OFFICIAL : Meet The Press thread : Sunday Morning!!

He was on for a half hour straight. NO COMMERCIALS. How many of us watched this on you tube thinking about what commercials were aired? So was it Timmy's strategy to not pause for break, a choce intended to make Ron "slip". Ron never slips. He stands firm with the will to win. Ron gave brilliant answers, I just wonder when in the history of MTP or Russert's MTP have the producers allowed a FULL HALF HOUR WITHOUT COMMERCIAL BREAKS and I just hope I can watch this on MSNBC soon.

Brett
Santa Cruz, CA
 
musicmax said:
Only a Constitution which lacks Article I Section 8 and the Tenth Amendment. Where did you get such a Constitution?
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Do not confuse WHAT Congress can regulate/fund with HOW it organizes the funding process for legitimate items.

Congress can fund an army but the Constitution specifies almost no details about HOW to fund an army:

Article 1 Section 5: "Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings,"

When the process is Constitutional but the object is not, Paul heeds the process and votes against the object.

http://hawks4ronpaul.blogspot.com/
 
BrettCates said:
He was on for a half hour straight. NO COMMERCIALS. ... So was it Timmy's strategy to not pause for break, a choce intended to make Ron "slip". ... Ron gave brilliant answers, I just wonder when in the history of MTP or Russert's MTP have the producers allowed a FULL HALF HOUR WITHOUT COMMERCIAL BREAKS and I just hope I can watch this on MSNBC soon.
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Some of the MTP candidate interviews have been even longer. Earlier in the year around the Iowa straw poll, Richardson was on for the full hour with no commercials at all except I think they did have a break at the half-hour. There have been a few others like that.

Now we're closer to the election and they have more to discuss so they're down to a half-hour for candidates.

I think NBC is trying to use this to lock up viewer loyalty to their news personalities. Maybe they've been losing viewers and need to get more of them to maintain their flagship MTP show as #1.

What surprises me is that they didn't run even more commercials in the second half-hour to make up for the lost ad slots. It also replays in the afternoon on NBC and at least once on PMSNBC. That's a lot of ads to miss. They must hope it will pay off somehow.
 
musicmax said:
I call for a moratorium on "pwn" and any variation thereof. Just because every decade creates an idiotic word and bludgeons it to death (60s: "groovy"; 70s: "solid"; 80s: "dude"; 90s: "kewl") doesn't mean the next generation has to as well.
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Three years ago, I had already move one more letter over from the p to q and now use qwn. LOL Perhaps later I'll go to rwn.

Not so bad for a guy who is only 10 years younger than Dr. Paul, huh?
 
I think the obvious reasons the racist stuff wasn't really brought up is because the MSM is saving for an all out attack regarding those issues if Paul does well in Iowa and New Hampshire. To have a recent on-the-record interview from MTP addressing those issues would only diminish the attacks.
 
Ron Paul was excellent.

Tim is a tough host, you should see his interviews with other candidates to appreciate how well Ron Paul did to get his message out. I thought it was a great interview and Ron Paul made sure his views on key policy issues were known. Tim always digs up old and obscure stuff to put candidates on a hot seat, Ron Paul was clear and strong on key points of his current campaign and that is what matters.

Ron Paul will pick up some good support as a result.
 
This earmark thing is insane and so totally misconstrued.

Government takes money from your constituents.
Should you just sit by and say "hey plunder away" or fight to get some of THEIR MONEY BACK?


He votes no on the entire thing because he just wants his district, and every citizen, to KEEP their money in the first place. But if its going to get taken and pass anyway, shouldn't his constituents get SOME of their money back?

The neocons want to get rid of the earmarks so they can spend it all on the welfare-warfare state. That's the sad truth to the whole issue. They want us thinking a congressman getting some money back for his district is bad, Bush and co need that money to bomb Iran!
 
If you guys think this was hostile, then you evidently don't want 'Meet the Press'. Last week, Romney got murdered on the show.
 
He did great as always. Russert cut him off constantly from answering fully, so Dr. Paul wasn't allowed to fully shine. Paul definitely won this though.

Dr. Paul = Truth
Tim Russert = Mop
Meet The Press = The Floor
 
If this is the worst that the hardest hitting news show can throw at Dr. Paul, we're in good shape. That interview was FAR AND ABOVE better than any of the other candidates -- flip floppey, lying Romney, heckle jeckle Giuliani and the hilarious "this was your own quote" McCain.

All in all a great job by Dr. Paul. His only real flub was not getting his message across on earmarks as clearly as he should have but that's been his achilles heel this whole time.
 
I thought the interview was a pretty good appearance, but the campaign should issue a high profile press release to clarify some of the points that Russert interrupted Paul on.

If only Russert were as tough on everybody appearing on his show.
 
Ron LOL said:
I thought the interview was a pretty good appearance, but the campaign should issue a high profile press release to clarify some of the points that Russert interrupted Paul on.

If only Russert were as tough on everybody appearing on his show.
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Let's not get carried away. Russert is a bulldog and goes after EVERYONE. This was the most neutered I've seen Russert look save the earmark question.
 
ReallyNow said:
If this is the worst that the hardest hitting news show can throw at Dr. Paul, we're in good shape. That interview was FAR AND ABOVE better than any of the other candidates -- flip floppey, lying Romney, heckle jeckle Giuliani and the hilarious "this was your own quote" McCain.
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If you've ever seen Russert when he's really out for blood, you'd know he could have done worse.

OTOH, he probably doesn't think RP can win and our web traffic and rather intense support for RP probably kept him from trying it. They are a little afraid of riling us up. And we undoubtedly brought them high viewer numbers and web traffic. We always do.

If Ron Paul was at 15% or 20% in national polls, believe me, it would have been much worse. After I saw Russert shoot, field-dress, skin alive and nail Richardson's hide to his studio wall as a trophy, I really felt pretty sorry for Richardson. It wasn't so much like a deer in the headlights thing, more like watching the pickup run over the deer, back up and run over it again and again for an hour straight. It was a complete massacre.
 
I don't think I've ever seen Ron Paul that nervous before. Now that he knows what types of attacks he will be getting, he can prepare how to better answer them in the future. I don't think he will be bringing any new supporters on board with that interview alone. It was good practice though. Even though he didn't do as good as he could have, he can learn a lot from this. He better start preparing, because if he starts doing good in the polls, attacks like this are going to start happening more often.
 
Ron has to have those numbers ready. People will say "see he is just a philosophical candidate it is all a dream" We know it is realistic to drop spending levels to what hey were in 2000 but if you do not have some hard numbers people will think it is un realistic.
 
TooConservative said:
If Ron Paul was at 15% or 20% in national polls, believe me, it would have been much worse. After I saw Russert shoot, field-dress, skin alive and nail Richardson's hide to his studio wall as a trophy, I really felt pretty sorry for Richardson. It wasn't so much like a deer in the headlights thing, more like watching the pickup run over the deer, back up and run over it again and again for an hour straight. It was a complete massacre.
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*lol* Wow, now I'm really curious about this Richardson interview. But I agree with MadOdorMachine--now Dr. Paul can better prepare for these types of attacks.
 
I thought the interview wasn't bad. Dr. Paul should maybe do a little more prep work for these. I don't think hard numbers would help all that much. Instead maybe Paul could practice the interview with someone from his staff. He needs to have a friend who disagrees with him on some things. We know Dr. Paul can take a news anchor yard, but he needs to do that to someone very famous. Russert was too hard, but maybe someone else.
 
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