Ok, it’s obviously an Obama slam, but does it have to not make sense as well? Is drinking water good? Or bad? Is that Obama, off stage, yelling about the water? Or did he turn into Romey, and that’s what makes it funny?
“Rubio getting that bottle of water, what a clumsy move”Is the water bottle thing overblown? Yes, of course. Rubio’s speech was the problem.Tired retread of old talking points. Glaring hypocrisy (“Big government bad” – then – “Big government gave me financial aid and my mother her Medicare”). Same tired attacks on fictionalized Obama. Rubio offered no plan for future. No policy proposals. No vision.
The White House leaked a memo about immigration reform and Rubio lept up to delare it “Dead in the water.”McCain realized what happened, the Democrats “used another cudgle” to make the Republicans look like they will never compromise, and thus make them look bad.So funny.
The things Obama has said are facts, but let’s believe Rushbo, Coulter and the idiot right who just lie instead of doing anything, or say anything, positive. That the MEDIA pass on lies, told by Boehner, McConnell, Rove, et al IS the fraud, and it is the folks who don’t realize the most intelligent thing Rubio did was reach for the water bottle!!
lol. It never ceases to amaze me how devoted some people are to Fox and Limbaugh! Paragraph after paragraph of qualification and defense.Give MediaMatters any label you want. Call it any name. I’ll agree with you 100%.The point is that so often, here and elsewhere, a Fox devotee will say something like “Prove Fox is biased!” And so then the rest of us are apparently obligated to slog through the millions of hours of Fox programming, find the legions of examples, and then nit-pick debate each one of them.So I offered MediaMatters as a one-stop spot for examples. Whether you agree or disagree with any specific example . . . it’s interesting that MediaMatters can find so many of them, day after day . . .
“Next I listed to the tape labeled as ’Gavin Newsom Points Out GOP Needs “Permission” From Talk Radio To Act On Immigration.’”I watched that episode, as it happened, on Sunday morning. The original comment came from Alex Castellanos, Republican startegist. (Castellanos is a “political consultant who specializes in television advertising. He was a top media adviser to George W. Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign and Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign”).They were discussing what Republicans would do on immigration. Castellanos said he thought there might be progress because “talk radio has already given the Republicans a little room”.Before Newsom said anything, I thought to myself . . . Why do Republican lawmakers need “room” from talk radio?? Who is running the Republican party? Does the government of the United States of America, in order to make policy, have to wait for one of our political parties to get “room” from a radio show??
Yes, the Rubio-drank-some-water-during-a-speech meme is ridiculous. The most interesting thing about it is that the people rolling their eyes about it are the same people using the Obama-uses-a-teleprompter meme.
Durak Premium Member about 11 years ago
Ok, it’s obviously an Obama slam, but does it have to not make sense as well? Is drinking water good? Or bad? Is that Obama, off stage, yelling about the water? Or did he turn into Romey, and that’s what makes it funny?
corzak about 11 years ago
“Rubio getting that bottle of water, what a clumsy move”Is the water bottle thing overblown? Yes, of course. Rubio’s speech was the problem.Tired retread of old talking points. Glaring hypocrisy (“Big government bad” – then – “Big government gave me financial aid and my mother her Medicare”). Same tired attacks on fictionalized Obama. Rubio offered no plan for future. No policy proposals. No vision.
pirate227 about 11 years ago
POTUS vs. NRFPT (Not Ready For Prime Time)
rockngolfer about 11 years ago
The White House leaked a memo about immigration reform and Rubio lept up to delare it “Dead in the water.”McCain realized what happened, the Democrats “used another cudgle” to make the Republicans look like they will never compromise, and thus make them look bad.So funny.
Dtroutma about 11 years ago
The things Obama has said are facts, but let’s believe Rushbo, Coulter and the idiot right who just lie instead of doing anything, or say anything, positive. That the MEDIA pass on lies, told by Boehner, McConnell, Rove, et al IS the fraud, and it is the folks who don’t realize the most intelligent thing Rubio did was reach for the water bottle!!
corzak about 11 years ago
lol. It never ceases to amaze me how devoted some people are to Fox and Limbaugh! Paragraph after paragraph of qualification and defense.Give MediaMatters any label you want. Call it any name. I’ll agree with you 100%.The point is that so often, here and elsewhere, a Fox devotee will say something like “Prove Fox is biased!” And so then the rest of us are apparently obligated to slog through the millions of hours of Fox programming, find the legions of examples, and then nit-pick debate each one of them.So I offered MediaMatters as a one-stop spot for examples. Whether you agree or disagree with any specific example . . . it’s interesting that MediaMatters can find so many of them, day after day . . .
corzak about 11 years ago
“Next I listed to the tape labeled as ’Gavin Newsom Points Out GOP Needs “Permission” From Talk Radio To Act On Immigration.’”I watched that episode, as it happened, on Sunday morning. The original comment came from Alex Castellanos, Republican startegist. (Castellanos is a “political consultant who specializes in television advertising. He was a top media adviser to George W. Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign and Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign”).They were discussing what Republicans would do on immigration. Castellanos said he thought there might be progress because “talk radio has already given the Republicans a little room”.Before Newsom said anything, I thought to myself . . . Why do Republican lawmakers need “room” from talk radio?? Who is running the Republican party? Does the government of the United States of America, in order to make policy, have to wait for one of our political parties to get “room” from a radio show??
CasualBrowser about 11 years ago
Yes, the Rubio-drank-some-water-during-a-speech meme is ridiculous. The most interesting thing about it is that the people rolling their eyes about it are the same people using the Obama-uses-a-teleprompter meme.
Tue Elung-Jensen about 11 years ago
ofc he did… I´m sure he isn´t getting paid either.