January 03, 2007
Hotline After Dark -- A New Year
TV continued with its coverage/rememberances of Gerald Ford.
Justice John Paul Stevens, who Ford nominated to SCOTUS: "My two very firm impressions from that meeting were, one, he was a fine lawyer; and two, he was the kind of person I would really like to have as a friend, because you like him right away" ("Nightline," ABC, 1/2).
George McGovern, on Ford: "I have to tell you something I've never said before publicly. I voted for him in 1976."
More: "I thought he had come in at a difficult time. I didn't know President Carter very well then. And I just felt more comfortable somehow with Jerry Ford. Whereupon my wife Eleanor said, so did I vote for him. We went around that table -- this is hard to believe -- all five of my kids voted for him. So they get seven votes out of the McGovern family for President Ford and Senator Dole, my long-time Republican friend" ("LKL," CNN, 1/2).
MORE TROOPS TO IRAQ?
MSNBC's Olbermann: "NBC News Pentagon correspondent Jim Miklaszewski has learned that, according to U.S. officials, President Bush has all but decided to announce what's being called a strategy of surge and accelerate in Iraq, which would involve some 20,000 additional American troops being sent there, administration officials admitting that the decision is being made for political reasons and not military ones, the White House cognizant that the patience of the American people is wearing thin, if not wearing out. As for what the troops would be doing according to the BBC, the additional forces would focus on security, not on the training of Iraqi forces" ("Countdown," 1/2).
KNOWING WHAT YOU'RE MADE OF
There was a little talk on Rudy Giuliani and his leaked campaign strategy papers.
MSNBC's Matthews: "They know what their vulnerabilities are, the man's three marriages, the fact that he hired Bernie Kerik, or recommended him for a high administration position, whatever his business dealings are, I mean, and his position on issues like abortion and gay rights" ("Hardball," 1/2).
Paul Begala: "Look, a big part of Rudy's appeal is, he is going to be good on security. Well, if he can't even handle his own documents, you know, that kind of undermines his whole point" ("Situation Room," CNN, 1/2).
NBC's Mitchell: "They are smart enough to figure out what the vulnerabilities are. But that's the kind of campaign I fear we're going to have. And it is a far cry from what we had 30 years ago in political campaigns. I think, with the first open contest in both political parties in half a century, you're going to have a very rough campaign on all sides" ("Hardball," MSNBC, 1/2).
SORRY ABOUT THAT
On "American Morning" yesterday, CNN's Blitzer apologized for an error the net made in one of its graphics. He repeated that apology last night on the "Situation Room." Blitzer: "This footnote, we want to make a correction for what we did yesterday right here in 'The Situation Room' during this hour. We had a very bad typographical error. We were doing a piece on the hunt for Osama bin Laden. When promoting the story, an online, on-screen graphic that is questioning where Osama bin Laden might be hiding, it showed, instead, 'Where's Obama?' briefly on the screen instead of 'Where's Osama?' We certainly deeply regret the error. Today I called Senator Obama's office and formally apologized for that" ("Situation Room," 1/2). [EMILY GOODIN]
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