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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm facing off today at 4pm on Your World with Neil Cavuto vs Eric Bolling and Cheri Jacobus
the topic is whether President Obama negotiates. Cheri believes he never negotiates with Republicans and never will.
I, of course, have a different opinion.
eissa
(4,238 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)I get so frustrated that Democrats talk about having to take the high road when dealing with the nutter republicans. I say, if you're going to get in the pen with the pigs, you better be willing to get dirty. But that's just my thinking
Erose999
(5,624 posts)And tell Bolling he's a fucking asshole. On or off camera, but just tell him.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)significantly more discrimination against a vulnerable minority.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I think President Obama would be very surprised to hear that.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)that carry my show.
When a media organization is an actual arm of a government that is in the process of doing bad things, its a completely different situation.
jonsiee
(28 posts)that promotes right wing ideology. Getting paid by them, I assume.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Unless you hear them introduced as a contributor, host, or similar title for that network, the person is an unpaid guest.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)the country, but that is different? If your trying to get the info out there it shouldn't matter what format you use.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Let me know what you decide when that happens.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)and appreciate the courage to go into the lions den and fight the good fight. Give em hell!!!
P.S. I completely agree with you about that sewer RT.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)leftynyc
(26,060 posts)but I'm still working at that hour. I'll try and send good karma and someone gave some very good advice above, please don't nod while they spew lies. Shake your head instead.
jonsiee
(28 posts)Seriously. I mean, you are right, they don't just call anybody, what makes you qualified?
leftstreet
(36,116 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)the first time. Found out that a lot of folks were reading my articles, a lot of congressional staffers, etc.
Now I have my own political talk show on radio that will be celebrating its first year in operation in a week or so.
That's the short version of the story.
jonsiee
(28 posts)A known right wing propaganda operation. Not only that but you freely promote the station and advocate for people to tune in to FOXNews.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)The only modification I have ever made to that rule is when the Russian government passed the recent anti-gay law and I decided that since RT is a media organization completely dependent on the Russian state for operating expenses and seems to parrot the Russian government line, I cannot appear there any longer.
That is the only change to my standard rule and I hope it is a temporary one as I hope the Russian government repeals that law.
treestar
(82,383 posts)Can give them credit for that. It's a chance maybe to reach some people who wouldn't otherwise be reached, so why should anyone willing to debate the right wingers to an audience of right wingers refuse to take the opportunity.
Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)Is there something wrong with a progressive offering a different a look at issues from a different perspective? Why the harsh stance against passing on a message on a media site where viewers rarely ever get a taste of the 'other side"?
Is that bothering you for some reason?
snooper2
(30,151 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)If he has a message to send why not send to everyone.
DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)Al Qaeda also has media releases, should he appear in one of their videos too? You know, to send is message to everyone? He has made a choice to shun RT over moral objections, what business is it of yours? Mein Gott.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)Jeebus, wtf? Does Steven ask them why they do this or that? Takes some balls, really. Asking a grown man "what makes you think you're so special"? I don't flippin get it.
jonsiee
(28 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)Stay here on the Internets where you can really sway opinions
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)Benton D Struckcheon
(2,347 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)With the robots.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)I can't even turn on the damned channel, I can't imagine having the intestinal fortitude to go in their studio!
Say hi to my parents, I'm sure theyre watching, and as soon as you start making sense they'll shake their heads and say to each other "that sounds just like our dear little Dorky, and she's nuts too."
Scuba
(53,475 posts)DJ13
(23,671 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,489 posts)RebelOne
(30,947 posts)No way could anyone talk over him.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)Raffi Ella
(4,465 posts)You have the truth, a truth that the American public solidly backs up. The Party of NO, going back to Mitch McConnell saying his greatest goal was to make Obama a One Term President says it all.
Fuck their opinion. Negotiate! That's all this President has done since he took office, look where that's gotten him- both cheeks are scarlet now. It's time for reThugs to accept this President and start acting in good faith. period.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I know you can!
randome
(34,845 posts)...and ask how the GOP can possibily claim to be the party of fiscal sanity.
Ask why GOP politicians want a nice cushy job in Washington and then do little or next to nothing to earn their salaries.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]
spanone
(135,889 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)I would lose my cool and throw some punches. Neil makes me feel like bed bugs are on my skin. Creepy, misguided, pseudointellectual, putz.
Stay levelheaded as only you can do.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)SunSeeker
(51,734 posts)ZRT2209
(1,357 posts)ErikJ
(6,335 posts)Stand up to the Teahadists! Enough already!
Tell them that we already gave them what they want on the budget with no compromise. They agreed then they reneged on their promise and added the defunding/delay of the ACA.
Cha
(297,761 posts)calimary
(81,519 posts)You just happen to have facts on your side. And reality. They can't even begin to compete on that level.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)blm
(113,101 posts).
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Give 'em hell, soldier.
dorkzilla
(5,141 posts)sheshe2
(83,935 posts)If you are brave enough to brave the foxs den, then I will be brave enough to watch.
AAO
(3,300 posts)But I admire you for doing what you do. I've seen you before, and you usually come out the winner, if for no other reason keeping calm and let the Fox folks yell crazy shit.
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)Good luck Steven. 2 min to go!
Heather MC
(8,084 posts)Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)stevenleser
(32,886 posts)I will say that among conservatives, there is a determination to try to play this as if they aren't getting their clocks cleaned. They all (when I say all I mean all conservative pundits and elected officials) know they are getting whipped out there over this, but they are trying to gin up their base as if that isn't the case.
It reminds me of the propaganda that Germany and Japan shelled out within their own countries toward the end of WWII trying to keep their military fighting and their civilian populations behind the effort. They use the outlier stat that President Obama is supposedly at a 37% approval level. He is not. I checked the pollingreport.com website yesterday. His support is steady. And there are various other points they used.
I got a couple of good points in, but my perception is that it was not my best performance.