Oh August 5th, we hope to be in Taos to meet with Cindy Sheehan on her whirlwind tour of northern New Mexico to include a visit to Don Rumsfeld's place and Los Alamos where the next generation of nuclear bombs are being developed that will likely be part of the final elimination of Homo sapiens as we've known and lived it.
Many of you have undoubtedly heard of Nora O'Donnell's tough interview of Sheehan that was on a segment of MSNBC's Chris Matthews "Hardball" Wednesday. (That should be "Hardballs" after watching O'Donnell's interview of Cindy.)
I felt a little badly for O'Donnell as I watched her attempt to cut down Sheehan publicly. Sitting bold and erect, she continually swung her assassin's scythe wildy at Sheehan. But she missed. It's was a sad display for objective journalism by the "liberal media".
But saddest of all was watching O'Donnell--the professional journalist--lose control of the interview to a grieving mother turned preeminent voice of the anti-war movement.
If you watch this clip, notice how Cindy, the media laywoman, turns the clock of McDonnell's time constraints on her at the climax of her hard interview. (MSNBC execs will probably have O'Donnell watching this clip over and over again on how not to lose control of an interview.)
Cindy Sheehan's calm under fire was very impressive. My respect for this deservedly angry, grieving mother continues unscathed. O'Donnell would do well to take a lesson. Maybe watch that segment one more time. Maybe talk to "hardballs," Chris Matthews, himself.
2 comments:
I caught part of this interview by accident while channel-surfing and it held my interest until I became increasingly irritated by the shrill, confrontational tone of Ms. O'Donnell's interviewing technique...it became apparent that she was deliberately trying to get Ms. Sheehan's goat with provocative statements and was becoming increasingly frustrated by her inability to do so...I detest that facet of "journalism" on TV and "talk radio"...there's usually brazen, emotional button-pushing and rarely any calm discussion of the facts...
Because I can't take Chris Matthew's constant interruptions & short-miking his guests (just when they're about to make a point or tie together disparate points), I avoid his show. So I had only seen the last part of this (where Cindy says yes, it might be better to have Hugo as president), and therefore very happy you posted the whole segment, dada! My, my, what act-like-a-man school of journalism did Norah O'Dominatrix attend? And then, there's Cindy with her beautifully modulated, emanantly reasonable voice, just answering in a natural fashion the most strident accusational barks, her anger & grief contained just below the surface. I don't know how she does it. And she's right ... if 2/3rds of the country are against this war, then 2/3rds are against this president since that is his raison de re-election. D.K.
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