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Lauer's Not a Shrink but did Stay in a Holiday Inn: W "in Denial," "Living in Fantasy Land"
The Today Show

Posted on 09/28/2004 4:31:34 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

If Katie can be an expert on colonoscopies, and Dan Rather an ace document authenticator, why can't Matt Lauer be an armchair psychoanalyst?

Move over Sigmund, here comes Matt. In a just-completed interview with senior Bush advisor Karen Hughes, Lauer suggested W was "in denial," and "living in fantasy land" because of the optimistic statements the president has made about the situation in Iraq.

Lauer's litany of purported failure in Iraq included the number of US casualties, the car bombs, beheadings, and areas where elections could not be conducted.

Hughes wasn't buying. She defended W's view of the war, and in particular his statement in the O'Reily interview that the "mission accomplished" carrier visit and remarks made there were justified.

Stumped there, Matt moved on to the essence of the Bush campaign's anti-Kerry strategy: the fact that the lugubrious, Gallic-looking windsurfer is an inveterate flip flopper.

Lauer suggested that W had changed his position on steel tariffs and the 9/11 Commission, and asked if W had "evolved" on those issues and if it is nececessarily a bad thing?

Karen wouldn't be lured into Matt's line of reasoning. Instead she focused on Kerry, pointing out that on as crucial an issue as Iraq, it is dangerous for a leader to have "8, 9 or 10 different positions."

Karen was tough without being unpleasant, and Lauer's agreeable tone at the end seemed to acknowledge that he knew he had been had by a better . . . woman.


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1 posted on 09/28/2004 4:31:34 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Today Show Shrink-for-a-Day ping.


2 posted on 09/28/2004 4:32:44 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Why does any watch that crap???


3 posted on 09/28/2004 4:35:50 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The fantasy land is 30 Rockefeller Plaza. Matt needs a reality check, unfortunately I cannot assist, since that channel does not work on either of my TV's ;>)


4 posted on 09/28/2004 4:37:25 AM PDT by BigLittle
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To: Perdogg
Why does anyone watch that crap???

Answering your question would require me to play the psychoanalyst. All I can say is that millions of people do. And because that's so, I think it's worthwhile to keep track of what the MSM are up to.

5 posted on 09/28/2004 4:38:02 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Actually, it's Kerry who's in fantasy land about Iraq.

He is so obsessed with Vietnam that he sees everything as though he is still on the swift boat.

The insurgency is not the Viet Cong.

Kerry is stuck in the middle of the last century fighting within himself a war of conscience.

His apparent flip-flops are a transparent window into a soul racked with insecurity and doubt.

On the other hand, George W. Bush sees the war clearly and is focused on victory, not a past quagmire of will.

6 posted on 09/28/2004 4:40:13 AM PDT by CROSSHIGHWAYMAN (Anybody but Kerry!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

"fantasy world" is a new ratmedia phrase. Last week a moron asked frenchie if he didn't think that Rummy and W were living in the same "fantasy world". But of course we're just stupid lemmings and nobody out here noticed this :-)!


7 posted on 09/28/2004 4:40:28 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 ( Kerry's not "one of us": catholicsagainstkerry.com. needs your help.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Thanks for reporting back to us from the front lines of television. We know you are taking one for the team by doing this, and it is appreciated.


8 posted on 09/28/2004 4:40:49 AM PDT by speedy
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>>Why does any watch that crap???<<

GLGB does it so you don't have to!!!


9 posted on 09/28/2004 4:41:17 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Does a clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?)
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN
Excellent analysis, IMHO.

Sure you didn't stay in a Holiday Inn last night? ;-)

10 posted on 09/28/2004 4:42:11 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Karen was tough without being unpleasant.

She is a PRO!!!

I only wish that Ari Fleischer were back. He was a pro too. He was so pleasant and intelligent, and had that wonderfully diasarming smile. He had those reporters eating out of his hand.

He would be very helpful these past few weeks! Really!

Come back, Ari!

11 posted on 09/28/2004 4:42:23 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza - let them run around naked, at least the kids)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I have to once again compliment you on your excellent writing skills, glgb. Your reviews are always on target and it's so nice not to have to watch the morning idiots.


12 posted on 09/28/2004 4:42:25 AM PDT by arasina (So there.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Please, every time I see polyp-face Katie, Matt the Geek I feel like vomiting. The fact that these two had Kitty Litter Kelley in their show speaks volumes. Notice, though, that nobody talks about the Kitty show because nobody cares. CBS, NBC, CNN...they are all an arm of Poodle's campaign.


13 posted on 09/28/2004 4:42:42 AM PDT by Jose Roberto
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
By the way, thanks for taking the mental abuse of watching these shows for all of us.

Your info is great!

14 posted on 09/28/2004 4:43:38 AM PDT by beyond the sea (Free Martha Mitchell......... and Jail Teraaaaaayza - let them run around naked, at least the kids)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

and we appreciate hearing it secondhand from you, so as to be informed, yet not to have to withstand the torture ourselves. you provide a valuable service : )


15 posted on 09/28/2004 4:44:27 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

oh ME I despise those two...
have they EVER had an original thought between them??


16 posted on 09/28/2004 4:45:15 AM PDT by ArmyBratCutie ("Four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:soap, ballot, jury, ammo in this order!")
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To: jmaroneps37

"Fantasy world of spin." Isn't that the new Lockhart/Kerry/ABCNNBCBS catch phrase?


17 posted on 09/28/2004 4:45:21 AM PDT by Huck ("Winners don't need to hijack airplanes. Winners have an air force." --P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Matt "sniff, sniff" Lauer.
Matt "What's that white stuff under your nose" Lauer
Matt "President Bush lives in a fantasy world" Lauer


18 posted on 09/28/2004 4:45:26 AM PDT by 4everontheRight (W stands for Why don't you just sit down and shut the hell up John Kerry)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Who is Matt Lauer?


19 posted on 09/28/2004 4:45:55 AM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: beyond the sea

she was SO GOOD on Fox just now!!


20 posted on 09/28/2004 4:46:09 AM PDT by ArmyBratCutie ("Four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:soap, ballot, jury, ammo in this order!")
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