http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:41:19 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/ Phillip WinnSunday, August 26, 2007, marks the switch of all Blogcritics.org article feeds from full-content to short-content. This is the result of several converging factors, and is unfortunately a permanent decision (as permanent as any decision can be on the web, that is). We are aware of all of the reasons that this is a Bad Idea, and we are aware that some of you will be quite upset about having to click on something to read the free content, and we're sorry. Unfortunately, despite great effort, full-content feeds are not currently economically viable. 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Let me ask you about this, because I think you have a view on the role of reporters in the world. You have said and it has often been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us the freedom of the press. Was there not... MILLER: Do you believe that? MATTHEWS: Well, of course it's true. MILLER: Do you believe that? MATTHEWS: But it's a statement that nobody would have challenged. Why did you make it? It seems like no one would deny what you said. So what's your point? MILLER: Well, it evidently got a rise out of you. MILLER: Because you are a reporter. MATTHEWS: That's right. MILLER: You didn't have anything to do with freedom of the press. MATTHEWS: Well, you could argue it was not nurses who defended the freedom of nursing. Why did you single out freedom of the press to say it was the soldiers that defended it and not the reporters? We all know that. Why did you say it? MILLER: Well, because I thought it needed to be said at this particular time, because I wanted to come on... MATTHEWS: Because you could get an applause line against the media at a conservative convention. MILLER: No, I said it because it was-you're hopeless. I wish I was over there. ... MILLER: In fact, I wish that we lived in--I wish we lived in the day"Whoa, Zell - easy boy. Let's see how Chris handles his feisty guest.. "MATTHEWS: I've got to warn you, we are in a tough part of town over here. (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) MATTHEWS: But I do recommend you come over, because I like you."Well done ChrisNow, the best parts - "MATTHEWS:A Republican Senator broke ranks and came over and spoke for the Democrats, would you respect him? MILLER: Yes, of course I would. MATTHEWS: Why? MILLER: I have seen that happen from time to time. Look, I believe... MATTHEWS: What does Jim Jeffords say to you? MILLER: Wait a minute. MATTHEWS: Jim Jeffords switched parties after getting elected. MILLER: If you're going to ask a question... MATTHEWS: Well, it's a tough question. It takes a few words. MILLER: Get out of my face."Holy shit! Zell is going ape-shitIt continues though... "MATTHEWS: Senator, please. MILLER: You know, I wish we... (CHEERING AND APPLAUSE) MILLER: I wish we lived in the day where you could challenge a person to a duel."I'm unspeakably happy right nowEarlier on CNN - "JEFF GREENFIELD, CNN SENIOR ANALYST: You also were, I would say, almost indignant that anyone would possibly call America military occupiers, not liberators, on at least four occasions. President Bush has referred to the presence of American forces in Iraq as an occupation, and the question is: Are you not selectively choosing words to describe the same situation the president of the United States is describing? MILLER: I don't know if the president of the United States uses those words, but I know Senator Kennedy and Senator Kerry have used them on several occasions. GREENFIELD: Yes. So has President Bush. MILLER: Well, I don't know about that."On the weapons systems..."BLITZER: You know that when the secretary -- when the vice president was the secretary of defense he proposed cutting back on the B-2 Bomber, the F-14 Tomcat as well. I covered him at the Pentagon during those years when he was raising serious concerns about those two weapons systems. MILLER: Look, the record is, as I stated, he voted against, he opposed all of those weapons systems. That, to me, I think shows the kind of priority he has as far as national defense... WOODRUFF: But do you simply reject the idea that Vice President Cheney, as Wolf said and as we know from the record, also voted against some of these systems? MILLER: I don't think Cheney voted against these. BLITZER: No, but he opposed some of them when he was the defense secretary, and sometimes he was overruled by the Congress because he was concerned, he was worried that the defense of the United States could be better served by some other weapons systems, not specifically those. I'm specifically referring to the B-2 and the F-14 Tomcat. MILLER: I'm talking about John Kerry's record. I'll let Dick Cheney, the vice president, answer those charges. He knows what happened in the Department of Defense years ago. I don't know that."Funny, in those exchanges, Miller ended with "I don't know about that" and "I don't know that" - How fitting Politics19379@blogcritics.org Thu, 2 Sep 2004 11:41:19 EDT