Matt Lauer/Today Show already pumping UAE port sale

[theHandpuppet]

There is NO -- and I repeat NO, absolutely NO threat to our nat'l security from the sale of these port operations to the UAE. Why, we should be more threatened by all those hijackers coming in from the U.K. like that shoe bomber fellow.

I know this now because I just heard it on The Today Show. So there!


:sarcasm:

[bigscott]

1. i fucking hate

matt lauer and katie couric

[LiberalinNC]

6. I agree! Are they being "paid" to say this bs?

[Cobalt Violet]

16. I hate them too. They never miss a chance to whore it up.

I use to be neutral toward them. They belong on Foxsnooze.

[Nomen Tuum]

21. You mean MATT LIAR, right?

Millionaire Matt just LOVES golfing with his Bush Pals!

[quispquake]

2. Pumping or Pimping???

Corporate fascists...

[theHandpuppet]

8. Both!

You should have seen them go into Bushbot mode at light speed. Rebuttal not included, of course.

[Roland99]

3. Roger Cressey was falling over himself to kiss the Propagandist's ass!

It was disgusting.

[Wickerman]

19. Watching the Midwest replay, he is quite the spinner n/t

[rodeodance]

4. ok, glad that got cleared up.--

[cali]

5. Oh for pity's sake

They had on a well respected security analyst who usually speaks out against admin policies. Now I only caught about 2 minutes of it- I tend not to watch Today, but I'd bet that in the last few days they've had on guests who oppose the port deal. In any case, Roger Cressey is not a bushco shill.

[theHandpuppet]

11. Have they?

I've tuned in to TTS every morning to get a recap of the Olympics and don't recall having seen such an interview with someone holding an opposing viewpoint. If someone else has, please let us know. And unlike you, I caught all of Cressey's interview this morning, not just two minutes. Good thing I hadn't started my breakfast before Lauer and Cressey launched into their mutual orgasm over the UAE buy.

[CottonBear]

7. Fox & Friends said that the UAE-WH secret deal would make the USA safer.

I'm not kidding. Rove got out the talking point and the spin late last night in preparation for the release of the AP story on the secret deal this morning. The very same secret deal that allows the UAE to NOT file noramlly required paperwork with the US government, among other exceptions. :grr:

[liberal N proud]

10. Safer? --- SAFER??? What a F@#$ing farce.

Letting the fox in the hen house makes the chickens safer?

[Cobalt Violet]

18. If your not for UAE your for terrorism!

:sarcasm:

[Arugula Latte]

29. Can you imagine the lather they'd be in if Clinton had done this?

Fox would be screaming 24/7 about Clinton selling us to the "A-rabs." Oh, it would've been righteous fire and brimstone indignation ...
:eyes:

[matcom]

9. i think they are right

although i would rather bush & cheney NOT profit from this

[Loge23]

12. Break the Today habit

Don't watch it. I've just about convinced my wife (a Today show diehard) to turn it off.
It's a garbage production anyway, even without the heavily Rove-influenced agenda.
Today is over.

[theHandpuppet]

15. Unfortunately....

It occupies the same channel as my favorite local news station, NBC4 out of Washington, D.C. So I have to (mentally) tune out TTS in order to catch the local updates and weather. The past couple of weeks I've been paying more attention for the Olympic updates. Still, I would hate to sacrifice my NBC4 fix just to avoid the shamefully biased "news" and misc. drivel on TTS.

[Loge23]

30. Same here

We like the AM news on WPTV - (NBC) West Palm Beach.
But at 7am, I'm outta there!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

13. Funny, NYTimes says that security wasn't even checked out

since the panel at the Treasury Dept. deciding on the deal saw no security issue.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/23/politics/23port.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

The Bush administration decided last month that a deal to hand over operations at major American ports to a government-owned company in Dubai did not involve national security and so did not require a more lengthy review, administration officials said Wednesday.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

26. Rep. Peter King from NY knew about this before hand and said the same

thing. He's furious (or at least pretending to be?)

[Richard Steele]

14. What a difference TOADY makes!

[npincus]

17. AND burying the breaking Iraq Civil War below headline

stories like "2 feuding Olympic speedskaters shake hands". Earthshaking.

Sorry, but the Iraqi civil breakdown is THE no. 1 story of the day- it belongs above the UAE port scandal. The most sacred 1,200 year old Shi'ite mosque gets blown up and civil war is erupting in Iraq... the new gov't is falling apart... and thousands of American soldiers are stuck in that messs that B*sh created. Fucking NBC BURIED this story.

At least ABC had the decency to put this at the top of the show. Jesus.

[bullimiami]

20. corporate paymasters approved the script, empty talking heads spout it.

[tlsmith1963]

22. How I Hate That Show!

They have it on at work every morning. It has to be about the most annoying thing on the air. And to think it used to be good in the past. I miss *intelligent* morning shows.

Tammy

[underpants]

23. *peep*

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=479483

Look I am loving all the political hay being made over this (it's too late this story has already been sold to the masses so they can't really fix it now) but my rudimentary opinion on this from Tuesday still holds.

[Caretha]

24. Right you are Peep!

No way can it be repackaged, sold and spun by Rove. The Rabble has roused and they aren't backing down.

Me thinks the real question is, what kind of vice does Bush have his balls in? Since putting the toothpaste back in the tube doesn't seem possible at this point, and *Bushco is emphatic about the sale going through, I think the show is about to begin.

For the first time in 5 years, I finally feel like popping some corn.

[underpants]

28. Toothapaste or as Dick Cheney would say

You can't put a round back in the barrel.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

25. And yesterday the person they had on to push this was Dan Bartlett.

NBC is no longer even pretending to be fair and balanced. Lauer and Couric are just corporate whores.

[flyarm]

27. ican not watch that show..he makes me vomit..really if i get

stuck watching it ..if my husband has it on..i end up screaming..i can't stand that * loving prick!

really if i saw him ..i would want to slap his smirky face!

he really makes me come unglued..he is such a phony plastic bastard..

on the rare occassion i see him..i imagine smushing his face with my hands...lol..

fly

[Jamison]

31. OMG...Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity are gonna get demoted now!

Lately Lauer and Couric have been bigger cheerleaders for Bush than Hannity or Coulter ever have been IMO.