DISQUS

SCLiberal · 1 year ago

Got an annual begging letter from the Salvation Army yesterday. Wrote on it "I never donate to homophobic groups" and mailed it back to them. I think if we all band together and hit these bigots in the wallet they will back down. It is obvious to me that they worship money more than they worship their god (with all his attending morals). The recent EHarmony case is a prime example. Rather than stand by his convictions and shut down the company, he caved.
Money trumps god for these people.

rexkc · 1 year ago

I really enjoy David Schuster, who has been guest-hosting for Olberman this week. He has been turning on the goofiness, which is really cute. I hope they keep him around.

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

Sorry, i'm just not enjoying his style. And he's trying to be to much like Olberman.... Looking forward to Olberman next week.

jurassicpork · 1 year ago

This is what happens when you install at the head of the DOJ a guy who had the sense to retire years ago.

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

According to TPM, he was defending torture, and 7 or 8 mins into his speech, a protestor yelled "Tyrant!"...and Mukasey went on with his speech, highlighting that perpetrators of torture in the Bush regime should not have the weight of the law applied to them. Defending criminals with portfolios should have been an affront to the entire crowd, IMHO.

But, yes, let him recover and retire...

Indigo · 1 year ago

. . . and then down he went. I wondered from the video whether that might have been a stage-fall. Over slowly and then down kerplunk with plenty of time for the bodyguards to get there just in time and down he goes in slo-mo for the cameras never to speak up on those foul topics again.
King Lear revisited. Applause. Exit stage right! No curtain calls. Send white roses to the stage door.

1billinnj2 · 1 year ago

i agree. david does all the republican talking points also. his show is always leaning to the right that it may collaspe on rush (the fat man) limpbarrrrrr. it is sad to see how yet another person will sell their soul for fame.

Older_Wiser · 1 year ago

Anyone who can sing and dance with Karl Rove is a fucking moron anyway.

And we got snow flurries in the Piedmont this am...not totally unusual, but not normal, either. Getting ready for another arctic week of below freezing temps at night. Intuition or something convinced me in Sept. that we'd have a brutal winter down here...but I hope not.

larry · 1 year ago

In order for Gregory to replace Russert he must first have something to say and understand how to then report what he might know. Currently he knows nothing, says nothing and reports nothing of value. He is simply a New Yorker who desperately wants to be a celebrity in the world of faux news and fancies himself some sort of fashion icon. I had hoped at the conclusion of the election he would go away or go to the WH and ask stupid questions but alas now they have given him the vehicle 1600...funny since I doubt the Obama crew finds the overgrown sophomoric newsletter reporter particularly serious either. As for the Today show...pleezzz, what a silly bunch. After all good old Matt actually went to Alaska to see Palin cook moose. Seriously, who produces this crap at NBC?

brb915 · 1 year ago

BREAKING NEWS....................................MATT AND DAVID NECK AND NECK FOR NATIONAL INANE AWARD

High Crimes & Misdemeanors · 1 year ago

and another thing - I hope we do get 4 million descending on Washington DC, not only to celebrate the ending of the erroneous presidency but to say NO to the policies enacted.

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The parallels between the election of 2008 and the election of 1932 are often invoked, with good reason. It is not just that Obama's oratory is reminiscent of FDR's oratory, or that both men were brought into office as a result of big electoral shifts, or that both took power at a moment of economic catastrophe. All this is true, of course. But I want to make a different point: FDR became a great president because the mass protests among the unemployed, the aged, farmers and workers forced him to make choices he would otherwise have avoided. He did not set out to initiate big new policies. The Democratic platform of 1932 was not much different from that of 1924 or 1928. But the rise of protest movements forced the new president and the Democratic Congress to become bold reformers.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081201/piven

bacalove · 1 year ago

The Significance of Obama’s Name

For those who understand how to read the Book of Life, formulations of names are no coincidence. Obama’s name carries great potency and good within it. Barack is derived from the African Kiswahili word baraka, which means blessing. In Arab influenced languages, baraka also means “spiritual wisdom, or a blessing transmitted from God.” His last name begins with an “O”, a circle, that is the symbol of wholeness or completeness, and it also includes the two syllables “ba,” and “ma.” In multiple cultures “ba” signifies father, and “ma” mother. His middle name, Hussein, generally means in Arabic, “good, or good looking.” Thus we have a name that means a good and handsome man, carrying spiritual wisdom and blessings from God -- empowering wholeness and balance as father and mother, or masculine and feminine energies.

An immediate impact of his name is seen in the Arab/Muslim world, and its relationship with the West, which is arguably the most significant political/military issue of our times. The very fact that he has a Muslim middle name, and a first name of Arabic derivation, has already had a large impact on Muslims the world over, who thought the U.S. would never elect a black man with a Muslim name. The Iraqis have already said they would trust Obama to keep U.S. agreements with them more than Bush, and some Taliban leaders were quoted in a Pakistani newspaper saying they would be more willing to negotiate with an Obama - led administration. This is a result of more than his name, but it very much adds to the openness that the Muslim world now has to the U.S. and soon to be President Obama.

These are additional indications of a higher power at work, strengthening and supporting Obama’s appearance out of seeming nowhere in a few short years, as the right man, in the right place, at the right time, and even with the right name, all of which is extraordinary.


Website: www.visionarylead. org,

From Article: Spriritual Dimension's of Obama's Leadership

grandma · 1 year ago

"These are additional indications of a higher power at work, strengthening and supporting Obama’s appearance out of seeming nowhere in a few short years, as the right man, in the right place, at the right time, and even with the right name, all of which is extraordinary."

I have often thought along those lines of Obama as well...everything just seems to have fallen/is falling in place for him....almost like fate.

bacalove · 1 year ago

Yes, read the whole article provided by the link.  They explain a lot more about how in times of crisies, great leaders appear to help us through and hopefully bring about the change humanity needs.

Indigo · 1 year ago

All that and Kwanzaa too!

bacalove · 1 year ago

We are blessed.

lucky hussein · 1 year ago

fyi: there is no such thing as 'a higher power at work'
- your friendly neighorhood agnostic/athiest ;)

bacalove · 1 year ago

I guess there is no sunlight either or laws of gravity or even the air you breathe, which you cannot see but surely need.

grandma · 1 year ago

I never watch Gregory...or the other idiot 'Dobbs'...

Gregory just isn't that bright....he and his ilk are looking anywhere and everywhere for any tidbit they can find to criticize Obama.....too bad they didn't take an honest look at the horrors of the Bush administration.

duchessofbilgewater · 1 year ago

How is the pup?

mikeyDe · 1 year ago

When are we going to start seeing some Democratic talking points?

Bush Bites · 1 year ago

I hope Dean's replacement is a little media savvier.

Dean was great at building a base, but he seemed lacking in media spin and fundraising to me.

Bush Bites · 1 year ago

Gregory's an idiot and Lauer is even dumber.

No wonder these morons are losing political coverage to the cable networks.

Even the bad cable talking heads know more about politics than the network goofs.

EquityRoy · 1 year ago

Couldn't agree more about Gregory. He is one of the real black holes of interest, news and personality on MSNBC.

lilybart · 1 year ago

Obama has always talked about changing the WAY THINGS ARE DONE, not that all new people that no one has ever heard of before would be appointed.

The change is offering talented rivals a major place at the table, forgiving Joe Lieberman rather than creating new rifts, getting people to work together, talking to Scowcroft.

The people who are hell bent on derailing Obama, define change in the way they want it, not the reality of it.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Exactly. Change is coming... no more BUSH-CHENEY! No more Ashcroft-Gonzales Justice Dept. Hell. No more You're doin' a great job BROWNIE. No more Rumsfeld! No more Karl Rove! No more rightwing appointments to the Supreme Court! THIS is change!!!

popspops · 1 year ago

I dont know why msnbc keeps him, his show is boreing they should have left him in the the white house as a reporter. He is phoney as his dyed hair.

Hawk · 1 year ago

Tim Russert wasn't Tim Russert anymore yet, he was given all kinds of praise when he passed (granted death is one thing). Standing O for Ted Stevens on the Senate floor while Democrats, who control said floor, were demanding for the 25B the Big 3 hand over a "detailed plan for their Industry future" only several weeks after handing over 700 Billion with ZERO strings attached to the Robber Barons of Wall Street! Is any of this American in any way?

We don't live in America anymore kids, it's been turned on it's head.

We torture, spy, render, bailout, hand over, pardon, cheer for Government Felons, disavow Habeus, revere TV Fake News and on and on and on...

This is not America, no.

landlocked · 1 year ago

Chuck Todd is my new hero. He seems to be both unbiased AND fair, unlike most anything else out there, especially Faux News.

jebauer · 1 year ago

Gotta agree with Tom Cruise on this one.... Matt, you really are just glib.

ShirleyGoodnessanMercy · 1 year ago

Who likes David Gregory? No one. They need to dump him and give a show to a black person, a hispanic person, an Asian person or a gay guy. Or maybe a foreigner. I'm white but I am sick to death of so much over-representation of straight white people in the media.

dcmsufan · 1 year ago

Couldn't agree more. I don't know why I let this bother me, but this one really made my blood boil. Having the Chief Rethug party hack on TV to attack Obama for this is freaking rediculous......

They clearly needed to fill airtime between stories about the Rosey/Barbara wars and whatever other inane story was going to follow.

wmforr · 1 year ago

I can just imagine what we'd be seeing if McC had won. The MSM would laud his "change" in appointing his lobbyist pals to high office. Or if he passed on, Sarah would get all mavericky and appoint her high-shcool friends.

truth2008 · 1 year ago

Every time I see or hear Gregory I always hit the mute onmy remote control. He is truly disgusting!

michaelt · 1 year ago

i call him dick gregory but that's not meant to be complimentary.

MaudGonne · 1 year ago

Mr Ortega prevented international observers from overseeing the elections and ensured that the Supreme Electoral Council was entirely in Sandinista hands. It was hardly a surprise last week, amid protests and clamours for a recount, to learn that piles of ballots favouring the opposition Constitutionalist Party were found on a rubbish heap. Or that the official election figures, handing the Sandinistas a handsome victory, showed wild discrepancies between the versions in the newspapers and those found on the electoral council's website.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/america...

BroD · 1 year ago

A Gregory interview of Matt Lauer would be equally as informative and worth watching.

MaudGonne · 1 year ago

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Thousands of contractors, both private Americans and non-Iraqi foreigners working in key roles for the United States in Iraq, will lose immunity and be subject to Iraqi law under new security arrangements, Bush administration officials say. Pentagon and State Department officials notified companies that provide contract employees, like Blackwater Worldwide, Dyncorp International, Triple Canopy and KBR, of the changes on Thursday as the Iraqi parliament continues contentious debate on a security deal that will govern the presence of American forces in Iraq after January.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/washington/AP-I...

Allen, eh? · 1 year ago

The inabilitiy of the MSM to distinguish news from propoaganda never ceases to amaze.

Smarmy · 1 year ago

NBC and MSNBC news commentators are the biggest disappointment on tv. They all have their own personal agenda and real news isn't a part of it.

MaudGonne · 1 year ago

Pick your issue. The environment? A Bush administration rule transmitted on Nov. 4 hands over responsibility for assessing the environmental impact of federal ocean management decisions to advisory councils made up primarily of people tied to the commercial fishing industry -- who often have a financial stake in the outcome. Workers' rights? A new rule (effective Jan. 18) would limit workers' ability to take leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Worker and road safety? A rule announced Nov. 16 will allow trucking companies to require drivers to spend 11 consecutive hours behind the wheel. Gun control? On election day, the administration put forward a rule to end the 25-year-old ban on carrying loaded weapons in national parks.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/...

BooksAlive · 1 year ago

I generally switch between MSNBC and CNN for cable news, and I make the decision on which anchor is presiding. I rarely watch Gregory's late afternoon show - I go for a walk, make dinner, read, whatever - and if he becomes the host of MTP, that won't bother me, bc I haven't watched that for years.

I'll watch Morning Joe many days and enjoy the many authors and writers who come on the show. There is a lot that I mute, and I've missed some of Pat Buchanan's compliments to Obama. This week, for instance, Pat has been the champion of America's auto workers, yea America's auto industry, vehemently arguing against a Heritage Foundation rep.

Here's something you might enjoy: I did a GoodSearch for "Georgia runoff election 2008" and the site I needed so that I could confirm early voting schedules was the top result. But the ad at the top? The RNC asking for online donations! How about that?

cwzilla · 1 year ago

I remember about 6or 7 years back gregory waz a pretty good reporter well daves not here anymore

MaudGonne · 1 year ago

Gina Talamona of the Justice Department told reporters the 67-year-old Mukasey, who had been rushed to George Washington University Hospital late Thursday, was recovering, was alert and was anxious to get back to work.
"There's no indication that he suffered a stroke or any heart-related incident," Ms. Talamona said. "It really appears to be a fainting spell."
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122727872053147...

MaudGonne · 1 year ago

November 21, 2008, 10:07 am
Washington Impasse Makes Goldman Forecast Gloomier

Goldman Sachs economists, who had one of the most bearish forecasts around, just downgraded their estimates to show the economy sinking even further.

GDP will fall an annualized 5% in the current quarter — worse than the previously forecast 3.5% decline — with a contraction continuing through the middle of next year due to “continuing signs of falling domestic and foreign demand, labor market deterioration, renewed tightening in financial conditions and an apparent impasse in fiscal policy pending the transfer of power to the Obama administration in late January,” Goldman economists said in a note to clients Friday morning.
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2008/11/21/washi...

ElyseNYC · 1 year ago

This is why I watch Washington Journal. You can hear equally idiotic comments from people willing to spout them for free.

triple7s · 1 year ago

I was amazed at the spectacle of Steven's on the Senate Floor receiving a standing ovation. No remorse, and hiding behind his "god", looking forward to his future. Where was your "god" while you were knowingly bilking the TAXPAYERS out of their money. This is only one of the reasons I have so much trouble with RELIGION in GOVERNMENT. What a f@%*ing sack of s*#t, and to those Senators who applauded this dirt bag I say, what a bunch of morally depraved, out of touch idiots.

Lilly · 1 year ago

It appears that the world is going to be treated to another interview with that little worm, Joe LIEberman. He's scheduled for MTP on Sunday. Everyone, please make sure your televisions are turned off at that time.

vickif · 1 year ago

I can't believe how many people want Obama to appoint Repugs to his adminstration. Just today I saw where Obama should appoint McCain to a high post. How many Democrats did Bush appoint in his 8 years? As far as I know-none. In fact he appointed his friends who had no experience-Brown etc. The Repugs are very bad losers.

Henry · 1 year ago

Gregory's biggest fear is that he will not be invited to the WH Christmas party. Watch him suck up to Obama next year.

SUEC716 · 1 year ago

As much as I loved Rachel Maddow I could not abide race to the White House because of Gregory! He is a total apologist for the Republicans and not even subtle about it!

He asks the most inane what ifs that a 5th grader would be too smart to ask!

The worst thing is that he somehow thinks he is a real reporter and smart?

debbietee · 1 year ago

Sick of Gregory, never sick of cute Petey. Best to the new family.