Signs of desperation: White House lawn Radical Right gabfest

[stevedeshazer]

How many of you are aware that the Radical Right media machine is camped out on the White House lawn?

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(01-21) 13:56 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --

Talk-show listeners got an earful Wednesday from President Bush's top advisers, who chatted on the air from the White House about everything from weapons of mass destruction to whether making speeches gave them butterflies.

"Radio Day" was held in a tent erected outside the North Portico. More than 50 talk show hosts, catering to liberal, <sic> conservative, Hispanic, black, religious and all-news audiences, started 15 hours of broadcasting at 5 a.m. EST.

The heated tent was noisy. Broadcasters with deep voices spoke into microphones. Producers called out cues: "OK, 35 seconds" until air time. Cabinet officials and presidential advisers milled inside the tent waiting to sit for interviews.

White House chief of staff Andrew Card said one caller asked him about the search for weapons in Iraq.

"I told them ... we're making great progress and there are lots of holes in Iraq and we're looking in those holes," Card said.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2004/01/21/national1656EST0666.DTL

Today I heard Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and other *administration officials walk through and interview with various Radical Right talk show hosts in a pre-arranged media event on the White House lawn. A heated "tent" was provided for these so-called media personalities while Cabinet members and Invisible Dick Cheney wandered, while happily spewing the latest spin on the War on Terra. What is this, a state fair? This is the "liberal media"?

edited for spelling

[tigereye]

1. I heard that NPR was going to interview Cheney

Nice of * et al to finally remember there are other opinions out there. But so cynical in this election year. Oh, yeah, there are constituents out there who aren't right wing nuts! Actually, Gary Bauer (speaking of right wing nuts) was being interviewed on NPR as well and stated that Karl Rove estimated that thousands of fundies just stayed home on election day in 2000. Could that mean that they thought Bush was actually a moderate??!! Incredible. Guess it will be pretty clear where he stands this time!! after gutting choice, free speech, etc.

[BigDaddyLove]

2. True.........

this election will be a referendum on Bush...the REAL Bush, now that everyone knows who he is and what agendas he wishes to make come to fruition.

In 2000, we only knew what they wanted us to know, now it's all all in plain sight. He now has a Presidential record on which to base our decision. If he is actually elected this time, then it's a real cause for worry about America....just the fact that so many people opposed him last time is actually good.

[stevedeshazer]

3. Thanks, but off topic

I'm trying to focus on the Big Top Circus of Radical Right talk show promulgators camped on the lawn of OUR White House. What do Democrats do about it?

[BigDaddyLove]

4. I understand, but I was responding to a sentence in the post....

before mine.

As far as what Democrats can do about talk shows being broadcast from the White House lawn, I'm not entirely sure; moreover, according to your original post it said that many different shows were there representing more than just the Radical Right, so I'm not sure what Democrats SHOULD do about it.

[stevedeshazer]

6. Got it

And to be honest, I don't know either. I do know that if this stuff goes out to 90% of radio listeners, it is damaging. There needs to be some response from the non-radicals.

[slater71]

5. Last year also.

They did this last year after the SOTU also. Some one has to help spin all this.

[Ruby Romaine]

7. The sub for Thom Hartmann today (don't remember his name) said

Hartmann was in D.C. today (at WH?)
-Listen tomorrow & find out!

http://www.thomhartmann.com/
http://www.ieamericaradio.com/

[stevedeshazer]

8. That would be the only

liberal or moderate voice in this White House "Big <heated> Tent" that I know about.

[9215]

9. The Right-Wing is unquestionably T-O-A-S-T!!

Their bullshit is not cutting it anymore and since that is all they have......... :nopity: hee, hee, hee.


I imagine that scene in "Gone with the Wind" as the slave owner looks over Tera.....forgot what he said but it was definitely a eulogy for the Confederacy. Or when Jefferson Davis was asked why the Confederacy lost: "Died of a theory", he quipped.

It was the only thing Davis got right.