Did anyone hear Russert on IMUS this morning?

[grasswire]

I just caught the tail end of it, and wondered if someone had more info. It sounded as if they decided that Bush came off looking bad and that he probably wouldn't sit for any more interviews with Russert.

Anyone got more?

[cboy4]

1. Imus said he and the people he'd been

speaking with all thought Bush was
horrible. Russert when asked if he
thought Bush did a good job said he
leaves that for other people to decide.

Russert would like Bush and the democratic
candidate to sit down for a 3-hour forum
on issues, but Imus implied Russert will
be lucky if the president ever speaks to
him again. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

[Taeger]

2. For Russert????

Try, he won't sit for ANY interviews at all.

I'm finally getting through to the conservative folks around me in Indiana. The Bush illusion is wearing off. He can't even sit and answer unscripted questions without looking like a jackass.

Bush won't be toppled by any slick ad campaigns. He has more money than we do. He will be toppled by spreading word on the ground. Tell everyone about the nasty stuff he's done. Tell everyone about all his lies. Tell everyone about Bush's refusal to take a physical in 1972 and refusal to deny using Cocaine before 1974.

Tell everyone that the Republicans have just effectively cancelled overtime rules.

Get them pumped. Get them angry about H-1B and LZ-1. Get them angry about WTO and NAFTA. Get them to watch Lou Dobbs (he's a media hero to me).

By the time Novemeber rolls around, Bush may not be able to STEAL enough votes to stay in office.

[Arugula Latte]

4. Could you elaborate on Lou Dobbs?

I tend to flip the channel when he comes on because I thought he was pretty obviously pro-Bush awhile back (albeit he seems to have a little more integriy than some of the right-wing attack dogs). Has he reformed?

[grasswire]

6. Dobbs is furious about immigration, for one thing

He's been pretty rough on the WH lately.

[onecitizen]

7. Lou has been having.......

some very valuable news stories of late. Talking about big companies moving their operations off shore, getting tax breaks and taking the American jobs with them. Then, he did a series on illegal immigration, and tonight he starts a new series "Made In America".

[Mixxster]

8. Lou Dobbs is really on a crusade...

about jobs leaving the country.

[PDittie]

14. Moneyline has three topics in rotation:

Jobs (and the loss thereof overseas), budget deficits (and their effect in the future), and immigration reform (which enables Lou to segue back to jobs).

Lou's an economic conservative and not a social one.

He had DeLay on a couple of weeks ago prattling on about the tax cuts were stimulating the economy and how that would begin to pay down the deficits, and Lou suddenly cold-cocked him with: "So how much are we going to have to cut taxes to eliminate the budget deficit?"

You should have seen Tom's face. Classic. Long pause, narrowed eyes, then right back into his monologue.

Dobbs is speaking to every conservative and independent who voted for Bush in 2000 but is uneasy about doing so again for reasons totally unrelated to the Iraq war. (Most people who still support the war after all the lies that have been exposed are simply not going to be moved -- on that topic.)

So the question to be asked is not, "Do you feel safer?", but "What do you think about Bush maxing out our country's credit cards for our grandchildren to pay off?"

Or something like that.

[gasperc]

5. Lou Dobbs? He has kinda turned against Bush Inc.

me thinks the runaway deficit has really gotten his goat

[Hoosier Democrat]

15. Where are you in Indiana??

St. Joe County here

[LunaC]

16. Hear, hear!

This is an invitation to participate in the Whispering Campaign - an opportunity to become ACTIVELY involved in waking up the American public without drawing attention to yourself. This is a game of Political "Gossip" where the story of our Government's deception and betrayal gets passed from one villager to another until the jungle drums of discontent, rage and fury become a never-ending cacophony in the background that the media can't ignore. Anyone can play. The rules are simple: make ten copies of the The Whispering Campaign post and leave it in a public place where someone else will find it and read it. Ideal locations for maximum exposure include book stores, copy shops, libraries and train stations. Buses, taxis, laundromats, and check-out lines at the grocery store. Hair salons, rest rooms, gas stations and convenience stores. Anywhere you happen to be will work just fine. Do this every week from now until November. Start the "buzz" that ends the Bush Administration......there's no excuse NOT to!

The Whispering Campaign

[BurtWorm]

3. It's clear that Bush won't do more interviews with Russert.

He made it clear at the end when he declined to indicate that he would when Russert offered the "invitation." I would expect that if anyone actually tries to make an issue of Bush "dodging" Russert somewhere down the line, the usual pundits can be counted on to trash Russert as someone who disrespects the presidency, when in fact Russert was as nice to Bush as he could be. It wasn't Russert's fault Bush came off looking bad, if in fact that's conventional wisdom.

[kcwayne]

9. The sock puppet can't commit to doing interviews

Its up to Karl Rove and Dick Cheney on when and where they'll roll out the village idiot.

Look for an interview on PTL club or the Billy Graham worship hour. The only venues they can put him in are ones where "Praise Jesus" passes for discussions on foreign policy.

[napi21]

10. I hope they do trash Russert

He's a very propular interviewer, and it can't be a bad thing to piss off the media big wigs! Russert can do more damage to Bush than his minions can do to Russert!

[junker]

11. Lou Dobbs kicks ass! And don't stop to take names......

love the attack dog look he gets about this outsourcing and elitist destruction of USofA working man. I have a bouvier dog that gets that look. And when he does you got about 4 seconds to complete a 10 second run....

oooooooAHHH for Lou. Keep on keeping on...

[xxqqqzme]

12. I guess some RW

talking head somewhere will blame timmy 4 squatter looking bad but the puppet masters have had at least 6 years to get the village idiot up 2 speed. All the best voice and body language trainers have not been able 2 work a miracle. squatter is what he is and always will B, an indulged child of privilege whose only job has been to show-up to get the cash. Forgive the stereotype and irony, but he is the epitome of, what I grew up thinking was, white trash.

[central scrutinizer]

13. probably part of the deal

Rove to Russert: stick with the script and only lob softballs right down the heart of the plate.

Russert: But won't I come off as an ass-kisser?

Rove: Don't worry, we will pretend to be outraged by your "confrontational" manner and refuse to do any more interviews with you to give you cover.