check out daily howler, as one example, of how Russert savaged him, hot ineptly, according to the media herd, he handled it, and how they started in on him from that point on. see link down the post
Watch for Russert to pull the same shit on Kerry, as he did Dean
if he had ONE ounce of campaign sense, guts, balls, etc., he'd have a RAFT of cites of Russert's being in the big cess TANK for pugs, with reams of quotes corroborating it, and shove these facts down that that fat russetfaced, jabbathehut piehole of his, and ask him WHY he gives pugs the red carpet, and dems the red ASS.
the media SO need another Bush/Rather moment from back in 88, cept they need to have it handed to them by a DEM!
course, he'll just sit there like a pumpkin and take it, allow Russert to keep him on the defensive, just as he tried to do with Clarke.
unfortunately, with all his nuanced, evolving views, differentiated votes on myriad subjects, he's going to be a big, tall target for RNC attacking points, which Fatrat will repeat endlessly, never giving Kerry a chance do define himself with a positive view of a nonfascist Amerikkka.
think I'm exaggerating:
http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh070103.shtmlDoes Russert have a single standard, applied to Dems and Reps alike? Many Dems believe he does not. A look at his 1999 session with Bush helps show why so many Dems think that.
Candidate Bush did Meet the Press on November 21, 1999, shortly after a pair of flaps had roiled the Washington press corps. On October 31, Time had reported that Naomi Wolf was advising Candidate Gore, and this led to a series of foolish flaps that continued throughout the election. But three days later, on November 3, Boston TV reporter Andy Hiller ambushed Candidate Bush with a fiendish foreign relations “pop quiz.” Bush was stumped by Hiller’s questions, and looked a bit shaky in the process. Each of these episodes had received wide attention in the weeks before Bush did Meet the Press.
How did Russert handle these matters? He never mentioned Bush’s “pop quiz,” directly or indirectly. Indeed, in the next day’s New York Times, Frank Bruni puzzled a bit over Russert’s milquetoast performance:
BRUNI: Because Mr. Bush had not done a live television interview of this length since he announced his candidacy in June, the appearance was widely anticipated as a chance to see how nimbly he could negotiate an array of policy questions…
Although Mr. Bush had just given a foreign policy speech on Friday and had previously drawn criticism for several gaffes when talking about international affairs, Mr. Russert did not dwell long on global matters.
That was a bit of an overstatement by Bruni, but Russert was no bulldog this day. In particular, he didn’t allude to the “pop quiz,” or to other alleged gaffes which had drawn attention. But man, how he hit on Naomi Wolf! In what can only be viewed as a world-class pander, Russert tossed several softballs to Bush midway through the hour. His Wolf-spinning started with this:
RUSSERT: One out of every three kids born in this country, born to a single mom.
BUSH: Yeah.
RUSSERT: Millions of them teen-age moms. Let me show you what Naomi Wolf, an advisor to Vice President Gore, has to say about this issue and put it on the screen: “We should address the teen abortion and unwanted pregnancy rate by doing what Dr. Elders lost her job as surgeon general simply for mentioning: we should teach petting—‘sexual gradualism’—and let our kids know that there are many ways of having pleasure and intimacy that don’t involve intercourse. This is an agenda both the Left and the center can agree on, for it’s hardly a radical notion. Mutual masturbation: history shows it’s the old-fashioned, Main Street, American way. If we teach kids about other kinds of sexual exploration that help them wait for intercourse until they are really ready, we let girls find out about their desire, give them back power in erotic negotiation, and let kids have an option not to go immediately ‘from zero to sixty.’ Teaching sexual gradualism is as sensible as teaching kids to drive.”more DH on Russert/Bush
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