December 24, 2007
(12-24-2007) HERE IS MY TAKE ON ELECTABILITY AND THE UPCOMING DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY AND MY TAKE ON THE KEITH OLBERMANN SHOW ON MSNBC AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY CANDIDATES ON THE CHARLIE ROSE SHOW AND REPUBLICAN ACCOUNTABILITY AND ABUSE OF POWER:
1. ONE THING I LEARNED FROM MY LATE FATHER ALONG WITH WHY HE WAS A DEMOCRAT BECAUSE OF ALL THE THINGS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS DONE FOR THE MIDDLE CLASS AND THOSE MAKING LESS THAN $100,000.00 A YEAR WHICH IS MOST PEOPLE: IS THAT NO MATTER WHO YOU FAVOR IN THE DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES, IT IS -ALWAYS!-BETTER TO VOTE FOR THE DEMOCRAT IN THE GENERAL ELECTION.
AT FIRST I DIDN'T BUY THAT, BUT HE WAS RIGHT. WE GOT MANY DANDY CANDIDATES IN THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY NOW--THERE'S LOTS OF PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER THERE. BUT NO MATTER WHO YOU SUPPORT--AND THERE WILL BE WINNERS AND LOSERS---NEVER LET THAT GET IN THE WAY OF VOTING DEMOCRATIC IN GENERAL ELECTIONS--OR INDEPENDENT EITHER--THAT'S HOW WE GOT 8 YEARS OF GEORGE W. BUSH--A WORD TO THE WISE....
2. THE FIRST HALF HOUR OF THE KEITH OLBERMANN SHOW I NOW TAPE MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY(MINUS ODDBALL AND HIS 'SPECIAL COMMENTS'--THE LATTER GO ON TOO LONG--AND SOME MAY ENJOY THE FORMER BUT I DON'T)
COUNTDOWN WITH KEITH OLBERMANN IS STILL A BREATH OF FRESH AIR MINUS THE 'ODDBALL' AND 'SPECIAL COMMENT' PARTS OF THE SHOW. HE GETS GREAT GUESTS WITH INSIDE INFORMATION AND DIGS DEEP WITH THEM TO EXPOSE RUPUBLICAN AND OTHER POLITICAL ABUSE OF POWER AND LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY.
HE GETS A BIT TOO VEHEMENT SOMETIMES BUT THERE'S CONTENT THERE AND HIS HEART'S IN THE RIGHT PLACE (TO ME) POLITICALLY. HE HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR TOO AND LOOKS LIKE A HANDSOMER GROUCHO MARX AND TRIES FOR GROUCHO HUMOR WITH GOOD TRIES--BUT HIS NEWSWEEK AND CONSTITUTIONAL LAW PROFESSORS AND WASHINGTON POST AND SO FORTH GUESTS BRING OUT GOOD MATERIAL YOU DON'T EVER HEAR ON REGULAR NEWS.
(I DIDN'T KNOW THAT MIKE NICHOLS' WIFE DIANE SAWYER THE ABC ANCHOR USED TO WORK FOR RICHARD NIXON OR THAT CHRIS MATTHEWS COMES FROM A REPUBLICAN BACKGROUND THOUGH HE WORKED FOR THE LATE DEMOCRATIC SPEAKER THOMAS O'NEIL WHO I DID LIKE WHEN HE WAS ALIVE...POLITICS--STRANGE BEDFELLOWS AND ALL THAT--TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION)--I CAN'T STAND CHRIS MATHEWS 'HARDBALL' SHOW ON MSNBC PERSONALLY BY THE WAY WHICH BRINGS ME TO CANDIDATE APPEARANCES ON PBS' CHARLIE ROSE SHOW.
3. DEPENDING ON THE GUESTS AND IF THEY ARE 'FOR THE HOUR' AS HE OFTEN SAYS WHEN INTRODUCING SOMEONE YOU'RE NOT INTERESTED IN---STILL I TAPE HIM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY TOO BECAUSE IF THE GUEST IS GOOD--AND HE GETS GOOD GUESTS BECAUSE HE THROWS SOFTBALLS OR AT LEAST SEEMS TO HAVE THAT REPUTATION -- A GREAT ANJOLINA JOLIE INTERVIEW ABOUT THE MOVIE GIA AND A HOST OF ISSUES COME TO MIND--IN HER EARLY DAYS---WITH CHARLIE ROSE YOU GOT TO TAKE THE BALL IN YOUR OWN HANDS AND HE WILL LET YOU TALK--OTHERWISE HE DOES THE TALKING LIKE YOU'RE TUNING IN TO HEAR CHARLIE'S COMMENTS--THIS I PERSONALLY UNDERSTAND AND DO TOO OFTEN MYSELF--IT'S BECAUSE HE IS SUPER PREPARED AND FEELS IT'S WASTED IF THE GUEST DOESN'T TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS.
WHAT I AM SAYING IS THAT I HAVE NOTICED IT IS A MISTAKE FOR THE GUEST TO LET HIM INTERRUPT THEIR ANSWERS--I'M THINKING OF THE RECENT PRESIDENT CLINTON INTERVIEW HE DID--CLINTON BEING AN EXCELLENT POLITICIAN ALLOWED CHARLIE TO INTERRUPT--BUT AGAIN--IT'S A GOOD SHOW--I WATCH IT FOR THE GUESTS--HIS HEART IS IN THE RIGHT PLACE--AND I GO WAY BACK WITH CHARLIE ROSE TO THE DAYS WHEN HE HAD 'NIGHTLINE' AND WAS THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN IN MASSACHUSETTS FOR LATE NIGHT TV TALK SHOWS.
# posted by PHILIP NURENBERG @ 12:13 PM 
