newsobserver.com projects - Meet the Press - Comments

Re: DSCC: Not playing 'age card'

natdug — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:32:53 -0400

FYI: You write "[Dole] argued that Maryland voters should support Lt. Gov. Michael Steele over the incumbent."

That's not accurate. Steele wasn't challenging an incumbent; he was challenging Ben Cardin who had served in the US House for 20 years and the Maryland House of Delegates for 20 years prior to that. The US Senate seat had been left open by the retirement of Paul Sarbanes.

Re: Edwards, the waterskiing squirrel

RaleighRendezvous — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:43:59 -0400

I wonder what the infidelity rates are in the world of media/journalism?

Type in "McCain's Adultery" Into Google: 530,000 hits

RaleighRendezvous — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:42:02 -0400

John Edwards' Affair Also Brings John McCain's Marital Split to the Surface

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003837486

An appeal to Dome....Help Us!

domewatcher — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:45:13 -0400

Help! Does the Dome provide any type of keyboard cover?

I mean every time I log on the tears from dahedgehog’s crying are spilling out onto my keyboard. I fear an electrical shock. And I understand that tears can spread bacteria. This is a serious problem and the Dome needs to respond.

Dahedgehog’s whining about this not being a story is getting more airtime than the story itself. Why doesn’t the Dome allow dahedgehog the right to censor all the N & O’s reporting. He knows the difference between “public and semi-public and private and what we readers really need to read or know.”

I do not want my keyboard to be damaged! And if dahedgehog cries so much that he gets the hiccups….well, I’ll be mad at Dome. And what if he threatens to hold his breath until you quit running this story. This situation could get serious.

Give the readers a break! Just let dahedgehog decide what we need to read. I believe it is safe to say that everyone would agree with whatever he thinks ‘cause I can tell he is smarter than the rest of us. Or either he is my wife. (She knows what is best for me too. And what I should read. And see. And wear. And on and on.)

Re: Edwards, the waterskiing squirrel

liam — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:00:44 -0400

I know right!? It's like these other media outlets are wasting their time with this historic presidential election, the outbreak of a new proxy-war between Russia and the US, the Olympics, a failing economy and all the rest of that other garbage "news."

Thank god the Raleigh News and Observer & the McClatchy Company for their two days straight of above the fold front page coverage, including today's 2 page spread with a column by your chief political correspondent on how... wait for it... some folks here in North Carolina didn't like John Edwards from the get-go. Now there's journalism for you. Eat it, Brokaw!

Re: Edwards, the waterskiing squirrel

dahedgehog — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:46:02 -0400

The double standard on display here is shocking. Did Mark Shields pontificate on how much time the Republicans should spend on adulterer John McCain at their convention? Does David Broder think McCain's past hurts his ability to ask the American people to sacrifice? Has McCain's adultery deepened "the cynicism that the American people feel towards politicians and politics"? Has the Wall Street Journal editorial page questioned the Republicans on "their wisdom" in nominating an adulterer? Are the Republicans in "desperate straits" right now? Is EJ Dionne thinking that the Republicans will be having an open convention since the Republican nominee cheated on his wife?

Secondly, RTB, you seem surprised (and maybe a bit disappointed?) that this story isn't bigger than it is. As I (and others) have tried to explain to you in comments, John Edwards isn't running for office. Nor does he hold an office. He is just a private citizen. His infidelities, while disappointing to his supporters, are of no consequence to anyone outside of his family.

Given your enthusiasm for reporting on the private lives of other semi-public figures, I have to ask: will you breathlessly post to Under the Dome if there are rumors that one of your editors or fellow reporters at the N&O has cheated on his wife?

Re: When Russert grilled Edwards

meschreiner — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:41:48 -0400

Was it Edwards they were talking about during the Meet the Press tribute on Sunday:

"MR. BROKAW: Tim would do the show, I, I'd be sitting there, and we'd be on the--back and forth, back and forth, we'd be talking about who did well, you know, what their weaknesses were. This one's got a chance to go. I remember who--a candidate whose name I will not use here, who came waltzing in here one day and crawled out the door. I mean, he thought he was going to be the next president of the United States. The next time he came, he was in much better shape.

MR. CARVILLE: He was, And, and I know exactly who you're talking about. And, and Tim was proud of, Tim was proud of the guy that he came again."

Full transcript at:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25171251/page/5/

Re: When Russert grilled Edwards

dahedgehog — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:05:46 -0400

The Russert legacy:

"Memo to Tim Russert: Dick Cheney thinks he controls you.

This delicious morsel about the "Meet the Press" host and the vice president was part of the extensive dish Cathie Martin served up yesterday when the former Cheney communications director took the stand in the perjury trial of former Cheney chief of staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Flashed on the courtroom computer screens were her notes from 2004 about how Cheney could respond to allegations that the Bush administration had played fast and loose with evidence of Iraq's nuclear ambitions. Option 1: "MTP-VP," she wrote, then listed the pros and cons of a vice presidential appearance on the Sunday show. Under "pro," she wrote: "control message."

"I suggested we put the vice president on 'Meet the Press,' which was a tactic we often used," Martin testified. "It's our best format."

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/25/AR2007012501951.html