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UTUSN

(70,497 posts)
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 10:30 AM Aug 2016

Cokie & pals: "bad*terrible*horrible*" candidate. Think you know who they're talking about?

This would be Cokie ROBERTS on ABC, plus Matthew DOWD (Mr Maria SHRIVER?), and a (another? plus those two) Repuke strategist/unknown woman. Roland MARTIN barely had anything to say.

So, no, you guessed it, they weren't talking about DRUMPF, although they briefly deigned to grant that he is an "even worse" candidate, still managing to blame you-know-her in their framing, "She's SO horrible a candidate that the only thing that saves her is that he's even worse!1"

But Cokie, who now casts herself as a feminist heroine (based on *writing about* feminist heroines?) and whose career was fundamentally the legacy of famous, truly Democratic parents, managed to fulfill her heroineship by smacking the Repuke woman: When the Repuke said something about the "bad terrible horrible" candidate also "not looking presidential," Cokie snapped to say, "Those are code for 'don't-elect-a-woman!1" And that put a lid on that!1

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Cokie & pals: "bad*terrible*horrible*" candidate. Think you know who they're talking about? (Original Post) UTUSN Aug 2016 OP
Never cared for Cokie Roberts book_worm Aug 2016 #1
Everytime she speaks jcgoldie Aug 2016 #2
She has never been particularly insightful, and once she convinced herself she was "powerful" UTUSN Aug 2016 #3
For about 3 elections Roberts and her group actually Hortensis Aug 2016 #7
"solidly favorable" when not running: Exactly! That ought to be the Dem answer to the "candidate" UTUSN Aug 2016 #10
That whole DC "insider" mentality has me buffaloed. Hortensis Aug 2016 #12
Dopey Roberts: TrishaJ Aug 2016 #4
ABC gave up using real journalists. milestogo Aug 2016 #5
In 2008 RandySF Aug 2016 #6
Many years ago SPY magazine PCIntern Aug 2016 #8
I've despised Cokehead for decades. Crunchy Frog Aug 2016 #9
Chuck todd tried to make clinton seem tha gaffe prone one, on this mornings show Liberal_in_LA Aug 2016 #11

jcgoldie

(11,584 posts)
2. Everytime she speaks
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:17 AM
Aug 2016

She makes it painfully obvious how proud she is of herself. In that regard reminds me a bit of Peggy Noonan although thats probably way too harsh.

UTUSN

(70,497 posts)
3. She has never been particularly insightful, and once she convinced herself she was "powerful"
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:19 AM
Aug 2016

one would never guess that her parents were such stalwart Dems. She decided that showing mental toughness meant bashing Dems while cashing in on her family heritage.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
7. For about 3 elections Roberts and her group actually
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:51 AM
Aug 2016

apologized after election day for their groupthink being so completely, horribly wrong. Then they stopped apologizing, but they never stopped being wrong.

This current notion that Hillary is not actually a very good candidate is a classic example. She's not terribly charismatic, yet look where she has been and where she is in spite of everything. She's gotten smarter, more experienced, more centered on her goals, and more competent every year.

And now she's the first woman nominee running for president with all the weight of misogynistic opposition on her back and battling ever upward despite 30 years of MSM hostility and right-wing character assassination. Absolutely amazing!

People who like to point to Hillary's very low favorability ratings (now) without pointing out that her ratings are solidly favorable whenever she isn't running for president will owe us all another giant apology, but we'll never see it of course.

UTUSN

(70,497 posts)
10. "solidly favorable" when not running: Exactly! That ought to be the Dem answer to the "candidate"
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:59 AM
Aug 2016

so-called "issue." Plus, ain't it ironic that the women on the panel were bad-terrible-horrible on "the first woman nominee"! Especially with Cokie making gender her own, personal, main issue.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
12. That whole DC "insider" mentality has me buffaloed.
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 03:06 PM
Aug 2016

People with great capabilities, if only for self aggrandizement, conform themselves to an incredible, petty smallness. In any case, they all like their jobs and being insiders way too much for our good. Maybe our capital should move every several years.

TrishaJ

(797 posts)
4. Dopey Roberts:
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:38 AM
Aug 2016

"When is Al Gore going to concede?"

Will never forget this question she asked during the election theft of 2000.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
5. ABC gave up using real journalists.
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:43 AM
Aug 2016

They used to be the least vile of the MSM but now they're just as bad as the other two.

RandySF

(57,661 posts)
6. In 2008
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:47 AM
Aug 2016

Roberts questioned the wisdom of the Obamas taking their vacation at such an "exotic" location as Hawaii.

PCIntern

(25,347 posts)
8. Many years ago SPY magazine
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 11:52 AM
Aug 2016

Did a spoof of how the whole world revolves around Cokie Roberts and her husband. If I can find it I'll post it.

 

Liberal_in_LA

(44,397 posts)
11. Chuck todd tried to make clinton seem tha gaffe prone one, on this mornings show
Sun Aug 7, 2016, 01:23 PM
Aug 2016

Until they got to the panel discussion, the focus was on hillary. You would have thought she had the worst week

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