Is Anybody Watching Meet The Press?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

What a bunch of pseudo intellectual douchebags?

[TrueAmerican]

1. Doesn't start for most of the country until later

n/t

[Shopaholic]

2. And what bearing does Al Gore's sighs

in the 2000 debate (which they turned the audio up on btw) have to do with THIS election? Fuckers.

[JPJones]

7. Uhm, Gore lost partially because of the 2000 debate

They were totally saying that Bush will lose because of his faces.

[Cha]

46. Bush got GORED!

And it was self-inflicted! :bounce: :)

[sherilocks]

3. Kate O'Berne needs to douche her mouth eom

[JPJones]

4. Bush was Gored!

Bush's faces were the equivalent of his father looking at his watch!

They showed 'Faces of Frustration' and then showed Al Gore's sighs from 2000.

Seriously, Bush is toast.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. Bush Sucked 100 Times Worse Than Gore....

Bush looked like Earnest T debating Einstein for the love of God...


At least Gore didn't shrink behind the podium...


Words can't describe the ass kicking Bush got...


When former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson lost a fight he would wear a disguise because he felt he let his fans down...

If the Simian-In-Chief had an ounce of dignity he'd wear a Nixon mask for the rest of the campaign...

[GingerSnaps]

38. The Darlins can't bail him out of this one

I am waiting for a rock to go through someones window right now.

[skylarmae]

14. first time boycott - Meet the Press - Too pissed at Russert

to tune in today. I'm tired of his pandering to the right. I thought his after debate comments be transparent and I'm sick of his
'little round face and body', at least for a while. I find its easier to take two-faced ingrates incrementally these days.

[thinkingwoman]

29. MTP showed that?

Bush IS toast. Get the Jelly. Get the Jam!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Doesn't Kate O'Beirne Remind You Of Ben Stiller's Mom

With all her money and education can't she take one of those seminars where they teach you to lose your lower east side accent...


She sounds like she could be the waitress on the old Archie Bunker's Place show...

[MADem]

39. Wow, that was mean!

I LIKE Anne Meara...and I don't think she shares the views of that bag with a bad face lift at all. She's a fine actress, too, way better than she gets credit for.

[indef]

6. definitely won't be on over here

Some days, when I reflect on hearing Russert speak, I'm relieved.

[Birthmark]

8. I saw about three minutes.

It was pretty funny. What a sad little man Russert is.

[Militant_Left]

9. Right down these traitors' names...

When the revolution comes after 11/2, they will be marked as being on the other side.
And remember, it wasn't us who said you're either with us or against us

[MaineDem]

10. Self-deleted

I wasn't making any sense anyhow.

[indef]

12. that's right

I wanna logon to Newsmax and read all of the conservative dreck the day after Kerry wins.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

16. Me too

I'm looking forward to reading all the Republican haunts on November 3rd after Kerry wins in a landslide.

They'll probably blame Jesus.

[doni_georgia]

11. I'm in the Bible belt - all we have is preaching on this early

I'll catch the talking heads and the talking douche bags later.

[nofurylike]

15. for relief, Richard Holbrooke is encouraging to hear on

the ever-disturbing George Stephanopolis' This Week.

he is speaking very strongly!



peace!

[nofurylike]

18. oops! edit: maybe don't watch AFTER Holbrooke. round.table JUNK n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. Why Did I Call Them Douchebags?

They essentially ignored the fact that Kerry beat Bush 61% -19% in the debate....


There is no precedent for a thrashing like that in American history. That fact was essentially ignored...

[JPJones]

19. I disagree, for a non-Fox news show, they f-ing destroyed Bush n/t

[indef]

20. I don't believe it

I guess I'll just have to read the transcript in the morning.

[JPJones]

21. It wasn't the transcript - it was the video they played

from the debate, the DNC ad, Gore in 2000.

[RafterMan]

43. The Gore thing was funny

They couldn't find anything Kerry did wrong, so they had to go back four years to a different guy to find a smear.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. Ron Brownstein Said Bush Had A Better Plan To Defeat The Terrorists...

If repeating a bunch of bromides, anecdotes, and homilies ad infinitum and ad nauseum is a plan than Bush had a better plan...

[Peanut Gallery]

23. Exactly

And nevermind the fact that Bush's "plans" to eradicate terrorism are actually making things worse.

[nolabels]

33. Being trite and stale has it's benefits

(are they taking donations for the one way tickets to Crawford, Texas yet?)



Raw,Raw,Raw........More of the same...........
Raw,Raw,Raw........More of the same...........
Raw,Raw,Raw........More of the same...........
Raw,Raw,Raw........More of the same...........
Raw,Raw,Raw........More of the same...........
Raw,Raw,Raw........More of the same...........

[Cha]

47. Tells me that ron brownstein is a

bush league idiot. Doesn't he write all this shit in the latimes?

[Catt03]

24. Women...listen carefully

Doctors, nurses, women who have abortions should be held to the laws that punish "taking a life" meaning the death penalty. (Colburn)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. Dr. Coburn Allegedly Sterilized A Poor Black Woman Without Her Permission

Why isn't that being discussed?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

26. Wow-here it comes...

[UTUSN]

37. Alternate Universe: The Oklahoma Senate Candidates

I'll take ANY Dem for the Senate (or anywhere else), but in the opening summary: The Dem is a "maverick," supports the Patriot Act and various Shrub positions; while the Repuke was the opposite. So in order to get a so-called Dem in, it has to be a Zell type? The Repuke supported whassisname, the one running now in Illinois, against Shrub in the 2000 primaries, saying that that one understood the issues better than Shrub? Cue the Twilight Zone music.

[underpants]

27. They are still trying to make arguments FOR Bush-extending the debate

Observation of my wife. I liken it to the end of "Trading Places"

TURN THE MACHINES BACK ON! GET EVERYONE BACK IN HEEeeeeeeeRE!

I heard this on RW radio and on Fox News-"President Bush COULD have said...." SHOULD have said........" "What about Kerry's Senate record?!?!"

Well guess what dipwads Bush DIDN'T say any of that because he can't formulate anything close to coherent thought.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

28. I'll Bet Many Losers Want A Do Over...

What a crock of shit from Kate O'Beirne...


Anybody who lost an argument can come up with good comebacks two days later...


What a fucking imbecile....

[underpants]

30. Exactly

They seem to have gotten the memo.

Sorry when the clock says zero/whent he last out is recorded look at the scoreboard. They might want to get used to it.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

32. Sometimes In A Match That's Close

you might want a do over...


But that match wasn't even close....

[PCIntern]

31. Her ugly face used to be even uglier

when she suffered from posterior bite collapse and she had those flared anteriors...

Yich.

[drdigi420]

40. i want a do over of the 1998 SuperBowl!!!

the Falcons were star struck!

that's just as plausible

[westley]

34. Cybersecurity Chief Resign Abruptly

No one has mentioned this but me and I cannot start a new thread, but want it heard that Amit Yoran, the cybersecurity chief resigned and quit with only 1 day notice. This is the post that Richard Clark held. I believe this is the third resignation from this post since Clark left. Bet that Russert will not be bringing this one up?

[gristy]

35. I had to turn it off after three minutes

I was heading for the remote when I heard the first guest say "Kerry needs to keep the focus on Bush's performance, and away from his own personal characteristics". WTF?

Remote in hand, when Timmy then went on to the Kerry "flip-flopping" meme, click!!

Aaarghh.

[Cha]

49. WTF does that mean?

I would hope that mtp is making itself irrelevant with people on like that after the trouncing Kerry gave the vapid chimp.

[Forkboy]

36. So what's different about this week from every other week?

:)

[scoopmeister]

41. New Secret Service - Bush outrage!

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/extra/

[newyawker99]

44. Hi scoopmeister!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[girl gone mad]

42. Bah! 63 million people watched the debate.

How many people watch MTP?

[ljm2002]

45. That really was bad...

...just got through watching the MTP segment on the debate. Wow. They couldn't spin it as a "win" for the Prez, so they worked really really hard to make it a "doesn't matter". They brought up points that Bush *could have* used, if he had had the presence of mind to do so. They downplayed the importance of body language, even though that was a major topic during the 2000 elections. It was actually quite amusing. At least Russert showed the "Faces of Frustration", before showing the Gore one, and it did tend to make the comparison that body language did make a difference last time (*) ...

The PNAC guy (the one in the gray suit), said that Bush's enduring strength on the topic of Iraq stems from the fact that he has a strategic vision, that the link to terrorism is a deeper one anyway, that what is needed is a beacon of democracy in the Middle East and that's what the Iraq war is really about, and why it's connected to the War On Terror. --Whatever, dude. That was *never* brought up as a reason for going to war; if it was the reason we invaded Iraq, then we were misled, pure and simple. We were told it was to preempt an imminent threat... In Other Words, the President Lied To The American People.

The woman was just, hard to watch. She so wanted this debate not to matter! She never said anything outright about how poorly her boy Bush had performed, but clearly was squirming because she knew she was doing damage control.

I don't know who the liberal guy is. He was okay but didn't have the telegenic presence of the others, he did not talk into the camera, therefore was less effective than he should have been. Personally, I would have enjoyed seeing him do something emotive -- like, sneer openly when talking about *'s performance. But that's just me. ;-)

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(*) (yes, I know that "Gore won". I get that. But, the media spin machine was able to make a lot of hay out of his supposed gaffes during the debates, now it's George's turn and he's getting reamed ha ha)

[Cha]

50. So they ge didn't have any

Democrats on?

[ljm2002]

51. The one I mentioned...

...his last name is "Simon" I think. Sorry I did miss the affiliations of all of them, and don't watch every week so don't know who everyone is. Anyway, he seemed to take the Democratic side of it in general but, like I said, he didn't talk to the camera and wasn't as experienced in front of the camera as the others are, I would guess...

[Radical Activist]

48. Why wasn't Bush's reaction as big a deal as Gore's sighs?

Gore's reactions were the main topic of discussion after that debate. Why does Bush's much more animated and damaging expression get only a small treatment at the end of the discussion? Most of the media doesn't even want to bring it up. I'm glad they showed the Gore clips because it shows what a double standard there is for Democrats.