No Labels: Liberalism Without Labels

[Geee]

Human Events:


Sunday on Meet The Press, three members of the No Labels stable -- Newark Mayor Cory Booker, Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and media strategist Mark McKinnon, donning a wimpy and emasculating scarf that perhaps symbolized the No Labels group -- continued their week-long public relations campaign touting their newly formed political group.

On Meet The Press, McKinnon proclaimed that the group had success in its very first week of existence because “we brought together the harsh partisans on the left and the harsh partisans on the right” in attacking No Labels.

Perhaps the trio should have instead gone on CNN, because No Labels, which purportedly was formed to “overthrow the tyranny of hyper-partisanship that dominates our political culture today” seems to be adopting CNN’s failed prime-time strategy of elitism under the guise of non-partisanship that tries to be a bit of everything to everyone while standing for nothing.

No Labels, a bi-partisan group formed by veteran self-serving and self-interested political operatives such as Mark Penn, who did not even know how Democratic primary delegates were apportioned in 2008, and David Frum, whose advice to the GOP is often ignored because it would lead to catastrophic failure, launched last week with much fanfare in the elite, mainstream media along the New York-Washington, D.C. corridor.

As McKinnon alluded to, though, the group was also just as quickly panned from across the political spectrum. Liberal New York Times columnist Frank Rich called the group “childish.” Conservative columnist George Will called the group “preposterous.”

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I appreciate that they have identified themselves as commentators, advisers and prognosticators to safely ignore.

[AceRimmer]

I appreciate that they have identified themselves as commentators, advisers and prognosticators to safely ignore.

 

You really have to admire the stupidity of people who think they know more than those of us in flyover country just because they're on the DC and/or NYC cocktail circuit. They're so self-centered in their ignorance of the attitude of the rest of the country, they might as well hold their own version of the Oscars so they can advertise to the rest of us how high and mighty they are compared to us peasants.

 

"And the winner of Most Politically Obnoxious Statement is..." (Bawney Fwank gets the lifetime achievment award for this category)