Much to our surprise, the McLaughlin Group is still on the air. We really thought it had ended its run sometime back in the 90s. But, no, it grinds on, irrelevant as ever.
This week the panel consisted of Pat Buchanan, Monica Crowley, Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post and Eleanor Clift, who uttered one of the more remarkable lines EVER about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
Buchanan: You’ve got to stop the, they call it collective bargaining. It is collusive bargaining. What you’ve got is a union puts enormous amounts of money in, they get their buddy in the governor’s chair, then they get together, they cut a deal, give them a sweetheart contract and give it to the taxpayers. What this Governor Walker is saying, “Those days are over. We’ve got somebody representing the people now, and this is going to be an adversary proceeding between you folks and us.”
Capehart: None of these deals are over unless you’re police or firefighters
Clift: Since when does Scott Walker represent the people? He’s representing…
Buchanan and Crowley: (Together) He got elected!
Clift: …the money interests that helped him get elected including…
McLaughlin: Let her finish.
Clift: …including lots of money from the Koch brothers.
Eleanor Clift puts the red in red herring. She demonstrates that Newsweek wasn’t even worth the $1 Sidney Harmon paid for it.
H/T: NewsBusters.org
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Was he not elected by the people of his state?
Who gives a rats ass who the Koch brothers give their money too. The liberal do that is right. If they give their money to the liberals no problem, however, they give it to conservative and the liberals cant stand that.
Clift most have failed her basics civics class. Scott Walker was elected by the people of Wisconsin. Geez she needs to go sit in the corner with Helen Thomas and Barbara Walters and be quite.
Well as a resident of Wisconsin I can tell the idiot that, yes, he does represent us because we put him in office. Is there something about the election process that the left doesn't understand?
...actually, *yes*. There is plenty about the election process that the left doesn't understand.
Mostly it has to do with how their electorate isn't stupid enough to vote for them regardless, even though they have done their best to demonize their opponent.
"Mostly it has to do with how their electorate isn’t stupid enough to vote for them regardless, even though they have done their best to demonize their opponent."
And the troglodytes that do vote for the libtard/prog/dumb-crat over-lords do it with the same dedicated thought and caution they used when voting for the Homecoming Queen back in Publik Hi Skool... Which incidentally was probably a higher priority for them while the were there than learning to read, write, & think for themselves as current events with the Wisconsin Gubba-mint Shills Union has proven.
"Since when does Scott Walker represent the people?"
Since the election Eleanor, the election, Scott Walker was elected governor by the people of Wisconsin. Remember last November? To quote the Bambster: "We won."
Eleanor Clift is a Democrat apparachik who can be relied on to parrot the party line. Every time she appears on TV she proves there's more than one way to be a whore.
Scott Walker has been representing the people since the people ELECTED him to do exactly that, dipshit.
Unlike that cockaroach Franken.
He is not representing the people because he is not a liberal. But if he was a liberal and no one wanted what he was shelling out, then he would be the perfect representative of the people... Liberal ideologies = mental disease.
Has there ever been a time Clift hasn`t been a absolute dolt. That`s not a question.
Koch Bros. Koch Bros. All of the libs are fixated on the Koch Bros.
But not one of them can even stand to listen to how Soros has the Democratic Party and the unions in HIS pocket. That's unnel vision, selective delusions, and the vast left-wing hypocrisy for you.
It just kills me...the double standard is astounding...here we are back at the Koch brothers. And NONE of the democrats get any money from their supporters ie...UNIONS, Soros. HELLO PEOPLE...please, lets get real.
kb, please don't confuse the issue with facts! It's not about facts, it's about feelings.
This is the same Eleanor Clift who said that the losses in the stock market in 2000 were 'paper losses'. Yes, the president at the time was a Democrat, why do you ask?
Don't forget the "irrational exuberance" when the market went up under Bush...But when it went up under Obama it was a sign of improvement.