Conserva-Dem Harold Ford Jr. Carries Water for Republican Policies on Meet the Press
It seems MSNBC and NBC can't quite get enough of bringing on Conserva-Dem (D-Wall Street) Harold Ford Jr. to spout some nonsense about how President Obama hasn't been quite gracious enough or kissed the rings enough of his Wall Street overlords or the other Masters of the Universe that represent the 1% in this country that are doing just fine these days.
Unfortunately he's still showing up on my DVR list with segments like this one and giving a bad name to what progressives and liberals there are left in the Democratic Party, who are actually looking out for the interests of everyday Americans.
I'd really love to know when either Meet the Press or the cast over at Morning Joe are going to finally quit bringing this man on who couldn't manage to win an election in Tennessee as some sage adviser who anyone currently running for office as a Democrat should listen to. I guess that will happen right along with them finally deciding to quit bring on their favorite racist, Pat Buchanan.
If NBC actually cared about their ratings, either Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes who they've relegated to a morning spot so early on the weekends they're hoping no one watches it, would be hosting this show instead of Karl Rove's dancing partner.
Ford rattled off so many Republican talking points during this segment on Meet the Press, it was enough to make your head spin, but they continue to promote him as someone who is representative of the Democratic Party. Unfortunately they rarely allow anyone who represents the progressives in the party some air time to counter him and to push back on the fact that Ford does not represent the left wing of the party that is still looking out for the working class and the fact that there is actually a decent group of politicians in the Progressive Caucus in the House and a good number of Democrats in the Senate that still vote on the on the behalf of the working class in America.
Ford does nothing but give those Democrats a bad name every time they allow him on the air, which is of course the reason they have him on to begin with. He's no better than the litany of Fox "Democrats" we see on the air day after day to distort to their viewers the fact that there is still a progressive wing of the party looking out for them.
Full transcript below the fold.
GREGORY: Well--and Harold Ford, it was none other than Steve Jobs in the new biography by Walter Isaacson who, who writes about him meeting with Obama, and this is how The Huffington Post reported it. Jobs telling Obama "`You're headed for a one-term presidency,' he said at their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly." This is still the, the overhang they have to deal with.
FORD JR.: Look, their posture has been really bad. Their policies have not been nearly as bad. If you think about the beginning of his administration, people thought that he would pass card check, and there was great angst, concern and anxiety in the business community, particularly the retail community. He didn't do it. He's been...
WELCH: Tragic.
FORD JR.: Right. Well, he didn't do it. The congressmen tried, but he didn't do it, and it didn't get, it didn't get done. Cars, banks, financial institutions, he's been great. The EPA regulations he's backed off on. But the posture and the language and the rhetoric has been just too overheated. And to, to Mr. Welch's point, you can't, you can't incentivize the type of things that he--that they incentivized in this bill. Two, you have huge balance sheets on the part of corporate America, meaning they're making money. You got to incentivize them, as the president has asked, to use that money to stimulate job creation. There's a way to do it, if you have some certainty around regulations and taxes.
MITCHELL: (Unintelligible)
FORD JR.: And two, you've got 1.2, maybe 1.3 trillion sitting overseas.
WELCH: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
FORD JR.: Allow that money to come back. But...
MITCHELL: With Occupy Wall Street, how does he take that posture?
FORD JR.: He's the president, Andrea. He's the president.
MITCHELL: He's caught between two polar opposites.
FORD JR.: We Democrats...
BROOKS: It...
FORD JR.: We Democrats can't criticize Republicans for catering to the tea party and not be--and not say to our Democratic Party you got to look beyond Occupy and be willing to do what's in the best interest of the country.
Harold Ford Jr is a weasel and the lowest form of political animal. Green and fresh out of law school, he ran for the seat his father vacated due to kiting checks in the Congressional Post Office Scandal. Despite the fact that he knew Memphis (the district he was to represent) about as well as your average Polish Cabbie, he was elected on name recognition and ballot box stuffing alone.
When he ran for the US Senate, he was such a loyal Democrat that he contributed money to the Republican candidate for the position. He loved Memphis so much he moved to NYC and was such a Progressive that he took a position on Faux Newz Channel and a paid position on Wall Street (read lobbyist).
How do I know this? I live in the congressional district right next door - served by the same media. My cat knows more about Memphis than Junior ever did and she has never set foot in the city. Memphis now has a real Democrat representing the city in Steve Cohen- who is actually from Memphis (not the burbs of D.C.) and had a long track record of service to the city before running for Congress.
Ford is nothing more than a cheap hustler who would sell out anything you have to put money in his pocket.
but that entire panel discussion, based on the transcript, was one of the most insipid presentations
of babbling nonsense I have ever seen.
"That's fu*#ing retarded."
Big City Mayor
Ford, Nelson, Tester, Shuler, etc. are not Democrats.
Entrance into the Democratic Party should be earned, not given.
I can't believe the crap that comes out of his mouth these days. He used to cozy up to the president; now I guess he cozies up to Wall St and comes on these shows to defend Wall St behavior and plead for more corporate bailouts. He's a phony. Someone put him on a panel with Cornel West, please. He's not even that bright, just masters enough talking points to qualify as a Wall St lobbyist.
One of these days Rachel Maddow & Chris Hayes are going to figure out MSNBC finds them to be uncomfortable embarrassments. Not to mention on Joe Scarborough's shit list.
Then is when Hayes & Maddow will cut all ties with MSNBC & join Keith Olbermann @ Current TV.
I predict in 5 years, Current TV will be the new haven for top liberal commentators.
Corporate media outlets like MSNBC have no long term room for "over zealous leftists" like Rachel Maddow or Chris Hayes. You can also add Ed Shultz to that list.
Rachel Maddow & Chris Hayes are about to learn that the hard way.
When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in excess body fat & carrying a misspelled sign.
makes me have a visceral hatred for bluedogs.
Some stuff you can't make up!
Buy presenting Ford as a black democrat - obviously a liberal; the GOP MSM pushes the dialogue further and further to the right.
Soon, the MSM traitors will be calling Hitler a liberal and Stalin a socialist, by comparison to today's batshit crazy GOP.
Harold Ford is a useful idiot, and as long as he keeps making big bucks for being a sellout and a political prostitute, ole Harold will be just fine.
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.
the clowns at Morning Murderer haven't realized it yet.
I guarantee you this; NO ONE IN THE BELTWAY IS LISTENING TO HIS SELLOUT ASS. His shelf life expired the day he lost the Senate Race to Bob Corker.
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