Showing posts with label Meet The Press. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meet The Press. Show all posts

Monday, October 26, 2009

Video: What is the State of the American Economy?

From Denny: Two authors on the economy discuss the state of the American and global economies on Sunday's Meet The Press with David Gregory.

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Monday, October 5, 2009

Video: Meet The Press part 1, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice Calmly Boxes Gregory into Submission

From Denny: This was a Meet The Press that was worth the view all the way through the show. I usually find David Gregory weak as rainwater and a poor proponent of idiot and arrogant ambush journalism of which I have no use. What I'm looking for are real facts and an intelligent discussion - not the cat and mouse process of trying to force an interview to go the way you desire just to make someone look bad to boost your entertainment ratings. Not to worry. America's Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, outboxed and outclassed him every step of the way in the most finesseful manner. She sure got my vote! :)





Usually, I don't stick around for the Roundtable discussions as it is Republican heavy and full of Washington insider blowhards that the rest of America and the world could care less about their priviledged opinions. This was the first time some of these guys made plausible, sane, even common sense and compelling arguments that didn't sound like they just got out of the mental hospital (with friends and relatives waiting in the wings ready to pounce and capture, stuffing them into a straight jacket for a return trip).

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Video: Meet The Press, part 2, Democrat Maddow Pummels Republican Murphy into a Pout

From Denny: As usual, inside Washington they worry far too much about their own egos than they do about the welfare and job situation of the American people. Gregory tried to define President Obama as weak for trying for the Olympics and then losing. Emotionally mature people, that is, grown-ups, don't talk like that or fritter away their time thinking about it - but Gregory sure had to waste the time of his audience asking a question no one cared to hear except his merry band in the TV studio.

Rice's answer was a lesson in how to meet life even when it doesn't go your way: why would you criticize the President for standing up for and promoting his country abroad? How is that a weak position? Clearly, the Democrats are finally fine-tuning their stance and backing it up with a steel spine. Better late to the game than never showing up to take a stand.



Rice made a great point here that the United Nations is a body of 192 nations of which only a handful get negative press on a regular basis: Iran, Venezuela and Libya, the clowns of the global neighborhood. Basically, boiling down her answer and what she implied, is that no one in the world has enough money in their treasuries to "go it alone" like the naive Bush and Cheney strategy for handling all the many problems facing each country.



What a shame; they edited out Murphy looking pissy and giving the chic style of the cold shoulder to Maddow when she asked him why Palin asked the only White Supremacist author in America to be the co-author of her best-selling book on Amazon. Throughout the program Maddow constantly challenged Murphy which he clearly did not appreciate.

Maddow blindsided him with the truth and facts and he was uncomfortable. After all, he is the Bush author of "don't go anywhere or do anything unless you control the situation ahead of time." I read that as fear of the unknown and the inability to think well on your feet. Meet The Press is still a heavily endowed Republican centric program rather than an objective news show. Editing any clips where a Republican looks bad said it all.

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Video: Meet The Press, part 3, Press Reaction Mostly Informative, Discuss Race in 2012 Against Obama

From Denny: This first video talks about the unemployment rate in America and how shocking it is compared to the Bush days is what they implied. First of all, the Bush crowd always lied about their numbers and "disallowed" the GAO from doing its job or publishing publicly their findings.

Bush and Cheney even tried to fire employees of the GAO and then later tried to dismantle the agency because they so hated anyone publishing the truth. Of course, what they never counted on were the CIA desk warriors constantly leaking facts to the press about the Bush and Cheney doings. The media chose to be Bush lapdogs and never ran with all the stories they were so conveniently fed.

So, to promote honest unemployment numbers of today as unusually high is dishonest. Last month over 265,000 Americans lost their jobs and the stat is closing in on 10%. During the last two years Bush bled jobs by the millions and yet his unemployment statistics were only moderate? Come one; who believes that fairy tale?



At the end of this video is some of the discussion where Maddow pummelled Murphy on Palin as a White Supremacist and he weaved and dodged and later what got edited was his pissy attitude and pouting:



This came after the show aired and is a web extra. They talked about Republican possibilities against Obama for 2012:



This is the program video in its entirety as a netcast:

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Monday, September 28, 2009

7 Videos: Former President Bill Clinton on Meet The Press

From Denny: This was a great interview. How refreshing to actually hear an intelligent conversation about world issues. Clinton did not upstage the current President either but rather offered agreement or suggestions of how to proceed forward on Iran. He also spoke about the Clinton Global Initiative group's efforts in the world on a variety of social issues.

Engaging Iran:


Clinton on troop surge in Afghanistan and why:


Clinton on the state of America's political discourse and the virulence of the right wing Republicans:


Clinton on health care reform:


Clinton on whether he desires to return to office:


Clinton on his CGI group concerning world poverty, water supply and climate change:


Democratic Senator Webb concerning Afghanistan in the news:

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Monday, August 17, 2009

Videos: Dems Nail the Death Panel Guys on Health Care on Meet The Press

From Denny: Highlights of Meet The Press and health care "debate." The Republicans have really squandered their political capital on their temper tantrums stategy of late to the point the public has had enough and is demanding the President push on past them to get us health care reform now not later. If the Republicans had their way it would be never.

It is easy to understand why people like Dick Armey are rejecting health care reform as he is a lobbyist making millions opposing it. What is amazing is that the average Americans supporting the Republicans are working against themselves for their own futures.

Talk show hosts like Rush and Glenn are multi-multi-multi millionaires and don't need government health care. You can bet they will take advantage of using Medicare and Medicaid when they need it though.

Seems the fastest way to move the health care debate is for the President to sign a Presidential directive taking away the government health care plan all of Congress or just the naysayer Republicans enjoy. Let's see how long they continue to support the big business insurance and drug companies. The day they have to pay as much as regular people do will be an eye-opener.

Here's the real deal: An under estimate years old - before the recent economic chaos of the past two years - the uninsured were guesstimated at 40 million. Well, I've got news for you as there are a lot more than that. Consider an additional 40 million more are insured in health care plans that are not worth the paper they are written upon. They are like the idiot homeowners' insurance on the Gulf Coast where the deductibles are so ridiculously high you will have to declare bankruptcy to pay them. So, the new reality is that almost one third of Americans are not insured. That's almost 80 million to 100 million people, folks. And the Republicans dare to continue their insanity on this? There will be rioting in the streets if this does not get resolved and soon...







This particular segment is chilling in the violent segment of the Republican Party that is sending death threats to Congress and the President. Hear how Gregory ties these protestors to the infamous domestic terrorist Timothy McVay who was executed for his horrific killings of 168 people.






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Monday, August 3, 2009

Video: Obama's Aides Cautious Over Economy

From Denny: Meet The Press was interesting this Sunday. This video gives a snippet of what was discussed. In the end, only about 10% of the stimulus money has been spent because it takes so long to get going on a big project. Considering the inherited mess from the Republicans who don't believe in government, a slowing down of the rushing freight train metaphor for our chaotic economy is a good sign. We still need to keep up the pressure on the brakes. So far the Republicans have yet to offer much in the way of substance in place of crankiness. Somehow, their credibility on good decisions does not carry any weight in this country.

National Economic Council Director Larry Summers talks with David Gregory of NBC's Meet The Press about the state of the beleagured U.S. economy.



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