{"id":8438,"date":"2012-11-13T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-13T19:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2012-11-13T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T19:30:55","slug":"dick-morris-hopes-people-arent-mad-at-him-for-lying-about-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8438","title":{"rendered":"Dick Morris Hopes People Aren&#8217;t Mad At Him For Lying About The Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The undisputed champion of political idiocy is still Dick Morris of Fox News. In a play to solidify his standing, Morris visited with Sean Hannity to commiserate about their monumentally incompetent analysis of the presidential election. Attempting to defend his fatally flawed punditry, Morris told Hannity&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Sean, I hope people aren\u2019t mad at me about it \u2026 I spoke about what I believed and I think that there was a period of time when the Romney campaign was falling apart, people were not optimistic, <strong>nobody thought there was a chance of victory<\/strong> and I felt that it was my duty at that point to go out and say what I said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So Morris abandoned all the reality-based data that had driven Mitt Romney&#8217;s campaign into despondency in order to raise their spirits and to deceive the public into believing that Romney still had a chance to pull it out, contrary to what the actual numbers said in the most credible surveys, including those within the campaign. And now conservatives wonder how they could have been caught so off-guard by Romney&#8217;s decisive loss. It wasn&#8217;t skewed polling. It was the fact that they were deliberately lied to.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Campaign2012\/morris-clinton-vote.jpg\" alt=\"Dick Morris\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"250\" \/>This shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone familiar with Morris&#8217; prior work. This is the guy who said that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7685\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Clinton was going to vote for Romney<\/a>. This is the guy who said that the Todd Akin <em>&#8220;legitimate rape&#8221;<\/em> controversy was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7849\" target=\"_blank\">a <em>&#8220;big plus&#8221;<\/em> for Romney<\/a>. And most significantly, this is the guy who confessed last year that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4649\" target=\"_blank\">intended to be a political hack<\/a> on Romney&#8217;s behalf:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I decided a couple of \u2013 a month or two ago to stop dumping on Mitt Romney, for example \u2026 Not because I approve of Romneycare, not because I approve of his flip-flops, flip on abortion, but because I may have to be one of those who carries this guy for a couple of months when he\u2019s running against Obama and I don\u2019t want to make my own task harder.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You see, it doesn\u2019t matter what his actual opinion is about anything, he is only going to comment in a manner that benefits his GOP clients. That&#8217;s what Fox News is paying him for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The undisputed champion of political idiocy is still Dick Morris of Fox News. In a play to solidify his standing, Morris visited with Sean Hannity to commiserate about their monumentally incompetent analysis of the presidential election. Attempting to defend his fatally flawed punditry, Morris told Hannity&#8230; &#8220;Sean, I hope people aren\u2019t mad at me about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,16],"tags":[254,33,260,129],"class_list":["post-8438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-wankery","tag-dick-morris","tag-fox-news","tag-mitt-romney","tag-sean-hannity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2c6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7685,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=7685","url_meta":{"origin":8438,"position":0},"title":"And The Olympic Gold For Freestyle Stupidity Goes To Dick Morris Of Fox News","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/31\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Dick Morris has done it again. I wouldn't cover this ignorant gasbag if it wasn't so much damn fun. He has absolutely nothing of substance to say and what he does say is certifiably bonkers. Last night on the Sean Hannity program on Fox News (not exactly a Mensa gathering\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8589,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=8589","url_meta":{"origin":8438,"position":1},"title":"Fox News Kicks Karl Rove And Dick Morris To The Curb, But What About&#8230;?","author":"Mark NC","date":"12\/4\/2012","format":false,"excerpt":"New York Magazine is reporting that changes are afoot at Fox News following their pitifully inept coverage of the presidential campaign. Fox spent most of the year polishing the bubble within which their viewers, and even many of their favored candidates, resided. They were so averse to reality that they\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9013,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9013","url_meta":{"origin":8438,"position":2},"title":"Fox News Trades Toe-Sucking Dick Morris For Goat-Fucking Erick Erickson","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/6\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The mediasphere is buzzing tonight with the news that Fox News is not renewing the contract of the world's worst pundit, Dick Morris. Shortly after last November's election Fox announced that he and Karl Rove would not be permitted on the air without special permission from the network brass. Since\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1511,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1511","url_meta":{"origin":8438,"position":3},"title":"Hannity And Morris Campaign For Waterboarding","author":"Mark NC","date":"1\/5\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Sean Hannity and his guest Dick Morris spent some quality time advocating for waterboarding yesterday. They fell all over each other to see who could be the most vigorous proponent of torture for the would-be crotch-bomber. HANNITY: We can't talk to this guy. We ought to be waterboarding this guy.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27231,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=27231","url_meta":{"origin":8438,"position":4},"title":"Fox News Resurrects Disgraced Pundit Dick Morris To Forecast Clinton&#8217;s Demise","author":"Mark NC","date":"4\/6\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Following President Obama's reelection victory over Mitt Romney in 2012, the Fox News contributor who missed the call by the widest margin was the notorious Dick Morris. In a remarkably wild prediction, Morris was adamant that Romney would not only beat Obama, but would win by a landslide. When that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox News Dick Morris","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-morris-clinton.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-morris-clinton.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnews-morris-clinton.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":21096,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=21096","url_meta":{"origin":8438,"position":5},"title":"Clinton-Hater Dick Morris May Have Just Guaranteed Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Election","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/13\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"There is almost no one in political punditry who has been more wrong, more often than Dick Morris. 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He later admitted that he was\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Election&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Election","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=152"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fox Nation Dick Morris","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-morris-clinton-panetta.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-morris-clinton-panetta.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/foxnation-morris-clinton-panetta.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8440,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions\/8440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}