http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/31/willie-geist-campaigns-fo_n_139858.html
At first I dismissed this as a lame stunt piece, then I read the HuffPo coverage on it, and found it interesting enough to warrant a quick middling chuckle. Then I watched it, and then I just got pissed off.
This was a truly sad, unsuccessful attempt to match wits with The Daily Show to pull off a dry satirical commentary on how the Left is as closed minded and simplistic as is the Right. Instead, what I saw were people responding to his questions directly, accurately, and in a politically correct manner (meaning highlighting their political differences, not personal attacks). I saw no slander of Palin or McCain, I saw no fear mongering or race baiting. Just people telling this guy, politely, that they don’t agree. Basically, civil discourse as one might expect relative to a political topic.
Then the chuckleheads back at 30 Rock started slathering on the BBQ. They manufactured at least 10-15 negative comments out of their ass. Joe tops it off by essentially admitting that there was nothing incendiary in the piece at all, but that “we all know what these people would have said if the cameras weren’t on them”. WTF???? NO!!! I DON”T KNOW, JOE!!!!! But I can rather quickly show you what happens when someone raises an Obama sign in a pack of Palinistas!! I could close my eyes and find something on youtube within 30 seconds what Right wingers say ON CAMERA. And “we all know what these people would have said (done) if the cameras weren’t on them!”
The ONLY redeeming glimmer in this was the single attempt by the CNBC guest panelist to say the responses were civil. She was shut down quickly.
WTF is going on over at NBC?? This looks like a FOX produced hit job. Maybe it’s just all the sugar I’ve been stealing out of my daughters Halloween haul, but I’m really pissed.
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Broadway Carl // November 1, 2008 at 6:17 am
This is why I can’t stand watching Morning Joke™ anymore. At one point, Mika was the sole voice who tried to balance out that panel, but since the Palin pick, she’s gone completely ga-ga over her.
I don’t get it. I thought she was smarter than that. But we also don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes. After all, they do work for corporations and a “close race” scenario is much more likely to get viewers than the blow out that it’s becoming (still keeping my fingers crossed just in case).
Enjoy your Halloween candy. As I don’t have kids yet, today is my favorite day: 50% off sale on all candy at the drug store!
livefreeordie08 // November 1, 2008 at 9:36 am
I wish I lived in a swinger state so I could run down to a local Republican bath house and shoot my own youtube version of this idiocy. The responses I would get would of course not be playable on network airwaves, but I’d send it to Steve Campus anyway.