Posted on 10/08/2004 8:07:33 PM PDT by Froggie
Fox news' panel panned Bush's performance.....MSNBC praised his job tonight.....something is getting very curious, Alice !!
I've said it before, I don't know why someone doesn't pull together the "Talk Radio Television Network". It would be similar to what Imus does - televise a radio show. We wouldn't be able to get Rush, but there are plenty of other personalities that could be signed for a TV gig to air their talk radio shows.
Of course if the "elitist" ones are doing the judging - they like "slick". If the heartland is judging - they like trustworthy.
Bush is like us and we identify with him. We will never identify with a Kerry. So - let the "elites" have Kerry.
Despite his father, I don't consider Kristol a neo-con.
Yes, I remember Brit said Kerry's convention speech was the best he had ever heard him give. And I thought it was terrible.
I saw that too...the focus group in Columbus OH with Bill Hemmer looked decidedly pro-Bush, and BILL SCHNEIDER was actually leaning toward even-handed. But not too much, just a little, though enough to make me smile a little.
Then Judy Woodruff, from the debate hall, was shouted down by "FOUR MORE YEARS, FOUR MORE YEARS" as she tried to give her impressions. It was positively delightful.
Mort S*CKs...I told my wife that before the debates started...
Yes, he never actually answered the question, which was, how will you insure that my tax dollars will not be spent on abortion.
Subsequently, the woman who asked the question looked very emotional and I think Kerry probably lost her vote as a result.
I didn't understand them either, but screw them. I know what I saw and heard, and what I saw and heard was 180 degrees in reverse from last week. It was a rout. Apparently there is a group of undecided voters in a CNN focus group who agree. I'm telling you this third hand, but my understanding is that 17 went to Bush and the remaining three decided not to decide. That's a rout.
Well, the next time I am in St. Louis, I want to know what Starbucks the President went to before the debate. He was terrific!
i agree
Kristol is still up McCains @ss and really doesnt like Bush.
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yup. i remember during the RNC how Kristol derided bush for not dumping cheney.
>I saw that too...the focus group in Columbus OH with Bill Hemmer looked >decidedly pro-Bush
As a Columbus, OH resident (Go Bluejackets! If the NHL ever returns...), I'm very glad to hear that and very sorry I missed it. I pretty much skipped all the post-debate coverage on all the channels tonight.
I suspect that Fox News is so anxious to get Kerry on the O'Reilly show to boost their ratings and help them defeat CNN/MSNBC and now the regular broadcast networks that they have taken on a new and decidedly liberal slant. Perhaps this is simply a matter of overcompensation on their part as they try to prove to the other liberal media-types that they are really "Fair and Balanced".
Fox has done this after Kerry @ his convention, the other debates, and now tonight. They are trying to expand their audience beyond conservatives, and this is a key moment when they can try to overcome potential viewers perceptions of right-wing bias.
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The same thing that BOr is doing.
And Chris Wallace laughed with her. Did you see hear that little chuckle?
One word answer: spambots. Ignore those online polls. They are utterly unscientific, and less than worthless. If you are a Bush supporter, ask yourself if you feel much more excited and enthusiastic about him than, say, after the first debate. That's how you know who real won, and what the real polls will say in a few days.
What disturbed me so much in the first debate was that Kerry actually looked good-his makeup was perfect and he did not look skinny behind the podium; I was shocked, to tell you the truth, because he never looked good to me before that first debate...so happy he looked dweeby tonight...
The next incumbent president that agrees to three debates should be disqualified as being too dense to be president in a second term. It is strictly a media circus, all the polls after the debates are now stacked by DU emails, there is no debating done only endless repeats from campaign speeches, and it gives the challenger valuable time to appear "presidential" on free air time. James Baker stepped into a campaign quagmire when he negotiated these disasterous debates. Bill Clinton only did two in '96, so at the most that's what should have been done this year. Now we have to listen to the partisan media hype yet another "Showdown at the O K Corral" until next week...gack!
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