Reply #42: After it’s all said and done…. [View All]

[peterh]

I suspect that one will be hard pressed to see any difference between this one and the one done by Diane Sawyer. Russert will start out with the fluff stuff that will consume the first half hour, i.e.:

Sawyer: asked whether he had bought Laura Bush a Christmas present
Russert: can we ask what type of Valentine you got for Laura


The second half could provide some soundbites to play with, but like Sawyer, Russert will back away from follow up questions for further elaboration, i.e.:

SAWYER: But stated as a hard fact, that there were weapons of mass destruction, as opposed to the possibility that he could move to acquire those weapons still --
BUSH: So what's the difference?

Sawyer: <soooo….moving along>

If Russert does anything different, it’ll be to steer the twit to answer in a fashion that will have the least probability of opening a door for further elaboration.

Bottom line though….the twit being the twit, he is going to fuckup and provide an opening that even careful editing will be hard pressed to cover and timmy will again be exposed for being the partisan POS that he is…