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30 Responses to “Fox News Panel Pans Jindal”

1. duBois Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 7:57 am

   How is he a governor and not an undertaker?

2. SJ Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 8:06 am

   Wasn’t Fox News supposed to remove reference to NPR from Juan Williams?

3. duBois Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 8:07 am

   Since my hairline is receding as fast as snow on a sunny day, I have no room for crowing, but your man Alex Massie there should get a haircut and change photos. He looks like he’s supposed to be a cross between Diane Keaton in The Godfather and William Buckley Jr.

4. Owen Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 8:19 am

   Does Jindal really believe that the gov’t did too much to respond to Katrina?? Stopping rescue boats was dumb, but after a few days it was clear that the gov’t needed to do more.

   Same with volcano monitoring. If the gov’t gets out of the way (I imaging that includes police and firefighters too), will natural disasters really be less destructive?

5. Ted Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 8:39 am

   I wonder how the volcano monitoring went down in Alaska, where we are monitoring some pretty active volcanoes lately.

6. Ubbabukknamupnamummup Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 8:40 am

   I’m not from the South, but this delivery seemed almost to parody Southern speaking styles. A Southerner unfamiliar with Jindal might wonder why this brown-skinned guy was clowning around like that on national TV.

   Meanwhile, isn’t it nice not to have to hear “…and what do you think, Bill Kristol?”

7. Matt Weiner Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 8:42 am

   One of the Foxies mentioned Bill Clinton responding to Ronald Reagan — did Clinton deliver an SOTU response? Or was he referring to Clinton’s 1988 convention speech? Because that speech notoriously sucked, which might give Jindal some consolation; your first big national speech can bomb without hurting your ambitions.

8. Charlemagne Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 8:45 am

   Jindal’s right. The last time I thought the volcano in my backyard was going to blow, I opened up the yellow pages and called “AAA Volcano Monitoring Service”. They came down and said it was fine.

   It turns out they were new in the business. After I cleared all the pyroclastic flows off my roof and out of my garage, I switched over to “Al’s Volcano Monitoring Service since 1987″, and I’ve been fine since then.

   See? Free market works!

9. Jake Says:
   February 25th, 2009 at 8:53 am

   Nate Silver over at 538 had the best response to Jindal’s speech. He wrote that if it sounds like he’s talking to fourth graders, it’s because he is. They’re probably the next people that will ever vote for Republicans again.

10. mort Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 8:54 am

    Unfortunately, Sarah Palin’s chances of winning the 2012 nomination just went up substantially.

11. MaryL Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 8:56 am

    How is he a governor and not an undertaker?

    I know an undertaker from Louisiana, and he’s actually a smart, loose and very funny guy. Sorry, expecting Jindal to be an undertaker is setting the bar way too high.

12. Ted Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 8:58 am

    Don’t you just hate pyroclastic flows? Cleaning them off the roof is the worst. Especially when you have to dig down several meters to find the roof.

13. Aatos Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 9:03 am

    I still think the proper reaction to Bobby Jindal is, “Hahaha, the Republicans are against monitoring volcanoes!” It’s too bad the Romans didn’t have a plucky, take-charge sheriff of Pompeii to charge in and save everybody, bureaucracy be damned.

    Maybe Jindal thinks it would be unfair for natural disaster victims to get any more advance warning than the 4 days Louisiana gets to watch hurricanes develop. Tornado chasers are lucky to get 4 minutes, so they’re still OK. But volcanoes must catch everyone completely by surprise.

14. Jeremy Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 9:03 am

    I watched only the intro. After the bit about lunch counters, I had to turn it off. It hurts.

15. mark Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 9:11 am

    Anyone who’s seen Volcano knows that volcanoes are a problem best solved by local governments. We don’t need a bunch of pointy-headed bureaucrats from Washington telling us how to deal with ours.

16. cheri Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 9:15 am

    it was painful, but I endured to the end because I rather thought he would end by saying “and they lived happily ever after”

    But the condescending delivery might just have been his way of keeping a straight face while making those ridiculous statements.

17. Flo Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 9:18 am

    The Republicans might have looked better using Gov. Crist or Schwarzenegger, instead of going the “obstructionist” right wing route. But at least we learned some things about Louisiana and how Washington DC needs to learn to do it their way. And Slumdog did beat the Wrestler after all.

18. Fred Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 9:19 am

    Fox News Panel Pans Jindal

    More evidence that FNC is, in fact, fair & balanced. Lefties should learn from this example of objectivity. Maybe Matt will pry his lips from Obama’s ass sometime and try to be objective himself.

19. Sean Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 10:00 am

    Over on News Hour, David Brooks called Jindal’s response a disaster. He was unflagging in his criticism. It got the full Brooks sad head shake.

20. rupert Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 10:08 am

    More evidence that FNC is, in fact, fair & balanced.

    What they really did was try to make excuses for him.

21. roger Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 10:51 am

    Jindal is not an endogenous GOP phenom. He’s a media phenom. Sarah – she is a GOP phenom. Jindal’s debut showed him to be a drab idiot – Sareah went through the process too, but she came out stronger. Why? Partly because she’s a pathological liar: Jindal now has to refuse money for his state, which will be as stinky in 2012 as it is now, or stinkier, whereas Sarah will say she is refusing money and then blithely accept it, confident that the causuists will come out on Fox and explain that 2+2=5. Plus, Sarah has the ostensible leader of the party, McCain for her. McCain is a foul, disgusting old man, but he does have one trait you can count on: he’s vain. He’s maybe the vainest politician of our time. After a few shots were fired at Sarah when he lost, he’s had time to brood about how America failed to elect him. And I’m sure he’s come to the conclusion that the fault lies somewhere else. His decisions, because he decided them, were apriori right. And his biggest decision was to appoint Sarah Palin his president. So, in the spirit of that narcissism, he is doing what he can to prepare her way, politically, by supporting the DeMint wing. Surely he is breaking Jon Chait’s little heart – and all the goody goodies over at The New Republic.
    Sarah P. is no dummy – and she is not really committed, as someone like Jindal is, to an ideology. She is for herself. In many ways, she is Bush II – the most successful GOP politico since Reagan.

22. Chris Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 11:07 am

    Everybody knows these things usually don’t go well. Why make the national introduction of your erstwhile rising star a situation in which he has an 80% chance of sucking? And it’s also strange to give it to a 2012 primary candidate—seems like you’re playing favorites.

    If you put these together, it looks like someone gave Jindal the spot so that he could blow it and sabotage himself. Sure enough, there he goes coming out against volcano monitoring. Because Republicans apparently believe it’s better for people to just die in a volcanic eruption than for your tax dollars to go to advance warning that would save their lives.

23. linus Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 12:26 pm

    The next generation of interesting and useful electronic devices should allow us to choose between watching the Jindal fellow or the pre-empted Rick Steves’ Europe and reruns of Two and a Half Men.

24. Jesse Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    People need to quit worrying about style points, and start looking at the core messages and beliefs of the speaker. If “republicans” are going to throw true conservative values and principals out the door for a great speaker without substance the we deserve the cesspool of government bureaucracies we are getting shoved down our throat by president Pelos… I mean the Obama administration.

25. johnnyk Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    Now we know for sure that Jindal is not yet ready for prime time. Why the hell didn’t they get Palin? Would have been way more fun to watch than that skinny little cadaver.

26. Michael Rebain Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 1:47 pm

    When will the opposition party (whether Democratic or Republican) learn that this whole response to the President concept is a no-win situation? There’s no way that the speaker can look like anything but an irrelevant afterthought following a President addressing an applauding Congress with all the trappings (the Cabinet and Supreme Court, the heroes in the gallery with the First Lady, etc.) that have come to be regular features over the past few decades. Jindal just gets to join the list of folks like Sebelius and Tim Kaine who have seen their prospects dimmed by an underwhelming performance. I am as happy as anyone about Jindal’s bombing, but wouldn’t the opposition party be better served by waiting until at least the next day to fan out to all the media outlets and make its points rather than trying to win this hopeless contest?

27. Tony Says:
    February 25th, 2009 at 2:01 pm

    Hilarious take here on the Jindal speech. The man is a cyborg!

    http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2009/02/25/political-robot-bobby-jindal-shows-why-hell-never-be-president/

28. Kiti Says:
    February 26th, 2009 at 6:48 am

    The fox news panel might have panned it, but I know three people that enjoyed the speech: Huckabee, Palin, and Romney.

29. Everyone deserves a roof Says:
    March 10th, 2009 at 2:41 pm

    my God, i thought you were going to chip in with some decisive insght at the end there, not leave it with

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