October 27, 2006
Hotline After Dark -- Family Ties
Political ads, Pres. Bush's 2-day old presser, and the war in Iraq dominated cable news last night:
- CBS' Pitts profiled TN SEN for the "Evening News."
- MO SEN's Claire McCaskill was in the "Situation Room" and CNN's Crowley profiled MT SEN.
- MSNBC's Shuster profiled TN SEN for "Hardball."
- FNC's Cameron profiled VA SEN and FNC's Garrett profiled MN 01 for "Special Report."
Actor Michael J. Fox sat down with CBS' Couric:
Fox: "On any given day I have a thousand different things I can feel. I go through a million cycles. For example, right now this is a dearth of medication, not by design. I just take it and kicks in when it kicks in. Sometimes it kicks in too hard and then you get what you call dyskinesia, which is that rocking motion that I had when I did the commercial."
Couric: "Could you have waited to do that ad when you had less dyskinesia, for example?"
Fox: "Well, when do you know that's going to be?"
Couric: "In fact, Rush Limbaugh suggested you had failed to take your medication intentionally so when you did that ad you'd be more symptomatic and therefore, more sympathetic."
Fox: "The irony of it is, I was too medicated."
Couric: "I called Rush Limbaugh and he told me, 'I believe Democrats have a long history of using victims of various things as political spokespeople because they believe they are untouchable, infallible. They are immune from criticism.'"
Fox: "Well, first thing, he used the word victim, and in another occasion, I heard him use the word 'pitiable.' And I don't understand, nobody in this position wants pity. We don't want pity. I could give a damn about Rush Limbaugh's pity or anyone else's pity. I'm not a victim. I'm someone who's in this situation. I'm in this situation with millions of other Americans. ... And we have a right, if there's answers out there, to pursue those answers with the full support of our politicians. And so I don't need anyone's permission to do that.
Couric: "Would you support a Republican candidate?"
Fox: "I have. Arlen Specter is my guy. I've campaigned for Arlen Specter. He's been a fantastic champion of stem cell research" (CBS, 10/26).
And ex-NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey (D) stopped by "LKL":
On the NJ gay marriage ruling: "I thought it was a step in the right direction. I mean the court recognized the importance of providing for full constitutional benefits for two individuals provided they're in love and they're willing to make that commitment. I would have preferred them to take the next step and also embrace the notion of marriage."
On the Mark Foley scandal: "It's tragic, I mean on a number of fronts" (CNN, 10/26).
Posted at 07:12 AM
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