. News column. Borger called Hillary Clinton "disingenuous" with a "chaotic" staff. Her so-called "disingenuousness" was over a question that an audience member asked about whether or not she would run.
What a shock -- that she turns out to be just like every other politician -- because that's what it takes to get elected. Every politician does it.
Brinkley said that a Gore Presidency and Hillary Senatorship would in fact burnish and enhance the "Clinton Legacy."
Branch turned to the bigger picture -- the legacy of the century and the rise of the influence of women, especially on the way in which war is perceived. Cornel West said that the poor are starting to be heard -- due in large part to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., which has been embraced by women!
The person of the century? Brinkley said Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, citing the Roosevelt speech that outlined the Atlantic Charter and Eleanor's work for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Branch named King. Maraniss said he could not get by Roosevelt's approval of Japanese internment, so he'd name King and Nelson Mandela. West went for King, Toni Morrison and Anton Chekhov.
In his concluding commentary, Schieffer named his men of the century -- FDR and Winston Churchill, who understood the threat of Nazism, asked for sacrifice, and "turned back the greatest evil ever known."
Now, we know that many right-wingers were instantaneously taking umbrage, chanting the mantra of St. Ronald and his single-handed defeat of the Soviet Union under their breath.
And how very wrong they are.
Beat the Press [to Death]
Starring Tim Russ-turd
As always, we wondered how Timmy the Altar Boy would slander Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton today.
It didn't take long to find out.
Pat Pukeanan sort of debated Secretary of Commerce Bill Daley. Puke said the US completely capitulated to China. "We sell one to two percent of our exports to China which is the same level as under President McKinley." Then Russert showed a clip of Pukeanan standing with Nixon and Mao just BEAMING with his "accomplishment."
Ha, ha, ha! It was a Beat the Press moment to savor! But Pukeanan, the policeman for the Third Reich, really had nothing to do with it. He was way too much a mental lightweight, and was merely with Nixon to carry his briefcase.
Pukeanan agreed with John Sweeney of the AFL. Daley said the Administration disagrees with John Sweeney and that creating barriers to China trade is ridiculous inasmuch as much of our economy depends on Chinese exports to the US.
Of course, Daley is right. Pukeanan is just trying to whore to big labor. Daley said we did not cave and we got a good tough deal for the United States.
Pukeanan claimed that the International Trade Association is a "claque" of socialists and communists. It was vintage hilarious Pukeanan, over the top and completely moronic. Then Daley reminds the Puke that he wrote in 1989 that trade deficits were great for the American economy
Daley and Pukeanan began a shouting match -- because Pukeanan was lying straight through his teeth and Daley couldn't take it anymore.
Then Russert joined in, "reminding" Daley that China is still doing forced abortions and religious persecution. Daley said that is why you get them into the developed family of nations. Pukeanan said, "Do you seriously think that the Chinese will live up to their agreements?... Look at the Japanese... they still haven't abided by anything they promised." Then Puke said that Mexicans export 33 million cars to the US - but he forgets to mention that all those factories in Mexico are owned by Americans! Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha! Pukeanan is simply trying to get votes from sorry factory workers who cannot cope with the fact that the big mills are a thing of the past -- and their jobs are obsolete.
Russert then hit Pukeanan on his reaching out to Iran and Iraq! It got funnier-- Russert, the idiot, tried to compare Cuba to China, asking why we aren't trading with Castro. What a moron. What can Cuba add to anything besides bringing back whores with fruit bowls on their heads, cock fights, cigars, and gambling casinos for wealthy day-trippers from Miami?
Oh yes, we forgot -- more sugar cane!
Russert wanted to know whether Pat would support Hillary if she was the Reform Party candidate for Senate and neither would he support Giuliani -- yeah, as if anyone cares.
Mandy Grunwald, campaign advisor to Hillary Clinton, said that Hillary will definitely run for US Senate. Bruce Teitelbaum, sellout Jew for Führer Giuliani, will not say whether Giuliani will run -- but he did mention that Rudy will change the spelling of his last name to "JEW"-liani to attract the large Jewish-American vote from Manhattan and Queens.
Russ-turd tried to "freak" Grunwald, showing meaningless numbers from meaningless polls and saying "these numbers must trouble you... these are extreme high negatives... " Grunwald smiled and just brushed him off, telling Timmy Boy that he's all wet.
Well, of course he is. He should look at his approval ratings.
Then Russ-turd said that NBC received mail from Giuliani claiming that if Hillary gets into the Senate, she will champion every left-wing program, blah, blah, blah. Russ-turd added that "we won't be sending you any money -- because we don't do that!"
Sure, Timmy! You don't need to send money -- you only act as the pseudojournalistic beard for the ultra- right wing, inviting toads like Pukeanan and that silly twit Bill Bennett onto your show every week. You also back "Governor Bush" with almost every word that comes out of your mouth.
Grunwald agreed that Giuliani and Hillary have very different views on everything. Giuliani was with the GOP: he opposes real health care reform ( you can't sue your doctor), he's for an 800 billion tax cut (if you're rich), he backed overturning Roe v. Wade until now -- when he conveniently switched his position to pro-choice while claiming to be a "big-time" Catholic.
Teitelbaum then claimed that Rudy Giuliani is able to pick up the phone and speak (he implied "dictate") to the GOP leadership in Washington.
Well, this is ludicrous for two reasons. First, there won't be a GOP leadership in Congress next year; and second, most Republicans in Washington consider Giuliani an embarrassment, much as they considered Pukeanan a cancer in the Republican Party.
Russert then showed a hit ad against Hillary about Mrs. Arafat's attack on Israelis -- made by a Jewish Republican group (hahahaha -- all three of them, oxymoronically) . Teitelbaum lied and said that Giuliani had nothing to do with these ads. Mandy said Mrs. Clinton was in a terribly awkward position and could not create an international incident -- yet later she condemned what Mrs. Arafat said.
Teitelbaum said that even though Israeli Prime Minister Barak announced that Mrs. Clinton had done the right thing for peace, he holds no animosity for her. No Jews (even after being explained why Mrs. Clinton could not do what she would like to have) would also support Mrs. Clinton. Grunwald basically called Teitelbaum a liar.
Mandy said that this race should be about the issues. Health care, education and jobs. But Russ-turd gives Teitelbaum the last word -- as he has been instructed to do by Jack Welch.
Hysterically, GE ran a commercial about how much they are doing "for the people of Japan" just after we had heard from Buchanan about how the Japanese are screwing us by closing their markets to US exports!!!
Next came the tiring twosome, James Carville (a supposed Democrat) and his silly wife Mary "Mad"alin, who posed as political opposites for Russ-turd.
Of course, the only thing the Carvilles are interested in is themselves -- and the millions they are raking in with the circus "political marriage."
The Carvilles basically engaged in ad hominem attacks on Gore and Bush. Russ-turd is such a toad -- he brought the Carvilles on to say things like "Bush survived well under the HAMMER of a Russert interview!"
We were roaring out loud. A hammer? How about a "Sicko"-phant?
To prove that their only interest in each other is money -- when Russert congratulated the Carvilles on their tenth anniversary -- Mary Matalin Carville said that their "Fourth Anniversary appearing on Meet the Press is far more important."
We told you so! All these two care about are their own skins -- and they would turn on their buddies (well, maybe Cueball Carville would not) for more money from someone else.
Matalin said something pointless about the McCain-Bush race in New Hampshire. Russert then lied and said that McCain trails terribly behind Bush nationwide.
Our own polls -- which survey more American voters than anything NBC or anyone else fields (more than 10,000 respondents randomly collected) -- show McCain in a dead heat with Bush -- with McCain leading by half a point!
Matalin said she thinks that going to minorities, people with disabilities, women, gays, lesbians and others is terrible because it is "exclusionary." What a genius! She think it's divisive! Ha, ha, ha. Carville said, "If you can't run against the candidate, run against his campaign manager" -- in this case, Gore campaign honcho Donna Brazile. He reminded Russert that Bush wouldn't even meet with Gay Republicans.
On the Hillary-Rudy race, "Mad"-alin thinks Hillary should give all her money to another Democrat nominee and then run for governor. She quotes Harold Ickes (of all unimportant people) saying that Hillary's race is a race for "redemption." Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha -- as Mary will be racing to the bank tomorrow to "redeem" the fat check she and Cueball get for this pap!
Carville is forming a committee to combat thuggery -- like that of Mary Matalin saying today that "Poor Hillary will be living alone in her cool Chappaqua house." What a sleazy pig.
Russert asked whether Carville will go into the Palm and place a bet with "Tony" that Hillary will win. Russert is trying to prove he's a "real man" here, telling us the name of some goofball at the Palm -- owner or not -- whom he "knows."
How pathetic can you get?
