I saw something in * during that "interview" this morning

[CatWoman]

namely:

O'Reilly
Hannity
Savage
Rush
Boortz

They all operate the same. They won't answer your question, will ramble on about some off the wall bullshit, will admonish you when you call them on it, and then try to bully and intimidate.

Bush's performance this morning made me so ashamed.

The whole world is laughing at us.

[senseandsensibility]

1. At the risk of sounding

completely ill informed and out of it, what interview with *? Since I've been boycotting cable and network news, I'm much happier. The downside is I sometimes don't know about things when they're happening.

[Maeve]

5. I believe it's the Irish interview

http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0624/primetime/primetime56_1c.smil

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I found out last year that the Irish love America and most Americans, but have no high regard for Dubya. The interviewer, Carole Coleman, treats him well enough, but has no patience for the pious platitudes he spews--and that is something Dubya is not used to dealing with!

[lovedems]

2. My husband was listening to Hannity yesterday when he was out and about

and apparently, Hannity was begging liberals to call in argue with him. He said it must have been staged because the people who calling weren't very smart. Again, he thought it was obvious it was staged but was pissed because his audience wouldn't know better. He said one smart guy called about the misinformation Hannity had spreading about Kerry's NO votes on defense appropriation bills. Hannity wouldn't aknowledge his error of course. They weren't talking about the same thing in Hannity's opinion.

They try to make those who disagree look stupid by staging this kind of bullshit when the fucking president of the United States can't even correctly name the prison that is has been the lead news story for months. WTF?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. Well, it DID give him an opportunity to bring up the rape rooms again...

I have a real issue with the questions re: "people are angry" and "today on the television there were images of four dead U.S. soldiers" and Bush responding (not an exact quote) "No one is more upset than me, but if people REALLY want to be angry, they should be angry at the regime of the evil dictator who used weapons of mass destruction on his own people, torture, rape rooms, blah blah blah, woof woof woof......"

It's like "Saddam did it first, Saddam did it worst, and as my vice president said yesterday, GO F**K YOURSELF."

That's what I got from the interview.

[lovedems]

4. Oh yeah, I was going to mention last night on Scarbourough country

the asswipe Joe was showing abuse video from when Saddam was in power.

I watched for a total of 10 seconds. It was a terrible display of patriotism. I am sick of the bullshit, "Saddam was worse". I am totally of the mindset that it doesn't matter what Saddam did or what "they" do to us. We are the United States of America and we don't justify torture and we don't sink to those levels! I am sick of the bullshit torture apologists! I was fuming. Hell, I am still mad.

[aden_nak]

6. There's a reason for that.

And it has to do with "Talking Points" which, might I add, is a very spin-tastic name to give to "Pre-scripted Bullshit". Talking Points are very popular with the above mentioned Right Wing Pundits and with the President himself. They can be useful if:

1) You have a shaky argument, and need to stick to a script to keep the truth from revealing itself.
2) You have the public speaking skills of a sea otter on a morphine drip.

Essentially, all they do is listen to the question, figure out which of their Talking Points sounds most like the question, and then parrot that Talking Point back to the interviewer or the reporter. Done consistantly enough, it becomes thought of as an "interviewing style" rather than a stump speech frequently interrupted by unrelated querries.

[ninkasi]

7. And when they're not laughing at us

they are disgusted with us. Sometimes, just like a lightening bolt, I get these flashes of disbelief that this once powerful country has so lost control of all reason and sanity, that we let ourselves be ruled by men who belong in prison, a mental hospital, or both.

Is this what it's come to, that our whole country has earned the contempt of the rest of the world, and we let it happen? And when I say "we", I mean the country as a whole. Many of you here at DU have fought, written, marched, called, and worn yourselves down to try to change it, and I admire you more than you can know.

I have been able to change the minds of several people who voted for * in 2000, and claim they don't have time to keep up with politics. That's a small contribution, but all of us have to do whatever we can.