Joe the Plumber asked the single best question of Obama during the entire Presidential campaign. He shamed all the 'professional' journalists out there. He's a natural.
I voted on what I know and it is little. Da Shoe thrower as I have not seen any of teh others much if at all. I think the shoe thrower brought out teh bias in the MSM. Just think if it had been a shoe bomber or if he had skills like Odd Job when he threw the hat.
I think you have to give Luke Russert time to mature a little. He should develop into a good journalist, if he doesn't feel he doesn't have to work to achieve anything. NBC may be doing him a disservice by handing him too much too early. His dad came up through the ranks and paid his dues. Rather gets no excuses and my vote, because he's old enough and rich enough to know better. I'll bet he's one of those type, who doesn't practice what he preaches.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
I think you have to give Luke Russert time to mature a little.
I think the kid deseves a break for a while, too.
Oh, I voted for Rather, BTW.
“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
Without question, it's the shoe thrower. He is the poster boy for how the modern press longs not to write the story, but to become the story. The disgraceful way that some journalists justified this cowardly act (no doubt, some wished they had actually performed the act first) illustrates just how low in the occupational respectability pecking order "mainstream" journalism has fallen.
Luke Russert is just one in a long line of nepotistic media hires (Chris Wallace, Ted Koppel's daughter, Douglas Kennedy, Chris Cuomo, Maury Povich, etc.)...so that one is not so unique in its egregiousness. We've got one here in New York (Rosanna Scotto) whose main qualification seems to be that her family owns a restaurant in the City. As for Dan Rather, his move to HDNet is more sad than anything else...his tenure at CBS (not to mention Brokaw's at NBC) was the real embarrassment.
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January 8, 2009 - 12:40 ET by slickwillie2001Joe the Plumber asked the single best question of Obama during the entire Presidential campaign. He shamed all the 'professional' journalists out there. He's a natural.
I voted on what I know and
January 8, 2009 - 12:43 ET by Dan The Man 2I voted on what I know and it is little. Da Shoe thrower as I have not seen any of teh others much if at all. I think the shoe thrower brought out teh bias in the MSM. Just think if it had been a shoe bomber or if he had skills like Odd Job when he threw the hat.
Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.
I think you have to give
January 8, 2009 - 12:58 ET by Hunter12I think you have to give Luke Russert time to mature a little. He should develop into a good journalist, if he doesn't feel he doesn't have to work to achieve anything. NBC may be doing him a disservice by handing him too much too early. His dad came up through the ranks and paid his dues. Rather gets no excuses and my vote, because he's old enough and rich enough to know better. I'll bet he's one of those type, who doesn't practice what he preaches.
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." - Sir Winston Churchill
I think you have to give
January 8, 2009 - 13:13 ET by NewsbusterbrownI think you have to give Luke Russert time to mature a little.
I think the kid deseves a break for a while, too.
Oh, I voted for Rather, BTW.
“There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.” - Ronald Reagan (1964 Republican Convention)
Seems experience only matters.....
January 8, 2009 - 13:39 ET by notinstl....when it comes to conservatives....Luke doesn't have any..
For me it's
January 8, 2009 - 15:05 ET by bigtimerFor me it's Luke/msnbc...Rather is a given, for years now.
"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh
Without question, it's the
January 8, 2009 - 15:37 ET by fitzfongWithout question, it's the shoe thrower. He is the poster boy for how the modern press longs not to write the story, but to become the story. The disgraceful way that some journalists justified this cowardly act (no doubt, some wished they had actually performed the act first) illustrates just how low in the occupational respectability pecking order "mainstream" journalism has fallen.
Luke Russert is just one in a long line of nepotistic media hires (Chris Wallace, Ted Koppel's daughter, Douglas Kennedy, Chris Cuomo, Maury Povich, etc.)...so that one is not so unique in its egregiousness. We've got one here in New York (Rosanna Scotto) whose main qualification seems to be that her family owns a restaurant in the City. As for Dan Rather, his move to HDNet is more sad than anything else...his tenure at CBS (not to mention Brokaw's at NBC) was the real embarrassment.
"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." -Ronald Reagan
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