Did anyone see Harry Smith this morning on CBS?

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Harry did a better job vs.O'neil than other anchors I've seen

Harry Smith was the same anchor who said to Bob Dole when Dole laced into Clinton over something "But Senator,His mother just died.(Clinton's,Probably that day).Dole was his usual snarly self about Virginia Kelly's death and Smith said something to the effect that how can you talk this way when a man's mother has just died

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Because deep inside

Bob Dole is a very mean and bitter man.

[Skidmore]

3. Many are disarmed by the man's sense of humor and lulled

into thinking this is another kindly older man. He's the kind of man who will stick a shiv in you and smile sunnily while your dying.

[Joy Anne]

7. My letter to the editor du jour

Re Philly Metro http://parex.metro.st/ftp/20040824_1000006.pdf


> Your article "Dole: Kerry Should Apologize" kind of turns the news
> topsy-turvy. The big news of the day on this front--if we're not going to
> discuss matters truly pertinent to the presidential election campaign such
> as the spiraling ever upward national debt that has true conservatives
> blanching, the deepening quagmire in Iraq, the continuing disappearance of
> good jobs for Americans, and the secret hacking away at our civil
liberties
> by the so-called Justice Department--is the Vietnam-era sailors who keep
> coming forward out of their self-effacing private lives to concur with
John
> Kerry and disagree with the swiftboat liars who went on the Nixon payroll
in
> 1971. Let us honor their moral courage.
> Must we discuss Robert Dole? If we must, I respected his long career
in
> the U.S. Senate but was disgusted by his retirement lunge for the big
bucks
> in his Viagra endorsement and his subsequent leering Pepsi commercials
> co-starring a semiclad teenager. If I were his wife, I'd move far
away--say,
> to North Carolina. Still, Mr. Dole was badly mangled in World War II, and
he
> is entitled to public attention on the topic of Purple Hearts, even when
he
> disparages Mr. Kerry's three Purple Hearts as not being severe enough to
> disable him for life or cause him decades of unrelenting pain. That is,
Mr.
> Dole deserves attention until he fails to mention what he wrote about in
his
> autobiography, his first Purple Heart, presented to him for his
> "self-inflicted" (in military jargon, meaning friendly fire rather than
due
> to enemy efforts) shard wound of his leg, a wound remarkably similar to a
> wound Mr. Kerry suffered that Mr. Dole now disparages as unworthy of a
> Purple Heart.
> You should have pointed out these disparities in your article, rather
> than just quoting bits from talk shows.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. What Did Dole Answer

I wouldn't rip on anyone even * while he was grieving...

[annabanana]

4. He didn't let O'Neill get away with much... but

I wish he'd pointed out that the shill had been paid by Nixon then and is being paid by Bush now.

[DemBones DemBones]

5. "Have you no decency, sir?" Words to be said

to a majority of Republicans. The GOP was not always like this. They need a reform movement. Oh, wait, Gingrich and his crew and PNAC have already been the reform movement; they turned a party you could have some respect for into a pack of amoral pit bulls.

[union_maid]

6. Anderson Cooper did pretty well this morning, too

He had Ed Gillespie on and kept on asking him about Bush condemning all 527s and not that ad in particular. Gillespie kept on giving the party line answer. Cooper kept on asking until Gillespie finally said that that was his answer and if Cooper asked him again he'd get the same answer. Gillespie was cornered pretty well. Cooper let it go then, but he did make his point. He also questioned Gillespie's assertion about the subjects covered in the Democratic convention and questioned him about the moderate face that the Republicans are presenting at their convention. He didn't really go after him on those, but he brought those issues up. It wasn't an easy interview for Gillespie.

[alcuno]

8. Never hold out hope for FAUX. They "interviewed" Van O'Dell.

What a bastard! And he's willing to take a lie detector test. About what? The guy is generally repeating heresay but FAUX never points that out.