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By Charles P. Pierce
at 4:53PM
In case you've missed it, MSNBC has compensated for the loss of Dylan Ratigan in the afternoon by moving Martin Bashir to 4 p.m. Eastern, and filling Bashir's old 3 p.m. slot with something called The Cycle, which is kind of Around The Horn for young pundits. The regular cast includes the younger generation among MSNBC's apparently inexhaustible reservoir of Political Analysts. These include Krystal Ball, Steve Kornacki, Touré, and S.E. Cupp and, this afternoon, as the program was winding down, Ms. Cupp spent a good four minutes being, weight for age, the dumbest person in the history of cable television:
To review: Talking about the president's tax proposal, Ms. Cupp rather loosely termed the president's tax policy "collectivist." (And, yes, both Mao and Stalin laughed uproariously as their spits turned over the flames of hell.) Kornacki gently reminded her that an increase in the marginal income tax tax rate is a lot of things including, to my mind, a pretty good idea, but no matter but it is in no way "collectivist," if English words have any meaning in, you know, English. Kornacki asked, quite reasonably, whether Ms. Cup believed the country was in the grip of a collectvist regime when Dwight Eisenhower was president and the marginal rate was in the 70's. He then asked her if she thought Bill Clinton, who got passed the rates to which the current president is trying to return, was a "collectivist." She then said, "No." This caused Kornacki to take on the general mien of a man who has spent five minutes arguing tax policy with a marmoset. Ms. Cupp then started flapping her gums about this president's "political" philosophy of taking your salary and making it belong to everyone, or somebody or something. I lost a few minutes because I heard a high whistle and everything went black.
I remain convinced that American conservative thought is now not a philosophy but, rather, a book of spells, a series of conjuring words that have meaning only to the initiates.
Video here: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/se-cupp-obama-collectivism-video-10756552#ixzz24rtuYElv
malaise
(268,885 posts)stupidity and ignorance.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Hopefully they will either fire S.E. Kook or get rid of the whole thing. I feel bad for the other 3, but they should have known better than to put that *itch on.
TomClash
(11,344 posts). . . from lip to Cupp.
Stinky The Clown
(67,786 posts)If you put "sippy cupp" into the google machine's images finder, you get, among pictures of baby drinking devices, this image:
and this image:
jsmirman
(4,507 posts)ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Sippy Cupp is a respected journalist and commentator who has been victimized for being pretty.
libinnyandia
(1,374 posts)ailsagirl
(22,893 posts)I press the mute button whenever she opens her stupid mouth
I wish MSNBC would get rid of her
Whisp
(24,096 posts)and sounded pissed.
drunk pissed, that is.
LiberalFighter
(50,856 posts)If you want to use twitter you also need to make sure that your negative comments are widely seen.
use a period right before their twitter account
.@thecyclemsnbc
without the period it will be between you and whoever manages their account
@thecyclemsnbc
Stainless
(718 posts)I find her to be a vacuous, empty headed, pseudo-intellectual, Sarah Palin wanna be.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)...at least Mitt Romney knows what he says is wrong.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)They are used to spewing their mindless bullshit on talk radio and blogs where they don't get challenged.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)I don't understand how you can be that goofy and box of rocks dumb and be a columnist/comentator.
Blue Owl
(50,340 posts)n/t