Letters to the Editor
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What's that? Sounds like you're choking on something...
I'd like to see Hanna Storm play the Kaj Larsen role in the CurrentTV piece Joan Walsh put up yesterday on waterboarding. Not only would it work to resuscitate her dying cred as a journalist, it would be fun to watch...
From everything I can see and hear, the people of the United States don't deserve a First Family with the intelligence and heart of the Kucinich's. It's no wonder DK polls in the single digits.
God help us all...
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Ramus1 beat me to it, but...
So soon we forget that Hannah Storm is nothing more than a tarted-up former sports reporter (using the term "reporter" loosely - she read sports updates for NBC). The only thing lower than a sports reporter on the journalistic totem is perhaps a rock critic, and on some they share the same rung.
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Not Even Journalism In My Opinion
If condescention and snark are what qualifies a person as being a serious journalist, then Ms. Storm would be one of the best out there. I find her handling of the Kucinich interview abhorrent and the status quo where Kucinich is concerned.
Whenever there has been coverage of Kucinich it has been unflattering, to put it mildly. He has been portrayed as being flakey, weird, a little guy, not presidental, easily dismissed, not to be listened to or taken seriously. That being said, no wonder most Americans have no idea who is really is as a candidate or what he has to offer. I would also bet that most Americans know nothing about his wife's intelligence, hard work and professionalism. Why should they with interviews like this one which, unfortunately, is one of the few that they have managed to get?
Ms. Storm's attempt to ignore, humiliate and marginalize the Kuciniches only backfired in my opinion. She wound up looking like the ignorant hack that she apparently is.
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larrfir, I wish we could afford to ignore journalists, BUT
like it or not, they control what the public sees and hears about the candidates for President, and they have a lot of influence over what dominates the debate. Do you know how many people still believe that Al Gore claims he "invented" the Internet, because journalists credulously repeated that distortion of a line out of context? Or how many think he said he discovered Love Canal, because of a misquote that could be corrected by consulting the audiotape of the interview? Or how many believe that John Kerry said "Who among us does not love Nascar," even though Maureen Dowd pulled that fake quote directly out of her arse?
Hannah Storm probably wants to be a big star pundit like Maureen Dowd, who won the Pulitzer Prize for obsessing for an entire year about Bill Clinton's B.J., while Osama bin Laden was blowing up embassies and sabotaging the U.S.S. Cole. In the 2000 election, all she could do was harp endlessly on Gore's personality, or rather, the ludicrous caricature of his personality that she and her buddies in the Beltway echo chamber had ginned up. By now, after 7 years of a disastrous presidency and the specter of an even worse President Guiliani, it might have occurred to her that there might be a little something more important to talk about than personalities and trivia, but NOOOOOOOOO. I'ts all about John Edwards's haircut! Hillary Clinton's lack of femininity! Barack Obama's wussiness for not starting a real tooth-and-nail cat fight with Hillary, despite Mowdy's best efforts to provoke one! And this woman is a syndicated columnist whose nastiness reaches people all over this country, every week of the year. How many votes do you think she threw to George Bush, in '00 AND '04? How much damage will she do in '08? I don't know, but Storm would obviously like to be right in there with her, torpedoing serious candidates and stifling any real discussion of issues.
I wish them both all the bad luck in the world.
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I'm surprised...
...that she didn't just come right out and ask him if he'd like oral sex from Ahmadinejad if he had a tonge stud. It seems to be what she's getting at.
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Re: The worst interview yet of the campaign season?
Pathetic.
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One thought
DK has a hot wife with a tongue stud. I'd think that the sex-obsessed god botherers who vote for the Republicans would love this guy because he won't be doing any interns or getting entraped in airport toilets any time soon.
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Whaddaya Expect?
Sideshow questions for a sideshow candidate. Please drop out Dennis, lest more of America see you and rediscover their fears that Dems are all 70s leftist loonballs. I can't be subjected to another four+ years of Republichristian rule...
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CBS Removes Criticism of Interview
I posted the following on the CBS site:
"Ms. Storm,
Local rumor suggests that your labia is pierced. First, could you show that to us, and second, could you please outline how this affects your job performance?
C'mon! Is it any wonder that the MSM is increasingly irrelevant?"
It stood as the only published comment for about 1/2 an hour before it was removed. Perhaps someone found the word 'labia' to be offensive? Or does it seem more likely that CBS doesn't believe that their comments section is the proper forum for criticism?
Lastly, I suppose it's possible that it was just in bad taste-- but then wasn't Storm asking much the same questions in equally bad taste?
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People should watch this video
I gained a whole new respect for Kucinich, it seemed like he knew he was talking to someone that wasn't qualified to interview them. I think Obama and Kucinich are talking about what they would do if they were president, but Hannah seemed to think they're saying their planning on taking a trip to Iran right now, what a space cadet.
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Worst interview? It's just getting started
The most depressing thing about this whole affair isn't Storm's shabby impression of "journalism" or the Heathers-esque, junior high school-level tackiness on display. (After all, she's on CBS; that's to be expected.) It's that the nation has a whole year of this nonsense still to go. The coverage of this campaign will be an avalanche of sheer inanity, from Russert all the way down to flunkies like Storm.
It's enough to make you want to go jump off a cliff.
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I continue to be vindicated.
I stopped watching nearly all television in 1976, and other than trying to stay current on its imbecility via sites like Media Matters and Crooks and Liars, have watched no TV news during that period. This interview with Kucinich and his wife leaves me convinced that I'm still not missing anything.
It's hard to imagine what it must be like to be a regular consumer of television "news." Clearly it's the equivalent of a fast food diet. Lots of empty calories, leading to a host of defects in the body politic.
Yuck.