Letters to the Editor
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What About King's Posture?
Was he maintaining a straight back while he was kneeling?
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If you wanted to create a parody ...
No need, that is the job of the press. I just have to watch the fools play their middle school game.
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King missed another important question.
What is John McCain's favorite color? They must have run short on time.
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Parody and satire..
Have both become well nigh impossible to do in this age.
I lost all respect for McCain after he hugged Ctheney's sock puppet. Any man who will let his family be savaged the way McCain's was in SC and then hug the source of the savaging has not a shred of real honor.
It makes me truly sad, though I disagreed with McCain I at one one time respected him as a man of honor.
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As opposed to Hillary's bus experience?
Perhaps you should consider that a lot of the questions you would prefer, have been asked and answered elsewhere. Not every interview needs to be adversarial.
Perhaps you should also consider the Clinton relationship to the press, complete control of access and questions. Being adversarial 24/7/365 will end up with no access, and no questions at all. Let's see what happens on Russert's program with Hillary. I predict he gets strongarmed throughout.
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My Heart Swoons for the Maverick John McCain
This is only proof that even media figures from the Communist News Network are taken aback by the most boldestest of independenty mavericks who ever mavericked anything.
Just as it seemed like the 2006 elections and ongoing scandals and catastrophes started to put pressure on the U.S.' super-awesome brilliant policies in Iraq, George W. Bush Jr. announced a huge U.S. domestic propaganda campaign which they brand named General David Vespasian Augustus Antonio Banderas Petraeus' The "Surge" (which also had significant operations in Iraq), in the same way that you have Ruth's Chris Steak House.
Republicans like John McCain completely fell into line behind their President and Our Commander Guy and dutifully told any of us doubters that we hated the troops and were a bunch of cowards who wanted us to fail.
Now that is some daring thinking outside the box, to redefine bold mavericking as robotically doing exactly what the President and all the other Republicans were doing.
No other Maverick could do that! Thank you Maverick John McCain!!!
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Shooter
And I predict that Timmeh will ask very few to no softball questions.
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John King? More Like Larry King.
I've seen interviews on Letterman with more substance than that. He's running for president, not touring the country in support of a new book. My god...
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Originality! That's what it was!
Perhaps you should consider that a lot of the questions you would prefer, have been asked and answered elsewhere.
-- shooter242
John King was a fount of originality in that interview, right Shooter? Just like you so often are with your oh so original talking points.
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good point
"Perhaps you should consider that a lot of the questions you would prefer, have been asked and answered elsewhere. Not every interview needs to be adversarial."
My thoughts exactly.
The idea that every time a member of the press speaks to a candidate on air they should douse themselves in the kind of cynical disdain Greenwald purveys in this blog is just silly.
Perhaps if Glenn actually did political reporting rather than bitching about that of others he'd realise that it's difficult to be angry and indignant 24 hours a day when you are in close quarters with these people (and indeed, unproductive) - as opposed to at carping a keyboard in Brazil.
We have a member of the Whitehouse Press corps who does what Greenwald wants -eg. spew lefty talking points; her name is Helen Thomas, and nobody has much time for her anymore.
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Everybody's doing it
Pop-psychology, that is...throwing in our two-cents, trying to explain the illogical. It remains a fact that a person's integrity is not always in their own best interests when it comes to a continued existence inside the Beltway.
These people lose their ability to make hard, objective perceptions. Their rights-and-wrongs become subjective judgements; blacks-and-whites become shades of gray.
They're all looking toward their next 'gig', continued "access". If they never color outside the lines, never stand apart from the crowd, they're safe (they think).
But in doing all of that, they've lost their souls. So sad.
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It's too easy
to crap on the press, but they deserve whatever they get. And I love Greenwald for pointing out how pathetic they are.
For anyone who has not read him, Matt Taibbi is also very good at dissecting the national press coverage of presidential campaigns. Get a copy of Spanking the Donkey - you won't be disappointed...
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See Glenn? Mission Accomplished! You've Already Got Helen Thomas!!!
We have a member of the Whitehouse Press corps who does what Greenwald wants -eg. spew lefty talking points; her name is Helen Thomas, and nobody has much time for her anymore.
-- Proximity Warning
So there. Balance restored.
You have one particular place in which tough questions are to be asked, that is, at White House press conferences, because those events are entirely focused on getting to the hard troofs, and there is precisely one individual who is tasked to ask those tough questions, and fortunately "nobody has much time for her anymore".
Expecting anything more out of journalism is to forget that the main purpose of CNN and stuff is to talk to the candidates they like and make them feel good and stuff. For some reason places like CNN still feel the need to advertise themselves as "news" and stuff, but real smart people know that's just marketing stuff.
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Shooter/Proximity Warning
It's so bizarre how the most ardent defenders of The Liberal Media are now right-wing followers. I just can't figure out why conservatives would be so pleased with the conduct of our deeply left-wing journalists.
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The village is a sick, sick place...
McCain is such a phony and has been as long as I can remember. Talks like a maverick, acts like a sheep, so of course the village loves him. They love phonies and loath policy wonks. They bought the cowboy routine from chimpy, just purchased dude ranch and all.
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McCain is the Republican front-runner,
so why would King ask him tough questions? Tough questions of the front-runner might narrow the field in unanticipated ways.
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No, what's silly...
The idea that every time a member of the press speaks to a candidate on air they should douse themselves in the kind of cynical disdain Greenwald purveys in this blog is just silly.
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is confusing a professional fluffing with an actual interview.