Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [20]
The mob’s leading TV network, MSNBC, has turned the embrace of inconsistency into a kind of performance art, invariably trotting out the worst possible Democrat to talk about this or that Republican scandal. It’s as if they got a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to act natural while interviewing a pot about the kettle.
Whenever Keith Olbermann needed a Democrat to discuss the sleazy sex scandal of a Republican, he turned to Chris Kofinas, former communications director for … John Edwards. Yes, John Edwards.
Kofinas’s star turn in politics was his role covering up the fact that Edwards was carrying on an extramarital affair with New Age groupie Rielle Hunter, who was pregnant with Edwards’s child, while he was running for president as a family man with a cancer-stricken wife. Today, Kofinas’s specialty is going on MSNBC to blast Republicans for their sex scandals.
Is Kofinas really the best person to be giggling with Keith about Governor Mark Sanford’s affair? Surely there are tons of Democrats who were not themselves involved in covering up a major sex scandal of a Democratic presidential candidate. Next up, Joseph Goebbels joins us to discuss civil rights violations under Abraham Lincoln.
There’s never even an attempted alibi for Kofinas’s role in lying about Edwards’s affair. Kofinas might say, for example, “I was known to be a nincompoop by the entire Edwards campaign staff, who kept me out of the loop in a terribly humiliating way. Because the campaign treated me like an imbecile, made fun of me behind my back, and turned me into a laughingstock, it’s easy to see how I could have been completely unaware of Edwards’s affair that even the caterer knew about. There. I have redeemed my reputation!”
Kofinas is such a regular on the Republican scandal beat, it’s as if some tiny synapse in Olbermann’s brain connected “Kofinas” with “sleazy sex scandal” but wasn’t quite sure why.
Anyone not paralyzed by liberal groupthink listening to Kofinas’s smirking commentary about Mark Sanford would say, “Hey, you know, I was just thinking, you worked for a Carolina politician, too, and didn’t he get his mistress pregnant while running for president? In fact, weren’t you the front man for the cover-up?”
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Now let’s talk to O.J. Simpson about domestic abuse.
Similarly, when MSNBC needed an expert to excoriate the wrongdoers on Wall Street and propose needed financial reforms, the anchors turned to … Senator Chris Dodd and Representative Barney Frank.
Dodd and Frank are among the top ten individuals most responsible for the nation’s economic meltdown. For years, they both ferociously defended the insane practices of Fannie Mae that sent the entire American economy into a near-depression. Even as late as 2008, Dodd was calling Fannie “fundamentally strong” and “in good shape,” while Barney Frank assured Americans that Fannie Mae was “just fine.”26
Naturally, therefore, when the housing market imploded, bringing the entire economy down with it, MSNBC called on Dodd and Frank to explain what had happened. Their response was to denounce Republicans for opposing the Democrats’ latest financial reform bill.
On April 16, 2010, Chris Matthews interviewed Chris Dodd; on March 31, 2010,27 Keith Olbermann interviewed Barney Frank;28 and on June 25, 2010, Rachel Maddow interviewed Frank. Frank claimed that Republicans were “maintaining that we don’t need any financial reform”—with “financial reform” defined as “a bill written by Dodd, Frank, and the Democrats’ BFFs on Wall Street.”29 Obama administration financial adviser Elizabeth Warren specifically cited Dodd and Frank on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show as the two best financial watchdogs in Congress.30 Because who would be better to regulate large passenger steamships than the captain of the Titanic?
This wasn’t even the mainstream media’s usual obtuse refusal to ask obvious