[VIDEO] MSNBC’s Alter Endorses Obama Team's Slam of Boehner: He ‘Can’t Even Deliver a Pizza’

MSNBC contributor Jonathan Alter on Saturday continued the liberal media pattern of siding with the Obama administration on the current government shutdown. Appearing on Weekends with Alex Witt, Alter claimed that House Speaker John Boehner is not acting in a “patriotic fashion” and “can’t even deliver a pizza,” as Team Obama says.

Fill-in host Mara Schiavocampo had asked Alter about the unidentified Obama official who told The Wall Street Journal that the White House was “winning” the shutdown, but Alter got off track and started ripping into Speaker Boehner. He huffed, “[E]verything he's doing is to protect his own skin. I wish I could say that he was acting in a patriotic fashion, but he's just not.” [See video below.]

Alter then directly sided with the Obama administration’s characterization of Boehner: “The White House likes to say John Boehner can't even deliver a pizza, and there is some truth to that, that he just cannot deliver those Republican votes because he has these radicals in his party.”

It gets tiresome to hear media members slam proponents of small government as “radical” over and over while never using that word to describe Democrats or liberals. The mainstream media don’t seem to find it “radical” to require every American to purchase one particular product under penalty of law. Instead, they only see opponents of such a move as radical or unpatriotic.

As for the unnamed White House official’s comment, Alter naturally downplayed it, calling it “a very small bump in the road.”  He also took another shot at Boehner: “It let John Boehner cry some crocodile tears where he said, ‘this is not a game.’” 

Via: Newsbusters

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