I think that Dan Rather did it. Why the hell else would he refuse to jump on a major news story? 
Note the section where abcnews.com decided it was appropriate to stick the Condit story.
I’m not talking about ABCNews as a group, I’m talking about Dan himself.
You know, I don’t find the thing very funny either. As a parent I can’t imagine a WORSE scenario. And I can imagine that her parents are DESPERATE to know what happened to their daughter. So more power to them in their quest to put pressure on Condit to reveal what he knows about her. Morally I think he owes it to them to pick up the phone, answer any and all of their questions, without some bullshit canned answer, and convince them that he’s innocent of any wrongdoing.
HOWEVER, and I can’t believe I’m defending a guy who is a close cousin to the weasel, I agree with Condit that he is under no moral obligation to cooperate with the press. He doesn’t owe Connie Chung, Maury Povich, Barbara Walters OR me anything beyond saying he had nothing to do with her disappearance. Chung’s INSISTENCE that he tell her the exact nature of their relationship was irrelevant and arrogant. Hello! This is America, Connie. He’s presumed to be INNOCENT here. Condit’s insisted he’s cooperated with the police and he’s insisted he knows nothing about her disappearance. There ends his moral responsibility to the public.
If his constituents use his reticence as a reason to boot him out of office, sobeit. That is THEIR right. But it’s NOT their right to know what happens in his personal life. That is his wife’s business, and to a degree, the police’s business.
“Now, let me point out, that I’ve been married for 34 years. I’m not a perfect man. I’ve made mistakes. But out of a specific request from the Levy family, I’m not going to get into the details of our relationship.”*
Is that the one you mean?
*Of course, this is just from memory, but I think it’s pretty close to what he said.
Of course it’s sad. Why would anyone find it funny? I’m beginning to agree with Ebert that our culture is oversaturated with irony. Anyone who thinks the Chandra Levy affair is “funny” has a serious disconnect with reality.
Yeah, that’s it. Now if I were his political advisor, this is the canned answer I’d have given him:
“My sex life, and the sex life of this missing girl, is none of your damn business, Connie. Or are you willing to tell me the physical reasons why you and Maury were never able to concieve? Was it your fault or his?”
Or a different sense of humor than you. Just 'cause we’re different, doesn’t mean one of us is better.
Bread and circuses, friends, bread and circuses. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtin.
Well I know it wasn’t me, but that one-armed man looks awfully suspicious…
You mean Dick Cheney killed Chandra Levy?
Jon Benet Ramsay’s death was tragic.
Chandra Levy’s possible death is tragic.
The persons responsible should be tracked down, prosecuted to the full extent of the law and be given sentences commensurate with the crime.
What borders on the obscene is the media’s simplistic, trivializing treatment of serious subjects in the hopes of winning the ratings war or getting the exclusive. Chung’s incessant attempts to get Condit to admit that he had an affair when it was clear from question one that the guy would clam up bordered on the ludicrous.
As someone else posted, the possible murder of Levy took second billing. You had the impression it was sort of incidental.
(But, not to worry, Larry and his crew will straigthen things out for us. They’ll put all this shit together and find us the murderer.)
I’ll admit I watched the interview more for the interviewer (and the powers-that-be behind her) than for the interviewee. I was not disappointed.
- she ain’t dead. she’s on the island with paul “the walrus”, elvis, the lindberg baby, anastasia, kurt cobain and andy kaufman.
- of course, if you don’t believe that, she may of met up with oj and forgot her sunglasses, and you know the rest
- would you believe the blair witch?
- or she might of gone with ford prefect. did any one check her linen closet and see if any towels are missing?
5)scotty beamed her up.
but truly, she is now protecting the earth from the scum of the universe, under the code name “s”
i am going to go stand in the corner now.
monster That’s exactly the answer I was thinking about when I wrote that. There wasn’t a question this guy wasn’t prepared for. He would answer everything as ahem lawyeristically as possible and only answer those he chose to answer. When he said word for word that exact answer twice I just gave up on the interview.
You seem surprised. What did you expect?
She wasn’t getting him to admit to an affair, she was trying to get him to tell the truth. If he’d never had an affair with her, he could’ve just said so, and that would be the end of that.
People always bash media figures for grilling people like Condit, Hey, he’s an elected official in the single most powerul government in the world. He’d better not be lying about anything, or he doesn’t deserve his job. Claims to “privacy” are hogwash. Nobody deserves “privacy” to cheat on their wife. If a man’s own wife can’t rust him, why should any voter trust him to look after their best interests?
I actually divorced my ex for rusting me. Totally destroyed my resale value.
Omni not, I really wasn’t expecting anything. I never gave it much thought. I knew it was airing and I knew I wasn’t that interested. But I watched the last ten minutes of Millionaire and up popped Connie Chung with all these cool questions. So I said “what the hell, let’s watch it.”
15-20 minutes later I said “what the hell, let’s get drunk” and turned the tv off.
Everyday I pray for a news drought. And each day it just gets worse. I mean here this was the biggest news story of the week and it was also one of the greatest non-events of the year.
Jay Leno asked the audience how many people had changed there mind due to the interview, not a single clap, not one. Which sucked for him since the joke made no sense anymore.
DAMN YOU JOURNALISTS!!! I scream into the night I USED TO BE AN OPTOMIST!!!
Buahahaha!