Posted on 02/03/2005 7:54:50 AM PST by paudio
MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews suggested last night that the high point of President Bush's State of the Union Address - the emotional hug between grateful Iraqi voter Safia Taleb al-Suhail and Janet Norwood, mother of a Marine who died liberating her country - was staged by the White House.
The cynical host apparently first voiced his skepticism during a commercial break. His comments were immediately seized upon by "Hardball" guest, MSNBC contributor Pat Buchanan when the show returned.
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Not only that, but the torrent of genuine emotion that poured forth. That is NOT something that can be contrived by the average person.
See, they (democrats) ALL know how staged
Clinton's stuff was... (the cross with rocks
in France at the gravesite) etc, that REAL emotion
makes them mad because most of America saw the pure
sincerity of last night's interaction between the
Norwood parents and the Iraqi woman.
You're right: Chrissy and his pals are sick folks.
Tje end justifies the means.
Now they must endure almost 4 more years of the
president they tried to nastily to defeat!
HA!
It looked spontaneous to me but if it was staged, no big.
I'm not willfully anything; and if I was, I'd chose not to be willfully delusional.
Tell where I agreed with you that they were seated there by the Bush administration to hug? If you are going to present a rebuttal do not suggest I agreed you on that contention.
For all those cynics that believe their cynisism makes them the brightest in the room, no one can predict accurately what another human being will do. The moment could eaily have been tinged with anger and rejection on the part of the parties involved.
Your allegations are not founded on any provable evidence, as the parties involved will attest to. It is founded on cynisism and that says a great deal about you. The American people overwhelmingly would be disgusted with this allegation and well they shoud be. It's an attempt to downplay the sincerity because it was too powerful for some people to accept as spontaneous.
The Blowhard, the Bigot, and the Ballerina
Let's see
1 - they invited the mother of a slain Marine, one who was probably pre-vetted to make sure she actually supported the war
2 - they invited a recent Iraqi voter, one who was also pre-vetted to make sure she was grateful
3 - they sat them near each other
4 - they let them know who the other was
That is how you stage a spontaneous TV event, it's the equivalent of putting 100 guys in pads and two different styles of uniform together on a big field with a bunch of hash marks and giant yellow salad fork on either end and hoping a football game breaks out. Is the game itself pre-planned down to every bounce of the ball? No of course not. But the event is staged.
Chris Matthews better come on his pathetic show tonight and offer a full mea culpa.
I'm listening too.
Chrissie can really be mean, but Laura Ingraham gives as good as she gets.
He's mad now that yesterday she talked about him being spotted in a salon getting his hair highlighted.
Bump
These same pundits gushed when Algore kissed Tipper at the 2000 DNC convention. Gee they didn't consider that that was staged?
No, it must certainly cannot. I dare anyone making this allegation to look at the President and the two women and tell me those emotions were part of an elaborate scheme. Only the dishonest or extreme skeptics could dismiss a moment so genuine.
You're showing your ignorance of the facts. She wrote to the president and ASKED to go to the SOTU.
4 - they let them know who the other was
Do you have a reading comprehension problem? The mother stated this very morning that she didn't even know who the woman was.
Now, are YOU going to call HER a liar?
Is it on the internet?
Is that the truth? He actually paid to get his hair to look like that?
It doesn't surprise me to hear the 'rats say things like that, but it's dismaying to see Freepers agreeing with them. What I saw last night was genuine emotion, and I think it took everyone, including the President, by surprise.
You mean, that the way they think, that REPUBLICANS and CONSERVITIVES can have real emotions.
Chris Matthews - the Peace Corp Pi$$ant.
Let's see they brought a selected representative of a grateful people together with a selected representative of the people they should be most grateful to, and there was no design that some interaction would take place?! Of course there was a design, why else would you bring these people together at the same place at the same time with TV cameras presnet if not with the hopes of interaction. I'm sure the actions of the people were genuine and spontaneous, I'm just as sure that somebody came up with this idea and was seriously hoping for a genuine and spontaneous action very similar to what they got.
This is how reality TV gets staged, deliberately mix certain types of people with certain background in a certain setting and hope good TV spontaneously happens.
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