Rachel is a must watch. She is talking about how we cannibalize our own with the help of the media,

[Pisces]

while the Repukes make the same missteps and crickets. More than crickets they don't try and bury their guys alive for making
a mistake.

[Solomon]

1. Look, Booker's a young and this will blowover. However

he did really piss us off.

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Is that the royal "us"?

Or, as my dad used to say, do you have a mouse in your pocket?

[Solomon]

17. What the fuck is a "royal us"?

He fucked up. Admit it and move on.

[A HERETIC I AM]

18. That's funny

You've never heard the expression " royal we"?

Let me put it this way;

Who is this 'us' you speak of? Do you presume to speak for all of DU or the democratic party or do you have a mouse in your pocket?

Move on indeed

[Bluenorthwest]

25. It seems 'we' is most people in the thread. No mouse in pocket or royal status needed

nt

[Enrique]

3. her comparison is specious

when GOP surrogates are off-message, they are off-message in favor of the base. The base hates Mitt Romney. The base hates the fact that the establishment GOP has shoved Romney down their throats. Anyone who goes off message against Romney gets points from the base for being a "maverick".

Cory Booker didn't go off-message in favor of the Democratic base, he did the opposite, he went off-message in favor of Bain Capital.

[CTyankee]

4. NO, pisces, we Dems always LOSE by this strategy!

Please forget it Pisces. Realy, we don't need to be more apologetic on our knees. That lost us elections in 2000 and 2004.

Forget it, Charlie!

[Confusious]

5. She should have let it drop

Now she's getting on my nerves trying to justify bookers comments.

It's making her complicit in bookers comments.

There's loyalty to a friend when that friend is falsely accused. I can see that.

There's also loyalty to a friend when that friend is guilty and knows they did wrong.

Booker fits neither of those categories. The two of them are trying to justify his sellout.

[Logical]

7. +1....first time I have been VERY disappointed in Rachel. Horrible of her!

[Marr]

14. Agreed. /nt

[Logical]

6. LOL.....yes, lets let Booker off the hook. She has been horrible tossing him help!

[me b zola]

8. "Our own"?

Is that the "our" that is paid for by investment banks and venture capitalists?

Really didn't take too long for Rachel to be eaten by the moneyed interest at nbc. Sad,that.

[Bluenorthwest]

23. She's speaking as a member of the 1%

He is their own. He's her own. Just not our own.

[spanone]

9. i think we cannibalize those who deserve it. i heard mr booker and his 'resolve' on MTP

i saw no misstep

[Oilwellian]

10. Jon Stewart pegged Rachel quite some time ago

I stopped watching her after she dropped the ball with the BP oil spill.

[HiPointDem]

16. what do you mean, that stewart pegged her?

[scheming daemons]

11. Cory Booker isn't "one of our own". He showed his hand.... it wasn't a "mistake".

He's one of them.

[Pisces]

12. Clowns to the left of me Jokers to the right

[cthulu2016]

13. Sounds like she is being foolish

I love Rachel and was disappointed to see her let personal feelings interfere with her fairness as a journalist.

If she is really now saying that Republicans do not canibalize their own then she is being ridiculous. Republicans enforce amazing party-wide message discipline and if one deviates a tiny bit into human being territory is likely to be deposed in a primary.

[Marr]

15. Exactly-- they don't cannibalize their own very often, because they're fairly homogenous.

If someone *does* step outside their ideological bounds, that person is promptly thrown under the bus and repeatedly backed over until they're nothing but a little greasy spot.

That's not so bad. In fact, looking around at the number of financial industry pals in the Democratic Party's leadership right now, I'd say we could do with a heaping dose of it.

[Pisces]

26. This is a funny statement. I am a fervent dem. but because I am not trashing Booker I have

been attacked on this board. I don't believe and off message appearance should qualify as a funeral service for someone who
has done a lot for dem causes and has a future in our party.

[trumad]

19. I can't believe she thinks that...

Fuck ---the Tea Party just kicked out Lugar.

[Overseas]

20. I missed it so I assume she's talking about Corey going on Meet the Press and undercutting

the Obama team's excellent ad targeting the business skills his opponent is promoting, rather than indulging in more crude tactics like the Rev Wright junk.

Corey could have pointed out how the Obama team is targeting Romney's purported business skills, which is a reasonable line of attack, rather than talking about Mormon magic underwear which would be like those Reverend Wright smears the Republicans have used.

After making that more logical point, he could have then praised his funders and said that not all of what Bain Capital did was destructive.

[myrna minx]

21. He said what he believes, and I whole heartedly disagree with him.

He speaks on behalf of Bain et al. Guilt tripping people does not rebuild trust.

[Bluenorthwest]

22. Booker is not 'my own' he's the Big Money Mayor of a small city thousands of miles away....

I personally got fed up with him long ago, and Rachel has just blown her credibility by so much as interviewing her friend when she should have recused herself. Crony journalism is for Fox fans, not for thinking people. It is simply unethical. There is no two ways about it, and for her to then add her own false crap in defense of him is just beyond the pale. She needs to wear a price tag, for she is for sale.
I mean, ask Dick Lugar if the GOP eats it's own. He just got ousted for a cup of tea....

[WI_DEM]

24. I still think Booker made a big mistake

so sue me.

[JVS]

27. Booker supports odious shit, thus I have no use for him.