"I Said That"

I was listening to an analyst today on MSNBC stating what I said yesterday. The Democrats need to come up with their own unified plan for an Iraq exit strategy. They can’t “scapegoat” on the Baker-Hamilton commission or that the American people did not expect them to have a unified plan but just wanted anyone other than a Republican in congress. The analyst name was Chris Cillizza.

Also here is a portion of an article from the Washington Post reaffirming what I said a few days ago about MSNBC:


For MSNBC, Time to Get Political
November's Shouting Over, A Network Finds Its Voice
By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, November 20, 2006; Page C01
MSNBC has seen the future, and it is politics.
Delivered with plenty of opinion.
Preferably with lots of cameo appearances by big-name news stars from the mothership.
The perennial third-place cable news channel enjoyed a nice bump in the ratings during the midterm campaign, in part because the likes of Brian Williams, Tim Russert, David Gregory and Campbell Brown broke away from their NBC duties to help out.
"We've found a voice as of late, and a large part of that voice is politics," says MSNBC General Manager Dan Abrams. And although he doesn't plan to put on "all politics all the time until 2008," Abrams says he wants to continue "branding" MSNBC as a haven for political junkies.
They go on to say:
“There's no plan to transform the channel into an extended version of Chris Matthews's "Hardball," but MSNBC covered the House leadership shootout between Jack Murtha and Steny Hoyer with presidential-campaign intensity.”

Well they should. Or create a political cable channel. Also here’s another "I said that" from the New York Post:

CRITICS TO KICK RUDY PATOOTIE
By DAVID SEIFMAN City Hall Bureau Chief;

Indeed, there are a number of issues that could weigh Giuliani down as he tries to move from being "America's Mayor" to America's president:
* Bernard Kerik. His implosion as President Bush's Homeland Security nominee is bound to taint Giuliani. New York's former top cop under Giuliani was forced to withdraw his nomination amid revelations that he employed an illegal immigrant nanny, had ties to mob-connected businesses and carried on simultaneous extramarital affairs with two women.
* Marital woes. Giuliani was once married to a cousin, Regina Peruggi, then went through a bitter divorce with wife No. 2, Donna Hanover, while publicly romancing wife No. 3, Judith Nathan.


They mentioned other things about Mr. Giuliani that were really anti Republican agenda. And as another MSNBC analyst stated he would not survive their primary.