Posted on 03/17/2008 11:48:44 AM PDT by jdm
Obama's Friday interview by Major Garrett, in which he describes his membership at Trinity United and his connection to Rev. Wright, has been called one of his worst ever. At the time, people were wondering what he could have been thinking, especially given the Democrats on-again-off-again boycott of Fox News.
Melanie Morgan says that as soon as it aired Garrett got an earful:
As I was waiting to go on-the-air, Major Garrett of Fox News was on stand-by to do further reporting on his excellent interview with BHO in which he simply asked a number of questions like: "Did Reverend Wright marry you? Did Reverend Wright baptize your children? How often did you attend church? Did you donate money to the church?"After that segment aired, Major Garrett's phone started buzzing. He received a call from Obama's campaign, and they were REAMING him over the report. From his end, I heard Garrett say "I have nothing to apologize for."
He repeated that several times, and he amplified by saying that he was merely asking questions that everyone wanted answers to.
That did NOT satisfy Obama's people, and Garrett flushed a couple of times while responding to the invective thrown his way.
Strategically, *I'm not sure why Obama would choose to go only to Fox News with this story, especially because I don't think that anyone ever believed this one would be confined to "conservative" media. So far it looks like every decision he's made about Wright has only made him look worse. Obama himself admits that "my judgment at the time [that he asked Wright to join his campaign] was that this was not as problematic as what I've seen over the last couple of days.
Genius.
Transcript of the interview is here. YouTube video is below the fold.
h/t Greg Pollowitz at National Review's Media Blog.
What the Obama campaign is mad about is that Major Garrett just asked yes or no questions, like Obama was in a court room, he didn’t allow him to wiggle out of the answers or give any further excuses.
Major Garrett certainly didn;t engage in any “right wing” attack or hate speech. My husband was disappointed.
I totally agree with your “FAUX” News analogy!
I just can’t force myself to watch them anymore!
Obama sounded like a stunned dunce in the interview. No prepared speaches. No carefully chosen syntax. Just a lot of “uhh, well....”
This folks, is what he is like w/o the prepared speach and one liners he is used to delivering to applause.
Olberman fan? Surely you jest.
My political opinions are somewhere to the right of Genghis Khan. The only mistake Mr. Khan made is that he let the women and children live so that they could breed more evil.
Do I watch Faux News?
When I do watch television, which isn’t very often, I surf wildly. I may as well super glue the channel changer button down. :-)
I did catch that particular interview, however. So, you noticed that he didn’t ask the correct questions? Thank you for agreeing with me. :-)
I agree with everything you said about Faux News. :-)
The only redeeming comment I have about them is that Harris Faulkner should copyright, patent and insure her smile.
Yeah, not even even a disagreeable old goat like me can deny that the Fox News Clip Reading Corps has enlisted some very attractive troops of the female gender.
“that Garrett sounded like he was cross-examining Obama.”
Obama wasn’t exactly giving lengthy answers.
A more experienced politician will elaborate their answers to get broader points across.
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