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Dick Morris: Biden ran for president "because of a menopausal midlife crisis"

August 27, 2008 10:12 pm ET

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During the August 27 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, host Bill O'Reilly asked whether Sen. Barack Obama will "have to say" why he didn't choose Sen. Hillary Clinton as his running mate. Fox News contributor Dick Morris responded, "No. He'll just talk about what a wonderful guy Biden is. But when you think about it, who's Joe Biden? He ran 20 years ago for president. He only got into the race this time because of a menopausal midlife crisis. He was leaving the Senate, and he figured, 'I'll just do one more shot and run for president before I fade from the scene.' He was retiring."

From the August 27 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

O'REILLY: Now, Obama has never said, never, why Hillary Clinton didn't get it. Will he have to say that to win the election?

MORRIS: No. He'll just talk about what a wonderful guy Biden is. But when you think about it, who's Joe Biden? He ran 20 years ago for president. He only got into the race this time because of a menopausal midlife crisis.

He was leaving the Senate, and he figured, "I'll just do one more shot and run for president before I fade from the scene." He was retiring. And the fact that he passed over Hillary and went to Biden -- he'll never explain it, but it will dog him for the whole campaign.

O'REILLY: It's interesting that the press won't -- I mean, if I asked Barack Obama, I would ask him that.

MORRIS: Yeah.

O'REILLY: But the rest of the press won't.

MORRIS: They won't.

O'REILLY: Why?

MORRIS: And -- well, because they're, well, first they're trying to be nice to Obama. And secondly, they'll get an answer of -- well, why won't they ask it? Because they're in that tank.

O'REILLY: OK.

MORRIS: If they did ask it, he would do double-talk about how wonderful Biden is.

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    • Author by DAWUSS (August 27, 2008 10:30 pm ET)
         

      "menopausal midlife crisis"???

      Are oh eff el em bee oh eff eff

       

      But at least his statement that follows may have some merit, but I think the focus is on the great entertainment provided by the "MP ML crisis".

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      • Author by eweston8542983 (August 27, 2008 10:33 pm ET)
           
        But LSMFT!!!
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        • Author by neon desert (August 28, 2008 12:48 am ET)
             

          Let's Suck More Female Toes?

          Huh? 

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          • Author by princeofwheels (August 28, 2008 10:44 am ET)
               

            Dick Morris...you are always looking for a cute sound bite............ well heire is one for you...MY BIG TOE. Get real, you were washed up a long time ago. Without Seannie the Little Toe Sissy, you'd be the same as  what's his name?

             

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    • Author by eweston8542983 (August 27, 2008 10:32 pm ET)
         

      Golly incisiveness, insider information, staight skivvy, and such concern for the feelings of Hillary. Which really breaks it for me. Hillary is nothing more than an old familiar target. She's been their moneymaker for nearly 16 years. As good as abortion for firing up the ole troglidite base. I'm sure there are a few more egrigarious insults in line before they have to tearfully turn their attension to the actual democratic targets that will be in play this season.

      Duct season it ain't.

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    • Author by wolf kotenberg (August 27, 2008 11:12 pm ET)
         
      Dick Morris is a sorry a$$ excuse for a commentator.
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      • Author by wzwriter (August 28, 2008 10:34 am ET)
           

        Dick Morris is a sorry a$$ excuse for a commentator.

        Dick Morris is a sorry a$$ excuse for a human being.

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    • Author by roundhouse (August 27, 2008 11:17 pm ET)
         
      Just keep hammering that wedge, Dick. Try to keep the Hillary people pissed.

      Speaking of piss.

      I wonder if it stings when you urinate, Dick? I've heard that men who sleep with prostitutes will often soon after the "act" experience pain when urinating.
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      • Author by leftinmississippi (August 28, 2008 1:06 am ET)
           
        He thinks he's too good to just buy a Harley and join a band.
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (August 27, 2008 11:17 pm ET)
         
      Some men try to reach for something greater when they enter a mid-life crisis...others hire prostitutes and suck their toes.
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    • Author by captfoster2 (August 27, 2008 11:25 pm ET)
         

      Ah...... the Prostitute Toe Sucker is at it again!

      Only on FoxNoise Propaganda Channel can we find this kind of whore!

      And on BillO's show no less....... hmmm... a theme?

      A prositute toe sucker and a sexual predator of female co-workers......

      How cute.

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      • Author by IRONY 101 (August 27, 2008 11:29 pm ET)
           
        Family values, Cap...
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        • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (August 28, 2008 7:48 am ET)
             

          Come on now, the GOP is the party of family values.

          The Soprano family, the Gotti family, the Medicis...

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      • Author by wolf kotenberg (August 27, 2008 11:34 pm ET)
           
        Roger Ailes is gladly paying for this stuff
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        • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (August 27, 2008 11:39 pm ET)
             

          Dick Morris is really getting nuttier than usual lately, going from his usual bitchy annoyed smirking to a twitchy desperate anger. I still think he hasn't gotten over his crush on Bill Clinton, and may have even set up Lewinsky to break up the Clintons.

          Some day an old notebook of Morris' will turn up, with deranged girlish scrawls all over the back cover, mostly variations of "Mrs. Dick Clinton" and "BC+DM 4ever"

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          • Author by leftinmississippi (August 28, 2008 12:04 am ET)
               
            Dick Morris is nuttier than usual. It's a terrible thing when syphilis attacks the  brain.
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            • Author by princeofwheels (August 28, 2008 12:18 am ET)
                 

              Strange thing...11:00pm Wednesday evening..listened to a daytime radio show and Dickie Morris was a guest. It was a rebroadcast of a show from today. It is absolutely hilarious to listen to Little Dick talk about what Bill Clinton was going to say during his speech. He was soooo wrong that even he should be calling for his own resignation. It may be a new way to listen to the RightWing Nuts....or you call play everything inside out rather than backwards.

              Anyone watch Fox right before President Clintons' speech..The Brain, KKKarl Rove was talking about what Clinton would say..he had it on good information. Immediately after the speech, we turned back to Fox and KKKarl immediately began attacking Clinton because once again, The Brain was tricked. KKKarl, you are a nodoby but soon you will be identied by your prisoner number.

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              • Author by leftinmississippi (August 28, 2008 12:31 am ET)
                   
                POW - Both of these doofuses (doofi?) will find themselves on the ash heap of political history.  Two dweebs who served and secretly hated their more savvy masters, then turned on them in a desperate plea for attention and recognition.
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              • Author by nerzog (August 28, 2008 9:00 am ET)
                   
                I think Karl would look FABULOUS in an orange jumpsuit. It would accentuate his doughboy complexion.
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                • Author by wzwriter (August 28, 2008 10:36 am ET)
                     
                  KKKarl Rove is going to be very popular with the other felons once he's sentenced to the hard time he truly deserves.
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      • Author by pklute63 (August 28, 2008 7:25 am ET)
           
        Is Faux News part of some prison work release program where they take in these degenerates?
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    • Author by eweston8542983 (August 27, 2008 11:47 pm ET)
         

      I think Harlequin Books might pay upfront for that. Give them a breakthough genre to exploit.

      "A MAN and A....well he's a little confused right now!" "Better than hot monkey s*x reviewers rave!" Still with improper marketing it could come a gusher (sorry bout that).

      80)

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    • Author by jbraskin4786 (August 28, 2008 12:42 am ET)
         
      ...And the guys at Fox continue to insist that The Dick is a serious commentator with real insights on politics.  What a moron.....
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    • Author by mari2jj2970 (August 28, 2008 1:02 am ET)
         
      HAHAHAHAHAHA, So much for O'Reilly and Morris.  Talk about being totally off the mark.  But that is no different than usual no matter what the subject.  Both of thse guys are mean, nasty, hateful men who seem to enjoy being disgusting.  Further, i have always thought that Morris was a wannabe Bill Clinton, sort of hero worship.  But in the end, who needs to pay any attention to Morris.  This is the guy who took a security phone call wh8ile cahorting with a hooker.  Both O'Reilly and Morris are a couple of hedonistic men.  YUK!!!!
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    • Author by TadekKorn (August 28, 2008 1:19 am ET)
         
      Just wanted to thank Media Matters for this engaging snippet of intercourse between Morris and O'Reilly.  It serves as a reminder of why there's no point of tuning in the FoCKS network other than to experience some vicarious scatological relief.
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    • Author by neon desert (August 28, 2008 1:45 am ET)
         

      No, Dick.

      For men, who don't go through a menopause (of their own) by the way, a midlife crisis is when a man glances up from his bills and peers over the top of his bifocals at his aging, sagging wife sanding the callouses off her feet, and begins to realize that life is taking him farther and farther away from ever having another chance to hit some slim, firm 20-something.  So, in a last ditch effort to stay in the game, he gets an earring and buys a sports car, but eventually proves (to everyone else long before he proves it to himself) that he's no longer a player.

      You, on the other hand, paid a prostitute to dress you up in diapers and fishnets, and make you call her "mistress" while you licked her toes.  And while that might scream "crisis!", I don't think it's a problem that can be blamed on the realization that your life has culminated in being a toady.

      Running for president, while you might wish it to be so, is hardly in the same genre and is predicated on a wee bit more than desperation.  Or fetish.

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      • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (August 28, 2008 2:38 am ET)
           

        I'm a-scared to go to sleep now, Argon. The head-pictures! Can we go back to doing impressions of the wingnuts? I've got a Capslock key and I'm not afraid to use it!

        BTW, did you notice all of the deleted posts on the recent "knitting" thread?

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        • Author by Easy to refute wingnuts (August 28, 2008 7:52 am ET)
             
          MMfA usually deletes knit-picking...
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          • Author by neon desert (August 28, 2008 10:04 am ET)
               

            ...and knit-pickers, apparently.

            I've learned there is a bias against those whose differing view on the textile arts falls outside the fold here.  Some apparently don't cotton to material which is on the fringe of these threads.  And rather than shrink from the hot water in which I've found myself, or spin some yarn of how this looming oppression has hemmed in my opinions,  I felt it was time to display the fiber of my character by mending my frayed reputation and bolstering the patchwork of perspectives found in these forums.

            Remember, winners never quilt, and quilters never win.

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            • Author by eweston8542983 (August 28, 2008 11:29 am ET)
                 

              Real men know how to produce a warp and put it on a loon, er loom.

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        • Author by princeofwheels (August 28, 2008 9:03 am ET)
             

          Colonel,  Off topic but could you use your insider influence to get a message to the Obama campaign for me. Here is the suggestion>

          Since the loonies on the right are anal about these columns which will be behind Obama tonite, I suggest that part of his speech uses the columns as symbols of the destruction the Repubs have caused. Use them as the economy, the war or whatever. Or have these issues superimposed on the columns or even use them as visual displays of soldiers, firemen, anything. The Loonies have placed these columns in the mix so why not use them to Obamas' advantage. This will show the Rovian cultists that their man is no longer the Brain but just some wax in a knats' ear.

          Just heard bad news about this Hurricane heading inland. so, NOTE TO FEMA, a hurricane is approaching so please, right after next Thursdays end to your convention, throw away McCains' cake and get down there.

          Colonel, the future of this country is in your hands. I have not posted this anywhere else.

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          • Author by Col. Harlan Sanders (August 28, 2008 2:13 pm ET)
               

            POW, it's a good thing I camer back here. I was on the road most of the morning, and I heard The MahaRushi expressing deep concern about the Messiah getting ready to pose as a Greek God on a Hollywood movie set.The set was reportedly designed by a man who had previously worked on a Brittany Spears set , no less!

                                                      ***Bulletin***

            Cameras will be set up so that Obama dwarfs the columns!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

            In the Good News Column; El Rushbo assured his audience that if the Hurricane hits NO again, it'll be just fine in the hands of the new Republican leadership.

            I will relay all of this to The Chosen One.

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            • Author by princeofwheels (August 28, 2008 4:31 pm ET)
                 
              That's OKAY, I'll get philib to help out. I've been on the road also..hence the REAL POW.
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    • Author by nerzog (August 28, 2008 9:04 am ET)
         
      I'd love to hear Dickie-poo's razor sharp analysis of why all those middle-aged white Republican men thought they wanted to inherit Puddinhead George's mess.
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    • Author by shaggles (August 28, 2008 11:32 am ET)
         

      Did these guys ask Bush why he didn't pick McCain as his running mate in 2000?  I highly doubt it.

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    • Author by MidnightWriter (August 28, 2008 11:45 am ET)
         

      This shows why Faux News has been whining about Hillary not getting the VP spot. They’ve been working for months and months on their misogynistic, cheap shots. Now they find themselves scrambling to come up with fresh material.

      Pity poor Dickie--with no Clinton on the ticket he’s facing unemployment. It’s ever so difficult to find a job as a toe jam taste tester.

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    • Author by Russycle (August 28, 2008 5:02 pm ET)
         
      I'd love to see Morris call Biden "menopausal" to his face.  Why do I have the feeling he'd get his ass handed to him?  Apparently he's never watched any other newscasts (Olberman excepted), if he thinks the rest of the press is in the tank for Obama.
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