Emily Rooney Waterboards Gov Do-Nothing
Emily Rooney did all of her fellow journalist’s proud by forcing Gov Do-Nothing to submit to a viscious waterboarding on her WGBH Show Greater Boston last night.
As has been documented recently, Emily is renowned as one of the toughest interviewers in the Boston Media. As John Gonzalez from Boston Magazine wrote a few months ago when talking about Emily and Jim Braude:
They have well-earned reputations as two of the toughest interviewers in town.
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I’ve been on both your shows, and it’s not easy. Do you realize how direct you two are? It can be intimidating.
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But when you’re trying to get information out of people, and maybe you have someone on the show who isn’t used to that style, do you ever consider easing up on the waterboarding?
Yes, take it from Johnny, that Emily is one tough bitch. So last night she has Deval Patrick on her show and opens by noting that it’s been nearly 1 year since he took office.
(Oh, this should be good, you’re thinking. Wait till she asks him what the fuck he’s been doing for a full year and why he has nothing to show for it.)
Well, first she spends 5 minutes talking about his junket to China. Then she soft peddles a question about him taking campaign contributions from the same old cronies as his Republican predecessors which the Globe recently reported on. Gov Do-Nothing can’t stumble his way to a good enough excuse so Emily chimes in with:
“You’re not going to turn away money from groups if they haven’t done anything illegal.”
Thanks Emily. Your invitation to the Gov’s “Holiday” Party is still intact.
Then it’s on to more “waterboarding” as she prefaces a question on the Casino debacle with:
“I’m sure there are things you do every day that the public has no idea about and it’s hard to measure accomplishments …”
Yes, Emily. It’s certainly hard to measure accomlishments when there are none.
After nearly 15 minutes Emily notes that she’s almost out of time but she’ll try to “summarize” Deval’s 1st year in office. The Gov giggles at a reference to his Cadillac and gold plated drapes as Emily gets back to her “waterboarding” with this final question:
“What are some of the things that emotionally make you feel good about your leadership of this state?”
Emotionally makes him feel good??? Is this the Governor being interviewed by one of the “toughest interviewers in town” or are these 2 teenage girls talking about their boyfriends?
That’s just fucking pathetic. Can anyone imagine Mitt Romney or any Republican being asked that question?
The Great Black Hope answers by noting what a ”Great Team” he has along with some other insignificant nonsense before Emily literally teases him about his property tax relief campaign promise. Yes, Miss Waterboard finally brings up Gov Do-Nothings signature campaign promise 30 seconds before the end of a 20 minute interview. Wow. That Emily really is one tough bitch.
And Gov Do-Nothing does not disappoint with his answer. You see, it’s all the Legislature’s fault that there has been no property tax relief. Gov Do-Nothing promises to try to get the Legislature to focus on that next year.
Not his fault. Nope. Not him. It’s that incompetent legislature. Of course “the Legislature” probably would say that there is no money available for Property tax relief. Which brings me to the single biggest lie of the Deval Patrick campaign.
He said many times that he would find $750 million of waste in the State budget and that was how he was going to fund property tax relief. Not only has he not cut state spending, the first thing he did when he took office was restore cuts that Romney made.
This guy is such a blatent lying moron that he hasn’t even appointed some phony commision charged with finding the mythical $750 million in waste. And why should he when even the “Toughest interviewer in Town”, Emily Rooney behaves like a Bill Clinton Intern instead of a journalist when she has an opportunity to hold the Governor accountable.
This State is mind bogglingly (is that a word?) pathetic.