February 8, 2004, Tim Russert... Honest Journalist?
The President's much-hyped one-hour Oval Office interview by Tim Russert on Meet the Press was just aired here in the New York area. Let me say that my impressions were stoked by watching the almost unbelievable prospect of (even the liberal) Pat Buchanan lambasting the Bush Administration's now clearly outrageous decision to send hundreds of Americans to their needless deaths to settle the Bush family score against Saddam on the McLaughlin Group. Yes, yes, in addition to being whatever else he is, Buchanan is a rabid isolationist, so his position is understandable. And he is no longer a loyal Republican. I do give him credit, however, for being a man of principle, even if some of those principles irritate (or otherwise scare the crap out of) me. Principle-- that is something that virtually all Republicans have now abandoned in the interest of winning. What does it say that Democrats have by and large decided to do the same thing? Is that a good thing? Discuss.
I give Russert credit: I expected him to come out soft-balling, and give Chimpy a chance to build up to an hour of propaganda. Instead, he came right out with the hard question: isn't the intelligence commission simply designed to deflect this until past the election? Chimpy's response featured an awful lot of of ums and aws-- way too much to convince me this was scripted; he fumbled through the need to take a look at our intelligence gathering, and did say that CIA Director George Tenet's job is not in danger (hint to Tenet: get that resume in order).
While Russert stayed away from devastating follow-ups, he at least put out the issue of Dubya's AWOL status (Bush's response: "political season is here"), which Dubya fumbled through a semi-coherant answer to otherwise. The awful economy was also put out there, allowing Dubya to give the stock answer to "why increase the deficit when the GAO says its already at unsustainable levels"... the answer being "um, job creation-- yeah that's it!"
Well, if you didn't see it, you might want to get a transcript-- but again, just think in terms of how easily the questions could have been anticipated and Dubya duly prepared for them, instead of, as usual, a President of the United States appearing to be less than... articulate, or even, dare I say it, "intelligent". I will just leave it as the damning "unprepared", which pretty much sums up Dubya's qualifications for the office.
As is de rigeur, few minds will be changed; those of us, like myself and apparently Pat Buchanan who believe that the almost irrational hatred of Bush is based upon the illegitimacy of his obtaining the office will continue to believe that the Dauphin stole the election and shouldn't be there; loyal Republicans would, as I have said before, defend the man to the death if he were observed knife-raping a nun live on national television. The "big mo'" question will be whether, as Bush seems to be sinking in polls almost by the hour, if whether this staunches the bleeding, or makes it worse.
I readily admit that I'm too opinionated to a fair arbiter of that question. What do you think? Discuss.
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