I just watched Washington Week on PBS

[FourScore]

What a bunch of babble!!! All they did was discuss the presidential race. That's it. For a whole half hour. They didn't discuss Libby AT ALL!!! How can that be??? Oh Gwen Ifill mentioned it -- with jest -- in the lede, but not one soul mentioned it again. After all DU, let's face it: The-Libby-thing is such an insignificant, trivial matter -- quite laughable really!!!

I hadn't seen that show in a long time, now I know why.

BTW, At one point they talked about the internet and the race, and asked themselves if they were becoming irrelevent since people can access information on their own; and in the end,they actually decided the viewers need their commentary in order to understand it all...

Jeez, what a bunch of bloviating bullshitters!

[dailykoff]

1. Yep.

I used to like that show but gave up for exactly that reason -- the internet is a far better source of info and analysis. It's also full of bushbots.

[Robbien]

2. I keep thinking that it is strange this presidential race started so early

and diverting press attention from important matters may be one of the reasons.

Because it sure does.

[Nutmegger]

3. I use to watch it. Not anymore.

Much for the same reasons, but I still catch NOW which airs after WW on my local PBS station. NOW rocks.

[Bozita]

4. Show was taped earlier. Likely Tuesday PM.

Lack of Libby comment is a dead giveaway.

I'm guessing 6pm.

[FourScore]

5. No. It was a live audience from Aspen

And they mentioned it, but only jokingly in the beginning.

[Bozita]

6. Hoping I'm right. The alternative is chilling

Perhaps taped in Aspen on Tuesday?

[FourScore]

7. Here's the link

Everything but Scooter Libby was discussed.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/

[Bozita]

8. How could you find a group of news readers LIVE on Friday not mentioning Scooter?

And these folks write the news.

Time for us to know more about Britney and the dead blonde lady with the big tits.

[rodeodance]

11. Take a moment to send them an email HERE:

It seldom helps to grip amongst ourselves. thanks.

http://www.pbs.org/weta/washingtonweek/feedback.html

[snappyturtle]

9. I watched it too and it was disgusting....that may be so because

gwen and condi are friends and gwen is doing her part to stop the discussion about libby.

[rodeodance]

10. i watched it-I do not think they chatted about any ISSUES--just $$ and polls.

[Fly by night]

12. PBS -- another weapon of mass distraction -- the note I just sent Gwen Awful

"To do a full half hour without any discussion of the Scooter Libby travesty or the growing number of Republican Senators who are waking up to the despots and draculas leading this country in their name is beyond the pale.

"My PBS -- now a weapon of mass distraction. Time to get back to the internet for some real news and courageous analysis."

[EVDebs]

13. Gwen on our 'part Spider-Man, part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan ' president

"The war winds down, politics heats up.... Picture perfect. Part Spider-Man, part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan. The president seizes the moment on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific."
(PBS's Gwen Ifill, 5/2/03, on George W. Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech)

Picture perfect indeed...also 100% pure baloney.

[glitch]

20. Oh dear. I am a little sick now. Queasy. I missed that the first time around. nt

:puke:

[question everything]

14. You know, as I am watching the misery of people in OK and KS

losing everything to the flood and perhaps having to deal with contaminated water; as I watch the extreme heat in the West and South west - which is moving eastward and with already reports of people dying; as I am watching farmers in GA losing their crops to the drought - I have to conclude that even Libby and impeaching are a luxury for political junkies to debate while ignoring what matters to real people..

OK, start flaming.

[FourScore]

19. Good point, question everything.

I don't think all else should be ignored, such as the commutation of Libby. Still, it is always good to put things into perspective. I think you are absolutely right to put the climate change first. On this day of Live Earth concerts we should all rally behind our truly elected Predsident of 2000 and remember what really matters.

I had a converstaion with my husband once about the millions of lives that are in danger due to rising sea levels. He asked what we would do with all those people. My response was that we will let them die. If they are wealthy enough to leave their own country, which most aren't, then they will get out, otherwise they don't stand a chance. Unfortunately, I believe that is how it will happen. I believe this because I already see it. I envision climate change to be like a slow cancer. Just recently I saw the headline that more people die of global warming each year than from terrorism, yet we stand by and watch the floods and the draughts and the heat waves and the melting of glaciers and do so little. It is a travesty.

No flaming here question everything. You are right.

[Jack Rabbit]

15. The babble bubble?

That would be a good description of the Washington press.

The "Libby thing" is what is important to many Americans right now. Few people are very enthusiastic about any of the presidential candidates; many are more afraid that the tyrants now in power will screw things up royally before the next election and are beginning to concentrate on getting them now rather than wait.

[GETPLANING]

16. McLaughlin Group is just as bad.

I used to watch it because it was mainly unscripted, but after a while, I noticed they were avoiding the important stuff like the US Attorney firings, Scooter Libby, and the growing movement to impeach Dick Cheney. The conservative virus is getting to PBS too.

[bobthedrummer]

17. About the only one that speaks with BFEE insight is Alexis Simendinger imo

Yet even that gets "translated"...

[tblue37]

18. Inside the beltway buttheads.

They don't have a clue.