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Tony Blair blasts Iran, Mitch McConnell dodges questions about Mark Sanford, and a blogger and a newspaper columnist nearly come to blows. That and more in our Sunday talk roundup.
The First Rule of Sanford Scandal: You Don’t Talk About Sanford Scandal
Sen. Mitch McConnell, appearing on Fox News Sunday, manages to dodge not one, but FOUR questions about how the Mark Sanford scandal may have affected the Republican Party.
Media Feud of the Week: Dana Milbank vs. Nico Pitney
Last week, it appeared that Nico Pitney of the Huffington Post was granted a question at an Obama press conference by an advance arrangement with the White House. Dana Milbank of The Washington Post slammed Pitney for it in a June 24 column, and on Reliable Sources, Pitney fires back. It’s hard to say who the winner was—Pitney goes right for the ad hominem, but seems to have the legit point that the question he asked was unknown to Obama.
Tony Blair: Why Iran Hates the U.K.
The condemnations of Iran’s government have been far stronger from the U.K. than from the White House, and former Prime Minister Tony Blair keeps the heat on in this interview with Fareed Zakaria, saying Iran’s verbal attacks against his country are “nonsense,” and that “there are elements within the Iranian system that do cause genuine instability—and worse— around the Middle East.”
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Hawnzz
Sad week for the Republicans... They are looking as foolish as they are acting.
jonjon66
Re-LIE-able NOT.
Nico Pitney pawned Dana Milbank
xbainx
Hume is one the most dishonest reporters in history. He is constantly wrong, a constant cheerleader for the Right, and is unreliable for any kind of information.
The thing I hate most about for is the theatre of it all. They have these news babes come on and say terrible lies, then have some ugly C.H.U.D. like Brit Hume mock the looks of Hillary Clinton or various other liberal women.
I'm not impressed by hot women giving me misinformation. Anyone who has ever seen a porn can tell you, that you can pay outrageously hot women to do just about anything.
But Hume does it because he likes it.
rjw6844
Xbainx:
how far did you reach inside your rectum to pull these unabashedly misinformed comments? Anybody who publicly relates porn to attractive TV news anchors needs to spend less time in the porn portals and more time getting reliable news.
MariosRight
rjw6844
Obviously you do not have the ability to understand what Xbainx was saying in the post. Also, the comments were absolutely true about Hume and the Faux News babes.
You must be from Haley Barbour country where education is almost nonexistent.
leslie1
Oh those wacky republicans.
nodrama
Would somebody please tell David Gregory that asking somebody (Romney, or anybody else) whether they are going to run for president is a poor excuse for journalism, and actually, not a particularly interesting question. The whole NBC News establishment (particularly, the vacuous Mika Brezinski) seems to think that kind of question has some value. On the other hand, that kind of question does use up air time that they might devote to another equally vacuous, dumb question.
Ritarita
David Gregory
Is absolutely terrible.
There is no excuse for continuing
To let him drag MTP and it's ratings
Into the tank.
Llplo99
I have to agree. I used to love MTP but now David Gregory annoys me. How many times do you have to ask the same question just because the guest didn't give the answer you are looking for? Life is not Black or White. There is a lot of gray in between and a pragmatic approach is sometimes the best approach.
crymeariver
nodrama wrote: the vacuous Mika Brezinski) seems to think that kind of question has some value. On the other hand, that kind of question does use up air time that they might devote to another equally vacuous, dumb question.
---------------------------------------------
Mika Brezinski makes the "Fox Blondes" look brilliant. How can someone as smart as her father produce such a space cadet? It seems like guests on the show go out of their way to be extra nice to her out of respect for her dad. Without that last name, she wouldn't have that job and would be treated like any other idiot to T.V. Joe Scarborough picked the PERFECT person to make him look good, in comparison.
I do miss Tim from Meet the Press (RIP), he asked much more intelligent questions and he had the great habit of confronting speakers with their own words from previous video and newspaper clips (a la Daily Show style). David Gregory is too soft and easily intimidated, especially by partisan Republicans. Tim gave both sides hell, and stood his ground.
jeanparkslynn
Wasn't it a given that anyone who stepped into Meet the Press would fall far short of the excellence to which we had all become accustomed? That said, David Gregory was a terrible choice: he's argumentative rather than inquiring, and his ambition runs way ahead of his abilities. I was hoping the network would select Chuck Todd, who is both bright and genuinely inquisitive -- and capable of engaging in a serious conversation without unneeded confrontation. George Stephanopolous and Fareed Zakaria are good at interviewing all sorts of people. I have pretty much stopped watching MTP in favor of This Week and GPS. NBC needs to wake up.
MariosRight
I used to live to watch MTP on Sunday mornings. Gregory has killed it. I haven't watched it for months now.
Mika is a joke! If she is trying to prove she is not capable she is doing a good job. Dumb benign questions, dumb answers, and feigned seriousness are her trademark. I now watch CSpan instead of Migraine Joe Show.
While I'm ranting......would Scarborough's book be 6th if he and his cohorts had not been prostituting it on the show for the past 2 months?
JeanLuc
So Pitney was forced to admit that a member of the White House press corps did in fact agree to a White House request to ask specific questions, President Obama did, in fact ask for the specific question and this is a problem for Republicans?
Its one thing for the press to be obviously in the tank for a politician, its quite another for the actual President to make it painfully obvious.
AlanD2
Come on. Obama asked Pitney for a question from Iran. Obama did not know the question in advance, and he dodged the question Pitney gave him. Not exactly a collusion.
Caradog
Who's that Alice B. Toklas character next to Nico Pitney, in he Kato jacket? From Arianna's security detail?
sidneyb
i dont hate romney.
Ritarita
that's nice.
Ozone69
I guess the Huffington Post can be added to the list of state run media.Like ABC and their daylong Obama infomercial on the government taking over health care (after previously taking over the auto industry and the financial industry). But why the charade of randomly picking our a reporter to ask a planted question. Just add it to the teleprompter and cut out the fake middle man.
JeanLuc
It will be hard to catch General Electrics PR subsidiary MSNBC. They changed their tag line to "The Power Of Change" after President Obama's election.
On November 7 Chris Mathews announced that "...My Job as a journalist is To Make Obama Presidency Successful..." .
At this point the mainstream media bias is problematic but undermined by the Internet and radio. Note that the administration wants to curtail both through legislation and FCC rules.
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