Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 8 Feb 2004 (Pres Bush on MTP)

Various big media television networks ^ | 8 Feb 2004 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

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

[thesummerwind]

Like Molly Ivins says, Kerry could take the excitement out of a soccer riot. ------------ another one of your keepers!

ROFL

[Stu Cohen]

My take:

The first half of the interview was a disaster. Bush seemed defensive, unconfident, suttered, repeated himself, and clearly didn't even believe the words that were coming out of his own mouth. When he didn't know the answer to a question, he rambled about something about the "war on terror".

I was cringing.

The economy stuff in the second half of the interview was a little better.

Overall I think the interview hurt him, and probably emboldened the opposing parties. If ever a man seemed on the defensive, he did.

He is just not a good unscripted speaker. It doesn't mean that he is not qualified to be president, but he just *does not* convey himself well on the fly.

Not sure why he did the interview. He finished strong, but I don't know if it was enough to fix that disastrous first 30 minutes.

I wish he hadn't done the interview. I can't imagine anyone *truly* thinking that it was a persuasively good interview. Sure, many people will SAY it and SPIN it ... but most people with an IQ in excess of 100 probably feels deep down that it was not one of the better moments in this presidency.

[Mo1]

Here .. go mid way down the article to see the interview ... I'm not sure if it''s the whole thing because I'm still watching

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4209283/

[David1]

Ding..Ding..Ding...Ding!!!

You understand what I'm talking about. Voters can certainly be very shallow. I remember women voting for Clinton because he was "cute" compared to Bush 41.

[lainde]

But of course Theresaaa thinks he's a poor president because he has no "intellectual curiosity". Hmmmm...Summed up the failures in Vietnam in just under 30 seconds. Meanwhile JF**K is still "confused" about his Iraq war votes.

[PhiKapMom]

Don't you get suspect of posters that use the fact that Gore won the popular vote when it made no difference. If it was all about popular vote, Pres Bush would have campaigned hard in TX, OK, KS to bring out all the Republican voters. Voters in our states didn't bother to vote because they knew he was going to win big.

I will take Pres Bush standing next to Lurch any day -- Kerry is flat out ugly while Pres Bush is good looking.

[Major_Risktaker]

Please tell me what you meant by that graphic?

The graphic is used to highlight President Bush's muted voice about illegal immigration and why no reports has ask him any detailed questions about this issue in the past 3 years.

Other than this one issue, President Bush has done an outstanding job with the current environment he has had to work with.

I want this issue addressed this year not in the next century!

[beaversmom]

What worries me about Kerry is how low energy and sickly he appears

Maybe he can hire a Naomi Wolf of the mortician world to turn him into an Alive Male.

[Carolinamom]

The MSNBC article stopped short in President Bush's remarks about his National Guard duty. It left out his concluding remarks that it was ok for critics to take on him BUT they better not not denigrate the National Guard, whose members have served heroically in the past and are NOW fighting in Iraq.

[Gracey]

Actually I didn't think it was his usually "tough" questioning as much as a "gotcha" session, for he kept coming back to the same dumb questions that Pres Bush had already answered. I thought he asked TERRIBLE questions. As someone stated, there was nothing about the war and positive things we had done in Afghanistan or Iraq, how Libya is coming around, and how other States are on alert.

[David1]

I just hope you're right and that I will be totally wrong over this height issue.

[afropick]

This past month has been typical of the President's last 4 years, the dems and media pounding and pounding on him and policies. However, after the smoke clears, Pres Bush manages to overcome all of the adversity and this is no different. What we have seen today on MTP should, IMO, give pause to Kerry and those licking their chops and acting like this is 92. Pres Bush is focused on preventing another 9/11, while Kerry is relying on the Clinton playbook on fighting terrorism. And on top of that, the Mass Supreme Court did no favors for Kerry by demanding the legalization of gay marriage.

[Just mythoughts]

I know little about him, other than there is a Libby that works for Cheney.

IF anyone with the intent to cause harm broke the law and outed a covered person, they should pay the price.

Just to make that clear, and I do not see President Bush or VP Cheney willing to ignore that kind of thing. So if there had been lawbreaking done from within the White House, I do not believe that it would be ignored.

What unfolded last summer was all sorts of accusations about Rove outing, then it progressed to of late coming from Cheney's people.

What appears to me to be going on is the "TESTING" and "TRASHING" of President Bush to gather their own "INTEL" to hopefully win an election.

These crying whining liberals have complained of the "SECRETS" of the Bush administration and their first attempt at testing the metal was going after Cheney on his Energy meetings.


Now via that leaked MEMO laid out how to get "INTEL" to be used to TRIGGER an independent investigation. So clearly they must be afraid that there is INTEL out there that could do them harm, and the President just might have some of it.

Thus far ethically speaking I have not found "lawbreaking" part of the President's culture in and around the White House like we saw in the clinton administration.

Ted Kennedy standing on the Senate floor calling President Bush a liar, without any evidence, sets the parameters of what these people are willing to do.

[NordP]

I surely hope that Karl will see your succinct bullet point comments, and have our President use them in the debate. Long answers only confuse.

Saddam & Co. provided a clear recipe for danger, and we'd just experienced 9/11. Was W supposed to wait until another 9/11 happened BEFORE he acted? No, and those that are giving him the most grief for his actions now, are exactly the same people who would be condemning him for not doing enough!

NordP

[David1]

hehehe lol

[Stu Cohen]

He did win the popular vote.

I'm unconvinced of this. If you account for voter fraud, and assign 1 vote to every 1 U.S. Citizen, this probably wasn't the case.

The illegal vote in LA County alone is a well known phenomenon, and could probably account for a good 100,000 of those 500,000 votes alone.

[arasina]

Perhaps you are correct and this is some Machiavellian ploy by Bush to ultimately impede illegal immigration by seeming to favor legalizing it ...

If that's what you got from reading what I posted, you have a serious comprehension problem and I am not going to waste my typing fingers on further clarification. My original point was that President Bush brought the issue to the forefront to encourage such debate by your and my representatives. He offered his PROPOSED solution to the dispute and now the "meeting" is open for discussion.

[cyncooper]

What? Cheney has been giving speeches defending the war in Iraq.

What do you mean he's been hiding? That is flatout false.

Why are so many willing to by the democrat spin on VP Cheney?

[kristinn]

Thanks. Russert usually throws in at least one bonhommie type question that let' the audience know 'we're all friends even though we disagree.'

Jim, taping these shows is above and beyond the call of duty for aggravation on a Sunday. I salute you!