Fail Fail Fail Faaaaaaaaaail
Many people think that the historical legacy of the McTrainwreck 2008 campaign will be the laughable and totally inappropriate injection of Sarah Palin into the national political arena. Me, I tend to think that this will go down in history as the year of the most spectacular surrogate failures in television history. It’s gotten to be something we expect now, that every McCain spokesmoron who arrives on the scene of whatever show we’re watching will at first grin lamely as they attempt to offload whatever paper-thin talking points they were fed by the campaign an hour ago, and then inevitably go down of an awe-inspiring blaze of ignominy as the host and other guests hoist them on their own petard.
Just today we had the dubious honor of watching the execrable Michael Goldfarb bring Reverend Wright (I think) into play during his segment on CNN without actually saying his name:
Um, okay, then, Michael. Let’s go to the transcript, shall we? I just want to make sure I didn’t hallucinate that.
Sanchez: William Ayers is not—no, no. The question I asked you is: Can you name one other person he hangs around with who is anti-Semitic, because that’s what you said.
Goldfarb: Look. We all know there are people who Barack Obama has been in hot water—
Sanchez: MICHAEL, I ASKED YOU TO NAME ONE PERSON. ONE.
Goldfarb: Rick—
Sanchez: You said he hangs around with people who are anti-Semitic. You—OK, we’ve got Khalidi on the table, give me number two. Who’s the other anti-Semitic person that he hangs around with that we, quote, “all know about.”
Goldfarb: Rick, we all know who number two is.
[Pause.]
Sanchez: WHO? [Pause] Would you tell us?
Goldfarb: No, Rick, I—I think we all know who we’re talking about here.
Sanchez: Somebody who’s anti-Semitic who he hangs around with?
Goldfarb: Absolutely.
Sanchez: Well SAY IT!
Goldfarb: I think we all know who we’re talking about, Rick.
I actually did not know that Lord Voldemort was an anti-Semite.
I swear, you learn something new every day.
9 Responses to “Fail Fail Fail Faaaaaaaaaail”
By Nevorick on Oct 30, 2008 7:13 pm |
It’s hard to find good help these days. It’s also hard to spin a crotchety old man with dementia and his brain dead eye candy as the responsible, honest, wise, steady, and working for the middle class couple we want running this country.
Those talking puppets who go forward with their preposterous talking points don’t even believe the lies they are trying to spread. Those saps probably wish they’d taken those jobs as assistant copy managers at Staples now, don’t they?
By punaise on Oct 30, 2008 7:44 pm |
hard to believe that someone that obdurate would go on national TV.
By may on Oct 30, 2008 9:38 pm |
voldemort was anti-everything except voldemort.
sounds like you-know-who.
By darkblack on Oct 31, 2008 12:26 am |
I think we all know who you’re talking about, May.
;>)
By Roket on Oct 31, 2008 1:01 am |
Palin/Goldfarb 2012
By TexasEllen on Oct 31, 2008 3:22 am |
Perhaps the “everybody knows” anti-Semite is Joe Lieberman who has been an ambassador of ill-will via loose cannon.
I usually don’t watch Rick Sanchez and his toys, but Goldfarb seemed to land on Rick’s very last nerve.
By TexasEllen on Oct 31, 2008 3:29 am |
Congrats on being smoke-free for three weeks! Hang in there, it does get a little easier.
By Bil on Oct 31, 2008 11:31 am |
I thought he was trying to channel Farrakhan…
Know your meme- FAIL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cilLKufYOhE
By dementia on Nov 29, 2008 5:08 pm |
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The family of a man who was hit and killed by a CSX train last month after he wandered off from a Kanawha City nursing home filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the facility on Monday. In a lawsuit filed in Kanawha