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Subscribe to RSS*** Monday’s “Daily Rundown” line-up: White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer on the payroll tax fight… The New York Times’ David Sanger on the death of Kim Jung Il… Rep. Connie Mack (R-FL), a Romney supporter and U.S. Senate candidate, on the budget battle… And the latest 2012 news with The Washington Post’s Dan Balz, The Atlantic’s Molly Ball and Comcast’s Robert Traynham.
*** Monday’s “Jansing & Co. line-up: Guest host Veronica De La Cruz interviews Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA), DNC Chair Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz, MSNBC political analyst Richard Wolffe and Politico’s Maggie Haberman, former RNC Chair Michael Steele and former Rep. Artur Davis, and Telemundo’s Jose Diaz-Balart.
*** Monday’s “Live with Thomas Roberts” line-up: MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts interviews the Des Moines Register’s Jennifer Jacobs, Mark McKinnon, Keith Boykin, and Susan Del Percio on the countdown to Iowa, as well as former Iraq POW Jessica Lynch on the end of the Iraq war.
*** Monday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell has complete coverage of Kim Jong Il’s death. She’ll also talk with the Des Moines Register’s Ann Selzer, the White House’s Jack Lew, the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza, and Rep. Chris Van Hollen
*** Monday’s “News Nation with Tamron Hall” line-up: MSNBC’s Tamron Hall interviews Michael Smerconish, Jamal Simmons, AB Stoddard, and Alberto Hernandez.
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Seriously, someone needs to sit David Gregory down and give him some constructive feedback on his interviewing style. He has this habit of confronting a politician who is clearly lying, asking a weak follow up - then dropping the topic like it was radioactive. Perhaps his wife is the best one to point out how quickly he gives up on important issues. I'm not sure what the problem is, but its real, and he needs to watch his clips to fix what he is doing. Gregory could be an enlightening journalist, but he needs to prioritize his questions, I think. Nobody cares if he gets through a laundry list of questions he has, viewers would prefer he get to the heart of one or two important topics.
He needs to stop being scared of not being nice.
David Gregory actually zings liberals with tough questions on occasion on Meet the Press.
He obviously doesnt totally jibe with the rest of NBC and MSNBC's nonstop "Re-elect Obama" biased coverage.
Watch out, Gregory! No reward for you, like ABC News correspondent Jim Sciutto, whose slobbering Obama coverage recently won him a cushy lifetime public sector job from the Administration.
Maybe they will put Chelsea Clinton as host of Meet the Press ...
But Amy,
They have an hour. They have seven candidates. That comes down to a little over 8 1/2 minutes per candidate. Subtract from that the time for commercial breaks, the time to ask the questions, applause and cheers, and whats left?? six minutes apiece?? And remember, these are politicians, who would just love to pontificate for hours. Blahh blah blah....and then blah blah b;ah. It is the moderator who has to keep it very short and sweet.
It is the moderator, to have as much of a successful debate as possible in the time allotted, who has to really move things along.
Kudos to all of them.
I guess I should have mentioned I was referring to Gregory's interviews on Meet The Press. The moderators of the Republican primary debates have done a pretty good job so far, from the ones I have seen.
Sorry, wasn't chastising you. I think these debates are important enough to all of us that they should be a three or four hour affair. Questions like: Mr. Romney, explain how you would repair or replace Obamacare, and why your plan would be better that the current law.....you have sixty seconds.. WHAT?? How can you even answer that kind of question in sixty seconds??
Ten minutes for an answer of that magnitude would be barely adequate.
It is very possible that one of the people on that stage will be our President for up to eight years. This is our one big chance to really see where they are coming from. The debates are way too short.
The debates would be important to all of us if the tea people GOP republican candidates had anything important to say instead of their incoherent BS.
With what the tea people GOP republican candidates have to say, they could shorten them to ten minutes and we wouldn't miss anything.
Just like Gingrich said, if you say things often enough people believe you. He was right about the Arab Palestianians. Palestinians were both Jewish and Arab but the Jews allowed Arabs o remain in their UN-segregated territory while the Arabs refused the UN agreement, thereby terminating their rights, and actually told their people to move away while their armies wiped the new state of Israel off the map. They failed then and they failed three more times including 1967 and again in a surprise attack on Israel during their holiest day of the year--the 1973 Yom Kipper war. But the propaganda of Fatah, Arafat and later their terrorists, with the support of an Islam-backed UN, is universally accepted. Now, journalists like NBC's call Obama's temporary Social Security vacation a payroll tax which the Administration propagandizes. This payroll tax is a Social Security contribution to an individiaul's retirement and Obama wants to turn Social Security into a welfare fund and the press goes along with this scenario. Ditto, the class warfare Obama launched with his tax proposals on the wealthy and millionnaires--which has turned into the occupy movement, which might someday be headed by anarchists and socialists. The press accepts this propaganda also. When will be able to go back to objective. unbiased news reporting, other than the op ed page?
So as of Jan 1, 2012 the federal government will raise my social security withholding about 2 percent. I guess that means less consumption of goods and services. Where to cut back?
I say cut back on your computer