Here’s histrionic piece of shit James Carville on CNN today:
People often ask me what advice I would give the White House about various things. Today I was mulling over election results from New York and Nevada while thinking about that very question. What should the White House do now? One word came to mind: Panic.
Who asks this asshole what advice he would give the White House? His one major accomplishment—getting Bill Clinton into office—was in 1992. What has he done in the time since? He’s been a talking head on cable news. He was a shameless flack for Hillary Clinton disguised as a semi-impartial CNN commentator during the 2008 election cycle, and then in May of 2009, he published the book whose cover illustrates this post: 40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation. You will note that he’s posing, all buddy-buddy-like, next to an image of Barack Obama in what is obviously a lame Photoshop job. That’s because Barack Obama probably can’t stand James Carville, because James Carville is an opportunistic piece of shit.
Carville’s political longview goes about an inch in front of his squinched-up fucking face, yet he’s allowed to just blather on about anything to an audience of millions, and he faces zero accountability for his irresponsible excuse for punditry. Why do news shows hire an “expert” who is almost always wrong? He should be working in a shoe store, not blathering about political issues on national television. What a dumb piece of shit James Carville is.
Jesus Paul, what did he ever do to you anyway?
Down boy, down.
I’ve found him humorous and engaging the several times I’ve seen him speak.
He publishes a book with a photo-shopped pic? Huh?
I would imagine even IF that were true that Obama would have given his blessing. Or I would hope so.
It would seem in very poor form for a man of his staure to do such a thing, which is why I doubt seriously doubt it.
His quote on “Panic”. Well, yes. Of course these Republican wins spell big time trouble for the White House.
I think your vitrol here is excessive amigo.
Oh, I see the picture now on the book. It didn’t download the first time.
It’s obviously a joke. Opportunistic joke? Maybe.
I randomly ran into him once in Italy. It was very surreal. Thus, since I’ve actually talked to him, I tend to give him more slack than he deserves.
“As I watch the Republican debates, I realize that we are on the brink of a crazy person running our nation,” he wrote. “I sit in front of the television and shudder at the thought of one of these creationism-loving, global-warming-denying, immigration-bashing, Social-Security-cutting, clean-air-hating, mortality-fascinated, Wall-Street-protecting Republicans running my country.”
Even a dumb piece of shit has to be on target once in a while, right?
You talk about him like he’s unique among political pundits. I have news for you. EVERY SINGLE POLITICAL PUNDIT IS JUST LIKE HIM. I don’t mean the ones like Amy Goodman who nobody listens to, I mean every one that ever gets asked to go on CNN or Fox or MSNBC and spout off. The whole mainstream media is like this. Completely unaccountable, nobody cares that their so-called experts know nothing and are almost always wrong. They always get asked back. Blame the corporate mainstream media.
@ frankieb, I don’t think any vitriol can be too excessive for Carville. The fucker is married to Mary Matalin, for chrissakes. She does exactly the same thing he does but for the Republicans. They are both complete sellout asshat shills.
Very eloquent and articulate piece here.