NBC's Brian Williams asked almost no follow-up questions of Bush

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512150001


<snip>Here are the substantive questions and answers between Bush and Williams, with the rare Williams follow-up question. Media Matters for America has included suggestions for some follow-up questions that would seem to flow logically from Bush's answers.

WILLIAMS: A lot of people have seen, in this series of speeches you're giving on Iraq, a movement in your position. They call it an acknowledgment that perhaps the mission has not gone as it was originally planned, that the U.S. would be welcomed as liberators.

BUSH: I think we are welcomed, but it was not a peaceful welcome. There were some in society -- rejectionists and Saddamists and the terrorists that have moved in to stir them up -- that said, `We're going to prevent a democracy from emerging.' But I think a lot of people are glad -- I know a lot of people are glad we're there -- and they're glad we're helping them train their troops so they can take the fight.


Williams's follow-up: none


Possible follow-up: Williams could have asked about a December 12 ABC News/BBC/NHK (Japan)/Der Spiegel/Oxford Research poll, which, by contrast with Bush's assertion that "a lot of people are glad we're there," found that two-thirds of Iraqis oppose the U.S. presence in Iraq:

There's other evidence of the United States' increasing unpopularity: Two-thirds now oppose the presence of U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq, 14 points higher than in February 2004. Nearly six in 10 disapprove of how the United States has operated in Iraq since the war, and most of them disapprove strongly. And nearly half of Iraqis would like to see U.S. forces leave soon.

by the load of lies in Bush's speech.

Mr. flannel shirts/soft-peddle/puff piece supreme is the newest ratings queen. GE would never let him be truly molded in Tom Brokaw's shadow.

and he wasn't allowed to actually ask a question that required DUH-bya do anything other than attempt to read. (?)

:eyes:

I'm no fan of Brian "sounds like I do a lot of coke" Williams but he seemed like a straight man setting up the Mass Murderin' Ass Clown for unintended larfs.

You don't think they would let Greg Palast interview him do you? Bwahaha!! :rofl:

what in the world is a welcome that is not a peaceful welcome???? Does his "base" not even require that what he spews make ANY kind of sense? :banghead:

and decidedly useless in the whole journalist/politician realm of things, imo.

Mr. Mathews (MSNBC, Hardball) held to that standard in his appearance with Karen Hughes the other day.

His question to her about what role the 10,000 troops left in Saudi Arabia after Gulf War I played in bin Laden's attack on America was routinely sidestepped by Hughes with a set talking point about spreading democracy...

It was a good question, but Chris let it go and moved on. No follow up and no acknowledgment that the question was neither answered nor acknowledged...

...appalling & dizgusting.

of America. Piss on him!