March 23, 2006

Lieberman Flips Out On Talk Radio Joementum may just of had his Howard Dean moment.

Lieberman: This quote is totally out of context. You might have gotten it from the bloggers, who love to do this. McEnroe: No actually I got it… Lieberman: Read the whole speech, it’s below your standards. McEnroe: Senator actually I got it from the New York Times. Lieberman: Well that’s just as bad! Go back and read the speech, be more responsible.
WTIC has audio.
posted by Sullivan 18 years ago
  • Which Howard Dean moment was that? The fake media driven moment that was played again and again and again that wasn't perceived that way by the people in attendance? Yeargh!
  • Lieberman doesn't come across to me as "flipping out" from that clip at all. He was insistent about a couple of points but seemed generally relaxed and good-natured about his differences with his interviewer. I don't like Lieberman but the clip nothing to further my dislike. I also didn't think Dean's "moment" was the catastrophic embarassment that it was portrayed as. Quite the contrary: I admired him for it. Yeargh! I wish more of us were willing to stand up and yell "Yeargh!" Yeargh!
  • I fucking hate Lieberman.
  • What MonkeyFlitter and timefactor said re: Dean.
  • On Majority Report last week Sam played an audio byte of Lieberman on Sean Hannity's show. It was a love fest. Apparently, Joe does the show every month or week or something. This wasn't a "Dean moment" as much as it is Joe giving more proof that he needs to change parties.
  • Who cares what Republicans (sic.) say anymore? They have no credibility left.
  • Lieberman is a demented fool.
  • Holy shit - hi, birdherder! You have the coolest name ever.
  • We can't get through a news conference, debate, or political discussion without somebody at some point angrily demanding, "Excuse me! May I finish, please!" It has nothing to do with being interrupted; it's a calculated rhetorical trick to make their opponent look like a rude, uncultured boor. The president used it against Helen Thomas two days ago, Leiberman used it against McEnroe. It's getting a little old.
  • It's been used for as long as I can remember. Margaret Thatcher used it to great effect with her supercilious way of speaking.
  • I heard it live yesterday, and I have to agree with Chy and Nickdanger. Lieberman is a demented fool AND I fucking hate him. I would vote for Pol Pot before I vote for him. He's being challenged in a Primary this year, and I've registered as a Democrat just to be able to vote against him. Also, Colin McEnroe has a blog .
  • I always wondered why some people were turned off by Dean's yell. It's not like that's the wackiest thing a candidate's ever done.
  • I would vote for Pol Pot before I vote for him. This is why you guys are losing.
  • It's not like that's the wackiest thing a candidate's ever done. It was the wackiest sound a candidate has ever made, on purpose, in a political rally. For the reasons of microphone, crowd noise, etc. But yeah, as he's reaching that crescendo it's like "Holy crap his head is going to fucking explode" /derail I would vote for Pol Pot before I vote for him. You don't mean that. This is why you guys are losing. No it isn't.
  • No it isn't. Oh what do you know? Liberal pseudointellectual wanker.
  • Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot!
  • I would vote for Pol Pot before I vote for him. This is why you guys are losing. Well said, f8xy - about time someone here started talking SENSE. We Republicans would always vote for any murderous dictator rather than Al Gore, so we did.
  • Damn right quid! Now let's go conquer some ninjas!
  • Right. That's why. Thanks for solving it for me. Now I can go back to voting for Lieberman and win again!
  • You don't mean that. If course not. It's called hyperbole. But I will also gladly vote for his republican challenger if he does win the primary. I really want him to find a job elsewhere...
  • Ooh, petebest vs. pete_best! *makes popcorn, pulls up comfy chair*
  • Hell yeah! Na na na na! Na na na na! Heeeyyyyyyy! Goodbyyyyyye!
  • I didn't have time to listen to the audio. Now that I have, he doesn't sound angry. He's sounds senile. On the audio, he mentions his National Journal rating. He doesn't mention that he's rated the 8th most conservative Senate Democrat. Joe denies always backing Bush. Can he explain his port deal while Republicans were jumping for the lifeboats. For the record: there was racism involved in people's feelings in the port deal. I don't think Rumsfeld and Snow should have rubber-stamped the deal without the waiting period. Rumsfeld's magic touch continues to work wonders. Historians are going to have a field day figuring out why Bush kept him on.
  • "McEnroe: You probably know that I wrote in the Currant last Sunday..." A partner of the ever-popular "Journal of Fruits and Berries"? Seriously, how long does it take to look up the spelling? He even linked to it!
  • Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Pol Pot! Holiday in Connecticut?
  • Holiday in Connecticut? Dead Kennedys reference. MP3 file
  • Lieberman's campaign websites have been attacked! Or maybe not...
  • Lieberman Horowitz flips out on talk radio Fox News.
  • Nut job.
  • The Fox News piece is sickening. I haven't watching it much - except during Katrina, when they were forced from their talking points by reality - but I had no idea it was that bad. Sean Hannity just came out and attacked democracy, for god's sake! He attacked people for voting for someone they agreed with! And dissent! He attacked dissent, the backbone of democracy. Aside from the fact that he just out and out LIED when he said the Democrats were militarily incompetent, because the current regime is far more militarily incompetent. When generals are retiring to tell you your military policy is shite, you are not competent. These men gave up their careers to say this. I'm very angry - because I could see blatently how he was creating "reality". He just said, over and over, that the American Democratic party, which in any other developed country would be the centrist or right wing party, was extreme left - and it's going to work. Repeating it over and over again will make it stick - it doesn't matter that its utter bullocks. And the Democratic spokesperson was barely competent at answering back. Frankly, they need to hire George Galloway. Or maybe someone with George Galloway's rhetorical skill, a little less crazy (since Galloway is actually extreme). Yes, I'm freaking out. I'm freaking out because i had never seen such propaganda in action. Fox News is the reason why 50% of Americans are deluded about WMDs in Iraq. And as for Horowitz, the campaigner against Academic Freedom, to be talking about democracy? He and his ilk are the greatest threat to American democracy. Frankly, why aren't they attacked on that point - the minute they attack any dissent, ask them why they hate democracy?
  • a "very liberal Democrat" like Joe Lieberman Dance for me, monkey. Here's a peanut. That's a good boy.
  • jb - no way Fox would ever let someone who could think on their feet and answer back find their way on air. At least, not more than once.
  • People who watch Fox News (and I use that word lightly), people who believe Fox News deserve everything they get.
  • Thr interesting thing is lots of people continue to be guests on the Fox shows even after they've been beaten up. Apparently they are believers in the notion that any publicity is good publicity. Either that or they figure that the guys on the Fox programs come across as so stupid and obtuse that they end up looking like geniuses by comparison.
  • What if you re-engineered lawn darts so the point was much, much sharper, and so that the entire dart was smaller, small enough to conceal. You'd have a... Dart. Perfectly legal, perfectly lethal. Oh, and people usually throw them while drinking alcohol. Yes, this makes sense.
  • (Well now, that would be entirely the wrong thread, wouldn't it? How embarassing)
  • n00B!!
  • pwned
  • *sigh* Oh geez that's not good, yeah?