DMR's David Yepsen just revealed himself to be totally full of shit

[BeyondGeography]

On Hardball, he essentially said that Obama will be "just as sullied" by the Clinton attacks as Clinton herself because he is sending a fundraising letter out in connection with them.

He says John Edwards will be the winner in all this.

Tweety followed up with, "Are you guys going to be endorsing John Edwards this weekend? "Oh, I don't know, I stay out of all that stuff," responded Yepsen.

Yepsen, by the way, had a cozy little dinner with Hillary recently, after which he wrote an anti-Obama column on his (perfectly legal) drive to have Iowa-based students caucus for him...

[LSparkle]

1. Yepsen wrote the famous "That's why the lady is a champ" item

recently when HRC had a momentary "comeback." I'll bet Yepsen is a Rethug ...

[rinsd]

2. He may be right about Edwards being the ulitmate winner in all this.

But I don't think you can argue equivalence because he used the attack to fundraise.

[LSparkle]

3. Exactly ... Like HRC hasn't used the "boys club" angle to raise $

Candidates have the right to capitalize on their opponents' mistakes, especially if they weren't provoking them.

[rinsd]

This is a time honored campaign practice.

As someone else brought up in another thread, Dean used this quite effectively.

[IA_Seth]

4. Yepsen is probably correct here..

Edwards will be the winner in this.

As much as I do not support Edwards as a candidate, his campaign is doing all the right things, and I think if he stays on pace we'll see the results on Jan-3rd.

Unfortunately :P

[BeyondGeography]

7. That's a defensible opinion, and I don't care about it at all

saying Obama is just as dirty as Hillary in all this is absurd.

[11cents]

5. HOW??

Did he say something we don't agree with?

I find that's usually a giveaway.

[quinnox]

6. Nah

He just doesn't like Obama trying to stack the Iowa caucuses with out of state students. He is a very influential political reporter in Iowa however.

[petersjo02]

8. Yepsen is full of it

I've read his work most of my adult life (I'm 66), and he's been wrong and on the wrong side always. I finally had to quit reading him because inevitably he made me mad. Forget Yepsen. Nobody here in Iowa gives a da__ what he thinks.

[BeyondGeography]

9. He certainly does seem to come in for a lot of ridicule

The comments portion of that student vote column went on for 9 pages, most of it pretty venomous. One reader kept insisting that the DMR will go for Hillary because it is owned by Gannett and about $200 million of their $1.2 billion in ad revenues is tied to the health care industry, and Hillary as President will do little to disrupt business-as-usual.

Whatever...I'm not fretting about their endorsement, I'm just amazed by the intellectual dishonesty of the man. The one thing I didn't mention in the OP was that David Gregory openly mocked the stance that Yepsen was taking.

[Karmadillo]

12. Everyone comes in for a lot of ridicule on the internet. Not really all that telling.

nt

[Karmadillo]

10. Time was when Obama supporters didn't think Yepsen was totally full of shit.

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3707219&mesg_id=3707227

[flpoljunkie]

11. Saw Yepsen on HARDBALL. Am glad to know that he does not have a vote on their endorsement.

He described his paper, the Des Moines Register, as "left leaning"--something he is not.

[Armstead]

13. I think Yepsen is right on this one

It looks opportunistic on Obama's part. He should have taken a higher ground on it than to use it as anoterhr excuse for fund-raising.

(Although I support Edwards, I didn;t like it when Edwards did it either.)

[ruggerson]

14. Isn't he the same guy who literally raved about Obama's J/J dinner speech?

Do you expect him to behave as a pro Obama cheerleader 24/7 or to call them as he sees them?

[ginchinchili]

15. There are a lot of Iowan's who resent Obama's push to have out-of-state students...

sign up to caucus.