Comments on: Debate Prediction: Schieffer Raises Ayers

By: drational

drational — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 12:11:13 +0000

I was pleased (as an Obama partisan) with how Schieffer handled this issue. And I think it speaks most to his own long-range self-interest and recognition that the writing is on the wall for his buddy, McCain.

By: brendanx

brendanx — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:00:42 +0000

You’re the winner.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 02:52:28 +0000

Heh, trust your first instinct.

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:53:07 +0000

I spoke too soon. Schieffer still sucks.

By: WilliamOckham

WilliamOckham — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 01:41:34 +0000

I have to say Bob Schieffer is doing a lot better than I expected.

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:23:03 +0000

Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal has one journalist defending Bill Ayers:

http://online.wsj.com/article/.....34543.html

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:22:00 +0000

Shieffer, Brokaw, Gibson are considered the cream of the crop of U.S. commentators.

Yeh. Rich and thick.

(h/t The Talented Mr. Ripley)

By: Bluetoe2

Bluetoe2 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:11:00 +0000

Shieffer, Brokaw, Gibson are considered the cream of the crop of U.S. commentators. That is in reality an indictment of a flawed and failed 4th Estate. All three are deserving of spending more time with their respective families. Tired, trite and tedious is the best description for these clowns.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:20:44 +0000

OT — Testimony that some of Toobz’ house bills got hid. That’s gotta hurt.

OT — JJ shocked, shocked to find WH has withheld torture authorization memo or memos; Kit sez move along folks, nuthin’ new to see here. I dunno, maybe it’s just me but I still smell the Prada smell of a jilted and vindictive Condi all over this thing.

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:59:32 +0000

I have thought the worn theme of grinding on an episode three decades past a fairly transparent ploy to divert attention from current events. McCain has ties to the Iran-Contra subliminal war machine, ask McCain to comment on Amy Goodman’s interview of ONorth wherein the tiredPatriot avers illicit funding mechanisms were justified and congress deserved to be ignored and it was not criminal at all because the end justified the means even lawless means. Another counterthrust would be to elicit McCain reactions to the storyline in Born Under a Bad Sky which discusses several presidents’ ways to circumvent environmental law in a case involving indigenous peoples sites, one in AZ, namely, the construction of an astronomy observatory at a place called Mt. Graham, reportedly a topic that precipitated McCain’s fuse to burn and explode; the audio clip by the author narrator describes battery upon an advocacy organization representative during an interview of McCain. These are all riposte minded strategies, perhaps best managed carefully. For simplicity, I liked the voter demographic data on NPR this morning, simply revealing the staunchly Republican neighborhood where the debate will take place this evening on Long Isl. this year has registered predominantly Democratic.