NBC Brian Williams / Gen. David Petraeus...empty interview. Not a hard question asked. Transcript.

[spanone]

Not a revelation revealed. The media is once again enabling the War in Iraq. IMHO.

Transcript: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17542301/


~snip~
Williams: It must be difficult for you because the progress is incremental. It's only to those who make it to the 10th graph of the New York times story. It's not those who watch a little snippet here and there. You see the headlines on MSNBC or NBC Nightly News because those headlines are those same smoldering car, so how does David Petraeus wake up every morning and do with four stars proudly on your chest and har earned(sic) to say, "I'm in this to win it." We're turning the corner, it's a good fight, it's a noble effort and I'll se you on the other side victorious." How do you do that?

Petraeus: I think you have to have a degree of resonance and determination. It can't be chest beating stuff. It's not go out and shout it from the mountain top, it's just get up in the morning, get up in a cup of coffee.

Williams: What brand do you drink, because that must be a heck of a cup of cofee.




Geez brian, why not just kiss his ring or his stars, or his ass.

[SoCalDem]

1. Gee what a surprise..not!

"Gen Petraeus, do the troops like the crusts ON or OFF their peanut butter sandwiches?"

"Do the troops think that Paul Mccartney's wife can dance?"

"Do any of the troops think they are the father of Anna Nicole's baby?"

[alstephenson]

2. Brian Williams is useless, no matter where he is reporting from. eom

[oblivious]

3. This quote stood out for me: "children turned their backs rather than wave back"

Williams: General, I was out in Ramadi twp days ago. We waved at the children. Gunnery Sergeant, working gunnery sergeant -- children turned their backs rather than wave back.

[spanone]

4. He goes on to call that a great success, cause three/six months ago, you couldn't go into town.

Wow.

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. NBC and Williams

are trying very hard to paint a picture of Iraq as "getting better". Can there be anything more Orwellian than to have a helmeted and body armored Williams reporting how things are getting better in Iraq because of the surge.