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mperkins You go girl!!! Nobody has asked those questions. These are very important questions and nobody has been close enough to Biden or Obama to get any kind of an answer. What is going to happen to the Fairness Doctrine if /when Obama gets elected. I am very fearful of what America will look like under an Obama/Biden admin.
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ALMAR THANK GOD THERE IS STILL A REPORTER IN THE MEDIA. DON'T STOP ASKING THOSE QUESTIONS.MAYBE MSNBC WILL HIRE YOU AND PUT YOU ON THE NATIONAL STAGE WHERE YOU BELONG. MAYBE YOU CAN TEACH KEITH & RACHEL A THING OR 2. GUESS I SHOULD HAVE SAID THAT, THEY WILL PROBABLY ATTACK ME AS A PERSON LIKE JOE THE PLUMMER!
Questions conservatives will love
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
When they get time with the presidential candidates, local TV reporters often don't ask the toughest questions, choosing instead to focus on general topics ("How is the race going?") or local matters ("Why is _______ important to your campaign?")
WFTV's Barbara Lee deviated from this model.
Significantly.
In a brief satellite interview with Joe Biden Thursday, Lee, a veteran reporter at the Orlando station, rattled off a series of tough, scripted questions on such matters as: ACORN, Joe the Plumber, Obama as a Marxist, Obama as Scandanavian-style socialist and the Dem ...
Right-Wing Florida News Anchor Asks If Obama Is A Marxist; Defends Questions As ‘Probing’
Think Progress —
Yesterday, Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) sat for an interview with Barbara West of WFTV Orlando. West loaded her interview questions with right-wing smears, likening progressive tax policies to Marxism. Biden responded to West’s ridiculous line of questioning with disbelief:
WEST: You may recognize this famous quote, “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” That’s from Karl Marx. How is Sen. Obama not being a Marxist if he intends to spread the wealth around?
BIDEN: Are you joking? Is this a joke? … Or is that a real question? ...
FINALLY
Bad Example —
FINALLY Via IMAO , a reporter clamps onto Biden and shakes him like a pit bull gnawing on a kitten. Read about the Obama campaign's reaction at Right Pundits .
Someone Wants a Job at Fox News
The Anonymous Liberal —
The right wing blogs are all worked into a lather over an interview Joe Biden did recently with WFTV, a local television station in Orlando. They seem to think Biden somehow embarrassed himself or got rattled during the interview. The fact that they think that is further evidence of the rapidly widening gulf between the reality most of us inhabit and the alternate universe where most right wing bloggers now reside. In the interview, Biden never loses his composure, despite being bombarded with questions that were so ridiculously loaded and counterfactual that Sean Hannity would have been embarrassed to ask them. Here's the interview in its ...
Leftwing Blogosphere Crying About Biden's Tough Interview
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
The leftwing blogosphere went into full panic mode Saturday as a result of a tough interview Democrat vice presidential candidate Joe Biden had with a Florida anchorwoman two days ago (video embedded right). As my colleague P. J. Gladnick previously reported, Barbara West of the ABC TV affiliate WFTV in Orlando gave Biden quite a grilling Thursday. Yet, despite the obviously favorable and well-documented treatment Barack Obama and his running mate have received from the press during this campaign, Netroots members were shocked and appalled with how Biden was questioned. Katharine ...
I Has Tough Questions Too!
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
by Jesse Taylor
WFTV anchor Barbara West asks the hard questions of Joe Biden. For instance, is Barack Obama a Marxist? Isn’t he embarrassed that he encouraged ACORN to register the entire cast of 1977’s The Rescuers? Why did he force that poor white girl in Pittsburgh to fake being mugged and disfigured by one of his black friends? ...
How not to...
Main and Central —
How not to conduct an interview...!
Ms. West defended that screed...
"I have a great deal of respect for him (Biden). I have a great deal of respect for Sen. Obama. We are given four minutes of a satellite window for these interviews. Four precious minutes. I got right down to it and, yes, I think I asked him some pointed questions. These are questions that are rolling about right now and questions that need to be asked. I don't think I was rude or inconsiderate to him. I think I was probing and maybe tough. I can't believe that in all of his years in politics, and all ...
Biden TV interviewer was a joke
The Swamp —
by Frank James
If journalism schools ever needed a perfect example to show their students of how an interview should never be conducted, it would be the recent encounter between Sen. Joe Biden and Baraba West, an anchor for WFTV in Orlando, Fla.
Embarrassing and painful are two words that quickly come to mind to describe West's interrogation of Biden last week. It may be the worst interview of a major political figure by a "professional" broadcast journalist I've ever witnessed. It was like something out of the old Soviet Union where propaganda masqueraded as news. ...
Bring Out The Red Font
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
This Biden interview that Drudge is flagging is a joke. I mean: if punitive taxation is Marxist, then Ronald Reagan was a Marxist:
I'm with A.L.: The right wing blogs are all worked into a lather over an interview Joe Biden did recently with WFTV, a local television station in Orlando. They seem to think Biden somehow embarrassed himself or got rattled during the interview. The fact that they think that is further evidence of the rapidly widening gulf between the reality most of us inhabit and the alternate universe where most right wing bloggers now reside. ...
Biden Cries About Tough Questions, Obama Campaign Throws Tantrum
The Sundries Shack —
For the first time this campaign, Joe Biden got some tough and fair questions from a local journalist. The results were hilarious . Biden sputtered and stammered and finally ended it in a fit of pique generally seen in infants and pampered Democratic politicians. Then the Obama campaign questioned the integrity of the reporter and canceled an interview with Joe Biden’s wife that the station had already booked. Hope. Change. Whining like a punk. Note to the MSM: Only the following subjects will be allowed in future interviews with either Barack Obama or Joe Biden. 1) Y R U SO AWSUM?!?!?! XOXOXOXOXO 2) ZOMG! JOHN MCCAIN IS TEH SUXXORZ!! 3) SARAH ...
ACTION ITEM: Tell WFTV Orlando And Barbara West To Apologize For Biden Hatchet Job
Firedoglake —
Here's Orlando wingnut TV personality Barbara West "interviewing" Joe Biden. My favorite part is when she implies that a return to Clinton-era tax levels is akin to Marxism.
Local news is an advertising-driven business. It's all about eyeballs, and station ...
For her unstable, right-wing slanted interview with Joe Biden, Barbara "Marxist" West is our Media PUTZ of the Week
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
BUZZFLASH MEDIA PUTZ OF THE WEEK c October 30, 2008 Barbara West For reporting that is an embarrassment to the profession of journalism, and for being beholden to corporate paymasters rather than the citizens of America. The satellite TV interview: national politicians have to do a lot of them in running for office. You sit there in a room and conduct one satellite interview after another after another, often answering the same questions over and over. And because TV journalists in smaller markets tend to approach these interviews in a distinctly different manner than a national journalist, satellite interviews don't draw much attention. But Barbara West of ...
