September 02, 2004
Convention Coverage
I'm in the process of writing up a little something about some of the weblogs I've come across recently, but in the meantime I wanted to point out one in particular: Michael Bérubé. He's been writing some of the best convention coverage I've seen yet, hands down. With a healthy dose of irony and humor, Michael Bérubé manages to skewer the entire Republican agenda without coming off as just another shrill liberal.
And speaking of shrill, apparently the moment of note last night was Zell Miller's complete breakdown while being interviewed by Chris Matthews after his speech. The full transcript of their fairly heated discussion is here, but here's a few choice quotes:
MILLER: ...Right here is what John Kerry put out as far as his U.S. Senate platform, was, he was talking about he wanted to cancel the M.X. missile, the B-1 bomber, the anti-satellite system. This is not voting for something that was in a big bill.
MATTHEWS: Which of those systems was effective in either Afghanistan of Iraq?
...
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about this, because I think you have a view on the role of reporters in the world. You have said and it has often been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press.... But it‘s a statement that nobody would have challenged. Why did you make it? It seems like no one would deny what you said. So what‘s your point?
MILLER: Well, it evidently got a rise out of you... [b]ecause you are a reporter.
MATTHEWS: That‘s right.
MILLER: You didn‘t have anything to do with freedom of the press.
MATTHEWS: Well, you could argue it was not nurses who defended the freedom of nursing. Why did you single out freedom of the press to say it was the soldiers that defended it and not the reporters? We all know that. Why did you say it?
MILLER: Well, because I thought it needed to be said at this particular time, because I wanted to come on...
MATTHEWS: Because you could get an applause line against the media at a conservative convention.
MILLER: No, I said it because it was—you‘re hopeless. I wish I was over there.
And last, but certainly not least:
MILLER: I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel.
Read the whole thing, it's absolutely worth it.
Posted by Palabris at September 2, 2004 11:33 AM
He really lost it on Chris. It is so odd how little he was able to handle the questions about his wording in a NATIONAL SPEECH. Was he not prepared to have people ask him about it? Hardball indeed.
CNN sucks, but they went after Miller hard on the factual inaccuracies in his speech. When pressed on voting records, he says, amazingly: "Because that was the biographical sketch that they gave me." Whoa. Zell Miller taking the talking points of the GOP. Check it out on: http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0409/01/se.03.html
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