Zat better? (It is for me. "Those were the days" and all that.)
Posted on 02/08/2004 4:43:47 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
Edited on 02/08/2004 12:09:59 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The Talk Shows
Sunday, February 8th, 2004
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. John Edwards (D-NC) and Pat Roberts (R-KS); and Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-FL).
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): President George W. Bush.
Transcript of Russert/Bush interview
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Vermont governor Howard Dean (D).
THIS WEEK (ABC): Senator John Edwards (D-NC), former Clinton chief of staff John D. Podesta and Republican pollster Bill McInturff.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. John W. Warner (R-VA) and Carl M. Levin (D-MI); retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark; Former Vermont governor Howard Dean; former Carter national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; and former Reagan deputy chief of staff Michael K. Deaver.
Transcript of Russert/Bush interview
BTW, did you ever hear of the Million Moms March. And those dingbats who put signs in the front windows saying.....GUN FREE HOME.....
I do as well.
You make some good points and it's nice rather than scary to know we have something in common. I disagree with you, however, on your belief that President Bush should have asked for a "commercial-free" program. Why? Because this interview was not a SOTU speech, it was not a modern-day fireside chat, nor was it an important message from the nation's president to the people. Tim Russert has done interviews with presidential candidates and this interview was one of them. Yes, he is the POTUS, but in the context of the interview yesterday, he was a candidate just like all the others.
Can you imagine the outcry if he had received "special treatment" by NBC in this case? I believe that would have caused far greater damage to President Bush's campaign for re-election than what some consider to be a "poor showing" in the Russert interview.
My personal opinion is that President Bush did an admirable job of answering the questions put forth by Tim Russert. I will admit to a rose-colored bias on my part, but I don't believe it's humanly possible to eliminate all partialities since our entire lives are made up of choices that give us our viewpoints.
Your turn. :o)
Well, I hate to disappoint you ... but I agree with most of your comments :-)
I thought the purpose of the interview was to be more of an explanation to the American people for certain past decisions (fireside-chat'esqe), but in the context of it being a candidate interview, I suppose it would have been percieved as unfair to grant an full hour to his positions.
I guess i'm just getting old and cranky and after listening to the POTUS wistfully express regret over the casualties we have experienced in Iraq - the subsequent pitch for a cure for erectile dysfuntion, and Lassie perfoming kung-fu on a mountain lion seemed a little, well, odd.
On second thought, maybe it's just the current crop of commercials that I don't like :-)
Wait a minute. Are you implying that women vote with their libidos? How does that explain my vote for Ross Perot in 1992? Yes, it was a horribly stupid thing to do, but it sure wasn't his physical appearance that captured my vote.
Then again, it wasn't my intellect either...so what was it? Emotion, perhaps? Could be the same thing that causes women to respond to those "Chick Flicks" or read romance novels whereas men respond to basic visual stimuli like big bazongas or the curve of a waistline.
If a very physically attractive woman was running for public office against a much smarter but homely one, which one would receive more votes from men?
Zat better? (It is for me. "Those were the days" and all that.)
Bush's pronunciation bugs the heck out of the other members of my family, who were born in the NY area.
I'm a little more tolerant of variations in speech. Maybe that's because I was "born and raised" in another section of the country.
Webster's seems to have accepted the pronunciation Bush uses, too. I guess some might consider it substandard.
Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \-ky&-l&r\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, U.S. cabinet members, and at least one U.S. president and one vice president. While most common in the U.S., these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.
I can just imagine the uproar that would have been raised on the Left if Bush "demanded" a commercial-free show. Some Leftists would have hinted that Bush was trying to censor the media, just like a neo-Hitler.
IMHO, Bush is smart to keep his eye on the big picture, rather than waste energy on far less important things.
Of course, I can't accurately describe what all I'd do to Elamanure Clift were I given the opportunity, without Jim lifting the ban on swearing.
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