[alisasny]

Tim made a point of saying " the unedited interview with Powell"

Since Powell answered his final question there was no point in airing the camera trouble unless of course Tim wants Powell to look bad.

What an idiot.

[Mo1]

Since Powell answered his final question there was no point in airing the camera trouble unless of course Tim wants Powell to look bad.

You're right .. what was the point in doing that .. Powell wanted to finish the interview

Timmy also lookd ticked in the unedited version

[maica]

Tim made a point of saying " the unedited interview with Powell"

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Could this mean that the interview was not done live, and the MTP producers=Tim decided to run it as it came across the satellite feed, intentionally to embarass the SOS?

PS: Where was Powell, what country?

[chiller]

"there was no point in airing the camera trouble unless of course Tim wants Powell to look bad."

And that is the gist of it all. Period. Emily probably wanted to interrupt the TAPING to advise they were running long, and late again, and since they were editing there was no problem. Russert stepped over my line with this BS.

[YaYa123]

Oh yeah, Tim was chest thumping all right, as in: Powell was scared of me, so he pre-arranged for Emily to interrupt the interview when the going got tough, but I shamed him into finishing the interview.

And take note, how quickly Russert instinctively tap danced it into a plus for him, at Powell's expense..which I hope Powell remembers with vengence! (Of course, Tim was getting earpiece signals the whole time...from his producer.

The big news off MTP today? HA!!! That Tim Russert does edit his pre-recorded interviews. If he didn't, he wouldn't have acknowledged that today for a change, he didn't.