Today's Meet The Press: Gushing With Pro-War Bushies

[ulTRAX]

Anyone see the second half of today's MTP? Guest commentators were Tom Friedman, William Safire and Maureen Dowd. Needless to say when the discussion turned to Bush's neo-con policies in mid-east... Dowd was outnumbered 2:1... and even then she didn't put up an effective counter argument.

[mattclearing]

1. Dowd's heart is in the right place, but her arguments are often reed thin.

Little in the way of substantive debate there.

[robbedvoter]

2. Dowd has no heart, but at times argues well.

[mattclearing]

7. Ow.

I've never heard her make a convincing argument for anything. Most of her columns are the intellectual equivalent of Ann Coulter, only supporting worthwhile causes and giving people like George Bush a hard time, and not being crazy, ugly, and mean.

But substance-wise, they're both pretty lacking.

[madrchsod]

3. if you saw her on stewart she is very "shy"

when it comes to the camera. she isn`t comfortable in this sort of situation,she`s a writer not a talking head.

[European Socialist]

4. I hear ya

M$M are just a bunch of democracy groupies. All those lives-all those billions-so what. If you want to see democracy in action-just look at our lower income people over the past 30 years. Democracy can also be tyranny of the majority.

[ulTRAX]

10. I have no idea what you just said n/m

[European Socialist]

11. I meant tyranny by the majority.

democracy is not automatically the best type of rule.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. What I have been finding odd are the seating arrangements on this show

These people need lessons in seating guests in a way that makes sense. Joe Biden shoulder to shoulder with Rick Santorum?! The only one I can think of that was worse was poor Al Sharpton wedged up against Jerry Falwell! He had the worst look on his face and was sitting with his shoulders practically hunched!:eyes:

[ulTRAX]

6. No one raised the issue of how Bush pushed two nations to make nukes

As Safire and Friedman gush over Bush's policies... concentrating only on the issue of "democracy" and dynamics in the Arab world... no one, not even Dowd, raised the issue of how Bush's aggression have pushed both N Korea and Iran to get nukes as a detergent to US power.

[Warpy]

8. Why anybody bothers with gasbag shows is beyond me

You can tell which way the corporate offices want the debate to go by who they have as guests.

They're a bloody waste of time and only being televised so that the networks can claim they're serving the public when license renewal time comes around.

Stewart was right. They're hurting us.

[ulTRAX]

9. I wasn't impressed with Biden either

I was disgusted with how Kerry dealt with the matter of the Supreme Court during the campaign. He refused to educate the public on what a threat to our liberties judges like Scalia are sticking only to the right to choose... not exposing Scalia's radical doctrine.

Biden did a bit better today... at least coming right out an saying Scalia didn't believe in nonenumerated rights... but Biden didn't even bother mentioning the Ninth Amendment which SPECIFICALLY protects them.