10-01-2004, 01:49 PM
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Originally posted by Rich
The best was Wolf Blitzer's coverage after the debate. I watched real coverage on PBS and CBC immediately after, both mentioned that Kerry clearly won and both mentioned the polls on the other websites we were talking about here (cnn, msnbc, etc). CBC even said that Fox pulled their poll.
Wolf had Karen Hughes from the Bush campaign, and some dude high up in the Kerry campaign. The Kerry guy was supposed to speak first, but his mic was down, you could hear the crowd behind him louder than him, and finally he just cut out. Wolf says something like "we're having technical difficulty, we'll go to Karen Hughes and then back to you". So they let Hughes blab on for 10 minutes about how great Bush did and how Kerry is a flip flopper, and then they go back to the Kerry guy. He starts talking (at half volume) for two minutes, but I guess he was making too good of a point even muted, so they cut him out again. Then Wolf drops one of the best lines I've ever heard on TV news, "we got the gist of it". It was fucking unreal, the gist of it? Not something like "we'll have to hear from him later", but "we got the gist of it". He talked for under two minutes at half volume and was cut out not once but twice in the middle of a point. How pathetic is this network going to get?
No wonder they expect the polls about the debate to "change" over the next 72 hours. People don't change their minds about something they saw with their own two eyes. The news networks are going to try to beat the American people into submission.
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