Roland Martin of CNN took the fight to Sarah Palin in our interview with him at the RNC. As you can tell, he was not playing around:
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1. Well i watched the whole thing, gave it a lot of thought and was left with one burning question:
Are those Regular or Low Fat Pringles on the desk?
bob at 6:14PM on Sep 5th 2008
2. Any wonder CNN is such a joke? This is a "reporter?" Kiss my white a*s! Obama is a crack smoking whore!
Tim at 11:26PM on Sep 5th 2008
3. Well, that blows the hell out of the objectivity that was rumored to be held by the press. But then CNN paid Saddam for access, PMSNBC has Chris Matthews and Keith Olberman as attack squirrels, Andrea Mitchell is more biased than a 1940's tire and I have to try and believe the fairy tale they are objective? (Insert expletive of choice here) I'm not deaf, dumb and blind, so go peddle that stuff at an Obama rally where they are deaf, dumb and blind to any "bias".
Dedmanrisn at 6:47PM on Sep 5th 2008
4. Who is Roland Martin? I listened to a minute or so of this guy's semi-coherent rambling and I couldn't take it anymore. And why does this guy sound so mad when he's supposed to be a journalist impartially reporting the news?
It's because the media has a dog in this hunt, but the dog is about to be eaten by a barracuda. And all of the swooning Obama acolytes, including those in the media, like Roland Martin, aren't taking it particularly well. That's why this man is throwing a fit.
Dave at 7:03PM on Sep 5th 2008
5. To begin with, if the girl had practiced abstenence, which Palin advocates, she would have NOT been impregnated. It's impossible. No one knows if she may have been practicing 'Safe Sex' and it is not a 100% effective. Condoms fail, the pill is only around 94% effective, etc. According to your theory, if Obama's daughters were older and had been impregnated the Republicans would have used it politically against him. The difference is, we would have not even known as the Obama's would have surely terminated the baby's life. There is no way that killing an innocent human life can be justified. Abortion has become the sacriment for liberalism. It is there deep conviction that a woman has the right and the obligation to kill that human life if she so pleases. ITS WRONG AMERICA. WAKE UP. A woman has the right to choose, abstenence or sex, not killing the consequences of a wrong choice.
kevin h. at 7:15PM on Sep 5th 2008
6. A thirteen minute interview with this guy from CNN & only one topic centered on Palin, that being the pregnancy of her daughter.
Article reads: "Roland Martin of CNN goes off on Sarah Palin".
Something got you worried Cenk?
Bobby at 7:13PM on Sep 5th 2008
7. What a surprise, the Clinton News Network (aka CNN) is attacking a Republican candidate and giving the Democatic America hating candidate a pass. Now that is true old fashion biased reporting at its finest.And please explain to me how a community organizer can afford a multi-million dollar home. Oh that's right Barrack Housain Obama wants change. I disagree, he only wants the folding stuff, just ask is half-brother.
ajalfaro at 7:24PM on Sep 5th 2008
8. Stenk: Wow! Every time you write or say ANYTHING your rabid liberal bullsnot gushes out. Scab, you gotta get back in your toilet and flush before you dry all up. You are embarrasing yourself as usual. --
NOBAMA 08
Obama Sucks at 7:54PM on Sep 5th 2008
9. Obama and his wife are not fit to be parents, let alone for him to be President. Which parent will take care of the children? When will they start to do so? Children need guidance and care that at least one parent should give them. When will Obama be there to give love to his children? Since neither Obama nor his wife are prepared to take proper home time responsibility for their own family, he is unfit to take responsibility for America.
Robert OKane at 8:13PM on Sep 5th 2008
10. how the hell this guy get a job at cnn? Cenk and Roland cant even use proper english! It is a joke they really believe what they say its insane!!
bob at 9:36PM on Sep 5th 2008
11. Robert OKane: Now where did you get the information that the Obama's are not fit to be parents ????????? From the Faux News ????????? You like Sarah Palin who only wants abstinence - guess her prechings did not reach her daughter's ears !!!!! Amazing you pathetic neo cons can't even practice what you preach. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Hope at 9:50PM on Sep 5th 2008
12. Does anyone really listen to Roland and his babbling?! It is reporters like this and the other CNN reporters that make it impossible to watch the News.
Bob at 9:52PM on Sep 5th 2008
13. Roland refers to "lilies", you think he's talking about flowers? OMG, not a black, unbiased journalist uttering a code word for "Whitey?" Say it ain't so Cenk!
This wasn't about Palin, it was about her daughter, but it seems that the left is all for giving advice on how to abort a child than they are on how to raise them and how Palin will cope when other career women have special needs children and work so they can have the insurance coverage to go with their love for their child or does that just happen in the movies?
If Obama is so damned "intellegent". where is a record of it? Harvard Law Review articles by Obama? Peer reviews of Obama's work? Legislation sponsored by him and passed? Illinois has a higher murder rate than Iraq..where's Obama? His vaunted US Senate career of which two years have been on the campaign trail? His grassroots organizational work was for ACORN, a get out the dead, illegal, missing voter registration organization? Oh yes, by all liberal standards he is overqualified, make him king of the world and be done with it! but please don't insult my intelligence by trying to say that because he is so "intelligent", that he really doesn't have to have any experience running anything to satisfy the liberal Dems. I may remind you that there are democrats that aren't part of Kos or favor abortion, that want family values, own guns and go to church that can see in Palin what they see in themselves. Hispanics hold a lot of those ideals and McCain is getting more support from them than is Obama.
I hear bitching about "troopergate". Palin told that ass what that trooper had done and was doing, but that good old boy network in police forces looked the other way and got his ass fired for not doing his job. I guess Palin should have waited to see he shot her sister, brother-in-law and kids then himself before she should have thought about removing him! He tazes a 10 yr. old and the party that will remove a child from your custody for spanking it thinks nothing of the trooper's behavior. If he worked in Hollywood or Brentwood and did that to a movie star, hiss ass would be gone so quick there woulkd be a sonic boom from air filling the void.
You want to criticize, then lay out why you have a bitch, then defend the point without throwing in your morality or your personal beliefs. The media can't do it, and aren't they smart? If I remember, it was the "best and brightest" in the WH advisors, particularly McNamara that got us into Vietnam and kept us there until LBJ, who had a lot of experience in the WH, gave up in 1968 and wouldn't run again. Nixon was intelligent, probably as smart as Obama, but he had that character flaw of not trusting those who were against him and listening to the likes of Dean, Coulton and the rest of the Watergate bunch, that it brought him down even though he had won in a land slide. That's human error that shamed him, doomed Ford and got us Carter. Debate the issues, but just the issues and leave out the opinion section. That you can get in the paper, with bias.
Dedmanrisn at 10:04PM on Sep 5th 2008
14. Amazing you pathetic neo cons can't even practice what you preach. HA! HA! HA! HA! HA!
Hope at 9:50PM on Sep 5th 2008
Hope, I'll tell you what's absolutely amazing...
This off Liza Viana's blog:
>>>Three major advocates of abortion rights are planning to spend nearly $30 million to defeat John McCain's run for president, citing his new running mate as the core reason, The Hill reports.
NARAL Pro-Choice America, Planned Parenthood and EMILY's List plan to spend $30 million, combined, to defeat McCain's presidential run, citing his anti-abortion running mate as the main reason.>>>
Hope, since you're in the mood to be throwing the words "pathetic neocons" around, what does it say when your side feels so damned threatened by people protecting life that you've got to actually spend THIRTY MILLION BUCKS in order to protect your sadistic viewpoints?
Whether you agree with the issue or not, as I stated in the last bullshit blog Cenk put up, if the left can't truly find something wrong they always have the abortion trick in their bag.
Man, what a cause to be proud of as your soul identity in life, opposing life.....
Bobby at 10:20PM on Sep 5th 2008
15. Come on you guys... it's a virgin pregnancy, just like in the Bible. There was no Bristol humping, that's a dem myth.
Of course God, in his wisdom, would make the dna test the 'father's', HE can do anything!
not-pboyfloyd at 10:20PM on Sep 5th 2008