Brian Williams: "It's my duty to listen to Rush"

[JSK]

From a December 26, 2004, interview:

WILLIAMS: I do listen to Rush. I listen to it from a radio in my office, or depending on my day, if I'm in the car, I will listen to Rush. And he will tell you I've been listening for years. I think it's my duty to listen to Rush. I think Rush has actually yet to get the credit he is due, because his audience for so many years felt they were in the wilderness of this country. No one was talking to them.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200501240007

Let's hope his stint on MTP is very short-lived.

[liberal N proud]

1. DUTY?, Did he take an oath?

[Leopolds Ghost]

13. He refuses to put on the sunglasses!!

[Swamp Rat]

20. Obey

[roguevalley]

33. I heard this a long time back and that is why I refuse to listen to his

empty bullshit. he's a complete tool.

[Tim4319]

2. Tells me all I need to know about Briam Williams!

Liberal media my ass!

[libnnc]

3. Well "Brain"...it is now your dooooty to read about

T O R T U R E





Gen. Taguba: Bush Administration Committed War Crimes

The Army general who first investigated the abuse at Abu Ghraib has accused the Bush administration of committing war crimes. Retired Major General Antonio Taguba made the comment in a new report about US torture practices. Taguba wrote, “The commander in chief and those under him authorized a systematic regime of torture.” Taguba went on to say, “The only question that remains to be answered is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to account.” <snip>

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/6/19/headlines#1





Thursday, June 19, 2008
The Great Torture Scandal

McClatchy and other reporters are abruptly pulling the curtain away from the Bush team's illegal practices in arresting people arbitrarily, declining to offer proof that they were guilty of anything, detaining them indefinitely without trial or charges, and deliberately torturing them to the extent of leaving long-term scars and disabilities. The torture practices originated not with lower-level officers but with Donald Rumsfeld and others in Bush's inner circle, who then later blamed lower-level officials for developing the ideas that Rumsfeld ordered them to develop. Nothing they have done has survived a court challenge where one has been permitted.<snip>

http://www.juancole.com/2008/06/great-torture-scandal.html





A Senate investigation has concluded that top Pentagon officials began assembling lists of harsh interrogation techniques in the summer of 2002 for use on detainees at Guantanamo Bay and that those officials later cited memos from field commanders to suggest that the proposals originated far down the chain of command, according to congressional sources briefed on the findings.<snip>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/16/AR2008061602779.html

[BOSSHOG]

4. "No one was talking to them"

reagan did away with the fairness doctrine and took care of that "problem."

[Iris]

6. and for what? They've contributed NOTHING to this country ever since

except to make a lot of problems even bigger

[alphafemale]

18. That was well over thirty years ago when that argument could even be remotely made....

Remember "they" are seeing a liberal bias in the media showing fire hoses and attack dogs against children seeking civil rights in the south. That was biased too much in favor of those uppity Negroes.

[Supersedeas]

38. and news anchors have been marching in lock-step ever since

[monmouth]

5. Egads, I had just posted I could live with him on MTP. Can one just

take back the keyboard???? Not good, not good at all...

[Kerrytravelers]

7. For years, no one was talking to them???

Let us review: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush, Bush... yep. The Conservatives haven't had a voice in decades. :eyes:

[librechik]

8. he must also listen to Mike Savage, to be balanced

:sarcasm:

can we expect him to listen to Randi occasionally? Guess Not!

[Leopolds Ghost]

16. Up for a game of Solitaire, Mr. Williams?

ah... The Queen of Hearts...
it is now your duty to report on warrantless wiretapping and its implications.

[niyad]

9. haven't watched mtp in years, and clearly, will not be starting now.

[Alexander]

10. We should turn off his radio and give him "2112" and "Moving Pictures".

After all, he said it's his duty to listen to Rush.

:hide:

[Captain Angry]

15. And Signals. Don't forget Signals!

Ooh, and Power Windows.

That should cover it. Wait, add Grace Under Pressure.

:-P

[niyad]

11. hey, brian, I don't talk to people who are dumber than dirt,thank you.

[RethugAssKicker]

12. DUTY !... you got to be kidding me!!

This is what we call a journalist/MSM anchor !

What a fucking neo-con shill...

What more do we need to know about this POS !

[no_hypocrisy]

14. Like your complementary duty to listen to Mike Malloy, right??

Right??!!!

Didn't think so . . .

[ourbluenation]

17. here's the context...

"That is an answer that is meant to be absent ideology. But if you’re anchoring a blue state broadcast that is headquartered in a blue state, it’s incumbent on you to know as much as you can."

Sounds like he listed to Rush to get the other sides brain droppings. I can understand that.

[JSK]

22. Uhhh, excuse me, but...

you're sticking up for the guy? Your quote led me to the rest of what he said, which I find more disagreeable than what Media Matters posted:


(Dittoheads)"would look at mainstream media and they’d hear sentences like the following: Conservative firebrand Newt Gingrich today accused Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy….

Well, what’s wrong with that sentence? My friend Brit Hume – we covered the White House together, always would call reporters on this. Where’s the appellation for Ted Kennedy in that sentence, you remembers of the perhaps unintentionally liberal media? Why aren’t you calling Kennedy something if you’re going to label Newt Gingrich a conservative firebrand? That’s what Rush did. Rush said to millions of Americans, you have a home. Come with me."


http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/04/29/williams/permalink/49322c6b5c8bb6bd9af82ba7099131bb.html

[ourbluenation]

23. do you think wingnuts don't tune in to air america?

really?

[JSK]

27. Of couse they do

but I think Williams' remarks show that he is not tuning in to get to know his enemy, as they say. He's one of them.

[JSK]

19. I read that quote in a Vanity Fair article

in 2005. Thanks, google, for finding it for me.

[OwnedByFerrets]

21. One hundred and seventy million dollars.....

was "too much" credit.

www.wearableartnow.com

[spanone]

24. i think rush gets credit for being the nazi he is....may they remain in the wilderness

[bigwillq]

25. And we thought Russert was bad.

:puke:

[Disturbed]

26. The trend of MTP will continue.

Soft ball to Rethugs. Hard ball to Dems.

[Bigmack]

28. Sophistry.....

... read an interesting piece recently ... sorry, no link... that spoke to the problem with discourse in the US.

ANY opinion can be put forth, and others have to acknowledge that opinion's validity by listening to it and thereby putting value to that opinion. No matter how ridiculous or obnoxious the opinion.

Sophistry.

Intelligent Design is a classic example.

Rush and Rightwingnut radio is another.

One has to listen to and value those whackjob opinions simply because the little pea-brains that believe them are entitled to the same deference as the opinions of rational and knowledgeable people.

Sophistry.... and Bullshit, too.

Williams is tainted by allowing that shit to vibrate his eardrums.

[Fly by night]

29. Is that "duty" enumerated in the oath to the (p)Resident that you & the other corpulent media took?

[butterfly77]

30. Brian williams...

another asshole..

[rosesaylavee]

31. What the heck?

:wow:

Flip this story around to include a LIBERAL radio talk show host. Do ya think Brian would still be employed? No.

I am not in the wilderness. Somehow I have been transported to a different dimension and time. Twilight Zone indeed.

[lpbk2713]

32. Oh shit ... I didn't know he was such a jerkoff.

So much for his journalistic objectivity. He's just another hairspray boy.

[TheWatcher]

34. Brian Williams is nothing more than a complicit Nazi with a soft demeanor

He's a piece of filth like all the rest.

[TheWatcher]

35. Brian Williams is nothing more than a complicit Nazi with a soft demeanor

He's a piece of filth just like the rest of them.

[Canuckistanian]

41. You can say that again.

Oh. You did!

[dave123williams]

36. I wonder if he feels it's his 'duty' to listen to Air America daily, as well?

Nah, he's GE's bitch hairdo. Way to look like a total tool, Brian.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

37. He might as well say it's his duty to listen to Jay Leno or Don Rickles

Rush is primarily an entertainer and comedian. You'd think Brian Williams was talking about a journalist.

[truebrit71]

39. Further proof that Brian William is a right-wing presstitute...

..not that we need much more anyway...

[Horse with no Name]

40. Ahhh welll

I see no new changes on MTP. It will remain the conservative mouthpiece. Nothing new here.