There's something about Maggie....

[PCIntern]

Haberman, that is...

Watching her on CNN, she has this dry, pseudo-professional approach to the “coverage” of a man who, besides being everything he is, acts publically as though she and her publication are the Liars in this exercise.

Although she states that the President is limited in his responses to events as purely narcissistic, although she doesn’t and would never use that word, she managed to mention that Gov Cuomo has a fierce temper which he “at least” can control when he has to, and like Trump, implied that he would get out of control when not on TV cameras.

How anyone could compare this man of intellect, competence, and caring for his constituents to that insanity dwelling in the WH is beyond me.

[underpants]

1. She really lights up the screen, huh?

She's been one of his Chief mouthpieces/conduits until recently.

[DURHAM D]

2. Never forget -

her mother worked for Trump for many years.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Ir's pretty well known that Cuomo has a temper-- it seems to run in the family if...

the meltdown his brother had on CNN is any evidence.

But, like LBJ and others who were known to have fierce tempers, he doesn't seem to hold grudges or do any extreme damage. When he blows, everyone just take cover and it will be over soon enough.

You're seeing the Cuomo who has risen to the occasion, not the day-to-day one.

(The day-to-day one ain't that bad anyway-- certainly no trump)

[comradebillyboy]

4. Ah yes MAGA Haberman.

The Trump whisperer.

[Bev54]

5. Yes she does have a soft spot for him

and regularly downplays his misdeeds.

[UTUSN]

6. Re: Haberman, Cuomo, thuggism

I haven't been able to figure her out for years: On the one hand, she would get interviews with him, but then the next day would tell-all negative (= TRUE) details about what he said or how he behaved. So I wondered why he kept giving her interviews and not attacking her.

As for CUOMO, I had the residual fondness for the dad, fairly much rooted in Mario's eloquence, although recently there was a quote of his to the point that he had been giving the one, same speech for twenty years and was puzzled when that one more time hurled him into super stardom. So Andrew lacks the eloquence and his bully boy dialect rubs me wrong (read, "mobster" ). Chris sounds smoother but has stepped into a couple of not-needed, poor judgment conflicts.

A friend 'splained to me that it's the New Yawk dialect. I knew that & added Jersey. And since "It takes a thief to catch a thief," if it takes Andrew to rid ourselves of SHITLER, fine with me. It won't be the first time I have worked myself into enthusiasm over a candidate.

And I realize Andrew is not a candidate. It's not about that. It's about any kind of bully, blowhard, jerk demeanor turns me off, whether the propagator is on my side or not. While some of our most admirable idealists thought that CHAVEZ or CASTRO were great, just the screaming three hour diatribes from those two made me shut down.

When Ed SHULTZ first was on MSNBC, a wingnut thought he was being ingratiating by telling me I now had somebody on my side that was like LIMBOsevic. Wrong. I detested Ed on first hearing. Sounds like I'm saying I'm always correct!1

[gratuitous]

7. Sure, Trump can make recklessly lethal pronouncements

He can offer up medical advice that gets people killed. He can insult reporters to their face. He can claim full authority over everything, but admit responsibility for nothing. He can lie with impunity about his own indolence and claim credit for things he had nothing to do with. His daily bragfests, substitutes for his little Nuremburgs, can go on for hours and he can complain that the news outlets aren't carrying them live in their entirety even though people are dying following his nostrums.

But Gov. Cuomo has a temper! Mercy! That's the real scandal for Maggie.

[PCIntern]

8. Very well put.

[MelissaB]

9. About Maggie...

http://www.citjourno.org/maggie3