Where is the outrage in response to KO's interview? Where is the protest and letter writing?

[Evergreen Emerald]

HIs interview was a set up. He had very little substance and mostly trashy issues that have nothing to do with the Presidency. Where is the DU outrage?

Why are you not shouting from the rooftops that KO's interview was just an attack?
Shaife, sexism, Mccain. What the hell? Nothing substantive there.

Or, as I suspected a few days ago, that really the "attacks" are ok as long as they are not aimed at Obama?

[rox63]

1. I thought he threw her mostly softballs

And that he was very courteous and respectful of her.

[jaxx]

8. I thought so too.

He could have pushed her real hard, but he didn't. Respectful was KO. Hillary spouted her stuff with hardly taking a breath....then she went on Larry King and sounded like a recording. And then there was the laugh.

[ProSense]

13. Exactly. If he had challenged her on her responses, he would have been accused of attacking her. n/t

[Coexist]

2. so start one.

[Evergreen Emerald]

4. Join me.

If you are truly outraged at the attack-type journalism.

[Saturday]

3. "the "attacks" are ok as long as they are not aimed at Obama?"

Bingo!

[Political Heretic]

5. There's not much to write about the softball questions he gave her.

:shrug:

[TheDoorbellRang]

6. So go for it.

:shrug:

[Evergreen Emerald]

9. Join me.

[TheDoorbellRang]

18. I didn't watch it nor did I watch Larry King

So it would be tough for me to complain.

[truebrit71]

7. You forget the sarcasm smilie...he didn't attack her, he asked her policy and position questions...

...he also tried to get some answers to questions that were never followed up in the ABC Obama hate-fest like what the parameters were for her to nuke Iran into oblivion...

You know, insignificant bullshit like that...:eyes:

[Evergreen Emerald]

12. Right. Because when Clinton is asked BS attack questions, they

are "just to follow up." When Obama is asked attack questions--the world must end. HOW DARE THEY


You crack me up twisting logic into a pretzel like that to continue to believe your double standard.

[truebrit71]

29. No double standard at all...Obama answers questions, Billary complains about the politics...

..of "pile-on"...or did you forget her incessant whining about that?

Talk about double standards...:eyes:

[Shae]

35. Do you really think

questions about nuking Iran are equivalent to questions about "why do you refuse to wear a flag pin?"

She got her free air time which is what she wanted, so why are you complaining?

[ProSense]

10. He did a post interview analysis. Were you outraged about the "Thank You ABC" threads? n/t

[Evergreen Emerald]

15. No. He attacked her using biased people to continue the attack.

Note the double standard.

[ProSense]

23. Name the specific attacks?

Was it criticizing her for her hypcrisy on Obama's McCain statement? Her weird cackling? Her crazy nuke Iran posture? What?

[Bigleaf]

11. Are you comparing an interview with a debate? Really? Holy Fuck!

[zalinda]

14. Of course, didn't you get the memo

Clinton=bad, Obama=good.

Anything said against Clinton is seen as somehow good for the dem party, and anything bad against Obama is seen as bad for the dem party. It seems that if you are in the Obama camp, you can say anything against a dem, as long as it's not against Obama.

zalinda

[stray cat]

16. It was a softball interview with free publicity for Hillary - whats the problem

The daily show for Obama was great as well!

[babylonsister]

17. Hillary on Olbermann--First Impressions

:boring:

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/04/21/on-countdown-clinton-looks-good-olbermann-looks-even-better.aspx

Hillary on Olbermann--First Impressions

When I heard Hillary Clinton was going on Keith Olbermann, I figured she was in for pretty rough--and possibly unfair--treatment. Olbermann, after all, has been a pretty vocal Clinton critic. And on a few occasions, I've thought, he's taken it too far.

Not tonight. His first question was...a very serious question about policy: What can the president really do to bring down gas prices? Clinton seemed slow to respond. (Maybe she was as surprised by the question as I was?) But she followed up with a long, nuanced answer. She started by offering a few short-term fixes: investigating possible market manipulation, tapping the strategic petroleum reserve, and taxing the oil companies and using it to finance a consumer tax holiday (something I hadn't heard before). She then acknowledged the limits of this strategy and said the real answer was encouraging energy independence over the long term.

Question number two was also about policy--asking Clinton to specify what she meant in last week's debate when she called for "massive retaliation" against Iran in case of an attack on Israel. She explained that she wanted to extend the concept of deterrence, as practiced during the Cold War, to the Middle East. (Over at Politico, Ben Smith notes she'd been leading up to this for the last few days. I'll leave it to my colleagues who follow foreign policy more colsely than I do to explain the significance of this.)

From there, Olbermann turned his attention to politics. But he raised legitimate issues, about the propriety of Clinton's tactics and whether she really had the party's interests at heart: Was her new ad, which features Osama Bin Laden, the equivalent of waving a bloody flag? Hadn't Clinton done her party a disservice by saying John McCain passed the commander-in-chief threshhold but Barack Obama didn't? And wasn't it wrong to seek the endorsement of Richard Mellon Scaife, who was responsible for so much of the dirt thrown at the Clintons--and Democrats--during the 1990s?

Note that Olbermann hardly took it easy on Clinton: He put tough questions to her. But he also stuck to relevant questions that actually shed light on the kind of president Clinton would make.

Perhaps Olbermann, reacting to last week's debate debacle, was trying to make a point about how journalists should interview candidates. If so, I think he succeeded.

(And, for what it's worth, I thought Clinton came off pretty well, too.)

--Jonathan Cohn

[Buzz Clik]

19. Oh, bullshit. It was ALL about policy and politics.

Here are the questions in order:

1. The impact of gasoline prices on the general election. KO allows her to give her full description of her energy policy.
   
2. Asked her about her comments about the "umbrella of deterence" in the Middle East". He gave her full latitude to describe and clarify her position.
   
3. Describing her new ad and the potential fear-mongering by using the image of Osama bin Laden. She was allowed to totally give her view on this.
   
4. KO asked her about her comments about the relative qualifications of the nominees, and her criticism of Obama "cheerleading for McCain" considering her cheerleading for McCain. She was uninterrupted in her answers.
   
5. The historic nature of the Obama and Clinton candidacies. "Do you believe that criticism of your campaign is sexism?" That's a fair question considering the media "sexism" blitz yesterday and in weeks past. Clinton was allowed to proceed uninterrupted in her answer -- which, by the way, did not address the question.
   
6. Ko asked her about the endorsement by Scaife. It was fair game considering how frequently she has criticized Obama for the people with whom he associates. (Her laughing through the entire question was annoying as hell.) She was allowed to answer the question without interruption, in which she claims that Scaife is being converted from hating her and how this endorsement demonstrates what an amazing uniting influence she is.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/24247166#24246849

[Evergreen Emerald]

22. Right. Cause when Clinton is attacked with non-issues, that is a good thing

The double standard on DU is laughable.

[Buzz Clik]

28. Dead wrong.

Olbermann asked her about nothing but critical issues and aspects of the campaign that she personally initiated.

If you don't like what Hillary represents, find a new candidate.

[whatchamacallit]

20. Knock yourself out

please.

[Catherina]

21. I recommend banging pots and pans outside his window n/t

[Zachstar]

24. What are you talking about? He threw softballs and let Clinton filibuster most of it.

It was a Clinton ad the questions were easily prepared for.

[AllentownJake]

25. She knew what she was getting into

First I think this was a decent interview and she did rather well frankly.

Second, this wasn't like a debate where the moderators are supposed to ask issue questions. Keith Olbermann is a vocal Obama supporter and she knew that going into his show for an interview. She was never "set-up" as evidenced by the Pot banging a few weeks ago by Clinton supporters over him. She called him he didn't call her.

[merh]

26. You seem to have a whole lot of time on your hands.

You go ahead and organize it.

Anyone who watches KO knows the format and what he did last night was not out of character or an unwarranted attack on hillary. She thought she controlled the interview but how could she, it isn't her show. Blame her aids for not letting her know the format of KO's show.

Oh, just so an fyi for you
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5615495&mesg_id=5616542

[book_worm]

27. He asked her softball questions

[Pisces]

30. He let her campaign for 5 min. straight with no interruption.

[The_Casual_Observer]

31. Boycott! Girlcott! Dogcott!

[NoPasaran]

32. I guess she's totally written off the Iranian Primary

[dionysus]

33. grab your pots and pans, lol

[Buzz Clik]

34. FOR THE SAKE OF CLARIFICATION: The author of this thread just yesterday...

... initiated one of the dozens of threads screaming about sexism in the campaign.

It was oh so relevant yesterday, but Olbermann asking Clinton about it was out of bounds, even in the eyes of someone who thought it was important enough to dedicate an entire thread to discussing it.

Fascinating. Hypocritical, but fascinating.