Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Quote of the Night: Ted Koppel on Nightline regarding Media
Nightline | 09/14/04 | Ted Koppel

Posted on 09/14/2004 11:48:11 PM PDT by kingu

Quote of the night, by Ted Koppel, at the start of tonight's Nightline broadcast...

'And we in the media will need a stepstool to rise to the level of used car salesmen..' making reference to the Rathergate scandal.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: abcnews; cbsmemos; memos; rathergate; ratherinteresting
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-25 next last
I don't watch him often, but he does sometimes sum up things rather well.
1 posted on 09/14/2004 11:48:11 PM PDT by kingu
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: kingu

He uses a step stool to get into that hair of his.


2 posted on 09/14/2004 11:50:06 PM PDT by D Edmund Joaquin (There are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit and the water and the blood 1 John 5:8)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kingu

NEXT BOMBSHELL FROM 60 MINUTES!


3 posted on 09/14/2004 11:51:33 PM PDT by mfulstone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kingu

Loving all of the CBS bashing , ABC is joining in!


4 posted on 09/14/2004 11:58:01 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kingu

OUCH! I think they'll need more than a step stool, and that's to reach the level of maggot. Striving for used car saleman will be a life long goal.


5 posted on 09/14/2004 11:59:38 PM PDT by Lancer_N3502A
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mfulstone

Look at the shrubs in the background. That's clearly CAMBODIA. Bush knew Kerry was in Cambodia, and Bush didn't tell us--he let his Swift Goons lie. Bush Knew.


6 posted on 09/15/2004 12:01:11 AM PDT by xm177e2 (Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: kingu
Multimedia con artists..er..."journalists" already needed a ladder to to rise up to the level of scum on the bottom of a used car salesman's shoe before the forgery debacle.

Now, the effusion of the rear end of a pig is more welcome than a journalist.

7 posted on 09/15/2004 12:01:36 AM PDT by Ophiucus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: kingu

BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA watching rats run is fun


8 posted on 09/15/2004 12:04:29 AM PDT by jnarcus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: D Edmund Joaquin
Ted needs a step stool to get into his anchor chair. He's really quite small, but has a large head that makes him look bigger. You won't see him doing many stand-uppers except maybe standing on a milk crate. [rim shot]
9 posted on 09/15/2004 12:05:08 AM PDT by Lee Shore
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: kingu
At first he tried to whitewash his pal Rather's report, but I have seen many MSM sources start turning on Rather. Meanwhile, it looks like Rather will continue to Stonewall.

I guess he is so impressed with his own position and opinion that he thinks he can ride it out, but I don't see how a reasonable person can continue to believe in the authenticity of these memos. They have been debunked in numerous ways

More and more of his MSM associates are concluding the memos are bogus. Dan is the emperor of CBS and will fiddle while it burns.

10 posted on 09/15/2004 12:08:03 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lancer_N3502A
I sold used cars as a college student to supplement my GI Bill money.

Picked up some cash and always had a car to drive.

There is more than one way to get to where you want to be.

11 posted on 09/15/2004 12:16:48 AM PDT by smoothsailing (Eagles Up !!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182
You just have to love the neologistic verb ''to stonewall'', in this particular case especially. Remember what happened to the famed Confederate general, Thomas J. ''Stonewall'' Jackson?

He was shot by his own sentry.

How amazingly apropos, after 141 years, eh?

12 posted on 09/15/2004 12:21:54 AM PDT by SAJ (Write SFV 7700 puts on any decent dip. The LBX 460 calls tanked out to 1.00 today...wait here..)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: kingu


Great new tag, thanks :-)


13 posted on 09/15/2004 12:21:57 AM PDT by Tamzee (Koppel --- "....the media will need a stepstool to rise to the level of used car salesmen.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Lee Shore

Yes, I've heard him referred to as a "pixie". I used to watch him but then realized one night he had no clue to anything outside of Washington.


14 posted on 09/15/2004 12:23:45 AM PDT by D Edmund Joaquin (There are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit and the water and the blood 1 John 5:8)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: Anti-Bubba182
I guess he is so impressed with his own position and opinion that he thinks he can ride it out, but I don't see how a reasonable person can continue to believe in the authenticity of these memos. They have been debunked in numerous ways

Didn't Danny once say on O'Rielly's show with regards to Clinton that he believed that a person could lie, but still be an honest person??

15 posted on 09/15/2004 12:27:11 AM PDT by Mo1 (Why is the MSM calling the Vietnam Vets and POW's a suspected group??)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: kingu
'And we in the media will need a stepstool to rise to the level of used car salesmen..'

No you won't you MSM SOB's!!!

You'll just rise to the level where you guys will be in a position to kiss the butt of a used car salesmen!!!

16 posted on 09/15/2004 12:32:04 AM PDT by Dacus943
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: mfulstone

LOL


17 posted on 09/15/2004 12:32:46 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: smoothsailing

No offense intended.


18 posted on 09/15/2004 12:33:40 AM PDT by Lancer_N3502A
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Dacus943

"MSM" as a decription of a dying industry doesnt quite cut it IMHO. Old media or something simular would be more in line.


19 posted on 09/15/2004 12:37:20 AM PDT by rrrod
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: kingu

boom

The AWB Has Expired - Gun Owners Have Won Again For All Americans!

20 posted on 09/15/2004 12:38:55 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-25 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson