Carville beatdown of Askew (On TODAY) is online at msnbc.com WATCH IT!

[wndycty]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/?ta=y

• Party advisors debate campaign
Sept. 9: "Today" show anchor Katie Couric discusses the escalating political attacks in the presidential campaign with Republican Party advisor, Tucker Eskew, and Kerry campaign advisor, James Carville.

Its video 7

[Dawgs]

1. Carville is the MANNNNNNNNNN!!!!

I love the way he made the case against Bush and for Kerry so simple.

[pacalo]

2. I can't find it.

What do I "click" on when I get to the link?

It's not on their video page.

[Julien Sorel]

4. If you look under Trump's picture,

there are arrows pointing left and right, surrounding the fraction 1/10. Click on the right arrow until you see Carville's face, and then click launch. I had some problems finding it, too.

[pacalo]

5. Thank you, BB! :)

[nyhuskyfan]

6. Excellent Pic - LOL

I knew that lady looked familiar from somwhere.

(on edit -- meant to go underneath the Jabba the Hut picture above).

[sundog]

27. rotfl - great sig line!

[Cha]

31. So now I know who tucker askew is! Barf!

I found myself screaming at my computer to "shut the fuck up"!!

Thanks for the directions, BB.

Carville was kind of cool the way he could keep that big shit eating grin on his face when he was talking to ta.

"If you like the direction of this Country then vote bush"

"If you think we need a change vote Kerry"!

Simple really!

[wildeyed]

3. Carville buried Eskew. No doubt.

That was fun, thanks for posting.

[Ducks In A Row]

7. thanks.

[terrya]

8. They've removed the Trump pic. I can't find the link.

[Julien Sorel]

9. He stayed on message.

That's what Kerry needs to do: everything has to come down to "If you think the war in Iraq is going well, vote for Bush. If you think your income is growing, vote Bush. If you think your healthcare costs are going down, or becoming more manageable, vote Bush. Otherwise it's time to change direction and vote Kerry."


I learned something watching this video: you can be constructively obnoxious. Notice the Tucker guy kept blabbing the Republican talking points. Most Democrats I've seen would get in a debate about the validity of the talking points; Carville ignored them and kept pounding out his message, effectively taking over the whole show. We need more Democratic surrogates armed with a simple message and the passion to get out there and keep pounding it in the faces of people.

These Republicans are lying wimps when you come down to it, pussyfooting around in public with talk of "positive message" and "compassionate conservatism," (which is nothing more than 41's "Kinder, gentler nation" re-worded) and the like, while predicting massive terror strikes if Kerry is elected, and hiring dishonest creeps like the Swift Boat smearers to do the work they themselves lack the guts to do in public. So ignore them. Talk over them. Don't honor the fiction that they deserve to be debated in a straightforward fashion, because they forfeited that right when Rove decided the Swift Boat thing was perfectly acceptable.


Greatest moment: when ole Tucker got all pissed at Carville and said "I don't have a boy." He was fighting mad with nobody to fight, bless his little heart.

[pacalo]

16. The ending was great!

Katie Couric was trying her best to interject Repugs' talking points against Kerry & she gave Carville a great opening at the end. I love it!

[grasswire]

37. yes

Media trainers will hammer this home. Don't let the opponent engage you in answering his questions. Talk to the camera. Tell your message that you have rehearsed. Have one point. Tell it over and over again to the camera. Don't be distracted or baited.

WHY OH WHY are the Dem talking heads not given media training?????

[rniel]

48. and Kerry

Unfortunately so far I think Kerry does not have the media training down like Carville just demonstrated.

[rniel]

47. Bingo

"Most Democrats I've seen would get in a debate about the validity of the talking points.."

Exactly

I've seen this too many times. They just let the republicans define what we are going to discuss and then let's just argue about that and play along.

That's exactly how Bush will want the debates with Kerry to go. And that's exactly how all the news has been reported in the last 4 years.

[spanone]

10. I love at the end when Carville says he feels sorry for Eskew

says he's having a bad morning.

[rniel]

46. and the president is Cheney's lapdog...I love it

and couldn't debate Kerry without sitting on the lap of dick cheney.

I loved how he steered the topic into about Bush running and avoiding the debates with Kerry.

[Ducks In A Row]

11. any chance of a direct video link

I get the launch window, but then nothing. Just the loading message.

[JI7]

13. the way i did it

was click on another video link and once the video is running they have a menu of other video's on the player you can pick and that's how i found the carville video.

on the left hand side they have choices such as most watched, special etc ? i can't remember which one included the carville video but it might have been the "news" choice. but you can just click on all choices until you find it.

[JI7]

12. Carville was calm, smooth and on message

[MsTryska]

14. So....

Is Carville a Kerry Advisor or not? I thought I read elsewhere that he said he wasn't affiliated with the campaign at all, but it appears NBC says he is.


If so, God really does answer your prayers.


Oh and I'm new. :-D hi y'all.

[Julien Sorel]

15. He advises the campaign.

Whether or not that makes him an "adviser" is apparently a matter of semantics. ;-)

[Myrina]

17. Welcome Ms T !

Carville was also on 'The View' today and apparently both there and with Couric 'confirmed' that he is a Kerry adviser.

:)

[IdaBriggs]

18. Welcome! nt

[JI7]

20. yes, but not in an official position

he gives advice when he wants and when asked. but since he doesn't accept pay when working for candidates he supports in america it's not required he have an official position. so this works out the best.

[MsTryska]

26. Thanks for the welcomes y'all!

and i can accept "advice-giver in a strictly casual sense" as an answer.


well now i'm thrilled. i've been wanting carville all up in the mix since Kerry was officially named.

it's about time the GOP got a taste of their own medicine.:evilgrin:

[bobbyboucher]

33. "God really does answer your prayers"? What

are you praying for?

[MsTryska]

34. heh...

that carville would start doing what he does so well.

[cheshire]

50. There was a mention he was head advisor at the begining.

[undercoverduer]

19. It was pretty damned funny. . .

:kick:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

21. "The graveyards are full of indispensable people"

...in response to the "ONLY Bush 'n' Cheney can fight terra" CRAP.

Best line, though, has got to be "I don't HAVE a "boy" and you'd better knock that off right now" from Eskew after Carville said "You ought to have your boy get out of Dick Cheney's lap and come to the debates."

Carville. YEAH.

:toast:

[kentuck]

22. Where is Trumps picture???

Couldn't find??

[DemoTex]

23. It's gone now.

I can't find the video archives anywhere.

[swag]

24. This link might be a little more direct

http://video.msn.com/video/p.htm?t=1&i=f27cb2fe-cf4a-422d-9c69-6d95a706dd86

[grasswire]

39. I get no sound...

...anyone else having trouble?

[Strawman]

41. That made my day

James Carville understands symbolism. He can connect the dots. Bush getting special perks to get in and arrogantly dismissing orders in the guard is symbolic of the entire Republican worldview where there are one set of rules for the rich and powerful and another for the rest of us. They trumpet the free-market and competition and then they rig the rules of that competition in their favor. George Bush was born not only with a silver spoon in his mouth, but a pack of golden parachutes strapped to his back.

The same worldview that makes possible Bush's National Guard admission and allowed him to disobey orders with no consequence writes tax loopholes for the mega-rich and transfers wealth from the middle class and the lower rungs of the upper class to the mega-rich while denying the working poor living wages.

The same worldview that makes possible Bush's National Guard admission and allowed him to disobey orders with no consequence allows Enrons to happen where CEO's can lie and run a company into the ground and profit from that behavior, leaving employees and their jobs their 401K's in ruins. George Bush used another one of his golden parachutes for something like this at Harken Energy.

The same worldview possible that makes Bush's National Guard admission and allowed him to disobey orders with no consequence lets soldiers' families live in poverty while defense contractors get billions for weapons systems that will never work.

They are lying hypocrites with a seriously flawed moral system. We'll get these sob's if we can take all these little instances that show the truth and integrate them into a big picture critique of their worldview and define there worldview for what it really is while offering a morally compelling, coherent worldview of our own.

[dmr]

25. Thanks for the link!

:)

[JohnnyCougar]

28. Is there a transcript??

I don't have soound on my computer :(

[iwantmycountryback]

29. That was great!

Oh man that was classic near the end when he said "this young man's havin a bad mornin" AHAHAHA

[otohara]

30. Notice How The Camera Doesn't Split Screen

When Eskew is badmouthing Kerry and lying out of his ass about Bush's "honorable, honorable" service. When Carville starts talking they go to a split screen and show Eskew shaking his head in disbelief.

They want to show the republican's reaction to the attack on Bush, but not visa versa....

[Cha]

32. It must irk the shit out of them that James had

the better soundbites!

[otohara]

35. It's Unfair and Biased

[Snellius]

38. Yesterday Carville told Imus he was not part of the Kerry campaign

Carville's obviously now out in front. And on message like a hound dog after quail. I wonder if he was holding out to negotiate for more control over the campaign.

[Renew Deal]

36. That was excellent.

:D

[underpants]

40. Kick

:kick:

[undercoverduer]

42. Kick

:kick:

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

43. IT made me want to slap the shit out of Katie Couric and I'm

really not given to violent urges.

[wndycty]

45. Why? Katie was very even handed.

:kick:

[rniel]

44. That was a bloody SLAUGHTER!!

I loved it!! It's not poor old Tucker's fault it must be hard to defend a president that has nothing to run on but a failure to stop 9/11 from happening and then making the terrorism situation 10 times worse!!

[0rganism]

49. 1) it doesn't work with mozilla 2) I refuse to download the crappy IE6

What a fine example of market-restrictive bullshit. Does anyone have a direct link to the video itself?

[undercoverduer]

51. This is one of those video's that make it worth it use IE6 or. . .

. . .just use someoneone else's computer.