From Talking Points Memo…  Peggy Noonan, Chuck Todd, and Mike Murphy get caught actually speaking their minds over a live mike.  Problem is, what they really thought wasn’t quite the same thing as what they were telling their NBC audience they really thought…

Oy … Live Mics Are Such Dangerous Things

Chuck Todd: Mike Murphy, lots of free advice, we’ll see if Steve Schmidt and the boys were watching. We’ll find out on your blackberry. Tonight voters will get their chance to hear from Sarah Palin and she will get the chance to show voters she’s the right woman for the job Up next, one man who’s already convinced and he’ll us why Gov. Jon Huntsman.

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Peggy Noonan: Yeah.

Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys — this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it’s not gonna work. And –

PN: It’s over.

MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.

CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.

PN: Saw Kay this morning.

CT: Yeah, she’s never looked comfortable about this –

MM: They’re all bummed out.

CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this — excuse me– political bullshit about narratives –

CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.

MM: I totally agree.

PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.

MM: You know what’s really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.

CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.

MM: Yeah.

What’s worth paying attention to here is now nobody out linking to this transcript is even bothering to bring up the fact that this is not anything like what these people are telling their viewers when they think the mikes are on.  It’s all just a big belly laugh.  Everyone just takes for granted now that pundits don’t tell the truth.  Everyone just takes being manipulated by the major news networks for granted now.  And to top it off, they’re bellyaching here about McCain being cynical.  Well thank God for cynicism Murphy, or you and Chuck and Peggy would have to find real jobs.