Comments on: Why Aren’t Dems On TV?

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 23:09:28 +0000

My blog has more readers than your blog - Oh, wait — You don’t have one!

By: neoconsrloopy

neoconsrloopy — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 19:09:16 +0000

Yes, not only was he inept but he was an out-of-control prosecutor pushing a phony charge.

Where is your intellectual honesty? You have about as much intellectual honesty as your fan blog has readers.

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:09:59 +0000

Kenneth Starr? Isn’t he the guy that “proved Clinton innocent”?

By: neoconsrloopy

neoconsrloopy — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:09:11 +0000

Like Kenneth Starr, right Frankie?

By: Frank_D

Frank_D — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:09:15 +0000

Should read:

Here s what I wrote last summer about this case :

Just to put this $190,000 deal into perspective and demonstrate the petty, vindictive nature of this partisan investigation, the study also reveals that Democrats transferred a total of approximately $11 million dollars in soft money from its national parties to fund Texas campaigns in 2002, compared to $5.2 million transferred by Republicans.

I ve been watching TV all day and no one has provided this context. I ll keep watching to see if the coverage gets more than fingernail-deep.

Bottom line: Even people who aren t fans of Tom DeLay should show some intellectual honesty and admit that this is an out-of-control prosecutor and a phony charge.

By: Teddy Feces

Teddy Feces — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 13:09:55 +0000

Haha, I love it “A Tom Delay Republican”

Thats gonna be my new insult…

By: neoconsrloopy

neoconsrloopy — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:09:59 +0000

No, the Democratic leadership is playing it right, at least at the beginning of the cycle.

Speaking out now just allows the RW media to attack the Democrats as shrill and partisan, and deflects the attacks back to the messengers.

But starting in a few days, Democrats should weave Tom Delay into every criticism of the President and the Gooper Congress.

“Like Tom Delay, the indicted Gop leader, the President has a tenuous grasp on ethics”.

“The corruption in post-Katrina Louisiana by Federal contracters reminds one of a Tom Delay operation”

“Congressman (fill in name) is a Tom Delay Republican”.
If I don’t see Tom Delay’s face in Congressional campaign ads from sea to shining sea in 2006, I will give up on the Democratic party. But I don’t think I will have to.

By: JWG

JWG — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:09:39 +0000

Letting the facts speak for themselves worked great for the Democrats in 2004, didn t it?

Actually, Kerry spoke too much.

By: Constantine

Constantine — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:09:44 +0000

The Democrats can allow the facts to speak for themselves rather than make it look like political payback.

Letting the facts speak for themselves worked great for the Democrats in 2004, didn’t it?

By: buma

buma — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:09:49 +0000

Mr Willis, this is OT, but that ProGOPGear ad on your site looks interesting — I could have a little fun plastering a few dozen of those “You can thank me . . . I voted for Bush!” bumper stickers. Like on Brownie’s SUV, or all over New Orleans, or in the green zone in Baghdad, or on the pumps at the neighborhood gas station.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 05:09:06 +0000

The media will cover it if Democrats demand airtime. You think the press can just not cover it if Pelosi had a press conference today? This is a massive misfire on their part.

By: mr.curmudgeon

mr.curmudgeon — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:09:56 +0000

So what are they supposed to do? Storm the doors at Fox news? Carpool to work with Blitzer?

The corporate media is essentially in black out mode when it comes to Dems. So, as much as I want to jump on the “The Dems Have No Message” bandwagon, I can’t bring myself to ignore the very real possibility that they aren’t being allowed on the air when it would most benefit them.

From what I’ve seen (having to dig it up online), they have been speaking out….It’s just that NO ONE IS COVERING IT!

Maybe they can hold signs outside the windows in front of the Good Morning America show.

By: Matty

Matty — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:09:24 +0000

Tom DeLay.
Bill Frist.
David Safavian.
Karl Rove.
Hurricane Katrina.
Iraq.

Folks, the only reason the Dems aren’t making the rounds on TV is they’re too busy chilling the champagne and cooking up the Orville Redenbacher.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:09:14 +0000

It is dumb to not be on TV. We are no longer in an environment where you are “given enough rope” to hang yourself. Dems need to be on every news network denouncing the Republican Culture of Corruption.

By: spitar1

spitar1 — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:09:53 +0000

The Dems are being pussies once again. That’s the problem with the party…when they have a clear shot they never take it. The republicans are much better at seizing a moment, turning it into their issue and driving their points home…even if it isn’t true. Lie enough and it becomes the truth. The republicans are out there dominating the issue right now and they will shape the media’s and the public’s opinion morphing it into whatever they want the message to be. I figure when they get done with it it will be because of Hurricane Katrina and the Democrats of course will be responsible for causing that.

By: JWG

JWG — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:09:44 +0000

I think it just makes DeLay look like a crybaby when he screams it’s all about politics. I’ll have to agree with Jadegold on this one. The Democrats can allow the facts to speak for themselves rather than make it look like political payback.

By: James E. Powell

James E. Powell — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:09:39 +0000

I believe there is an unwritten rule of network and cable ‘news’ coverage: Democrats are not permitted to explain or comment upon Republicans. This is a corollary of another unwritten rule: Democrats are not permitted to describe their party or its candidates, that must be done by Republicans and/or Republican pundits.

Expecting the corporate press/media to allow one of its greatest benefactors to be slammed on their shows is naive. How much money do you think DeLay made for them in the last five years?

By: Semanticleo

Semanticleo — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 02:09:14 +0000

It is a big mistake to let DeLay and henchmen control the mike.

Don’t the democrats always follow Bush’s radio address with a response?

By: JD

JD — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 01:09:02 +0000

Is it possible that many of the Democrats may think that this prosecution will prove to be about as effective as the one Mr. Earle mounted against Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson, and choose not to step out in front of this bus?

By: cellulose

cellulose — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:09:43 +0000

Dude, you need a new headline writer!

“WHY THE DELAY?”

Almost writes itself