Military Spending: Priceless

30Mar09

It was clear that John McCain was in good cop mode during his appearance on Meet the Press, but I couldn’t help notice the speed with which he transitioned from bitching about the budget situation, to endorsing the indefinite deployment of troops in Afghanistan.
It’s rare see to quite such a quick transition from calls [...]

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Tags: John McCain, Meet the Press, Military Spending

Bobby Jindal on The T.V.

22Feb09

Bobby Jindal’s interview on Meet the Press contained an interesting rationale for opposing the stimulus bill.
It had become clear on the last few days that he was only going to refuse money for unemployment benefit extensions and maybe other yet to be defined programs, rather then all the stimulus money. In explaining this position [...]

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Tags: Bobby Jindal, Federal Stimulus, Meet the Press, Stimulus Bill

Charlie Crist on the T.V.

22Feb09

Seems to be saying that he doesn’t care if some crazy person on the radio says the stimulus bill is bad.
Bold leadership, which will presumably torpedo any possibility of ever leading the Republican party on the national level.

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Tags: Charlie Crist, Meet the Press, Rush Limbaugh

Meet the Dishonest Press

05Oct08

So it’s clearly more important that Barack Obama is a man of strong character then that Peggy Noonan and William Kristol are people of strong character, but it’s obviously more likely that Peggy Noonan and William Kristol are unfit to discuss the Presidential election, then that Barack Obama is unfit to to be President.
First question [...]

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Tags: Meet the Press, Peggy Noonan, Tom Brokaw, William Kristol

Meet The Press These Days

04Aug08

When Tim Russert passed away I had hard time putting into words my feelings about his role in modern journalism. There were good and bad aspects of journalistic style, but until I watched Tom Brokaw yesterday I had a hard time really imagining what Meet the Press would be like without him.
In terms of what [...]

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Race and “Details” in America

27Jul08

Watching Meet the Press this morning I noticed Tom Brokaw returned to the old Barack Obama criticism that he doesn’t provide enough policy details while asking him about his Berlin speech. He also asked him how widespread racism is in America.
Well here’s data point in the discussion about race in America; do you ever remember [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Meet the Press, Policy Details, Race, Racism, Tom Brokaw