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O'Reilly Factor - Left-wing "reporters" met with John Kerry in Al Franken's apartment
03.22.04

Posted on 03/22/2004 7:13:09 PM PST by kcvl

In an effort to galvanize the message Kerry wants to deliver in the time remaining, he convened a powerful roster of journalists and columnists in the New York City apartment of Al Franken last Thursday. The gathering could not properly be called a meeting or a luncheon. It was a trial. The journalists served as prosecuting attorneys, jury and judge. The crowd I joined in Franken’s living room was comprised of:

Al Franken and his wife Franni;
Rick Hertzberg, senior editor for the New Yorker;
David Remnick, editor for the New Yorker;
Jim Kelly, managing editor for Time Magazine;
Howard Fineman, chief political correspondent for Newsweek;
Jeff Greenfield, senior correspondent and analyst for CNN;
Frank Rich, columnist for the New York Times;
Eric Alterman, author and columnist for MSNBC and the Nation;
Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist/author of ‘Maus’;
Richard Cohen, columnist for the Washington Post;
Fred Kaplan, columnist for Slate;
Jacob Weisberg, editor of Slate and author;
Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist for Newsweek;
Philip Gourevitch, columnist for the New Yorker;
Calvin Trillin, freelance writer and author;
Edward Jay Epstein, investigative reporter and author;
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who needs no introduction.

We sat in a circle around Kerry and grilled him for two long hours. In an age of retail politicians who avoid substance the way vampires avoid sunlight, in an age when the sitting President flounders like a gaffed fish whenever he must speak to reporters without a script, Kerry’s decision to open himself to the slings and arrows of this group was bold and impressive. He was fresh from two remarkable speeches – one lambasting the PATRIOT Act, another outlining his foreign policy ideals while eviscerating the Bush record – and had his game face on. He needed it, because Eric Alterman lit into him immediately on the all-important issue of his vote for the Iraq War Resolution. The prosecution had begun.


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David Remnick, editor of The New Yorker
101 posted on 03/22/2004 8:12:56 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

What is his wife's name?

102 posted on 03/22/2004 8:13:40 PM PST by Redcoat LI ("help to drive the left one into the insanity.")
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To: Redcoat LI
LOL!

JAMES KELLY Managing Editor, TIME

103 posted on 03/22/2004 8:15:52 PM PST by kcvl
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Howard Fineman Newsweek’s chief political correspondent, senior editor, and deputy Washington bureau chief
104 posted on 03/22/2004 8:17:53 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl; hollywood
tagged.
105 posted on 03/22/2004 8:19:14 PM PST by The_Macallan
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Jeff Greenfield CNN's senior analyst and contributor to Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics
106 posted on 03/22/2004 8:19:22 PM PST by kcvl
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Frank Rich columnist on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times since 1994, was given the additional title of senior writer for The New York Times Magazine in 1999.
107 posted on 03/22/2004 8:21:37 PM PST by kcvl
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Eric Alterman media columnist for The Nation, the "Altercation" weblogger for MSNBC.com (wwww.altercation.msnbc.com), and a fellow of Center for American Progress
108 posted on 03/22/2004 8:23:31 PM PST by kcvl
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Art Spiegelman cartoonist/author
109 posted on 03/22/2004 8:26:25 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl
It is not a joke. I will post the interview transcript when it is posted on his website, as soon as it is possible.

This is creepy. A real star chamber type of thing.

These people are "better than us". Kerry is just their type. Just look at Kerry. He probably has a servant just to wash his penis.

110 posted on 03/22/2004 8:27:03 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Guns!)
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To: The_Macallan
O'Reilly is about to do this segment again, coming up next.
111 posted on 03/22/2004 8:27:26 PM PST by kcvl
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Richard Cohen Post columnist since 1976. His column generally appears on The Post's opinion page on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
112 posted on 03/22/2004 8:29:57 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl
The guy O'Reilly is interviewing (Richard Hanley) has a good point that they started to trash Dean after this meeting.
113 posted on 03/22/2004 8:33:47 PM PST by isthisnickcool (Guns!)
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Fred Kaplan writes the "War Stories" column for Slate and is the author of The Wizards of Armageddon, a history of the nuclear strategists.
114 posted on 03/22/2004 8:34:29 PM PST by kcvl
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To: fabriclady
Considering how his week went, is didn't help him. He stuck his golden shoe in his mouth all week.

Correction....Kerry stuck his Flip-Flops in his mouth all week!


115 posted on 03/22/2004 8:35:27 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (One good term deserves another! Take W-04....Across America!)
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To: kcvl
We've all said all along that these people have no ethics or morals. What a corrupt bunch.
116 posted on 03/22/2004 8:36:43 PM PST by McGavin999 (Evil thrives when good men do nothing!)
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To: isthisnickcool
Interesting isn't it? It is the same thing Rush said today.

Jacob Weisberg editor in chief of Slate

117 posted on 03/22/2004 8:36:44 PM PST by kcvl
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Jonathan Alter is Senior editor and columnist for Newsweek, and contributing correspondent for NBC Nightly News and MSNBC.
118 posted on 03/22/2004 8:40:27 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl
campaign contributions of Al and Francis Franken.

There are no records on these other guys because they know well enough not to contribute cash to federal campaign because the data is made pubic.

119 posted on 03/22/2004 8:42:16 PM PST by newsmeat.com
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Philip Gourevitch staff writer at The New Yorker since April 1997
120 posted on 03/22/2004 8:42:24 PM PST by kcvl
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