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Jeffrey Toobin is a disgrace...
The language Jeffrey Toobin was using tonight was appalling. Emotionally attacking Clinton with his name calling was sad and ridiculous. It was so below the message Obama was trying to speak to tonight. It's quite obvious that Toobin is an Obama supporter, but if he wants to support him maybe he should shut his mouth and get off of the television. He did Obama no favors with his vitriol and I wish Gergen, Brazille and Co would have smacked him down - you can tell Gergen was completely uncomfortable with his language, but Toobin didn't seem to get the hint or get the message from the Obama speech they all watched together a mere minutes earlier.
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What did he say?
June 3, 2008 11:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Huffington Post has a videoclip of it.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/03/jeffrey-toobin-clintons-r_n_105051.html
June 4, 2008 12:37 AM | Reply | Permalink
Who's Toobin? Never heard of him.
June 3, 2008 11:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
He was incredulous to her speech calling her ridiculous and narcissistic for giving the speech she did. I really can't do it justice writing about it. You could see Brazille cringe and Gergen panic when he said it.
Jeffrey Toobin is the CNN legal analysis who I guess was moonlighting as a political pundit.
June 3, 2008 11:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for explaining. You're right--extremists with nasty screeds do nobody any good.
June 3, 2008 11:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gergen visibly shivered when Toobin called Hillary a deranged narcissist. And then Gergen went on to criticize her in more staid, formal terms. Yeah, Toobin was clearly impatient with Hillary -- he seemed, well, like a blogger with a good haircut and suit and less like a phoney talking head.
June 3, 2008 11:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good for him! Somebody needs to give a contra message to bloody Blitzer's.
And Toobin can say whatever he wants - he's in no way representative of Obama's campaign.
June 3, 2008 11:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Have you been listening to Wolf Blitzer these many months. he has practically been her campaign manager. Toobin said what many of us felt. Has Hillary not seen the delegate count. It's over! Barack has won the nomination. She was still campaigning and taking her plan to extort the vice-presidency to the next level. Sure she needs time, but she was disrespectful. Enough of this ignoring bad behavior. Toobin deserves a medal!
And that asinine Blitzer is still trumpeting Hillary's trumped up popular vote BS.
June 3, 2008 11:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bussta - Blitzer has definitely gone straight down the tubes...
June 4, 2008 12:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
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