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When you think of Neil Cavuto, for those who know him in any way, several things surely come to mind. Unless you are in a certain small, frothing sect, those words likely include “intelligent” and gentleman”.
When you think of what Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs calls “the professional Left”, you probably think what Gibbs implied when saying that: intemperate. The more seasoned political campaigners among you might even come up with “unhinged”.
So it is that the professional Left are calling Neil Cavuto a ‘moron.’ [UPDATE: See my Reply to a comment, below. It is very possible only the MM fan passing it along changed the title from Cavuto to Morons. The rest stands with that amended context. If I did read it right and MM changed it upon reflection, good for them. If I misread and transferred the email title to a similar but different post title, I apologize to MM for that. This instance may solely be fans of the professional Left, and not the PL, proper].
Now, remember, these same people insist that Christine O’Donnell and most anyone associated in any way with the Tea Party or its sentiments are too nutty and/or dumb to come near elective office, meanwhile embracing any candidate who will agree with them that your car is a weather machine.
These are people who revere Al Gore as a visionary sage and genius. They are convinced the smartest man to occupy the Oval Office is someone who also says — serially — that carbon dioxide “poisons the water we drink.” (Who shall be the one to tell him about Perrier?)
In an email sent to me by someone I do not know, that these deep thinkers, I see that the kidz over at Media Matters [UPDATE: or just one of their readers, per above/below], are in a lather because, on a Cavuto hit I did yesterday, en route from the Milwaukee airport to a talk at Marquette University and while discussing the Left’s precious GM bailout — and the Volt, one of two principal reasons for that (the other being paying off one of the unions helping them push ‘green’ central planning with ownership disproportionate to its claims of, er, the means of production) — Neil began joking about in the future worrying whether someone remembered to plug the car in.
As the basis for their rant, [Media Matters] does not say that Neil claimed the Volt is a plug-in car (he didn’t), but only go so far as to say he ‘suggested’ that. And that’s apparently sufficient for them to act-out (and post!) a tantrum, reminding us yet again who they really are. I am the other ‘moron’ referred to, it seems, though on the basis of my not hiding my contempt for their agenda. Not because I said the Volt was a plug-in, either (I didn’t), though I did reply, after noting that while that isn’t the issue here, in making that joke about plug-ins he did raise a good, other issue.
They don’t like us talking about the good issues their agenda raises. This is what ticked them off (other than that people like Cavuto, and occasionally me, have platforms). Noting the inanity of the Left’s parallel campaign, in the name of the same agenda that compels the taxpayer to underwrite curbside baubles for poseur middle class America like the Volt, to move America’s transport sector onto the electrical grid, against which they are also waging war.
If you are very earnest, however, and spend your day transcribing televisions shows, this is cause for outrage and spasms.
Go ahead. Watch. And each time the Left flips out — I know, I know, how can you tell? — recall their trademark lack of measure or perspective. Which, I recall, was what a famous DNC memo warned about Al Gore.
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Oldefarte| 11.18.10 @ 2:55PM
When thinking of Al THE SEX POODLE Gore and the other liberal SERIOUS INTELLECTUAL children's actions/statements, I'm reminded of a true situation involving a southern high school meeting of recently integrated school officials where a former student [then successful writer] approached a black woman and inquired OH, AND WHAT DO YOU DO, whereupon the woman responded I TEACHES ENGLISH [true story]!!!!!
DRed| 11.18.10 @ 3:19PM
Who called Cavuto a 'moron'? The media matters article you link to doesn't. Not sure what you're flipping out about.
As the basis for their rant, Media Matters does not say that Neil claimed the Volt is a plug-in car (he didn't), but only go so far as to say he 'suggested' that.
CAVUTO: Well, I always look at this as, any car you have to plug in is risky, because I could just picture couples -- I don't mean to be, you know, saying that this is something that could lead to divorce -- but could you imagine, they get up in the morning, "I thought you plugged it in honey." "No, I thought you plugged it in, honey." I mean, that's a disaster in the making.
Do you not expect people to read the things you link to?
Eric Cartman| 11.18.10 @ 3:33PM
Does the volt come with a plug?
Chris Horner| 11.18.10 @ 3:37PM
Yep. It reads that way. It is entirely possible it always said that, and that when opening the email from a meadhre_salsassar titled instead "Morons mock a car they don't understand" I simply *thought* I read the same in the MM title when I also opened the link. Don't know, didn't screen shot it from my blackberry walking to my car in the lot, and can't go back and check. So I'll just say the error was mine, attributing meadhre salassar's ad hom to Media Matters, with apologies to Media Matters.
Eric Cartman| 11.18.10 @ 3:40PM
Does Media Mutters often leave the impression that Conservatives are morons? Is one allowed to infer (read between the lines) when one reads? What does George Soros think? Can I ask Media Mutters?
Negro X| 11.18.10 @ 5:03PM
If Cavuto is a moron then obama is a f**king retard.
bobmntgomery| 11.18.10 @ 5:04PM
The List has spent two years calling multimillionaire and Death Panels slayer Sarah Palin a moron.MM. , Huffpo and all the rest spent eight years calling GW Bush a moron. GW Bush lacked so much gravitas that Maureen Dowd had to go into therapy. Moron Christine O'Donnell correctly knows the Five Freedoms of the First Amendment that Chris Coons and probably 95 other Senators know zilch about. You know who morons are? Morons are a whole bunch of people on bothsides of the aisle who don't understand that a whole bunch of people are tired of being called morons. Morons are the Nobel Prize Committee. The Pulitzer Committee. The American Society of Newspaper Editors. The faculty, staff and administration of the Columbia School of Journalism. Sorry, we're getting on a little roll here.
Saint| 11.18.10 @ 5:20PM
Huh? Somebody should explain to Media Matters that GM certainly thinks the Volt's a plug-in. Here's what the good folks over at Chevy have to say about it: "Just plug it in to charge the battery, and most people can commute gas-free and tailpipe emissions-free for about $1.50 of electricity per day." Sounds like a plug-in to me (with a gasoline engine to extend range).
Pete| 11.18.10 @ 5:49PM
"your car is a weather machine." Now THAT is good stuff.