Hillary Rosen: Clinton apologist on Hardball

[bluestateguy]

What an irritating, elitist woman. For your information, Hillary Rosen was the president of the Recording Industry Association of America a few years ago when the RIAA decided to begin suing downloaders of music en masse (13 year old girls, college students, etc.).

[tyne]

1. Did you get it?

Obama doesn't want SD's to count....Obama doesn't want SD's to count....

Liars.

Keep 'em.

[K Gardner]

2. Was that the one mumbling and stumbling around trying to explain why it was okay for Hill to cheat?

Nice.

[alteredstate]

5. Yeah, that was her......

:)

[progdog]

3. I saw her.

Genuine super spinner. Very annoying. Reinforces my choice every time I see her.

[LSparkle]

8. He kind of knocked her off her game (either Tweety or Ed S.)

She didn't seem as assured as she normally is (ha!).

[bunnies]

4. At least she's not as bad as Kiki McLean.

2nd most annoying surrogate after Lanny Davis.

[progdog]

6. Exactly

You've been watching too.

[LSparkle]

9. Or Kirsten Powers, that twit who passes for a "Dem strategist" on Faux

Democrat my ass ...

[tritsofme]

7. Clinton has apologists and Obama has enthusiastic backers.

Only in Obamaland.

[rinsd]

10. Bingo!

Obamaland where Paul Krugman & Joe Wilson are hacks and Peggy Noonan, Tweety, Scarborough & Tucker Carlson have opinions that are worth listening to.

Obamaland where ads by Obama that are misleading are ok but Hillary's misleading ads are the epitome of dirty politics.

Obamaland where failure to remove one's name from a ballot is an egregious break of the pledge while airing TV ads in a sanctioned state is a-okay.

Obamaland where the childless who can afford insurance are allowed to opt out but working families with children are required.

Obamaland where he doesn't take a dime from lobbyists err make that federal lobbyists (money from their wives, their lobbying firms and state lobbyists is fine) but has them running his campaign.

Obamaland where vile digusting posters on DU supporting Hillary are a mirrior of her camapaign while vile disgusting posters supporting Obama ae just dedicated.

Obamaland where the Republicans are decent people who should be worked with and not the type of people that would choose to deliberately interfere with a funeral for a collegue that is a Democrat.

[Catherine Vincent]

14. Great post!

:thumbsup:

[rinsd]

15. Still love that picture....

Though that moment feels a millions years old sometimes.

[carlotta]

17. Amen!

That's it in a nutshell.

[AX10]

18. Both you and tritsofme of great posts.

To make sure you saw it:

Obamaland where Paul Krugman & Joe Wilson are hacks and Peggy Noonan, Tweety, Scarborough & Tucker Carlson have opinions that are worth listening to.

Obamaland where ads by Obama that are misleading are ok but Hillary's misleading ads are the epitome of dirty politics.

Obamaland where failure to remove one's name from a ballot is an egregious break of the pledge while airing TV ads in a sanctioned state is a-okay.

Obamaland where the childless who can afford insurance are allowed to opt out but working families with children are required.

Obamaland where he doesn't take a dime from lobbyists err make that federal lobbyists (money from their wives, their lobbying firms and state lobbyists is fine) but has them running his campaign.

Obamaland where vile digusting posters on DU supporting Hillary are a mirrior of her camapaign while vile disgusting posters supporting Obama ae just dedicated.

Obamaland where the Republicans are decent people who should be worked

:kick:

[NastyRiffraff]

19. Good one!

I get really sick of the Obama "apologists" who find an excuse for anything Obama does or says, or anything anyone associated with him says. You remember IOKIYAR? Now it's IOKIYBA

[K Gardner]

11. Exactly !!

[LostInAnomie]

12. "Elitist" is the right word

Anyone that praises the merits of a system where the vote of one person can override the votes of tens of thousands, and claims that it is what is best for the party, is elitist scum.

[Freida5]

13. Elitist, she should fit right in then on the elitist network

[Karmadillo]

16. Attacking someone as an "elitist" is a standard Republican talking point. Of course, Republican

talking points are much more acceptable around here than they used to be.

http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2005/10/b1120221.html

Think Again: “Elitism? Moi?”

By Eric Alterman

October 20, 2005

A key talking point in recent political history has been the right-wing attack on what its members term “elitists,” those evil people, almost always liberal, urban, well-educated or in the entertainment business, who are always telling honest, God-fearing, NASCAR-lovin’ Americans how to behave. The “Liberalism equals Elitism” equation appears to fit almost any occasion. In a book he authored, but which was ghosted by David Brooks, Rush Limbaugh posited his own success as an example of what he terms “middle America’s growing rejection of the elites.” He defines said elites as “professionals” and “experts,” including “the medical elites, the sociological elites, the education elites, the legal elites, the science elites … and the ideas this bunch promotes through the media.”

Bernard Goldberg, who has spent a career working within what conservatives would call the “liberal media elite,” has sworn off all association with liberals “even when he agrees with them,” he says, “because of their elitism. They look down their snobby noses at ordinary Americans who eat at Red Lobster or because they like to bowl or they go to church on a regular basis or because they fly the flag on the Fourth of July.”

Radio talk show host and former cable conservative blonde babe, Laura Ingraham, has authored an entire book on this topic, entitled, Shut Up and Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN are Subverting America, in which Laura, who attended an Ivy League university, lives in Washington, D.c=, where she drops in on gay dance clubs, and occasionally treats herself to a ride on Robert DeNiro’s private plane, distinguishes between liberal elitists and what she terms “True Americans.” The latter, it seems, “believe in God, own guns, and want limited government,” and “want to place God in public schools and in public life. (p. 13) … Generally speaking these admirable folks tend to be white, southern, Christian, and Republican,” (p. 32, 63) as opposed to liberal elites who “would like to ‘murder’ America and make the world safe for terrorism” (p. 74), while living “in palaces invisible from the road outside, and fly in private jets, while their managers and assistants tell them only what they want to hear" (p. 17).

John Podhoretz, a former speechwriter for Bush the Elder, who grew up on the Upper West Side, the son of prominent liberals-turned-neoconservatives, and attended Ivy League schools before finding jobs working for Sun Myung Moon, Rupert Murdoch and George H.W. Bush, sees the world through similarly rose-hued glasses as those of Ingraham. “Bush Red is a simpler place,” he explains, after watching people at play in Las Vegas; it’s a land “where people mourn the death of NASCAR champion Dale Earnhardt, root lustily for their teams, go to church, and find comfort in old-fashioned verities.”

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[Cha]

21. So what? They're still "elitists" in

world and it's okay to peg one or should she be called a freakin' snob?

[Hill_YesWeWill]

22. Hey, Republicans don't own the word, I use it not too infrequently

and I've never thought of the word as having a political connotation

You'll please excuse me if I go ahead and keep this word in my vocab.

[Karmadillo]

23. Not a problem. Maybe you should call her a secular humanist while you're at it.

nt

[gaiilonfong]

20. Hillary Rosen is a sellout

She sold out the LGBT community during the 90's by trying to tell our community that ClintonS support of DOMA and DONT ASK DONT TELL were a beginning to get we gays our equal rights. She is hated in the lesbian community now and she is just a shill for Billary....
SHE IS A LOSER