Mika Thought This Would Help Obama on Rev. Wright Mess?

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As excuses go, it was right up there with "but oshifer, I was too drunk to see that stop sign." That's the league in which I'd put the defense of Barack Obama over the Rev. Wright mess that Mika Brzezinski offered this morning.

 

Responding to Chris Matthews' question on yesterday's Hardball as to why he never left Rev. Wright's church, Obama claimed "I never heard [Rev. Wright] say those things that were in those clips." On today's Morning Joe, two of the three panelists weren't buying. The genial Willie Geist came down off the fence where he often resides to frame the issue.

 

 

WILLIE GEIST: The fact remains, a lot of people, and these are people we've all talked to, say "if I went into a church with my children, and the pastor said 'God damn America' and the rest of these things, you just wouldn't go back to that church." There are other places to go.

 

That's when Brzezinski began her bad Johnnie Cochran impression.

 

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I think he's claiming he didn't hear that.

Joe Scarborough drew on a personal experience to expose the flimsiness of Mika's argument.

 

 

JOE SCARBOROUGH: We'll get really personal here for a second. My daughter goes to an Episcopal school in Florida. In the Episcopal church, there is a visiting pastor, still is a visiting pastor there, who decided that the week before Easter, instead of talk about the miracle of Jesus' rebirth, to talk about how Jews massacre Palestinians, and how they are the terrorists, and that the United States of America supports state terrorism.

 

Well guess what? Despite the fact I haven't been to that church in six months, despite the fact that I'm up in New York City instead of Pensacola, Florida, my phone rang off the hook from 20 different people from Christ Church in Pensacola, Florida, talking about how this pastor used his pulpit to make political statements against Israel and to blast United States foreign policy.

 

Now please. Had I been a member of that church for 20 years? The Sunday after September 11th the pastor goes on a winder like that one, a bender like that one? Please, Barack Obama, tell me many things, tell me that you haven't bowled in years and maybe I'll buy that. But don't tell me you didn't hear what your pastor said, because you and I both know that's just not the truth. Come up with a better excuse than that, and Americans will take it. But that one? That one doesn't wash.

 

That's when Mika offered up the season's lamest defense.

 

 

BRZEZINSKI: Well, I have an argument for it. I'm not sure you want me to go there. But the argument may be that in that church they did not necessarily, everything, everybody in that church knows the pastor, and they were not, so --

SCARBOROUGH: They weren't shocked.

 

BRZEZINSKI: They weren't shocked.

 

Let's get this straight: Mika's defense consists of claiming that Rev. Wright had such a reputation for making outrageous statements, that his "chickens coming home . . . to roost!" wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Thus it's easily imaginable that no one bothered to bring it to Barack Obama's attention.

 

As defenses go, that's a hell of an indictment. Scarborough drove the point home.

 

 

SCARBOROUGH: If they weren't shocked by him saying God damn America, if they weren't shocked by the United States the US KKK A, if they weren't shocked by him saying we deserve what we get on September 11th, if they weren't shocked with anti-Semitic tirades in church bulletins, if they weren't shocked by anti-Italian tirades in church bulletins, then guess what: neither was Barack Obama. So why was he there?

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Please go away. Barack is going to be the new president and you swiftboaters need a new game. We are moving on!

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Barack Obama is the next JFK!

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As excuses go, it was right up there with "but oshifer, I was too drunk to see that stop sign." That's the league in which I'd put the defense of Barack Obama over the Rev. Wright mess that Mika Brzezinski offered this morning.

 

Responding to Chris Matthews' question on yesterday's Hardball as to why he never left Rev. Wright's church, Obama claimed "I never heard [Rev. Wright] say those things that were in those clips." On today's Morning Joe, two of the three panelists weren't buying. The genial Willie Geist came down off the fence where he often resides to frame the issue.

 

 

WILLIE GEIST: The fact remains, a lot of people, and these are people we've all talked to, say "if I went into a church with my children, and the pastor said 'God damn America' and the rest of these things, you just wouldn't go back to that church." There are other places to go.

 

That's when Brzezinski began her bad Johnnie Cochran impression.

 

MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I think he's claiming he didn't hear that.

Joe Scarborough drew on a personal experience to expose the flimsiness of Mika's argument.

 

 

JOE SCARBOROUGH: We'll get really personal here for a second. My daughter goes to an Episcopal school in Florida. In the Episcopal church, there is a visiting pastor, still is a visiting pastor there, who decided that the week before Easter, instead of talk about the miracle of Jesus' rebirth, to talk about how Jews massacre Palestinians, and how they are the terrorists, and that the United States of America supports state terrorism.

 

Well guess what? Despite the fact I haven't been to that church in six months, despite the fact that I'm up in New York City instead of Pensacola, Florida, my phone rang off the hook from 20 different people from Christ Church in Pensacola, Florida, talking about how this pastor used his pulpit to make political statements against Israel and to blast United States foreign policy.

 

Now please. Had I been a member of that church for 20 years? The Sunday after September 11th the pastor goes on a winder like that one, a bender like that one? Please, Barack Obama, tell me many things, tell me that you haven't bowled in years and maybe I'll buy that. But don't tell me you didn't hear what your pastor said, because you and I both know that's just not the truth. Come up with a better excuse than that, and Americans will take it. But that one? That one doesn't wash.

 

That's when Mika offered up the season's lamest defense.

 

 

BRZEZINSKI: Well, I have an argument for it. I'm not sure you want me to go there. But the argument may be that in that church they did not necessarily, everything, everybody in that church knows the pastor, and they were not, so --

SCARBOROUGH: They weren't shocked.

 

BRZEZINSKI: They weren't shocked.

 

Let's get this straight: Mika's defense consists of claiming that Rev. Wright had such a reputation for making outrageous statements, that his "chickens coming home . . . to roost!" wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Thus it's easily imaginable that no one bothered to bring it to Barack Obama's attention.

 

As defenses go, that's a hell of an indictment. Scarborough drove the point home.

 

 

SCARBOROUGH: If they weren't shocked by him saying God damn America, if they weren't shocked by the United States the US KKK A, if they weren't shocked by him saying we deserve what we get on September 11th, if they weren't shocked with anti-Semitic tirades in church bulletins, if they weren't shocked by anti-Italian tirades in church bulletins, then guess what: neither was Barack Obama. So why was he there?

 

 

Get lost!

 

Before Joe Scarborough criticizes anyone, he should remember that dead girl lori, in his office before he quit the senate. What about Lori, JOE??????

 

signed: A republican for Obama!

[Guest Guest]

Please go away. Barack is going to be the new president and you swiftboaters need a new game. We are moving on!

 

 

Swiftboaters=Truth Tellers

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Democrats should now ask themselves how a party of supposed racial transcendence inevitably ended up with primaries predicated along hardening racial lines, and a unity, trans-racial candidate who for twenty years was intimate with a pastor and spiritual advisor who seems to have derided almost everyone and everything, from America, to Italians, to Jews and Israel, to whites and moderate blacks, with serial slurs worthy of a Don Imus or Michael Richards. Obama has no chance of being president.

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Get lost!

 

Before Joe Scarborough criticizes anyone, he should remember that dead girl lori, in his office before he quit the senate. What about Lori, JOE??????

 

signed: A republican for Obama!

I just looked into it. There is nothing there. If I had to guess, I would suspect her husband had something to do with it.

Someone found her at her desk at 8AM on a Friday. She ad been there "some time". Her husband never called in a missing person report.

Scarborough was not even in town.

 

[Guest Guest]

Get lost!

 

Before Joe Scarborough criticizes anyone, he should remember that dead girl lori, in his office before he quit the senate. What about Lori, JOE??????

 

signed: A republican for Obama!

 

 

Scarborough was a Senator?????????

Read more........post less.

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Scarborough was a Senator?????????

Read more........post less.

 

 

you should read more and post lost!

 

you got the drift of the post didn't you? unless of course you are an idiot! so which is it.

 

whether he served in the senate or congress, the point is he WAS serving. he was in office when she died in his office and quit shortly thereafter. Also he quit because he had the coroner lying about how she died and since scarborough didn't want anybody digging he ran away like a bitch!!!

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Democrats should now ask themselves how a party of supposed racial transcendence inevitably ended up with primaries predicated along hardening racial lines, and a unity, trans-racial candidate who for twenty years was intimate with a pastor and spiritual advisor who seems to have derided almost everyone and everything, from America, to Italians, to Jews and Israel, to whites and moderate blacks, with serial slurs worthy of a Don Imus or Michael Richards. Obama has no chance of being president.

 

The only people who believe that obama doesn't have a chance are people who are already voting republican. Obviously, the man has a chance. He is collecting millions by the day. He is a head in pledged delegates, popular votes and more states won and nationally he is ahead in the polls. So to suggest that he doesn't have a chance is quite foolish. From where I sit, he stands as good a chance as John mccain and a better chance than clinton.

 

 

 

 

 

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you should read more and post lost!

 

you got the drift of the post didn't you? unless of course you are an idiot! so which is it.

 

whether he served in the senate or congress, the point is he WAS serving. he was in office when she died in his office and quit shortly thereafter. Also he quit because he had the coroner lying about how she died and since scarborough didn't want anybody digging he ran away like a bitch!!!

 

 

If you do not know the difference between the Senate and the House of Representatives (which Scarborough served in), then your opinion can be easily dismissed. Besides, your delusional rantings provide further evidence that liberalism is, indeed, a mental disorder. Thanks for making my case.

Now get back to sweeping popcorn out of the aisles.

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The only people who believe that obama doesn't have a chance are people who are already voting republican. Obviously, the man has a chance. He is collecting millions by the day. He is a head in pledged delegates, popular votes and more states won and nationally he is ahead in the polls. So to suggest that he doesn't have a chance is quite foolish. From where I sit, he stands as good a chance as John mccain and a better chance than clinton.

 

Obama is properly portrayed as a fringe candidate easily painted with the brush of extremism. Jeremiah Wright will be the albatross around his neck. He will win the nomination and lose in the general election. He can forget the white male middle class voter, thereby forgeting Ohio and Pennsylvania in the electoral college. Other blue states will be in play for the Republicans for the same reasons.

The extreme left will be disappointed once again. HEH.

 

 

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you should read more and post lost!

 

you got the drift of the post didn't you? unless of course you are an idiot! so which is it.

 

whether he served in the senate or congress, the point is he WAS serving. he was in office when she died in his office and quit shortly thereafter. Also he quit because he had the coroner lying about how she died and since scarborough didn't want anybody digging he ran away like a bitch!!!

 

 

You’re barely literate and grossly misinformed.

 

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Barack Obama is the next JFK!

Yea and we all know how that ended don't we.

[Guest Guest]

you should read more and post lost!

 

you got the drift of the post didn't you? unless of course you are an idiot! so which is it.

 

whether he served in the senate or congress, the point is he WAS serving. he was in office when she died in his office and quit shortly thereafter. Also he quit because he had the coroner lying about how she died and since scarborough didn't want anybody digging he ran away like a bitch!!!

OH STFU TROLL!!!!!!

 

 

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