Orlando Sentinel columnist Mike Thomas: Barbara West humiliates WFTV

[marmar]

Barbara West humiliates WFTV
Posted on Oct 24, 2008 3:14:40 PM



You have to see this to believe it.

This is the most embarrassing interview I've ever seen on local television. This has nothing to do with whether you are for Obama or McCain. It's about being professional. Quoting Karl Marx?

Even Sean Hannity wouldn't be so ham-handed. Making matters worse, it looks like Barbara is just dumbly reading questions someone just handed her, then staring blankly at the screen. Biden made her look like a complete dimwit. Not that this was hard.

How could WFTV allow this to happen?

You have to see this for yourself.

http://www.wftv.com/video/17790025/index.html


http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/news_columnist_mikethomas/2008/10/barbara-west-hu.html

[Bicoastal]

1. I dub thee *WTF*TV

[kayakjohnny]

3. Great one!

[liberalmuse]

6. That's how I read it.

And that woman really did look like a stepford newscaster. I like when a newscaster is unbiased, but she was absolutely soulless and blank, and her questions were a disgrace. Tough questions are one thing. Downright insulting questions insinuating you are a Marxist, when everyone knows they goddamn well aren't, except that's the latest widely disproven smear from your opponent, is revolting. I wonder if her Republican operative husband wrote those questions. Or maybe they were handed to her by the McCain campaign. Even so, Biden handled the interview beautifully. LOL.

I didn't email her because I would have written something crude, like, 'The interview would have been a lot better had you removed McCain's dick from your mouth beforehand.' No.

[kayakjohnny]

2. Great. Hopefully it'll be a career-ender for her.

Thought she was gonna be a dragon-slayer, but the dragon dropped a load on her.

[CreekDog]

4. Career ender?

I think not.

She'll take the slot right after Greta. :eyes:

[kayakjohnny]

10. Well, you're right. Nothing will happen to her. But it would be great if she

were forced to do fluff pieces for the rest of her career. She could interview people about furniture and drapery. And puppies.

[existentialist]

5. I watched that interview

I agree that Ms. West and her questions were coming out of (far and deep) right field.

But what I really took away from the interview was that Biden did an excellent job answering those questions.

Therefore, despite Ms. West's efforts, I believe the net effects of the interview will be:

(1) to discredit Ms. West

(2) to discredit the company that she's working for

(3) to discredit the Republicans generally, and

(4) to HELP Obama-Biden.


We can sit and lament about Ms. West's intentions, or we can celebrate Biden's responses and the result.

Great going Joe Biden.

[lunatica]

9. I did my part to discredit her via an email I sent her and her station manager

We do have a voice now what with the internets and all...

[mediaman007]

7. Read the blog and the replies. Toward the middle of the replies

the educated participants join in.

[Ikonoklast]

8. Her husband is a DoD subcontractor

He makes infomercials for them.
Where do you think she stands on endless war?

Follow the money. She knows who butters her bread.

http://mediapowergroup.com/wadebio.html

http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?last=west&first=wade

[fishwax]

11. wow, great interview for Biden -- imagine Palin tossed into a similar trap

:rofl:

[devilgrrl]

12. The comments on the blog are vomit inducing

:puke:

[JBoy]

13. Ms West, wasn't that interview a potentially crushing career blunder?