This is sort of a rant. (at least at the end)
But I couldn't believe what a Cheney this guy is!
I don't know if this has been discussed before,
but is Matt Lauer's family being held hostage by the Bush Boys? Is he going out with young Barbara???
What the hell is up with his vitriolic interview with Kitty Kelley?!?
Look, I know it's a gossip book, and maybe he doesn't like gossip.
But Lauer seems to be absolutely offended that a the President would be so,um, besmirtched.
From his first words he starts reaming her:
Excerpts: (Bolds and italics are mine)
Lauer: "Let's talk about you first. Let's,
so that people have the right perspective."
Kelley: "Sure."
Lauer: "Who'd you vote for in 2000?"
Kelley: "I voted in 2000. I'm registered in the District of Columbia. I vote for Republicans, I vote for Democrats. And I used to give money to both. In fact, probably, the last campaign contribution I made was to the Republican Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison."
Lauer: "Whom might you vote for in 2004? Who are you thinking of?"
Kelley: "It's not so much I'm going to vote for the person as I'm going to vote for principles that I believe in."
Lauer (wanting her to say she's a "librul democrat votin' for Michael Moore"): "Who are you going to vote for?"
Kelley: "Is that relevant to this book?"
Lauer: "I think it at least gives people some... "
Kelley: "Who are you -- tell me something, who are you going to vote for?"
Lauer (ignoring her): "...it gives some people some information or some perspective as to what's contained in the 600-plus pages."
snip
Lauer: "Let me ask you this: Do you think the level, your standards for making accusations for proof for sources needs to rise?"
Kelley: "Excuse -- no -- no -- no I won't."
Lauer: "Wait -- wait, excuse me. When you're dealing with the sitting president of the United States."
Kelley: "My standards are my standards. I write books the same way every good reporter writes books and that is to abide by the laws of libel and the laws of invasion of privacy. I only write about people who are alive. I only write about people who are powerful."
snip
Kelley: "Matt, you play golf with the former President Bush?"
Lauer: "I have never played golf with him."
Kelley: "You know that he's is a gregarious man. He's gracious. That's a very, very nice thing. That's in the book. The reason this looks so negative to people is that for years and years and years, we've had a very crafted public image. It looks like `The Donna Reed Show.' Now we've got a little bit of `The Sopranos.' Every family has got negatives and positives."
Lauer (ignoring her): "But every - but where are the positives, Kitty?"
Reading through the whole thing is even worse!
He finishes off with:
Lauer: "Going to come back tomorrow for a third part of this?"
Kelley: "I think I'm going in the federal witness protection program."
Lauer: "I want - I want to read you tomorrow. I want to read you some comments we're getting on our e-mails, on our phone systems and some other response in the press."
Kelley: "Okay."
Lauer: "All right?
Kelley: "I look forward to it."
Lauer: "Kitty Kelley, thanks."
All I can say is F&*K Matt Lauer. What he couldn't grill George Bush like that? Could only throw him softballs??? The only reason Lauer's interview with Bush became news was because of Bush's flip-flop. He really sounds like a very highly paid employee of George W. Bush.
F&*k him.
(end of rant)
I promise to rant very little, if I can at all help it.
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