"Oh God"

[Kaldaur]

Hahaha, somebody at MSNBC is going to hear about it tomorrow. It was either Keith or Chris, couldn't tell which one.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/2 ... 69697.html

Now, to be fair, I was thinking the same thing as soon as I saw his tie, not to mention the gaze and smeared smile of Hindu-Atokal...but still, don't those two have more sense than to say something on the air like that?

[Xatrei]

I was watching as it happened. I LOLed.

If it wasn't so sad, it would be hilarious how out of touch Jindal's "response" was.

[Spang]

The audio person forgot to turn the mics off.

[Winnow]

What was that thing the Republicans used to give their response? It walked out of the back like a PeeWee Herman or Martin Short character. It spoke with a southern accent yet looked like a tan Gollum.

[Spang]

What was that thing the Republicans used to give their response? It walked out of the back like a PeeWee Herman or Martin Short character. It spoke with a southern accent yet looked like a tan Gollum.

Those are your people.

[Xatrei]

What was that thing the Republicans used to give their response? It walked out of the back like a PeeWee Herman or Martin Short character. It spoke with a southern accent yet looked like a tan Gollum.

Those are your people.

To say nothing of the weird cadence of his address. At times he sounded like he was telling a story to a gathering of 5 year-olds.

I think maybe he should stick to the exorcisms and leave the big time politics stuff to the big kids.

[Xyun]

Not to mention his story about the sheriff and the boat during Katrina was a lie. I'm pretty sure that was Keith Olbermann saying "Oh God". He just spoke the very words going through my head at the very same time.

But even funnier is Rachel Maddow trying to respond.

"Um ia.. um ba.. ababah... bahbaba..."

ROFL. Just hilarious.

video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkEBtpcIVE4

That response by Jindal was an utter fail. So was his appearance on Meet the Press which I wrote about: Bobby Jindal on Meet the Press: How is Stimulus Stimulative?

This is my favorite analysis of his response, from a guy I really dislike too:

JIM LEHRER: Now that, of course, was Gov. Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, making the Republican response. David, how well do you think he did?

DAVID BROOKS: Uh, not so well. You know, I think Bobby Jindal is a very promising politician, and I oppose the stimulus because I thought it was poorly drafted. But to come up at this moment in history with a stale "government is the problem," "we can't trust the federal government" - it's just a disaster for the Republican Party. The country is in a panic right now. They may not like the way the Democrats have passed the stimulus bill, but that idea that we're just gonna - that government is going to have no role, the federal government has no role in this, that - In a moment when only the federal government is actually big enough to do stuff, to just ignore all that and just say "government is the problem, corruption, earmarks, wasteful spending," it's just a form of nihilism. It's just not where the country is, it's not where the future of the country is. There's an intra-Republican debate. Some people say the Republican Party lost its way because they got too moderate. Some people say they got too weird or too conservative. He thinks they got too moderate, and so he's making that case. I think it's insane, and I just think it's a disaster for the party. I just think it's unfortunate right now.

[Xyun]

[Lalanae]

...and Palin sighs with relief...

[Xatrei]

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/ ... kl.01.html

LEE: I fully believe that when then matter is looked into, we tried to get some boats in the water early on. When I realized that we had a problem, I was the one that made the call in WWO (UNINTELLIGIBLE) radio if there was anybody with a boat to come to a place so that we can get the boats in the water because I was around when -- the other big hurricanes, and most of the rescue done early on were individual fisherman, recreational fisherman that had boats that went in the water. Those boats where not allowed to get into the water when they were needed and I just found out about seven days later one of the reason boats couldn't get in was they didn't have enough life preservers and some of them didn't have proof of insurance. And I'm sure that there's a FEMA regulation that says that. But when a storm of this magnitude hits, you through those regulations out the window and you do what you have to do and start saving lives.

[Xyun]

Word clouds of the speeches -




Jindal's is missing the words "Plan" and "Responsibility"

The 3 biggest words in Jindal's speech have huge negative connotations to them ...

Pretty much speak for themselves.

[Gzette]

MSNBC's Chris Matthews explains 'Oh God' remark
By DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer

NEW YORK — MSNBC's Chris Matthews said he was surprised by the "peculiar stagecraft" of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's response to President Barack Obama's speech to Congress, leading him to quietly say "Oh God" as Jindal approached a microphone.

The remark inspired a brief Internet guessing game about who had said it and questions about whether someone at MSNBC was mocking the Republican governor.

Matthews' barely audible "Oh God" appeared to be a classic case of someone talking on TV without realizing their microphone was on, and potentially embarrassing to a network many Republicans already regard with suspicion because of left-leaning talk shows by Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.

"I was taken aback by that peculiar stagecraft, the walking from somewhere in the back of this narrow hall, the winding staircase looming there, the odd antibellum look of the scene," Matthews said in a script for his "Hardball" show on Wednesday. "Was this some mimicking of a president walking along the state floor to the East Room?"

Matthews said he wasn't referring to Jindal himself, or anything he expected the governor to say.

A clip of the "Oh God" remark quickly made the Internet rounds. Before it was known that Matthews had said it, the Huffington Post asked readers to guess who it was and nearly 7,000 people responded: 32 percent had guessed Matthews, 35 percent said it was Olbermann, his co-anchor, 15 percent said it was an MSNBC camera operator and 18 percent thought it was a producer.

It's not the first time Matthews' mouth has gotten him noticed for the wrong reasons. He was ridiculed by some Republicans for saying he "felt this thrill going up my leg" during an Obama speech, but later defended the remark as an objective look at Obama's ability to inspire through his speeches.

After some protests by women's groups, Matthews said he was wrong last year to say that the reason Hillary Clinton was a senator and candidate for president "is that her husband messed around."

[Siji]

to a network many Republicans already regard with suspicion because of left-leaning talk shows by Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow

But it's ok for Fox..