or is CNN going back o the ClintonNewsNetwork in preparation for 2016?

Kenz on February 14, 2013 at 1:18 PM

did CNN ever get serious? I guess I missed it.

Career-ender? CNN in an alternate universe. http://twitpic.com/c3phmb

The Zoo Keeper on February 14, 2013 at 11:06 AM

Good one! I went this route.

Not sort of anxious, not grasping at straws, DESPERATE.

What person on the right couldn’t come up with an argument for the left to use as to the substance of his speech? ANY speech can be picked apart if you choose to do so.

Instead, the left, devoid of ANY ammunition of substance, chooses the idea of him drinking water and sweating. Thazzit.

Shooting blanks. Deers in their own headlights. Devoid of any an all analytical ability. No argument or rebuttal whatsoever.

I’m disappointed. They’re usually much better at this.

And anyone that thinks this won’t be effective is a fool.

We see how they target early and we’ve seen how they target a newcomer (e.g. Palin).

I have yet to hear any ideas on how to conquer the MSM and their Spanish TV counterparts.

We can’t even count on a conversion AFTER they tank the country. The Democrats and their media will still blame the Republicans and be effective doing so.

Canada deserves a hard look.

Heh. He’s clearly a phony. A real savior would have turned that water into wine before drinking it.

Good Solid B-Plus on February 13, 2013 at 5:32 PM

A real SCOAMT would turn it into whine…oh wait, Teh SCOAMT DID turn it into whine.

Purely on an optics point of view, had he reached for a glass of water than a bottle, it might not have gotten as much attention. Sipping from a glass seems a bit more natural on tv than gulping a bottle of water. His aides had poor prep there.

Hostile Gospel on February 13, 2013 at 5:44 PM

This is why the right loses. You give credence to this crap by offering to criticize how a politician on TV goes after a drink.
Even if Obama did this I would not care. People here rip Obama for doing mundane things & then wonder if it’s his plan to do those mundane things bcs he’s evil.
I don’t play those dumba$$ games.
Obama is evil bcs of his ACTIONS & the POLICIES he pushes. And the fact that he is a damned liar.
All of you wasting time picking at dumba$$ details of any politicians are distracting from the real points that matter.
Gulping a bottle of water seems pretty natural if you’re hot, sweating & really fracking thirsty.
How the frack else should someone go about drinking water?
Geebus the world is full of idiots!
Stop with the micromanaging & scripting of the politicians! I care about results!
Not the fact that someone took a picture of a politician in an awkward moment. Everybody has awkward moments.
The moments that should be game changers is when a guy politically goes against the Constitution time & again.

I suppose you’d be fine if your local news had a segment “Lester: Child Molester?” as long as, at the end of it, they acknowledged it was a joke and you don’t really molest children?Good Solid B-Plus on February 13, 2013 at 6:07 PM

Wait. What??? Nobody picks a handle like that unless they are one. You mean it’s not so? /

By the way, just to insert a new rabbit trail, this again proves that it doesn’t matter what “kind” of political animal we present as the face of our party.

Weight of Glory on February 13, 2013 at 5:18 PM

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Better tell Liz Marlantes (Christian Science Monitor) about the GOP “messaging problem.” She says Republicans have to regain control of their message yet she does not cede any ground on the assertion that the media twists and distorts any conservative or Republican message. Add to that distortion all the Alinsky mockery that media can manage. Ø and the liberal media in this country intend to destroy any party except the Democrat Party.

I suppose you’d be fine if your local news had a segment “Lester: Child Molester?” as long as, at the end of it, they acknowledged it was a joke and you don’t really molest children?

Good Solid B-Plus on February 13, 2013 at 6:07 PM

We don’t know about the children but he molests us here on HA.

Fallon on February 13, 2013 at 6:22 PM

+1

Unfortunately for Wolf, he expected common sense of at least a 6th grader from the nutty populace of the rightwingdom. Bad call Wolfy.

lester on February 13, 2013 at 5:51 PM

Yes, because people always watch the full news segment, and don’t just see the eyecatch/chyron at the beginning of a segment.

I suppose you’d be fine if your local news had a segment “Lester: Child Molester?” as long as, at the end of it, they acknowledged it was a joke and you don’t really molest children?

lester on February 13, 2013 at 5:51 PM

Can I introduce you to the commenters at the Huffington Post:

Nerves are normal, all human beings get nervous under certain conditions, the factor that decides whether or not you are a leader when it comes to nerves is how you handle your nerve problem. Complete fail for Rubio, so nervous, his physical condition was deteriorating right before the camera…water running down from the crown of his head and probably escaping from every core of his body made him

What a performance! Body language kept saying,”I am terrified and unsure of myself.” His sippy cup moment shows such a lack of gravitas. NOT presidential material.

Doubt CNN was making a joke, just playing to its home crowd.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/02/cnn-rubio-careerender-a-joke-156969.html

“We are joking, it was a tease,” CNN Public Relations wrote to POLITICO, via Twitter.

“It was simply a tease (posing a question) leading up to a segment with our political contributors—when Wolf [Blitzer] specifically said no one thinks this will be a career ender,” CNN spokesperson Edie Emery later told POLITICO via email.

Unfortunately for Wolf, he expected common sense of at least a 6th grader from the nutty populace of the rightwingdom. Bad call Wolfy.

Things the media obsesses over: bjs, big bird, binders full of women, bayonets, and now bottles. What a load of BS.

Who am I kidding? With a media as corrupt as this, we’re totally screwed.

Well, it’s better to be drinking water then claiming you can walk on it.

Kingfisher on February 13, 2013 at 5:28 PM

Heh. He’s clearly a phony. A real savior would have turned that water into wine before drinking it.

was that on Jake Tapper’s show?

commodore on February 13, 2013 at 5:08 PM

Wolf Blitzer Situation Room

There are those who say we can’t afford any more Todd Akins, but if they can shamelessly do this with something as natural as drinking water, then we should realize that avoiding political embarrassments shouldn’t be our focus. Outside of buying out the major networks and firing every editor and producer, I don’t know how to change this. Nancy Pelosi has said things, as recently as this week, which if were spoken by Christine O’Donnell, would be mocked day and night.

Journalism.

JournOlism