Posted on 12/11/2005 4:58:20 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
by Mark Finkelstein
December 11, 2005 - 07:29.
In a TV-journalism age in which a good haircut and a sharp suit often seem to count for more than substance, there's something admirably old-school about Barry Schweid. Old, and unapologetically schlumpy, Schweid is the antithesis of TV's Sharp-Dressed Man.
Even so, on Fox & Friends Weekend this morning, Schweid let his liberal leanings show.
Schweid has been covering diplomacy for the Associated Press for over 30 years, and is currently its senior diplomatic correspondent. He joined FOX News Channel as a contributor for foreign affairs in 1997.
Schweid came on to discuss the issue of torture, and specifically Condi Rice's recent European tour, intended to pallliate delicate continental sensibilities on the issue.
Said Schweid:
"Initially only interrogations held in the US were to be bound by strict rules and [Rice]extended the jurisdiction to worldwide, meaning that there's one rule and it applies wherever US interrogations or US-arranged interrogations take place, and that was reassuring."
Schweid is billed as a "correspondent," not a commentator. Yet here he was offering up a personal opinion on a very controversial issue.
In the classic 'ticking-bomb' scenario, not everyone, Barry, will find it reassuring that interrogators have their hands tied.
Fox & Friends Weekend/NewsBusters ping to the Today Show ping list.
My word for it would not be "reassuring".
Telegraphing what we will or will not do in a wartime situation is "frightening".
Giving the enemy information they needed to determine daddy was a important high ranking naval officer?
I just changed the channel. Maybe it is me, but Weekend Fox and Friends has gone liberal. I really do not want to hear all these negative opinions about the war in Iraq. I think the demonrats and the lame stream media are doing a great job of being this generation's "Tokyo Rose". Does Fox News have to join up too.
Frightening and patently absurd.
This whole event gets sicker every day.
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But how about that Bush family (FoxNewsie sais this).......... A president, a governor, a beautiful model, and now the Heisman winner.
Boy, that's one heck of a family.
Yes, the whole thing sucks.
Interrogate them by any means necessary.
20 men being held in a 12X12 room for a week is not torture, but somebody wanting out may provide information that could save an American soldier's life or limb.
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