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"We LOVE Peter Jennings, hero to our cause and always eager for his Palestinian harem (wink)"
I know of an ex-president who would have you think so.
Astounding! With 90% of the nation united behind the war effort, the left can still find fora that will give them a hearing. No matter how absurd their rants, some will listen. Even, nod. And give them credence...
It is not the committed, political leftists I object to. They have their agenda...and they're sticking to it. It is their enablers that leave me filled with disgust.
Shame you couldn't have launched a over-ripe tomato at some pompous jerk. Not Jennings, necessarily...
jennings is a prick.
i turned it off after jennings insulted hedgecock.
Of the panelists, Roger Hedgecock was the only non-journalist (self-proclaimed), and probably was the only one who can speak well extemporaneously. The newspaper people were more nervous because they are not on TV. The local TV people all claimed to be journalists, but are really news readers and sometime reporters not focused on political or foreign affairs stories. And then there was Petah.
The oh-so-arrogant Petah Jennings tried hard to control the flow of answers, while giving his familiar spin of "moderation" to his answers. He is so knowledgable about everything from Sikhism to diversity in media. He, of course, claimed to be a journalist in the mold of Edward R. Murrow.
All the TV folks (Petah included) claimed they were just trying to tell the story from all sides. Petah said the reason ABC had the Afghan civilian casualty story was that they had a reporter inside Ashcanistan, so of course they told the story he saw. Roger's attempt to point out that the Taliban was using the reporter was brushed off by Petah.
That's my two cents on an interesting but unfulfilling hour. It beat Jeopardy and Jeff Greenfield for my attention. Then I discovered Newt was on CSPAN testifying about the National ID card. I shoulda watched Newt.
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"We LOVE Peter Jennings, hero to our cause and always eager for his Palestinian harem (wink)"
Was this live on ABC? If not, when will it be broadcast?
Well.........there are a lot of people who slow down to look at car wrecks...........
Hal Clement (Anchor for Channel 10) was interesting - he said he didn't think people were more or less patriotic because they did or did not wear an American flag. The audience reaction was mixed.
Roger really ran up against it when the attorney for a local San Diego terrorist (who is still in custody), verbally attacked Roger - you know the one, Hildy, the one who's always on TV saying we are abusing his client; his client's innocent, etc.
The guy was really ugly toward Roger, and the crowd was for Roger. Jennings loved it. Roger was awesome! He knows how to defend himself from those bozos. Hildy, you really missed a good exchange.
Kimberly Hunt (Anchor - Channel 10) was pretty good. I liked some of her answers. She said she had American flags everywhere (on her vehicle; at home); but didn't see a problem with her not being able to wear a flag on the air.
Jennings was stunned by some of the questions - especially when Roger was talking about no newsman on the front lines. Jennings seemed really taken aback that the media should not be allowed at the front. Roger's point was that during WWII, all we had was the radio and we did just fine. The group really had a long discussion about what kind of military information can be given out. Kimberly Hunt did give some good examples about things their station was told by the Pentagon or the State Dept. which the station kept quiet until the appropriate time.
Jennings did seem to get a nice reception, but there were also a lot of boos about some of his opinions. And ... he genuinely seemed surprised that people did not agree with the things he was saying.