Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder And some of you take issue with me calling third guy Soomomoo. Soledad O'Brien steps away from her "neutral" position and calls out Sununu, and then they yell at each other for a bit. She was essentially correct with what she was telling him, but that didn't stop him. <a href="http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2012/08/well_at_least_somebo.php" target="_blank">http://www.laobserved.com/biz/...mebo.php</a>
Originally Posted By TomSawyer Years ago, Soledad O'Brien hosted some technology show and I thought she was a bit of a lightweight. I was wrong. I'm glad to see someone calling out the lies of people like Sununu, and with his response you can tell that the GOP is in panic mode right now. They are losing power and they feel it.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Wow - I didn't know O'Brien had that in her, either. I love how she went right at the lie (which is in Romney's latest TV ad, of course) that Obama "gutted" or "stole" money from Medicare. They're counting on low-information voters simply swallowing this lie whole; reporters need to call it out at every opportunity because that's just doing their job. (And yes, they need to call out any Democratic lies as well.) I'm hoping against hope that the hundreds of millions Romney and superpacs will spend spreading lies won't have the effect they hope and may even backfire; the more people realize stuff like this is lies, the more it can backfire.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper But she will be labled a bit** while a male would win an award for that piece of journalism.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 You can be pretty sure Limbaugh (among others) will call her that or worse very soon if he hasn't already. She already has been on some of the right-wing websites my uncle is always linking me to.
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 And, to me, she really wasn't that harsh with him. He started insulting her, and basically saying she was in Obama's pocket. She kept reasonably cool while he did that. Seems to me, she called him on his antics, he didn't like it, and she stayed mostly maintained through the whole thing.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 It reminds me of one great line from a short-lived sitcom that was set in Florida: A Latina woman had married a Jewish guy. As she's holding their newborn daughter, he asks her if she's thought of a name. "Yes," she says. "I want to name her Maria-Theresa." He tries the name out for size. "Maria-Theresa Kaplan," he says." "What do you think?" she asks. "I think she's got an excellent chance to grow up to be mayor of Miami."
