Is the liberal media disappearing Zell Miller's meltdown?

[Karmadillo]

I didn't hear anything about it on the Today show (at least at the beginning) or NPR. If Al Sharpton is deserving of abuse for his speech, surely Miller's performance is worth a word or two, even if the guy is white and conservative.

[MrBenchley]

1. Doesn't matter if they try to....

It's going to grow in the retelling....this has been the Worst. Convention. Ever.

And we've still got "the next Churchill" tonight...

[Gman]

3. This convention is pretty close to the 1992 GOP convention

in terms of disaster. Miller last night reminds me of Pat Buchanan in '92.

[cthrumatrix]

6. bingo...the repugs are hateful liars ... this could change their party for

years to come

[MrBenchley]

9. I think it tops 92 (or bottoms, depending)

Miller does remind one of Pitchfork Pat...but I don't recall any horror in '92 akin to the Tequila Twins babbling drunkenly....

And "Dun't be an economic girlyman" is going to be haunting every Republican running for anything this fall....

Also, I don't recall anybody mentioning Nixon in 92....it WAS sweet of Ahnuld to remind the country which party gave America Watergate, and the 18 minute gap, and tape recordings full of paranoid mutterings about Jews, wasn't it?

[sniffa]

5. according to my LiberaL paper

this is the greatest convention ever!!! thanks boston gLobe

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. I heard it on NPR's morning edition

[Karmadillo]

4. I heard Liasson review the speech, but did they later mention his

challenge to Chris Matthews? I can't imagine them ignoring it if Al Shaprton had challenged Wolf Blitzer to a duel.

[Gman]

7. Miller threatened to shoot and kill Matthews

we need to be saying that today.

[kanrok]

10. Are you serious?

I've been studiously avoiding the RNC because I want to keep my blood pressure regulated. Did that angry, old POS traitor actually say that?

[Junkdrawer]

14. He used the Bill O'Really line of "I wish I could challenge you to a duel"

Does anyone else think Zell's meltdown was a Democratic mole attack? I mean, if he got up there and did a "with a heavy heart" speech, it would have been MUCH more effective than last night's Prime Time Meltdown. :shrug:

[Texas_Dem]

11. Really?

Wow, old Zell there needs to be put in an mental care facility. He might hurt himself otherwise.

[quaoar]

8. Imus replayed it this morning

But I haven't heard anything on CNN, but then I might have missed it. I had to turn it off when Bill Hemmer started gushing over with Bush's sister. Revolting.

[RichardRay]

12. I listened live last night, commentary called Zell 'over the top'.

NPR followed the speech with comments from a guy from the Washington Post, one from the Weekly Standard and one from NPR. The Post and the NPR commentators were pretty flabbergasted and called it 'over the top' and said it was likely to be counterproductive. Said they'd looked into Miller's litany of votes and found that they were votes against amendments that had nothing to do with the systems Miller called out. They also gave the actual quote that Miller mis-stated as the position of refusing to use force until after the country was attacked and the statement about 'aksing permission' from the UN before using force.

The Weekly Standard guy was less adamant, but even he was unhappy and used the same phrase - 'over the top'.

It's going to be interesting to see how it plays out for the next couple of days.

Richard Ray - Jackson Hole, WY

[DeepModem Mom]

13. Anyone know if our side has blast-faxed the media about this --

calling it a meltdown? I think that's how the Wellstone memorial was turned against us, and how the "Dean Scream" entered political history -- the other side created the stories. Of course, blast-faxes from our side may just be ignored by the media.

[pretzel4gore]

15. those guys in the media....

bush's pushers, need fair trial and quick executions, and will get them, in time (tho i see no need for trials:()
i actually heard this mentioned, i think on the daily show; someone was saying the newsmen are feeling unconfortable with the way everything's going etc with the rnc convention bringing it all out, and the other guy (jon stewart(?)) said that the media maybe can sense they in trouble and they'll be taken to shea stadium (shades of the mass killings in santiago, chile, stadium during pinochet coup)

[Khephra]

16. Even if it disappears, we've won the Zell situation

The Right expected to be able to use his conversion over and over. But they can't bring it up now without showing/talking about the actual speech. His speech was so over the top that it's radioactive.

So instead of having a weapon to use against the Democrats, they now have a land-mine field surrounding them.