Posted on 06/15/2004 4:47:38 PM PDT by ArmyBratproud
Russert Continues to Belittle Powell Press Aide
NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert keeps talking about a minor on-air dust-up he had with an aide to Secretary of State Colin Powell four weeks ago, who tried to cut short an interview after the NBC honcho refused to stick by a previously agreed-upon schedule.
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Has the world gone insane?!
Hello, Can you hear me now?
What is really pathetic about Russert...(who claims to be independent...someone should ask him when is the last time he voted for a Republican Mayor, County Commish, Governor, or President) is a major hypocrite when it comes to this subject. Newsmax and Drudge have already reported how Russert and his little aid cut off a Radio talk show interview early and he dodged a question in the process.
Russert is just carrying out the plan that the liberal media has this year...biased media in an attempt to get a democrap win. If we think it was bad when they lied about the economy(which started a major upswing during his last year) when Bush 41 was running for re-election...we have not seen anything yet.
Somebody make him go away. He's on CNBC again now humping his book, "Big Russ and Big Head"!
What's the frequency, Colin?
Tim Russert: A little man with an enormous head.
"In the morning they asked her how she slept.
'Oh terribly bad!' said the princess. 'I have hardly closed my eyes the whole night! Heaven knows what was in the bed. I seemed to be lying upon some hard thing, and my whole body is black and blue this morning. It is terrible!'
They saw at once that she must be a real princess when she had felt the pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds. Nobody but a real princess could have such a delicate skin. "
Hey Russert, even a princess doesn't go on and on and on about a pea.
Under Tim(e) pressure
Official respect for the First Amendment is apparently in steep decline.The other day, an intrepid journalist and truth-seeker was grilling a powerful public figure. But before the interview was over, the powerful public figure's press aide abruptly broke in as tape rolled and stopped the interrogation.
Tim Russert interviewing Colin Powell?
Nope.
Try Brian Lehrer interviewing Tim Russert.
"We were given precisely 10 minutes with Russert to tape an interview about his new book from 8 a.m. to 8:10 a.m. for broadcast at 10 a.m. last Friday," the WNYC radio host told me yesterday.
"My impression was that he was very tightly scheduled, and had to do five or six interviews one after the other and his people were trying to keep him on schedule ... Eight minutes into the interview, a woman's voice cut in and barked, 'WNYC, you have eight seconds left!' And the interview came to a quick end."
Lehrer added that the glitch was deleted from what sounded, when it was broadcast, like a seamless conversation.
"It was no big deal," Lehrer said, noting that the interrupter was not an NBC News employee. "These things happen. It was just the usual bureaucratic stuff and getting an interview. So we edited it out."
But two days later, Secretary of State Powell's press aide, Emily Miller, was so desperate to keep her boss on schedule that she tried to end Russert's taped interview when it ran into overtime. The "Meet the Press" moderator went ballistic.
Not only did Russert castigate Powell's aide on his own NBC show, he gave righteously indignant interviews about "attempted news management gone berserk" to CNN and The Washington Post.
On Monday, Lehrer poked fun at Russert's tantrum by airing the rude interruption that he had earlier excised.
"If Colin Powell's people were guilty of attempted news management gone berserk," Lehrer told me yesterday, "then I can say only that Tim Russert's people succeeded at it."
Russert could not be interrupted for comment yesterday.
Russert could not be interrupted for comment yesterday.
That last line is golden!
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