NBC-Bush MTP Interview Taped on Sat.

[joanski01]

This is from an e-mail I receive nightly from NBC Nightly News:

And, the president is scheduled to answer questions Saturday in an interview to air Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press." NBC's David Gregory reports. For additional information, please read: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4180021/?0ct=-34n.

So that's it folks. They can edit it, fix it up, and dump it on us.

[DenverDem]

1. The magic of TV

editing fixes everything. They will keep doing multiple takes til he gets it right.

[central scrutinizer]

4. here's Timmy's retake

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[lastknowngood]

2. I'll bet he almost appears to be conscious

and engaging.

[Karenina]

16. ABER....

Imagine a couple thousand Vets, accompanied by any and/or all of the Democratic candidates, senators, congresscritters (to insure the cops don't start pushing folks around unnecessarily), everybody's got photocopies of their military records, signs, buttons and bumper stickers to pass out to spectators, all gather in the closest "free speech zone" to the TV studio where the MTP slobberfest is taped with mock coffins, whistles, bullhorns, drums, chanting in unison, "Dubya, Dubya, Dubya, WHERE WERE YOU IN 72?" Oh yeah, and don't forget the sea of flags. Ya think that would pose the question LOUDLY ENOUGH?

Ya think the media wouls "engage" and report it?

Man-o-man, this picture engulfed my brain as I was reading today and I just keep re-posting...

[rocktivity]

20. Better yet, just have them howl

"AAAAAAAAWOLLLLLLLL!"


rocknation

[Snappy]

3. Propaganda

This is the opening of the Neo Fascist campaign sponsored by Timid Russert.

[MidwestTransplant]

5. Everybody better call/email NBC to be certain that it's aired in

unedited form.

[MidwestTransplant]

17. [e-mail]

[Cocoa]

21. my email

Dear Meet the Press,

I understand that you are taping the Bush interview a day ahead of time.

I watch Meet the Press nearly every week, and I'm familiar with the look of a Tim Russert interview.

If the Bush interview has been heavily edited in order to make Bush appear like a normal public official, it will be obvious to me and many other viewers.

Thank you,

[jab105]

6. How can they let Bush get away with doing that...

honestly, I just dont understand...Bush is the one that needs to be on MTP this time...MTP should set the groundrules...not Bush...

When is the media going to get a backbone, I just dont get it?

[59millionmorons]

7. I bet he got the questions before hand

Just a gut feeling.

[joanski01]

8. It seems to me that if

it is being taped, they can do anything they want to. There will be no suspense behind this interview. Same old shit, same old shit, same old shit.

[Stephanie]

9. You're right

The WH will probably give Russert the questions tomorrow.

[Jacobin]

10. Absolute garbage, spin, filth and blather

This ain't MTP, this is a photo op, they can do re-takes, make sure he reads the teleprompter correctly, let Rove coach him,

:puke:

[eissa]

11. I'm not surprised

just disgusted. Our guys get grilled, while this asshole keeps getting softballs tossed gently at him.

[dusty64]

12. I'm not at all surprised

and as usual will refuse to watch. I'll read all the hideous details here after the pukefest is over.

[pa28]

13. Surprise surprise

Questions screened in advance. A kneepad journalist doing the questioning but that was not enough. Now they have a day to give the wh final cut on everything.

[Speed8098]

14. I hope they debit *'s war chest

Because this is definitely going to be a campaign commercial.

It's disgusting. How can anyone believe a word out of this idiots mouth? I just look at this weasel and know he's lying.

It really doesn't matter, Russert would've tossed softballs anyway.

Guess I'll skip MTP this week.

[JohnyCanuck]

15. My email to Tim

Not that it will do much good. But the more emails he gets the more he is put on notice that a growing number of us are aware that he is just a tool and propaganda spinner for his corporate masters.

Dear Mr. Russert

I understand that you will be interviewing Mr. Bush on Saturday for your MTP program. Now I know that Mr. Bush's supporters proclaim him to be a born-again Christian and therefore one would tend to think it's not likely he would try to tell any mistruths during an interview. However, according to a recent article in the Toronto Globe and Mail, Mr. Bush has a pretty colorful vocabulary (if you catch my drift) for someone who is supposed to be a born again Christian.

Quote:
The Canadians didn't expect the morality play. Nor did they expect that, almost in the same breath, Mr. Bush would be filling the air with the f-word and other saucy expletives of the type that would surely leave the Lord perturbed. /End Quote

www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20040205/COMARTIN05/TPComment/TopStories

Now just in case during the course of the interview you suspect that Mr. Bush isn't quite the honest Christian we might all have once thought and is maybe trying to squeek by a nose stretcher or two, I am sure you will find this tool useful in interpreting Mr. Bush's body language to help you assess the veracity of his responses.

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/liar.html

Regards
xxxxx

[bluedog]

18. check this out

per drudge now

President Bush suggested to his staff that he appear on "Meet the Press" on Sunday as a way of answering questions about Iraq after a barrage of Democratic criticism against him, Kurtz will report in Friday editions of WASH POST...

White House staffers have particapated in mock "Meet The Press" sessions ahead of the interview, Kurtz claims, with Adam Levine, a former White House aide, playing Russert... Developing...

[Beetwasher]

19. I Predict an Abomination of a Performance

He's going to try to act. That might actually be fun to watch. Nahhh...

[Cocoa]

22. even with Russert's help, Bush will look very bad

Remember Gep's great line, "he's hard to help."

And remember the thing he did with Brit Hume. Hume did his best, and Bush still looked like an idiot.

[Elidor]

23. This promises to be a career-topping Hummer by Russert

I don't expect his head to come up from Dubya's crotch long enough to actually ask any questions. The only question this interview will answer is: does Russert swallow?

[jsaro]

24. It . . . will . . .be . . . scripted.

But then, you knew that. Almost everything Bush does is scripted, and the rare moments of candor are always disastrous. He is a bumbling, inelegant, witless impromptu speaker, but he can do well when heavily rehearsed (and heavily medicated, IMHO). Russert will obediently send over the questions before the taping. Karen & Karl will knock out some boffo answers & put 'em on teleprompters real quick. Russert will ask the questions, and Bush will read the answers. If Russert deviates from the prepared script, or if Bush goes on a frolic and detour, Karl will "persuade" NBC to edit it out if Bush screws up (haha -- "if").

I guarantee you Bush will weep on camera. He's weird that way.

[Art_from_Ark]

28. Quite a change from the "glory days" of MTP

when it billed itself as "an unrehearsed press conference".

[jsaro]

29. Hey, Art

Are you still living in Asia? Watch out for that bird flu! :-)

[Eric J in MN]

25. This is garbage. The pundits will say how wonderful and

The pundits will say how wonderful and tough Bush was to face Tim Russert.

Meanwhile, it will be edited to be flattering.

This is garbage.

[Dude_CalmDown]

26. If they're gonna make * look good they'd better get Stephen Spielberg

They're taping on Saturday and airing on Sunday? They're really cutting it close eh? How will the find the time to make him look like he's capable of wiping his own ass?

[spanone]

27. Creative editing will make the chimp appear somewhat intelligent