Blago on “The View”

Does Blago have that CBO report?

I don’t think they’re charmed KT. I think they have no clue how to react to his ABSOLUTE AND COMPLETE INSANITY so they’re just making nice.

” .. in what I’m seeing now, he’s acquitting himself quite well. ..”

What I am seeing now is our “free and fair” KT who has been smitten – by a teevee view of Blago!

” .. Plus, the View ladies seem quite charmed by him. “

Me too! I want some of that.

What does it, the lush hairdo? Does Blago have a ‘charm’ school?

There was a lot of knee-patting going on.

Come on KT — how much of this frivolous crap do we have to endure before someone addresses Cincy’s request to cover the deceptive manipulation of the so-called CBO report. Do you think we if we could get Blago to mention it, it would merit any one’s attention or would it just be viewed as one of his many delusions and dismissed?

Move over girlfriend!
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“I love Blago.

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I love his beady little eyes. I love his Serbian shock of hair. I love his flaring nostrils. I love the way he jogs through the snow under indictment, like a stork in spandex trying to gallop. I love the way he compares himself in quick order to Pearl Harbor, Oliver Wendell Holmes and a dead cowboy.
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I love the hurly-burly way the Illinois governor rammed through his choice for the Senate, compared with the namby-pamby way the New York governor strangled his best choice for the Senate.”
-Maureen Dowd
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/opinion/25dowd.html?_r=1
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I’m pretty sure she loves the CBO report just as much.

he’s acquitting himself quite well

Well, it’s not like anyone else is likely to do so.
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[Insert rimshot here]
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“I’ll be here all week! Try the veal!”
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Off-Topic: I keep looking but there’s no report here on the CBO website.

It’s the hair. It’s all about the hair.

I just watched the View. From my Twitter stream”
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surreality: Blago being interviewed by Walters in the form of a HD TV upper body and a fern from the waist down. she’s playin hardball, tough questions and scowling.(BW was in LA and Blaqo on NY, so she was on a large screen and he was on a small chair.)
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Blago gives Whoopie a pat on the knee, and blames himself for his wife’s potty mouth (he’s been a bad influence).
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another knee pat! Does she like it, or is she going to push back at some point?
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more touching! half embrace and another knee touch. Joy and Sherri are getting no love at all
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Joy touching Blago and begging for his Nixon impression, “I am not a crook”
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Overall: bipolar View appearance. Bad Cop Walters beat him with a billy club, then his ego got pampered by the other ladies. (pat pat pat)

Maybe Blago scrubbed the CBO website? Karen?

Oh, and re the CBO nonreport, from the HuffPo today:
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the press has built themselves a nice little narrative on the stimulus bill that centers on a report from the Congressional Budget Office. That report, though, does not exist. Another narrative that’s emerged over the closing of Guantanamo Bay, tells of sixty-one former prisoners who have “returned to the battlefield.” That number is just made up out of whole cloth. In either case, all it takes is source verification to determine the truth, but that, I suppose, would fall under the category of “achievement,” and anyway, after a day, everyone can just cite everybody else. It’s just like Bernard Madoff drew it up!
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Meanwhile, the press did a fantastic job nailing down the truth over whether the music played at the Inauguration was live or recorded! I bet that news, plus a fifth of bourbon, helps you sleep better at night.

Off topic. I’ve said before that you really should follow journalism professor Jay Rosen on twitter (jayrosen_nyu). I have to add to the must follow short list, pourmecoffee. The 140 character form is made to order for PMC. (I’m, as everywhere, jayackroyd.)

Karen, Drudge is reporting that the CBO report made out w/ Lindsay Lohan at HBO’s SAG after party and then threw up on Diablo Cody’s Capizios at the Showtime party…any truth?

Isn’t the court of public opinion supposed to be…well, not a real one?

@Jayack and @Pourme: Agreed. But that should not give Pourme license to think he can neglect his duties cracking us up over here at Swampland. Speaking of which, where the heck has he been lately?

Remember when Gandhi went on The View and was grilled by Joy Behar? I have the transcript…
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BEHAR: What’s with the half-sheet thing?
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GANDHI: Pardon me?
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BEHAR: What you’re wearing…
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GANDHI: It is what I–
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BEHAR: Why not a Nehru jacket? That’s Indian, isn’t it?
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GANDHI: I dress as a peasant.
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BEHAR: I’ll say! Tell ya’ what… If I was going to dress in a sheet, at least I’d make sure it was satin!
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[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]

Yarr! Th’ election be safely o’er, an’ we be back t’ crap stories now. O’ course, there be no other news o’ any import ‘r substance t’ cover now, be there, KT?

joyomama: An’ tha’ source verifiction – tha’ be called “JOURNALISM”, an’ we be seein’ precious little o’ it from here on t’ th’ horizon now tha’ th’ MSM be slitherin’ back inta their stinkin’ holes like a bunch o’ spineless octopi…ah…journalism…it were nice while it were attempted, weren’t it?

I wonder, how do you guys think it looks when you refuse to even talk about why you won’t talk about the CBO?
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I mean, can we at least get a reason why you won’t touch this with a ten foot pole?

Why is Time/Life on my Tee Vee hawking Obama CDs for $29.99?

Blago’s crazed trip across the media spectrum is very reminiscent of Sarah Palin’s recent tour of the interview set. Just plain weird…

http://www.political-buzz.com/

“Ben Pershing: It’s true that there is no official report from the CBO yet “scoring” the entire stimulus package. What the agency did is run a portion of the stimulus through it’s standard formula and then gave the basic data to some members of Congress, and it’s those results that we’ve seen written about in the press. The coverage has been a bit misleading.
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Howard Kurtz: I agree that the media coverage should have made clear that 1) this wasn’t an official CBO report, and 2) this was spoon-fed to the media by Republicans to make their case. That doesn’t mean it’s not worth reporting, but the reporting was incomplete.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/01/23/DI2009012303458.html

thanks cinci
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wvng looks like you have the perfect response to email that journalist.

When they have (sort of) lost even Howie Kurtz that a sign they may have fallen too far to the right.

To quote my sainted mother’s most hated aphorism,
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“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing right”.
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That goes double for political reporting, Mom. (Still does not apply to housework, tho.)

VERY excited about Blago on Larry King tonight. Rare to have two people completely untethered from reality on live television at the same time.

I’ll let you tell me all about it, pourme. I had to take a shower after the View this morning and with my dry skin, that’s my limit.

palininatowel wins the thread!
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Next up on Swamp: Scherer posts McCain’s press release on Blago’s appearance on the View and how bad this is for Obama.

We don’t have a moderation system like Slashdot, but if we did, I’d give palininatowel “+1 funny.”
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Was that original?

Ummm, exactly what demographic(s) does the View reach, besides elite DC journos that is? Babs Wa Wa and that QB’s fascist wife? Oh yes and Whoopi too. I’ve always felt the Oprah crowd to be a group-therapy session run amuck, but she’s highbrow compared to this gutter tripe–suffice it to say that I’m heartbroken none of this fine fare is b-cast here in J-town. Of course, there’s plenty of shee-ot on the tube de boob here too.
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And psst, Ms. Wench, no one likes pirates.