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The Bobblespeak Translations
What They're Really Saying When They're Saying What They're Saying

Sunday, July 25, 2010
Meet The Press – July 25, 2010
Guests:
Tim Geithner – Sec. of Treasury
Marc Morial
Anita Dunn
E.J. Dionne
David Brooks
Rick Santelli
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Gregory: Tim will things get worse before
they get better?

Geithner: sure but we’re seeing positive signs
and I think most unemployed Americans get that
and sympathize with us

Gregory: oh no doubt

Geithner: look we lived beyond our means for
years but now the party is over and it’s time to sober and pick up the beer cans and passed out drunks
off the lawn

Gregory: will we have another recession?

Geithner: well if we did that would make me look
like an idiot Greggers

Gregory: where are all the jobs?

Geithner: there’s a lot of pent up demand – the economy is like teenage boy ready to explode

Gregory: but those boys have no confidence

Geithner: we have to massage the economy
and buck them up!

Gregory: why not stimulate more?

Geithner: we’re in a transition period

Gregory: so no more stimulus?

Geithner: we can’t deal a stimulus now since we have high unemployment

Gregory: um that was my point Timster

Geithner: government must transition from doing something about the economy to not caring as usual

Gregory: why not pay for unemployment benefits like we do for wars and tax cuts for the rich

Geithner: because that’s fucking stupid Fluffy

Gregory: that’s an outrageous implication

Geithner: it won’t add to the debt moron

Gregory: so why not a big giant stimulus to jump-start the economy?

Geithner: if we do that the Germans will mock me
at the next summit

Gregory: should bankers on welfare get
fat bonuses?

Geithner: yes but only this time and not again

Gregory: how can we prevent another crisis?

Geithner: this new law will add cushions to the economy

Gregory: sounds comfy

Gregory: does it bother you that 25% of our economy are useless fuckers running a giant casino

Geithner: not at all Fluffers

Gregory: how do you solve the housing crisis?

Geithner: lower interest rates and a modest mortgage modification program

Gregory: very very modest I should say

Geithner: well we don’t want to reinflate the
bubble Greggers

Gregory: so should we allow poor people to
own property?

Geithner: sure but in a carefully designed way so the peons and unwashed are not included

Gregory: will you raise taxes on the very rich?

Geithner: Look all those fucking teabaggers are so worried about the debt – well guess what we’re going to be responsible and raise taxes on the top 2%

Gregory: what’s a painful choice you’re willing make to tackle the debt?

Geithner: we’re going to cut spending and raise taxes on the rich

Gregory: what about something really really painful

Geithner: I came on your show

Gregory: Americans have seen their investments
go down and Obama is President

Geithner: they’re gone up since he became President liar

Gregory: [ grins ] well whatever

Geithner: deceitful bubblehead

Gregory: and now let’s talk about why the media can’t get basic facts right

[ break ]

Gregory: Barack Obama was going bring us a wonderful post-racial America – and he’s failed!!

[ grins ]

Shirley Sherrod was wrongly fired – a teachable moment? Do we another beer summit? Some observers say Obama could solve racial problems and others say he’s failed because we still act crazy when it comes to race

Gregory: this is all politically charged – what happened Marc?

Morial: I’ll tell you what happened – that fucker Breitbart yelled fire in a crowded theater

Gregory: I used to love that guy

Morial: we learned that Shirley Sherrod has a fascinating and teachable story and also let me
plug my upcoming conference

Gregory: Let me quote Maureen Dowd

Dunn: oh my god

Gregory: no Dowd has strong words for the
White House

Dunn: yeah maybe the NAACP needs an advisor on black relations too

Gregory: hah ok

Dunn: the media fucked up too Fluffy

Gregory: yes but Obama is insensitive on race

Dunn: jesus he wrote a whole book on race

Gregory: but Obama was supposed to get rid of racial problems

Dunn: look this unhinged lunatic tried to say the NAACP is a racist organization

Gregory: yeah that was funny

Dionne: holy fuck Sherrod gives a positive post-racial speech and the media is so fucking terrified of being called liberal they run with every right-wing story no matter how false and slimy

Brooks: I always check the facts unlike those horrible bloggers

Dunn: eat at an Applebee’s recently Brooksie?

Gregory: is the Tea Party really trying to convince people that Obama is a black racist and whites are the real victims of racism?

Santelli: sure there are a few racists in the Tea Party but only because the Tea Baggers are against welfare for lazy poor people who happen to be black

Gregory: why won’t Obama engage in race and solve racism in America!

Morial: Obama needs a black friend like
Stephen Colbert has

Gregory: that’s a good idea

Morial: the Tea Party compared Obama to the worst people in world history like Hitler, Lenin, Mao and Mel Gibson

Gregory: the left is just as bad!

Dionne: Hey Fluffy Fox News says Obama has a deep seated hatred of white people

Brooks: I have an anecdote – Black people love
the Tea Party

Gregory: Jim Webb helpfully used this moment to tell us that we should get rid of affirmative action and poor white people have suffered the most

Brooks: we live in a gotcha culture – why did people go after poor Tom Vilsack

Dunn: somehow I’m sure the media will find a way to blame Obama

Morial: meanwhile the Senate cut $1 billion in benefits this week

Gregory: what about poor white people?

Morial: yeah it’s real tragedy

Santelli: I just realized in January 2009 that the debt and the deficit is terrible!

Gregory: the stimulus isn’t working well enough

Brooks: people are very scared of the debt
since 2009

Gregory: interest rates are low so let’s borrow
and spend!

Santelli: yes but that could change

Gregory: but it hasn’t

Santelli: well look at Greece

Gregory: so what

Santelli: look we cut spending for all the little people

Gregory: why doesn’t Obama raise taxes on
poor people?

Dunn: because it’s stupid and would hurt
the economy

Gregory: but Democrats believe tax cuts are
a bad idea

Dunn: no liar Democrats voted for them and only believe excessive tax cuts for the rich should
be repealed

Gregory: Obama spoke to angry liberal bloggers this week by telling them he’s trying to keep his promise to let gays serve openly in Gitmo and Afghanistan

Dionne: jesus fuck the rich pay a lower tax rate than poor people do!

Brooks: as an economist I say we should think long term and give a tax credit for ignorant bullshit

Gregory: we’d all get rich!

Brooks: can I get an amen!

Gregory: Marc you’re black – how about
Charlie Rangel?

Morial: hey don’t rush to judgment on that corrupt fucker

Dunn: that’s right he may yet be acquitted of the charges he’s clearly guilty of

Gregory: Wise words indeed
http://moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com/2010/07/me…

EVENING OPEN THREAD IS UP

http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/roundtable…

I would have been surprised as hell if he had backed her up.

Teh financial institutions are playing a shell game you haven't shown the slightest inkling of trying to understand. Financial reform is a joke. We didn't even go back to Glass Steagall which simply said if you're going to speculate it will not be w/ depositors money.

the perfect is the wrong argument. The argument is how hard are you prepared to fight to turn back the Successful Republican party agenda of the last 30 yrs. coopting it as 42 and 44 did is not going to work.

“Breitbart lost the last drops of his already low credibility and he lost the respect of any Americans that have common sense”
You're counting on a lot considering how far he got already. We need tactics stronger than counting on common sense. a boycott of FOX advertisers like those of Glen Beck will be far more effective.

Hit them where it hurts!

What has Ed Schultz done? Im just curious. I only catch glimpses of his show in the breakroom at work. His association with tom tancredo is disturbing to me, since ed is supposed to be a liberal, however he frequently calls out the crazy antics of Palin and Michele Bachman, and fox news figures. Is he really so bad?

The corporate media rushed to scold Obama and defend Fox. Beltway types were completely in their Village delusion world with some their criticism:
http://mediamatters.org/mobile/columns/20091103…
Another example of the Beltway press not letting the facts get in the way of a good story? It sure looks that way. In this case, we saw nearly universal agreement among media elites that the White House decision to publicly call out Fox News was monumentally dumb, thin-skinned, short-sighted, and uncivil. (Paging the etiquette police!)

Everyone said so. Therefore pundits were certain that Fox News' ratings were way up and that Obama and his aides had made a huge tactical blunder. The ratings angle simply provided statistical ammunition for what the Beltway press corps already knew to be the truth: Fact-checking Fox News, in the immortal words of The Washington Post's CW-loving Sally Quinn, was “absolutely crazy.”

Except it turns out none of that was true. There was no viewer stampede toward Fox News.

I used to think that Fox could be marginalized by exposing them and thus turning their extremism back at them. I no longer think so. The inability of major networks to find liberal AA front line program heads. etc..

A few reality oriented people like Maddow aren't enough to fight this – yet.

This kind of sums it up for me:

With the election of a black president, the media have become a sort of white power government in exile taking its lead from Fox News. When Pres. Obama and his team began to treat Fox News as an arm of the Republican Party, the “mainstream” media rallied to defend Fox and even suggested that their criticism of Fox would only serve to improve Fox's ratings. Wrong again. (Ishmael Reed in “Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media, The Return of the N***** Breakers”)

Speaking of humble pie being eaten by Roland: http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/column/…

It'll come out six months in the future. If he don't wanna, he don't hafta.

Thank God someone finally did. It's brazen racism and it should be challenged head on face-to-face.

I don't agree with that assesment. The fact that Ms. Dowd can express coherent thoughts on paper puts her light years ahead of Palin, lol. I think her intent is to have a wittier, more satirical perspective on politics, you have to keep her in that context to really get her.

Well for starters, he is attackign the POTUS with al the conservative talking points when it comes to financial reform..'we need to lower the deficit' when it comes to health care 'we need a public option' when it comes to race 'he's a coward'.

The upshot is he is simply having a temper tantrum cause he hasn't been invited to the WH like Rachel Maddox.

Can't say that he is really bad, yet…but he is getting there for someone who started out as a progressive…and he tells us all the time how he supported this POTUS but how he is such a disappointment.

Now, you can't tune into Limbaugh or Smerconish and hear those jokers go after the GOP or Bush like that…so if Schultz's is representing the left he is not doing a good job of it..by trying to be 'fair and balanced'

shyt this is war…and you do not give your political opponent bullets just cause you do not want to shoot him when he has no bullets..

Shoot..and move on…let his ass writhe in agony and die a long slow blood filling lungs drowning death.