Please watch the video of the foolishness spouted by our Louisiana gal, Cokie Roberts, on Obama's "vacation" in Hawaii at Crooks and Liars.
And the smackdown by Rep. Abercrombie from Hawaii:
"She's a bit of a fool that's the only thing you can say," said Rep. Neil Abercrombie. " Don't forget Cokie Roberts and the whole Washington crowd live in a kind of an incestuous relationship to one another, they talk to one another, they see one another, they know nothing about ordinary people."
Ouch! Oh, that she'd do our state prouder from her prominent position as an insider Washington, DC, pundit. Watch the video of the smackdown from Abercrombie and Senator Daniel Akaka of Hawaii at KGBM.
Cokie Roberts is on my last nerve.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is KGMB Mimi- I have been to that station many times in another life.
(i never speak of my past!!)
Fran, oh the schadenfreude! I confess. I wish I'd said that. Cokie makes me want to throw heavy things at the TV. She's way high on my list of banes of my existence.
ReplyDeleteNow you've got me really, really curious about that shady lady past of yours.
What an idiot -- I know Hawai'i is a state and all -- how about Dick Cheney and his undisclosed location in the heart of Jackson Hole. plus all his other houses. but then maybe Cokie thinks Wyoming is just a myth and not part of her radar.
ReplyDeleteAnn, Wyoming is not a part of Cokie's America. She probably hasn't thought of Louisiana as part of America for a good many years. I wrote them an email criticizing one of their newspaper columns with no name-calling, simply suggesting that it was time for them to retire, and Steven responded and called me names.
ReplyDeleteCranmer, I find that this type of comment is more the rule than the exception for Cokie. They range from dumb to dumber.
I fully get what she was saying on the political side (Obama would court more votes vactioning in Myrtle Beach... and Florida is more of an "if" state), but this was really a stupid thing to say in this context.
ReplyDeleteShe could have made a much more forceful point had the sentence been written properly and put in context.
Cany, I get what she was saying, but like you, I think it was stupid. To suggest that a candidate arrange his/her whole life around what will play best politically is ridiculous. No matter how well she had phrased it or put it into context, it would still have been stupid.
ReplyDeleteThe point Cokie makes is that many of the American people are dumb and don't understand that Hawaii is a state, which may be true, but to suggest that a candidate pander to the dumbest amongst us is, well, stupid.
She is just one more irrelevant twit in the Beltway. Alas, they think they are relevant and important when they are really ignorant bloviators unaware that a world exists outside their cocktail circuit. Double alas that they are given print and air time. Sigh.
ReplyDeleteYou know, Cokie has legitimate Louisiana roots, and she once was a leading talking head on NPR, before those bastards got rid of Bob on Morning Edition.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes them all go crazy? Is D.C. so Republicanified that real folk become zombies? Has Carl Rove performed hypnosis on all "journalists"? Do they really believe in Bush 43 as the "compassionate conservative?"
I swear. the MSM is little better than Faux News; damn them all.
John, she has deep roots in Louisiana, indeed. Her mother, Lindy, was a Claiborne from Pointe Coupee Parish, where my husband grew up.
ReplyDeleteAbercrombie is right. They socialize with each other, with the Congresspeople whom they are hired to report on or bloviate about, and with other DC insiders. They have no clue as to what life is like outside the Beltway.
Yes, wasn't cokie a daughter of that old Louisiana machine-politics Democratic family of Hale Boggs? I knew someone who once worked in his office. How she became the conservative idjut she has become I dont know, except I think that something in the water in DC rots the brain.
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IT, Cokie is Hale Boggs' daughter. He was from the Louisiana populist tradition. Hale Boggs, Jr, her brother, is a powerful lobbyist in DC.
ReplyDeleteCokie . . .
ReplyDeleteMaybe now we know how she got the name and what addled her brains, so.
I try to be kind, especially to idiots (God makes fools to test us), but wilfully going into public and behaving like an idiot sort of destroys whatever compassion-cache one has with me.
Well, hanging around Stephanopoulos can do that for a person.
ReplyDeleteMcCain's following swipe at Obama for attending private school is what really bugged me. What's wrong with wanting your kid to get a good education? How DARE his arrogant parents get him the best teachers they could! How DARE they want the best for their child! Only a real snob would try to give a kid everything they could!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the pundits got the news that five Republican senators have said that due to scheduling problems, they will not be attending the Republican convention. That's five so far. I'll wager that our man Liebermann will be there at McCain's side.
ReplyDeleteMark, I go back a good while with Cokie and Steven, I've heard and read too much to cut them slack.
Susan, there was a time when I actually liked Stephanopoulis.
WE, that Obama's story earned him the elitist label from the Republicans is beyond belief.