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Originally Posted by TracyCoxx
Everytime BO gets on TV, the stock market takes another plunge. The American people have no confidence in him that he can get the economy going. I guess charisma doesn't pay the bills.  |
TRUE STORY 1:
By now I'm sure you've seen or heard the bit about Chris Matthews on MSNBC last week, and how he blurted out a very sarcastic "Oh God" -- off camera, but into a live, open mic so it got picked up and broadcast -- when Bobby Jindal gave the Republican response to Obama's address. With that in mind...
Last night, I had to pull an all-nighter. So there I was, at my desk and typing away, meanwhile off to the side I had the TV on for some background "white noise" to help keep me awake. Around 3:00 AM, I turned on
Morning Joe (Joe Scarborough's show on MSNBC) just to see what they'd be talking about. Scarborough is moderate to say the least, but last night he was actually in rare Republican form and was just RIPPING into the Obama budget and RIPPING into how much Obama's team has dropped the ball every step of the way. A short while later, Joe and his co-host Mika were then interviewing Ray La Hood, Obama's Transportation Secretary. Given his particular cabinet position, La Hood was basically there to talk up the Democrats' desire to rebuild infrastructure, but Scarborough went right back to ripping the budget a new one.
Well, Scarborough and Hood went back and forth arguing over the budget, Scarborough not giving an inch, but no matter how much he confronted Hood about pork and insane levels of spending, Hood remained a loyal foot solder towing the official Obama line. So, in an attempt to try and shut Scarborough down, in order to move on to other talking points, Hood finally said (in a truly jaw-dropping moment): "Come on, Joe. You're not being fair. You can't blame Obama for this budget. You can't pin these numbers and spending him. Remember, this is Bush's budget. Congress is voting on Bush's last budget and all the things that he (Bush) put in there."
At which point, off camera and into his still open mic (ala the Matthews incident), you could hear a stunned Scarborough turning to someone back in the studio and saying: "Did he actually just say this is BUSH'S budget???"