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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Diane: "so tell Mrs. Norwood, in your hour of tremendous pride in your son, your country and your President...it was all staged right?"
Lord how i can't stomach these people any more..!!
Exactly, which is a serious insult to the personnel who take care of the graves of our soldiers buried overseas. They take tremendous pride in what they do on a day to day basis, then this slimeball comes along and had his straphangers practically desicrate a grave for his own, staged moment.
i can't even stomach some right here on FR anymore after this. the Bush bashing here is bad enough, but this is beyond the pale. i'm sickened.
Because that made good TV that helped the president sell his message. It's the job of the people who co-ordinate this stuff to get good TV that helps the president sell his message.
Was that, in fact, the allegation?
The allegation, as far as I know, is just that it was "staged." To me, at least, "staged "can mean that both participants were acting, just one was acting, or even just that it was a setup that neither knew about.
No leap of logic at all. Featuring in the speech WAS staging for some emotional display.
Funny how much everybody on your side is desperate to use insults.
No desperation at all. The facts speek for themselves and proove what happened. No begging, I don't give damn if you believe me or not, I understand how TV is put together. There was no difference between putting these women together without introduction before the speech and O'Reilly putting argumentative people on different sides of an argument together on his show, both are done to get an emotional reaction which makes good TV, the only difference is the type of emotion.
Thought you were done. Typical.
Bubba is so disgusting
What I was trying to say, is that there is no way the Bush Admin would know what kind of reaction these to women would have towards one another...fortunately, it went their way.
And let you have the last word?
HA!
Now it's yours, take your final cheap shot.
I won't bother to read it.
Take another look at the coverage when the camera goes back to Bush and then back to the women. There was a brief close-up of Laura Bush trying to unhook the woman's bracelet. Since they were all still standing, the audience kept standing and applauding.
It made the moment even more dramatic, but it was due to getting stuck together.
-PJ
Must not have paid much attention to the Democratic National Convention, they paraded them in droves. Plenty on Kerry's campaign trail too. There's always going to be some, some acorns do fall far from the tree, not everybody in our military today comes from a family that believes in this war, and I'm very grateful they didn't follow their parents poor examples.
I'm not cheapening anything, I'm in a military family and I think it was very nice that this mom got to receive thanks from one of the people her son sacrificed himself for. I'm not harping, I'm defending myself from largely wild accusations. I'm sure that moment meant a lot to a lot of people, that doesn't change the reality of how TV events are put together. There's only one reason to have held off introducing those two until they were in front of the cameras, and it worked.
I'm not bidding for attention. I'm defending my position, don't like it then stop attacing it and move on.
More typical junk. Nothing but insults and turning yourself into a liar, sad sad sad.
Can you prove what you just said?
I've got about 50 posts on the subject already.
"Watching Chrissy after a good dinner is not good for your digestion."
Amen....I was at about all of the 30 seconds I can stand of him when this exchange came up. Too bad NewsMax didn't include Ron Reagan's remarks as he was quick to jump on Chrisy's bandwagon.
To Buchannans credit, he had a look on his face like "aww Chris, you dumb shat, we were having a nice conversation and then you have to go and pull that BS" LOL
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