Mark Halperin Somehow Concludes McCain Won The Week

Okay. I was alive this past week, and I couldn't help but notice that the following things occurred:

• The economy collapsed, putting McCain's party at a distinct disadvantage.
• McCain, nevertheless, said the "fundamentals of our economy are strong."
• Then he said they weren't.
• Then he said that by "economic fundamentals" he meant "workers," a definition no one else in the world uses.
• McCain's response initially was a big government approach to fighting greed.
• Followed by a small government approach to fighting regulation.
• Prominent conservatives like David Brooks, Chuck Hagel and Charles Krauthammer, threw a big wet blanket on McCain for his choice to put Sarah Palin on the ticket.
• As did incoherent McCain enthusiast Richard Cohen.
• Karl Rove warned that the Palin frenzy was going to cool down.
• Which is wise, because it is.
• Meanwhile, McCain's surrogates are getting worked like speedbags all over the media.
• Including a chorus of the piss and moan blues after the rough treatment the McCains received on that perennially hard-hitting news show, The View.
• One prominent surrogate said that Tina Fey, of all people, was "sexist."
• The same surrogate said that John McCain and Sarah Palin didn't have the acumen to run a company.
• Those remarks forced the McCain campaign to "disappear" her.
• Not so for the idiot who went in front of reporters to claim that John McCain invented the BlackBerry.
• And then John McCain decided, "Heck, why not ramp up some pointless diplomatic conflict with Spain?"

After that sort of week, one might expect that the negative poll trends that bedeviled Obama in the run out from the Republican National Convention would begin to reverse themselves. And, you know what? They have.

BUT FORGET ALL THAT. Because Mark Halperin, over at his Kooky Komic Book Of Politics, sees it differently: "Obama Closes Strong, But McCain Wins The Week." Which raises one question. Why is Mark Halperin TOTALLY BOGARTING THE PINEAPPLE EXPRESS HE'S SMOKING?

Comments

[dlbdpb]

Another example of not being able to say the truth, even when it smacks you in the head. This guy must be employed by the repubs under the table.

[suecr]

I think its crack!
Does he explain how mcccain won?

[majorteddy]

Is halperin maybe a little partial to McCain or something? Or is he just an idiot? How could any impartial observer think this after all the faux pas's made by McCain and Palin this week. How can you hang to a script as tight as the Republican camp is doing and screw up that much?

[imajoebob]

I want to go on record saying I fully support Time Magazine's refusal to drug test their employees.

[Heavenhelpusall]

Better than a shot of espresso. LOL

[sueno]

Halperin is a GOP mole. He behaves as though "he" is the higher power.
Halperin is out of touch and the reason his medium isn't selling well.
He was wrong about Bush, supports or soft-shoes McCain regularly,
he one of the reason's I don't watch TV news.

[Ironquill]

About cable news, I realized recently that I was watching the Daily Show and Colbert to get my news and the Fox network for comedy. Did you see Tony Blair on Fox being asked to compare Salin Palin with Thatcher? I thought Blair was going to get the giggles.

[ponderonit101]

LOL

[darthmaul]

I saw this guy on one of the Sunday yak shows with George Stephanopoulos. He was at the point of being incoherent and I actually felt embarrassed for him!

[RoveRoveRoveYourBoat]

...articulate dishonesty with a smiling face...a disney corp. cartoon.

[scooperss]

"Obama Closes Strong, But McCain Wins The Week."

Of course mccain won the week.
It was a contest based on who had the biggest and most gaffes,

wasn't it?

[ponderonit101]

Yes, of course. However, McCain and Palin or is it Palin and McCain tied for first place.

[SEQUOIABISON]

Mr Halperin occasionally makes attempts at being fair and balanced but for the most part I have found him to be basically a republican hack and not objective at all.

Obama/Biden

[patrickjkiger]

I hope McCain "wins" next week in similar fashion.

[majorteddy]

For sure, I hope he wins every week like this one, if that was a winning week. If that was a winning week, I wonder what a loser looks like?Holy Cow!

[rubicon101]

I've got to tell you that most independent voters will be split this year..and it is the candidate that attracts these voters will win the election. This country is made up of mostly moderate people..the 'loony left' (ie;huffington post)and the 'extreme right' (ie; drudge report) are the ones who make the most noise but come November it is the moderates that make the decisions for this country ..and I say thank god for that!!

[darthmaul]

I guess from your post, that you put yourself in the "moderate" stack. The question then is, why are you writing, and possibly reading at what you characterize as the "loony left" huffington post?

[rubicon101]

what..is this a place where you need a membership to read? I thought only the republicans were the intolarable ones?
well, let me inform all of you that I am a registered democrat for my whole life...since JFK, drafted, served my country during the Viet Nam era, survived Nixon years and all of the assisinations and chaos of that time ...and yes, I do also think that this past administration was the worst administration of my life.
However, I do not believe that McCain is a continuation of what has happened and I will judge both candidates on their merits and what they represent.
This websight has definately lost it's way, maybe it is because of how our country has been run these past eight years ...but I don't believe lumping everyone in the same bucket is the way to objectively look at who I want to lead us in the future.
You can say what you want and I don't particulary care.

[Ironquill]

Do you think Sarah Palin, a Pentacostal who has extreme views on abortion and civil rights, who has declared war on wildlife, is attractive to moderates?

[matthewhusseinsmith]

I am an independent who can't stand the Cheney/Bush administration's lies, incompetence, subversion of the Constitution, politicization of the DOJ, mishandling of the economy and of the wars. Does that make me a loony leftist?

Reporter: 2/3 of Americans are against the Iraq war.
Cheney: So?

Where have you been the last 8 years, rubicon101?

[scooperss]

Make that 2 of us.

[Dynamohum]

I want some of the hooch Halperin is smoking. It must be really good shiite.

[avalanch112]

It must be the Blueberry.

[monoxboogie]

or the blackberry... seeing as how McCain invented it.

[4real]

This is from McCane's Energy Czar Sarah......


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkFyArd8zdw

[XYZ]

Man the republicans drive the war into a ditch, the economy into the ditch, and now there party values into the ditch. What does it take to get someone impeached in this country. America would do well to take one lesson from Arizona, impeaching worthless administrations that say one thing and do another are good for one's statehood, or country-hood. I know if I was in charge of any of this they would have driven me out of the white house under police escort. Bush isn't a king you know?

[saltpeter]

There isn't one element of either domestic or foreign policy that the Republicans haven't driven straight into a Pole, which is a shame because they're really nice people and being from Warsaw and all had nothing to do with any of this mess.

[Ironquill]

Thanks. A little humor goes a long way. Maybe if Bush hit a Pole his bad driving would become obvious and there would be some consequences. My question is, how can he himself not realize how badly he has wrecked the family car?

[DaOne]

Halperin is a prime example of an idiot.

McBush started the week +5 and is now -5 and somehow that's a win?