The cluelessness of the GOP pundit class is infuriating but may ultimately be our salvation. Nothing they say about anything is ever right even accidentally.
This is making the TV news shows resemble Monty Pythons Upperclass Twit of the Year contest. The twits dont notice the starting gun run into one another fall down run themselves over with their own cars and then the remaining contestants all shoot themselves in the head.
Anyone who talks about politics on TV isnt going to win them all but when your horse takes a dump in every single race week after week why should we listen to you next time?
If you tuned into ABCS This Week the morning after Trumps tremendous victory in South Carolina youd find George Stephanopoulos promising analysis from a powerhouse roundtable by which I assume he was referring to the table itself.
He then turned to the sort of clueless morons who have gotten everything wrong for the past seven months so they could tell viewers whats next.
Ive picked these two Republican strategists at random for reasons of efficiency but it could have been any of the Karl Rove-Matthew Dowd-Steve Hayes-Hugh Hewitt-George Will-Rich Lowry dream team.
Prepare to be dazzled by the analysis!
Republican strategist Sara Fagen:
-- July 26 2015 NBCs Meet the Press: At the end of the day (Trump) is not going to be the Republican nominee.
-- Aug. 9 2015 ABCs This Week: Trump just feels like that summer fling in high school that your parents tell you not to do but you cant help yourself. But by the time we get back to school I think Donald is going to be fading well into the background of this race.
-- Sept. 13 2015 NBCs Meet the Press: Ultimately I believe a governor a Jeb Bush or a Chris Christie or someone is going to emerge.
-- Nov. 1 2015 ABCs This Week: Jeb has the most money. He has the most organization. He has the most endorsements and ... hes been through the fire before. And that is incredibly valuable in the long run. ... He will be able to weather this storm and I think hell be stronger for it when he does.
-- Jan. 3 2016 NBCs Meet the Press: As this field continues to narrow and its Donald Trump versus one or two other candidates thats when this race will really come into focus. ... After Iowa this thing is going to jumble again. ... Christie to me is one that I would watch.
If you cut out words from a magazine and randomly pasted them on a piece of paper you would produce a better analysis of what is happening in this election than anything said by Fagen.
Republican strategist Alex Castellanos:
-- Aug. 7 2015 CNNs Newsroom: The Megyn Kelly moment ... killed Trumps opportunity for growth. The fire that is Donald Trump is now contained. Its not going anywhere. He is not growing. He was just going to hang on to that white-hot core. His numbers may dip or rise a tiny bit. He is no longer a huge threat to dominate and control the Republican Party.
-- Aug. 17 2015 CNNs Anderson Cooper: In a general election though Trump is not going to be the nominee. When he leaves he will be defeated by an anti-Trump. So there will be a cleansing that will go on once he is knocked out of primaries.
-- Aug. 23 2015 NBCs Meet the Press: And Donald Trump -- who is not going to be the nominee ... Look the average winner of a Republican primary caucus I think first of all gets what? -- 40 41 percent. So Donald Trump is not going to grow to that.
-- Aug. 24 2015 CNNs Wolf: Frankly Jeb Bush has a majority Republican position on immigration on securing the border on not deporting four and a half million children who are U.S. citizens.
-- Aug. 26 2015 CNNs Newsroom: Trumps voters are not a majority in the Republican Party. This may be the summer of Trump but we vote in the winter.
-- Sept. 16 2015 CNNs New Day: Jeb is still a Bush. Hes still got 100 million bucks in the bank and TV. We are moving to a new phase of the campaign. Candidates are going to have TV ads now. So its not just news media with Trump and debates.
-- Dec. 6 2015 ABCs This Week: Its entirely possible that Donald Trump is the nominee. (By then Trump had spent five months at No. 1 in the polls and even CNN was calling him the undisputed leader of the Republican presidential pack.)
-- Dec. 6 2015 ABCs This Week: Marco Rubio is the future of the Republican Party a different Republican Party if theres a little shot that if this is a Trump-Rubio race we could see the beginning of a better Republican ... But its not about issues with Trump.
You will find the exact same idiocy on any other political program. For hours of fun take a week off call in sick and search Nexis for the words Republican strategist and Trump.
Chimps throwing darts at a dictionary would be right more often. Why are these people still allowed in the building? The FCC ought to force the TV networks into a massive settlement for promoting snake oil salesmen.
If I were a career counselor Id tell my students to become Republican strategists. You can be terrible at what you do -- and the phone will never stop ringing! In no other profession even fields that require a fair amount of speculation like oil wildcatting or weather forecasting can you be so consistently wrong and never lose work.
After Trumps huge victory in New Hampshire and then in South Carolina did it occur to TV bookers to call any of the people who got it right?
Alex Marlow editor in chief of Breitbart News explained everything that was about to happen in this race back on the Sept. 14 edition of CNNs Erin Burnett show.
While all the other strategists gibbered about Trump losing the Hispanic vote Marlow said: Trump is growing the big tent. ... Trumps policies are appealing to blacks. There are even some polls out there like a survey USA poll saying Trump is actually doing fine with Latinos.
In the Nevada primary on Tuesday Trump not only won the Hispanic vote; he not only won 17 points more of the Hispanic vote than his next closest rival; but his Latino vote nearly matched that of the two Latino candidates combined.
In one of the few times you might have heard this point expressed on television airwaves Marlow said that the No. 1 issue for Breitbart News 20 million readers has consistently been -- since last year -- immigration. They are looking for someone who is going to seal the border and prioritize border security as No. 1.
Obviously Marlow was right about everything. According to Nexis that was the last time he appeared on TV.
It would be as if after discovering America Christopher Columbus reported back to the King and Queen of Spain but the booker for Ferdinand and Isabella decided that instead of Columbus shed get the guy who never actually set sail for the New World because he was afraid hed fall off the edge of the Earth into a fiery pit.
Fantastic -- thats great. Youre going to be our go-to expert on the discovery of the New World. Can you be here early Sunday morning?
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
The cluelessness of the GOP pundit class is infuriating but may ultimately be our salvation. Nothing they say about anything is ever right even accidentally.
This is making the TV news shows resemble Monty Pythons Upperclass Twit of the Year contest. The twits dont notice the starting gun run into one another fall down run themselves over with their own cars and then the remaining contestants all shoot themselves in the head.
Anyone who talks about politics on TV isnt going to win them all but when your horse takes a dump in every single race week after week why should we listen to you next time?
If you tuned into ABCS This Week the morning after Trumps tremendous victory in South Carolina youd find George Stephanopoulos promising analysis from a powerhouse roundtable by which I assume he was referring to the table itself.
He then turned to the sort of clueless morons who have gotten everything wrong for the past seven months so they could tell viewers whats next.
Ive picked these two Republican strategists at random for reasons of efficiency but it could have been any of the Karl Rove-Matthew Dowd-Steve Hayes-Hugh Hewitt-George Will-Rich Lowry dream team.
Prepare to be dazzled by the analysis!
Republican strategist Sara Fagen:
-- July 26 2015 NBCs Meet the Press: At the end of the day (Trump) is not going to be the Republican nominee.
-- Aug. 9 2015 ABCs This Week: Trump just feels like that summer fling in high school that your parents tell you not to do but you cant help yourself. But by the time we get back to school I think Donald is going to be fading well into the background of this race.
-- Sept. 13 2015 NBCs Meet the Press: Ultimately I believe a governor a Jeb Bush or a Chris Christie or someone is going to emerge.
-- Nov. 1 2015 ABCs This Week: Jeb has the most money. He has the most organization. He has the most endorsements and ... hes been through the fire before. And that is incredibly valuable in the long run. ... He will be able to weather this storm and I think hell be stronger for it when he does.
-- Jan. 3 2016 NBCs Meet the Press: As this field continues to narrow and its Donald Trump versus one or two other candidates thats when this race will really come into focus. ... After Iowa this thing is going to jumble again. ... Christie to me is one that I would watch.
If you cut out words from a magazine and randomly pasted them on a piece of paper you would produce a better analysis of what is happening in this election than anything said by Fagen.
Republican strategist Alex Castellanos:
-- Aug. 7 2015 CNNs Newsroom: The Megyn Kelly moment ... killed Trumps opportunity for growth. The fire that is Donald Trump is now contained. Its not going anywhere. He is not growing. He was just going to hang on to that white-hot core. His numbers may dip or rise a tiny bit. He is no longer a huge threat to dominate and control the Republican Party.
-- Aug. 17 2015 CNNs Anderson Cooper: In a general election though Trump is not going to be the nominee. When he leaves he will be defeated by an anti-Trump. So there will be a cleansing that will go on once he is knocked out of primaries.
-- Aug. 23 2015 NBCs Meet the Press: And Donald Trump -- who is not going to be the nominee ... Look the average winner of a Republican primary caucus I think first of all gets what? -- 40 41 percent. So Donald Trump is not going to grow to that.
-- Aug. 24 2015 CNNs Wolf: Frankly Jeb Bush has a majority Republican position on immigration on securing the border on not deporting four and a half million children who are U.S. citizens.
-- Aug. 26 2015 CNNs Newsroom: Trumps voters are not a majority in the Republican Party. This may be the summer of Trump but we vote in the winter.
-- Sept. 16 2015 CNNs New Day: Jeb is still a Bush. Hes still got 100 million bucks in the bank and TV. We are moving to a new phase of the campaign. Candidates are going to have TV ads now. So its not just news media with Trump and debates.
-- Dec. 6 2015 ABCs This Week: Its entirely possible that Donald Trump is the nominee. (By then Trump had spent five months at No. 1 in the polls and even CNN was calling him the undisputed leader of the Republican presidential pack.)
-- Dec. 6 2015 ABCs This Week: Marco Rubio is the future of the Republican Party a different Republican Party if theres a little shot that if this is a Trump-Rubio race we could see the beginning of a better Republican ... But its not about issues with Trump.
You will find the exact same idiocy on any other political program. For hours of fun take a week off call in sick and search Nexis for the words Republican strategist and Trump.
Chimps throwing darts at a dictionary would be right more often. Why are these people still allowed in the building? The FCC ought to force the TV networks into a massive settlement for promoting snake oil salesmen.
If I were a career counselor Id tell my students to become Republican strategists. You can be terrible at what you do -- and the phone will never stop ringing! In no other profession even fields that require a fair amount of speculation like oil wildcatting or weather forecasting can you be so consistently wrong and never lose work.
After Trumps huge victory in New Hampshire and then in South Carolina did it occur to TV bookers to call any of the people who got it right?
Alex Marlow editor in chief of Breitbart News explained everything that was about to happen in this race back on the Sept. 14 edition of CNNs Erin Burnett show.
While all the other strategists gibbered about Trump losing the Hispanic vote Marlow said: Trump is growing the big tent. ... Trumps policies are appealing to blacks. There are even some polls out there like a survey USA poll saying Trump is actually doing fine with Latinos.
In the Nevada primary on Tuesday Trump not only won the Hispanic vote; he not only won 17 points more of the Hispanic vote than his next closest rival; but his Latino vote nearly matched that of the two Latino candidates combined.
In one of the few times you might have heard this point expressed on television airwaves Marlow said that the No. 1 issue for Breitbart News 20 million readers has consistently been -- since last year -- immigration. They are looking for someone who is going to seal the border and prioritize border security as No. 1.
Obviously Marlow was right about everything. According to Nexis that was the last time he appeared on TV.
It would be as if after discovering America Christopher Columbus reported back to the King and Queen of Spain but the booker for Ferdinand and Isabella decided that instead of Columbus shed get the guy who never actually set sail for the New World because he was afraid hed fall off the edge of the Earth into a fiery pit.
Fantastic -- thats great. Youre going to be our go-to expert on the discovery of the New World. Can you be here early Sunday morning?
Ann Coulter is a columnist and author of Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault On America.
