Who was a bigger dick to Moore - Lauer or Storm?

[Jack_Dawson]

I found both these interviewers way over the top in terms of hostility towards Mr. Moore. Was there one that was worse? Or maybe I missed somebody.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

1. Saw the Storm interview, but not Laurer. Is there a link to this?

Hannah Storm was definitely a megabitch to MM.

[Jack_Dawson]

3. I thought Lauer was going to jump him I swear

Dude was either going to cry or punch Moore in the face...I couldn't get a read on it. But from what I hear Lauer is portrayed as a jagoff in the movie so no wonder.

[StandUpGuy]

15. Dam that isn't even close...

The Lauer interview WAS fair and balanced.

He did ask a few twisted logic talking point questions, but Lauer did lob a few softballs Moore hit out of the park.

Plus he actually listened to MM's answers.

When MM said he wished Lauer had asked the Bush admin questions as tough as these and implied that Lauer might have been able to prevent the war, he didn't have a hissy fit the way Storm did when Moore accused her sugar daddies in the new department of being propagandists.

[earthside]

9. Lauer Link

Here is a link to the Lauer interview:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5239322/

I couldn't watch it because Mac OSX is not supported by MSNBC ... surprise.

So I'm voting that Lauer is the bigger dick ... it just has to be.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

2. Voted for Lauer because I didn't see the

interview with Hannah Storm. I read the transcript of it and she was pretty pathetic as well.

[vivalarev]

4. had to vote for storm

she was a real bitch...and that was before moore slammed her. but lauer was almost as bad

[Dr.Phool]

5. Maybe Albert Belle was right

A few years ago when he let her have it before a World Series game in Cleveland.

[GreenPartyVoter]

6. Welcome to DU :^)

[Carolina]

23. I agree

Storm was visibly hostile: face, positioning, entire body language on top of the obvious negativity of her comments, her questions and the review (Hitchens') she chose to emphasize.

I watched them both and while Matt was/is a loathesome bastard, Storm's outright hostility was way over the top. She gets the top whore award.

[Cocoa]

7. you really should see the video

seeing Storm's condescending "I am not amused" expression adds another dimension.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/25/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main626088.shtml

[Wickerman]

8. Matt - because he doesn't have to be such a whore

Storm? No other choice, it seems to be in her blood or something - but Matt could chart a different course and chooses not to. Sad, really.

[Jack_Dawson]

10. Damn 23-6? Guess Lauer is the bigger dick after all... n/t

[Kurt Remarque]

11. if you had any doubt about the true colors of the networks...

hanna will clear any delusions of fairness that you may harbor. she was horridly biased and very inappropriate. o'reilly would have been very proud of her. i haven't seen the lauer interview but it's hard to imagine how it could be worse

[Jack_Dawson]

12. Link for Hannah's Abomination?

[tjwash]

17. I can watch that over and over again....

-----------------transcript-------------------------------------
Storm: "So this is satire and not documentary? We shouldn’t see this as..."
Moore: "It’s a satirical documentary."
Storm: "Some have said propaganda, do you buy that? Op-ed?"
Moore: "No, I consider the CBS Evening News propaganda. What I do is..."
Storm: "We’ll move beyond on that."
Moore: "Why? Let’s not move beyond that. Seriously."
Storm: "No, let’s talk about your movie."
Moore: "But why don’t we talk about the Evening News on this network and the
other networks that didn’t do the job they should have done at the beginning of this war?"
Storm: "You know what?"
Moore: "Demanded the evidence, ask the hard questions-"
Storm: "Okay."
Moore: "-we may not of even gone into this war had these networks done their job. I mean, it was
a great disservice to the American people because we depend on people who work here and
the other networks to go after those in power and say 'Hey, wait a minute. You want to send
our kids off to war, we want to know where those weapons of mass destruction are. Let’s see
the proof. Let’s see the proof that Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11.’"
Storm: "But-"
Moore: "There was no proof and everybody just got embedded and everybody rolled over and everybody knows that now."
Storm: "Michael, the one thing that journalists try to do is to present both sides of the story.
And it could be argued that you did not do that in this movie."
Moore: "I certainly didn’t. I presented my side..."
Storm: "You presented your side of the story."
Moore: "Because my side, that’s the side of millions of Americans, (the majority) rarely gets told. This is just a humble plea
on my behalf and not to you personally, Hannah. But I’m just saying to journalists in general that instead of
working so hard to tell both sides of the story, why don’t you just tell that one side, which is the administration,
why don’t you ask them the hard questions-"
Storm: "Which I think is something that we all try to do."
Moore: "Well, I think it was a lot of cheerleading going on at the beginning of this war-"
Storm: "Alright."
Moore: "A lot of cheerleading and it didn’t do the public any good to have journalists standing in front
of the camera going 'whoop-dee-do, let’s all go to war’. And, and it’s not their kids going to war.
It’s not the children of the news executives going to war-"
Storm: "Michael, why don’t you do you next movie about networks news, okay? Because this movie..."
Moore: "I know, I think I should do that movie."
Storm: "...because this movie is an attack on the president and his policies."
Moore: "Well, and it also points out how the networks failed us at the beginning of this war and didn’t do their job."
-----------------transcript-------------------------------------

SNAP, have a seat young lady, you just got beat down, using your own airwaves no less.

[Carolina]

24. thanks for the transcript

but as the saying goes: a picture is worth a 1000 words.

The video is a priceless piece of art exhibiting:

1) the real abomination of news readers pretending to be journalists

2)the marvelous Michael Moore slapdown of the Whore Storm

[Jack_Dawson]

26. Damn now I REALLY wanna see that link!

[Shakespeare]

13. Storm was dismissive, but Lauer was aggressively combative.

Therefore, Lauer was the bigger jerk. I was stunned at the look of loathing and contempt in his eyes. He GLARED at Moore for the entire interview. If you have that big of a problem interviewing your subject, you need to let somebody else handle the interview.

[tjwash]

19. That's because everything he tried to say...

...got expertly, and quickly knocked down by Moore. That was frustration in his eyes.

[Shakespeare]

20. No, he STARTED the interview with a completely hostile tone....

I saw there with my mouth hanging open while I watched. He never started out with any congeniality towards Moore, even for his opening question. It was ugly from the get-go.

[tjwash]

22. Oh yeah, I know he did.

And the more MM deflected his questions, the more hostile his tone became. The guy was sitting in the room trying to beat down a real journalist, and he ended up just looking like a bitter frustrated boy against a man in the end.

I liked it...

[kdowney]

14. Joe Scarborough

Hands down. Lyin weasel.

[StandUpGuy]

16. you got a link ?

He did a scarborough interview ?

[newsguyatl]

18. i keep seeing this post in GD

and i keep thinking it says "who has a bigger dick?"

[Obamarama]

21. Storm

I wanted to stuff a sock down the bitch's throat to shut her up. Matt, I just did a slow burn.

[Carolina]

25. you're kind

I wanted to see her hog-tied and hooded in Abu Ghraib ...

Gosh, I hope there is some awful divine justice awaiting these media whores.

[Redleg]

27. Funny how the media acts badass with Moore but doesn't dare ask Bush

or his minions any hard questions. What a bunch of fucking wussy weasel bastards.

[Jack_Dawson]

28. No shit, right?