Oy ... Live Mics Are Such Dangerous Things

A heapin’ helpin’ of Awesome Flakes
Sadly, No! — What do GOP standbys Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy really think of the Sarah Palin pick? Just watchy-watch: Hearing Peggy say the word “bullshit” is particularly gratifying and hilarious. Maybe she can send her dolphins to help McCain win this nomination. (Via.) ...

Peggy Noonan Unplugged
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — How can a person who says this also have written this? Jeez: has everyone gone insane?

War and Piece — TPM : Thanks to a live microphone, you can now hear what Republican strategist Mike Murphy and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan really think of McCain's pick of Palin. (....Murphy: "It's not going to work" ... Noonan: "It's over." .... Murphy: "Is she the most qualified woman they could have picked?" Noonan: "Most qualified? No. I think they went for this - excuse me - political bullshit - about narrative. ..." Murphy: "You know what's really the worst thing about it? McCain's supposed to be this non cynical politician. This is cynical. ....") Ouch!! (Presumably, Steve ...

Awful: Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy caught on open mike about Palin
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... I wonder how this little interstitial made its way from MSNBC to TPM . Oh well. Fox nailed Jesse Jackson talking about Obama this way, so turnabout’s fair play. Simply awful, not only for Palin as a vote of no confidence (“it’s over”) ahead of the big speech from someone respected on the right but for Noonan herself as evidence that she lies to her readers. Remember, the column this morning that I ...

Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy’s off air attack of Palin for VP pick. Who’s telling the truth?
Crooks and Liars — ... This clip is spreading very fast. Wow, listen to this off air exchange between two Conservative pundits and Chuck Todd who happily joined in. Tell us how you really feel about McCain and Palin. Murphy is very close to McCain and Noonan is Noonan. (rough transcript. Please fill it in below) Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state government work. Angler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. And these guys, this is all like how you want to (inaudible) this race. You know, just run it up. And it’s not ...

Peggy Noonan, Chris Todd, and Mike Murphy on Sarah Palin
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — They left their microphones on: Talking Points Memo | Oy ... Live Mics Are Such Dangerous Things: Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we'll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We'll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she's the right woman for the job Up next, one man who's already convinced and he'll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman. (cut away) Peggy Noonan: Yeah. Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out ...

Behind the happy talk
Martini Revolution — Conservative Republican operatives Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan think they’re off mic when they discuss what Sarah Palin brings to the ticket with CNN political wonk Chuck Todd. . . . TPM has a transcript, and its not pretty. PN: It’s over. ~~~ PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this — excuse me– political bullshit about narratives – ~~~ MM: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no ...

MUST-SEE TV: Top GOP pundits on accidental open-mic say Palin pick is 'bullshit,' race 'is over'
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... But their mics were still on. Oh my God. Everything we've suspected is true. The GOP is flipped out over this pick. Maybe the evangelical base is happy - maybe - but core Republicans, core conservatives, appears to be apoplectic and demoralized. Noonan was Reagan's most famous speech writer. She's no lightweight in the party, and she's no sexist. Here's the video, and the transcript is below. Here's the transcript, courtesy of TPM: CHUCK TODD: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we'll see if Steve ...

An Afternoon Romp in the Hay with Nooner
Balloon Juice — Screw the foreplay: I feel so much better. I think I need a shower.

To Palinize
The Anonymous Liberal — ... Now let's put aside for a moment the fact that no one of any significance on the left is actually criticizing Palin in this way. Hanson's post is nevertheless instructive in this sense; it gets to the heart of what's angering conservatives right now. They're upset because they believe that a conservative politician--one they really like--is getting caricatured and ridiculed unfairly, that she's not being taken seriously enough (never mind that their own pundits are just as guilty of this). ...

Bludgeoning The Refs To Within An Inch Of Their Lives
pandagon.net - we are the public option — ... The reason that the McCain campaign is getting raked over the coals is that they made the dumbest decision possible in the worst way possible, and after 40 years of being able to convince everyone covering their party that to criticize Republicans was to criticize America, nobody’s having it. ...

"This is cynical"
The Reality-Based Community — ... Ever wonder what the grifters say when they think you and me and the rest of the marks aren't listening? Live microphones give us a chance to find out. Mike Murphy , a Republican consultant, would never say anything like this (apropos the Palin selection) if he thought anyone outside the little pundit/consultant/ journalist club could hear him: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical. As an outsider, I find the notion that McCain isn't cynical breathtaking. (Or maybe Murphy just meant that McCain has ...

Sarah Palin Watch: Peggy Noonan LIES and Michael Murphy Sells Out McCain On An Open Mic
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... In an terrible display of “no confidence” for Sarah Palin, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan blows her credibility (in an especially egregious display of lying to her readers) and political consultant Michael Murphy back stabs his former boss, John McCain. As if anyone has to worry about ANYTHING these two EVER have to say about Republican politics again. The transcript: Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we’ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. ...

"It's over": Behind the spin on McCain-Palin
The Reaction — ... is beautiful -- the truth behind the bullshit. (Although I think it's premature to say that the race is over.) Here are political consultant and McCainiac Mike Murphy and WSJ columnist Peggy Noonan, two Republican mainstays, talking about the Palin pick after a segment with NBC's Chuck Todd today. The segment is over, but the mic is live. Josh Marshall has the transcript -- and it's a good read. Noonan is the one who says "it's over," adding that Palin is hardly "[t]he most ...

Murphy Professes Support For Palin’s Policy Stances In Public, Cries ‘It’s Not Going To Work’ In Private
Think Progress — ... Murphy, however, was apparently lying. Today, MSNBC inadvertently broadcast Murphy sharing his honest opinion of Palin’s record with the Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan and MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. Murphy said, “I totally agree” that Palin was selected without consideration of her record and that “it’s not going to work”: ...

Tell Us What You Really Think...
Obsidian Wings — ... by hilzoy Via TPM, what Peggy Noonan, Mike Murphy, and Chuck Todd say about the Sarah Palin pick when they think the mic is off: Transcript: "Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And -- PN: It's over. MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman ...

That’ll Leave a Mark…
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — ... said Noonan, who then responded to a question of whether Palin is the most qualified Republican woman McCain could have chosen. “The most qualified? No. I think they went for this — excuse me — political bullsh** about narratives,” she said. “Every time Republicans do that … because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at and they blow it.” The audio via TPM: Oy … Live Mics Are Such Dangerous Things: ...

Did MSNBC Leak Noonan/Murphy ‘Political BS’ Exchange on Palin?
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias — ... than two hours after Peggy Noonan and former McCain advisor Mike Murphy appeared on MSNBC Wednesday afternoon, a YouTube video appeared of their candid exchange in which they dismissed Sarah Palin’s viability as a VP pick. The speed at which the video appeared indicated that it almost certainly originated from someone inside MSNBC, another favor for the Democrats this election year. Joshua Micah Marshall’s blog Talking Points Memo and the blog of Michael Calderone of the Politico broke news of Noonan and Murphy’s comments. The exchange started as ...

Wednesday Dinnertime Open Thread
TalkLeft — Here's an open thread for all topics. And yes, we'll have another later for Gov. Sarah Palin's speech. The open mic fiasco, what some pundits, including Republicans, really think of Sarah Palin. TPM has the transcript. ...

An Open Mic Moment with the Conservative Punditry
The Democratic Daily — ... Those talking heads and guests will never learn… As Politico notes, “Noonan’s blunt call contrasted with her conflicted column today saying Palin “could become a transformative political presence.”" Josh Marshall has the whole transcript here. Ouch… And right before Palin’s big debut tonight. Tags: Columnist Peggy Noonan, Debut, Http Www Youtube, Josh Marshall, Journal Columnist, Nbc, Peggy Noonan, Political Presence, Punditry, ...

And the Beast Shall Eat Itself
Confederate Yankee — ... from an increasingly partisan MSNBC to liberal blog Talking Points Memo . With that leak, Noonan's credibility as a columnist was severely damaged if not destroyed, a fact she seems to realize even as she becomes the first casualty as a long held gentleman's agreement among journalists to overlook each others biases, faults, mistakes and lies has been ripped apart. The media now no longer looks after their own, and naked partisanship is now the order of the day. After being exposed, Noonan wrote that she was "mugged by the nature of modern media," which is both absolutely ...

those live microphones will get ya every time
BlondeSense — So, Chuck Todd, Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy were caught talking when they thought their mics were off . Here's the transcript of their exchange: Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we'll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We'll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she's the right woman for the job Up next, one man who's already convinced and he'll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman. (cut away) Peggy Noonan: Yeah. Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue ...

Tell Us What You REALLY Think
WTF Is It Now?!? — Via : TPM Political Bullshit Why are they so angry? I will be rolling on the floor laughing hysterically in a natty lite froth until further notice.

Hidden Dissent Over Palin in the GOP Ranks?
The Moderate Voice — ... usually cut to some sort of external panning shot, bring up some music and stay on that for an uncomfortably long time before actually cutting away. This habit wound up reaping some unexpected rewards recently, as NBC Political News Director Chuck Todd was interviewing a panel which included conservative columnist Peggy Noonan. During the panel discussion Noonan had some very complimetary things to say about Sarah Palin. During the cutaway scene, however, their mics were left open and Peggy’s tune changed a bit. ...

Ground Zero
Talking Points Memo — In case you're wondering, ground zero of the current round of Sarah Palin supplication is this article by Carl Cannon in AOL's Politics Daily, the upshot of which is that the true villain of the almost-year-long Sarah Palin train-wreck is the media itself, whose collective liberal bias led them to have it in for Palin from the beginning and strive from the beginning to take her down. How soon we forget how hard reporters worked at first at grading Palin on a curve and talking around her manifest disqualifications for high office. My only question on reading the piece is whether Cannon actually believes this malarkey or ...

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