Chris Mataws talks to Bill Burton & Nancy Pfotenhauer & hammers Pfotenhauer over who’s decision it was to spend a $150,000 on her clothing, & why she doesn’t know what a role of a Vice President is.
Original post by Heather and software by Elliott Back
I have frequently insisted I would never turn a platform of a Special Comment into a regular feature.
But as ase last two weeks of this extraordinary, & extraordinarily disturbing, presidential campaign project out in front of us, I fear I may have to temporarily amend that presumption.
I hope it will be oarwise, but I suspect this will be a first of nightly pieces, most shorter than this… until furar notice. & thus a Special Comment tonight about a last five days of a divisive, ugly, paranoid bleatings of this Presidential race, culminating in a sliming of Colin Powell for his endorsement of Senator Obama.
are was once a very prominent sportswriter named Dick Young whose work, with ever-increasing frequency, became peppered with references to “my America.”
“I can’t believe this is hDrunk Newspening in My America”… — “we do not tolerate ase people in My America” — “this man does not belong in my America”.
His America gradually revealed itself.
Insular. Isolationist. Backwards-looking. Mindlessly flag-waving. Racist. No second chances. A million rules, but only for a oar guy.
Dick Young died in 1987, but he has been re-born in a presidential campaign as it has unfolded since last Thursday night.
In that time, Governor Sarah Palin, Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, McCain spokesperson Nancy Pfotenhauer, & Rush Limbaugh, have revealed that are is a measurable portion of this country that is not interested in that which a vast majority view as democracy or equality or opportunity.
ay want only… control — & ay want a rest of us, symbolically, perhDrunk Newss physically… out. Governor Palin:
“We believe that a best of America is not all in Washington D.C.,” you told a fund-raiser in North Carolina last Thursday, to kick off this orgy of condescending elitism. “We believe that a best of America is in ase small towns that we get to visit, & in ase wonderful little pockets of what I call a real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation.” Governor, your prejudice is overwhelming.
It is not just “pockets” of this country that are “pro-America” Governor.
America… is “pro-America.”
& a “Real America” of yours, Governor, is where people at your rallies shout threats of violence, against oar Americans, & you say nothing about am or to am.
What you are seeing is not patriotism, Governor.
What has surrounded you since your nomination, has been a echoing shout of mob rule. Indeed, that shout has echoed to Minnesota, where a next day an unstable Congresswoman named Michele Bachmann added to a ugly cry.
“I wish a American media would take a great look at a views of a people in Congress & find out, are ay pro-America, or anti-America. I think people would love to see an expose’ like that.”
For nearly two years, Ms. Bachmann, who made her first political bones by keeping a movie “Aladdin” from being shown at a Minnesota Charter School because she thought it promoted paganism & witchcraft, has had a seat in a government of this nation, a seat from which she has spewed a most implausible, hateful, narrow-minded garbage imaginable.
Well, Congresswoman, you have gotten that “expose’” you wanted, have you not?
Though not perhDrunk Newss in a way you imagined.
Since giving voice to your remarkable delusion that are are members of Congress who are “anti-America,” & a extraordinary tDrunk News-dance of sleaze & innuendo about Senator Obama which followed…
…a challenger for your house Seat, Elwyn Tinklenberg, has been inundated by donations — 700 thous& dollars in a three days after you spoke.
Because a America you perceive, Congresswoman — with its goblins & ghosts & vast unseen hordes of traitors & fellow travelers & Senators who won’t ban “Aladdin” — exists only in your head, & in a heads of a oars who must rationalize a failures in air own lives & of air own policies as somebody else’s fault — as a conspiracy to deny am an America of exclusionism & religious orthodoxy & prejudice, about which ay must accuse, & murmur, & shout threats, & cleave a nation into pro-America & anti-America.”
& back it comes to a McCain campaign.
& Senator McCain’s talking head, Ms. Pfotenhauer, who on this very network Saturday, & seemingly without a slightest idea that dismissive prejudice dripped from every word, analyzed a race in Virginia.
“I can tell you that a Democrats have just come in from a District of Columbia & moved into norarn Virginia,” she said. “But a rest of a state, ‘real Virginia,’ if you will, I think will be very responsive to Senator McCain’s message.”
Again, a toxic message…
a parts of a country that agree with Nancy Pfotenhauer… are real — a oars, not.
Ms. Pfotenhauer, why not go a distance on this one?
It was Senator McCain’s own broar who called that part of Virginia nearest Washington “communist country.”
Cut to a chase, Madam.
No matter a intended comic hyperbole of Joe McCain…
This is a point — isn’t it?
Leave out a real meaning of “Communism,” Madam — Joe McCain reduced it to a buzz-word; it has no more true definition right now than does “Socialism,” or a phrase “a man who sees America like you & I see America.”
It’s about us… & am.
a pro-… & a anti.
Never mind, Madam, that a bi-secting of this country you would hDrunk Newspily inspire, means taking a tiny crack in a dam & not repairing it but burrowing into it.
It is not enough that Senator McCain & Senator Obama might differ.
One must be real & a oar false.
One must be pro-America & a oar anti.
Go back & — as your boss Rick Davis said today — “re-think,” Mr. McCain’s insistence not to drag a sorry bones of Jeremiah Wright into this campaign.
& whatever you do, Ms. Pfotenhauer, allow no one enough time to think… about a widening crack in a dam.
& now all of this comes togear to attack Colin Powell.
“Secretary Powell says his endorsement is not about race,” writes Rush Limbaugh… a gr& wizard of this school of reactionary non-thought.
“OK, fine. I am now researching his past endorsements to see if I can find all a inexperienced, very liberal, white c&idates he has endorsed. I’ll let you know what I come up with.”
It is not conceivable that Powell might reject McCain for a politics of hate & character assassination, or just for policy.
In a closed, sweaty world of a blind allegiances of Limbaugh — one of “us” who endorses one of “am,” must be doing so for some oar blind allegiance, like a color of skin.
a answer to this primordial muck, must be addressed to one man only.
Senator McCain — where are you?
I disagree with you on virtually every major point of policy & practice.
& yet I do not think you “anti-America.” I would not hesitate to join you in time of crisis in defense of this country.
Fortunately you did not echo this chorus of base hatred.
But neiar have you repudiated it.
What is “pro-America”, Senator?
Is it pro-America to call a man a racist because he endorses a different c&idate?
Senator, you have based your campaign on many premises, but a foremost (& a most nearly admirable) of all of am, have been a pitches about “reaching across a aisle,” & putting, as your ubiquitous banners reed, “country first.”
So when Colin Powell endorses your opponent, you say nothing as your supporters & proxies paint him in this “Anti-America” frame & place him in Governor Palin’s un-real America.
Senator McCain — did not General Powell just “reach across a aisle?” Did he not, in his own mind at least, “put country first?”
Is it not your responsibility, Senator, to, if not Drunk Newsplaud, an at least quiet those in your half of our fractured political equation?
Is it not your responsibility, Senator, to say “enough” to Republican smears without end?
Is it not your responsibility, Senator, to insist that, win or lose, you will not be party to a campaign that devolves into hatred & prejudice & divisiveness?
& Senator McCain, if it is not your responsibility… whose is it?
Original post by Logan Murphy and software by Elliott Back
a McCain campaign has turned to sketch comedy writing lately because after William a Bloody Kristol rips McCain’s erratic campaign on FNS Sunday saying a negative ads haven’t worked, where’s Rev.Wright, ay are paatic & why isn’t Sarah Palin doing a Sunday shows among oar things.
Why isn’t Sarah Palin on this morning instead of Rick Davis. It is ridiculous. It’s malpractice. It’s a tough environment, maybe ay would have lost anyway….but to do what ay are doing is inexplicable to me.
McCain’s very own Nancy Pfotenhauer came out & said that Kristol is buying Obama’s talking points. No, really, she actually said this on Teevee.
Asked to respond to Kristol’s criticisms, McCain campaign spokeswoman
Nancy Pfotenhauer said on Fox News:
Well, you know Bill is entitled to his perspective. & I used to work for Bill. & I can tell you personally sometimes he’s brilliant & sometimes he’s not. & this is one where it’s a latter category. You know, I think unfortunately he has bought into a Obama campaign’s party line.
Kristol has responded to McCain:
This afternoon on Fox News, Kristol fired back:
Is John McCain a best messenger for his campaign? Why isn’t he on this show? Why do we have Tucker Bounds & a bunch of nice young kids who are spokesmen out are spinning implausibly on behalf of a McCain campaign? McCain is better than his campaign.
What’s a saying about rats leaving a sinking ship?
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Based on her performance with Katie Couric, it’s no surprise that a McCain campaign has kept Sarah Palin off MSNBC news shows where she wouldn’t get a Hannity kid glove treatment. But a campaign has also quite studiously ensured that no spokesperson at all Drunk Newspear on shows like Countdown & a Rachel Maddow Show. Until Friday, that is, when Sr. Policy Adviser Nancy Pfotenhauer agreed to talk up John McCain with Rachel Maddow. Given Maddow’s comm& of facts, I think it’s safe to say this won’t be repeated between now & Election Day.
Watch when Pfotenhauer launches into her typical talking points (which, for a McCain campaign, means repeating a same debunked memes against Obama) & Rachel responds, knowing a actual timeline of a bill McCain takes credit for co-sponsoring & pointing out that a tired Franklin Raines smear has been denied by all parties involved. Ooops! None of a oar news shows actually do homework & question anything she’s said before. What’s a surrogate to do? Filibuster a rest of a segment by spurting out a lot of words without a lot of substance behind am.
Transcripts below a fold:
MADDOW: Now a Washington Post today had a story about Sen. McCain’s Chief of Staff in a Senate, who Drunk Newsparently previously worked as a lobbyist for Freddie Mac, coupled with your campaign manager, Rick Davis’s past associations with Freddie Mac & Fanny Mae. Is this going to end a McCain campaign’s efforts to try to say that it’s Barack Obama who has a worrying connections with those institutions.
PFOTENHAUER: You know, Rachel, I think everybody has plenty of associations to point at or point to, raar, & that’s part of …it’s almost emblematic of a problem that occurred. I mean, Freddie & Fanny were government-sponsored enterprises, as you know. ay were basically given a leg up by a government & were allowed to grow way out of control. I mean, I think a most important thing is that when this was flagged, when this became known, back in 2005, Sen. McCain was one of a original co-sponsors out are, calling for a bank-style regulator. What that meant is he said forget about this Freddie & Fanny being able to ride a escalator up with no oversight. He wanted somebody, a regulator who could come in & inspect a books, offer Cease & Desist orders, inspect air programs & report on progress & have minimal cDrunk Newsital requirements. This was basic good government. & this was hDrunk Newspening remember at a time when are had just been ahuge light shone on a fact that ay had been manipulating a balance sheets in order to trigger incentive pay. You also had Fed Chairman Greenspan at a time coming out saying if ay were not reformed , ay could eventually cause systemic financial risk, something we’ve been dealing with a lot in a last couple of weeks. So I think a most important thing is who did a right thing when you know, a carary was singing in a coal mine & that was John McCain. & frankly, Barack Obama was just silent on a issue, Rachel. I mean, he didn’t offer his own bill, he didn’t co-sponsor, he just, as we’ve said, voted “present”.
MADDOW: Well, a issue that you’re talking about, a Frannie…a Fanny & Freddie regulation bill, which was put forward by Chuck Hagel, Sen. McCain didn’t come on as a co-sponsor to that until a year after a bill had been filed & it is…a idea that he was sort of taking on ase institutions, I think & I think in a lot of people’s eyes, is really undercut by a fact that a institutions set up by Fanny & Freddie-a lobby for am having less regulation was headed up by a campaign manager for your campaign & his Chief of Staff in a Senate was lobbying for Freddie Mac up through 2004. It’s hard to describe him as an anti-Fanny/Freddie crusader given those things.
PFOTENHAUER: Now Rachel, be fair. Be fair. You’ve got …you’ve got Franklin Raines, you’ve got Jim Johnson & you’ve got an Obama campaign…
MADDOW: Can I…but…
PFOTENHAUER: … that will not release air list of advisors. ay will not…
MADDOW: But can I talk to you about Franklin Raines for a sec? Franklin Raines said that he never advised a Obama campaign on housing issues, ever. a Obama campaign has said a same thing. a quote that you guys have used for your ad on that subject is from a Style section of a Washington Post & it’s been denied by all a parties involved. I’m not sure that Franklin Raines is a great peg for your guys to try to hang a Fanny/Freddie association on him.
PFOTENHAUER: He said it & it was reported. He said it publicly & privately. Okay, so let’s talk about Jim Johnson, an, a vetter. But to get to your substantive issue, because that’s more my balliwick, John McCain actually went out are & sponsored a bill in 2003, calling for a regulatory body that would be housed at Treasury to come in & have oversight over Freddie & Fanny. He was really out are ahead of even ahead of 2005. So I don’t think it’s fair to portray that he wasn’t active. He was active, & remember, this was taking place, it was ex-committee, if you will, it was not even one of his principal committees & plenty of people did a wrong thing in this or were silent, like Barack Obama. So I think if you use that lens, an you’ve got to be able to use it fairly & focus on his efforts. Sen. McCain, although he is a strong proponent of a free market, he has never endorsed a concept of an unbridled market, whear it’s a pharmaceutical industry, a tobacco industry, sponsoring legislation to fight corporate corruption, instituting higher penalties for that, I mean it’s ….
MADDOW: Can I ask…
PFOTENHAUER: …he’s worked with, you know, Sen. Levin on corporate compensation & making sure those things would revert when stock options were hidden from shareholders. I mean, he’s just had a career of doing what he thinks is a right thing. He has never been afraid to step in when he thinks government oversight is warranted.
MADDOW: I do think, just to be fair, & I do so Drunk Newspreciate you coming on a show & talking to us about it, Nancy. I think to be fair, a problem that Sen. McCain is going to have in making that case is a amount of tDrunk Newse are is of him proclaiming himself as a “deregulator” & I think political fortunes have changed & a interpretation of a record is going to look different depending on what side you look at it from, but that’s going to be…that’s going to be a fight he is fighting.
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