I can not stop thinking about those Republican analysts with the open microphone. TV networks have on “experts” and “analysts” and they give the party line. They do not tell you the truth or what they think. They tell you what the right or left selling points are for the day.
I would like to see some network that would put on people that tell the truth. Even if the truth does not fit their own personal desires.
Fox “news” their entire network just has people that lie to you. They are sort of like Radio Moscow back in the cold war days. Nothing they said was the truth. It is that way with Fox “news.” I wish Fox “news” would just admit that they are the Bush/McCain broadcasting service. I would then tune in to see what their side was thinking.
I would like to see networks and news organizations have people like David Brooks on the air. He is a conservative but he seems to tell you what he thinks and be truthful with you. I can not see him saying one thing on the air and then saying something else on an open microphone.
There would still be work for people like Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy. You would just say tell us what the Republican position is on this or that matter.
We know they lie now. You ask them what do you think? They say things like oh Sarah Palin is ready to be vice-president or president and she is going to win this election for John McCain.
Then when the microphone is off, or they think it is, they say;
“(cut away)
Peggy Noonan: Yeah.
Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And --
PN: It's over.
MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.
PN: Saw Kay this morning.
CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this --
MM: They're all bummed out.
CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --
CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.
MM: I totally agree.
PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.
MM: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.
CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky..”
