Guests:
Gov. Deval Patrick (D-MA)
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH)
Kasim Reed (D-Atlanta)
Joe Scarborough
David Brooks
Dee Dee Myers
Bay Buchanan
*************************************
Gregory: We learned Mitt pays 14% in
taxes which is a lot!
Patrick: now he should reveal his tax
plan for the rest of America
Gregory: a poor person who works at
Wal-Mart pays more in taxes but Romney
says that person does not take
personal responsibility for her life
Ayotte: Obama keeps giving people food stamps
Gregory: I see
Ayotte: let’s not forget Obama caused a
recession in 2007
Gregory: can Romney relate to poor
people or even non-millionaires?
Ayotte: Romney just wants poor people to
have better jobs and to stop being so lazy
Gregory: Romney says that poor people
are lazy victims who think they
are entitled to food and oxygen
Ayotte: he didn’t mean that - he just
said when he thought only his rich
friends were listening
Gregory: do you are agree that
people in the military who pay no
income taxes are victims
Ayotte: the debt is causing a rise
in food stamps!
Patrick: May I observe that my
mother was a saint and Mitt Romney
is a total asshole
Gregory: basically Obama is the same though
Patrick: oh do shut up Fluffy
Gregory: but isn’t Romney right and
government assistance is out of control?
Ayotte: let’s not forget Obama passed
health care reform which ruined America
Patrick: Obama added 4 million
private sector jobs
Ayotte: but rich people are sad
Gregory: does Romney really believe
47% of the nation don’t take personal
responsibly for their lives?
Ayotte: President Obama caused the recession!
Gregory: anything else?
Ayotte: no - that’s what this
campaign is all about
Gregory: blaming Obama for the recession?
Ayotte: yes!
Gregory: Deval shouldn’t poor people
be required to pay some
minimum income tax ?
Patrick: I’ve never heard of this - why?
Gregory: just because
Patrick: maybe
Gregory: isn’t it true that poor people
have no skin in the game?
Patrick: you know I heard you were a
moron but really people you have to
experience it in person
Ayotte: Obama is tying to divide Americans!
Gregory: that’s hilarious after what
Romney just said about half the country
Ayotte: maybe so but Obama didn’t stop
GOP obstruction
Gregory: the black caucus is mad
about unemployment
Patrick: understandable - but
we’re adding jobs
Ayotte: Obama didn’t fix everything
and is strangling businesses
Gregory: I’m sold
Ayotte: Romney has a great tax plan
Gregory: What is it?
Ayotte: it’s a secret but trust me
it’s a great plan
Guthrie: Romney says you only
care about teachers
Obama: teacher bashing isn’t going
to solve anything
Gregory: have we moved beyond
unions vs the rest of us
Ayotte: Kids First - Unions Last!
Gregory: ok
Ayotte: destroying unions is the
civil rights issue of our time
Gregory: Chuckie how is the election going?
Todd: Obama is crushing it in crucial
swing states - if he wins Florida, or
Virginia and Ohio he wins - basically
Romney needs to carry every swing state
plus pray for an asteroid
Gregory: wow
Todd: the reason Obama is pulling ahead
is that Americans are more optimistic
than they’ve been in three years
Scarborough: it was a rough week for
Mitt Romney but he’s going to do well
in the debates - I can feel it!
Gregory: good point
Scarborough: however between the
Libya press conference which was an
absolute nightmare and this 47% remark
Mitt is in real trouble
Gregory: David Brooks you say Romney
is a nice man who says stupid things and
runs an inept campaign
Brooks: Tom Clancy is passionate
about killing machines and Mitt Romney
just can’t fake that he care about
human beings
Gregory: can Mitt recover?
Buchanan: Romney was exactly right
- a lot of Americans are lazy and
dependent on government and Romney
will never get their vote
Gregory: he also said he doesn’t care about them
Buchanan: American have no jobs -
100% of Americans are dependent on
Obama to buy them steaks and malt liquor
Reed: Romney is a defective candidate
like a NASCAR driver who keeps
wrecking the car - he offended
auto workers, Great Britain,
old people and soldiers
Myers: he has no sense of how
real people live
Brooks: he nursed kids who were dying -
- he's the mormon Albert Schweitzer
Gregory: then why isn’t he running a
compassionate conservative campaign
Brooks: because the GOP forced him
to act like a phony and a liar!
Scarborough: I truly believe if you
want to help poor people you cut
taxes for rich people!
Brooks: it’s pretty damn convenient too
Scarborough: Maggie Thatcher would
never have dismissed 47% - she would
have promised them trickle down jobs
Buchanan: Mitt Romney is a living saint
who has spent his life serving others -
just like Mother Theresa if she spent
30 years looting companies and
laying people off
Gregory: amazing
Buchanan: We are a nation of losers
Gregory: Bay if Romney is such a saint
why does everyone hate him
Buchanan: he’s a wonderful man and
running a great campaign and the
media and liberals are all out to get him
Scarborough: me and David Brooks
and the Wall Street Journal and
Rush Limbaugh are all out to get Romney?
Buchanan: yes - whose side are you on?!?
Brooks: Romney must go wonky -
there’s a true hunger in America
for more PowerPoint
Reed: well that’s nice but he hasn’t
proposed anything specific at all
Brooks: has Obama?
Reed: he’s proposed the Lots of
Really Good American Jobs Act
Gregory: please bash Obama for me
Scarborough: Obama has failed and
has no plan!!
Gregory: thank you!
Scarborough: Romney needs to tell us
how the Republicans will help ordinary people
Gregory: it would be a change of pace
Buchanan: people are on food stamps,
embassies are being attacked and
polls show the momentum is ours!
Gregory: do you really believe the
things you are saying?
Buchanan: yes - we are going to win
because we have a very clear message!
Scarborough: oh I’m very curious
- what is it?
Buchanan: black people are lazy!!
Scarborough: oh ok
Gregory: Ryan got booed at AARP
for saying he would repeal Obamacare
Brooks: Medicaid doesn’t work and
the Ryan plan is a good plan
Gregory: then why won’t Romney
embrace it?
Brooks: because it’s very unpopular among
those damn American people - many of whom
are still allowed to vote
Gregory: not for lack of trying
Scarborough: Romney has no courage
Buchanan: It’s Obama who has no
courage to cut Medicare! Also Romney
will add $700 billion to Medicare!
Brooks: we’ll solve the Medicare issue
as soon as America declares bankruptcy
Gregory: the debates are going to
be teh awesome!!
Scarborough: a week is a lifetime in politics
and that gives Romney several lifetimes
of gaffes before the campaign ends
Buchanan: Food stamps! Food stamps!
Gregory: and that’s another episode
of Meet The Press
***************************************
Sunday, September 23, 2012
This Week with George Stephanopoulos - September 23, 2012
Guests:
Reince Priebus (Chair RNC)
David Axelrod (Obama 2012)
************************************
Stephanopoulos: holy crap Mitt Romney’s
campaign is going off the rails
Ryan: sure we suck but what are
you going to do
Obama: Americans are not lazy!
Stephanopoulos: Does Mitt hate half
of all Americans?
Priebus: Mitt Romney is a bit of an idiot
but Obama will take care of you all your life
Stephanopoulos: that’s bad?
Priebus: yes because giving all the money
to rich people give us all something to aspire to
Stephanopoulos: I see
Priebus: Obama wants to enslave your grandkids
Stephanopoulos: Peggy Noonan says
Romney is incompetent and a calamity
and needs an intervention
Priebus: I’m in love with her
Stephanopoulos: that’s nice Reince
Priebus: Romney had a bad week
Stephanopoulos: everyone watching knows that
Priebus: I agree that if we were winning
it would be better than losing
Stephanopoulos: expand on that
Priebus: we had a good week last week
Stephanopoulos: wait what
Priebus: yes because when Mitt loses
and Obama imposes socialism the GOP
will win in 2016 or 2020
Stephanopoulos: that is indeed something
to look forward to
Priebus: it will be great when we all roam
the land with bows and arrows
Stephanopoulos: does Romney need to
be more specific
Priebus: Romney very specifically wants
to cut taxes and raise pending and
magically cut the deficit
Stephanopoulos: I like it
Priebus: Obama didn’t fix the Republican
recession - wake up people!
Stephanopoulos: go on
Priebus: the Romney needs to be more specific!
Stephanopoulos: you are confusing me Reince
Stephanopoulos: does Mitt need to finally
reveal all of his tax returns
Priebus: poor Wisconsin voters should
get down on their knees and thank god
for Mitt Romney for saving the local symphony
Stephanopoulos: interesting point
Priebus: Obama thinks he’s entitled to win
and goes around meeting with black people
like Jay Z who is black and Beyonce who
I think is also black
Stephanopoulos: snap
Priebus: Obama plays small ball - we are
campaigning on the issues like Jay Z
Stephanopoulos: can you take the Senate?
Priebus: Harley-Davison, Miller Lite and
Tommy Thompson
Stephanopoulos: Hog, hops and hots
Priebus: let’s not even talk about Virginia
Stephanopoulos: yes lets not
Priebus: Obama caused the recession
four years ago!!
Stephanopoulos: thanks for coming
Stephanopoulos: is Reince right -
did Romney have a good week?
Axelrod: well he called half of Americans lazy
and manipulated his taxes
Stephanopoulos: for the win
Axelrod: poor Americans a higher
percent of taxes than he does!
Stephanopoulos: what else
Axelrod: Romney roots for American
treasuries to fail!
Stephanopoulos: dang
Axelrod: he bet against America!
Stephanopoulos: are his policies better
than yours?
Axelrod: Mitt proposed a 5 trillion tax cut
and more defense spending and yet he
won’t say how he will pay for any of it
Stephanopoulos: but unemployment is still
high after three years of Obama
Axelrod: It’s an ongoing project
Stephanopoulos: Bob Woodward says
Nancy Pelosi muted President
Axelrod: these are the Republicans
strongest arguments?
Stephanopoulos: apparently
Axelrod: the people of Massachusetts know
Romney best and they hate him
Stephanopoulos: why aren’t you winning more easily?
Axelrod: we will crush Romney and drive
his advisors from the land and hear the
lamentations of his fundraisers
Stephanopoulos: thanks for coming
***********************************
Reince Priebus (Chair RNC)
David Axelrod (Obama 2012)
************************************
Stephanopoulos: holy crap Mitt Romney’s
campaign is going off the rails
Ryan: sure we suck but what are
you going to do
Obama: Americans are not lazy!
Stephanopoulos: Does Mitt hate half
of all Americans?
Priebus: Mitt Romney is a bit of an idiot
but Obama will take care of you all your life
Stephanopoulos: that’s bad?
Priebus: yes because giving all the money
to rich people give us all something to aspire to
Stephanopoulos: I see
Priebus: Obama wants to enslave your grandkids
Stephanopoulos: Peggy Noonan says
Romney is incompetent and a calamity
and needs an intervention
Priebus: I’m in love with her
Stephanopoulos: that’s nice Reince
Priebus: Romney had a bad week
Stephanopoulos: everyone watching knows that
Priebus: I agree that if we were winning
it would be better than losing
Stephanopoulos: expand on that
Priebus: we had a good week last week
Stephanopoulos: wait what
Priebus: yes because when Mitt loses
and Obama imposes socialism the GOP
will win in 2016 or 2020
Stephanopoulos: that is indeed something
to look forward to
Priebus: it will be great when we all roam
the land with bows and arrows
Stephanopoulos: does Romney need to
be more specific
Priebus: Romney very specifically wants
to cut taxes and raise pending and
magically cut the deficit
Stephanopoulos: I like it
Priebus: Obama didn’t fix the Republican
recession - wake up people!
Stephanopoulos: go on
Priebus: the Romney needs to be more specific!
Stephanopoulos: you are confusing me Reince
Stephanopoulos: does Mitt need to finally
reveal all of his tax returns
Priebus: poor Wisconsin voters should
get down on their knees and thank god
for Mitt Romney for saving the local symphony
Stephanopoulos: interesting point
Priebus: Obama thinks he’s entitled to win
and goes around meeting with black people
like Jay Z who is black and Beyonce who
I think is also black
Stephanopoulos: snap
Priebus: Obama plays small ball - we are
campaigning on the issues like Jay Z
Stephanopoulos: can you take the Senate?
Priebus: Harley-Davison, Miller Lite and
Tommy Thompson
Stephanopoulos: Hog, hops and hots
Priebus: let’s not even talk about Virginia
Stephanopoulos: yes lets not
Priebus: Obama caused the recession
four years ago!!
Stephanopoulos: thanks for coming
Stephanopoulos: is Reince right -
did Romney have a good week?
Axelrod: well he called half of Americans lazy
and manipulated his taxes
Stephanopoulos: for the win
Axelrod: poor Americans a higher
percent of taxes than he does!
Stephanopoulos: what else
Axelrod: Romney roots for American
treasuries to fail!
Stephanopoulos: dang
Axelrod: he bet against America!
Stephanopoulos: are his policies better
than yours?
Axelrod: Mitt proposed a 5 trillion tax cut
and more defense spending and yet he
won’t say how he will pay for any of it
Stephanopoulos: but unemployment is still
high after three years of Obama
Axelrod: It’s an ongoing project
Stephanopoulos: Bob Woodward says
Nancy Pelosi muted President
Axelrod: these are the Republicans
strongest arguments?
Stephanopoulos: apparently
Axelrod: the people of Massachusetts know
Romney best and they hate him
Stephanopoulos: why aren’t you winning more easily?
Axelrod: we will crush Romney and drive
his advisors from the land and hear the
lamentations of his fundraisers
Stephanopoulos: thanks for coming
***********************************
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Meet The Press - September 16, 2012
Guests:
Amb. Susan Rice (U.N. Mission)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel)
Keith Ellison
Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)
Bob Woodward
Jeffrey Goldberg
Andrea Mitchell
*************************************
Gregory: good morning - things are
calm in the middle east now but the
U.S. is evacuating all our embassies
just to be sure
Rice: we were going to skip New Zealand
until those hobbits started getting restless
Gregory: how long until I can take a
summer vacation in Yemen?
Rice: look this kind of thing is to be
expected whenever a provocative video
is put up on YouTube
Gregory: just like the Piano Cat riots of 2007
Rice: exactly Dave
Gregory: was it all spontaneous or was
the attack the preplanned act of terrorists?
Rice: it was initially a spontaneous copycat
protest but then joined by guys with
heavy weapons which of course everyone has
Gregory: if everyone has machine guns
and rocket launchers why did you not
protect the embassy better
Rice: hey we have Navy SEALS posted to
the embassy in Libya - you may have
heard those guys are very badass
Gregory: why are we giving billions in
foreign aid to countries where our
ambassadors get killed
Rice: this has been going for 30 years
Gregory: that makes it worse!
Rice: we give this money because
it serves U.S. interests
Gregory: but our Ambassador is dead -
how is that in America’s interest?
Rice: yes but we bought condemnation
from the government
Gregory: in English maybe but in
Arabic they encouraged more protests
Rice: look we believe in supporting
democracy that we bought and pay for
Gregory: Romney said the U.S.
sympathized with the violent protestors
Rice: I can’t believe that asshole took
advantage of an Ambassador’s death
to try to score cheap political points
Gregory: he also says that
Obama is weak on radicals
Rice: yes - when I walk around the
U.N. cafeteria the other countries
say ‘ooh there goes that weak Susan Rice’
and then I whip out my iPhone tell
Obama to drop a bomb on their house
Gregory: Bibi says we have to
attack Iran right now
Rice: he’s always on about something
Gregory: so when do we attack?
Rice: we are mounting extreme pressure
on Iran - their economy is even shrinking!
Gregory: how did you manage that?
Rice: we sent top Wall Street banking
executives to advise them
Gregory: that was underhanded
Rice: Obama has united the
world against Iran
Gregory: sweet
Rice: but Obama is not going to dance
to Bibi’s tune - let’s get that straight
Gregory: and here comes Honey Bibi
Netanyahu: yo Fluffy
Gregory: you seem very anxious to attack Iran
Netanyahu: darn right I am
Gregory: is Obama stopping you
from bombing Iran
Netanyahu: no he isn’t and he won’t
- we’re going to attack any day now
Gregory: I’m jonesing for a war
Netanyahu: imagine these protesting
fanatics with a nuclear bomb
Gregory: bash Obama for me
Netanyahu: Obama said he wants to
stop Iran from getting a bomb therefore
you must attack them before they
get one - not after
Gregory: I hear you
Netanyahu: this is like the Cuban Missile Crisis
and that made a great book and
a pretty good movie
Gregory: when will you attack Iran
Netanyahu: they are in the red zone
and may score a touchdown
Gregory: good because I have
Ahmedinejad on my fantasy war team
Netanyahu: bad choice Fluffnuts
Gregory: will you attack soon
Netanyahu: if we threaten them enough
then we don’t have to fight
Gregory: that’s very Karate Kid
Netanyahu: wax on Fluffy
Gregory: please say Romney
would be better for Israel
Netanyahu: you just did it for me Greggers
Gregory: now it’s your turn
Netanyahu: I talked with Obama the
other day and he said watch out for
that David Gregory he’s gonna ask you
tough questions like ‘how do you feel’
Gregory: I spoke with President Romney
the other day and he is very awesome
Netanyahu: well I knew him at Bain Capital
and he was kind of a dick
Gregory: what about containment for
Iran like we did the Soviet Union
Netanyahu: that wouldn’t work because
Iran is not trustworthy and rational
like Josef Stalin was
Gregory: if you say so
Netanyahu: if you don’t want start a
war with a large populous mountainous
country with oil and access to the Gulf
you have set new level for stupidity
Gregory: do you agree with Mitt Romney
that Obama hates Israel
Netanyahu: since Obama is leading
in the polls I must say no
Gregory: you just threw Mitt under the bus!
Netanyahu: I don’t want to interfere
with the election
Gregory: but you are the leader of
the Jewish people - American Jews
must have your answer sir
Netanyahu: here’s a shekel -
get a clue Greggers
Gregory: so is Obama an anti-semite
or is Mitt Romney lying?
Netanyahu: I don’t care which it
is as long as we attack Iran
Gregory: what’s the deal with all
these the protests in the middle east?
Netanyahu: that movie was reprehensible
Gregory: ooh you hate the first Amendment
Netanyahu: but radical Muslims are
also against women, free speech,
Americans and Israel
Gregory: that’s not good
Netanyahu: I’m not a Jew - I’m you!
Gregory: would you like to meet
with President Obama
Netanyahu: it’s ok he texts me all the
time and we play Wars with Friends
Gregory: you mean Words With Friends
Netanyahu: no I don’t David
Gregory: oh boy
[ break ]
Gregory: Dick Cheney’s daughter says
we’re not feared enough around the
world and that’s why we’re attacked
Goldberg: like when we were attacked
when her dad was Vice President
Gregory: snap
Goldberg: look President Obama does
not control how radicals view modernity
King: I don’t care what the fact-checkers say
- Obama went around the world apologizing
for America and then ruined our wonderful
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Ellison: those are all ridiculous lies
Gregory: maybe so but Obama didn’t
promote the Arab Spring and Winter is coming
Mitchell: every Republican foreign policy
expert says Romney embarrassed himself
with his idiotic statements
King: that’s not fair - Romney didn’t know
any of the facts when he spoke out while
our embassies were being attacked
Gregory: I’m convinced
Woodward: no American President can
control every mob all over the world
Goldberg: forget the angry Arab street -
what about the angry American street
Ellison: many Arabs love America
King: if we just kill enough people
around the world no mob will ever
attack our embassies again
Gregory: that makes perfect sense
King: the bombings will stop
when morale improves
Mitchell: you are very correct Peter King
Gregory: so true
Mitchell: the Egyptian President wants
money from Wall Street
Gregory: does the leader of the
Muslim Brotherhood really want to be
seen with people like that?
Goldberg: we know Muslims oppose
blasphemy but Americans support free speech
Gregory: who is tougher on Iran -
Romney or Obama?
Mitchell: Obama is a loaded gun
but Mitt is a loose canon
Woodward: Government Intelligence
is highly misnamed
Gregory: should Bibi interfere with our election?
Goldberg: Bibi is completely botching
this relationship
King: maybe but Obama is an
untrustworthy Israel hater
Goldberg: that’s stupid
King: When he visited the White House
Obama made Bibi sit at the kid’s table!
Ellison: Bibi said he and Obama have
a good relationship
King: you can’t trust that guy
Gregory: and that’s another
episode of Meet The Press
***************************************
Virtually Speaking Sunday
Tonight 9:00 p.m. Eastern time
www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2012/09/17/avedon-carol-gaius-publius-virtually-speaking-sundays
An alternative to the Sunday morning 'news' shows, two members of our media panel discuss current political and cultural developments from a progressive perspective.
Avedon Carol and Gaius Publius, plus Culture of Truth's Most Ridiculous Moment from that Sunday.
Amb. Susan Rice (U.N. Mission)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Israel)
Keith Ellison
Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)
Bob Woodward
Jeffrey Goldberg
Andrea Mitchell
*************************************
Gregory: good morning - things are
calm in the middle east now but the
U.S. is evacuating all our embassies
just to be sure
Rice: we were going to skip New Zealand
until those hobbits started getting restless
Gregory: how long until I can take a
summer vacation in Yemen?
Rice: look this kind of thing is to be
expected whenever a provocative video
is put up on YouTube
Gregory: just like the Piano Cat riots of 2007
Rice: exactly Dave
Gregory: was it all spontaneous or was
the attack the preplanned act of terrorists?
Rice: it was initially a spontaneous copycat
protest but then joined by guys with
heavy weapons which of course everyone has
Gregory: if everyone has machine guns
and rocket launchers why did you not
protect the embassy better
Rice: hey we have Navy SEALS posted to
the embassy in Libya - you may have
heard those guys are very badass
Gregory: why are we giving billions in
foreign aid to countries where our
ambassadors get killed
Rice: this has been going for 30 years
Gregory: that makes it worse!
Rice: we give this money because
it serves U.S. interests
Gregory: but our Ambassador is dead -
how is that in America’s interest?
Rice: yes but we bought condemnation
from the government
Gregory: in English maybe but in
Arabic they encouraged more protests
Rice: look we believe in supporting
democracy that we bought and pay for
Gregory: Romney said the U.S.
sympathized with the violent protestors
Rice: I can’t believe that asshole took
advantage of an Ambassador’s death
to try to score cheap political points
Gregory: he also says that
Obama is weak on radicals
Rice: yes - when I walk around the
U.N. cafeteria the other countries
say ‘ooh there goes that weak Susan Rice’
and then I whip out my iPhone tell
Obama to drop a bomb on their house
Gregory: Bibi says we have to
attack Iran right now
Rice: he’s always on about something
Gregory: so when do we attack?
Rice: we are mounting extreme pressure
on Iran - their economy is even shrinking!
Gregory: how did you manage that?
Rice: we sent top Wall Street banking
executives to advise them
Gregory: that was underhanded
Rice: Obama has united the
world against Iran
Gregory: sweet
Rice: but Obama is not going to dance
to Bibi’s tune - let’s get that straight
Gregory: and here comes Honey Bibi
Netanyahu: yo Fluffy
Gregory: you seem very anxious to attack Iran
Netanyahu: darn right I am
Gregory: is Obama stopping you
from bombing Iran
Netanyahu: no he isn’t and he won’t
- we’re going to attack any day now
Gregory: I’m jonesing for a war
Netanyahu: imagine these protesting
fanatics with a nuclear bomb
Gregory: bash Obama for me
Netanyahu: Obama said he wants to
stop Iran from getting a bomb therefore
you must attack them before they
get one - not after
Gregory: I hear you
Netanyahu: this is like the Cuban Missile Crisis
and that made a great book and
a pretty good movie
Gregory: when will you attack Iran
Netanyahu: they are in the red zone
and may score a touchdown
Gregory: good because I have
Ahmedinejad on my fantasy war team
Netanyahu: bad choice Fluffnuts
Gregory: will you attack soon
Netanyahu: if we threaten them enough
then we don’t have to fight
Gregory: that’s very Karate Kid
Netanyahu: wax on Fluffy
Gregory: please say Romney
would be better for Israel
Netanyahu: you just did it for me Greggers
Gregory: now it’s your turn
Netanyahu: I talked with Obama the
other day and he said watch out for
that David Gregory he’s gonna ask you
tough questions like ‘how do you feel’
Gregory: I spoke with President Romney
the other day and he is very awesome
Netanyahu: well I knew him at Bain Capital
and he was kind of a dick
Gregory: what about containment for
Iran like we did the Soviet Union
Netanyahu: that wouldn’t work because
Iran is not trustworthy and rational
like Josef Stalin was
Gregory: if you say so
Netanyahu: if you don’t want start a
war with a large populous mountainous
country with oil and access to the Gulf
you have set new level for stupidity
Gregory: do you agree with Mitt Romney
that Obama hates Israel
Netanyahu: since Obama is leading
in the polls I must say no
Gregory: you just threw Mitt under the bus!
Netanyahu: I don’t want to interfere
with the election
Gregory: but you are the leader of
the Jewish people - American Jews
must have your answer sir
Netanyahu: here’s a shekel -
get a clue Greggers
Gregory: so is Obama an anti-semite
or is Mitt Romney lying?
Netanyahu: I don’t care which it
is as long as we attack Iran
Gregory: what’s the deal with all
these the protests in the middle east?
Netanyahu: that movie was reprehensible
Gregory: ooh you hate the first Amendment
Netanyahu: but radical Muslims are
also against women, free speech,
Americans and Israel
Gregory: that’s not good
Netanyahu: I’m not a Jew - I’m you!
Gregory: would you like to meet
with President Obama
Netanyahu: it’s ok he texts me all the
time and we play Wars with Friends
Gregory: you mean Words With Friends
Netanyahu: no I don’t David
Gregory: oh boy
[ break ]
Gregory: Dick Cheney’s daughter says
we’re not feared enough around the
world and that’s why we’re attacked
Goldberg: like when we were attacked
when her dad was Vice President
Gregory: snap
Goldberg: look President Obama does
not control how radicals view modernity
King: I don’t care what the fact-checkers say
- Obama went around the world apologizing
for America and then ruined our wonderful
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Ellison: those are all ridiculous lies
Gregory: maybe so but Obama didn’t
promote the Arab Spring and Winter is coming
Mitchell: every Republican foreign policy
expert says Romney embarrassed himself
with his idiotic statements
King: that’s not fair - Romney didn’t know
any of the facts when he spoke out while
our embassies were being attacked
Gregory: I’m convinced
Woodward: no American President can
control every mob all over the world
Goldberg: forget the angry Arab street -
what about the angry American street
Ellison: many Arabs love America
King: if we just kill enough people
around the world no mob will ever
attack our embassies again
Gregory: that makes perfect sense
King: the bombings will stop
when morale improves
Mitchell: you are very correct Peter King
Gregory: so true
Mitchell: the Egyptian President wants
money from Wall Street
Gregory: does the leader of the
Muslim Brotherhood really want to be
seen with people like that?
Goldberg: we know Muslims oppose
blasphemy but Americans support free speech
Gregory: who is tougher on Iran -
Romney or Obama?
Mitchell: Obama is a loaded gun
but Mitt is a loose canon
Woodward: Government Intelligence
is highly misnamed
Gregory: should Bibi interfere with our election?
Goldberg: Bibi is completely botching
this relationship
King: maybe but Obama is an
untrustworthy Israel hater
Goldberg: that’s stupid
King: When he visited the White House
Obama made Bibi sit at the kid’s table!
Ellison: Bibi said he and Obama have
a good relationship
King: you can’t trust that guy
Gregory: and that’s another
episode of Meet The Press
***************************************
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This Week with George Stephanopoulos - September 16, 2012
Host: Jake Tapper
Guests:
Amb. Susan Rice (U.N. Mission)
Christiane Amanpour
Martha Raddatz
Brian Ross
************************************
Tapper: Susan what the hell
happened in Libya?
Rice: it was a spontaneous protest in
response to another less spontaneous
protest in Cairo
Tapper: okay
Rice: a perfectly nice riot by a peaceful
mob at our Libya consulate was ruined
by a few violent extremists with
automatic weapons
Tapper: why was security at the
embassy so lax
Rice: hey two Navy Seals were killed
Tapper: but don’t we always Marines
posted to the shores of Tripoli?
Rice: they were busy guarding the
Halls of Montezuma and the
Corridors of Power
Tapper: of course
Rice: look nobody claimed Libya is
Arizona or Colorado or Chicago
Tapper: well it’s not as violent
Rice: that’s true
Tapper: three years after we elect a guy
named Hussein our embassies are being
attacked all over the Muslim world
Rice: hey that was a really offensive movie
Tapper: The Expendables 2?
Rice: look we are making real progress
in stopping the violence
Tapper: the government of Egypt sent
the protestors a fruit basket!
Rice: yeah but it mostly those
bland Washington apples
Tapper: nevertheless it seems inappropriate
Rice: we are very popular in Libya
except for our Ambassador being killed
Tapper: the U.S. has sent billions in taxpayer
money to Egypt and this is how
they thank us?
Rice: President Obama called the President
of Egypt and told him to get with the
program or be cut off from the money
Tapper: it’s just like the movie ‘Arthur’
Rice: Obama has provided calm and
steady leadership unlike that other jackass
Tapper: oh snap
Rice: the Grand Mufti loves us!
Tapper: how can we get these foreign
leaders in line?
Rice: we can do two things:
kick ass and take names
Tapper: thanks for coming ambassador
[ break ]
Tapper: what on earth is going on
in the middle east?
Amanpour: the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
is panicked about losing the friendship
of the United States
Tapper: what about Libya?
Amanpour: hey don’t forget Libya just
finished a civil war where the U.S.
toppled the old regime - there’s bound
to be some resentment and a lot of guns
Tapper: will these protest spread to the
Homeland or our Boardwalk Empire
Ross: it’s never too early to panic Jake
Raddatz: if you are trapped in an embassy
your best bet is to let the protestors
climb the walls and hang out for a while
and tweet how nice those young people
climbing in the window are
Tapper: what is the story with this
crazy YouTube video?
Ross: the filmmaker tries to create a
violent reaction and it worked
Amanpour: the filmmaker is not only an
extremist - he’s a dastardly evil guy
who pretended to be Jewish to
incite more violence
Tapper: that is twisted
Raddatz: the actors were told they were
making an infomercial for Oxy-Clean
Tapper: sweet jesus is nothing sacred
Amanpour: I need to point out that
Libyans love Americans and the
Muslim Brotherhood say they like
Coptic Christians
Tapper: well I’ll be damned
Tapper: why is the entire American Navy
trolling the middle east
Raddatz: you know just cruisin’
the neighborhood
Tapper: what’s up with the relationship
with U.S. and Israel
Raddatz: they met on eHarmony but it
may not be working out too well
Amanpour: Israel was hoping to goad
Obama into attacking Iran and he told
Bibi to cool it
Tapper: how close are Iranians to
building a nuclear bomb?
Ross: four weeks
Tapper: what?!
Amanpour: or a year or two
Ross: yes maybe a few years
Tapper: jesus you almost gave me a
heart attack Brian
Ross: how else am I going to get to
host this show?
Tapper: oh Brian you scamp
********************************
Guests:
Amb. Susan Rice (U.N. Mission)
Christiane Amanpour
Martha Raddatz
Brian Ross
************************************
Tapper: Susan what the hell
happened in Libya?
Rice: it was a spontaneous protest in
response to another less spontaneous
protest in Cairo
Tapper: okay
Rice: a perfectly nice riot by a peaceful
mob at our Libya consulate was ruined
by a few violent extremists with
automatic weapons
Tapper: why was security at the
embassy so lax
Rice: hey two Navy Seals were killed
Tapper: but don’t we always Marines
posted to the shores of Tripoli?
Rice: they were busy guarding the
Halls of Montezuma and the
Corridors of Power
Tapper: of course
Rice: look nobody claimed Libya is
Arizona or Colorado or Chicago
Tapper: well it’s not as violent
Rice: that’s true
Tapper: three years after we elect a guy
named Hussein our embassies are being
attacked all over the Muslim world
Rice: hey that was a really offensive movie
Tapper: The Expendables 2?
Rice: look we are making real progress
in stopping the violence
Tapper: the government of Egypt sent
the protestors a fruit basket!
Rice: yeah but it mostly those
bland Washington apples
Tapper: nevertheless it seems inappropriate
Rice: we are very popular in Libya
except for our Ambassador being killed
Tapper: the U.S. has sent billions in taxpayer
money to Egypt and this is how
they thank us?
Rice: President Obama called the President
of Egypt and told him to get with the
program or be cut off from the money
Tapper: it’s just like the movie ‘Arthur’
Rice: Obama has provided calm and
steady leadership unlike that other jackass
Tapper: oh snap
Rice: the Grand Mufti loves us!
Tapper: how can we get these foreign
leaders in line?
Rice: we can do two things:
kick ass and take names
Tapper: thanks for coming ambassador
[ break ]
Tapper: what on earth is going on
in the middle east?
Amanpour: the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood
is panicked about losing the friendship
of the United States
Tapper: what about Libya?
Amanpour: hey don’t forget Libya just
finished a civil war where the U.S.
toppled the old regime - there’s bound
to be some resentment and a lot of guns
Tapper: will these protest spread to the
Homeland or our Boardwalk Empire
Ross: it’s never too early to panic Jake
Raddatz: if you are trapped in an embassy
your best bet is to let the protestors
climb the walls and hang out for a while
and tweet how nice those young people
climbing in the window are
Tapper: what is the story with this
crazy YouTube video?
Ross: the filmmaker tries to create a
violent reaction and it worked
Amanpour: the filmmaker is not only an
extremist - he’s a dastardly evil guy
who pretended to be Jewish to
incite more violence
Tapper: that is twisted
Raddatz: the actors were told they were
making an infomercial for Oxy-Clean
Tapper: sweet jesus is nothing sacred
Amanpour: I need to point out that
Libyans love Americans and the
Muslim Brotherhood say they like
Coptic Christians
Tapper: well I’ll be damned
Tapper: why is the entire American Navy
trolling the middle east
Raddatz: you know just cruisin’
the neighborhood
Tapper: what’s up with the relationship
with U.S. and Israel
Raddatz: they met on eHarmony but it
may not be working out too well
Amanpour: Israel was hoping to goad
Obama into attacking Iran and he told
Bibi to cool it
Tapper: how close are Iranians to
building a nuclear bomb?
Ross: four weeks
Tapper: what?!
Amanpour: or a year or two
Ross: yes maybe a few years
Tapper: jesus you almost gave me a
heart attack Brian
Ross: how else am I going to get to
host this show?
Tapper: oh Brian you scamp
********************************
Sunday, September 09, 2012
Meet The Press - September 9, 2012
Guests:
Mitt Romney
Mayor Julian Castro (D-San Antonio)
Chuck Todd
E.J. Dionne
Peggy Noonan
Bill Bennett
*********************************
Gregory: good morning Mitt -
I hope you are ready for some tough questions
Romney: indeed I am - fire away David
Gregory: how awesome are you?
Romney: I am somewhat excellent
today thank you for asking
Gregory: do you feel like are more
fabulous or marvelous
Romney: I am more superlative
than Barack Obama
Gregory: how do answer the charge
that we have high unemployment under Obama
Romney: you have pinned me down
with your wily inquiries Fluffy
Gregory: just answer the question
Romney: we need more situations
where people are paid for working
Gregory: why is the stock market
doing so well
Romney: because that darn Fed is
going to print money
Gregory: you disagree with that?
Romney: business are ready to hire
millions of people - they just want
another rich white guy in office
Gregory: you said you will create
12 million jobs but economists say
that would happen anyway
Romney: Obama caused unemployment,
high debt and eventually a takeover from Europe
Gregory: look at this bumper sticker:
“Bin Laden is Dead and GM is Alive”
Romney: I love Seals
Gregory: we all do
Romney: My plan was to put GM into
bankruptcy and Obama did that
Gregory: so your plans were the same
Romney: yes but I would have
hired more teachers
Gregory: what’s your bumper sticker?
Romney: “Vote For Me You Useless Peons”
Gregory: Ann did Julian Castro hurt
your feelings?
Ann Romney: It’s true Mitt and I have
never had to struggle in life but I
once saw the musical Oliver!
Gregory: what else?
Ann Romney: I have MS so I have empathy
for all you people who are struggling
Gregory: go on
Ann Romney: I watch Honey Boo Boo so
the idea we can’t imagine how
America is struggling hard is ridiculous
Gregory: I love that show
Ann Romney: my husband is not a
heartless corporate raider dammitt
Gregory: have you ever spent time
with someone unemployed
Romney: I was speaking with a gardener
recently who sadly lost his job
Gregory: oh that’s too bad
Romney: well I had to let him go -
but I’m sure he understood -
I’m running for President for pete’s sake
Romney: I’m not here to stop the
rise of oceans or confront the ladies
of the lakes or halt the coming
of the river monsters
Gregory: sounds like you’ve got it all covered
Romney: It’s doesn’t matter whether
I know any poor people - that’s
just dividing America
Gregory: Governor I love you but what the
hell happened with Clint Eastwood
Romney: he’s not a politician -
he spoke from the heart
Gregory: his heart is an incoherent
unfunny hot mess
Romney: but genuine!
Gregory: what about Bill Clinton’s great speech
Romney: he destroyed me and my
policies - thus proving how bad Obama is
Gregory: you’re a Mormon -
is that wonderful?
Romney: yes I am very proud to be
a Judeo-Christian
Gregory: if you say so
Romney: have I ever told you that
I don’t like businesses very much -
I left capitalism because it conflicted
with my Jewish-Jesus faith
Ann Romney: I loved that now we have a
black who was elected President
Gregory: you said the debt is a moral
crisis but you would make it worse by
cutting taxes for billionaires and
raising defense spending
Romney: I would raise revenue by
eliminating tax loopholes
Gregory: what about the sequester deal?
Romney: Republicans should not have
agreed to slashing defense spending
and selling all of our aircraft carriers to Iran
Gregory: fair enough
Romney: I am going lower taxes
for middle class Americans and raise
them for the rich
Gregory: how do you do that Mittens
Romney: by eliminating loopholes Fluffers
- it’s marvelous!
Gregory: wow!
Romney: also it would lead to 23 million jobs
Gregory: fantastic
Romney: Cut taxes for all! More jobs!
Gregory: how do you do that
Romney: I have the flux capacity to do this
Gregory: I love this - name a
loophole you would close
Romney: [ laughing ]
I will raises taxes on the rich -
I promise - just trust me!
Gregory: will you balance the
budget in your first term?
Romney: no but I could do it in 10 years
Gregory: are you willing to make the
Tea Party cry by raising taxes ten cents
Romney: my principles are that I will never
raise taxes - my other principle is that I
will never tell you what spending I will cut
Gregory: I see
Romney: look my philosophy is to promise
more of what people like rather than less
Gregory: would you repeal the parts of
Obamacare to let young people on
their parent’s plan and the ban
pre-exising conditions?
Romney: gosh no - I would keep all
the popular parts of Obamacare and
get rid of the unpopular parts
Gregory: you would privatize Medicare?
Romney: we would let young people
stay on Medicare or not whatever they want
Gregory: how does that work?
Romney: competition!
Gregory: why didn’t you mention
Afghanistan in your speech
Romney: Look I’ve been to Afghanistan
and it’s really boring
Gregory: Obama says your are stuck
in a Cold War Time Warp
Romney: Obama let Iran build a nuclear bomb!
Gregory: ooh
Romney: Obama met with
Ahmedinejad and Kim Jong-Il or might
have if he had more frequent flyer miles
Gregory: are we less safe under Obama
Romney: Iran is not scared of Obama
but I will stop them
Gregory: how?
Romney: I will make it clear that I
am very clear about being clear
Gregory: how do you do that
Romney: I will use diplomacy and
go to war or maybe not
Gregory: will you try to overturn Roe v Wade
Romney: Fluffy I would prefer not
to answer this question
Gregory: give it a shot Mitty
Romney: I will appoint justices that
reverse Roe v Wade
Gregory: wow - are you willing to
be brave and bold as President
Romney: gosh darn right -
my popularity doesn’t matter to me at all
Gregory: that’ been clear for some time
Romney: my indifference to
human feeling is my great strength
Gregory: who is the real Mitt Romney
- left of Ted Kennedy or a severe conservative?
Romney: Here’s the truth:
I am not an android - I am a shape-shifter
Gregory: your Mom and Dad both
ran for office and lost - will you
be terribly depressed when you lose
Romney: no because I am very very rich
and also possess no emotions
Gregory: why should people vote for you
Romney: we can’t have an incomplete President!
Gregory: you complete me
[ break ]
Gregory: wow Mitt Romney bravely
came out against sequestration -
but Paul Ryan supported it
Todd: everyone is against sequester duh
Bennett: they are both right -
we must not cut defense spending
but we must courageously slash
for the National Endowment for the Arts
Gregory: Julian Mitt says he will cut
loopholes for rich people -
isn’t that progressive
Castro: if he doesn’t reveal what
those are how can we trust him?
Dionne: he’s either going to raise
taxes on the middle class or
slash domestic spending
Gregory: why no both?
Dionne: also his answer on General
Motors was totally incoherent
Noonan: Republicans fear that if
Obama is reelected they will be forced
to obstruct his every move again
Gregory: that is so sad
Noonan: Romney made news by
promising to cut loopholes for the rich
Gregory: what are they?
Noonan: okay so it wasn’t big news
Bennett: Romney made it very clear
that taxes will not go down for the
rich until after he is elected President
Dionne: he proposed cutting taxes
for the rich 5 minutes ago!
Bennett: that’s ancient history
Gregory: Romney suddenly seems
terrified of being on the side of the rich
Todd: Romney is sadly saddled with
the unpopularity of the Republican party
Gregory: the essential question is
who is to blame for the stagnant economy
- conservatives like Obama or liberals
like George W. Bush
Castro: we’ve have 30 months of job growth
- things are getting better
Noonan: Before the debates Romney
needs to announce he is actually a Whig
Todd: body language is everything
and Romney’s body says
“I can’t wait until this is over and I can get
back to my mansion in the city and
my beach house in Malibu and
my compound on the lake”
Dionne: the GOP Convention was about
businesses and the Democrats
were about families
Bennett: George W. Bush had many
failings but was a great President who
brought us the war in Iraq
Dionne: [ spits ]
Bennett: conservatives give their blood
and treasure to help people god dammit
Dionne: why is that the only people
who refer to their savings as treasure
are conservatives and pirates
Gregory: look at Julian Castro’s adorable daughter
Bennett: hey conservatives have kids too
Dionne: conservatives on the defense
on the military, foreign policy and
family values - who would have thought!
Bennett: Arrrr!
Gregory: And that’s another episode
of Meet The Press
***************************************
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Also Bobblespeaks's Most Ridiculous Moment
Mitt Romney
Mayor Julian Castro (D-San Antonio)
Chuck Todd
E.J. Dionne
Peggy Noonan
Bill Bennett
*********************************
Gregory: good morning Mitt -
I hope you are ready for some tough questions
Romney: indeed I am - fire away David
Gregory: how awesome are you?
Romney: I am somewhat excellent
today thank you for asking
Gregory: do you feel like are more
fabulous or marvelous
Romney: I am more superlative
than Barack Obama
Gregory: how do answer the charge
that we have high unemployment under Obama
Romney: you have pinned me down
with your wily inquiries Fluffy
Gregory: just answer the question
Romney: we need more situations
where people are paid for working
Gregory: why is the stock market
doing so well
Romney: because that darn Fed is
going to print money
Gregory: you disagree with that?
Romney: business are ready to hire
millions of people - they just want
another rich white guy in office
Gregory: you said you will create
12 million jobs but economists say
that would happen anyway
Romney: Obama caused unemployment,
high debt and eventually a takeover from Europe
Gregory: look at this bumper sticker:
“Bin Laden is Dead and GM is Alive”
Romney: I love Seals
Gregory: we all do
Romney: My plan was to put GM into
bankruptcy and Obama did that
Gregory: so your plans were the same
Romney: yes but I would have
hired more teachers
Gregory: what’s your bumper sticker?
Romney: “Vote For Me You Useless Peons”
Gregory: Ann did Julian Castro hurt
your feelings?
Ann Romney: It’s true Mitt and I have
never had to struggle in life but I
once saw the musical Oliver!
Gregory: what else?
Ann Romney: I have MS so I have empathy
for all you people who are struggling
Gregory: go on
Ann Romney: I watch Honey Boo Boo so
the idea we can’t imagine how
America is struggling hard is ridiculous
Gregory: I love that show
Ann Romney: my husband is not a
heartless corporate raider dammitt
Gregory: have you ever spent time
with someone unemployed
Romney: I was speaking with a gardener
recently who sadly lost his job
Gregory: oh that’s too bad
Romney: well I had to let him go -
but I’m sure he understood -
I’m running for President for pete’s sake
Romney: I’m not here to stop the
rise of oceans or confront the ladies
of the lakes or halt the coming
of the river monsters
Gregory: sounds like you’ve got it all covered
Romney: It’s doesn’t matter whether
I know any poor people - that’s
just dividing America
Gregory: Governor I love you but what the
hell happened with Clint Eastwood
Romney: he’s not a politician -
he spoke from the heart
Gregory: his heart is an incoherent
unfunny hot mess
Romney: but genuine!
Gregory: what about Bill Clinton’s great speech
Romney: he destroyed me and my
policies - thus proving how bad Obama is
Gregory: you’re a Mormon -
is that wonderful?
Romney: yes I am very proud to be
a Judeo-Christian
Gregory: if you say so
Romney: have I ever told you that
I don’t like businesses very much -
I left capitalism because it conflicted
with my Jewish-Jesus faith
Ann Romney: I loved that now we have a
black who was elected President
Gregory: you said the debt is a moral
crisis but you would make it worse by
cutting taxes for billionaires and
raising defense spending
Romney: I would raise revenue by
eliminating tax loopholes
Gregory: what about the sequester deal?
Romney: Republicans should not have
agreed to slashing defense spending
and selling all of our aircraft carriers to Iran
Gregory: fair enough
Romney: I am going lower taxes
for middle class Americans and raise
them for the rich
Gregory: how do you do that Mittens
Romney: by eliminating loopholes Fluffers
- it’s marvelous!
Gregory: wow!
Romney: also it would lead to 23 million jobs
Gregory: fantastic
Romney: Cut taxes for all! More jobs!
Gregory: how do you do that
Romney: I have the flux capacity to do this
Gregory: I love this - name a
loophole you would close
Romney: [ laughing ]
I will raises taxes on the rich -
I promise - just trust me!
Gregory: will you balance the
budget in your first term?
Romney: no but I could do it in 10 years
Gregory: are you willing to make the
Tea Party cry by raising taxes ten cents
Romney: my principles are that I will never
raise taxes - my other principle is that I
will never tell you what spending I will cut
Gregory: I see
Romney: look my philosophy is to promise
more of what people like rather than less
Gregory: would you repeal the parts of
Obamacare to let young people on
their parent’s plan and the ban
pre-exising conditions?
Romney: gosh no - I would keep all
the popular parts of Obamacare and
get rid of the unpopular parts
Gregory: you would privatize Medicare?
Romney: we would let young people
stay on Medicare or not whatever they want
Gregory: how does that work?
Romney: competition!
Gregory: why didn’t you mention
Afghanistan in your speech
Romney: Look I’ve been to Afghanistan
and it’s really boring
Gregory: Obama says your are stuck
in a Cold War Time Warp
Romney: Obama let Iran build a nuclear bomb!
Gregory: ooh
Romney: Obama met with
Ahmedinejad and Kim Jong-Il or might
have if he had more frequent flyer miles
Gregory: are we less safe under Obama
Romney: Iran is not scared of Obama
but I will stop them
Gregory: how?
Romney: I will make it clear that I
am very clear about being clear
Gregory: how do you do that
Romney: I will use diplomacy and
go to war or maybe not
Gregory: will you try to overturn Roe v Wade
Romney: Fluffy I would prefer not
to answer this question
Gregory: give it a shot Mitty
Romney: I will appoint justices that
reverse Roe v Wade
Gregory: wow - are you willing to
be brave and bold as President
Romney: gosh darn right -
my popularity doesn’t matter to me at all
Gregory: that’ been clear for some time
Romney: my indifference to
human feeling is my great strength
Gregory: who is the real Mitt Romney
- left of Ted Kennedy or a severe conservative?
Romney: Here’s the truth:
I am not an android - I am a shape-shifter
Gregory: your Mom and Dad both
ran for office and lost - will you
be terribly depressed when you lose
Romney: no because I am very very rich
and also possess no emotions
Gregory: why should people vote for you
Romney: we can’t have an incomplete President!
Gregory: you complete me
[ break ]
Gregory: wow Mitt Romney bravely
came out against sequestration -
but Paul Ryan supported it
Todd: everyone is against sequester duh
Bennett: they are both right -
we must not cut defense spending
but we must courageously slash
for the National Endowment for the Arts
Gregory: Julian Mitt says he will cut
loopholes for rich people -
isn’t that progressive
Castro: if he doesn’t reveal what
those are how can we trust him?
Dionne: he’s either going to raise
taxes on the middle class or
slash domestic spending
Gregory: why no both?
Dionne: also his answer on General
Motors was totally incoherent
Noonan: Republicans fear that if
Obama is reelected they will be forced
to obstruct his every move again
Gregory: that is so sad
Noonan: Romney made news by
promising to cut loopholes for the rich
Gregory: what are they?
Noonan: okay so it wasn’t big news
Bennett: Romney made it very clear
that taxes will not go down for the
rich until after he is elected President
Dionne: he proposed cutting taxes
for the rich 5 minutes ago!
Bennett: that’s ancient history
Gregory: Romney suddenly seems
terrified of being on the side of the rich
Todd: Romney is sadly saddled with
the unpopularity of the Republican party
Gregory: the essential question is
who is to blame for the stagnant economy
- conservatives like Obama or liberals
like George W. Bush
Castro: we’ve have 30 months of job growth
- things are getting better
Noonan: Before the debates Romney
needs to announce he is actually a Whig
Todd: body language is everything
and Romney’s body says
“I can’t wait until this is over and I can get
back to my mansion in the city and
my beach house in Malibu and
my compound on the lake”
Dionne: the GOP Convention was about
businesses and the Democrats
were about families
Bennett: George W. Bush had many
failings but was a great President who
brought us the war in Iraq
Dionne: [ spits ]
Bennett: conservatives give their blood
and treasure to help people god dammit
Dionne: why is that the only people
who refer to their savings as treasure
are conservatives and pirates
Gregory: look at Julian Castro’s adorable daughter
Bennett: hey conservatives have kids too
Dionne: conservatives on the defense
on the military, foreign policy and
family values - who would have thought!
Bennett: Arrrr!
Gregory: And that’s another episode
of Meet The Press
***************************************
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Dave Dayen & Cliff Schecter
Listen live or later: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2012/09/10/virtually-speaking-with-cliff-schecter-and-david-dayen
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This Week with Geoge Stephanopoulos - September 9, 2012
Guests:
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
Mayor Cory Booker (D-Newark)
Paul Krugman
Cokie Roberts
George Will
*********************************
Stephanopoulos: OMG Obama is bouncing!
Audience: wheeeeee
Stephanopoulos: Paul you said America
is in decline
Ryan: yes we have rising debt, continuing unemployment and high poverty
Stephanopoulos: that is true
Ryan: Obama has failed to fix the
GOP recession
Stephanopoulos: what is your plan
Ryan: we will create 12 million new jobs
Stephanopoulos: but economists say
that will happen anyway
Ryan: we need to cut taxes, drill in
public parks and privatize Medicare
Stephanopoulos: fascinating
Ryan: these plans have worked in
the past and they will again!
Stephanopoulos: Bill Clinton says you
will raise taxes on the middle class
or cut essential programs
Ryan: everyone knows that our
plan will work
Stephanopoulos: perhaps not everyone
Ryan: we will take loopholes away
from rich people
Stephanopoulos: awesome - which ones
Ryan: Obama wants to kill jobs by
raising taxes on small business
with 500 employees
Stephanopoulos: which loopholes
will you close?
Ryan: Ronald Reagan would love our plan!
Stephanopoulos: which loopholes again?
Ryan: it’s a secret
Stephanopoulos: are you kidding?
Ryan: we need to have this debate
in public with input from the people
only after we are in office
Stephanopoulos: you are making no sense
Ryan: we don’t want to cut a backroom deal
Stephanopoulos: but you just said you
want to make a deal after you are elected
Ryan: Up is down! Black is white!
Stephanopoulos: do you really want to
take $800 billion from Medicaid?
Ryan: Medicaid isn’t working -
why give it more money?
Stephanopoulos: I didn’t know Medicaid
was so bad
Ryan: oh yes - also we need to keep it as it is
Stephanopoulos: um what
Ryan: states and small towns are
best able to provide health care anyway
Stephanopoulos: what’s your solution
to the health care problem
Ryan: states need flexibility to implement
their own creative solutions
Stephanopoulos: like with welfare reform?
Ryan: ha touche
Stephanopoulos: under your plan there would
not more federal guarantees of health care?
Ryan: feel that sweet freedom!
Stephanopoulos: Obama said you guys
have no idea what you’re doing
in foreign policy
Ryan: Obama has failed totally in foreign affairs
Stephanopoulos: he got bin Laden
Ryan: look Obama may have been right
with bin Laden, Iraq, and Afghanistan,
but Romney would cede all decisions
to the Washington Generals
Stephanopoulos: would you accept
10 to 1 spending cuts and tax cuts
Ryan: Obama ran up the debt!
Stephanopoulos: Bush got a surplus
and blew it
Ryan: we need to keep Medicare by changing it!
We need to end the debt by cutting taxes!
We need to avoid backroom deals by
making a deal after the election!
Stephanopoulos: you’re rolling
Ryan: Spending is bad! We must raise
defense spending!
Stephanopoulos: thanks Paul it’s been fun
[ break ]
Will: people have stopped looking
for work which means we are
really at 20% unemployment
Stephanopoulos: wow
Will: if Republicans can’t with these
numbers they should find another
line of work - perhaps competitive
lawn croquet or full-contact dressage
Krugman: Republicans block Obama’s
plan and then say his plan doesn’t work
Paul: I had a poster of Ayn Rand
on my bedroom wall
Roberts: firing teachers is just dumb
Booker: we’ve had 30 months of job creation
Paul: Roads don’t create business -
businesses create roads
Krugman: Romney believes in Keynes
when it comes to defense spending
Rand: that’s true
Will: we have too many damn teachers
also Obama is just like Leon Trotsky
Roberts: we should stop laying off teachers
Rand: are you arguing we have
fewer government jobs
Krugman: it’s a fact
Booker: what is the Romney plan?
It’s a mystery
Stephanopoulos: Rand why is Romney
so secretive?
Paul: FDR caused the Depression by
not saying nice things about businesses
Booker: yeah sure
Roberts: people love their tax deductions
Will: if you’re worried about uncertainty
the solution is not Mitt Romney
Paul: things were going great from
1929-1933 until FDR came along
and caused a Depression
Booker: that’s hilarious
*********************************
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
Mayor Cory Booker (D-Newark)
Paul Krugman
Cokie Roberts
George Will
*********************************
Stephanopoulos: OMG Obama is bouncing!
Audience: wheeeeee
Stephanopoulos: Paul you said America
is in decline
Ryan: yes we have rising debt, continuing unemployment and high poverty
Stephanopoulos: that is true
Ryan: Obama has failed to fix the
GOP recession
Stephanopoulos: what is your plan
Ryan: we will create 12 million new jobs
Stephanopoulos: but economists say
that will happen anyway
Ryan: we need to cut taxes, drill in
public parks and privatize Medicare
Stephanopoulos: fascinating
Ryan: these plans have worked in
the past and they will again!
Stephanopoulos: Bill Clinton says you
will raise taxes on the middle class
or cut essential programs
Ryan: everyone knows that our
plan will work
Stephanopoulos: perhaps not everyone
Ryan: we will take loopholes away
from rich people
Stephanopoulos: awesome - which ones
Ryan: Obama wants to kill jobs by
raising taxes on small business
with 500 employees
Stephanopoulos: which loopholes
will you close?
Ryan: Ronald Reagan would love our plan!
Stephanopoulos: which loopholes again?
Ryan: it’s a secret
Stephanopoulos: are you kidding?
Ryan: we need to have this debate
in public with input from the people
only after we are in office
Stephanopoulos: you are making no sense
Ryan: we don’t want to cut a backroom deal
Stephanopoulos: but you just said you
want to make a deal after you are elected
Ryan: Up is down! Black is white!
Stephanopoulos: do you really want to
take $800 billion from Medicaid?
Ryan: Medicaid isn’t working -
why give it more money?
Stephanopoulos: I didn’t know Medicaid
was so bad
Ryan: oh yes - also we need to keep it as it is
Stephanopoulos: um what
Ryan: states and small towns are
best able to provide health care anyway
Stephanopoulos: what’s your solution
to the health care problem
Ryan: states need flexibility to implement
their own creative solutions
Stephanopoulos: like with welfare reform?
Ryan: ha touche
Stephanopoulos: under your plan there would
not more federal guarantees of health care?
Ryan: feel that sweet freedom!
Stephanopoulos: Obama said you guys
have no idea what you’re doing
in foreign policy
Ryan: Obama has failed totally in foreign affairs
Stephanopoulos: he got bin Laden
Ryan: look Obama may have been right
with bin Laden, Iraq, and Afghanistan,
but Romney would cede all decisions
to the Washington Generals
Stephanopoulos: would you accept
10 to 1 spending cuts and tax cuts
Ryan: Obama ran up the debt!
Stephanopoulos: Bush got a surplus
and blew it
Ryan: we need to keep Medicare by changing it!
We need to end the debt by cutting taxes!
We need to avoid backroom deals by
making a deal after the election!
Stephanopoulos: you’re rolling
Ryan: Spending is bad! We must raise
defense spending!
Stephanopoulos: thanks Paul it’s been fun
[ break ]
Will: people have stopped looking
for work which means we are
really at 20% unemployment
Stephanopoulos: wow
Will: if Republicans can’t with these
numbers they should find another
line of work - perhaps competitive
lawn croquet or full-contact dressage
Krugman: Republicans block Obama’s
plan and then say his plan doesn’t work
Paul: I had a poster of Ayn Rand
on my bedroom wall
Roberts: firing teachers is just dumb
Booker: we’ve had 30 months of job creation
Paul: Roads don’t create business -
businesses create roads
Krugman: Romney believes in Keynes
when it comes to defense spending
Rand: that’s true
Will: we have too many damn teachers
also Obama is just like Leon Trotsky
Roberts: we should stop laying off teachers
Rand: are you arguing we have
fewer government jobs
Krugman: it’s a fact
Booker: what is the Romney plan?
It’s a mystery
Stephanopoulos: Rand why is Romney
so secretive?
Paul: FDR caused the Depression by
not saying nice things about businesses
Booker: yeah sure
Roberts: people love their tax deductions
Will: if you’re worried about uncertainty
the solution is not Mitt Romney
Paul: things were going great from
1929-1933 until FDR came along
and caused a Depression
Booker: that’s hilarious
*********************************
Sunday, September 02, 2012
Meet The Press - September 2, 2012
September 2, 2012
Guests:
Mayor Rahm Emmanuel (D-Chicago)
Newt Gingrich
Tom Brokaw
Doris Goodwin
Carly Fiorina
Tom Friedman
***************************
Gregory: good morning Rahm
Emmanuel: you too David
Gregory: with our bad economy isn’t
Mitt Romney the lesser of two evils?
Emmanuel: no because he would return
us to the policies that wrecked America
in the first place
Gregory: perhaps
Emmanuel: in Romney’s speech there
was no memorable lines or good ideas
Gregory: but that doesn’t mean
people should vote for Obama
Emmanuel: we’re adding jobs, fixing
the banking system and building
houses again
Gregory: Invisible Obama told Eastwood
to tell Romney to go screw himself
Emmanuel: we are only talking about
this old actor because Romney’s speech
was devoid of anything worth talking about
Gregory: yes but-
Emmanuel: shut up - I’m talking here Fluffy
Gregory: ok but you only want to talk
about Mitt Romney instead of how
terrible Romney thinks Obama is
Emmanuel: no shit stupid
Gregory: Mitt says he voted for Obama
and he’s very disappointed with that his
stocks have only doubled and paid 13% in taxes
Emmanuel: Romney wanted to cut taxes
for the rich, cut student loans, screw
underwater homeowners, and let
Detroit go bankrupt
Gregory: so you say but-
Emmanuel: zip it David - Romney only
cares about rich people
Gregory: a lot of people hate Obama
Emmanuel: hey Fluffy General Motors
is alive and Osama bin Laden is dead
Gregory: it’s not a binary choice
between Obama and Romney
Emmanuel: yes it is you dimwit
[ punches Gregory in the face ]
Gregory: stop hitting me
Emmanuel: we were shedding jobs when
Obama was sworn in and we’ve added
millions of jobs
Gregory: Newt Gingrich says Obama
waived the welfare work rules
Emmanuel: Republican Governors asked
for more flexibility and now those fuckers
are lying about it
Gregory: I’ve heard that
Emmanuel: State Senator Obama
reformed welfare in Illinois
Gregory: what is the plan for the
Democratic convention?
Emmanuel: four words: middle class
Gregory: what are the other two?
Emmanuel: fuck you
Gregory: there’s a wave of violence in Chicago
Emmanuel: shootings are down in
the last few hours
Gregory: ok
Emmanuel: normal people shouldn’t
worry since it’s all gang-on-gang violence
Gregory: but what’s the solution?
Emmanuel: If I have to I will start
shooting people myself
Gregory: thanks for coming
[ break ]
Gregory: Newt what happened
at the Convention
Gingrich: Republicans will make
lazy people work
Brokaw: Even the Wall Street Journal
thought Romney blew it
Gregory: uh huh
Brokaw: if I may quote Cuba Gooding junior
in Jerry Maguire ‘you complete me’
Fiorina: the Wall Street Journal is
a commie rag
Gregory: amazing
Fiorina: Romney would create 1 million
jobs by building a giant pipeline to transport
Canadian oil across America to sell around the world
Friedman: Romney was very specific
- but his math doesn’t add up
Gregory: Tom what do the American
people really want?
Friedman: to suffer
Gregory: Is Romney likable?
Goodwin: they humanized Romney but
people don’t think Mitt can relate to their
problems - Lincoln was a depressive weirdo
but most people in the 19th century were like that
Gregory: Clint Eastwood yelled at
an empty chair
Brokaw: screaming scatalogical
obscenities about the President was
a little bit of a problem
Gingrich: it was a disaster - if I’d
been the nominee this would never
have happened
Gregory: how would you have done it
Gingrich: I would have closed the show
with 100 poor kids happily sweeping the
floor like in “Newsies”
Gregory: what happened to Obama’s
hope and change?
Friedman: Obama never made the case
to Americans by bringing out Warren Buffet
to talk to the people about how awesome
it is to be rich
Gregory: Newt on inauguration night you
pledged to oppose everything Obama did
Gingrich: Obama got everything he wanted!
Fiorina: Newt will you marry me
Gingrich: give me six months Carly
Fiorina: Obama controlled the Congress
for two years and he failed to prevent
the Tea Party from wrecking our credit rating
Brokaw: I noticed that Paul Ryan lied
shamelessly in his speech
Fiorina: you lie Tom!
Friedman: No GOP official talked about
the surplus they turned into a deficit,
unpaid-for wars, drug benefits, and
endless tax cuts
Goodwin: Neil Armstrong went to the
moon with government money -
Obama should aggressively defend
government spending
Gingrich: I’m kind of a big deal
Gregory: well all know that Newt
Gingrich: Mika Brezinski and Joe Scarborough humiliated themselves at my ridiculously
named Newt Gingrich University
Gregory: I see
Gingrich: America is making millions
drilling in North Dakota!
Gregory: so Obama hasn’t stopped
drilling after all?
Gingrich: yes but Mitt Romney would drill
in Cleveland, Hawaii and the National Mall
Fiorina: imagine oil derricks in front of the
Lincoln Memorial - what a beautiful
sight that would be
Goodwin: [ palmface ]
Gregory: the GOP is trying to address
the gender gap
Todd: Obama needs a big gap among
women - and he’s got it
Gregory: women vote - who knew?
Todd: Virginia is for Lovers Who
Love Ultrasounds
Fiorina: I was very impressed and
jealous of the women stars at the
Republican convention
Gregory: I can see that
Fiorina: Democrats belittle women by
assuming they care about their individual rights
Gregory: nice try Carly
Goodwin: Eleanor Roosevelt never
even mentioned FDR’s polio at her
convention speech
Gingrich: I suspect he was never
handicapped - he was probably just
another lazy Democrat
Gregory: Ann Romney told us to vote
for her selfless husband dammit
Brokaw: This is the Century of Women
Goodwin: one out 100 isn’t bad
Brokaw: the GOP loves mothers but
do they really respect women?
Fiorina: every rational person condemned
Todd Akin’s despicable remarks about
rape and called on him to drop out
Gingrich: not me
Fiorina: oh no here we go
Gingrich: Todd Akin sort-of apologized
but Obama wants to murder children!
Friedman: Fluffy I would like to thank you
for making the rest of us normal by
inviting this crazy person
Gregory: My pleasure Mustache man
Gingrich: Joe Biden is a racist who
wants to put black people in chains
Gregory: Romney also used the
chains metaphor
Gingrich: yes but Romney never talks to
black people so he can’t be a racist
Gregory: getting back to Akin - you
don’t think he should drop out
of the race?
Gingrich: of course not - Akin won
the primary therefore he’s just
like Marco Rubio!
Brokaw: whoa - you agree with Todd Akin?
Gingrich: I am just saying that Democrats
murder babies
Fiorina: Stop! Stop it! Stop talking!
Women don’t care about abortion!
Gingrich: the media are biased - they
only talk about how I called black people
lazy instead of reporting on the Democrats
plan to let the U.N. enslave Americans
and put them to work in abortion factories!
Gregory: and that’s another episode
of Meet The Press
*******************************************
Bonus!
Sunday Talk Shows: The Most Ridiculous Moment
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2012/09/03/culture-of-truth-newt
Guests:
Mayor Rahm Emmanuel (D-Chicago)
Newt Gingrich
Tom Brokaw
Doris Goodwin
Carly Fiorina
Tom Friedman
***************************
Gregory: good morning Rahm
Emmanuel: you too David
Gregory: with our bad economy isn’t
Mitt Romney the lesser of two evils?
Emmanuel: no because he would return
us to the policies that wrecked America
in the first place
Gregory: perhaps
Emmanuel: in Romney’s speech there
was no memorable lines or good ideas
Gregory: but that doesn’t mean
people should vote for Obama
Emmanuel: we’re adding jobs, fixing
the banking system and building
houses again
Gregory: Invisible Obama told Eastwood
to tell Romney to go screw himself
Emmanuel: we are only talking about
this old actor because Romney’s speech
was devoid of anything worth talking about
Gregory: yes but-
Emmanuel: shut up - I’m talking here Fluffy
Gregory: ok but you only want to talk
about Mitt Romney instead of how
terrible Romney thinks Obama is
Emmanuel: no shit stupid
Gregory: Mitt says he voted for Obama
and he’s very disappointed with that his
stocks have only doubled and paid 13% in taxes
Emmanuel: Romney wanted to cut taxes
for the rich, cut student loans, screw
underwater homeowners, and let
Detroit go bankrupt
Gregory: so you say but-
Emmanuel: zip it David - Romney only
cares about rich people
Gregory: a lot of people hate Obama
Emmanuel: hey Fluffy General Motors
is alive and Osama bin Laden is dead
Gregory: it’s not a binary choice
between Obama and Romney
Emmanuel: yes it is you dimwit
[ punches Gregory in the face ]
Gregory: stop hitting me
Emmanuel: we were shedding jobs when
Obama was sworn in and we’ve added
millions of jobs
Gregory: Newt Gingrich says Obama
waived the welfare work rules
Emmanuel: Republican Governors asked
for more flexibility and now those fuckers
are lying about it
Gregory: I’ve heard that
Emmanuel: State Senator Obama
reformed welfare in Illinois
Gregory: what is the plan for the
Democratic convention?
Emmanuel: four words: middle class
Gregory: what are the other two?
Emmanuel: fuck you
Gregory: there’s a wave of violence in Chicago
Emmanuel: shootings are down in
the last few hours
Gregory: ok
Emmanuel: normal people shouldn’t
worry since it’s all gang-on-gang violence
Gregory: but what’s the solution?
Emmanuel: If I have to I will start
shooting people myself
Gregory: thanks for coming
[ break ]
Gregory: Newt what happened
at the Convention
Gingrich: Republicans will make
lazy people work
Brokaw: Even the Wall Street Journal
thought Romney blew it
Gregory: uh huh
Brokaw: if I may quote Cuba Gooding junior
in Jerry Maguire ‘you complete me’
Fiorina: the Wall Street Journal is
a commie rag
Gregory: amazing
Fiorina: Romney would create 1 million
jobs by building a giant pipeline to transport
Canadian oil across America to sell around the world
Friedman: Romney was very specific
- but his math doesn’t add up
Gregory: Tom what do the American
people really want?
Friedman: to suffer
Gregory: Is Romney likable?
Goodwin: they humanized Romney but
people don’t think Mitt can relate to their
problems - Lincoln was a depressive weirdo
but most people in the 19th century were like that
Gregory: Clint Eastwood yelled at
an empty chair
Brokaw: screaming scatalogical
obscenities about the President was
a little bit of a problem
Gingrich: it was a disaster - if I’d
been the nominee this would never
have happened
Gregory: how would you have done it
Gingrich: I would have closed the show
with 100 poor kids happily sweeping the
floor like in “Newsies”
Gregory: what happened to Obama’s
hope and change?
Friedman: Obama never made the case
to Americans by bringing out Warren Buffet
to talk to the people about how awesome
it is to be rich
Gregory: Newt on inauguration night you
pledged to oppose everything Obama did
Gingrich: Obama got everything he wanted!
Fiorina: Newt will you marry me
Gingrich: give me six months Carly
Fiorina: Obama controlled the Congress
for two years and he failed to prevent
the Tea Party from wrecking our credit rating
Brokaw: I noticed that Paul Ryan lied
shamelessly in his speech
Fiorina: you lie Tom!
Friedman: No GOP official talked about
the surplus they turned into a deficit,
unpaid-for wars, drug benefits, and
endless tax cuts
Goodwin: Neil Armstrong went to the
moon with government money -
Obama should aggressively defend
government spending
Gingrich: I’m kind of a big deal
Gregory: well all know that Newt
Gingrich: Mika Brezinski and Joe Scarborough humiliated themselves at my ridiculously
named Newt Gingrich University
Gregory: I see
Gingrich: America is making millions
drilling in North Dakota!
Gregory: so Obama hasn’t stopped
drilling after all?
Gingrich: yes but Mitt Romney would drill
in Cleveland, Hawaii and the National Mall
Fiorina: imagine oil derricks in front of the
Lincoln Memorial - what a beautiful
sight that would be
Goodwin: [ palmface ]
Gregory: the GOP is trying to address
the gender gap
Todd: Obama needs a big gap among
women - and he’s got it
Gregory: women vote - who knew?
Todd: Virginia is for Lovers Who
Love Ultrasounds
Fiorina: I was very impressed and
jealous of the women stars at the
Republican convention
Gregory: I can see that
Fiorina: Democrats belittle women by
assuming they care about their individual rights
Gregory: nice try Carly
Goodwin: Eleanor Roosevelt never
even mentioned FDR’s polio at her
convention speech
Gingrich: I suspect he was never
handicapped - he was probably just
another lazy Democrat
Gregory: Ann Romney told us to vote
for her selfless husband dammit
Brokaw: This is the Century of Women
Goodwin: one out 100 isn’t bad
Brokaw: the GOP loves mothers but
do they really respect women?
Fiorina: every rational person condemned
Todd Akin’s despicable remarks about
rape and called on him to drop out
Gingrich: not me
Fiorina: oh no here we go
Gingrich: Todd Akin sort-of apologized
but Obama wants to murder children!
Friedman: Fluffy I would like to thank you
for making the rest of us normal by
inviting this crazy person
Gregory: My pleasure Mustache man
Gingrich: Joe Biden is a racist who
wants to put black people in chains
Gregory: Romney also used the
chains metaphor
Gingrich: yes but Romney never talks to
black people so he can’t be a racist
Gregory: getting back to Akin - you
don’t think he should drop out
of the race?
Gingrich: of course not - Akin won
the primary therefore he’s just
like Marco Rubio!
Brokaw: whoa - you agree with Todd Akin?
Gingrich: I am just saying that Democrats
murder babies
Fiorina: Stop! Stop it! Stop talking!
Women don’t care about abortion!
Gingrich: the media are biased - they
only talk about how I called black people
lazy instead of reporting on the Democrats
plan to let the U.N. enslave Americans
and put them to work in abortion factories!
Gregory: and that’s another episode
of Meet The Press
*******************************************
Bonus!
Sunday Talk Shows: The Most Ridiculous Moment
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/virtuallyspeaking/2012/09/03/culture-of-truth-newt
This Week with George Stephanopoulos - September 2, 2012
Guests:
David Plouffe - Obama Campaign
Kerry Healy (R-MA)
George Will
Donna Brazile
Bill Burton (D)
Matthew Dowd (R)
*******************************
Stephanopoulos: good morning David
Plouffe: good morning George
Stephanopoulos: are Americans better
off than they were four years ago?
Plouffe: we’re recovering from a
mini Depression
Stephanopoulos: that doesn’t sound good
Plouffe: Mitt Romney is promising nothing
but tax cut fairy dust
Stephanopoulos: a lot of people
are unemployed
Plouffe: Romney will enact policies
that caused the recession in the first place
Stephanopoulos: so we’re not better off?
Plouffe: Obama is investing in batteries!
Stephanopoulos: ironic that he’s
running against an android
Plouffe: ha
Stephanopoulos: Pluffy should Obama
apologize to America
Plouffe: for what Stephy - health care
or ending the wars?
Stephanopoulos: yes those things
Plouffe: the GOP is only offering tired
platitudes like tricke-down economics
Stephanopoulos: Paul Ryan says he’s
going to save Medicare not raid it
Plouffe: he raided it!
Stephanopoulos: yes well know about that
Plouffe: Paul Ryan is sounding the
Second Coming of Claude Pepper
Stephanopoulos: Verily he will
Return Riding a White Golf Cart
Plouffe: Obama cut waste and Paul Ryan
would bankrupt Medicare
Stephanopoulos: Romney said under
Obama lazy people would get free money
Plouffe: it is interesting that Romney
can only win by lying and then
lying some more
Stephanopoulos: is it a racial dog whistle
Plouffe: all I know is every time that ad
runs on my tv my cocker spaniel hides
under the bed
Stephanopoulos: ha
Plouffe: In his acceptance speech Romney
never mentioned our troops or
Afghanistan - does Romney even care?
Stephanopoulos: what about Clint Eastwood
Plouffe: that was weird and hilarious
[ break ]
Stephanopoulos: how did the GOP
convention go?
Will: undecided voters learned Republicans
want to cut taxes which I think we already knew
Brazile: I suspect a number of people
were very confused - and that was
before Clint Eastwood channeled
Daryl Hannah in Legal Eagles
Healy: we learned that Mitt Romney is
secretly a human being
Stephanopoulos: why not have testimonials
From people who like Romney instead
of Clint Eastwood doing a crazy-ass
version of Bob Newhart?
Healy: well I hope people go online
and look up examples of Mitt acting normal
Dowd: no one cares about a candidate’s
personal anyway
Stephanopoulos: are we better of than
we were four years ago?
Burton: we’ve created 4 million jobs
Stephanopoulos: but we lost 6 million
Burton: we heard Mitt loved his
family but what is he’s going to do
for other families?
Healy: he was very specific - he’s going
to cut taxes again, repeal Obamacare
and drill for oil off Florida
Will: don’t be afraid - vote for Romney
Brazile: no be afraid - be very afraid
Dowd: the real question is will the
country be better off four years from now?
Burton: in 2008 Obama said he was going
to deliver health care, end the wars,
fix the economy and rebuild America and he did!
Stephanopoulos: did he?
Burton: oh yeah!
Stephanopoulos: thanks for coming everyone
*****************************************
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Meet The Press - August 26, 2012
Guests:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ)
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (Chair DNC)
Chuck Todd
Mike Murphy
*********************
Gregory: OMG the Storm of the Century
is headed right for the Republican Convention
Reporter: The Cone of Weather Silence
is going to smash Tampa
Gregory: incredible
Reporter: here you can see Isaac is
going to soak Florida with margaritas
and Gopher will overwhelm them with
his boyish charm
Gregory: Senator McCain God also
sent a hurricane to your convention in 2008
McCain: believe me I know - but on
the upside fewer people will see
Republicans speaking
on their television
Gregory: does it look bad to have a
big party during a storm
McCain: it would but trust me this is
not exactly a fun time
Gregory: Todd Akin is a little nuts but
he’s not getting out of the race
McCain: we’re gonna take this dumb fucker out!
Gregory: ha I love it
McCain: incredibly Romney is almost
tied with Barack Obama even will all
the stupid stuff Republicans keep saying
Gregory: Is Mitt Romney trying to reach
out to racists in his party with
his birther statements
McCain: no one has a sense of humor anymore
- Obama is black and may not be eligible to
be President - ha ha ha
Gregory: Romney is not popular among
the human demographic
McCain: poor poor Mitt Romney has
been abused by Obama’s
big swinging spending
Gregory: so how does Mitt Romney win?
McCain: we have to tell young women to
forget about rights to their body and
blame Obama is they don’t have a job
Gregory: good luck with that
[ break ]
Gregory: Jeb Bush you guaranteed
a Romney victory
Bush: indeed he will win as long we don’t
talk about anything that isn’t good
for Mitt Romney
Gregory: abortion has become a big issue
Bush: abortion - what’s that??
Gregory: Todd Akin refused to leave even
after the GOP tried to have him killed
Bush: pay no attention to the zygote
in the corner
Gregory: does this hurt the image
of the party?
Bush: people only care about the debt
and unemployment which Obama
caused all by himself
Gregory: Mitt Romney is less popular
than he was six months ago
Bush: that’s because Barack Obama
is unspeakably mean
Gregory: what will you talk about when
you give your speech?
Bush: I will be setting myself up to
run in 2016 by talking about education
which everyone loves
Gregory: how exciting
Bush: Obama keeps dividing America by
saying people didn’t build things and
instead saying it’s all communal
Gregory: how sad he keeps dividing
people by talking how we are all part of
a larger community
Bush: it’s terrible
Gregory: Mitt Romney has 0% of the
African-American vote
Bush: but Romney is popular among white men!
Gregory: oh believe me I know
Gregory: will Florida’s vote-counting
incompetence ruin another Presidential election?
Bush: probably
Gregory: what’s the secret to winning in Florida?
Bush: drill for oil and let immigrants
stay if the get a master’s degree
Gregory: what about a bachelor’s
Bush: no way - I’ve seen the partying
at the University of Florida - those kids
aren’t learning anything
Gregory: what else?
Bush: cut Social Security!
Gregory: would you consider raising
taxes to tackle the debt
Bush: no that would be foolhardy
Gregory: but you say we need to find
common ground to solve big problems
Bush: right - what I meant was liberals
agreeing to whatever Republicans want to do
Gregory: of course
Bush: for example we could
compromise on cutting social security
Gregory: what else
Bush: we could all agree to cut the debt
by cutting taxes and regulations
Gregory: I like what I’m hearing
Bush: the reason the economy is weak
is because of liberal politicians like
that idiot George W. Bush
Gregory: how do we reform Medicare?
Bush: we must fight back against
demagogues and also attack Obama
for cutting Medicare
Gregory: so clever
Bush: the GOP is very popular among
old people because we promise not
give them the wonderful choice to
have a voucher program
Gregory: should we crack down
on illegal immigrants?
Bush: Obama has reduced immigration to zero
Gregory: that’s news to me
Gregory: meanwhile the GOP is
losing Hispanic voters
Bush: that’s because many Republicans are idiots
Gregory: would you like to be President?
Bush: I never think about it except during
Thanksgiving when Mom makes me sit
at the little kids table with all the other
losers who have never lived in the White House
Gregory: Obama blames the economy
on your brother
Bush: it’s very unbecoming
Gregory: so very rude of him
Bush: he should offer fresh solutions like a
jobs bill or invading a country
Gregory: what is the Bush family legacy?
Bush: at the Bush family we don’t
talk about the L word
Gregory: oh you should - that’s a great tv show
Bush: my father and brother may have
been terrible Presidents but I will learn
from their mistakes
Gregory: how does it make you feel knowing
they have ruined the Bush family name
for generations to come
Bush: [ sobs ]
I was the smart one! me! it’s not fair!
Gregory: there there Jeb
Bush: you can’t keep us down!
The Bush will rise again!
Gregory: thanks for coming
Bush: thank you Fluffy
[ break ]
Gregory: The Republicans have arrived
in Florida and Tampa is a disaster area
and also a storm is coming
Todd: the show must go on!
Gregory: this is a really big opportunity for
Romney to convince people he is human
Murphy: this is his etch-a-sketch moment!
Gregory: our polls show that 35% don’t
like Mitt Romney and 22% believe he is an android
Brewer: we must introduce Mitt to the people
Gregory: isn’t it a little late for that Jan
Brewer: people are too busy looking for a
job to figure out who Mitt Romney is
Gregory: Team Obama tore Romney
down with negative ads
Wasserman-Schultz: the GOP destroyed
America four years ago remember
Gregory: Bill Clinton won the election
at the convention in 1992 with an amazing
speech where he talked about hope and
didn’t have sex
Todd: that was unusual - there will be
no bump this year because $500 million
has already been spent
Gregory: what don’t people know
about Mitt Romney
Murphy: Romney never murdered anyone!
Gregory: well that’s something
Murphy: Democrats have thrown in the
towel on defending Obama - the whole election
is about whether Mitt Romney and the
GOP are acceptable
Gregory: meanwhile the GOP is reaching out
to people on abortion and immigration
Brewer: the Democrats are waging a class
warfare war on rich women
Gregory: um ok
Brewer: in Arizona we believe in small
government stopping people and
demanding their citizenship papers
Wasserman-Schlutz: this is a metaphorical
window in their soul of the GOP - and a
real window into the hard drive of Mitt Romney
Gregory: the GOP is alienating Hispanic voters
Murphy: I never read the GOP platform but
I did read the Democratic platform and
they didn’t close Gitmo like they promised
Todd: the Democrats have turned this
into values election
Murphy: Obama wants to make this election
about trivial issue like whether Mitt Romney
will turn America over to our new
Robot-Machine Overlords
Gregory: will he do that?
Murphy: the American people don’t care -
they only want to know if they will have a
good job when the Internet Devices become
self-aware and enslave us all
Gregory: no one fluffs like me
Murphy: we all know that
Gregory: Todd Akin is crazy and seems
to be hurting the GOP
Murphy: Mitt Romney will give every fetus a job!
Gregory: this race is dead even!
Todd: actually Obama has a huge advantage
in the electoral college - Romney must win
Ohio or he’s screwed
Murphy: Romney must now reach
out to independents
Todd: well he’s losing Republican women
Brewer: the GOP loves women and
all the women issues
Gregory: I see
Brewer: women want the Republican
economy back!
Gregory: Romney leads by 6% on the
issue of changing Washington
Wasserman: well duh he’s not the incumbent
Greg: how do you answer the charge
that Obama is losing
Wasserman-Schultz: he’s not
Gregory: I think Americans are hungry
for a Man of Action
Murphy: damn right - Ryan is a workout fiend
Todd: Ryan is a Congressman and
people hate Congress
Murphy: dammit
Gregory: and that’s another episode
of Meet The Press
***************************************
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
Gov. Jan Brewer (R-AZ)
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (Chair DNC)
Chuck Todd
Mike Murphy
*********************
Gregory: OMG the Storm of the Century
is headed right for the Republican Convention
Reporter: The Cone of Weather Silence
is going to smash Tampa
Gregory: incredible
Reporter: here you can see Isaac is
going to soak Florida with margaritas
and Gopher will overwhelm them with
his boyish charm
Gregory: Senator McCain God also
sent a hurricane to your convention in 2008
McCain: believe me I know - but on
the upside fewer people will see
Republicans speaking
on their television
Gregory: does it look bad to have a
big party during a storm
McCain: it would but trust me this is
not exactly a fun time
Gregory: Todd Akin is a little nuts but
he’s not getting out of the race
McCain: we’re gonna take this dumb fucker out!
Gregory: ha I love it
McCain: incredibly Romney is almost
tied with Barack Obama even will all
the stupid stuff Republicans keep saying
Gregory: Is Mitt Romney trying to reach
out to racists in his party with
his birther statements
McCain: no one has a sense of humor anymore
- Obama is black and may not be eligible to
be President - ha ha ha
Gregory: Romney is not popular among
the human demographic
McCain: poor poor Mitt Romney has
been abused by Obama’s
big swinging spending
Gregory: so how does Mitt Romney win?
McCain: we have to tell young women to
forget about rights to their body and
blame Obama is they don’t have a job
Gregory: good luck with that
[ break ]
Gregory: Jeb Bush you guaranteed
a Romney victory
Bush: indeed he will win as long we don’t
talk about anything that isn’t good
for Mitt Romney
Gregory: abortion has become a big issue
Bush: abortion - what’s that??
Gregory: Todd Akin refused to leave even
after the GOP tried to have him killed
Bush: pay no attention to the zygote
in the corner
Gregory: does this hurt the image
of the party?
Bush: people only care about the debt
and unemployment which Obama
caused all by himself
Gregory: Mitt Romney is less popular
than he was six months ago
Bush: that’s because Barack Obama
is unspeakably mean
Gregory: what will you talk about when
you give your speech?
Bush: I will be setting myself up to
run in 2016 by talking about education
which everyone loves
Gregory: how exciting
Bush: Obama keeps dividing America by
saying people didn’t build things and
instead saying it’s all communal
Gregory: how sad he keeps dividing
people by talking how we are all part of
a larger community
Bush: it’s terrible
Gregory: Mitt Romney has 0% of the
African-American vote
Bush: but Romney is popular among white men!
Gregory: oh believe me I know
Gregory: will Florida’s vote-counting
incompetence ruin another Presidential election?
Bush: probably
Gregory: what’s the secret to winning in Florida?
Bush: drill for oil and let immigrants
stay if the get a master’s degree
Gregory: what about a bachelor’s
Bush: no way - I’ve seen the partying
at the University of Florida - those kids
aren’t learning anything
Gregory: what else?
Bush: cut Social Security!
Gregory: would you consider raising
taxes to tackle the debt
Bush: no that would be foolhardy
Gregory: but you say we need to find
common ground to solve big problems
Bush: right - what I meant was liberals
agreeing to whatever Republicans want to do
Gregory: of course
Bush: for example we could
compromise on cutting social security
Gregory: what else
Bush: we could all agree to cut the debt
by cutting taxes and regulations
Gregory: I like what I’m hearing
Bush: the reason the economy is weak
is because of liberal politicians like
that idiot George W. Bush
Gregory: how do we reform Medicare?
Bush: we must fight back against
demagogues and also attack Obama
for cutting Medicare
Gregory: so clever
Bush: the GOP is very popular among
old people because we promise not
give them the wonderful choice to
have a voucher program
Gregory: should we crack down
on illegal immigrants?
Bush: Obama has reduced immigration to zero
Gregory: that’s news to me
Gregory: meanwhile the GOP is
losing Hispanic voters
Bush: that’s because many Republicans are idiots
Gregory: would you like to be President?
Bush: I never think about it except during
Thanksgiving when Mom makes me sit
at the little kids table with all the other
losers who have never lived in the White House
Gregory: Obama blames the economy
on your brother
Bush: it’s very unbecoming
Gregory: so very rude of him
Bush: he should offer fresh solutions like a
jobs bill or invading a country
Gregory: what is the Bush family legacy?
Bush: at the Bush family we don’t
talk about the L word
Gregory: oh you should - that’s a great tv show
Bush: my father and brother may have
been terrible Presidents but I will learn
from their mistakes
Gregory: how does it make you feel knowing
they have ruined the Bush family name
for generations to come
Bush: [ sobs ]
I was the smart one! me! it’s not fair!
Gregory: there there Jeb
Bush: you can’t keep us down!
The Bush will rise again!
Gregory: thanks for coming
Bush: thank you Fluffy
[ break ]
Gregory: The Republicans have arrived
in Florida and Tampa is a disaster area
and also a storm is coming
Todd: the show must go on!
Gregory: this is a really big opportunity for
Romney to convince people he is human
Murphy: this is his etch-a-sketch moment!
Gregory: our polls show that 35% don’t
like Mitt Romney and 22% believe he is an android
Brewer: we must introduce Mitt to the people
Gregory: isn’t it a little late for that Jan
Brewer: people are too busy looking for a
job to figure out who Mitt Romney is
Gregory: Team Obama tore Romney
down with negative ads
Wasserman-Schultz: the GOP destroyed
America four years ago remember
Gregory: Bill Clinton won the election
at the convention in 1992 with an amazing
speech where he talked about hope and
didn’t have sex
Todd: that was unusual - there will be
no bump this year because $500 million
has already been spent
Gregory: what don’t people know
about Mitt Romney
Murphy: Romney never murdered anyone!
Gregory: well that’s something
Murphy: Democrats have thrown in the
towel on defending Obama - the whole election
is about whether Mitt Romney and the
GOP are acceptable
Gregory: meanwhile the GOP is reaching out
to people on abortion and immigration
Brewer: the Democrats are waging a class
warfare war on rich women
Gregory: um ok
Brewer: in Arizona we believe in small
government stopping people and
demanding their citizenship papers
Wasserman-Schlutz: this is a metaphorical
window in their soul of the GOP - and a
real window into the hard drive of Mitt Romney
Gregory: the GOP is alienating Hispanic voters
Murphy: I never read the GOP platform but
I did read the Democratic platform and
they didn’t close Gitmo like they promised
Todd: the Democrats have turned this
into values election
Murphy: Obama wants to make this election
about trivial issue like whether Mitt Romney
will turn America over to our new
Robot-Machine Overlords
Gregory: will he do that?
Murphy: the American people don’t care -
they only want to know if they will have a
good job when the Internet Devices become
self-aware and enslave us all
Gregory: no one fluffs like me
Murphy: we all know that
Gregory: Todd Akin is crazy and seems
to be hurting the GOP
Murphy: Mitt Romney will give every fetus a job!
Gregory: this race is dead even!
Todd: actually Obama has a huge advantage
in the electoral college - Romney must win
Ohio or he’s screwed
Murphy: Romney must now reach
out to independents
Todd: well he’s losing Republican women
Brewer: the GOP loves women and
all the women issues
Gregory: I see
Brewer: women want the Republican
economy back!
Gregory: Romney leads by 6% on the
issue of changing Washington
Wasserman: well duh he’s not the incumbent
Greg: how do you answer the charge
that Obama is losing
Wasserman-Schultz: he’s not
Gregory: I think Americans are hungry
for a Man of Action
Murphy: damn right - Ryan is a workout fiend
Todd: Ryan is a Congressman and
people hate Congress
Murphy: dammit
Gregory: and that’s another episode
of Meet The Press
***************************************
This Week with George Stephanopoulos - August 26, 2012
Guests:
Jonathan Karl
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA)
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D-Los Angeles)
Rep. Donna Edwards
Greta Van Susteren
George Will
Mary Matalin
*******************************
Stephanopoulos: OMG God sent a hurricane
to the GOP convention
Karl: Republicans expect torrential winds,
rain and a little Biblical flood
Stephanopoulos: what is their disaster plan
Karl: they’ve issued everyone one red umbrella
Stephanopoulos: will this affect the convention?
Karl: yes but they are used to it since the
Lord sent another hurricane four years ago
Stephanopoulos: the Almighty is persistent
McDonnell: The Party of Abraham defeats Isaac!
Stephanopoulos: did God sent a storm
because he hates you
McDonnell: no this weather only proves we
are better than Democrats because it
will only take us 3 days to nominate a guy
Stephanopoulos: former GOP Florida Governor
Charlie Crist says the GOP has gone
completely insane
McDonnell: Obama downgraded
America’s credit rating
Stephanopoulos: you want to amend the
U.S. Constitution to protect zygotes
McDonnell: you can’t pay attention to the
Party platform - those are just our fundamental
beliefs that we don’t care about
Stephanopoulos: I’m confused - are you in
favor of the Constitutional amendment or not
McDonnell: abortion is up to the states and Congress
Stephanopoulos: not if you amend
the Constitution genius
McDonnell: also the Supreme Court has spoken
on this issue so let’s drop and also amend the
Constitution or not whatever
Villargiosa: an adamant policy of no exceptions
for rape or incest is extreme
Stephanopoulos: but you just heard deny
McDonnell that is the GOP policy although
it’s in the platform
Villargiosa: yes I heard that white man spin wildly
Stephanopoulos: the economy is still bad
3 1/2 into the Obama Presidency
Villaraigosa: Obama has an awesome jobs plan
and the GOP rejected it
Stephanopoulos: what else
Villaraigosa: we need to raise taxes on rich people pronto
McDonnell: Obama is good family man with
a nice wife and adorable kids but he
increased the debt and doubled gas prices
Stephanopoulos: snap
McDonnell: Romney wants to train all Americans
to work in lucrative new jobs like private equity,
looting, layoffs and tax-offshoring
Villaraigosa: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will
raise taxes on the middle class!
McDonnell: Obama didn’t fix the recession
fast enough!
Stephanopoulos: thanks for coming guys
[ break ]
Stephanopoulos: Does Todd “fighting ovaries”
Akin hurt the GOP
Will: he’s a moron but I thought liberals solved
all this with Roe v Wade
Granholm: Mitt Romney is running away
from his own party’s platform
Matalin: we need to get this dipshit out of the race
Stephanopoulos: you think Akin will drop out?
Matalin: I don’t care if he does- we’ll run a write-in
candidate if we have to and if that doesn’t work he
can meet with an unfortunate accident
Edwards: women are fleeing this crazy-ass party
Susteren: what the hell is a legitimate rape
Matalin: the GOP is doing just fine with women
Susteren: not younger women
Matalin: they don’t count
Edwards: it’s not just one crazy man -
GOP policies are hostile to women
Will: Sandra Fluke is some barren slut so
old she’s about to collect social security
so what does she care about contraception
Granholm: forcible trans-vaginal probes
are not small government
Matalin: abortion is very nice but Obama
is a Kenyan who will destroy America
Stephanopoulos: awesome
******************************
Jonathan Karl
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-VA)
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D-Los Angeles)
Rep. Donna Edwards
Greta Van Susteren
George Will
Mary Matalin
*******************************
Stephanopoulos: OMG God sent a hurricane
to the GOP convention
Karl: Republicans expect torrential winds,
rain and a little Biblical flood
Stephanopoulos: what is their disaster plan
Karl: they’ve issued everyone one red umbrella
Stephanopoulos: will this affect the convention?
Karl: yes but they are used to it since the
Lord sent another hurricane four years ago
Stephanopoulos: the Almighty is persistent
McDonnell: The Party of Abraham defeats Isaac!
Stephanopoulos: did God sent a storm
because he hates you
McDonnell: no this weather only proves we
are better than Democrats because it
will only take us 3 days to nominate a guy
Stephanopoulos: former GOP Florida Governor
Charlie Crist says the GOP has gone
completely insane
McDonnell: Obama downgraded
America’s credit rating
Stephanopoulos: you want to amend the
U.S. Constitution to protect zygotes
McDonnell: you can’t pay attention to the
Party platform - those are just our fundamental
beliefs that we don’t care about
Stephanopoulos: I’m confused - are you in
favor of the Constitutional amendment or not
McDonnell: abortion is up to the states and Congress
Stephanopoulos: not if you amend
the Constitution genius
McDonnell: also the Supreme Court has spoken
on this issue so let’s drop and also amend the
Constitution or not whatever
Villargiosa: an adamant policy of no exceptions
for rape or incest is extreme
Stephanopoulos: but you just heard deny
McDonnell that is the GOP policy although
it’s in the platform
Villargiosa: yes I heard that white man spin wildly
Stephanopoulos: the economy is still bad
3 1/2 into the Obama Presidency
Villaraigosa: Obama has an awesome jobs plan
and the GOP rejected it
Stephanopoulos: what else
Villaraigosa: we need to raise taxes on rich people pronto
McDonnell: Obama is good family man with
a nice wife and adorable kids but he
increased the debt and doubled gas prices
Stephanopoulos: snap
McDonnell: Romney wants to train all Americans
to work in lucrative new jobs like private equity,
looting, layoffs and tax-offshoring
Villaraigosa: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan will
raise taxes on the middle class!
McDonnell: Obama didn’t fix the recession
fast enough!
Stephanopoulos: thanks for coming guys
[ break ]
Stephanopoulos: Does Todd “fighting ovaries”
Akin hurt the GOP
Will: he’s a moron but I thought liberals solved
all this with Roe v Wade
Granholm: Mitt Romney is running away
from his own party’s platform
Matalin: we need to get this dipshit out of the race
Stephanopoulos: you think Akin will drop out?
Matalin: I don’t care if he does- we’ll run a write-in
candidate if we have to and if that doesn’t work he
can meet with an unfortunate accident
Edwards: women are fleeing this crazy-ass party
Susteren: what the hell is a legitimate rape
Matalin: the GOP is doing just fine with women
Susteren: not younger women
Matalin: they don’t count
Edwards: it’s not just one crazy man -
GOP policies are hostile to women
Will: Sandra Fluke is some barren slut so
old she’s about to collect social security
so what does she care about contraception
Granholm: forcible trans-vaginal probes
are not small government
Matalin: abortion is very nice but Obama
is a Kenyan who will destroy America
Stephanopoulos: awesome
******************************
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Meet The Press - August 19, 2012
Guests:
Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-Md.)
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-Va.)
Mayor Kasim Reed (D-Atlanta)
Ted Cruz (R-TX)
E.J. Dionne
Chuck Todd
Peggy Noonan
Rudy Giuliani
*********************************
Gregory: OMG the campaigns are
actually talking about an issue like
Medicare - that’s terrible!
Obama: I will protect Medicare from Paul Ryan!
Ryan: I will protect my Mommy from Obama!
Gregory: so how about that Paul Ryan?
O’Malley: Paul Ryan wants to privatize Medicare!
McDonnell: Obama caused the recession in 2007!
Gregory: is Medicare doomed
McDonnell: Medicare will go bankrupt in
a few decades!
Gregory: Joe Biden said the GOP is going
to put y’all back in chains
O’Malley: so fucking what
Gregory: but it’s so divisive!
O’Malley: Romney uses racist dog whistles
all damn the time
Greg: Bob how do you answer the charge
that Joe Biden is a racist?
McDonnell: sadly I must agree
Gregory: Romney says Obama is running
a campaign of hate
O’Malley: Romney is a big whiner who
constantly fouls and then calls foul
Gregory: Romney says he paid a
whopping 13% in taxes
McDonnell: Obama had a whopping tax hike!
Gregory: that would be an awesome
point if it were true
O’Malley: Fluffy who knows if Mitt
ever paid taxes at all??
McDonnell: Obama is a nice guy but he’s
failed to fix the Republican recession of 2008
Gregory: Obama would take $700 billion from
Medicare and Romney would make is a
voucher program for people under 55
O’Malley: a fucking voucher - how delightful
McDonnell: Romney is just being honest -
America is the greatest country in the world
and can’t afford to take care of old people anymore
Gregory: I’m sold
McDonnell: we have to cut Medicare -
also Obama robbed Medicare
Gregory: Ryan proposed the same
efficiency cuts that Obama made
McDonnell: exactly - Obama has blood
on his hands!
Gregory: I’m confused
McDonnell: America is awesome!
We’re broke! USA! USA!
Gregory: rock on
McDonnell: Obama just talks and talks
and Ryan bravely promises to give more
money to current old people
Gregory: unemployment is still really high
O’Malley: true but we created
more jobs last year than in 8 years of
George Bush Presidency
Gregory: maybe but he gave good aircraft carrier
O’Malley: should we give another
massive tax cut to people who make
millions of dollars per year?
Gregory: it couldn’t hurt!
Gregory: Ted you are an hispanic
anti-establishment tea partier
Cruz: I love Paul Ryan!!
Gregory: go on please
Cruz: Romney is admittedly intensely
dislikable but Obama isn’t creating
enough jobs
Reed: Ryan is a loveable right-wing nut
Dionne: true believers on the left and
right believe voucherizing Medicare is
a winning issue for them
Gregory: oh it’s on now
Dionne: The GOP has to decide if Barack Obama
is a socialist who is giving away freebies to the poor
or a brtue who is viciously cutting Medicare
Noonan: Ryan is good-looking and serious
but putting old people on an ice floe may
not be a winning issue for the GOP
Todd: the GOP brilliantly shifted away
from lack of jobs to talk about how
Republicans want to cut Medicare
Cruz: the American people are fed up
with Medicare maybe someday going
to people younger than 55!
Gregory: you go Tom!
Cruz: Ted
Gregory: whatever you’re only a nominee
Cruz: the government has its boot on
the neck of the people!
Noonan: voters are dissatisfied and crave
hope and optimism also someone
who will admit we are broke and
must privatize the social safety net
Dionne: if we’re broke can we at least
raise taxes on billionaires?
Reed: Ryan isn’t serious - he voted for TARP,
tax cuts, wars and drug benefits and none of
it was paid for as long as Bush was President
Cruz: he’s been serious about talking about
cutting spending since Obama became President
Reed: what a damn joke
Dionne: Obama is serious about talking
about cutting too!
Cruz: yes but I hate him so it doesn’t count
Gregory: Saint Rudy tell me about Paul Ryan
Giuiliani: he’s not as dumb as Sarah Palin
Gregory: win
Giuiliani: we have learned since the
Bush recession that government is too big
Gregory: what about Medicare issue
Giuiliani: it’s a risk that talking about it could
ruin the GOP but it’s worth it to privatize
the social safety net
Gregory: should Mitt Romney talk
about his taxes?
Giuiliani: I’m sure it’s a non-issue but he
should he should not reveal them because
it could be very damaging
Gregory: how do you respond to the
charge that Joe Biden made a gaffe
Giuiliani: I’m afraid I must admit that
Joe Biden is a terrible person and a moron
Gregory: and yet he’s Vice President and
you barely avoided prison
Giuiliani: I only said that because I want to
shame the media into making fun of Joe Biden
Todd: be careful - don’t underestimate
Joe Biden - behind those gaffes is
a sharp cookie and a genial genius
Noonan: Joe Biden’s gaffe is the most
important thing ever - but he’s also
loveable senile daffy old man
Gregory: imagine if we had a President like
that Peggy ha ha
Reed: Fluffy you are fucking obsessed
with this - does the name Ted Nugent
mean anything to you
[ break ]
Gregory: who’s going to win the election Chucky?
Todd: if Obama wins Florida Romney can
win every toss-up state and still lose
Gregory: yikes
Dionne: the base of the GOP are old
people who watch Fox constantly but
Medicare gives Obama an opening
Gregory: but shouldn’t we cut Medicare?
Cruz: absolutely!
Gregory: go on Tom
Cruz: we must save Medicare by privatizing it
Gregory: I see
Cruz: we must completely reform
Medicare so it will be there
for younger people
Gregory: in a completely different form
Cruz: exactly
Noonan: Paul Ryan bravely went to
old people in Florida and told them he
was going to give them another trillion dollars
Greg: brilliant
Noonan: the American people know that
America can’t afford Medicare anymore
Reed: y’all are crazy!
Todd: Ted you demand cuts of Medicare
and then bash Obama for taking money
away from Medicare
Cruz: but he gave the money to undeserving
lazy people on Obamacare
Dionne: that’s all total bullshit - Romney
would re-open the doughnut hole
Gregory: glazed or powdered
Dionne: the GOP never liked Medicare and
have always wanted to get rid of it -
let’s talk about that!
Gregory: sorry we can’t - we talked about the
important issues of Joe Biden’s gaffe and
what Giuliani thinks about it so we’re all out of time
Dionne: of course
Gregory: and that’s another episode
of Meet The Press
**************************************************
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Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-Md.)
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R-Va.)
Mayor Kasim Reed (D-Atlanta)
Ted Cruz (R-TX)
E.J. Dionne
Chuck Todd
Peggy Noonan
Rudy Giuliani
*********************************
Gregory: OMG the campaigns are
actually talking about an issue like
Medicare - that’s terrible!
Obama: I will protect Medicare from Paul Ryan!
Ryan: I will protect my Mommy from Obama!
Gregory: so how about that Paul Ryan?
O’Malley: Paul Ryan wants to privatize Medicare!
McDonnell: Obama caused the recession in 2007!
Gregory: is Medicare doomed
McDonnell: Medicare will go bankrupt in
a few decades!
Gregory: Joe Biden said the GOP is going
to put y’all back in chains
O’Malley: so fucking what
Gregory: but it’s so divisive!
O’Malley: Romney uses racist dog whistles
all damn the time
Greg: Bob how do you answer the charge
that Joe Biden is a racist?
McDonnell: sadly I must agree
Gregory: Romney says Obama is running
a campaign of hate
O’Malley: Romney is a big whiner who
constantly fouls and then calls foul
Gregory: Romney says he paid a
whopping 13% in taxes
McDonnell: Obama had a whopping tax hike!
Gregory: that would be an awesome
point if it were true
O’Malley: Fluffy who knows if Mitt
ever paid taxes at all??
McDonnell: Obama is a nice guy but he’s
failed to fix the Republican recession of 2008
Gregory: Obama would take $700 billion from
Medicare and Romney would make is a
voucher program for people under 55
O’Malley: a fucking voucher - how delightful
McDonnell: Romney is just being honest -
America is the greatest country in the world
and can’t afford to take care of old people anymore
Gregory: I’m sold
McDonnell: we have to cut Medicare -
also Obama robbed Medicare
Gregory: Ryan proposed the same
efficiency cuts that Obama made
McDonnell: exactly - Obama has blood
on his hands!
Gregory: I’m confused
McDonnell: America is awesome!
We’re broke! USA! USA!
Gregory: rock on
McDonnell: Obama just talks and talks
and Ryan bravely promises to give more
money to current old people
Gregory: unemployment is still really high
O’Malley: true but we created
more jobs last year than in 8 years of
George Bush Presidency
Gregory: maybe but he gave good aircraft carrier
O’Malley: should we give another
massive tax cut to people who make
millions of dollars per year?
Gregory: it couldn’t hurt!
Gregory: Ted you are an hispanic
anti-establishment tea partier
Cruz: I love Paul Ryan!!
Gregory: go on please
Cruz: Romney is admittedly intensely
dislikable but Obama isn’t creating
enough jobs
Reed: Ryan is a loveable right-wing nut
Dionne: true believers on the left and
right believe voucherizing Medicare is
a winning issue for them
Gregory: oh it’s on now
Dionne: The GOP has to decide if Barack Obama
is a socialist who is giving away freebies to the poor
or a brtue who is viciously cutting Medicare
Noonan: Ryan is good-looking and serious
but putting old people on an ice floe may
not be a winning issue for the GOP
Todd: the GOP brilliantly shifted away
from lack of jobs to talk about how
Republicans want to cut Medicare
Cruz: the American people are fed up
with Medicare maybe someday going
to people younger than 55!
Gregory: you go Tom!
Cruz: Ted
Gregory: whatever you’re only a nominee
Cruz: the government has its boot on
the neck of the people!
Noonan: voters are dissatisfied and crave
hope and optimism also someone
who will admit we are broke and
must privatize the social safety net
Dionne: if we’re broke can we at least
raise taxes on billionaires?
Reed: Ryan isn’t serious - he voted for TARP,
tax cuts, wars and drug benefits and none of
it was paid for as long as Bush was President
Cruz: he’s been serious about talking about
cutting spending since Obama became President
Reed: what a damn joke
Dionne: Obama is serious about talking
about cutting too!
Cruz: yes but I hate him so it doesn’t count
Gregory: Saint Rudy tell me about Paul Ryan
Giuiliani: he’s not as dumb as Sarah Palin
Gregory: win
Giuiliani: we have learned since the
Bush recession that government is too big
Gregory: what about Medicare issue
Giuiliani: it’s a risk that talking about it could
ruin the GOP but it’s worth it to privatize
the social safety net
Gregory: should Mitt Romney talk
about his taxes?
Giuiliani: I’m sure it’s a non-issue but he
should he should not reveal them because
it could be very damaging
Gregory: how do you respond to the
charge that Joe Biden made a gaffe
Giuiliani: I’m afraid I must admit that
Joe Biden is a terrible person and a moron
Gregory: and yet he’s Vice President and
you barely avoided prison
Giuiliani: I only said that because I want to
shame the media into making fun of Joe Biden
Todd: be careful - don’t underestimate
Joe Biden - behind those gaffes is
a sharp cookie and a genial genius
Noonan: Joe Biden’s gaffe is the most
important thing ever - but he’s also
loveable senile daffy old man
Gregory: imagine if we had a President like
that Peggy ha ha
Reed: Fluffy you are fucking obsessed
with this - does the name Ted Nugent
mean anything to you
[ break ]
Gregory: who’s going to win the election Chucky?
Todd: if Obama wins Florida Romney can
win every toss-up state and still lose
Gregory: yikes
Dionne: the base of the GOP are old
people who watch Fox constantly but
Medicare gives Obama an opening
Gregory: but shouldn’t we cut Medicare?
Cruz: absolutely!
Gregory: go on Tom
Cruz: we must save Medicare by privatizing it
Gregory: I see
Cruz: we must completely reform
Medicare so it will be there
for younger people
Gregory: in a completely different form
Cruz: exactly
Noonan: Paul Ryan bravely went to
old people in Florida and told them he
was going to give them another trillion dollars
Greg: brilliant
Noonan: the American people know that
America can’t afford Medicare anymore
Reed: y’all are crazy!
Todd: Ted you demand cuts of Medicare
and then bash Obama for taking money
away from Medicare
Cruz: but he gave the money to undeserving
lazy people on Obamacare
Dionne: that’s all total bullshit - Romney
would re-open the doughnut hole
Gregory: glazed or powdered
Dionne: the GOP never liked Medicare and
have always wanted to get rid of it -
let’s talk about that!
Gregory: sorry we can’t - we talked about the
important issues of Joe Biden’s gaffe and
what Giuliani thinks about it so we’re all out of time
Dionne: of course
Gregory: and that’s another episode
of Meet The Press
**************************************************
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This Week on ABC - August 19, 2012
Guests:
Stephanie Cutter - Obama Campaign
Kevin Madden - Romney Campaign
****************************************
Tapper: OMG politics is so mean!
Obama: Paul Ryan wants Mitt Romney
to pay 1% in taxes!
Madden: yes but this would give poor
Americans an incentive to invest in the
very trustworthy stock market
Cutter: Romney will raise taxes on the
middle class by $2,000 just to give a
big tax cut to rich people
Tapper: it’s a fair cop
Madden: Obama wants to raise to taxes
on our Job Creators®
Cutter: they are Winkelvoss Twins of employment
-- if those people were Job Creators® they
would have created jobs
Tappen: Obama is very mean to talk about
Romney putting a dog on the roof of his car
Cutter: LOL that was hilarious
Madden: Romney is running a very serious
campaign about coal and Obama is dividing
America talking about his favorite chili
Tapper: I hear you but Romney does lie
pretty much all the tie
Madden: that’s true but Obama is a socialist
appeaser who will turn America over to
the Revered Wright and a bunch of Black Panthers
Tapper: Rudy Giuliani says Joe Biden
isn’t very bright
Cutter: did Bernie Kerik tell him to say that?
Tapper: Biden says Republicans are
gonna put y’all back in chains
Cutten: so what - Romney said Wall Street
was chained and shackled
Tapper: Paul Ryan said he would end
the gutting of Medicare which he and
Obama proposed
Madden: Obama destroyed Medicare
and gave the money to lazy people!
Tapper: nice
Madden: also the GOP bravely guts Medicare
for people under 55
Tapper: Did Mitt Romney kill a steelworker’s wife?
Cutter: no no no not at all - Bain Capital did
Tapper: did Obama kill Osama bin Laden?
Madden: No George Bush did -
Obama had nothing to do with it!
Tapper: thanks for this fascinating
discussion guys
****************************************
Stephanie Cutter - Obama Campaign
Kevin Madden - Romney Campaign
****************************************
Tapper: OMG politics is so mean!
Obama: Paul Ryan wants Mitt Romney
to pay 1% in taxes!
Madden: yes but this would give poor
Americans an incentive to invest in the
very trustworthy stock market
Cutter: Romney will raise taxes on the
middle class by $2,000 just to give a
big tax cut to rich people
Tapper: it’s a fair cop
Madden: Obama wants to raise to taxes
on our Job Creators®
Cutter: they are Winkelvoss Twins of employment
-- if those people were Job Creators® they
would have created jobs
Tappen: Obama is very mean to talk about
Romney putting a dog on the roof of his car
Cutter: LOL that was hilarious
Madden: Romney is running a very serious
campaign about coal and Obama is dividing
America talking about his favorite chili
Tapper: I hear you but Romney does lie
pretty much all the tie
Madden: that’s true but Obama is a socialist
appeaser who will turn America over to
the Revered Wright and a bunch of Black Panthers
Tapper: Rudy Giuliani says Joe Biden
isn’t very bright
Cutter: did Bernie Kerik tell him to say that?
Tapper: Biden says Republicans are
gonna put y’all back in chains
Cutten: so what - Romney said Wall Street
was chained and shackled
Tapper: Paul Ryan said he would end
the gutting of Medicare which he and
Obama proposed
Madden: Obama destroyed Medicare
and gave the money to lazy people!
Tapper: nice
Madden: also the GOP bravely guts Medicare
for people under 55
Tapper: Did Mitt Romney kill a steelworker’s wife?
Cutter: no no no not at all - Bain Capital did
Tapper: did Obama kill Osama bin Laden?
Madden: No George Bush did -
Obama had nothing to do with it!
Tapper: thanks for this fascinating
discussion guys
****************************************
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Meet The Press - August 12, 2012
Guests:
Reince Preibus - Chair RNC
Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI)
David Axelrod (Obama Campaign)
Dan Balz
Rachel Maddow
Rich Lowry
Bill Bennett
Rafalca
***************************
Gregory: OMG Paul Ryan is now the
intellectual leader of the Republican Party
Audience: high praise indeed
Reporter: Paul Ryan is going to
campaign without Mitt Romney who
will spend more time with his money
Gregory: Team Romney outwitted
the national political media
Audience: unpossible
Reporter: Journalists didn’t recognize
Ryan because he was wearing a
baseball cap and also he doesn’t
usually venture out in sunlight
Gregory: I love it
Reporter: then Ryan snuck out the back
of a magic wardrobe in his house and
scampered through the woods
Gregory: he’s like budget-cutting
woodland goblin
[ break ]
Gregory: is this a game-changing choice?
Preibus: America is starving and hungry
Gregory: we all know that
Preibus: this choice shows that Romney
will govern as he campaigned - as a
soulless rich white guy
Gregory: Does Paul Ryan want to put
our elderly out on the street?
Preibus: Obama promised to carpet the world!
Gregory: plush or berber?
Preibus: saxony!
Gregory: naturally
Preibus: Obama ruined our credit rating
Gregory: I thought that was the tea party
Preibus: Obama wants to gut Medicare!
Gregory: Ryan wants to turn
Medicare into a voucher program
Preibus: yes but Obama will bankrupt Medicare
Gregory: my goodness
Preibus: Obama is filthy thief who stole
money from Medicare and gave it to
his lazy friends on welfare
Gregory: those are strong words Reince
Preibus: Fluffy we must save Medicare
for future generations by taking it
away from present generations
Gregory: tell me more
Preibus: Obama loves the sound of his
own voice like some uppity
voice-talking guy
Gregory: and that breathing thing
he does - it never stops
Preibus: we are truly blessed to have
these two white men willing to revoke Medicare
Gregory: Paul Ryan voted for TARP,
bailouts, wars and tax cuts
Preibus: That was completely different
- a Republican was President
Gregory: I see
Preibus: Democrat are criminals who
won’t cut Medicare!
Gregory: Ryan has no foreign policy or
private sector experience
Preibus: Romney ran the Olympics!
Gregory: thanks for coming
[ break ]
Gregory: welcome Governor Walker
Walker: cheesehead rule!
Gregory: let’s to some tough questions
- what is noodling?
Walker: Ryan’s personal life is none
of our business
Gregory: was this a game changing choice?
Walker: Yes - Paul Ryan is adorable!
Gregory: you think America will fall in love?
Walker: Ryan is a great choice and also
Mitt Romney is very courageous for
choosing such a principled nut
Gregory: People don’t want to change Medicare
Walker: Americans deserve better than
a boring national conversation about Medicare
Gregory: it seems like a problem
Walker: don’t worry Fluffers -
Mitt Romney will protect Medicare
from the likes of Paul Ryan
Gregory: I feel so much better now
Walker: Obama won’t protect future
children from current greedy elderly people
Gregory: Do people care more about
the debt or do they want Social Security
and Medicare?
Walker: I am not the second Governor
ever recalled from office
Gregory: winning!
Walker: Romney is very bold for
choosing such a divisive figure as Paul Ryan
Gregory: Can Ryan even carry his home state?
Walker: if he doesn’t it’s because
we’re a certified Blue State®
Gregory: how do you win Wisconsin?
Walker: Noodles!
[ break ]
Gregory: how about Paul Ryan?
Axelrod: Ryan would cut funding for
medical research and nursing homes and
instead give rich people trillions of dollars
Gregory: Paul Ryan would respond to
you by saying DEBT CRISIS
Axelrod: uh huh
Gregory: Ryan says we must destroy the
program in order to save it
Axelrod: Fluffy Obama added eight
years to life of Medicare
Gregory: well that’s not enough
Axelrod: Gingrich called the Ryan plan
right-wing social engineering
Gregory: good - America needs more engineers
Axelrod: Ryan voted for tax cuts,
more wars, bailouts and now he wants
… moar tax cuts!
Gregory: Ryan says Obama had 24
months to fix the Republican recession
and he failed
Axelrod: the GOP gave Obama an
economy shedding 800,000 jobs per month
Gregory: that’s all in the past
Axelrod: the GOP wants to double down on
the ideas that caused a Depression
in the first place
Gregory: forget the petty arguments over unemployment - what is this election all about?
Axelrod: saving the middle class or crushing it
Gregory: Romney says Obama is
very mean for a Super PAC ad saying
a guy was laid off by Bain and he
lost his health insurance and his wife died
Axelrod: here’s the thing about that ad
- it’s all true
Gregory: well it’s not very polite
Axelrod: Meanwhile Romney approved
a totally false ad saying Obama wants
to give welfare money away to undeserving
lazy people
Gregory: speaking of that - our
expert panel is coming up next
[ break ]
Gregory: OMG we’re all in love with Ryan!!
Todd: Mitt 2.0 needed a re-boot
Gregory: I love it
Todd: Romney did some internal polling
and found that after he has campaigned
for six months and no one likes him
Balz: This was as they say a
moment of clarity
Gregory: sweet
Balz: the debate is going to be teh awesome!
Gregory: liberals and conservatives both
love how polarizing Ryan is
Maddow: liberals want the election to
be a choice between keeping Medicare
or getting rid of it
Bennett: I’m begging the American people
to pause for a minute and not reject
Ryan’s crazy ideas out of hand
Gregory: that’s fair
Bennett: you’re gonna have to deal
with Ryan now bitches! It’s on!
Lowry: conservatives are thrilled with
this choice since Romney is a clearly a
loser and a weak candidate
Lowry: Obama accused Romney of
killing people but he has blood on his
hands because he takes money from Medicare
Maddow: Ryan’s plan does that too!
Lowry: but Romney is the nominee so
that doesn’t matter
Maddow: that’s amazing - Ryan is
simultaneously a conservative superhero
for budget-cutting but his budget ideas
are also irrelevant?
Lowry: that’s my story and I’m sticking with it
Todd: um what the fuck Rich?
Lowry: We must cut medicare!
Obama cuts medicare!
Balz: even Republicans can’t stand
Ryan’s batshit ideas
Bennett: Paul Ryan turned Alice Rivlin
into a vampire and she’s perfectly happy
Maddow: we cannot rely solely on the
contentment level of the reluctant undead
Bennett: under Ryan’s bold visionary
plan people could stay on Medicare
if they wanted to
Gregory: well I’m sold
Gregory: Chucky can Romney-Ryan win?
Todd: there are old people in Florida,
Iowa and Pennsylvania and they
kind of like Medicare
Bennett: Obama is wrecking the country
Gregory: I see
Bennett: Romney is like Ronald Reagan
Reagan: don’t drag me into this Bill
Gregory: are voters yearning for
cutting spending?
Maddow: Ryan’s plan is to cut taxes
for rich people and MAGIC
Lowry: everyone knows that when you
cut taxes for rich people revenues go up
Gregory: everyone?
Lowry: yes - look at how popular
Simpson-Bowles is
Maddow: Paul Ryan rejected Simpson-Bowles because it slightly raised taxes
Lowry: Rachel do you support cutting
funds for Medicare - yes or no!
Maddow: I’m not running for office
- Paul Ryan is
Lowry: but only for Vice President -
no one cares about that - now I demand
you answer my question
Gregory: Bill tell me something wonderful
about Paul Ryan
Bennett: when I first met Ryan I told him
I liked sex and drugs and Paul said
no thanks I’m only into money
Gregory: that’s wonderful - what else
Bennett: he’s 2,000 years old, sleeps
underground, has his original heart
and never shot a man in the face
Gregory: what a dreamboat!
[ break ]
Gregory: hi Rafalca
Rafalca: nice to see you Fluffy
Gregory: how were the Olympic games
Rafalca: they were amazing - marching
the opening ceremonies was incredible
although when I saw all those Mary Poppins
I nearly plopped one on the track
Gregory: should you be exempt from
taxes on your Olympic winnings
Rafalca: that doesn’t concern me since
I’m actually a corporation registered
in the Cayman Islands
Gregory: should Mitt release his taxes
about you?
Rafalca: don’t drag me into this -
I’m just a horse who loves to dance
Gregory: what does the future hold for you
Rafalca: I’m aiming to do the hokey-pokey in Rio
Gregory: and that’s another episode
of Meet The Press
*****************************************
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Reince Preibus - Chair RNC
Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI)
David Axelrod (Obama Campaign)
Dan Balz
Rachel Maddow
Rich Lowry
Bill Bennett
Rafalca
***************************
Gregory: OMG Paul Ryan is now the
intellectual leader of the Republican Party
Audience: high praise indeed
Reporter: Paul Ryan is going to
campaign without Mitt Romney who
will spend more time with his money
Gregory: Team Romney outwitted
the national political media
Audience: unpossible
Reporter: Journalists didn’t recognize
Ryan because he was wearing a
baseball cap and also he doesn’t
usually venture out in sunlight
Gregory: I love it
Reporter: then Ryan snuck out the back
of a magic wardrobe in his house and
scampered through the woods
Gregory: he’s like budget-cutting
woodland goblin
[ break ]
Gregory: is this a game-changing choice?
Preibus: America is starving and hungry
Gregory: we all know that
Preibus: this choice shows that Romney
will govern as he campaigned - as a
soulless rich white guy
Gregory: Does Paul Ryan want to put
our elderly out on the street?
Preibus: Obama promised to carpet the world!
Gregory: plush or berber?
Preibus: saxony!
Gregory: naturally
Preibus: Obama ruined our credit rating
Gregory: I thought that was the tea party
Preibus: Obama wants to gut Medicare!
Gregory: Ryan wants to turn
Medicare into a voucher program
Preibus: yes but Obama will bankrupt Medicare
Gregory: my goodness
Preibus: Obama is filthy thief who stole
money from Medicare and gave it to
his lazy friends on welfare
Gregory: those are strong words Reince
Preibus: Fluffy we must save Medicare
for future generations by taking it
away from present generations
Gregory: tell me more
Preibus: Obama loves the sound of his
own voice like some uppity
voice-talking guy
Gregory: and that breathing thing
he does - it never stops
Preibus: we are truly blessed to have
these two white men willing to revoke Medicare
Gregory: Paul Ryan voted for TARP,
bailouts, wars and tax cuts
Preibus: That was completely different
- a Republican was President
Gregory: I see
Preibus: Democrat are criminals who
won’t cut Medicare!
Gregory: Ryan has no foreign policy or
private sector experience
Preibus: Romney ran the Olympics!
Gregory: thanks for coming
[ break ]
Gregory: welcome Governor Walker
Walker: cheesehead rule!
Gregory: let’s to some tough questions
- what is noodling?
Walker: Ryan’s personal life is none
of our business
Gregory: was this a game changing choice?
Walker: Yes - Paul Ryan is adorable!
Gregory: you think America will fall in love?
Walker: Ryan is a great choice and also
Mitt Romney is very courageous for
choosing such a principled nut
Gregory: People don’t want to change Medicare
Walker: Americans deserve better than
a boring national conversation about Medicare
Gregory: it seems like a problem
Walker: don’t worry Fluffers -
Mitt Romney will protect Medicare
from the likes of Paul Ryan
Gregory: I feel so much better now
Walker: Obama won’t protect future
children from current greedy elderly people
Gregory: Do people care more about
the debt or do they want Social Security
and Medicare?
Walker: I am not the second Governor
ever recalled from office
Gregory: winning!
Walker: Romney is very bold for
choosing such a divisive figure as Paul Ryan
Gregory: Can Ryan even carry his home state?
Walker: if he doesn’t it’s because
we’re a certified Blue State®
Gregory: how do you win Wisconsin?
Walker: Noodles!
[ break ]
Gregory: how about Paul Ryan?
Axelrod: Ryan would cut funding for
medical research and nursing homes and
instead give rich people trillions of dollars
Gregory: Paul Ryan would respond to
you by saying DEBT CRISIS
Axelrod: uh huh
Gregory: Ryan says we must destroy the
program in order to save it
Axelrod: Fluffy Obama added eight
years to life of Medicare
Gregory: well that’s not enough
Axelrod: Gingrich called the Ryan plan
right-wing social engineering
Gregory: good - America needs more engineers
Axelrod: Ryan voted for tax cuts,
more wars, bailouts and now he wants
… moar tax cuts!
Gregory: Ryan says Obama had 24
months to fix the Republican recession
and he failed
Axelrod: the GOP gave Obama an
economy shedding 800,000 jobs per month
Gregory: that’s all in the past
Axelrod: the GOP wants to double down on
the ideas that caused a Depression
in the first place
Gregory: forget the petty arguments over unemployment - what is this election all about?
Axelrod: saving the middle class or crushing it
Gregory: Romney says Obama is
very mean for a Super PAC ad saying
a guy was laid off by Bain and he
lost his health insurance and his wife died
Axelrod: here’s the thing about that ad
- it’s all true
Gregory: well it’s not very polite
Axelrod: Meanwhile Romney approved
a totally false ad saying Obama wants
to give welfare money away to undeserving
lazy people
Gregory: speaking of that - our
expert panel is coming up next
[ break ]
Gregory: OMG we’re all in love with Ryan!!
Todd: Mitt 2.0 needed a re-boot
Gregory: I love it
Todd: Romney did some internal polling
and found that after he has campaigned
for six months and no one likes him
Balz: This was as they say a
moment of clarity
Gregory: sweet
Balz: the debate is going to be teh awesome!
Gregory: liberals and conservatives both
love how polarizing Ryan is
Maddow: liberals want the election to
be a choice between keeping Medicare
or getting rid of it
Bennett: I’m begging the American people
to pause for a minute and not reject
Ryan’s crazy ideas out of hand
Gregory: that’s fair
Bennett: you’re gonna have to deal
with Ryan now bitches! It’s on!
Lowry: conservatives are thrilled with
this choice since Romney is a clearly a
loser and a weak candidate
Lowry: Obama accused Romney of
killing people but he has blood on his
hands because he takes money from Medicare
Maddow: Ryan’s plan does that too!
Lowry: but Romney is the nominee so
that doesn’t matter
Maddow: that’s amazing - Ryan is
simultaneously a conservative superhero
for budget-cutting but his budget ideas
are also irrelevant?
Lowry: that’s my story and I’m sticking with it
Todd: um what the fuck Rich?
Lowry: We must cut medicare!
Obama cuts medicare!
Balz: even Republicans can’t stand
Ryan’s batshit ideas
Bennett: Paul Ryan turned Alice Rivlin
into a vampire and she’s perfectly happy
Maddow: we cannot rely solely on the
contentment level of the reluctant undead
Bennett: under Ryan’s bold visionary
plan people could stay on Medicare
if they wanted to
Gregory: well I’m sold
Gregory: Chucky can Romney-Ryan win?
Todd: there are old people in Florida,
Iowa and Pennsylvania and they
kind of like Medicare
Bennett: Obama is wrecking the country
Gregory: I see
Bennett: Romney is like Ronald Reagan
Reagan: don’t drag me into this Bill
Gregory: are voters yearning for
cutting spending?
Maddow: Ryan’s plan is to cut taxes
for rich people and MAGIC
Lowry: everyone knows that when you
cut taxes for rich people revenues go up
Gregory: everyone?
Lowry: yes - look at how popular
Simpson-Bowles is
Maddow: Paul Ryan rejected Simpson-Bowles because it slightly raised taxes
Lowry: Rachel do you support cutting
funds for Medicare - yes or no!
Maddow: I’m not running for office
- Paul Ryan is
Lowry: but only for Vice President -
no one cares about that - now I demand
you answer my question
Gregory: Bill tell me something wonderful
about Paul Ryan
Bennett: when I first met Ryan I told him
I liked sex and drugs and Paul said
no thanks I’m only into money
Gregory: that’s wonderful - what else
Bennett: he’s 2,000 years old, sleeps
underground, has his original heart
and never shot a man in the face
Gregory: what a dreamboat!
[ break ]
Gregory: hi Rafalca
Rafalca: nice to see you Fluffy
Gregory: how were the Olympic games
Rafalca: they were amazing - marching
the opening ceremonies was incredible
although when I saw all those Mary Poppins
I nearly plopped one on the track
Gregory: should you be exempt from
taxes on your Olympic winnings
Rafalca: that doesn’t concern me since
I’m actually a corporation registered
in the Cayman Islands
Gregory: should Mitt release his taxes
about you?
Rafalca: don’t drag me into this -
I’m just a horse who loves to dance
Gregory: what does the future hold for you
Rafalca: I’m aiming to do the hokey-pokey in Rio
Gregory: and that’s another episode
of Meet The Press
*****************************************
Virtually Speaking Sundays
Marcy Wheeler (@emptywheel) and Avedon Carol (@Avedon_Says )
discuss developments of the week, including Mitt Romney's selection of
Paul Ryan on the GOP ticket. Featuring Culture of Truth's weekly commentary
on the Sunday News Shows: The Most Ridiculous Thing that happened this Sunday.
6:00 p.m. pacific | 9:00 p.m. eastern
Listen live and later at BlogTalkRadio
This Week with George Stephanopoulos - August 12, 2012
Guests:
Fmr. Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN)
David Axelrod (Obama Campaign)
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA)
Howard Dean
Paul Gigot
Cokie Roberts
Peggy Noonan
******************************
Stephanopoulos: wow Romney chose
Paul Ryan to be his Vice President!
Karl: ha Paul Ryan snuck through his
back door into the woods -
the media had no clue
Stephanopoulos: we all know that
Karl: it’s not everyone who can fool
the Beltway media
Stephanopoulos: Ryan has energized
this campaign!
Karl: it’s so on now right now!
Stephanopoulos: but they aren’t
campaigning together
Karl: it’s divide and conquer
Stephanopoulos: do even know
what ‘divide and conquers means?
Karl: um
Stephanopoulos: Axel what
about Paul Ryan?
Axelrod: he’s a scary right-wing
ideologue who would defund
science and education
Stephanopoulos: science is overrated
Axelrod: did I mention he wants
to privatize social security
Stephanopoulos: Ryan is going right
after Obama - does that scare you
Axelrod: Ryan would raise taxes on
the middle class and give rich
people a big tax cut
Stephanopoulos: Mitt Romney says
they will save Medicare from Obama
who steals money from it
Axelrod: Romney’s plan does the same thing
Stephanopoulos: but Paul Ryan
is the nominee now
Axelrod: they also turn Medicare
into a voucher program
Stephanopoulos: that’s good because
Americans love to clip coupons
Axelrod: Ryan doesn’t even think
Medicare should exist
Stephanopoulos: will Ryan carry swing states?
Axelrod: only those that hate women,
medical research and the middle class
Stephanopoulos: a Super PAC ad implies
Romney was responsible for
an employee’s wife’s death
Axelrod: Romney approved an ad that
lies about welfare
Stephanopoulos: still it’s very mean
Axelrod: it’s all true though
[ break ]
Stephanopoulos: Tim you are two-time
loser in the race for Vice President -
no offense but that’s kind of pathetic
Pawlenty: [ sobs ]
Stephanopoulos: you must have a sad
Pawlenty: Obama is not an adult
Stephanopoulos: is Paul Ryan an extremist?
Pawlenty: the American people love
people who tell them hard truths
and give money to rich people
Stephanopoulos: that is so true
Pawlenty: the American people realized
the debt is important in January of 2009
Stephanopoulos: of course
Pawlenty: Obama is the real extremist
for cutting $700 billion from Medicare
Stephanopoulos: what about the Ryan plan?
Pawlenty: under Ryan’s plan people
could still stay on Medicare if they want
Stephanopoulos: with $6,000 less
Pawlenty: you would think the President
would have the courage to cut
Medicare but he won’t
Stephanopoulos: you just accused him
of cutting $700 billion from Medicare
Pawlenty: see - he’s evil!
Stephanopoulos: Ryan is only a
House member and he’s spent life
inside the Beltway
Pawlenty: don’t worry - Romney and Ryan
have got the Bush foreign policy
team advising them
Stephanopoulos: what a relief
Pawlenty: Romney knows all about
foreign countries - he has bank
accounts all over the world!
Stephanopoulos: is Romney lying about
Obama moving people from welfare to work?
Pawlenty: it would be very easy for
Obama to clear this up - just release
the President’s orders!
Stephanopoulos: heh
Pawlenty: Obama should have the
basic decency to take responsibility
for a Super PAC ad he isn’t responsible for
Stephanopoulos: will picking Ryan
change the tone of the campaign?
Pawlenty: Obama surrendered to Russia,
betrayed the Czech republic
and keeps raising taxes
Stephanopoulos: actually Obama has cut taxes
Pawlenty: not in my mind
Stephanopoulos: did you give Mitt
more than 2 years of tax returns
Pawlenty: damn right I did
Stephanopoulos: sorry about losing again loser
Pawlenty: [ sobs ]
[ break ]
Stephanopoulos: you really wanted
Paul Ryan didn’t you
Gigot: I’ve known him since he was
22 years old and Ryan is one of the
most serious and thoughtful vampires I’ve met
Stephanopoulos: oh good
Gigot: Romney cannot win this election
attacking Obama so he turned to
Paul Ryan to close the deal
Dean: hey I’ve got a great idea -
let’s turn Medicare into a voucher program!
Stephanopoulos: Mitt went with his instincts
Noonan: when Romney was with Bain
he had a great eye for those who
could best suck the life out of companies
Newsom: he’s a young good-looking
policy wonk - what’s not to like?
Stephanopoulos: that says it all Gavin
Newsom: except for alienating all
old people - and also young people
Roberts: even Catholic bishops attacked Paul Ryan’s budget
Gigot: Obama cut $700 billion from Medicare!
Newsom: So does Ryan
Gigot: Obama wants unelected panelists
to cut Medicare - only unelected
judges should do that
Dean: Romney’s big problem is that
people think he’s heartless and doesn’t
care about them - I don’t think bringing
on a zombie is going to help
Noonan: Spending is out of control
since 2009!!
Stephanopoulos: wow
Noonan: Ryan must tell old people he
is trying to save Medicare for their
grandchildren by getting rid of it for
their ungrateful children
Roberts: also he must bravely tell rich
people he is willing cut their taxes
Gigot: Romney has been very specific
that he will end loopholes
Dean: name one
Gigot: quit bugging me
Dean: Get rid of Medicare! Are we insane?
Roberts: but Ryan is a good looking young man
Newsom: that is true
Newsom: Ryan wants to cut taxes for
rich people another thirty percent
Noonan: blue collar workers ruined California!
Stephanopoulos: do tell Peggy
Noonan: the left and right all know we
must embrace Paul Ryan’s serious plan
of wars, tax cuts, bailouts, pork for his
district and ending Medicare
Gigot: Ryan’s plan is just like Simpson Bowles
except without higher taxes to pay for stuff
Dean: the man is a radical and a nut
Noonan: it’s a busy bouncy tweeting
world not worthy of a man like
Saint Paul of Janesville
Roberts: ending Medicare is open
to mean demagoguery
Gigot: America is in decline therefore
we need to turn Medicare into
a voucher program
Roberts: Do people think Romney
cares about them?
Gigot: certainly - some of his best friends
know some regular poor people
Noonan: Democrats want to kill Paul Ryan
Roberts: I like Ryan - he’s cute
Noonan: he’s not the type of person who
would push his grandmother off a cliff -
at least not without a good reason
Newsom: forget demagoguery -
the facts are scary enough
Roberts: Obama has a ridiculous ad with
silly women talking about their
“reproductive rights” - it’s pandering!
Stephanopoulos: what should he have done
Roberts: Obama should run an ad
taking credit for U.S. female Olympic athletes
Noonan: the British disappointed me
by throwing the Queen out of a helicopter
Stephanopoulos: and there really is
nothing more to be said
**********************************
Fmr. Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-MN)
David Axelrod (Obama Campaign)
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA)
Howard Dean
Paul Gigot
Cokie Roberts
Peggy Noonan
******************************
Stephanopoulos: wow Romney chose
Paul Ryan to be his Vice President!
Karl: ha Paul Ryan snuck through his
back door into the woods -
the media had no clue
Stephanopoulos: we all know that
Karl: it’s not everyone who can fool
the Beltway media
Stephanopoulos: Ryan has energized
this campaign!
Karl: it’s so on now right now!
Stephanopoulos: but they aren’t
campaigning together
Karl: it’s divide and conquer
Stephanopoulos: do even know
what ‘divide and conquers means?
Karl: um
Stephanopoulos: Axel what
about Paul Ryan?
Axelrod: he’s a scary right-wing
ideologue who would defund
science and education
Stephanopoulos: science is overrated
Axelrod: did I mention he wants
to privatize social security
Stephanopoulos: Ryan is going right
after Obama - does that scare you
Axelrod: Ryan would raise taxes on
the middle class and give rich
people a big tax cut
Stephanopoulos: Mitt Romney says
they will save Medicare from Obama
who steals money from it
Axelrod: Romney’s plan does the same thing
Stephanopoulos: but Paul Ryan
is the nominee now
Axelrod: they also turn Medicare
into a voucher program
Stephanopoulos: that’s good because
Americans love to clip coupons
Axelrod: Ryan doesn’t even think
Medicare should exist
Stephanopoulos: will Ryan carry swing states?
Axelrod: only those that hate women,
medical research and the middle class
Stephanopoulos: a Super PAC ad implies
Romney was responsible for
an employee’s wife’s death
Axelrod: Romney approved an ad that
lies about welfare
Stephanopoulos: still it’s very mean
Axelrod: it’s all true though
[ break ]
Stephanopoulos: Tim you are two-time
loser in the race for Vice President -
no offense but that’s kind of pathetic
Pawlenty: [ sobs ]
Stephanopoulos: you must have a sad
Pawlenty: Obama is not an adult
Stephanopoulos: is Paul Ryan an extremist?
Pawlenty: the American people love
people who tell them hard truths
and give money to rich people
Stephanopoulos: that is so true
Pawlenty: the American people realized
the debt is important in January of 2009
Stephanopoulos: of course
Pawlenty: Obama is the real extremist
for cutting $700 billion from Medicare
Stephanopoulos: what about the Ryan plan?
Pawlenty: under Ryan’s plan people
could still stay on Medicare if they want
Stephanopoulos: with $6,000 less
Pawlenty: you would think the President
would have the courage to cut
Medicare but he won’t
Stephanopoulos: you just accused him
of cutting $700 billion from Medicare
Pawlenty: see - he’s evil!
Stephanopoulos: Ryan is only a
House member and he’s spent life
inside the Beltway
Pawlenty: don’t worry - Romney and Ryan
have got the Bush foreign policy
team advising them
Stephanopoulos: what a relief
Pawlenty: Romney knows all about
foreign countries - he has bank
accounts all over the world!
Stephanopoulos: is Romney lying about
Obama moving people from welfare to work?
Pawlenty: it would be very easy for
Obama to clear this up - just release
the President’s orders!
Stephanopoulos: heh
Pawlenty: Obama should have the
basic decency to take responsibility
for a Super PAC ad he isn’t responsible for
Stephanopoulos: will picking Ryan
change the tone of the campaign?
Pawlenty: Obama surrendered to Russia,
betrayed the Czech republic
and keeps raising taxes
Stephanopoulos: actually Obama has cut taxes
Pawlenty: not in my mind
Stephanopoulos: did you give Mitt
more than 2 years of tax returns
Pawlenty: damn right I did
Stephanopoulos: sorry about losing again loser
Pawlenty: [ sobs ]
[ break ]
Stephanopoulos: you really wanted
Paul Ryan didn’t you
Gigot: I’ve known him since he was
22 years old and Ryan is one of the
most serious and thoughtful vampires I’ve met
Stephanopoulos: oh good
Gigot: Romney cannot win this election
attacking Obama so he turned to
Paul Ryan to close the deal
Dean: hey I’ve got a great idea -
let’s turn Medicare into a voucher program!
Stephanopoulos: Mitt went with his instincts
Noonan: when Romney was with Bain
he had a great eye for those who
could best suck the life out of companies
Newsom: he’s a young good-looking
policy wonk - what’s not to like?
Stephanopoulos: that says it all Gavin
Newsom: except for alienating all
old people - and also young people
Roberts: even Catholic bishops attacked Paul Ryan’s budget
Gigot: Obama cut $700 billion from Medicare!
Newsom: So does Ryan
Gigot: Obama wants unelected panelists
to cut Medicare - only unelected
judges should do that
Dean: Romney’s big problem is that
people think he’s heartless and doesn’t
care about them - I don’t think bringing
on a zombie is going to help
Noonan: Spending is out of control
since 2009!!
Stephanopoulos: wow
Noonan: Ryan must tell old people he
is trying to save Medicare for their
grandchildren by getting rid of it for
their ungrateful children
Roberts: also he must bravely tell rich
people he is willing cut their taxes
Gigot: Romney has been very specific
that he will end loopholes
Dean: name one
Gigot: quit bugging me
Dean: Get rid of Medicare! Are we insane?
Roberts: but Ryan is a good looking young man
Newsom: that is true
Newsom: Ryan wants to cut taxes for
rich people another thirty percent
Noonan: blue collar workers ruined California!
Stephanopoulos: do tell Peggy
Noonan: the left and right all know we
must embrace Paul Ryan’s serious plan
of wars, tax cuts, bailouts, pork for his
district and ending Medicare
Gigot: Ryan’s plan is just like Simpson Bowles
except without higher taxes to pay for stuff
Dean: the man is a radical and a nut
Noonan: it’s a busy bouncy tweeting
world not worthy of a man like
Saint Paul of Janesville
Roberts: ending Medicare is open
to mean demagoguery
Gigot: America is in decline therefore
we need to turn Medicare into
a voucher program
Roberts: Do people think Romney
cares about them?
Gigot: certainly - some of his best friends
know some regular poor people
Noonan: Democrats want to kill Paul Ryan
Roberts: I like Ryan - he’s cute
Noonan: he’s not the type of person who
would push his grandmother off a cliff -
at least not without a good reason
Newsom: forget demagoguery -
the facts are scary enough
Roberts: Obama has a ridiculous ad with
silly women talking about their
“reproductive rights” - it’s pandering!
Stephanopoulos: what should he have done
Roberts: Obama should run an ad
taking credit for U.S. female Olympic athletes
Noonan: the British disappointed me
by throwing the Queen out of a helicopter
Stephanopoulos: and there really is
nothing more to be said
**********************************
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