Posted on 10/30/2004 5:31:48 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
A quick report on this Saturday morning's edition of The Today Show. I'll get into some details below, but here's all people really need to know. Time spent in crucial first half-hour discussing OBL tape: virtually all. Tim e spent discussing missing explosives: virtually none.
Joe Lockhart came on and tried to spin things as best he could, but you could see his heart wasn't in it. He knows that as long as the topic is OBL and the war on terror, his man is losing.
Mary Matalin was the first guest, and she emphasized the great strides W has made in the war against terror and OBL's networks.
When Campbell Brown then interviewed Joe Lockhart, she invited him to describe how the tape release could help Kerry. With a straight face, Lockhart claimed "I don't think we look at it in political terms. OBL doesn't have a vote here." Translation: we sure hope that this won't hurt us too badly in political terms.
Lockhart went on to assert that "there are two different philosophies - Pres. made his choice to divert attention from OBL and into Iraq - Kerry opposed that." Right. Opposed it by authorizing W to go to war against Iraq.
Ol' Joe managed to get in a last, dying shot on the explosives: "They [the terrorists] probably have 100s of tons of explosives because they weren't guarded."
Again, it really wasn't so much who said what. It's the fact that the OBL tape dominated the coverage that is important.
It is, in political terms, both offense and defense for W. Offense in that it puts the spotlight on terrorism, where W holds a huge lead over Kerry in the minds of the American people. Defense in that it knocks the missing weapons off the front pages.
A good morning for W on Today. It must have infuriated the powers-that-be at NBC. But what choice did they really have?
Weekend Today Show ping.
Yuk, yuk, yuk...hehehe...spin, as they will, ain't gonna cut it now for ole Johnny.
This is a great description of his appearance on Fox as well. He seemed positively listless about the whole thing. The internal polls must be gosh awful. Hehehehe.
Earlier Joe Lockhart promised a solid Kerry win on Fox..what a surprise!
BUSH/CHENEY...04 FOR THE SAKE OF OUR NATION.
Ol' Joe managed to get in a last, dying shot on the explosives: "They [the terrorists] probably have 100s of tons of explosives because they weren't guarded."
Note to Lockjaw: Since your guy OPPOSES going into Iraq, then the terrorists would have had access to ALL of it, wouldn't they, bonehead?!
thanks for the report
Interesting that Alzhari probably goaded Osama into showing his face when the former claimed a recently that he was really in charge now. That plus Osama misreading the US population's reaction to the vid has probably ensured these guys will continue to be hunted down like the rats they are.Kerry's election was their only hope to creat Isalamic rule Malmo (the city in Sweden where Swedish police can no longer go) regions in every Western country.
Claims "John Kerry Will Track Me Down & Kill Me!"
Practically nothing on the OBL tape and still talking nytrogate and Halliburton.
Too bad for Kerry nobody listens to NPR.
They [the terrorists] probably have 100s of tons of explosives because they weren't guarded." .....
More accurately, they have the explosives because Bill Clinton failed to stand up to the UN and Kerry's allies and allowed them to stockpile gazillions of tons of weapons in Iraq. Failure to act by a weak, indecisive President is the root of the problem.
Rather evident, the distain for the intelligence of many voters the Dimocrats have, but then looking at how successful they have been with the geriatric crowd on SS, and how they have been equally successful keeping the majority of blacks down on the plantations, listening to the Jacksons and Sharptons it's fairly obvious many can't read and comprehend. ;)
Too bad we don't have a commercial with Kerry approving the Tora Bora operation some time ago. Every lie, a new commercial unveiled!
If Kerry pulls a Bob Dole - 24 hour blitz on Monday, we'll know for sure that he's sunk.
Lockhart was on F&F as well, and I heard none of the rhetoric we heard yesterday from the 'rats--the "Bush lost Bin Laden in Tora Bora" kind of stuff I was hearing yesterday from Kerry and his minions. Focus groups must have been as repulsed by it as we were.
Someone actually watches this c*** on a Saturday
governsleastgovernsbest does us all a huge service by sacrificially watching the c**p for us so we don't have to! Should receive a medal for devoted community service IMO.
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