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Originally Posted by docbungle
Well, without the questions and answers from the actual interview, it's a bit difficult to know if the interviewer was rude or if the answers the president gave were so vague and/or confusing that he may have needed some prompting.
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Well....doc.... the text of the interview is available at the article link on the thread starter. I cut out the actual interview when I excerpted the article for postin here. I have to be sensitive to the protests of those who are resistant to receipt of too much information, a requirement that seems to insure exposure to less complicated issues or incomplete reports.
The inteview vidoe is also available at the Irish network (click on red script)
http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0624/primetime.html
Whatever version that you choose, I am interested to read your opinion as to whether this rose to a level where it justified a complaint by the white house to the Irish embassy, with regard to the manner in which Ms. Coleman conducted the interview, or in the content of the questions that she asked Bush. Coleman says that the questions were all pre-submitted, at the request of the white house staff.
Harriet Miers may have "spoiled" Mr. Bush to the point that Coleman's treatment of him was indeed, a rude awakening..........
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http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-b...-top-headlines
........."You are the best governor ever -- deserving of great respect!," she wrote in a birthday wish to Bush in 1997, when he was the governor of Texas, according to The New York Times. "Keep up the great work. Texas is blessed."............
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Before the point of this thread lost most of it's meaning because a moderator took it upon himself to change the thread title from it's intended emphasis on the "lie" that the MSM is biased against Bush, my intent was to feature this incident and Coleman's "take" on it, that the interview was a routine effort by a newsreporter to do a "normal" interview with a POTUS.
The U.S. press has submitted to behavorial modification at the hands of the white house, in exchange for "access". Ms. Coleman refuse to do that, thus shocking Bush's sycophants into protesting her "behavior" to her country's embassy. The American people are the losers because the press has traded away our "right to know". The "lumpenconservatives", as roachboy called them, seem to thrive on the news vaccuum that U.S. press has created by it's failure to act more similarly to Ms. Coleman. Their complaint of press bias is completely opposite reality. Rove has been able to successfully foist the Bush production, first on Texas, and then, on the whole of America because the press failed to examine the capabilities of Bush, himself. The presidential debates one year ago revealed to anyone who watched, that Bush is an inarticulate incompetent who is not fit to be POTUS. We are fortunate that he is only a figurehead, but a figurehead who undermines the folks who actually govern. It is difficult to pinpoint who is accountable to who, in this hierarchy, but thanks to a press that has abdicated it's mssion, none of them are accountable to any of us!