Posted on 10/28/2008 11:04:51 AM PDT by Fred
Nothing Barbara West has done in her 22 years at WFTV-Channel 9 has generated the attention of her interview last week with Sen. Joe Biden, Barack Obama's running mate. The contentious chat has become an Internet sensation -- 1.2 million hits on YouTube during the weekend and more than 500,000 on WFTV.com -- and generated controversy about how journalists question their subjects.
"The thing that stuns me is that this has become about me," said anchor West, 60. She appeared Monday night on The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel and Larry King Live on CNN and plans to be on three more national shows today.
"It's not a good thing. I am not trying to seek the limelight in any way," she said. "I did not do the interview to make headlines, but to get answers that people in the street want to know. When I'm doing fundraisers, I see vast numbers of people. My questions were reflective of what they're asking about."
In the Biden interview, West quoted Karl Marx and asked, "How is Senator Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?"
"Are you joking?" said Biden.
"No," West said.
West later asked Biden about his comments that Obama could be tested early on as president. She wondered whether the Delaware senator was saying America's days as the world's leading power were over.
"I don't know who's writing your questions," Biden shot back.
Sentinel readers described the interview as the best or the worst they have seen. "Barbara must be the last honest reporter in America," wrote one.
"West was asking the most idiotic questions I've seen from a professional reporter," countered another.
"I was trying to get to the heart of things, not lob softballs," West said.
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Maybe Obama will keep Gitmo open and use it to send wayward reporters or members of the public who dare question his authority (think Gulag or Siberia).
Sounds like the right of the public or the press to question The Messiah have already been rescinded. All Hail the Glorious Leader!
The reporterette asked perfectly rational questions. Biden responded with bizarre nonsense. I am certain they removed part of his brain in those surgeries.
Wow..60..Impressive. :)
she’s 60
WOW
she looks great for her age
Still, the Gestapo and Josef Goebbels disapprove.
If I were her, and knowing the deranged leftists, I’d start carrying, and/or hire a bodyguard.
Here it is: http://www.wftv.com/video/17790025/index.html
Being totally serious we need to start paying close attention and question what happened when real journalists all of a sudden stop writing. And if some of us stop posting.
watched the interview the other nite...biden was like a deer caught in the headlights...it was beautiful to watch what she did to him and his responses showed he had no clue at all on how to answer her....we need more reporters out there asking the real questions such as she did....
The real story here is the fact the Obiden campaign has said they will grant no more interviews to this station. A preview of things to come?
It was apparent she wasn’t asking the questions he was told she would ask.
On McCain trying not to talk about the economy, McCain should say “I’m talking about the economy. I’m talking about Obama turning it into a socialist economy.”
FREEP THE POLL at the bottom of the link page, people.
How soon until they start the character defamation and background checks against this news anchor?
The Orlando Slantinel shot off a hit piece on Barbara West.
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REQUEST MR BROWN THE ASST EDITOR!
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At 1:09 she shows why she is still local. She could have skewered him at that point and just “moved on”.
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