I see John Ziegler is being given a platform on GE-NBC for the Palin doc.. Why?

[lutefisk]

It appears that Ziegler is seriously disturbed - just one example is his obsession with OJ (had plan to kill him). I don't understand why he is taken seriously and put on national television. I guess it's the illusion that there are "two sides" to everything, no matter how nutty one of the "sides" is...

"...Winter '95: During his sportscast, Mr. Z. makes "an incredibly tame joke about O.J. Simpson's lack of innocence" w/r/t his wife's murder, which draws some protest from Raleigh's black community. John Ziegler is eventually fired from WLFL because the station "caved in to Political Correctness." The whole nasty incident marks the start of (a) Mr. Z.'s deep, complex hatred for all things PC, and (b) "my history with O.J." He falls into a deep funk, decides to give up sports broadcasting, "pretty much gave up on life, actually." Mr. Z. spends his days watching the O.J. Simpson trial on cable television, often sitting through repeat broadcasts of the coverage late at night; and when O.J. is finally acquitted, "I was nearly suicidal." Two psychiatrist golf buddies talk him into going on antidepressants, but much of the time O.J. is still all Mr. Ziegler can think and talk about. "It got so bad—you'll find this funny—at one point I was so depressed that it was my goal, assuming that he'd be acquitted and that Riviera Country Club wouldn't have the guts to kick him out, that I was going to become a caddy at Riviera, knock him off, and see whether or not could get me off on jury nullification. That's how obsessed I was.""

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200504/wallace

[LSparkle]

1. Whoa ... He's FAR sicker than I previously thought ... Yeah, why is he on?

I couldn't believe it when I saw the tease this morning -- Palin
"documentary" (quotes mine) filmmaker says media treated her unfairly.
Why are they giving this crank ANY more airtime to spew his bile?
Didn't they get enough of his snarky, useless crap the last time they
had him on multiple times in one day?

:scratcheshead:

[ErinBerin84]

2. yes,

MSNBC gave him a forum last month, why are they giving him air time again? Just because his "documentary" comes out today, does not mean that he is going to start answering questions. He was on with Norah earlier and claimed that SNL was a "news agency" and that people who watch Jon Stewart and Colbert were too stupid to understand that they are comedy shows.

[lutefisk]

3. Norah O'Donnell handled him well. I think she cut his time short when she had enough..

She challenged his nuttier statements, and in a tactful way essentially told him he was full of shit. It must be so frustrating trying to interview someone like that.

[Parker CA]

4. I think it was clear that if Norah had had her choice, he would've been gone after accusing her

of lying in his first 30 seconds speaking. She seemed to be hitting bullet-point questions to give him his 3 mins and then get him the F out of there. The guy is a complete sack of rusty tools. Grade AAA MORAN. His "documentary" has about as much potential for success as McCreep's and Palin's campaign did.

[Blue_In_AK]

5. Ziegler and Palin deserve each other. n/t