# Those poor little dears at the GOP can't handle much, can they?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [February 5, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-poor-little-dears-at-the-gop-cant-handle-much-can-they/390961 "2007-02-05T18:45:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-poor-little-dears-at-the-gop-cant-handle-much-can-they/390961/61 "2007-02-08T05:30:26Z")

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Dude, stop with the intellectual jello. His moderatorial questions are of this type: “On January 2, 2006, you said this about the troop levels in Iraq. Let’s watch… Have you changed your mind, or is there a contradiction?”

(On preview, I see that you don’t even watch his show. Just shut up.)

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**Author:** ![Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hentor\_the\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hentor_the_Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2007, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/those-poor-little-dears-at-the-gop-cant-handle-much-can-they/390961/62 "2007-02-08T14:37:39Z")

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Well, then **Liberal** , I hope such an asinine show perishes from the face of the earth, because the last thing we need is a media venue in which primarily conservatives (but any politicians or leaders, really) get to dump a steaming turd on the desk as if it’s a rebuttal response and it goes unacknowledged because Timmeh can’t break from the script.

There’s just too much scripted bullshit from these folks already. We need people to be accountable.

[Here’s](http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2007/01/tim_russert_jou.html) what Cathie Martin, Cheney’s press aide, thinks about Tim Russert and Meet the Press:

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> Option 1: “MTP-VP,” she wrote, then listed the pros and cons of a vice presidential appearance on the Sunday show. Under “pro,” she wrote: “control message.”
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> “I suggested we put the vice president on ‘Meet the Press,’ which was a tactic we often used,” Martin testified. “It’s our best format.”

Clearly, not everyone is so aware of Russert’s skills at setting traps and snaring his prey as you are. “It’s our best format.”

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