Ugh....Couric and Russert this morning...

[vi5]

I didn't hear what they were talking about for most of the segment, but just as they were ending it, Katie had to ask Timmy what was up with the RNC and their people referencing Kerry being French or having a French cousin. And Tim actually responded as though it were a normal, reasonable campaign strategy.

Why would they even give that credence by bringing it up.

I'm the furthest thing from a media alarmist. I'll more often than not give the benefit of the doubt to anything other than Fox. But this is getting ridiculous.

[mmonk]

1. The bush admin

is the candy store for media conglomerates. Don't expect Kerry to get a fair shake.

[underpants]

2. Russert:"That is DC lingo for 'soft on defense'"

Don Evans, the Commerce Department head, actually said that KErry looked French. A cabinet level member of the administration actually said that.... :eyes:....next thing you know the Vice President of the United States will be doing an interview on the Rush Limbaugh show.

PAthetic.

[dweller]

3. found on the 'stock market LBN' thread today

butt monkeys,
dp

[Az]

4. I think it exposed just how petty the right is

I mean this amounts to kids in a school yard calling each other names. Its gotta be seeping through to the public what a bunch of babies they are. That and Kerry has been on Vaca for a week now meaning that all the negative campaigning the people are hearing is coming from the Bushies.

[StayOutTheBushes]

7. You are right.

Over at the Wall Street Journal they are calling Kerry "The French looking senator who , oh by the way, served in Vietnam".

They are sickening.

[librechik]

8. exactly, and thanks Katie! n/t

[tandot]

5. Is that all they have? Kerry's French relatives?

I guess since they can't use that "I am the war president" slogan anymore, thanks to Clarke and O'Neill and others, they are trying to insult any American with a French ancestry?

[Warpy]

6. I screamed "WHORE!" and switched it off

....when Russert started yowling about Clinton's "inaction" regarding the Al Qaeda threat.

Since I can't rub that lying little SOB's nose in it, here's one thing for you guys: http://www.cnn.com/US/9607/30/clinton.terrorism/

Add to that Gramm's stonewalling of international banking regulations and the GOP Congress shrieking "WAG THE DOG!!!" when he bombed the camps in Afghanistan, and you can see why my morning is NOT off to a good start.

[Neecy]

9. what's funny about it...

I wonder how many of these wingnuts have actually visited France, or know many Frenchmen.

To me, Kerry doesn't look particularly French. I guess that's not the point - they get to smear an ally *and* a Democrat with one comment. A twofer. Dumbasses.

[Jacobin]

11. More irony

Paul Bremer owns a vacation home in France, as does Perle (or is it Wolfowitz?)

[Cocoa]

10. Katie and Tim thought it was cute

the proper response to the Bush strategy of saying Kerry looks French is to revile it as demeaning to the public's intelligence, but these two whores were tickled by it.