Would have been nice to have heard Reid on the NewsHour

[NoFederales]

the satellite feed was so broken up we could only catch snatches during the conversation about Abramoff, earmarks, Alito, etc.

Was any of that interview worth a listen after all?

NoFederales

[NoFederales]

1. The part I really wanted to know about was when the topic shifted to Gore'

speech. Lehrer asked if Gore's statements about Bush law breaking was truthful (or some such) and then something more about NSA, then the station interupted with......"technical difficulties". Just came back up with the new topic and zero interference. what was said? I've been waiting 3 days for PBS to even give notice of Mondays events.

NoFederales

[notadmblnd]

6. h started tallking about former Sen Bob Graham

he said he wouldn't comment on Gores speach, but he said that Sen Graham sat on the intelligence committee and he said when they briefed him, the WH did not give them all the information they should have, basically said the whole thing was a mess and unconstitutional and what Bob Graham says is good enough for him. Then my feed went out.

[Adelante]

11. Graham was the Chairman of the Intelligence Committee

It's an inside view. Maybe that's why Reid cited him.

[hollowdweller]

2. Jamming from NSA- I saw most of it

I heard most of it. Only maybe 15 seconds missing. Got off to a slow start. I thought he handled the Abramoff thing well and explained the GOP accusation about himself getting $$ for the tribes well. I didn't understand why he didn't back up Al Gore more on the spying thing but instead quoted someone else saying it was unconstitutiaonal.

[NoFederales]

5. Damn! Didn't back Gore's remarks--that is really disturbing. I wanted to

hear Reid outline in explicit detail for Lehrer and the listeners. I really like Reid, but damn, damn, damn! I believe we must quit giving Bush the kid-glove treatment; why do we do it?

NoFederales

[wickywom]

3. my audio went static during the interviews

of the reporters in Iraq segment and and came back as soon as it ended.

[hollowdweller]

10. Those reporters gave a bleak picture of progress huh??

I liked the one saying why would she risk her peoples lives to go do some feel good story about a school being rebuilt that we blew up in the first place.

You know you see these guys interviewed like Michael Ware and the ones on the News Hour just now and you realize how awful the situation is over there.

[bigendian]

4. Big dissapointment.

Harry distanced himself from Al in the blink of an eye. He supported Bob Graham's comment on the unconstitutionality
of bush's actions.

The Democratic party deserted Al Gore at his convention. I wonder what the hell they have against him?

I mean, Al Gore is now a citizen just like us. Does the power structure have the same disdain for us?

I am so dissapointed in Harry Reid right now.

[geiger]

7. Nothing to fear but fear itself.

COWARDS! That's not leadership.

[hollowdweller]

8. Really. I didn't get why he was so obviously not supporting Gore because

Gore did more to give the issue legs than any other democrat. Was covered on every news network. Does Reid have some grudge against him??

[radio4progressives]

13. Because Gore Spoke Truth to Power... And He Speaks Against the Corporate

hijacking of the Media and our Government. And I dare say, judging by Harry Reid's dissing Gore's speach, that the News Hour must have gotten the word from the DLC not to report on Gore's speech on Monday and Tuesday night. We need to find out the truth about this, we need to know why.

Listen to this incredible speech Gore gave to a hall full of journalists at the Media Center back in October 5, 2005.
(it's an mp3 file)

http://www.mediacenter.org/wemedia05/audio/al_gore_we_media_100505.mp3

Listen to it, and then listen to it again.

When you listen, I think you will understand that the Fascists Corporate Media partnered with the GOP and the SCOTUS in the 2000 coup detat.

I have been harping recently and I will repeat it again, the Fascists Corporate MSM is the ENEMY of the people, and our democracy, and our Constitution, and our whole sense of our own history and the spirit that had uniquely defined us, as Americans.

Recently i have been promoting the notion of DU members begin organizing NOW in a very sharply focused manner on the Corporate MSM.

Because if we do not, it won't matter how much REAL support our favorite candidates might actually have in the real world..leave it the Fascists Corporate MSM to distort that reality, or to not cover it at all. Remember, if an important event isn't shown on tv, it didn't happen at all. Or they will do like they did to Dean with lies, distortions and misrepresentations - and that will be the message to the American voter.

[NoFederales]

14. I agree. An informed Public is the lifeblood of our political system.

The uninformed public believe so many of the lies of the * administration, the least of which concerns the loss of our voting rights. Take every public opportunity to speak about the current state of our Nation, and be very prepared for the kool-aid simplistic rebuttals.

NoFederales

[geiger]

9. Gore is going to have to do it himself

He needs to go out and stump it through elections.

[radio4progressives]

12. I think you can view the news hour on line ... try there..

but if you caught the press conference, i bet you haven't missed much else..

[grasswire]

15. he didn't support Gore in the interview...

...because it would grab headlines and be the only comment reported on, I guess.

I was disappointed when he said that it was way too early to talk about impeachment. I thought he could have crafted a response with more teeth in it.