Condoleezza Rice & the 9-11 Commission [LIVE THREAD] 9AM EST

http://c-span.org/ ^ | 4-8-04 | ME

[Mr. Silverback]

DU's saying she's evasive and they're cheering the attacks on her.

A couple of weeks ago they had a thread where they were making fun of her for looking tired, especially compared to when she first took office. Of course, it never occurs to them that she might look tired because she's laying awake at night wondering if she's done enough to protect theeir dope-smoking idiot asses.

They put the "idiot" in Useful Idiot.

[Jorge]

Condi is doing wonderfully.

I love the way she wasn't allowing him to interrupt her and through her off track but would just continue with her answers until she was finished.
He didn't want to hear the answers, and he just looked rude.

[LisaFab]

GMTA.

[fml]

But who in the media will report it that way?

[Darlin']

Absilutely. Ben Veniste's entire "performance" just screamed desperation.

[mombonn]

I can't believe how much I loathe ben-barfiste. Fielding up now.

During 2000, talked with WJR in Detroit, about bin laden. Discussed problems between FBI and CIA. Don't want to wake up one day and find bid laden has struck.

Asks what did she do once in the administration. She says it was a structural problem. They were working to resolve this.

[mtbopfuyn]

Pimp suit! Lol, you nailed it.

[Numbers Guy]

Dr. Rice is very good, but I recall the classic political admonition: "When you're explaining, you're losing."

That's why she's gone beyond explaining. She's undercutting the hidden assumptions in his questions, which is the best way to respond to baiting selective questions (such as "what was the title of that memo?").

[OXENinFLA]

That was GREAT, he just read Condi's quote from 2000 from that radio interview!

[gortklattu]

go to fox news....no over talk..just reporting

[leadpenny]

BenVenista is the best campaign poster the pubbies could ask for.

[mware]

I read Bob Kerrey's column this morning apparently Ben didn't.

[txradioguy]

I don't see that she was explaining. She was trying to anser BV's questions in the manner that he was posing them and he was wanting simple yes/no "gotcha" answers to questions that didn not warrant them.

[ClintonBeGone]

That's not it; it's the "disgruntled" 9-11 families. The ones that believe we owe them a life.

Yeah, I know. Disgusting. Still, she is smacking Dick around.

[YaYa123]

What the hell you doing watching a network instead of C-Span?

No Commercials, No Comments, and No BS

[hobbes1]

No, he knows he got kicked in the B@!!$, but he also knows that the Broadcast nets, will only Lead with HIS questions.


HE did his bit for the DNC today.

[MamaLucci]

And what's with the clapping? These 'survivors' are not comporting themselves well. They have made up their minds and nothing is going to change it.

They are demeaning every person that died that day, IMHO.

[mabelkitty]

Yes!

[Corporate Law]

Great profile name. You got THE correct mascot name for the school in O-Town.

[cyncooper]

Hamilton has seen ifno from Woodward's new book.

No, he was referring to the Woodward book "Bush at War" that Richard Clarke used a quote *out of context* to bash Bush with.

Hamilton gave Rice a chance to set the quote in context. And she did.