Sen. Kerry Just Demolished Joe's Talking Points

[berni_mccoy]

On Morning Joe, Scarborough was saying how Obama has no plan to get the economy going.

Kerry soundly destroyed that talking point. Called out the Jobs Bill, the Tax/Deficit $4 trillion plan, showed that Obama talked about it last night and that the Economy is in full recovery. Jobs numbers best in 4 or more years, Stock market at record highs, gov't spending at all time low.

Joe is now trying to change the topic to Libya. LOL.

[Esse Quam Videri]

1. Joe is such a D-bag.

That is all.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. This is what I don't get

Waiting for Obama last night to say these exact things...all the good economic signs. Why doesn't he? Again he let mitt tick off all the negatives and no positives

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

6. It's a tightrope...

If he talks about the positives too much (and he did a little) it sounds like he's blind to the fact that things aren't what they should be.

That being said, in his stump speeches, Obama routinely draws the distinction between where we are and where we could be if the Republicans would stop blocking progress. He didn't really do that last night.

But, then again, that's another tightrope. If he talks too much about obstructionism in Congress, then it sets up Romney to talk about how much easier it will be to get things done with a Republican in the White House.

Obama is modulating in the debates, and giving the live crowds the red meat.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. I see your point but when Romney ticks off the bad unchallenged it is

A very bad thing for people who are worried that Obama can not fix things. He needs to say that jobs lag in a recovery. There are so many signs of things getting better (insert Kerry points)

[Dustlawyer]

22. I was at 1st, upset by his not mentioning the obstructionism as well, but after understanding that

it had been intentional as Obama wasn't missing much else, I thought about all of the people thinking of the gridlock. Obviously, it should not be a reason for people b/c then it only encourages the gridlock. If the media would hammer the Repugs on it to not make it worthwhile, it would stop! I wish it would work for him to come out and push for us to give him the House and a filibuster proof Senate!

[Esse Quam Videri]

3. Bleck, Bobby Kenneth Jindal up next

Back to my local news

[Atman]

5. Yup...that was my cue to change channels

[juajen]

10. Yeah, I just muted my TV. Can't stand that man.

[Berlum]

9. "You rang?" - Bobby J (R -Chickenhawk)

[garthranzz]

25. Please, I haven't had my coffee!

And I have to see him too much on local news.

[Drab]

4. The morning spin is underway.

I'm glad someone straightened Joe on his skewered facts. Thanks Sen. Kerry.

[dorkzilla]

7. I hate Joe and yet...

Here I am, every day, watching and yelling at the teevee. I try to watch Bill Press but Current has too many commercial breaks then Bill does commercials on top of it. I'm opening a business soon that will keep me very busy at this time of the morning, so at least I have that going for me.

But yes, Kerry took idiot Joe down. It was good to see. I changed channels when Jindal came on.

[catbyte]

11. Gotta agree with you there, dorkzilla. Bill Press Show has WAY too many commercials

It seems like it's 1 or 2 callers, 10 minutes of commercials, a short guest spot, 10 minutes of commercials, more commercials, top of the hour news then more commercials. Arrgh!

[dorkzilla]

14. Oddly, it does seem there are more commercials on Bill Press' show than Stephanie Miller's

Today was a perfect example of the commercial bombs...loooooong break, then when the show comes back on Bill does a spot for ancestry.com. Spends the same amount of time interviewing his guest (very brief) then back to another commercial break. Maddening!

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Well when your entire show is a giant Starbuck's promotion as Joe's is

they can get by with fewer cut away ads...each time you see 'Starbucks' or 'Morning Joe' which is also the name of Starbucks's themed grind-the sell bags of 'Morning Joe' you are seeing a commercial. Basically the entire show is one long ad for a product that shares it's name with the show, a direct sponsorship much like the old days of tv and radio in which you'd have 'the Gillette Hour' and such. Joe's show is the Starbuck's Hour. Constant, unrelenting branding of their 'synergistic' products...barf, yes I say barf.

[dorkzilla]

18. I agree, it's an obnoxious uber-product placement!

There's something about commercials that's so damned jarring, especially when they come so quickly and loudly. I think my perception in that regard is augmented by my proclivity to watch a lot of PBS, which has been a lifelong habit/love.

[malaise]

12. He really tore him a new one

with a smile on his face - delish!

[StevePaulson]

13. Good Job Mr. Kerry

You made Joe look like an fool. Imagine where America would be if that Republican Bastard Ohio Secretary of State kept all those people from having their votes cast or counted in Ohio in 2004. What Ken Blackwell did to America is a thousand times worse than what Benedict Arnold did.

http://www.RepublicansAreADisease.com

Republicans Are A Disease.

Period.

You too Joe. I watch your show Joe with your fantasy economics included.

[StevePaulson]

15. 21 Trillion Offshore Joe

You and Kerry were talking about the debate and taxes. Maybe if we talked about taxing the 21 to 31 trillion dollars the wealthy have stashed in Switzerland or the Caymen Islands we could create some jobs.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2012/07/23/super-rich-hide-21-trillion-offshore-study-says/

Or force companies to spend some of the 5 to 8 trillion dollars they have on their companies balance sheets or tax it by 50% per year if not spent in 2 years investing in AMERICA.

Talk about creating jobs......

America has been suffering from "Voodoo Economics" for 30 years and working families are getting crushed. How easy is it to raise kids on a Taco Bell salary?

[Barack_America]

28. EXACTLY! The only way to fix the debt is to spread the wealth back to the middle class.

Because we pay our taxes.

It seems so blatantly obvious.

[Loudestlib]

17. I don't watch Joe

Bill Press is really good and Stephanie Miller is awesome. I'll skip the Republican show.

[politicasista]

35. Don't care for Press and never will

now Miller is cool.

[68 Rex]

19. Why is Scarborough on TV?

He ought to be confined in a shack somewhere in Montana.

[TahitiNut]

29. Malignant narcissism.

For nearly anyone, having an eponymous TV show would be more than enough, even a burden, for an out-sized ego. Not the Morning Joke. EVERYTHING has to be about HIM ... what HE said, what HE thought. It's the subhead if not the headline of EVERY segment. He's the frat boy with the best collection of songs and the best tickets to the big games, surrounding himself with subservient ego-feeding acoplytes, including the masochistic 'sweetheart' of the fraternity who loves rough sex and having herself covered with excrement.

The sick shit-banquet was beating the tom-tom of how, while Obama did ... just ... OK ... he didn't really do all that well. But if ANYTHING betrayed the LIE in that narrative it was the funereal mood of the show .... actually in mourning for their addiction in feeding on the over-wrought narrative of Obama's (fictitious) "failures."

The Morning Joke is political porn ... mal-formed codependent 'personalities' posturing in puerile punditry.

[NBachers]

31. Yes, he belongs in a Theodore Kaszynski shack off in the slag heaps

[kentuck]

20. Joe is a lot like Mitt.

in a lot of ways.

[INdemo]

21. Well the right wing hack said,apparently after Kerry was on,

..he said that President Obama failed to make his case for his agenda for the next 4 years.
Then of course Joe Scar agreed with him.
WTF...this is their script and its sounds like something Gillespie would have given out for talking point
I have not been watching Morning Joe for a while and made the mistake of watching 5 minutes this morning..I need to learn it does nothing to help keep my blood pressure down..

[NBachers]

32. "Obama failed to make his case for his agenda for the next 4 years" I heard that on NPR this morning

Nice to see that NPR is getting their talking points from Right Wing Hack Central.

I immediately turned it off in disgust.

[INdemo]

33. It seems like there may be a rightwing guest on a show like Joe Scare

and he may make a comment favoring Obama.....then they go to a commercial and when they come back the guy is completely opposite..Its like during the break they get a call or text telling them to say this or that because usually they will say just the opposite after the break...All the righwing nuts have is talking points..no facts..If the undecided believes their rhetoric then they are Rmoney supporters in the first place and should never be classified as "undecided"

[Liberalynn]

23. Watch Bill and Steph every morning on Current

only watch MSNBC on occasion at night for Rachel Maddow, the only one I totally respect there.

The Current team helps me start out the morning with a lower blood pressure and more hope that other people "get it."

[LibGranny]

24. Scab-bro is just a dumm ass!

He's always willing to spout the rethug talking point!

[The Wizard]

26. Morning Joke

Just another right wing propagandist with a TV show.

[4_TN_TITANS]

27. Why do you guys even watch that crap...

Yes, MSNBC is better than a lot of the choices, but every dang day someone posts with indignation about what they saw on there.

Wait... Joe, is that you?

[BlueStreak]

30. And the housing numbers have been very strong the past two months

New housing reports this morning are very good -- and that is a major part of the economy that has essentially been shut down. If housing kicks in solidly, we'll start to see monthly jobs numbers in the 200K range. And the nice thing about housing is that Romney and friends cannot outsource those jobs.

I am surprised that Obama didn't really mention the do-nothing Congress. Obviously this is a strategic decision because Biden didn't go there either. Personally I'd like to see him say "The stimulus would have bee at least 70% more effective if I didn't have to give up 40% of it to the same old trickle-down nonsense that Republicans in Congress insisted on. At every step of the way, the Republicans in Congress have blocked this recovery, by delaying the FAA bill costing tens of thousands of jobs, delaying the transportation bill almost a year losing hundreds of thousands of jobs, and by not acting on the jobs and infrastructure bill that has been stuck in the Republican Congress for 13 months now. You need to give me a Congress that will work for you, not a Congress that will automatically try to block everything -- even their own ideas."

I'm sure they have gamed that out and they must have decided that had the risk of over-playing his hand.

[freetrucker53]

34. housing and the economy

I've seen a lot of new building this year (Orange County, Ca). Same with restaurants and department stores. Just my feeling that things are picking up.