
Jumping on the Luke Russert bro-wagon (and who wouldn’t want to Be Like Luke with the undeserved position in life and bitchin’ Washington Nationals season tix?) the Daily Win The Morning warns of possible bad ju-ju if the Democrats shove Mao’s Mistress, Elizabeth Warren, down America’s throat:
Elizabeth Warren’s prime-time speaking slot at the Democratic National Convention is a high-reward move for the Massachusetts Senate candidate.
But Republicans, and some Democrats, think it also is a high-risk gamble for President Barack Obama, whose opponents have spent a year defining him as anti-business — culminating in a now infamous line from a speech he gave that was similar to Warren’s messaging on the economy, the “you didn’t built that” riff.
Warren has “that one elusive quality that we all want in our leaders, but can’t ever seem to get — freshness. Few people can combine newness with competence — Palin demonstrates the obvious pitfall — but she’s one of them. That was obviously a big part of Obama’s allure in 2008,” said former Democratic Governors Association executive director Nathan Daschle.
“At the same time, her anti-Wall Street message is powerful but limiting. As Obama learned, what works in Massachusetts isn’t necessarily what will work nationally,” he added.
“Most Americans are optimists, not pessimists. They don’t see themselves as victims. They see themselves as upwardly mobile, and that’s the product of their own sweat and labor. They work so hard to provide for their families that they naturally resent anyone they perceive as taking credit away. What they hear is ‘You didn’t work hard enough to deserve what you have.’”
The Founder and Chief Executive Ruck.us Bringer is Nathan Daschle. Nathan is a reformed lawyer and political operative. From 2007-2010, he served as the Executive Director of the Democratic Governors Association. During this time, Democratic Governors and candidates suffered historic losses, particularly in key battleground states. Nathan hasn’t slept a full night since. Scarred by this experience, Nathan now dreams of a day when people can shed their partisan labels and organize freely around the issues they care about most
Resume fail.
Needless to say, Lil Luke finds the Politico article life-affirming*:
Woo! Validation! High five! Maybe Luke and Nathan can hit a Nats game soon; pound down some brews, become bestie bros.
That would be super awesome.
* The reference to the Cambridge Coffee shop crowd is directed at Charlie Pierce who inflicted major butthurt to Lil Luke and now there isn’t enough Bactine in the world to make that pain go away.





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Russert speaks. TBogg responds (click the link, people).
My keyboard covered in coffee.
I’ll send you the bill, T.
“Reformed lawyer”? “Cambridge Coffee shop crowd”? What the fuck are these people talking about?
At least when teenagers use their insider catchphrases, I can look them up on Urban Dictionary.
Warren comes across as a normal human, with an understanding of exactly which group of corporate titans gave the US (and by contagion, the world) the royal rogering that crashed the economic sphere, and she does it in an easily understandable fashion. No wonder they are piddling their drawers at the thought that she’ll have a high visibility speaking slot at the convention. Warms my heart, it does.
More to the point, who CARES what the fuck these people are talking about? It invariably hasn’t occurred to Nat and Luke that most Americans are going to be working–or looking for work so they can collect unemployment, or vegging out after leaving work, while this shindig is going on.
{Legacy Luke}
Dauphin of Derp sounds kinda cool, dude, but I think Porpoise with Purpose would sound way cooler. Porpoises are awesome.
/{Legacy Luke}
Warren believes in tranparency, punishing fraud and reining in predatory lenders. So, she’s “anti Wall Street.”
Nate and Luke: The new breed of Beltway Asshole, same as the old.
Not to mention that Warren fires up the Democratic base and isn’t that at least partly what the Democratic Convention is about?
But nice to see that the Legacy Hires are just so very, very concerned that the Dems will just totally step in it.
Cambridge Coffee shop crowd.
Just goes to show you that it’s the twats from Boston College who are the bitchiest.
So Young Nathan opines:
Really, is that really what They hear? Which They are we talking about, Nate?
If I get that right, he seems to believe that Warren calling out the 1% for their criminal conduct is somehow going to make a whole Party’s worth of Voter-Americans think she’s either talking about them or dissing them.
Sure, we all like to think of ourselves as “middle” (as opposed to working) class, but I don’t think we’re as self-deluded as Nate thinks we are.
“More midwestern”. Huh. Can’t beat Pierce or certain commenters on that one, but…still…does lil Luke think Prof Warren was BORN at Harvard?
Apparently he and OK Sen. Boren have utterly forgotten she was born and raised in….OKLAHOMA!!
(why yes, I was shouting. Don’t you think it’s appropriate sometimes?)
Ok, so…another legacy hire agrees with Lil’ Pumpkinhead, which means Lil’ Pumpkinhead’s premise is right on target and he’s in touch with all those hardworking folks who didn’t get appointed to plum positions because of their parents?
As for “Most Americans are optimists, not pessimists. They don’t see themselves as victims. They see themselves as upwardly mobile, and that’s the product of their own sweat and labor. They work so hard to provide for their families that they naturally resent anyone they perceive as taking credit away. What they hear is ‘You didn’t work hard enough to deserve what you have,’” someone should point out to both young Master Daschle and Lil’ Pumpkinhead that just because everyone points out, quite accurately, that they didn’t work at all to deserve what they have, it doesn’t mean that the rest of us hear that when Warren or others correctly state that Wall Street is a big fucking casino in which the players are paid huge sums of cash for creating nothing of value while gambling with the lives and fortunes of the rest of us. I’m pretty sure the millions of people who lost homes and jobs as a result of the high-spirited hijinx on Wall Street absolutely do, correctly, see themselves as victims. As for the twaddle about how we all see ourselves as “upwardly mobile,” how many people do you personally know who see themselves this way, rather than as trying to hang on for dear life, despite working harder and longer hours, after the repeated financial insults of the past decade?
Methinks someone’s never had to worry about making the bills if they truly think the rank-and-file believe this about themselves.
a reformed lawyer and political operative
I think that’s called “recidivism”
I like buffets.
In related news, Veruca Salt deserved that chocolate factory!
Also – I’m working on crafting the appropriate response to a tentative federal offer of employment. As TBogg and Mrs. TBogg can understand, this must involve Arthur’s residence. Iz NO EASY THING here.
Legacy brats strive for relevance, but much like Willard in London, their only achievement is demonstrating how they’re Legacy Twits.
Li’l Luke must do a google search on himself every morning. I wonder if he had to ask mommy who Charlie Pierce was or has mommy washed her hands clean of her progeny’s stupidity.
Okay, those last few sentences were not in the original post. If they were, I would have written something to the effect of a battle of wits between Pierce and Lil Lukey is akin to Brady vs. Tebow.
I dare anyone to come up with a more apt comparison.
Little Luke is just a younger version of Howard Kurtz and most of the other corporate shills. Yes, the legacy nepotism continues of reporters who do not report anything. For instance Tim Russert never reported anything or discovered anything.
Little Luke Russert has failed in his brief career as a Dee Cee journalist, but he has succeeded as a Dee Cee apologist. But has he had any “Scoops”. Not only has TBogg has had more scoops than Little Luke. I have had more scoops than this worthless pretend journalist.
Dearest Nate and Luke (aka Poor Poor Pumpkinhead, Jr.):
Whenever or wherever you may hear ‘You didn’t work hard enough to deserve what you have’, we are all talking about you. Rest assured.
~ Harry R. Sohl
You beat me to it on two levels – even “pumpkinhead!” Arrgh!
I especially enjoyed this from Sir Charles disemboweling of Luke:
Heath Shuler, who is most famous for finding ways of throwing the ball to the wrong team in both of his public careers
Mmmm Mmmmm good.
I’ve seen Mr Pierce in Harvard Square once or twice but, if memory serves, he lives closer to L’il Luke’s alma mater, Boston College, than he does to Cambridge’s coffee shops.
Since nobody has pointed this out yet: Maggie Haberman is the daughter of Clyde Haberman, a New York Times reporter who was once fired for inserting a false story into the paper.
(Gay Talese discussed it in The Power And The Glory. The Times eventually decided to hire Haberman back; it was a prank that nobody would even detect now.)
Haberman is quoting Nathan Daschle, the son of Big Phrama lobbyist Tom Daschle (who was Senate Majority Leader in his spare time). They’re both echoing something by Luke Russert, Tim’s idiot son.
Can’t imagine why they’re worried about class warfare.
You’d think someone would know better than to put this in a self-written document of any kind. On the other hand, if somebody’s failures at political prognostication were held against them in the Village Bill Kristol would be selling pencils on a street corner.
Actually it looks like Nathan Daschle is developing exactly the skill set and outlook required to be taken as a Very Serious Person.
Mr. Bogg: From whence do you manifest the temerity to utter such an indecorous remark about the estimable Legacy Lil Luke, Television Infotainer Extraordinaire? And speaking of indecorous:
Hahahahahah!!!!
Now, if you’ll please afford me a moment to regain my composure.
MSNBC reportedly hired Legacy Luke to report on the “youth vote.”
Apparently he can empathise with the millions of recent college grads who won’t be working their way up the corporate ladder to eventually get a plum, high-paying job, where they won’t need a fat paycheck to pay off the huge amount of student aid debt they didn’t run up at a premier private university.
Man o the people, that fucker. Worse than his old man.
Yep, that sounds about right. Or to put things in shorter form, Luke’s message to young Americans* is as follows:
*Based on questionable presumption that young people are even aware of his existence, let alone listening to him.
“Most Americans are optimists, not pessimists. They don’t see themselves as victims. They see themselves as upwardly mobile, and that’s the product of their own sweat and labor.”
Nobody believes that anymore. Reagan left office in 1989. Way to stay on top of the zeitgeist, guy.
Kids these days, what with their i-Phone, hippity-hop music and sagging pants…
Get off my fucking lawn, Luke Russert!
O-K-L-A-HOMA OKLAHOMA! OK!
Why, Luke has no idea why he got that internship and you didn’t, dontcha know?
~ Harry R. Sohl
Luke has no idea why he didn’t get the moderator gig on Meet The Press.
Just another set of legacy-hire trustafarians who are in dire need of a swift kick in their egoes.