See below for video of Axelrod schooling Rick Davis.
On FOX News Sunday this morning, Axelrod flashed his mastery of the verbal smackdown by dismantling Rick Davis's exhausted talking points in sensei-like fashion. Axelrod controlled the entire segment by subduing interruptions, deflecting lies and reducing Davis's patented GOP drivel to a feeble, incoherent mash-up of tired conspiracy theories.
Chris Wallace opened the segment with the Obama campaign's condemnation of the virulent racists attending the McCain/Palin rallies. Apparently oblivious to why remarks like "kill him!," "bomb him!," "off with his head" and "he's a terrorist!" aren't appropriate political discourse, Wallace wanted to know, specifically, which remarks the Obama campaign condemned.
Without dignifying Chris's moronic question with a response, Axelrod pivoted to the fact that McCain et al.'s hateful rhetoric is universally condemned--by newspaper editorials nationwide, Republican insiders (e.g., former MI Governor Milliken, IL Rep. Ray Lahood), GOP party officials and other assorted Republican tools.
Then Axelrod linked the nutjobs at the McCain/Palin rallies directly to the tenor of the McCain campaign. He cited the campaign's own admission that, because the economy was a losing issue for Republicans, they intended to pivot to baseless smears.
Magnanimously, Axelrod expressed sympathy for their predicament:
The economy does hang from their neck like the anchor of the Lusitania--I understand that.
I'm not going to spoil the rest; just watch the brilliant two-part video below.
Transcript here.
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