Tamron Hall Puts Kibosh on Ranting Repug

MSNBC Host Tamron Hall invited Washington Examiner Columnist Tim Carney onto her show to talk about the disturbing allegations that Mitt Romney bullied and attacked a gay student with scissors while attending Michigan's posh Cranbrook School in the 1960s. Details were published in the Washington Post yesterday.

A heated brouhaha ensued when Carney attacked Hall and the rest of the "tricky media" for creating "meta" instead of news.



What you're doing here is a typical media trick. You hype up a story and then you justify the second-day coverage of the story by saying, oh, well people are talking about it.
. . . You are bringing up a meta story here, which is what is Romney’s response to this other nonstory? I’m trying to go ‘meta meta’ on you and say here’s the media treatment of the Romney response.
~ Tim Carney, Conservative Washington Examiner Columnist, to Tamron Hall of MSNBC, quoted via The Daily Caller.

Hang on, because you’re kind of in my house here. The problem is this: The story is out there. You’re right. I am not saying that we should belabor what happened 50 years ago. We’re talking about the response by the campaign and by the governor. Not just on this issue. . . . You're not gonna come on and insult me, you're not gonna come on and insult the network when you knew what we were gonna talk about . . . Done.
~ Tamron Hall, before pulling the plug on the microphone of Tim Carney, quoted on Huffington Post

Wait, @tamronhall cut off my mic? Seriously? RT @sandraDXB: @TPCarney ...it's funny, cus, you were on mute.....yeah#tamron

— Timothy P Carney (@TPCarney) May 11, 2012

So that's the first time a TV host cut off my mic. Best part: when she put me back on camera at the end to yell at me while I had a dead mic

— Timothy P Carney (@TPCarney) May 11, 2012

Welcome to all my new followers. Thankfully, Tamron can't shut down my Twitter feed like she cut off my mic.

— Timothy P Carney (@TPCarney) May 11, 2012

I'd shout, too, if every conservative guest I had on my (non-existent) show spent the entire time complaining about how my questions were just a liberal plot against the USA.
~ comment by Andrea Dickson on Atlantic

He refused to go beyond his talking points and Tamron called him on it...FANTASTIC! It may be uncomfortable to watch, but it's time that we expect more from the candidate's surrogates. He did NOT answer the question, but did the usual deflect and come back around to attack the person asking the question. I guess he hit the "lame stream" media when it wasn't so lame...it fought back.
~ comment by Missouri Moderate on Huff Post

Tamron Hall needs to be moderating the presidential debates.
~ comment by simsum

Wow. A journalist actually asking questions and demanding they be answered. Imagine that!!
~ comment by Re-thinkit

This twit wasn't smart enough to know that she would get a dissenting opinion? That's what's called "losing one's cool." If she's lucky, on the way down the drain, maybe she'll snag a job at "Current TV."
~ comment by Realist4U on Daily Caller

He knew what the questions were in advance and tried to change the subject. She gave him a good old all American ass-whoopin. Plus, she's hot as hell:-)
~ comment by AssWhooped on Daily Caller, in response to Realist4U

Typical token BLACK journalist! If it weren't Obama as President, Tamron Hall won't even be in local news reporting.
~ comment by racist named W. javier on Daily Caller

Tim Carney's two-day theory on media coverage could pass muster *if* he resists two days of discussing what happened on MSNBC

— Patrick W. Gavin (@pwgavin) May 11, 2012

Poor Republicans getting their panties in a bunch because badass Tamron Hall refused to be bullied by Romney's b**ch Tim Carney. Crybabies!

— Lord of the Sith (@Vadersleash) May 11, 2012

Well, he was already trying to go meta meta, so cutting off his mic forces him to step up his game and go meta meta meta. :-)
~ comment by quillsinister on Daily Kos

TAMRON [tam•ron] verb. To unquestionably snatch control of a situation.
~ comment by Daryl Champion on ThinkProgress

Next up: a concerted snivel fest from Fox, Limbaugh, etc about "mean" "liberal" Tamron, complete with racist and misogynistic attacks on the various comments pages. Hang tough, Tamron, you did a great job today and you have nothing to back down from.
~ comment by Michael Tuck on Think Progress

Tamron Hall is a BEAST. That smackdown was golden!
~ comment by nekola413 on TP

Conservative Women Rush to be Rush Babes

Rush Babes for America (a.k.a. The National Organization for Rush Babes) is a Facebook Page dedicated to the millions of conservative women who know what they believe in: family, American Values, and not being told by Faux Feminist Groups how to think.

If you want to be a Rush Babe, join us by pressing the "Like" button on the top right of this page!

~ From Rush Limbaugh's New Facebook Group Rush Babes for America
 

“I happen to know the women in this audience in total number dwarf the membership of the National Organization for Women, and yet there they are teaming up with Media Matters, a combined program designed to convince everybody I should be taken off the air. Well, what about the women who listen to this program? What about the women who like this program? What about the women who believe in this program? What about the women who agree with the political concepts, the values, the objectives as stated by your host on this program? What of them, what of all of you women who seemingly don’t exist to the media, to the National Organization for Women. There are many, many more of you than there are of them. And Rush Babes for America at Facebook is where you go to be officially counted and tabulated and to make a difference.” 

~ Rush Limbaugh quoted by Inquisitr.com

“I don’t think conservative women want to associate themselves with his hate. I don’t think they would want to associate themselves with his bullying. I don’t think conservative women would want to associate themselves with his vitriolic attacks.
~ NOW president Terry O’Neill quoted Here

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh’s latest jab at the National Organization for Women has attracted more Facebook “likes” in 24 hours than NOW’s main page has collected in a little under four years.
~ The Daily Caller

Rush Babes for Rude Dudes! Come forward all you self-loathing women!
~ comment by JVG on Slate

"Unleash the Rush Babes"
~ Headline on ABC News

No doubt the group name he originally wanted to use was "Rush Babes Gone Wild" but the lawyers told him he'd have trademark problems.
~ comment by Take Cover on Slate

 Cripes. Talk about trying to put out a fire by pouring kerosene on it. 
~ comment by missroserose on Slate

 Limbaugh has labeled dozens of women "babe," ranging from Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan ("this babe is hot for socialism") to numerous female reporters and TV news anchors to the women who accused former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment ("sexual harassment babes"). His kneejerk use of the "babe" label led to Limbaugh making a fool of himself in 2010 when he called male Salon.com reporter Sasha Abramsky a "stupid babe."
~ Media Matters for America - link includes a list of 61 women labeled "babe" by Rush Limbaugh

That bumper sticker of his?  Reminds me of the mudflaps on 18-wheelers.
~ Linda Carbonell on LezGetReal Blog