Posted on 10/02/2006 5:07:51 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
October 2, 2006 - 07:54
If Matt Lauer ever decides to leave 'Today,' he has a promising career ahead of him interpreting for the hearing-impaired at meetings of Moveon.org and like-minded groups.
Interviewing Bob Woodward on this morning's 'Today' on his Bush-bashing State of Denial, Lauer served as a cheerleader worthy of Katie at her perkiest.
At one point, Lauer summarized matters thusly:
"You paint a picture of a White House and administration that is not tone deaf in some cases but that literally in some cases puts their hands over their ears and said we don't want to hear the information if the information is not going to bolster our company line."
That's when, in the screen capture shown here, Lauer 'helpfully' mimed the White House's 'hear no evil' attitude that Woodward alleges.
Lauer's only criticism was that Woodward didn't come out sooner with his unflattering portrait of the Bush administration:
"As you uncover all of this stuff, some of this stuff is vitally important as this nation is at war and people are dying. Didn't you have a responsibility to go to a mountain top and scream this out and not hold it for the release of a book a month before the mid-term elections? . . . If it's a case of not listening to key military advice when Americans are dying, people could say it's disingenuous to wait for a splash with a book?"
Woodward made a telling admission in response:
"The publisher Simon & Schuster and my bosses at the Washington Post said the real obligation here, to use your analogy to get up on top of the mountain and tell the full story, is to tell it before the election. That's what we are doing."
With two big helping hands from Matt.
Aside: In her interview of White House spokesman Tony Snow that preceded the Woodward-Lauer love-in, Meredith Vieira might have scored the most inane question of the still-young month with this pearl: "Is there anything in the book you agree with?"
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Today Show/NewsBusters hear-no-evil ping.
It sure gets thick around election time. Best to ignore it.
The liberal establishment is having a collective orgasm over this book. Coming out when it has they believe it will put the exclamation point on a resounding Democrat victory in November. That, combined with the Foley debacle, is a one, two punch from which the Republicans will not recover (nor will the media let them).
Goodness GLGB!
This has to be the best thread title you have ever come up with!!!
LOLOLOL!
Thanks, netmilsmom - I have to admit getting a chuckle out of it myself ;-)
"...to tell it before the election."
Talk about a "smoking gun"! Hear Bob Wormwood admits that the Washington Post wanted to sway the election toward the Democrats by having his book come out a month before the elections. I was a reluctant voter in the upcoming election, but all this piling on on the part of the President's enemies, makes it necessary that all GOP voters go to the polls Nov. 7.
Otherwise, we will have nothing but Democrat investigations and the President's impeachment to look forward to in the next two years.
Let the games begin.
Hear=Here
I watched part of this this morning. It was on before I got in the shower and they were still talking to Bob after I was dressed and ready for work. My wife said, "Why is this book any different from anything else that is out there from these Bush haters." I told here, "This one is different because there is an election comming up and the media is running out of material to bash republicans with."
She sais, "That makes sense."
GLGB...great post!
Doesn't Lauer already translate for the liberal brain-dead consortium? How many more groups must this man front for?
Buahaha.
Your wife is a wise lady.
I did not see the 60 Minutes/Woodward thing last night (I had no interest and I haven't watched the program in years), but a caller to Bill Bennett this morning had a great comment. She said that watching Woodward made her think of Norma Desmond in her "I'm ready for my closeup, Mr. DeMille" moment.
So, Mark Foley's situation was known of for 3 years, but only became news 2 months before the election.
So, Woodward has an anti-Bush book, and publication is delayed until 2 months before the election.
But the media is unbiased, and not working along with the Democrat's time-table.
LOL........ they did right before the election.
And so has Soros/The Dems./CREW/ABC/etc. done the same with Foley.
Damn, these guys are consistent.
Well, at least they know admit their bias and their goal: affect an election. I didn't think this was the job of the media, but apparently I was wrong. Woodward admits openly, he is publishing this book to affect the 06 elections. Not surprising, but rather alarming. Its not just bias anymore, Woodward has now acknowledged that the WAPO is colluding with the DNC. Isn't that against the law? Isn't there something in law somewhere that says a free and fair press cannot collude with one of the parties? I don't know, just asking the question.
LOL................... I think Woodward really believes that someday he will have his head on the equivalent of a Mount Rushmore.............. all by himself.
The guy is stone in love with himself.
By the way ..... the next time you see him look at his mouth. It is the mouth, thin cruel cold lips, lips basically straight across, hardly move when he speaks ........ it is the mouth of a lying lifetime con-artist.
I agree. The month before an election brings out garbage books snd more than enough wild stories. It is so predictable and the authors hope to get maximum sales as a result.
These interviews with "friendly" guests (as opposed to a Republican one) are as spontaneous as a Jay Leno interview and as devoid of lasting meaning for the country as a whole.
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