OFFICIAL : Meet The Press thread : Sunday Morning!!

[KewlRonduderules]

Tim Russert got PWNED in my opinion. After the interview, he looked kinda upset discussing then next segment.

 

[orion846]

i like how they had to go to disgruntled ex-employees and quotes from 25 years ago to find anything barely resembling a contradiction in RP's beliefs. unlike rudy and mccain and mitt and pretty much contradicted themselves in the interview.

was a great job by RP

 

[walt]

"be safe on the campaign trial"?

what kind of closing statement is that?

 

[ValidusCustodiae]

Those of you that really think he did so horribly, don't you think they would have bashed him in the round table if they thought any of his answers were really shoddy? The only time they brought him up was when Tim mentioned that he had a Christmas ad too, and that he had his grandkids singing in it

I think it went great. Ron Paul is bulletproof!

 

[RonPaulCult]

Time Russert grills everybody that is on his show. I expected it. Ron Paul held his ground

 

[Sakimoto]

No, his job is to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. His job does not change when in committee, or when being doctored with unconstitutional appropriations.



Omnibus budget and appropriations bills are ALWAYS passed, so his "no" vote is a legislative sleight-of-hand.



No, it makes him look like a slick politician. It's one of very few indefensible things he's done in Congress.

Sorry, I disagree. Just because the damn things are ALWAYS passed doesn't make his No vote any less a NO vote. Blame the damn corrupt system that he is trying to work to get some of the stolen money back for his district. He voted NO on PRINCIPLE and put the earmarks in there for pragmatism.

 

[ValidusCustodiae]

"be safe on the campaign trial"?

what kind of closing statement is that?

Tim said the same thing to Giuliani at the end of his interview, don't think too much of it.

 

[LinearChaos]

It is nice to have Andrew Sullivan championing Ron Paul on the Chris Matthews show an hour later too. He said "Ron Paul has changed politics".

Sullivan has already endorsed Paul on his blog. He was a McCain supporting Iraq War Cheerleader but has manned up to it.

 

[MadViking10]

you guys have made it sound pretty bad..just got done with part 1 so far so good. The snakepit analogy was perfect.

I just finished with part one as well. I think he's done just fine.

 

[llepard]

Home Run.

Nice try Tim.

Ron owned you.

Two interesting ponts:

Russert:

"so you think there is a moral equivalency between the west and islamic fascism".

RUCK FOU RUSSERT

Also,

Russert ends it with,

"be safe on the campaign trail" If that is not a threat, then I have never heard one.

 

[stevedasbach]

I just finished watching Dr. Paul on MTP. I watch MTP every Sunday (have for years), and Dr. Paul did as good as any candidate I've ever seen grilled by Russert. I don't think we could have realistically expected anything more.

 

[sunghoko]

given the hard hitting nature of the interview I give him a 10/10.

earmarks have a negative connotation and for some reason sentimental republicans think Reagan was the best president ever. I think that hurt him a bit

 

[ValidusCustodiae]

Also,

Russert ends it with,

"be safe on the campaign trail" If that is not a threat, then I have never heard one.

Sorry, bro, but this is the same way he said bye to Giuliani and probably other candidates as well. If he's stalking Ron Paul, he's stalking Rudy too...

 

[stevedasbach]

"be safe on the campaign trial"?

what kind of closing statement is that?

That's what he usually says.

 

[musicmax]

that comment about Iran/Isael ... I think he said "invade" not "attack". Iran INVADING Israel is like Iran INVADING Mars. It's not going to happen. Israel is the one with the military and arms to do such a thing, not Iran. Iran has no conventional military that could pose as a threat to ... anyone.

but that quote he made was great.

Here's how to answer "the Israel question":

"Tim, the President's job is to protect and defend the United States. The Isreali premier's job is to defend Israel, and Israel has done a pretty good job of that. In fact, mine was one of the few votes in Congress supporting Israel's right to defend herself by bombing an Iraqi nuclear plant. As a Congressman I've taken an oath to defend the United States ten times - that's ten times more than Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee have taken that oath combined."

 

[0zzy]

Worst case scenario:

Ron Paul isn't a Republican
Ron Paul is a racist
Ron Paul is an anti-Semite
Ron Paul is blaming America for 9/11

 

[bgoldwater]

Ron did deserve to get grilled on earmarks. That's one of those issues that I completely disagree with Paul.

 

[wfd40]

Really... all we should want is for viewers unfamiliar with Ron paul's views (which is still, unfortunately, quite a lot of people) to GOOGLE RON PAUL.

Thats where all the work we've been doing for the past 6 months really hits PAYDIRT. Think about all of the Pro-Paul-Ganda they are exposed to when doing a search like that? It really does boggle the mind when you start to think about it... that the little things we've all done collectively together over that past 6months (think youtubes, comments on blogs, blog post, article links, message board posts, meetup number etc) will finally come to roost!

 

[Yom]

The "be safe" thing could be referring to the bad weather.


Does anyone have access to the rest of the interview? Can you put it up on youtube or somewhere else?

 

[hcbrand]

Was anyone else standing up for nearly the entire interview? I don't understand this, I'm 50 years old and was as nervous as a squirrel in traffic. I thought Dr. Paul did very well, but I hated Russert's line of questions. It seemed his motive was more about discrediting the Dr., rather than questioning him about his platform.

"In 1979, you said disco was dead, are you implying that you knew disco was sick?"

Relevant, the interview was not.