Matt Lauer to throw softball questions to *

[ikojo]

Just advertised on NBC nightly news....Lauer to interview * on day before the pug national CONvention.

Now, many of us remember the flogging he gave Michael Moore back in June prior to the opening of F/911. During the interview Moore told Lauer that had he asked as hard hitting questions of *, perhaps the US would not have attacked Iraq and be in this mess.

I wonder how far into the interview before the Jewish Lauer asks * about his relationship w/Jesus and his faith?

The trailer ad shown during NBC news tonight looks like Lauer is going pretty lightly on the imposter in chief.

[blondeatlast]

1. The bushbots will watch in droves, but bunnypants won't change any

minds on "Today," unlike President Kerry's "TDS" appearance, which reached a lot of young and first time voters.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. What Does Lauer's Religion Have To Do With Anything?

Anybody should be concerned about the mixing of church and state.

[tishaLA]

3. "Jewish Lauer"?

:wtf:

[GalleryGod]

4. Softballs? More like NERFBALL questions!

Laurer is a Total War Cheerleader...and a pretty big all around AssHole:hurts:

[DaveinMD]

5. I'm a Democrat

because our party doesn't believe in bigotry of any type. The initial post here smacks of bigotry. Criticize Lauer all you want. He should be criticized. Should I refer to Blitzer as the Christian Blitzer. Give me a break.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

6. The "Jewish Lauer?"...are we tearing a page from the John Birch society?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

7. I Did A Google Search....

Matt Lauer's father is Jewish...


Since Judaism is a matrilineal religion Matt's not Jewish....


But according the Nuremberg Laws anybody with 1/8 "Jewish blood" is Jewish...


I hope that's not what the original poster was getting at....

[ikojo]

8. No, I am Jewish and I really get tired of Jews helping *

perpetuate the notion that he represents people of faith.

Most Jews shy away from asking leaders about their religion and know the lethal history of Christianity mixed with politics.

As far as Matt Lauer not being Jewish...Reform Judaism posits that one born of a Jewish father IS Jewish. Of course they also prefer that kids born of a Jewish father and a non Jewish mother are raised EXCLUSIVELY as Jews and not in both religions.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Anybody Can Become A Jew...

but if Matt's mother was a gentile and Matt was raised as a gentile it would not be accurate to say he's Jewish....

[ikojo]

10. I believe a couple of years ago when the Today Show was doing

spots on ancestry, Matt Lauer said something about being Jewish and his grandparents being from Russia. Many Jews who don't practice the religion consider themselves Jewish. There is also a growing group of people who call themselves half-Jews because their dads are Jewish.

[DaveinMD]

11. the fact that he's part Jewish

has NO BEARING on his skill as a journalist. Its not germaine.

[ikojo]

12. I explained above that as Jew I tire of so called journalists allowing

* to define himself as a man of faith. "Journalists" especially those of Jewish ancestry should know how dangerous a mixture christianity and politics is. THAT is all I meant. Perhaps I was not clear enough.

I think all "journalists" ESPECIALLY Jewish journalists should throw *'s confessions of faith back at him and show how his policies are NOT those of a compassionate and caring person.

Trust me, this next week, with the DVD release of the Passion AND the pug national CONvention, * will try to wrap himself not only in the flag but in the bible as well. A real journalist would not let him get by with it.


As Elie Wiesel said in the 1980s when challenging Reagan on his visit to the Bitburg cemetary we are all called to speak truth to power.

[Parrcrow]

13. locking

this thread has turned into something that it may not have been intended to be and is beginning to become to inflammatory.