Posted on 10/15/2004 6:43:28 PM PDT by orangelobster
Anchorpersons in purgatory
In the 20-odd years since I first met Chris Matthews, I have never seen him, on television or off, with his mouth shut. Until now. I am standing in the Conner Contemporary Art gallery in Washington, D.C., taking in the art installation, "Face Time." The work consists of 17 flat-panel video screens playing raw satellite feeds of various important people waiting patiently for their turn to appear on a TV news broadcast. Matthews is one of them. And even though there is no sound, I can tell he isn't talking. He's just staring into space.
Silenced talking heads
The video monitor showing Matthews is one of six mounted in a V pattern straight ahead as you ...
(Excerpt) Read more at slate.msn.com ...
Clip #3 has john edwards carefully grooming his hair with an oversized jumbo comb.
He's not staring into space, he's receiving his programming from Ted Kennedy.
Edwards is a self-absorbed pretty boy. That was creepy.
Go to Harry Shearer's site--yes, he's a big lib. But he has some amazing audio of Dan Rather in the middle of a meltdown during a New Hampshire primary some years back.
In this clip, he says that he understands "keeping secrets from the viewer" but can't understand why secrets are being kept from him, because he can't get any updated exit polling info. Enjoy:
http://www.harryshearer.com/clips/meltdown5.ram
wow.
It is amazing what you can find on those wild feeds.
Isn't that remarkable?
These people have no scruples. Shows what Rather really thinks of the American public.
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