Alex Castellanos Republican dirty trickster claims that President Obama has been a divisive president because he's...gasp, daring to take on Wall Street and insurance companies. I'm sorry Alex, but anyone's going to claim he's being divisive, those are two items where I think you're failing pretty badly with your talking points. The only division I've seen on those matters is the liberal base thinking they've not been tough enough with what may be coming and the astroturf tea bagger dupes out there with their Hitler signs. The reality I live in with fellow co-workers who aren't too happy about what's happened to their 401K, there isn't anything "divisive" about regulating Wall Street at all. We're also not too fond of our insurance premiums going up year after year.
He then goes on to say that "the rehabilitation of George Bush is well underway". And he said it with a straight face. Sorry Alex, but history is not going to treat George Bush well despite your best attempts at turd polishing. I'd love to know what street Castellanos lives on, but if I had to guess it's one called Upside Down Land. What's white is black and vice versa in this hack's world. He should be taken about as seriously as CNN's other newest contributor, Erick Erickson. They're both nothing but flacks for the Republican Party that never allow facts to get in the way of their talking points.
Transcript below the fold.
BLITZER: The turn out in a mid-term election, Alex, it's critical, because you don't have a presidential contest right now. Only the most enthusiastic voters actually show up, and that's usually older folks.
ALEX CASTELLANOS: That's usually older voters and it's folks who are concerned or scared about something. You know, Obama's voters won their election. They got the president they wanted. Now the voters are out there most concerned thinking Washington's spending too much, taxing too much, and not listening to them. Those are not Democrats. Those are independents and Republicans who look pretty much alike. The president who inspired those younger voters, Wolf, those Latinos, women, that was a very inspirational Obama. Yes, we can. Remember the campaign? Since then he's been a very divisive president. You know, Goldman Sachs, insurance companies. It seems like there's always an evil villain. I think he's looking very small and political and not like a big leader, and that's really what got his base out.
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BLITZER: Let me pick your brains. We've got the book jacket now for the new George W. Bush memoir that will be coming out in November, just a few days after the mid-term elections. There it is, "Decision Points" by George W. Bush. Alex, a lot of folks are saying, at least from your perspective, Republican conservatives, he's looking a lot better now than he did when he left office.
CASTELLANOS: You know, he sure is, Wolf, and I think the rehabilitation of George Bush is well underway. It was about six year ago that one president stood up and said, you know, we've got to do something about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or else we'll have an economic crisis. That was George Bush. Chris Dodd and others in Congress, the Barney Franks didn't listen. History will treat him well for that. He was right about Iraq. He found a way to get us out, and even President Obama ratified that. So I think this book is going to add to that, and put, I think, his presidency in a larger context, and history's going to treat him well.
George Walker Bush couldn't possibly be "rehabilitated" -- he hasn't even served time in prison at the Hague yet, let alone been "slapped down" by a couple million stinky old shoes, Iraqi-fashion.
(BTW, Heather, that was perfect timing on the video capture -- it makes Alex Castellanos look like the vacuous ventriloquist's dummy that he truly is ... )
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
-- John F. Kennedy
We should have kept Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Jefferey Dahmer, Sadaam, Pol Pot, found and pardoned Jack the Ripper...
I think I threw up a little bit listening to that ass kisser.
feet of CNN and Wolfie...They put him on and never correct his stupidity...He is just doing what he knows he can get away with! Blast CNN about this --do not let them think they are getting anywhere with pandering to the liars!
Schmuck.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
"I Second That Emotion."
F this clown , another fountain of right wing / Republican bullshit making their hero , Joseph Goebbels , proud . He's right about one thing , they are rewriting history , and not only in regards to the village idiot and his disastrous presidency .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
Greaseball lying fuck Castellanos is just a designated liar for Republicans. CNN knows what he's going to say and yet still continually brings this ********** on with his predictable bullshit.
"History will treat him well for that. He was right about Iraq. He found a way to get us out,"
WTF are you talking about? No he didn't, you moron. Give me some of the drugs you are using, because it must be great!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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Someone stops you, beats you up, takes your money and cell phone, leaves you for dead. Before he gets away he uses your cell phone and calls 911 and tells them an ambulance may be necessary.
Obviously a big thank you to this Good Samaritan is in order.
He obviously has graduated from the Rush Limbaugh school of propaganda, keep repeating the same old lie and eventually enogh people will believe it.
History is written by historians, as such, Jr will not be looked on favorably by them his record is too easy to look up.
When angry, count four, when very angry, swear.
-Mark Twain-
Texas Board of Education could rewrite history, as they do. Problem solved.
Iraq? War crimes? Oops. We must look forward not back. Tax cuts for the super-rich? They've continued under Democrats and are hitting their peak right now. Patriot Act? Renewed by Democrats overwhelmingly.
Katrina? Heck, GWB was made an elder statesman for disaster relief for Haiti.
W doesn't need Castellanos; he has the Democrats.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
rehabilitate his image? WTF, BHO? Whose side ARE you on?
boosh rehabilitated?
He hasn't been to prison yet...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Not only despicable but then I have to look at fucking poll on Bush at the bottom of this page??? WTF!!
"Alex, a lot of folks are saying, at least from your perspective, Republican conservatives, he's looking a lot better now than he did when he left office."
"We've got the book jacket now" Jesus Christ!
Do people actually watch this? How does this moron get dressed in the morning..?
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Wolf Blitzer is a fucking tool. A suck up that questions nothing at all. Completely irrelevant tv. A filler.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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(having no cable helps )... but I see this stuff here and really cant believe that this is whats passing for dare I say ... journalism ...wow.
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Don't know about cable tv in America. I only have about 22 channels. (not counting the German and France channels, i don't have them programed on my tv as i can't understand that anyway)
I only watch the news on the public channels. Usually at six or eight. The rest of the news i get at the BBC site or blogs.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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It's a goddamned cesspool, an echo chamber.
Be glad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgOWTM5R2DA
It's a old song but does that sums it up? :)
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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but here in North of America most people seem to be happy to pay for it ... I really dont know why ... I turn it on somewhere and its some Party Planning channel or a myriad of other crappy badly produced junk ... then theres FOx.
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People pay 80$ a month to have their ears battered in by background noise. Seriously, they just turn something on without concern for what it is. It's why the news doesn't have to try to inform anymore, nobody has to try anymore.
President Obama isn't divisive. Fox News and talk right radio is divisive. They are fomenting all the anger and vitriol. The president is speaking in my hometown tommorow. Check it out. The polls are pretty good reading.
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"every cloud is silver liney"
from the Pres. stating that the deficit is too high, but that people aren't always told things that they don't want to hear, but he was going to tell it anyway. Hardly devisive. Except to complete idiots .... oh ... yeah ...
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He should of been sent there before he entered politics, not afterwards.
We might have avoided all that damage that comes from having an untreated addict as President of the United States.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lbOsMtshr4
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Go back to red state please! Thanks!
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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...over there.
I don't think "we" last there two minutes before getting banned.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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Oh forget it...you're clearly too stupid too be embarrassed.
NOES, leave Hitler alone!!!!!! QQ
It's "to be" :p
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keep coming and going, now it's time to go. Your 20 minutes are up.
So you are sayin' Boosh was a big joke ...
Thats damning with faint praise there Ms. UrKeep ...
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or as I call him, Mr "Aug 6, 2001 Bin Laden Determined to Strike U.S. Memo" until he's in his grave.
After what he did to this country he's getting off easy.
Not everyone else was so lucky.
In the UK some are waiting for Maggie to get to her grave so they can have a party.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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. . . in some important ways. Warrantless eavesdropping? Check. Imprisonment without trial? Check. Torturer immunity? Check. Military Commissions? Check. No fly list? Check. Targeting American citizens for assassination without trial? Well, I guess even Bush wouldn't go that far.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middl...
Corruption favors the wealthy.
For the last 6 months, every mainstream TV news network has been trying to frame the GOP resurgence. The worse has bee Cris Matthews. On every show he trots out some specialist or weak Democratic strategist to confirm the upcoming Democratic demise. There is one important missing element involving a GOP resurgence: Proof.
So, far every, with exception of one, Quinnipiac University Poll, all polls say the Democrats are winning the American people's support. I hope we are not headed for the old "vote and switch" Republican led ripoff.
The fact-less claim has been stated enough you would think it is a truth, and that is the whole objective. And they say the MSM is a Liberal bias. You could of fooled me.
Joseph
election day antics. They seem to be priming the pump. How could we ever prove an election was fixed? Better question: Who could we get to prove an election was fixed? No one will even attempt to prosecute war criminals, nor will anyone stop contracting with KBR.
does he wind up or do they pull his strings?
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i mean Wolf.
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I don't know what that other guy is on but i think the trip is just about over.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b_zIy97FyE
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Dubya's in rehab?!?!?
Well, good for him. I hope it helps. :o}
I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America, and to the republic which it established, one nation from many peoples, promising liberty and justice for all
Ya. i hear it takes way longer than you'd think. like forever.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
WTF have you been drinking?
I have to agree with some of his comments in regard to President Obama. Maybe not the way the post is meant to sound, but President Obama HAS taken on tough issues...and they ARE devisive. He has to take on a few more too...and that's going to cost him more points.
But he is one courageous president..and if this nation can't see that for what it is...then WE DON'T DESERVE HIM as a president.
He's the best President to come along in a long, long time. We are one sick, f*cked up nation. I really think we are on the way to the toilet...just like Argentina had it's day. We too are not worthy of regaining our stature...perhaps?
Right? Alex Castellanos is a paid shill. He doesn't really count, does he?
Just another right wing hack on CNN , going completely unchallenged as is usual . Why do they even have a host ? Just give them their five or ten minutes and let them do their bit , you'll save money CNN , seeing as how your ratings are in the toilet you probably need it , save some pesos and down the road you can maybe even hire some real journalists .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
Is this in reference to Bush or Obama?
Does it even really matter which?
Corruption favors the wealthy.
The fact that an issue itself is divisive doesn't make the President divisive. The right wingers are the ones ginning up all the controversy. They are the ones who constantly have their panties in a wad. They are the divisive ones, just because they don't always get what they want. The media doesn't help. Take the Tea Party crowd. The media has built them up to look far bigger than they actually are.
Maybe we need to rephrase the lyrics on this ditty for boosh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-BZIWSI5UQ
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
a good journalist? I really can't remember. I remember that he has always been just another republican hack.
What happened to the idea of being the best that you can be? Wolfe surely has to have, somewhere inside, something better to offer.
You really think so Sammy ?
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
He is, after all, a very highly paid RNC hack. It wouldn't surprise me if they didn't. I really, truly despise Castellanos. He is one of the most high evil ones in that organization.
Didn't get to read it but this clown is obviously another Republican "genius" , the dueling banjo / hee haw variety .
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6GHh6xnNJ0
Bite my shiny metal ass.
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Castellanos and Reality? Not so much . . . .
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All he needs is a big red nose (to replace the brown one he has now!) some big red shoes and he would be in his natural attire.
What a nutbag.
I needed a little comedy in my day. Thanks for posting. Bush is the WORST ever!!
far left loon >.<
He must mean Bush is in REHAB
The GWB Memoir, oh Boy! I can’t wait…
I will learn that George, wearing blue tights and a red cape, saved the world from the evil terrorists.
I will find out that the financial meltdown was foretold by him in Cassandra-like fashion – only to be ignored.
I will know how much safer I am with the Patriot Act, and how I can rest assured my telephone conversations are private.
I can’t wait to read the part about how Gitmo was really Club-Med, complete with a 24-hour sea-breeze; how Osama bin Laden didn’t really matter and how that nuclear bomb in Iraq was found and disarmed just before the red LED timer counted down to 0.
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"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
That would put him in that very select group that have written more books than they have read.
Is it science fiction? Bush saving the planet "makeupia" by sending 20k more troops and the locals treat them as liberators and throw flowers at them.......then a dragon appears........rawr.....oh noes, now what? Send in da Bush. The one man army! Pew pew pew. He saves the day! Mission accomplished
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Unless Bush is secretly detoxing in the drunkhouse, I don't know what he could be rehabilitating.
But seriously, I couldn't stop laughing when I read this. These people have been living in an Orwellean parallel universe for so long, I think they are starting to actually believe their own doublespeak.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
from an "exposed" corporate shill. I stopped watching The Situation Room long ago when Wolf Blitzer began imitating Chris Wallace. He's hoping to boost his ratings by pandering to the dumbed-down wingnuts who are presently under the hypnosis of FNC.
LimpBalls
I don't know whether you invented the term or if it's something that's been around awhile, but I want you to know that I definitely intend to use "turd polishing" as my own. I've never heard it before and think it's hilarious!
and to be honest I can't remember where I first heard it now. If I could remember who first said it I'd credit them, but I can't. Hey if the shoe fits....use it.
http://blatanttruth.org/turd-polish.gif
me-oww!
Arch villain Snidely Whiplash.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
i have no cable. i have no tv. my internet comes from clearwire, not comcast or at&t. if it doesn't appear on c&l or kos, i don't need to know about it. if i watched network assholes i would have to kill myself.
I love the way that these right wing lunatics characterizer anyone they don't agree with as divisive. They're the one's who are divisive, not Obama, who's been centrist and reasonable. They did the same thing with Clinton.
CNN has completely undermined its credibility. I cant even look at that station after who they've recently hired. Cable tv is crap - wish I lived in France...
How is it that someone guilty of the deaths of thousands upon thousands of innocent soldiers and civilians, is looked upon so favorably? I simply can not reconcile the Right's praise of GWB.
And yes, the President has devided this country. However the division is between those who stand for TRUTH and those who accept LIES as facts.
bush rehabilitated...
How can I miss you if you won't go away?
Some say, he sounds and looks like he's on the Rush Limbaugh feel good pills diet.
Are the rumors true?
We report, you decide.
I had the 'pleasure' of catching that yesterday. I wonder if it took Castellanos as long for him to clean the shit out of his hair from having his head up Monkey-boys' ass as it took me to pick my jaw up from the floor? I half expected Ms. Brazile to ask him what planet he is from. Unfortunately she never did.
Government + the Federal Reserve = organized crime
UUMMMM, that Reslug Kool-Aid!
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