Super Tuesday Results
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2012-03-07/super-tuesday-results
The results from Super Tuesday are in. Mitt Romney won six of the 10 states up for grabs, including Ohio. The wins reaffirm his front runner status in the G.O.P.’s presidential race. But they failed to deliver the knock out blow he’d been hoping for. In addition to Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich also scored victories last night. In their concession speeches, each of his rivals signaled that they would not be bowing out of the race any time soon. So the race looks set to continue for sometime. But Republicans are increasingly concerned over the impact the drawn out race is having on the party’s chances in November.
Guests
Susan Page
Washington bureau chief for USA Today.
Chris Cillizza
author of The Fix, a Washington Post politics blog, and managing editor of PostPolitics.com.
Ed Gillespie
former chairman of the Republican National Committee; chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia.
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Diane Rehm berated me on the air for daring to suggest that most of the American voting public is:
a) misinformed (yes, as in, gets their information from media owned by 6 multinational corporations with very definite self-serving agendas ... it is not objective and uncensored 'information,' but selected and slanted corporate propaganda);
b) greedy (as in, fully focused, with no small assist from the media!, on acquring ever more stuff that never actually satisfies, and instead simply encourages more restless hankering ... 'greed,' in other words);
c) short-sighted (as in, willing to ruin the future for the sake of possibilities for short-term convenience and profit; and willing to alienate and goad vast numbers of people of other cultures and beliefs; environmentally insane, as especially encouraged by a) and b) above.
Meanwhile our hopeful leaders must i) appeal to the ignorance and selfishness that is so wide-spread today (or how else is it possible that people such as Bush, Palin, Santorum, Romney, Gingrich, Limbaugh can have so very many supporters!!!) and ii) sell out totally to their corporate sponsors - such sell-outs including the professional politicians on the Democratic side also - like Clinton and Obama.
This system doesn't work for the people - was never meant to. Its pure Hegel, where an unseen elitist control group ("synthesis") has two manifest organs of control that are apparently on opposite sides ("thesis" and "antithesis") - but which are both owned and controlled by the elite - to give the people in general the sense of choice!
As we used to say in England: 'doesn't matter who you vote for - the government always wins!'
This is the first step towards building something new - first, recognize the rot that has to be thrown away. Otherwise, we have no real motive or discrimination to seek out real leadership, and to understand what that could even mean ...
b23erlin, thanks for the comments on Gillespie!! I was about to gag, so I went back to work and turned the show off for a moment. What a joke.
JamieT wrote:"So...if Bill Maher were to call President Obama a n*gger, it would hardly matter, because his audience is so small compared to Limbaugh's, who would make everyone, including Diane, throw up by heinously referring to Obama as "colored"."
Now that would be something. The hypocrisy of the left is infuriating and the medias complicity in it is beyond belief.
I am from Northern Illinois, and went to the University of Alabama for college. I met my wife there, she is from Birmingham, and while we were dating she said one of the oddest statements I have ever heard.
We obviously had a disconnect between our dialects, and we began to argue over the Southern use of "coke" to denote every type of soft drink. As in "What flavor coke do you want?", which is a typical phrase in restaraunts. Being from Illinois, we call soft drinks "pop". This led to her saying, "Why would you call if pop when there are so many flavors of coke?" Variety is the spice of life, and we have been married for 5 years and have 2 wonderful children with little Southern accents.
Narasingha - I am in complete agreement with you. Failure to recognize this fact by media is one of the problems that stand in the way of ultimately addressing it. http://www.filthyliberal.com
Thankyou Nexcerpt - see my follow up under this name 'Narasingha' - unfortunately, NPR is also not a neutral and independent voice providing uncensored and accurate objective information about what is rally going on in the world - sure, it gives us liberal types a little of what we want - but it is also part of the system in power, and its job is to placate and confine us liberals also.
Dianes' response was absurd, as were the matching responses of her guests, who were all, what? Established Journalists? Oh, what a surprise! Some people listening know that 'there's something rotten in Denmark' - and as people become more dissatisfied, it frees up their energy, their intelligence, their hope, and their willingness to return to the game as active players and seekers ... and that's why I try to insert myself here and there in conversations intended to provoke disillusionment, ie dissatisfaction with a previously unresisted illusion :)
Whatever Truth may be (and I certainly have my strong beliefs and understandings about it), the absolute necessary quality to begin to approach it is earnest desire - and that does require losing trust in illusions first ... and I have no doubt about the illusory nature of modern politics, and of trusting that these people either know and/or care how to make life better for anybody else!
"Narasingha"
PS - you may be interested in a very enlightening site that sees life in an entirely different way: www.purebhakti.com
Narasingha, hard to figure out where your going with all that, sounds like bigger government.
I've lived in Arkansas for many years now. The linguistic curiosities I've encountered are "ideal" for "idea" and also "i-die" for "idea."
This Republican Primary reminds me of watching the weekly episode of The Three Stooges...each week it seems just a matter of time before the wheels come off.
Why, oh, why are Republicans allowed to plead victimhood whenever one of their main characters does something outrageous? Gillespie's comparison of Rush Limbaugh to Bill Maher is hardly correct. Rush is one of the main spokesmen for the Republican Party while Maher is a comedian that no Democrat would say speaks for the Democratic Party -- he is comparable to Dennis Miller.
Let's hope it does tear the party apart completely. Well-deserved.
Name a few.
Thank you Diane for speaking up for the American people. It is easy to disparage people who hold opposing points of view, but is not necessarily constructive. Civil dialogue is the key to compromise and progress.
The threading of replies is broken here. Replying to a specific posting gives the same result as a general posting.
Where is the explanation of the HTML tags?
This show was nothing more than a premeditated hit job by Diane to use her small liberal show as a way to take Limbaugh out. The pettiness, the phony outrage, the dishonesty in the description of Sandra Fluke, it was all plain to see. Do you think this show could survive without public financing, the deception you weave Diane to hang onto public funding is the outrage.
Jean wrote:
"The threading of replies is broken here. Replying to a specific posting gives the same result as a general posting."
That's the way it works here, you have to copy and paste the comment who you want to reply too in the Comment box like I just did for you..
Jim Davis is obviously unfamiliar with Ms Fluke's statement. She recounted the medical consequences of a so called moral position that resulted in disease going untreated
with disastrous consequences. Georgetown Law's policy was shown to be about cost avoidance, not morality.
Misspellings notwithstanding, b23erlin is dead on. I guess there must have been an a priori agreement with Gillespie that he'd only come on if his talking points could go unchallenged. I can't imagine how else you'd all let him do that. It's the old false equivalence canard, that the Democrats do it too (as if a little politicking in a press conference is equivalent to lying and manipulating us into unnecessary wars) or that global warming is a "controversy" because 1 of 1000 climate scientists is not yet convinced. Equating Bill Maher's jokes with Rush Limbaugh's hate speech may be less consequential, but no less absurd.
I'm sorry, I just expect more of public radio.
Ms. Rehm & Co. were being quite politically correct when they refused to acknowledge the ignorance & hatred that is rampant in America. Right wing types might not make up a majority of Americans, but Limbaugh's radio show is the most popular one on the radio for a reason; ditto for Fox News on cable.
The Right Wing systematically condemns & vilifies liberals/progressives. Yet, when they screw up, they ask for tolerance & forgiveness. The disconnect is astounding.
I love the education we receive on the Diane Rehm show. Today's lesson: It's distasteful but perfectly acceptable, or in a whooole other category to call a female public figure a cu_t on national television or national radio. Also it would be OK to ask if her daughter is being ban_ged by one of the Yankees. Everybody laugh now. It's only a joke. Is it OK to call you that Ms. Rehm since you are a well known commentator? This is the most disgusting case of liberal BS since trying to pin Gabby Giffords tragedy on Sarah Palin in particular and conservatives in general. Even real sheep would be ashamed.
Obama has taken $1 million dollars from Bill Maher's pac. Bill Maher called Sarah Palin a c***. Has Obama commented on Maher's comments? I'm shocked that Diane hasn't devoted an hour to that topic. Shocked I tell you.
C'mon Diane, you are better than this.
I am so incredibly disappointed with Ms. Rehm and her guests dismissal of Martin's comments about an "Archie Bunker" society at work. Answer this: 1. If most voters are smart, thoughtful and informed, how is it that someone like Rush Limbaugh is the nations's top conservative talk show host? And 2. Why then are the top Republican candidates so afraid to speak out against such obvious hateful, bigoted, misogeny? Because they know exactly how much power the Archie Bunker-like Limbaugh has over right wing voters. Reconsider your thoughts dear panel.