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catbyte

(34,333 posts)
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:28 AM Feb 2021

A.B. Stoddard is really ticking me off on 11th Hour with Brian Williams. She criticized

the Democrats for not bringing the Articles of Impeachment until that thing was out of office, but what she failed to mention was that McConnell was going to block it if they did and the reason they did that was so he couldn't bury it. And then she bitched about how the Article was "too narrow" and should have include dereliction of duty. Because of that, it gives the GQP an out. Maybe I've had just too long of a day, but she really rubbed me the wrong way.

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madaboutharry

(40,190 posts)
1. She strikes me as a glass half empty kind of person.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:31 AM
Feb 2021

She always seems rather negative about whatever the topic is.

Irish_Dem

(46,492 posts)
2. I turned it off thankfully when Lindsey G showed up on video.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:32 AM
Feb 2021

It has been too long a day to deal with nitwits right now.
Right I would have been upset with ABS talking nonsense.

The QOP has nothing, and everyone knows it.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
3. I wanted to throw my shoe at the television. But Dan Goldman set her straight
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:33 AM
Feb 2021

Gave her a nice primer of why dereliction of duty is an essential component of the case they've brought.

DURHAM D

(32,606 posts)
4. I have been turning her off since the Bush administration.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:37 AM
Feb 2021

Surprised that Brian has brought her back.

TomSlick

(11,088 posts)
5. Stoddard knows better but she thinks she is doing what is expected of an arm chair prosecutor.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:38 AM
Feb 2021

Which, of course, is worse than simple ignorance.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
7. Her journalism degree doesn't seem to have equipped her to play armchair prosecutor
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:43 AM
Feb 2021

She doesn't know what she's talking about and it shows.

She made herself look ridiculous tonight.

TomSlick

(11,088 posts)
8. My degree is in law and not journalism, so I don't know what she was taught.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 12:51 AM
Feb 2021

If there were any classes on prosecutorial discretion and strategy, she was out that day.

brush

(53,741 posts)
10. She's wrong as he was impeached for the second time before he left office.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:10 AM
Feb 2021

McTurtle had the articles before Jan. 20. He just wouldn't call the senators back from recess before the inauguration. As a so-called pundit she should know that.

cilla4progress

(24,717 posts)
12. Glad you all saw this, too.
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 01:58 AM
Feb 2021

I actually googled her because I wanted to see her background.

It looks like she's a sometime Fox panelist.

No surprise. I guess she passes as a D there.

KT2000

(20,568 posts)
13. I was surprised by her comments
Thu Feb 11, 2021, 03:03 AM
Feb 2021

Maybe she was trying to sound smarter than everyone else but it did not work.

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