“Obvious and Offensive”
A 21-gun salute to CNN’s Anderson Cooper for telling North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Renee Ellmers, an ignorance-baiting opportunist, that one of her remarks about the Ground Zero mosque situation “is the lowest response I have ever heard from a candidate, I have got to tell you.” Ellmers has run a TV ad that deliberately blurs the line between Muslims and terrorists. Is there any way I can avoid calling this woman other bad names?
I know a Beverly Hills woman (now living in Malibu) who has the same drawl and the same inclinations toward intellectual laziness, the same tendency to ignore facts and default to preconceptions that suit her rightist agenda. Her voice has almost the exact same pitch and timbre — it’s eerie.
Ah, another female graduate from the Sarah Palin school of ignorant, backwards female demagogues who have no idea what the hell they’re talking about but continue to open their mouths, anyways, and say stupid and incendiary things.
One of the most blatant examples of fear-baiting propaganda I’ve ever seen. She kept desperately circling back to 9/11 in order to try and justify her position.
Kudos to Cooper for never giving up. He was like a pit bull on a baby.
So it’s her drawl that is some kind of indicator of idiocy?
That’s as retarded as Renee Elmers herself. I know many folks with drawls strong enough that you need a translator… yet they are amazingly smart, funny as shit, and liberal to the core.
The south hasn’t cornered the market on generating bubbly, dangerous, talking head moronochicks. They come Alaska, delaware, ivy league schools and the inner city.
The only way to expose these crackpots is to critically question their theories. However, my concern is that there are enough media channels out there that either believe this hypothesis or are too lazy to conduct the necessary critical questioning.
Anderson Cooper is a great reporter. He’s really fair and I’ve seen him take down Democrats who try to wiggle their way out of an explanation as well. Just a very honest guy who cares about real reporting.
Fuck this bitch.
Yep. Cooper is, hands down, one of the finest broadcast journalists these days. If Rachel Maddow or, heaven help me, that ridiculous Megyn Kelly over on Fox, would base their journalistic standards on the comments Cooper makes at the end of the piece, we’d all be better off in regards to “fair and balanced” reporting.
So if the Republicans are supposed to be all about states’ rights, why would North Carolina give two fucks about what’s happening in New York?
You’re right…her voice is torturously awful. But she’s hideous in general. One can’t always draw conclusions based on appearances, but seriously; look at those close-in eyes, that low-class profile…she comes from dirt, and it shows. It’s no surprise, given her dullard’s face, that her ideas are bereft of sophistication and cognitive perception.
The only role of responsiblity this woman should be entrusted with is judging sows down at the local pig fair.
This drawl, like the more wicked retaahded Boston accents, is a choice.
“that low-class profile…she comes from dirt, and it shows. It’s no surprise, given her dullard’s face, that her ideas are bereft of sophistication and cognitive perception.”
Wow, classy.
When you complain about the quality of the candidates and the general poor discourse in the US, look at these types of sentiments and think that maybe both sides have brought us to this place.
@Abbey
Glad to see that Americans don’t vote based on beauty anymore. I’m really excited to see progress in America where we look at where they stand on the issues rather than what they look like.
As for this report, it’s futile, much like arguing with any extremist. These people are unreasonable, and no matter how much reasonable, logical evidence you provide to the contrary of their beliefs, they will ignore you and claim that they are right. Stuff like this only emboldens and strengthens the people she’s trying to appeal to, as they see this as an attack on their intelligence and their perception of the world, which, like most people, they don’t like
Blame John McCaine for unleashing Palin and the rest of these far far far riight crazy’s. His pick of Palin for VP opened the door for all these mentally ill people to run for public office. You almost cant believe what your seeing.
Its not a left/right issue. Its about ignorance vs enlightenment. And in America, ignorance always wins. I hope she wins to prove what a joke the united states government is.
This woman is a fucking twit.
The key thing is that she is not even a good politician. She could barely get two sentences out without leaving laying bare gaping holes in logic that Anderson barely broke a sweat in revealing. Good politicans, who are skilled in rhetoric, can both promote and defend their principles, however unseemly, without taking offense at those questioning them.
Hey, that was a great, uncomfortable watch.
Putting aside where I stand politically, I will say a) Cooper was hardcore as hell there and the chick came off horribly, BUT…
b) As with Palin, as with O’Donnell… this is ONLY going to embolden the right and make the “MSM” look even more liberal and “out of touch” to the Tea Party-converted and even casual, common-sense everyday right-wingers. Others have said it here, but it’s true: Attacking Palin or O’Donnell or Ellmers this hard, much as it delights the Jon Stewart crowd, really, REALLY pisses off “the heartland”– not just fringe types, but the VAST majority of the country that’s essentially aw shucks and traditional and common sense and, sorry, just “regular people.” Seeing some folksy, slightly dimwitted football-mom type have her ass handed to her by some smirking metrosexual CNN guy might be a funny “FUCK YEAH!” moment for liberals or nonpartisans or just people like myself who enjoy a good show, but it’s a fine line away from looking like “condescension” (warranted or not) toward an “everyday American.”
The greatest SHOCK AND AWE stroke of the genius the Right has concocted maybe EVER is the full-blown distruct of “the elite” and “intellectuals.” Democrats are NEVER going to get around that from here out.
But #2 on their recent greatest hits– and it’s really a thing of beauty– is turning feminism back on its leftist roots and wheeling out one after another tenacious, folksy pit bull female candidate of arguably limited “intellectual” trappings. Now when an Anderson Cooper or Jon Stewart picks on a big Republican blowhard, they’re not just hating on wealth or “traditional values”… they’re PICKING ON WOMEN, to boot.
Even if you find it as obvious, transparent and queasy a political maneuver as it is, you have to concede Republicans probably WILL ALWAYS WIN if only because THEY WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES, time and again, inside and out, front to back, to DECIMATE the other side like the greatest NFL team of all time, and the Democrats are a mildly scrappy flag-football team in 11th grade PE.
Case in point.
What a minute…. did I miss something? I watched most of the clip and I didn’t see the part where Cooper asks her opinion of “The Social Network”. Is it after the mosque stuff?
Sorry if some found my comment lacking in class, and apologies if my style of discourse leaves a bad taste. But I’m past the point of being polite when it comes to troglodytes like this. If that makes me part of the problem, so be it; I have no interest in joining the “reasonable center” if it means pulling my punches with the likes of Ellmers.
And I don’t apologize for concentrating on her appearance. I prefaced with a disclaimer, first of all. But I do think you can sometimes, not always, but sometimes, divine intelligence, or the lack thereof, in a person’s physical presentation; body language, the eyes, etc. All I’m saying is that a quick scan of her indicates all that is later confirmed when she opens her mouth.
Besides, Wells led in with a slam on her voice; is what I said really out of line in that context? The point of his post, once he gets past the Anderson Cooper thing, is about the cues (besides what she says) that marks this woman as an idiot. And I’m sorry, but she simply looks like a moron. The fact that she actually is one is thus a confirmation, not a revelation.
@Lex
For once, I agree with you. I’ll focus on the last part of your post.
“Republicans probably WILL ALWAYS WIN if only because THEY WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES”
Absolutely correct. From 1994 on, the Republicans have cheated, deceived and lied their way into office. The Democrats did do some underhanded shit (they forced a tax raise down Bush Sr.’s throat in 1990, then said that he lied when he said “read my lips, no new taxes”), but nothing they’ve done has compared to the bullshit they pulled with Clinton for 6 years, and the current bullshit they’re pulling now.
@Crabtree
Wells couldn’t find the complete video, just this edited one. I’m surprised he didn’t mention that in the initial post.
He seems pretty childish in his rebuttals.
He has the facts though.
John Stewart could have handled it more respectfully and would not have had to talk down to her with facts.
He simply would have presented them as they were and wouldn’t have had to forcefully interrupt her the entire time.
She still managed to lose the crown to Sharon Angle for Asshole of the Year.
I belive Alan Grayson already has that award sewn up.
I’ve only seen the above, edited version, but I thought Cooper was quite restrained in exposing the lack of thought behind this woman’s stance on pretty much everything he posited. What annoys me is that a lot of people will watch that (though who am I kidding, it’s on CNN, not Fox) and nod and say she “pwn’d” him or “schooled” him. I think the phraseology is indicative of the acumen involved.
If we were speaking in person, and she used the condescending repetition of ‘Sir’ to politely tell me I’m wrong when she hasn’t two thoughts to rub together and keep each other warm, I would’ve clothes-lined that moron. I may be the more the reactionary type though, and don’t have a CNN show. Those facts are entirely unrelated.
Another example of the “If I just keep talking, it will be seen as the truth” school of political discourse.
Farris: Nope. Unless you’re referring to Webster not caring about women’s rights”>http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/taliban-daniel-webster”>rights, I see no problem with another Chicken Hawk getting outed. Or is it only ok when it’s about trivializing Kerry’s bullet wound?
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