MSNBC Reacts to Walker Victory: "He may be indicted" and "You can't say anything about this other than that big money won" and "Obama is really the big winner"

Mike Riggs | 6.6.2012 12:34 PM

The fine folks at the Washington Examiner have put together a montage of MSNBC's coverage of the Wisconsin recall election. It is…fascinating:

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Joe M 13 years ago

I wish I could watch this right now. I need a laugh.
1. sarcasmic 13 years ago
  
  ditto
2. Kaptious Kristen 13 years ago
  
  It ain't all that. Certainly doesn't come close to salty tears Wisconsin Red Sox fan.
  1. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
    
    Certainly doesn't come close to salty tears Wisconsin Red Sox fan.
    
    Was that some sort of man-in-the-street interview they did with someone who was despondent that Walker wasn't recalled?
    1. Karl Hungus 13 years ago
      
      Never mind, I just saw Red Sox guy on TV - fucking AWESOME. They also just showed a clip where some woman bitch-slapped Tom Barrett. Even awesomer.
      1. Apatheist ?_?? 13 years ago
        
        Try scrolling down the blog sometime. 😉
        
        Karl Hungus 13 years ago
        
        Try scrolling down the blog sometime. 😉
        
        I can't, the wheel on my mouse is broken 😉
VG Zaytsev 13 years ago

"You can't say anything about this other than that big money won" and "Obama is really the big winner"

Doesn't that make Obama the big money candidate?
1. freeAgent 13 years ago
  
  Obama already is the big money candidate.
og barfman 13 years ago

*barf*
cw 13 years ago

Progressive: "It's only Big Money when they do it!"
1. 35N4P2BYY 13 years ago
  
  Oh and Union money doesn't count, 'cause unions are the voice of the worker struggling under teh yoke of the oppressive bourgeois, or something.
  1. GILMORE 13 years ago
    
    35N4P2BYY|6.6.12 @ 1:11PM|#
    
    Oh and Union money doesn't count
    
    well, it's not *BIG* money... its the combined dues of thousands of "middle class", hardworkin, rent-seekin' Average Americans...
    
    The whole, "big money" thing is clearly going to be the talking point going forward. The idea that all Progressive failures are a consequence of the opposition 'stealing it' from them is all over the place.
    
    Re: "Big Money" - A friend of mine who worked in commercial real estate investments for Bear Stearns in the late 90s was asked to come look over the headquarters building of the "Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union" (doormen elevator workers - 28,000 members).
    
    Keep in mind this was a guy who regularly did deals of hundreds of millions, buying office towers...
    
    He told me afterward the place had security like nothing he'd ever seen (biometrics on every floor, radio tags to track people, armed guards everywhere), had a conference room that would have made Dr Evil proud (solid marble, wall-sized video conference, overlooking Times Sq), and had the equivilent facilities of a small hospital across a few floors.
    
    Point is, "big union" aint no joke.
    1. 35N4P2BYY 13 years ago
      
      And that would be my satirical point.
2. db 13 years ago
  
  LOL, the funniest part is that if the Walker legislation hadn't freed WI workers from paying mandatory union dues if they work in union shops, the unions would have had tons more money to spend o this. Thworkers voted witg their wallets and showed the unions just how much they appreciate their "representation."
juris imprudent 13 years ago

Did we really need [more] proof that progressives are the most delusional people on the planet? Yeah, more than the crazy old guy on the street corner.
Restoras 13 years ago

The denial the left is wallowing in is fascinating. Unless the economy improves rapidly in the next several months, and Obama manages to sharply ratchet back the deficit spending the Congress and the Administration are heaping on future generations, he is going to get crushed in November. It will be epic to behold.

I don't know how anyone can sit through all that video. 10 seconds of these hacks has me flipping back to the Red Sox game.
RBS 13 years ago

So what is he going to be indicted for?
1. tarran 13 years ago
  
  Obstruction of justice?
  
  Apparently some of his aides were using a charity fund for veterans as a personal piggy-bank, and Walker might have covered for them in order to avoid being embarrassed.
  1. RBS 13 years ago
    
    I don't know, that's pretty weak. One thing did stand out though, the Justice Department has a "Public Integrity" division? Oh the irony.
    1. Pippers 13 years ago
      
      They've granted close to 30 people immunity over this so far. When this happens, something rather wicked this way comes.
NoVAHockey 13 years ago

It's the old "we-won-by-losing" trope that's used after a shellacking.
Episiarch 13 years ago

"We can change reality through force of will if we just try hard enough!"

Sorry, assholes, only Episiarchs can do that.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Episiarchs are shaggy quadrupeds that have the ability to temporarily alter reality by force of will,
  
  And to think you have been making fun of Warty all of these years. You nothing but an extra dimensional Steve Smith.
  1. Episiarch 13 years ago
    
    Don't make me rape your mind, John.
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      QUAD PED SASQUATCH PWN'D
2. albo 13 years ago
  
  We'll each remove a head for your trophy case.
3. joshua corning 13 years ago
  
  really?
  
  The only other scifi names here are Shrike and Hyperion....
  
  Why do you have to suck like them Epi?
  1. protefeed 13 years ago
    
    The only other scifi names here are Shrike and Hyperion....
    
    Only if you inexplicably define "1984" as not being science fiction.
    
    From NewspeakDictionary.com:
    
    "prolefeed - Rubishy "Entertainment" and spurious news which the Party handed out to the masses. This includes written literature, movies, porn, music, and other various propaganda created for the proles. (For a modern example of prolefeed, just turn on your television or radio. With the exception of some scientific programming, everything else is prolefeed.)"
35N4P2BYY 13 years ago

A 54 percent to 45 percent margin is a "narrow win" hmmm.. So remind me how exactly Obama's 52.9 percent to 45.7 win a "landslide" and a sweeping mandate?
1. Auric Demonocles 13 years ago
  
  Cause of sample size or something.
  1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
    
    You have to take into account the standard disputation.
    1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
      
      What about the standard dispensation?
      1. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Well, there's standard disinformation, but that's a technical term.
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        I understand. It's like standard disgronification.
        
        Pro Libertate 13 years ago
        
        Very like that. And standard dissembling.
2. JW 13 years ago
  
  Something something not bush something something.
3. Somalian Road Corporation 13 years ago
  
  For the same reason that elections had consequences in 2008 but in 2010 election winners were hostage-taking Tea Party terrorists.
Brett L 13 years ago

MSNBC really has descended to the level of one of the old party organ newspapers of the 19th century.

"Its just a flesh wound."
sage 13 years ago

Rachel Maddow sure is a handsome woman.
1. albo 13 years ago
  
  I bet she dominates the dorm room posters at Yale.
  1. 35N4P2BYY 13 years ago
    
    or Vassar.
    1. Pip 13 years ago
      
      Or Smith.
      1. Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        How could you forget Oberlin?
        
        John 13 years ago
        
        Wellsley and Bryn Mayr are on the line and would like speak to you.
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        I have NYU on hold; speaking to Meredith now, and they are not happy.
        
        Restoras 13 years ago
        
        Don't forget Brown and Skidmore.
        
        fish 13 years ago
        
        West coast representin wit Mills College!
        
        alittlesense 13 years ago
        
        At Oberlin, they roll up the posters of Maddow and smoke them.
    2. Kuze 13 years ago
      
      I've had just about enough of your Vassar bashing young lady!
  2. sage 13 years ago
    
    Well, sure. You can't use poison on rats anymore. Bad for the environment or something.
2. Alex 13 years ago
  
  Professional stylists can do wonders.
  1. fish 13 years ago
    
    Looks like Warren Beatty melted.
35N4P2BYY 13 years ago

Images of "Baghdad Bob" in 2003 came to mind when I watched the coverage when the polls were open. Declaring victory as enemy artillery rounds are detonating in your capital is kinda funny to watch.
1. Dr. Frankenstein 13 years ago
  
  This was just what I was thinking. What ever happened to him? My theory is that he's Blogger Bob for the TSA now.
Emmerson Biggins 13 years ago

I was expecting MSNBC to refer to Walker "restricting rights" of union members to collectively bargain early and often. That's their schtick. That's what they do.

Usually CNN tries harder to appear to be the "middle ground" network, but they did that a couple of times too. I was, for some insane reason, actually slightly pissed at that.
1. John 13 years ago
  
  CNN just pretended it didn't happen and covered the Queen's jubilee. Recall election? What recall election?
2. albo 13 years ago
  
  Walker is indeed "restricting rights."
  
  He's restricting the right of progressives to win every election or else they'll stamp their tiny feet and whirl themselves into butter.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    He restricted their "right" to forcibly deduct union dues from employees' paychecks.
John 13 years ago

The left's reaction to this is fascinating and disturbing. First, make no mistake like most things this is about money. The Left has been using public sector union money to fund itself for decades. And the funding has been good. There are thousands of professional leftists out there who make a nice living thanks in large part to this money. Brett Kimberlain is a convicted terrorist and drug dealer, yet still manages to have a six figure income and live in a nice DC suburb.* If states follow Wisconsin's lead and take away collective bargaining rights and the ability of unions to forcibly take union dues from members, that money dries up. And thousands of professional leftists will be out of work.

Not only will they be out of work, they will nearly all have convinced themselves that democracy is dead and the political process is a sham. Now lets see, thousands of angry out of work ideological fanatics who are convinced the political process is irredemably broken who have tons of fellow travelers and enablers in government and the media. Yeah, that sounds like a recipe for a domestic terrorism movement to me.

*Kimberlain's money does not come directly from unions. But money is fungible.
albo 13 years ago

Why isn't that dark-haired anchor dude wearing a tie?
1. Ben the Duck 13 years ago
  
  Marshall Crenshaw stopped wearing ties back in the '90s, actually.
Bee Tagger 13 years ago

Wtf is going to happen on MSNBC if Obama loses?
1. John 13 years ago
  
  I think Special Ed Shultz will have some kind of medical break down. Over under on how many MSNBC anchors cry? I think Crazy Larry and Chris Matthews are sure bets. So it is at least two and a half.
  1. fish 13 years ago
    
    John I think you've stumbled on to a nefarious plot to do away with the majority of the MSNBC male on air staff.
    1. Killazontherun 13 years ago
      
      Rachel is more handsome than all of them put together anyway. Seriously though, she is attractive, but not in any traditional feminine sense so handsome is as close to an accurate word as you'll get.
2. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  Violent insurrection against Fox News. Suicide reporters, poorly crafted bombs, the works.
  1. John 13 years ago
    
    Considering 60s leftists record of making bombs, I would not want to be on the MSNBC staff when that happens or at least not in the building.
    1. BarryD 13 years ago
      
      But I sure hope that it's on live TV!
  2. Pi Guy 13 years ago
    
    I'm thinking maybe something like full-contact Steal the Bacon b/w Fox News and MSNBC.
    
    When Maddow and Steve Douchie are tussling over the pork, my money's on the handsome guy from MSNBC.
3. 35N4P2BYY 13 years ago
  
  I think that they will pretend in never happened lest the harm the fragile psyches of their loyal sycophants and themselves.
4. Drake 13 years ago
  
  I am going to have to record MSNBC on election night. The cognitive dissonance, the waves of their delusions crashing on the rocks of reality... It will be hilarious.
5. Pip 13 years ago
  
  "Wtf is going to happen on MSNBC if Obama loses?"
  
  We're all racists now.
  1. GILMORE 13 years ago
    
    Pip|6.6.12 @ 1:36PM|#
    
    "Wtf is going to happen on MSNBC if Obama loses?"
    
    Duh!
    
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSWN6Qj98Iw
Bee Tagger 13 years ago

Maddow said something smart when she pointed out that people see mandates when they want to see them, but I can't say I got the impression she was aware of the irony of saying that on MSNBC just a few years after Obama won his election by a lesser margin (popular vote)
1. John 13 years ago
  
  Bill Clinton never got to 50%. But won a huge mandate in both cases. LOL
  1. BarryD 13 years ago
    
    According to people like Madcow, of course.
    
    Man, who in hell would have her as an anchor? She's repulsive, definite "change the channel!" material. I've always found her to be so.
    1. John 13 years ago
      
      At least hacks like Ashley Banfield or Campbell Brown were easy on the eyes. What exactly does Maddow bring to the table? I mean is there really that big of a market for a butch lesbian sex symbol newsbabe?
      1. Alex 13 years ago
        
        She's trying hard to be a masculine version of Jon Stewart.
        
        Groovus Maximus 13 years ago
        
        *flips coin*
      2. ant1sthenes 13 years ago
        
        Know your audience, I guess.
    2. Pip 13 years ago
      
      I thought she had great chemistry when she was a guest on the PBS show Carlson Tucker had several years back. But as an anchor? Meh.
      1. BarryD 13 years ago
        
        Haven't really looked at PBS since Firing Line went off the air, except when I channel-surf into a travelogue of some sort.
      2. joshua corning 13 years ago
        
        Yeah i liked her on that show. Far less of a hack then she is now.
        
        She would make leftist arguments from first principles rather then cheer-leading team blue. Also the show focused on more libertarianish items such as the drug war or gay marriage...I often found myself agreeing with her over Tucker.
2. Pro Libertate 13 years ago
  
  That word is almost always misused, as we rarely see more than a majority, at the very best.
  
  In 2006 and in 2008, there was an "Okay, the GOP has sucked with all of this war crap, so let's try the only possible other option in a world of only two options" moment. That was realized to be a stupid plan sometime in 2009, as hardly anyone was signing up to become Greece.
3. protefeed 13 years ago
  
  Maddow said something unself-aware when she talked about "people having man dates when they want to".
BarryD 13 years ago

"If I were a Republican governor, I wouldn't want to do that, I wouldn't want that to happen to me."

Uh, yeah, no governor wants to go from being first-term "Walker who?" from a "flyover" state to a hero to a huge chunk of the electorate, in less time than it took even for Obama's myth to be spread?
Romulus Augustus 13 years ago

A friend in Wisconsin reported he saw David and Charles Koch driving school buses through neighborhoods announcing
voters could get $100 if they climbed abroad and were driven to the polling station. Other monocle-wearing, striped-pants types were seen letting the air out of the tires of registered Democrats. Other corporate types were
turning street signs around in Democrat neighborhoods so it was harder
to find one's polling place. At least one location reported that three piece suited CPAs were stationed outside intimidating voters with their deathly white pallor.
1. NoVAHockey 13 years ago
  
  Reminds me of that Far Side about accountant street gangs.
2. Loki 13 years ago
  
  Remeber: it's only voter fraud when the wrong TEAM wins.
3. Pi Guy 13 years ago
  
  Wait - I need to have striped pants now to hand $100s?
  
  Well, never mind then.
  1. GILMORE 13 years ago
    
    tophat, tails and spats, are acceptable replacement for pinstripes
    1. Pi Guy 13 years ago
      
      Spats it is!
    2. Romulus Augustus 13 years ago
      
      Look at the "Monopoly Man" for required uniform of the 1% and us bought and paid for libertarians.
    3. 35N4P2BYY 13 years ago
      
      Don't forget the ladies! Mink stols, floppy hats, cigarette holders, and all around!
      
      Oh wait women can't be libertarian because they would then be required to be self-haters.
Alex 13 years ago

O'Donnell on Ron Paul taking second in the NH primary: "Huntsman is the real second here."

I sense a pattern with him.
1. Killazontherun 13 years ago
  
  That the matter in his head is not grey but brown?
Old Mexican 13 years ago

Grasping at straws - See: MSNBC.

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