Russert is POUNDING Frist. Yes, he did, didn't he. Very hostile and adversarial. Totally unlike how he treats dims or his pets, like McLame.
Does Russert not understand what a blind trust is?
I believe that he knows perfectly well what a blind trust is, but that he also knows that most people (in his audience particularly) don't. So he was exploiting the ignorance of others by framing the questions they way he did.
Where Frist completely fell down was that he almost never challenged Timmy's phrasing of the question. Even on this question he failed badly that way. He did finally lay out that, legally, a "blind trust" doesn't mean he doesn't know what stocks might be in the trust, just that he doesn't now how many of any given stock he has. However, Frist didn't make that correction until he'd already stumbled badly and left the impression that Timmy had caught him on something.
Terrible display of bias by Timmy.
Terrible performance by Dr. Frist.
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01/29/2006 8:22:18 AM PST by
Phsstpok
(There are lies, damned lies, statistics and presentation graphics, in descending order of truth)
Frist is a typical Republican Senator, short on spine, long on "nuance" "responsibility" and not saying the "wrong thing".
Thanks to everyone who watches this stuff and posts, so I don't have to.
I half-watched MTP and it's so old thing.
No discussion of the important issues facing our country:
1) Trade and Budget deficits
2) N. Korea nuclear weapons
3) Iraq exit strategy
4) Illegal Immigration
5) Tax reform
6) Social Security/Medicare reform
Just endless questions on phony, meaningless topics:
1) Frist's blind trust
2) Domestic "spying" (seems to have replaced the Plame scandal as the no. 1 issue)
3) Bush pictures with Abramoff
4) 2008 presidential campaign
5) Bush's poll numbers
I wonder if we (DC Elected Republicans) gain ANYTHING by being on these shows. Why give them respectability? Limit their guests to RINO's and Democrats and people would see them for what they are : Unpaid DNC propaganda.
/END RANT/