Posted on 05/16/2004 5:00:52 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, May 16th, 2004
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Colin Powell, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Joe Biden, D-Del., and John McCain, R-Ariz.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Secretary of State Colin Powell; King Abdullah II of Jordan.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Army Maj. Gen. David Petraeus; Sens. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.; presidential candidate Ralph Nader; Tim Russert, NBC News; Iraqi Governing Council member Adnan Pachachi; retired Gen. George Joulwan, former NATO supreme commander; former CIA Director Stansfield Turner.
The press is at War with the Whitehouse. Bush's new tone with the media has to change to MAD literally and figuratively.
I saw the beginning of that show last night but turned it off when it seemed he was about to figuratively reenter Al Capone's cave. What a turkey!
so much for Ike's admonition about military industrial complexes.. we are now witness to a media gubamint complex in its place.
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Russerts an asshole. The crap could have been edited out. There's no news there. Chowderhead thinks he is one of the unelected Princes of America. What an ass.
CNBC repeats MTP at 10:00 pm Eastern.
That is what the media/press want them to do
I agree that President needs to address this more but getting into a fight with the press isn't the way
He needs to take it straight to the public
I hate the media. They ARE THE ENEMY!
Levin cares nothing at all about the truth--he is dedicated to demagoging the Bush administration. Once again, where was the outcry to fire Reno when she incinerated the Waco compound?
The one question I thought would be asked, wasn't - unless I missed it!
Wasn't it also news this week that Sec. Powell 'wanted out', again. I thought Tim would 'grill' Sec. Powell and Sec. Powell would have to say again it's news to him.
State Department press aide Emily Miller fumed as Tim Russert went beyond the 10 minutes allotted for the NBC Sunday session.
That is exactly what I surmised.
It probably helped that I did not see the interview, just the idiotic and malicious Russert comment at the end trying to imply something with the "aide tried to end" the interview, but conceding it was a tape of an *uneditied* interview.
That information told me everything, and I was able to deduce with the knowledge that Powell was slated to appear on numerous programs that this was an issue of time problems, NOT content of questions.
Who were the two people walking toward Powell when the camera first panned over to the ocean? It looked like these people came out of nowhere? At first, it looked like the camera was following them and didn't know what they were doing.
Then you could hear Russert saying that it was an attempt to end the interview by Powell's aides........how did Russert KNOW that? Was he there? Could he see what was going on behind the cameras? It sure looked to me like he jumped on the "trying to get out of the interview" bandwagon real quick.
These people are disgusting. I'm so sick of their "gotcha" and "get Bush" mantra, I am banning the news for awhile. I know what I feel about this WOT and all their bad news is not going to change that.
Anyone notice how QUITE the press has been about skerry? Maybe because he can't be elected if the people hear his dumb ass.
If he's going to steal your work, the least he could do is give you the credit.
Drudge has no shame.
"" The whole interview seemed to be awkward. Don't know why.""
I just got to watch our TIVO'd version (sorry, I have no idea how to retrieve the TIVO recordings)
Tim's hairdo is awful and distracting, for one thing.
Then, his reaction *when* the Secretary says they've been cut off is increasing anger.
The Secretary evidently immediately noticed the problem while the NBC professionals did not, demanded that it be fixed, began to fix it, then told Tim. As with the prison scandal, Tim-the-representative-of-the-media became outraged, assumed the worst, and demanded that the problem be fixed before he found out about it. Russert then proceeded to complain not only about the problem, but declare a malignant motive on the part of those who *did* notice.
And then, after the problem was fixed by swift, decisive action on the part of Government representatives in high places, Tim had to editorialize about being wronged by the only people who actually did anything to fix the problem.
What's really innapropriate is that someone let Tim Russert on air with his hair sticking up in parts and too puffy on the left side. As a matter of fact, he looks hung over.
( I guess he could have been up watching the Spurs-Laker game. I could have used a stiff drink after the Lying Adulterers won. )
You mean... they won't mention Berg's beheading? But how... could... responsible journalists... do that? :^ |
I heard Russert say it was taped, and Drudge has posted the portion of the transcript confirming:
MR. RUSSERT: AND THAT WAS AN UNEDITED INTERVIEW WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE, TAPED EARLIER THIS MORNING FROM JORDAN.
I watched FoxNews this morn and sort of listend to MTP and This Week.
As I expected on ABC and NBC, Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib. Not sure if Berg was mentioned even once on MTP. Was included in the In Memorium segement on ABC.
LOL!! Perfect analysis.
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