Rose Tennent on Obama ad: "[D]on't put that jive out there in front of me, devil, and tell me that these people are hurting when they are not hurting"
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On the October 30 broadcast of The War Room, co-host Rose Tennent said of the families featured in Sen. Barack Obama's 30-minute ad: "Well, OK. They were sad stories, but I'm looking at the background. I'm not looking at the person talking in their home, I'm looking at what they have in their home. They have color television sets; they have everything that I have in my house. I'll bet you they have an iPod, I bet you they have, you know -- I'll bet they have a lot of luxuries in that home. They are not poor." Tennent later said: "So don't put -- don't put that jive out there in front of me, devil, and tell me that these people are hurting when they are not hurting. All they need to do is make some cuts and figure out a way to do this."
As Media Matters for America has documented, on the October 18, 2006, edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Bill O'Reilly claimed that "here at home, people have a very high standard of living" because "[e]ven the poor have color television sets and pretty much everything they need."
Earlier in the broadcast, Tennent said of Obama, "Last night in his infomercials -- finally I had to say to David [Tennent's son], 'Turn the TV off. It's like I'm inviting the devil into my house.' " She added: "Yes, that's what I said: I'm inviting the devil into my house." Co-host Jim Quinn replied, "Well, I'm sorry, but if you're a Marxist, you are engaged in an economic and social philosophy that has killed 200 million people, and does it every time. It is evil, it is -- and it kills the human spirit."
Tennent has previously asserted that, "I don't think you can be a Christian and vote for Barack Obama."
From the October 30 broadcast of The War Room with Quinn & Rose:
TENNENT: Last night in his infomercials -- finally I had to say to David, "Turn the TV off. It's like I'm inviting the devil into my house." Yes, that's what I said: I'm inviting the devil into my house.
QUINN: Well, I'm sorry, but if you're a Marxist, you are engaged in an economic and social philosophy --
TENNENT: Evil. Evil philosophy.
QUINN: -- that has killed 200 million people, and does it every time. It is evil, it is -- and it kills the human spirit.
TENNENT: I'll say it one more time --
QUINN: Marxism is evil.
TENNENT: That's right. I didn't want the devil invited into my house. Just in case anyone missed that -- Media Matters, anybody -- the devil invited into my house.
QUINN: That'll be on Media Matters within minutes.
TENNENT: I don't even care -- who pays attention into them? Anyway --
QUINN: I know -- you know, every time you say something that shows up in Media Matters, we have two or three emails pour in.
TENNENT: Wow. Geez, I know, it's just overwhelming to me.
QUINN: Yeah. By the way, did you hear about all the angry people who called our affiliate in Rochester --
TENNENT: Yeah, because we weren't on. Those are the numbers that count --
QUINN: That's right. You got it.
TENNENT: -- those are the people that matter. Anyway, back to this infomercial last night where the devil was coming into my house. They were having -- they were featuring these families who were in need. Well, OK. They were sad stories, but I'm looking at the background. I'm not looking at the person talking in their home, I'm looking at what they have in their home. They have color television sets; they have everything that I have in my house. I'll bet you they have an iPod, I bet you they have, you know -- I'll bet they have a lot of luxuries in that home. They are not poor.
QUINN: No.
TENNENT: And I'll bet you they have cable TV. Now here's what I want to say. I watched a family on Fox News about a month ago, when the gas prices were the highest they ever were, and this family was on with their two children, and the children were upset because the family had to cut out cable in their home to make --
QUINN: Oh, no.
TENNENT: No, no, they were a good family. Listen, they knew that what they had to do is make cuts other places.
QUINN: Oh, I get it, OK.
TENNENT: This is how we used to live. You live according to your means, right? My husband's grandfather used to say, "Live below your means so you never have to." OK?
QUINN: Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
TENNENT: So, this is how we -- our country was this way. If you couldn't afford something, then you didn't buy it. If you needed something else more, then you didn't buy the iPod. Do you understand?
QUINN: Sure.
TENNENT: I've lived a long time without an iPod. You can do it; it can happen. So don't put -- don't put that jive out there in front of me, devil, and tell me that these people are hurting when they are not hurting. All they need to do is make some cuts and figure out a way to do this. Roll up your collective sleeves and get it done. You know what? There are Republicans out there in the same position as those people on that show last night, and they're doing it. You figure out where you make a cut, and you make it. That's how everybody lives.
QUINN: You got a choice: You could be Louisiana, or you could be Mississippi after Katrina.
TENNENT: Don't run that jive by me. I'll tell you what, I was so offended by that. I am not buying that stuff.
QUINN: Well, you know, this is an old trick of the left.
TENNENT: I had the devil in my house last night.
QUINN: That's right.
So, "these people" aren't hurting, but if Joe the F***ing Plumber made $280,000 and had to pay $900 additional taxes, it would ruin his life?
Are these a$$holes serious?
I'm hurting now, but I buy lottery tickets every day so that one day I'll be rich.
However, if I do win the lottery, Obama is going to raise my taxes, and I'll have to give everything back to the government so they can re-distribute it to lazy homeless people and mexican immigrants and gays.
Why does he want to punish me for my potential success at the lottery? Doesn't he know how hard I've been working to win it?
I'll show him.... I'll quit buying lottery tickets! I mean, what's the point of winning 200 million dollars? I'll only have about 120 million after taxes... who can live on that?
If you stop striving for success (and by success, I mean money), then the terrorists win! Also winning - godless communists, illegal immigrants, hippies, Muslims, the French, women, and blacks.
Never stop trying to succeed financially, or else you could end up a failure like countless schoolteachers and firefighters across America.
"Are these a$$holes serious?"
Somehow....... I get the feeling that they are!
PS. For these clowns to mention MMfA on their pukefest of a show is a testament to just how strong and popular MMfA may really be? ... if they truly think that we are so unimportant over here...
Why bother mentioning MMfA at all?
Hey Quinn and Rose... you can quote me on your crummy little show to all your 13 listeners... since it seems you have a 'gopher' peek in here ... "Your show sucks!"
PS. For these clowns to mention MMfA on their pukefest of a show is a testament to just how strong and popular MMfA may really be? ... if they truly think that we are so unimportant over here...Why bother mentioning MMfA at all?
Guilty consciences?
PS. For these clowns to mention MMfA on their pukefest of a show is a testament to just how strong and popular MMfA may really be? ... if they truly think that we are so unimportant over here...Why bother mentioning MMfA at all?
Guilty consciences?
My guess would be genuine fear of MMFA.
Great point. And I'm pretty sure Joe has one of those newfangled color teevees, so he's doing just fine. Apparently you're not poor unless you live in a tin shack without electricity or something.
They are not poor.
That was Obama's point.
Mrs. Cleaver does.
HAHA!! GOOD ONE. I wonder how many other people get this :)
Every time I hear or read the word jive, June Cleaver comes to mind. It's classic.
"My dad says you don't play defense."
She wasn't speaking Jive, she was speaking Stupid. And I do believe the devil was in her house last night. The devil was the one who told her to turn off the TV. When she did, the devil was glad.
So now this nitwit is implying that Obama is the devil?
Did anyone ever explain to these slugs that The War on Poverty wasn't a war directed at the poor?
WK, she didn't imply Obama is the devil, she said it:
"So don't put -- don't putthat jive out there infront of me, devil, and tell me that these people are hurting when they are nothurting." - Trashy Tennant
This is what I love about the right. If challenged on calling Obama 'the Devil' she will claim that she never said it. She said Marxism is the Devil. Which doesn't even really make sense. And then she'll go an a jag about 'left wing hate sites like Media Matters.'
I think Obama should have to prove he isn't the Devil. I want signed affadavits from three witnesses and all of his personal records to prove he hasn't been harvesting the souls of the damned...
Rosie must believe that Obama is a Christian when speaking of the devil coming to her house. Rosie, you could get fired for that thype of thinking. Or was she wastching her "good friend" Seannie the Sissy?
Gnash your teeth all you want Tennet. The truth is your cultural conservative ideology, your divisiveness has failed the American promise that says the next generation, because of my life of hard work and sacrifice, can expect a better life than me. That promise has been reversed with tax cuts for CEO's, flatlining wages and layoffs.
"You could be Louisiana, or you could be Mississippi after Katrina" - What the hell does that mean?
By the time you leave here, you'll all be wearing gold-plated diapers!
I think she's talking to some of the people she saw in Obama's ad.... shortly after consuming a fifth of Bacardi Limon without the usual Gatorade chaser.
Limon, huh? Classy. I would have taken her to be a MD 20/20 or Boone's farm type of hussy.
It means that unless you're dying of starvation in a stadium, you really shouldn't vote to improve your life.
Eventually even the radio hate mongers will face cutbacks and layoffs. They we'll see how they like hard times.
In the last several months, trillions of dollars have disappeared. A lot of that money has been lost by regular, hard working Americans. As the female screech monkey said, they have things, but those used iPods, computers, etc. won't even be worth selling on eBay soon.
Most Americans are one hospital stay away from bankruptcy.
Next Wednesday, the final chapter in John McCain's life story will be written.
I can't think of any American who has had so much, yet gladly gave his honor, integrity and any shred of decency to the darkside of America.
I'm not worried about losing my job, WK. I've got a pretty solid plan-- I'll sell one of my color teevees and retire high on the hog.
And my freeloading nephews and nieces were expecting to get their meat hooks on both of those when my last will and testament is read. Chumps!
I'd hate to be the maintenance staff at that broadcast facility...so much froth and drool to clean up.
Color TV?!?!?!? Holy Cow!!!!! They must be gillionaires!!!! I hear some of 'em even have Refrigerators and Indoor Toilets!
I laughed out loud when I read that part. What decade is this woman living in?
"They have color television sets; they have everything that I have in my house.I'll bet you they have an iPod, I bet you they have, you know --I'll bet they have a lot of luxuries in that home. They are notpoor."
I'll bet some of them even have a car...the middle class just doesn't know how good they have it. <sarcasm>
QUINN: You got a choice: You could be Louisiana, or you could be Mississippi after Katrina.
No major urban area, with a poor urban population, in Mississippi was destroyed as New Orleans was...
Mississippi also had a Republican governor who is the former chairman of the RNC. They havn't had to beg for help like Louisiana did.
"I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence—providing they have the facts, providing they have the information."
-Studs Terkel 1912 - 2008
Yep, and by controlling the flow of information....?
Do you think that the country would be as complacent about say, Iraq, if there was video of all of the caskets coming home? But, by controlling the flow of information and preventing us from seeing the truth, the government can control how we behave.
These guys crack me up. I guarantee you they claim to be huge Christians too. That's what is hilarious about the right-wing is they claim to be soooooooo Christian but they treat the poor like trash. Didn't Jesus embrace the poor and do everything in his power to lift the poor up? The right-wing doesn't give a damn about the poor in the this country but always talk about how America is a Christian nation. If it is, then act like it and quit worrying about prayer in school.
Ugh. Were these assclowns absent the week they taught how to be a human being in kindergarten???
Rose was homeschooled so that she wouldn't be taught about gay marriage, humility, or compassion.
Once again, how can this good Christian woman be associated with this sexual harrasser? She should at least move up to O'Reilly.
Now you people are all forgetting that Radio Rosie is a self-proclaimed good Christian. Can you imagine what a bad Christian must be like? And Quinny the Sexual Harasser(it was in all the papers) is her partner. (As they say about Obama, it is about your relationships with people etc.etc.) As horrible as these people are, it is a riot to listen to them if some other station has a commercial playing. You can get a weeks full of Conservative hate in two minutes with these nuts.
And as someone mentioned above, Quinny the Harasser and Radio Rosie the Good Christian Lady must read Media Matters and get a delight to be listed. Hey Rosie and Quinny, you read what is here so why not post a few lines and tell us what you really think. And then we can say that the devils dung paid a visit. Too bad Rosie won't allow her son watch any opposing view. Great Christian parenting there Rosie. You must have read the Palin book on child rearing. Come on, speak your piece. You have 3 hours of mike time but are afraid to visit this little site.
pretty much what i was thinking:
Who even HEARD of these guys before posting here?
i tried looking her up, i was unable to find even a brief bio on her. what's her claim to fame, aside from being on a bunch of AM stations, at 0dark30 in the morning?
sorry, that should have had quotation marks around it, i have no clue what happened there.
"Who even HEARD of these guys before posting here?"
Well, they are "america's morning show." With a lowercase "a."
OH I dont mean MM - I mean these radio people. If the Fairness Doctrine is so horrible...and they're fighting to be supreme bigot...when does this stop??? I seem to recall some old FCC regulations...is that like ditto jeans? Gone in the sands of time?
Lawsuit..
Defamation of character, libel, personal injury and loss... where are the attorneys to hold the hate mongerer responsible for their actions (words are actions)? If actors can successfully sue tabloids, why has not politician taken a shot at these twisted freaks? When talk radio is no longer able to pay millions and millions of dollars to the spouters of hate, the broadcast of hate on air will stop. They will have to go back to their barstools when they pontificate about how the minorities ruined their lives.
May not be well-known, and still aren't, but they infect some of the so-called Repubs around here. And as we all know, Central/West Pa., Eastern Ohio are redneck/racist areas which these two prove everyday. Murtha was right, he just said it wrong.
Radio Rosie is going to be the poster child for the Atheist movement in America. She sure ain't no Christian lady.
Rose - beware of the devil -
Only Christianists (those who use the Christian Faithful to advance their satanic causes - much like Islamist, Zionist et al) will vote for McCain (son of Cain) and his handmaiden.
A real Christian has to vote for a Democrat. Always remember - Jesus was a community organizer, Pilate was a Governor.
Randy
Color TV sets? What planet are these guys on? You haven't been able to buy a black and white TV for 30 years.
You can if you buy a color TV and set the color level to zero. That's what a true Puritan would do. People should not be influenced by the Satanic colors in the middle of "The Wizard of Oz," they should watch the whole thing in black and white, just like Jesus intended it.
she sounds like she had the devil in her mouth last night
Hmmmmmmm...... You CHRISTIAN radio heads have any problems with, let's say, the darker coloration of the DEBIL'S(intentional sp) skin?
Wait, I thought he was Hitler. Now he's Satan himself? Puh-lease.
There is so much wrong with this rant. Yes, they are not poor, they are middle-class and they are hurting. Obama is trying to offer a plan so that they don't have to "make some cuts" to get by.
And I don't think I've heard the word "Jive" in 25 years back when white TV producers thought that's how black people talk to each other.
"They have color television sets; they have everything that I have in my house. I'll bet you they have an iPod, I bet you they have, you know -- I'll bet they have a lot of luxuries in that home. They are not poor."
1) Apparently she's able to see right through her TV set and tell what electronics people own.
2) When was the last time you saw anyone with a B&W TV set?
3) She really needs to update her stereotypes.