Posted on 09/12/2008 8:13:00 AM PDT by JFC
The ladies of the view just hammered Sarah Palin, no big suprise. John and Cindy McCain are about to be on the view if you can stomach the hosts.
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Whoopie doesn’t know what century she is in, imagine that!
Yep Megan is just fantastic and so proud of her father!
See #99
Wouldn’t it have been great if McCain had pointed out that it was his party that ended slavery
Cindy replied,how many houses we own is not a campaign issue.She said her parents worked hard and did well and they have had a good life.She said because of that we are able to help others.
I went to college with a girl whose father worked for NBC. She claimed that that is exactly how she got to the top. In fact it was her main job.
Exactly. McCain withstood constant beatings by the VietCong for over five years, he certainly can take these liberals bitches on.
Barbara told McCain to please invite Sarah Palin on the show, adding how nice all the women on the view were, and how they ask all nice easy questions. That is so insulting on so many levels, First off, Palin is not in the least intimidated by you Barbara, the reverse should be true. She can handle your questions, easy and hard. Whoopie Goldberg said she doesn’t know what century it is, 21st? 22nd? and this panel thinks they have the credibility to cross-examine Sarah Palin? BTW, ask Sarah yourself if you want her to visit, don’t go to McCain as if he’s her father.
ABC is trying to one-up MSNBC, and they know they have a lot of catching up to do.
Somebody needs to give a full play by play NOW.
Somebody needs to give a full play by play NOW.
Yes. It would have also been great had McCain pointed out that EVERY American, no matter what race, is already a slave to a massive federal government that has its hands in their collective pockets, taking money from their paychecks before they get it from their employers. But I guess McCain has never been a fiscal conservative, huh?
View Harpies - Blah, blah, blah
John and Cindy - graceful answers
Elizabeth - John McCain is a hero
View Harpies - groveling for Palin
That was about it
Don’t be ashamed. It’s not your fault where you are born.
He would have looked like an ass making an analogy like that. Good thing he didn’t.
Thank you for the link. I sent mine and out to all on my email lists. I am sure moveon and du is sending The View roses and day after pills.
Barbara Walters Claims to Be an Objective Journalist
Photo of Justin McCarthy.
By Justin McCarthy
June 17, 2008 - 17:01 ET
EXCERPT
The relevant transcript is below.
GOLDBERG: You know, Tim Russert just passed away because we were talking about him yesterday. And it got us really talking about journalists, you know and because people were saying, “well, he’s such a great journalist but he didn’t ask the hard questions.” Or “he was a great journalist and he did ask the hard questions.” I mean, what makes a journalist now? I mean, because now we see commentators and everyone seems to have an opinion, but it, it didn’t use to be that way. Barbara, you should talk to that, yeah?
BARBARA WALTERS: Supposedly, supposedly a network, like ABC, has certain rules. The rules are, for example, we don’t go to fund raisers. We’re not allowed to go to fund raisers because we’re not supposed to show preference for one candidate over another. And you do not give your personal opinions. Now, obviously, if you’re doing an interview, and I’ve interviewed, you know, dozens of presidents and heads of state. And so, you can ask certain questions to draw them out and let them hang themselves or let them praise themselves. But you are not supposed to give your opinions. That was the way we were trained. And that’s what Tim Russert did. But, what he would do very often is to take their quotations. What they said ten years ago, two years ago and what they did now. But now we find in order to get very high ratings and especially on the cable programs, you got to have opinions. Bill O’Reilly, why is he so popular? Well, he’s smart, but he’s got opinions.
GOLDBERG: But is he a journalist?
WALTERS: Well, he would say he was.
GOLDBERG: Really?
WALTERS: Keith Olbermann would say that he was a journalist. Chris Matthews would say that he was a journalist.
GOLDBERG: But could they do the news?
WALTERS: Lou Dobbs, Lou Dobbs does the news. I’m just throwing out names. He would say he’s a journalist. They do interviews and they give their opinions.
[...]
BEHAR: Well, this started, Barbara with, I think with talk radio. Because talk radio with, say Rush Limbaugh. I worked in talk radio in the early 90’s. And everybody came to talk radio to hear a particular position, which then gave birth to Air America, which is on the left, because most of talk radio is on the right. And nobody is going to tune in to a radio show. They don’t want to hear the balanced position.
HASSELBECK: People now, people now when they listen to the news, or now, it’s so much more, almost dine as you please, as it is with the radio. People now go to the internet and will only look up sources that will give them the information they want. When they listen to a news report, they’re more wondering, I think, what their journalist, what their position is and there are so many like you, Barbara.
WALTERS: Do you know my political- we’re together almost every day. Do you know my political opin- I know yours- do you know mine, or what my political opinions are?
BEHAR: I sort of get it, but not really.
HASSELBECK: I may guess, but you’ve been objective.
WALTERS: This was the way I was trained, but you know, it’s more exciting, obviously, to give your opinions.
BEHAR: It gets ratings. It gets ratings.
I tried. It was Barbara, Joy and Whoopie going after John McCain, they didn’t care what he had to say (like Charlie Gibson), they are very worried he is going to take away their right to have abortions, and bring back slavery.
John McCain was cool and collective, Cindy McCain showed a grace and class that the above know nothing about. They came off as nutty fruitcakes and extreme left thinking libs.
Not only did it end slavery but that was it’s foundational purpose from the very beginning. It’s first slogan was Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Speech, Free Men, and Fremont
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