Even Fox anchor embarrassed at interview with Bush

[quaoar]

Neil Cavuto doesn't ask a single question about Iraq, yet comes up with some bizarre link between Social Security and the Michael Jackson trial.

This is unbelievable even by Fox standards.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

But even fellow Fox News anchor John Gibson marveled at Cavuto's line of questioning when Cavuto came on his show later.

Gibson: "So, Neil, I got to ask, how did Michael Jackson come up?"

Cavuto: "Well, I have got to be honest. I brought it up."

Gibson: "Yes."

Cavuto: "I have a theory on this, John. A lot of people think I'm crazy.

"But the president's (Social Security) push, soon as he began his second term, times almost to the week with the approach of the Michael Jackson trial. And I have a view -- and it could be crazy -- and the president readily admitted maybe it was -- that this fixation on the Michael Jackson trial, even in your show right now, takes away from the attention that maybe the president wanted afforded his program on Social Security."

[stevedeshazer]

1. Let me see if I have this straight.

No surprise that Cavuto didn't ask any tough questions.

But, it's Michael Jackson's fault that Bush is a failure at selling private accounts?

Catapulting the propaganda, I guess.... :eyes:

[Disturbed]

2. That was an InfoMercial not an Interview.

Shocked, I tell ya.

[Orangepeel]

15. ya see, California is a liberal state

those damn liberals timed the trial in order to deflect attention from our dear leader's eloquent arguments.

[Hissyspit]

3. sigh

actual grown-ups take this Fox shit seriously

[RUMPLEMINTZ]

4. I agree, what a stupid

interview, but with all due respect I don't see where Gibson is "embarrassed?"

[quaoar]

6. My interpretation

If you don't like it, pick your own.

[TalkingDog]

5. What happened to creating their own reality?

Maybe Michael Jackson's reality is stronger?

OOooooo....psycho flame war: BushBots vs the Jackson 5. Steel Cage Celebrity Death Match.

Michael would kick his butt....

[Cha]

7. Too stupid to be president and too

stupid to be news anchors.

[FrenchieCat]

8. The only f*cking people "obsessed " with the Michael Jackson trial

is the media and Jerry Springer program watchers.

They've covered all there was to cover about Bush's social security "sale". There just was no there there.

Bush stammered for 20 minutes and never gave not one iota of detail on the "problem" with SS...other than calling it "Broke" and "Bankrupt".

Super large assholes on both the interviewer and the interviewee!

[Spectral]

9. But it kinda tells you where the Fox audience is, doesn't it

Lower IQs in general, I think

[quaoar]

10. Check out the Fox reporter's potty mouth today

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/06/why-is-howard-dean-fox-news-so-angry.html

[stickdog]

11. So Michael Jackson molested Bush's Social Security plan?

Or is it that people started confusing Bush with Bubbles the monkey?

[FrenchieCat]

13. Might as well blame Michael Jackson for 9/11 too.....

since no one is buying that it was the Clinton Clenis' fault!

[magnolia]

12. Is the "runaway bride" in on it too?

And the missing girl in Aruba is hiding out somewhere sipping mimosas just to keep attention off Social Security. Tom Cruise jumping on chairs, Russell Crowe throwing telephones...all part of the grand plan to prevent poor little Georgie from getting his message out.

[minnesotaDFLer]

14. we should boycott fox

seriously, we should start a boycott.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. Not exactly a new idea

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=fox+boycott

[demwing]

18. Actually, Michael Savage said something to that

Said that Russel Crowe's tantrum was done purposefully, so that the media would pay attention to him, caress his ego, etc.

All the while Savage Weiner was sayin it was a distraction from issues like Social Security.

Savage has HUHA syndrome. (Head Up His Ass)

[wicket]

16. They've gone from "It's all Clinton's Fault!" to blaming it on MJ

PATHETIC!

[Toots]

19. This one sounds like the "I have a dream" of MLK

"I have a theory" I think people may be bringing up Michael Jackson to distract people from Bush*'s Social Security Plans and that John is why I brought up Michael Jackson and no one else did. It is my theory.

[elperromagico]

20. Oh, so it's the media's fault that Bush's SS plan sucks?

Bush has been going around the country for months, humping his "reform" plan; it would seem that he hasn't succeeded in changing many minds.

The media was covering Bush's SS tour. After a while, though, "Bush Promoting His Unpopular Social Security Plan" starts to sound a little pathetic.

[Strawman]

21. Umm, don't they get it? Why on earth are they complaining?

The less people know about the President's plan the better it's chances are of passing. Support for his plan went right down the shitter when he went on his little speaking tour and the idea started getting media attention.