I noticed "Benghazi" Joe Scar wasn't around today on Morning Joe!

[CTyankee]

Hiding out a bit until the story dies down, Joe?

Nice that your vacay was timed so well...

It WAS fun to see the pukes tap dance around that story today. Can't wait to see what Rachel and Chris will do tonight...

[irisblue]

1. It is always better when he isn't on it.

[Berlum]

2. Republicons go AWOL. As usual.

Republicons do not face up to truth, just as they do not face up to Reponsibility. They go AWOL.

[monmouth3]

3. I noticed for the short time I was watching that the panel was still very leery of the NYT article.

None of them actually gave the article any full-throated approval. I left.

[CTyankee]

10. Thy're lazy. This NYT piece was so detailed and so in-depth, not to mention bravely

resarched by the writer, that the panel folks were just embarrassed. None of them had done that kind of hard work. Nope. It's just their job to try to tear it all down, like they are the big experts.

I stand by the Times writer.

[former9thward]

4. This is vacation time for regular radio/tv hosts.

Most people are gone.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

5. Matt Lewis from the Daily Appaller was there to provide the RW meme life support.

My fave was when he argued against raising minimum wage with the old baloney about employers coping with that by hiring fewer people-- someone quickly debunked that so he rambled on about something else before finally landing back on the original hiring fewer people baloney as if no one called him on that one already.
I wonder if there's a name for that kind of debate technique?

[winstars]

6. No one really did call him out. Harold Ford said some usual mealy mouthed BS but...

really did not counter the TOTAL LIES Lewis was spewing. No brought up the fact that it is proven that the "fewer people are hired after raising the minimum wage" meme is totally BS. He then proceeded to their next talking point from Frank Luntz: "so should we raise it to $20 or $30 an hour, where does it stop?" Which of course, no one has ever said except the scumbags who wish the minimum wage was still $1.85 per hour!!!

I caught only some of this exchange but in the part I saw, Little Harold Ford certainly did not disappoint me with the usual bland nothingness that is his thing. Sam Stein was there and he didn't counterpunch much either. Thomas Roberts was there and got a couple of licks in but it was ridiculous really. 95% of the readers here on DU could have countered his lies more effectively, really!!!

And all this when Scabs and Meeka were not even there, isn't it supposed to be a better show when they are off???

I turned my TV off when I then switched to CNN only to hear that freaking Fran Townsend poo poohing the NY Times Benghazi story. I should just stick to the Cooking Channel I think in the morning...

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Harold had his own nonsense going on with that business about...

...making minimum wage higher for heads of households than for teens flipping burgers.

[monmouth3]

11. I left the show right after that statement. Why they call him a Dem is beyond me..Grrrrr..n/t

[CTyankee]

9. I guess they all the get memo that says "both sides do it."

Every now and again a liberal guest will challenge that outright LIE but the folks on the panel were held in check with a whip held over their heads...

[CTyankee]

8. that's called the tap dance. I think Sam Stein got him on that inane remark of Matt's about

hiring teens at lower pay than older workers. Stein simply asked "well, what's to prevent employers from just hiring teenagers?" Matt didn't have a real answer...what an idiot...