Posted on 09/15/2004 4:23:20 AM PDT by xm177e2
So much for the Tiffany Network.
2 words that scare the pajama pants off me...
Madelaine Albright.
even stupid Imus said she was a mistake...
Much of the media in Europe wants Kerry to win too.
Regards, Ivan
He's planting the seeds for when he has to drop out of the race due to some kind of health problem!
You are right Kabar, this was a stump speech masquerading as an interview. No doubt, Kaplan or others told Imus to do this. He is too smart not to have asked the killer questions. Probably, Kaplan or his designates discussed the format with the Kerry Campaign.
The whole idea is to come up with a way Kerry can begin to have interactions, if not press conferences, with the press. Ever since the arrival of the Swifties Kerry has been unable to take questions. Now he can.
How so, you ask? Easy. Sometime soon he will begin deflecting the Swifties by saying they are proven liars and he has discussed this before. The technique he will use is a weak one, but one frequently used by politicians. He will assume the conclusion and change the argument to your having to prove him wrong. Since no one can disprove a negative, you can't do it; hence, it looks like he won the argument.
Assuming the conclusion is being done with at least the following: (1)We lost the Iraq war; (2)There were no weapons of mass destruction; (3)The Swifties (all 250 of them) are liars; (4)And, President Bush is a coward, a liar and a failure. You can probably come up with better and more examples, but these will suffice.
The reason assuming the conclusion thesis is right on is that Imus has done this before. Remember, President Clinton came to Imus after the Miss Arkansas imbroglio and longterm affair surfaced. Shortly, after the Imus interview Clinton was able to say that this was old news, he answered it and,yes, he had had problems in his marriage. Some years after the election he admitted one transgression with the lady: now, the long term affair is the subject of bad jokes and President Clinton has even achieved a certain wicked fascination with his sex life that is never really condemned nor condoned. Such is how a good PR person can do.
Senator Kerry will be a wickedly effective debater. He uses words like levers to get him where he wants to go rather than expressing beliefs, policies or positions. The President will by necessity have to face this. My suggestion is keep everything simple, factual and easily defended and don't focus on his "assumptions of conclusions" but as to the actual facts he believes and trusts.
I thought the "flipflop" approach was good because it took political positions and transferred them to character problems. It is even worse than I thought. Senator Kerry believes little or nothing of his current positions. What positions and beliefs he has are hidden. As according to the wise savant, Marilyn Monroe, he faces the certainty that, "...if you tell more than one lie you become confused.." Marilyn surely is describing Senator Kerry.
PS: If you think Imus is not being directed, remember at the National Press Conference where Imus ridiculed President Clinton's morals. This speech was vetted by Kaplan who later denied vetting it: it took Kaplan returning to MSNBC to alleviate the quarrel.
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Imus is a useful idiot.
An idiot would not have gotten Kerry to admit that he has no plan for Iraq and that he can't explain why all of his military records are not released.
It might have sounded to you like Imus was sucking up to Kerry. So what? I don't care what it sounds like, I care what gets said.
bump
I've taped it and will buzz through it a little later.
I 'm unable to listen to the whole Imus, just select portions.
Not to mention the horror of trying to listen to sKerry.
idiot: I don't agree with his personal positions (Rumsfeld is a war criminal, etc) - that is slander an totally out of line with a war on.
useful: he got Kerry talking.
I don't care how they get the confession out of this treasonous criminal
That's not very nice.
Mitchell replaced Eisner as Chairman of the Board several months ago after the last shareholders meeting. The "rebel" group led by Roy Disney, Walt's nephew, managed to get a huge vote of no-confidence in Eisner, but not enough to outright oust him. Eisner is still President and CEO. He has stated that he will retire end of next year and has suggested that his #1 lieutenant is his choice to replace him.
There is a growing move to approach Steve Jobs, have him take over and merge Disney and Pixar. I gather that Roy Disney's group has been open to that. Jobs is a loyal Democrat, so that would appeal to Mitchell.
He is a traitor because he has taken sides against the United States of America during war time.
He is a coward because he called for the execution of Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, but stopped short of calling for violence against the President and members of his Cabinet, although that is clearly his sentiment, knowing he would be legally sanctionable.
He is an antisemite because he just could not help himself with "Wolfowitz." The fact that Secretary Wolfowitz is Jewish, serving in a Republican administration, and friendly to Israel, tipped his boat.
Imus belongs with his father Haman, who also plotted gallows for Jew much like Sec. Wolfowitz. We know from the Bible how that ended.
Don Imus after Kerry interview:
-- He is probably going to vote for Kerry
-- He thinks Rumsfeld is a "war criminal"
-- He thinks Wolfowitz and people like him "should be executed"
You really don't want to know what I REALLY think of him. freerepublic.com is a peer of Don Imus - an equal peer. He has free speech.. and so do I :-)
Imus means the Jews who don't bow to him. He is just like Haman.
And they call us racists, bigots, Nazis and facists. Hah!
I would like to see the Justice Dept. hold Imus to account for calling for the execution of Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz during war time. Don Imus is a traitor, a coward, and an antisemite.
I agree with you. Kerry uses key words and phrases vetted through internal polls and focus groups. He will use that same tactic in the debates. He will also throw in a personal zinger and an outrageous statement to distract Bush. I suspect the MSM debate moderators will leak the questions to the Kerry camp. They are no longer biased, but partisan.
Kerry: Viet Nam, Viet Nam, Viet Nam,
Viet Nam, zzzZZZzzzZZZ
yah, whatever
Kerry locked up the drug-addled, shock-jock, idiot vote this AM. Good for him.
My prediction: first guy who mentions
in the debates:
Viet Nam, or prisoner abuse --> loses
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