NYT, Wash. Post, CNN, WSJ Review of Zell's Meltdown: READ!

[xyboymil]

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"The former keynoter at the '92 Democratic convention totally overshadowed the vice president of the United States. He looked really hostile -- even if you turned the sound off -- as he eviscerated Kerry. No flicker of a smile ever crossed his lips."

So much for trying to appeal to swing voters. The man accused by Democrats of being a Zellout did all his swinging at Kerry.

"I wonder if it was smart to have him out there in such a hot fashion," said George Stephanopoulos.

"He looked angry," said Mara Liasson.

"Miller went over the line into demagoguery," said Mort Kondracke, by accusing the Dems of defaming American troops

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He really got kicked around on CNN. "I've never heard such an angry speech," said Bill Schneider -- even angrier, he said, than Pat Buchanan's "culture war" address in '92.

"I don't think I've ever seen anything as angry and ugly as Miller's speech," said Joe Klein.

The Wall Street Journal's John Harwood said Miller "looked like a spouse at a divorce proceeding who says, 'Oh yeah, she's a child molester too.' "

The New York Times called it "a memorably brutal attack on Mr. Kerry and the Democratic Party."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/columns/kurtzhoward/

It's a good read.

Thank you Zell, you bitter, angry, sad sad little man. You make Mr. Burns from the Simpsons look like Santa Claus! :toast:

[MrBenchley]

1. Kondracke said Zell went over the line!?!

Wow...

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Who dat?

I should probably know but don't.

[Renew Deal]

8. Fox News

Conservative. Some say neo-con.

[Jack_Dawson]

10. Oh no wonder - I don't watch Faux

[xyboymil]

3. Ya, I know! When the Wall Street Journal says he went too far...

You KNOW it was extreme!

[skooooo]

5. I like Mort...

..maybe not the most liberal guy, but he's often the voice of reason compared to his peers.

[underpants]

14. Mort is going to have to kiss some serious Fred Barnes butt

to get back in his boss's good graces.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

19. I wonder if

Fred Barnes would say that ? That would be WOW !

[quinnox]

4. lol, thanks to Zell

The RNC convention is turning into a positive for the Kerry campaign.

[michigandem2]

12. everyday there is some major reasons NOT to vote for *

every night so far they have done something that may turn off the swing voters...Monday guiliani's exploitation of 9-11, Tuesday Ahnold telling the unemployed they are girlie men, Wednesday the Zelltdown! LOL!
its going well.....for US!

[quinnox]

15. heh

Yup, I agree with you.

[AntiCoup2K4]

20. And tonight....

...Junior will deliver a demonstration of stupidity that makes his girls look like geniuses!

[Sparkly]

6. I think Zell is not Well

He really seemed rather crazy talking to Chris Matthews. Seriously. I think the GOP has taken advantage of an old, mentally-ill man.

[Myrina]

13. I think the GOP has taken advantage ....

... of more than one old, mentally-ill man by pumping their platform full of piss and vinegar and fear and hate and appealing to the most base elements of human nature ...

[hlthe2b]

21. Yes... some kind of organic brain disease-- whether Alzheimers or

something else. It will become clear in the not so distant future, but of course all will have forgotten the Repug's role in exploiting obvious mental/emotional illness at that point............

My question though, is what on earth is his family thinking? Surely they MUST realize with this dramatic anger and personality change that something is wrong. Who knows....

[soothsayer]

7. what, they couldn't get the grinch for a keynote speaker?

he woulda' been softer than this raving loony anyway...!

[Frances]

16. The Loony Toons Convention

Maybe that's how we should refer to this convention

First the bandaids that offended the purple heart vets,

Next a son of a Nazi speaker who claims that Nixon was his first American hero,

Then the idiotic spoiled brat giggling twins,

And last night a mean speech by a mean man who brings his straight daughter to the stage while his gay daughter sits in the audience,

Plus a George Wallace type speech from an obviously unstable man who challenges a questioner to a duel

I don't know how any news media people can avoid acknowledging to himself that the Republicans are taking this country in a very dangerous direction indeed.

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Great! Let's keep the heat on this story -- See this thread --

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x722564

[zbdent]

11. Adds new meaning to the word Zellet, er, zealot

hm?

[underpants]

17. The '92 Buchanan speech made me a Dem

halfway anyway. Jessie finished it with his speech at the Dem convention.

[unfrigginreal]

18. Great stuff...Zell even chased Sully out of the puke party altogether

Last night was therefore a revealing night for me. I watched a Democrat at a GOP Convention convince me that I could never be a Republican. If they wheel out lying, angry old men like this as their keynote, I'll take Obama. Any day.

[WI_DEM]

22. This speech deserves to backfire