Jeff Greenfield Botches Joke on Obama "Terror" Clothes BUT HE FLAYED KERRY FOR HIS BOTCHED JOKE!

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Jeff Greenfield Botches Joke on Obama "Terror" Clothes BUT HE FLAYED KERRY FOR HIS BOTCHED JOKE!

Edited on Thu Dec-14-06 01:06 PM by Dems Will Win

Greenfield's joke about Obama's Fashion Reminding Voters of Terrorists Now Has Him Whining -- But He Flayed Kerry's Joke As A "Freudian Slip"!

First Greenfield made a humorous comment about the important thing being the fashion of what a Presidential candidate was wearing, that Obama had no tie, and thus would remind voters of the President of Iran! That would not be a good idea because, after all, Obama's middle name is "Hussein".

GREENFIELD: Now, it is one thing to have a last name that sounds like Osama and a middle name, Hussein, that is probably less than helpful. But an outfit that reminds people of a charter member of the axis of evil, why, this could leave his presidential hopes hanging by a thread. Or is that threads? � Wolf.

Greenfield got a stream of flame-mail rightly calling him an idiot.

Poor OLD Jeff Greenfield doesn't realize that we are now in the New Progressive Era. Jokes meant to put the public to sleep and pay even less attention to issues are now VERY politically incorrect.

Jeff then whined that peopel didn't understand he was just joshing, why all the anger?

I just found this on the InterWeb! Greenfield flaying Kerry for his botched joke. What goes around, comes around, you OLD, OLD pundit. Think we should replace the lot of them on CNN in this order:

#1 Wolf Blitzer
#2 Jeff Greenfield
#3 Candy Crowley
#4 Paula Zahn

Any more Suggestions?

ZAHN: Always good to see you.

What the heck was the senator thinking?

GREENFIELD: Well, I think he was thinking he was going to make a clever joke about how, if you are not smart enough, you will get us stuck in Iraq.

And, even if you assume that that's what he meant, and he just stumbled over his words, you have to wonder, is that the way to attack the president of the United States, I mean, or doesn't it raise exactly the kind of issues or sense that hurt Kerry in '04?

Here is this Brahmin. He's not -- you know, from Massachusetts, looking down his nose on this Texan, who is not smart enough and can't pronounce nuclear. It is an attack that partisan Democrats love. And late-night comedians love. And, as far as I'm concerned, it always helps the president.

It always -- because it just -- it has the ring of being kind of snarky and condescending.

ZAHN: Sure.

(CROSSTALK)

ZAHN: And is that mostly how the blogosphere is receiving this tonight?

GREENFIELD: Well, I mean, again, if you look at -- at, for instance, Daily Kos, a very important liberal, left blog, he was cheering on Kerry for the reasons you cite. Yes, he's not going to take this nonsense. He is going to hit back.

The -- the line of the day, Max Cleland, former senator from Georgia, he said: Today is the day we showed those people they can't attack us and intimidate us.

And Kerry's statement itself says: You know, it disgusts me that these Republican hacks, who have never worn the uniform of our country, lie and distort so blatantly.

I think what you are going to hear from the conservative side of things is the phrase Freudian slip. My betting to you, Paula, is, they're going to say, see, that slip of the tongue shows what he really thinks. And it is because he's locked into the Vietnam era, when there was a draft army, unlike today's voluntary army -- there -- many were less educated -- and that he doesn't understand how the military has changed.

So, I have a feeling -- what I would really love is if you and Wolf could get 10 Democrats in here and shoot them up with sodium pentathol.

(LAUGHTER)

...

ZAHN: In these razor-thin-margin races, this could kill some momentum, could it?

(CROSSTALK)

GREENFIELD: Well, OK. Two things.

Our colleagues, Candy Crowley and John King and Dana Bash, all out there are telling us that the Democrats are telling them off the record, who needed this? You do have to ask, though, whether the fact that Kerry is not on the ticket is actually going to move races.

I mean, for instance, in Virginia, a very close race, Vietnam veteran Jim Webb, very hawkish on Vietnam, very angry at the anti-war demonstrators, it's a very long journey he's been on, is he going to be hurt by this statement by John Kerry's? That, I -- I doubt.

But, at the last week of the campaign, do you really want used to be called the titular head of your party coming out and making a statement that can be interpreted, fairly or not, as a slap on the troops, and, at the least, indicates a kind of approach, a kind of wise guy approach that, given where the -- the Iraq war is, in the view of most Americans, was utterly unnecessary.

...

GREENFIELD:
And there is an old saying. You know, never interfere with the enemy when he's in the process of destroying himself. And I think this raises an issue that, if I had to bet, most Democrats would just as soon this had never been said.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/31/sitroom.04.html

What goes around, comes around. Greenfield's joke in fact was a Freudian Slip: he thinks the voters are complete idiots and only he is smart. Let's get this bastard FIRED!

If you don't like the pundits on CNN joking about how it's the clothes that are important in the race for President, remember to recommend this post.

And e-mail Greenfield and the head of CNN that you want Greenfield to resign, that he's lost his mind.

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Thu Dec-14-06 01:06 PM
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1. Eh, it won't get repeated, He's a nobody. I've never heard of him, and I doubt many others have

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The Count

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Thu Dec-14-06 01:08 PM
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2. Greenfield wasn't joking. he only says it now, because his editorializing got

too much...

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Thu Dec-14-06 01:28 PM
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4. That's what I thought too

They're trying to get Obama early

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Thu Dec-14-06 01:09 PM
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3. Mediawhores like Greenfield know EXACTLY what they're doing when they trash Dems.

They're doing their JOB.

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patrice

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Thu Dec-14-06 01:30 PM
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5. You obviously dont' get it.

By virtue of _______________, Greenfield et al do not have to live by the standards that they impose on others. Also by virtue of ___________, Greenfield et al define whatever __________ is.

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