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

03.22.04

[Carolinamom]

Why didn't Kerry and Teraaaaza host this little get to gether in one of their many homes?

[Sybeck1]

Stuart served quiche too, correct?

[Liberty Valance]

LOL, someone missed a golden opportunity to spike the finger food at that meeting with ex-lax or something. A case of the "quick step" would have been fun to watch in that room :o)

[Plutarch]

Kerry’s decision to open himself to the slings and arrows of this group...

Oh JFK, you are sooooo brave. It must be real tough for a left wing Senator to face off with a group of preening lefty journalists.

Put Kerry in a room with a randomly selected group of Republicans, and he'd have a lot more to sweat over than anything Frank Rich is going to dish out.

[eddie willers]

Franni Frankin????

Sounds like a "Laugh In" skit, doesn't it?

Friends of the Farkels?

[Howlin]

Me first!

"Senator Kerry, is it or is it not a criminal offense to consider/discuss the assasination of six sitting member of the United States Senate?"

[Darlin']

"Franni Frankin???? Seriously?

Seriously ! LOL.

[Sybeck1]

If only Rush and Sean would follow up on this!

[onyx]

Good work, kcvl.
Thanks for ping Mo1.
I have quit watching O'Reilly out of nescessity:
he comes on here at supper time.

[paul51]

Personally, I don't have a problem with this. In fact, I think they should all meet again and ask him the exact same questions. Now that would be an eye opener

[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.


http://www.billoreilly.com

[deport]

This meeting with the reporters occurred in Dec. 2003.... This article was written on Dec. 10, 2003 by Pitt.....

The Trial of John Kerry
     By William Rivers Pitt
     t r u t h o u t | Perspective

     Wednesday 10 December 2003

     There are but a few weeks to go before the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. Time has grown short. 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.

[TC Rider]

The were gonna call it

Left Wing Extremist Home Make-Over,

but that was too wordy for the average viewer to comprehend

Was "Trading Space Cases" already taken?

[eddie willers]

Personally, I don't have a problem with this. In fact, I think they should all meet again and ask him the exact same questions. Now that would be an eye opener

LOL...And Flipping Kerry would need the transcript to even come close to being able to repeat his "Deep Convictions".

[kcvl]

You really know how to hurt a person, don't you? lol! Do I ever remember that! Eight looooonnnnnnggg years later, they still aren't out of our faces.

[arasina]

Election manipulation by the media, pure and simple. They are all puffed up with the power to choose the Democrat candidate.

[blastdad51]

"Al Franken and his wife Franni;"

First time I read this I didn't catch the "r" in her name

[Shermy]

FYI, Ed's probably a Kerry supporter, FYI.

Edward Jay Epstein, investigative reporter and author;

[blam]

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