MSNBC's Tamron Hall Slams Wash. Examiner's Tim Carney's Efforts To Dismiss As "Silly" Policies That Hurt Women
May 11, 2012 3:47 pm ET
From the May 11 edition of MSNBC's News Nation with Tamron Hall:
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Oh yeah, she also drop dead gorgeous.
Are you saying she's a "news babe?" ;)
"Are you saying she is a "news babe?" Not on your life!
We see so many pretty faces reading the news off a telepromter. This woman is studied, intelligent and authentic. And for all you men out there - admit it - she is easy on eyes.
Given the alternative (Fox News) which would you feel better about watching?
It tickles me that she worked for Fox News Chicago. Chicago does have a way of separating the wheat from the chaff.
She also looks like my favorite Aunt that lived to be 100, long gone now. Can you believe that Aunt never thought she was pretty, let alone beautiful? It would have helped if in her day, she saw people that looked like her on the TV and in magazines, maybe.
Auntie had it all and every one commented on it. She had unbelievable style, even working in her yard she looked like a fashion plate and every room of her homes looked right out of a magazine. She was smart, witty and fun. Her not liking her appearance came from the Catholic Institution she was placed in at age 4-9, where it was the duty of the Nuns and priest to strip the children of their Indian ways. Then when she left the Reservation to go to college, she never met another Indian the entire time. And none of the women in magazines or the movies looked like her. Besides being separated from Papa and her family, her mother and two older brothers died at the same time (flu epidemic) so she never got that extra reasurance from a Mother figure when it was crucial.
I witnessed my grandpa wipe tears away, when she would critisize her looks and by then he was in his nineties. He would declare "No Government will ever convince me I don't have the most beautiful children and grandchildren on earth." It broke his heart that she wasn't proud to be Indian. Her older sister was more rebellious and they didn't succeed in breaking her, she embraced being an Indian. But the school kept them separated.
Society has come a long way since those days.
I have to tell you, the story about the bullet going through your son's bedroom, ran chills through me. So glad he was sleeping on the couch, so scary.
Have a great evening.
Most interviewers, reporters, journalists, what have you, would have not even heard Tim Carney use the term silly, because their focus would have been on the larger context of the War on Women(tm). This is why the Luntzification of our political discourse is so effective. Throwaway terms like silly get ignored because they are used so glibly during a conversation, but the connotation implants itself on the listener's psyche, so when they hear about the War on Women(tm) from then on, they have a Pavlovian response to it as something trivial and laughable.
Listen to Republican Media Mouths when they speak; those who are vetted for public media appearances have been thoroughly Luntzified and will use language like this quite effectively. It's very subtle, and very dangerous.
This is why it's okay to assume that most Republican followers are dimwits, but we should never, ever, underestimate the shrewd intellect of the strategists.
The worst offender by far is Wolf Blitzer. He let's his nutjob guests get away with lie after lie.
Awww, it's not so easy when you aren't controlling every single aspect of the national dialogue, is it?
Shouldn't you be used to those "liberal media" monsters by now?
It's sort of like the boy who cried wolf story, only the boy cries wolf about 100 times and also calls half the village's mothers obscene names before the village decides it has finally had enough. Conservative media has just pushed, lied, slandered, dismissed, distorted, and insulted the intelligence of the American people too many times, and we're starting to see push-back.
Better late then never, but really at this point the tea-party pyramid scheme has gone well off the deep end.
She used to be on the local Fox station in Chicago. Glad she made the move up.
Boy, what a strong willed........... uh... you know.
I did enjoy that though.
It goes:
1. Republican Media Mouth makes nutty/dishonest claim.
2. Republican Media Mouth gets called out on nutty/dishonest claim.
3. Republican Media Mouth walks back nutty/dishonest claim and immediately tries to change subject.
4. Interviewer asks Republican Media Mouth to explain/clarify/give examples of nutty/dishonest claim.
5. Republican Media Mouth can't.
6. Next day, Republican Media Mouth and every other Republican Media Mouth in America declares victory, calls interviewer someone in the pocket of Obama.
7. Republican Media Mouth goes back to making nutty/dishonest claim, unencumbered by having to face a challenge.
8. Same as it ever was.
This Stephen is for you !
There were over 1100 antichoice provisions introduced in 2011 and 900 antichoice provisions introduced so far in 2012. Legislators in 13 states have introduced 22 bills seeking to mandate that a woman obtain an ultrasound procedure before having an abortion. Of these, seven states are pursuing the state-rape vaginal probe variety.
Republicans not only want to reduce women's access to abortion care, they proposed redefining rape to only cases of "forcible rape" to deny access to women's health services
In South Dakota, Republicans proposed a bill that could make it legal to murder a doctor who provides abortion care.
Then you have the Rush Limbaugh thing
Republicans want to cut nearly a billion dollars of food and other aid to low-income pregnant women, mothers, babies, and kids.
In Congress, Republicans have a bill that would let hospitals allow a woman to die rather than perform an abortion necessary to save her life.
Congress just voted for a Republican amendment to cut all federal funding from Planned Parenthood health centers.
They started this BS in 2010 and really haven't stopped since.
Wooo Hooo Tamron!! You Go Girl!
She is fantastically & awesomely fierce!
That look in that screenshot is PRICELESS!!
T. Carney--Yet another out of touch, in denial Right Winger who simply cannot grasp the fact that the troglodytes in his party are hell bent and determined to drag our nation and our society back to the 1930's, 40's & 50's by trying to legislate away every hard won advancement we have made in the arenas of Womens' Rights.
As for Romney, well,
hearing his sales pitch to that group in N.Carolina, it is clear that Romney is still stuck in Primary mode, making speeches that are written for him, reaching only the mindsets of Right Wing & Republican audiences, rather than all Americans.
(I LOVE Romney's speechwriters! Muuaaahhh!)
Statements from RomneyBot such as "old Liberal ideas of the past"
and
"a throwback to the liberal ideas of the past,"
and
"The ideas of the past should be left there"
register verrrrry differently with Independents, Moderates, Centrists and most importantly, with Women --of ALL political persuasions.
In spite of what Conservative Women display & say for the consumption of their crazy conservative menfolk and those female counterparts of the Crazy Shelly Bachmann Stepford variety, droves of Conservative Women do and will continue to secretly vote for the Party & Candidates who work to secure, protect and further Women's Rights & issues.
So, Romney Campaign, Monday will be here before ya know it so, please, by all means, do keep feeding those kinds of statements and words to your Candidate for him to serve up to folks all across the USA this weekend.(Romney speechwriters--I absolutely LOVE Y'all!! Muuaahhh!)