Unbelievable John Kerry Interview on ABC Good Morning America

[indyjones1938]

Without a doubt best interview I've ever seen Kerry give. I'm still kinda in shock.

Diane Sawyer was attacking him with all the RNC talking points. They might as well have had Ed Gillespie doing the interview. But Kerry shot back twice as hard.

He was relaxed, short and to the point and got all of his talking points in. Sawyer showed pics of him windsurfing and skiing, and said they were fancy sports, then showed a pic of Bush in a cowboy hat clearing brush. Kerry said he's not trying to be someone that he isn't, and said that instead of clearing brush, Bush should've been trying to clear up the country's problems. He got in jabs at Bush's one liners and taking things out of context.

If Kerry maintains this demeanor during the debates, we've got nuthin' to worry about.

[krkaufman]

1. Yes, I was impressed by the excerpts of the interview...

... that they showed on Tuesday night's ABC news (Jennings).

[Fla Dem]

34. Link to interview

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Politics/Vote2004/kerry_interview_transcript_040928-1.html

[Clinton Crusader]

47. kick

:kick:

[Dem2theMax]

2. I haven't even been to bed yet and now I'm gonna have to stay up.

lol. Sounds like something I do NOT want to miss. Thanks for the heads up. Also, sounds like all the debate practice Kerry has been doing is paying off early.

In honor of * going down, may I say YEEHAW! :) :bounce:

[Cha]

36. Kerry just is Good! I've never seen him

be anything but stellar..course, I just started listening to him from the Convention onward but he thinks on his feet and I like the sound of his voice which seems to hold some priority with me.

I like your little "two faced" vignette, dude or dudette.:)

[ClassWarrior]

48. Getcher own TWO-FACED stuff here...

...and start distributing it:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=898517&mesg_id=898517

Join the TWO-FACED campaign.

23.

[jefferson_dem]

3. who cares about all those substantive details? How did his new tan look?

/SARCASM

[indyjones1938]

5. nt

He looked unusually good. Very energetic and rested.

Karl Rove might just have to stop payment on Sawyer's check. If the interview was meant to throw JK off track, it failed miserably.

[Cha]

37. sawyer is such shrill tool ..how does someone in

the theater like Mike Nichols stand her..I know many of his actors friends must realize the disneywhore she is.

[Steely_Dan]

74. LOLOLOLOL

[AmerDem]

4. I don't feel it was his best or even good

Sawyer did alot to make him come off wishy washy ( sawyer kept shifting her eyes left and right and had a look of disdain on her face when Kerry was explain Iraq) and tried to humiliate him with his wind surfing pictures compared to shrub's fake cutting wood pics. It was not necessary and was only done to throw Kerry off and prop up shrub.

BTW, where was Kerry's so called "orange face" that Sludge and Tweety want to speak about yesterday....nitwits!

[indyjones1938]

7. sorry but

Sawyer came out looking like an asshole, and an incredibly superficial one at that. Her little eye gestures and the pics comparison backfired big time. She attempted to throw him off track and it failed.

JK's answers were short, to the point and on message.

I guess now you want him to revert to the 10-sentence answers?

Amazing how, after months of pleading and begging for him to use talking points and jabs, when he finally does, someone has to complain.

[AmerDem]

14. Well, what she did is

Identical to what every other talking head has done to Kerry. Kerry once again took the high road rather then slam her gestures and words back in her own face. His message is detailed and accurate but in this day and age of quick sound bites and a corporate media heavily soaked in repuke talking points, he didn't come off as well as I would have liked. What was needed from the very beginning was to show the media as the echo chamber for shrub. Kerry needed to let loose on these people and tell them directly to their face about their bias and lack of reporting of the facts.

[jefferson_dem]

22. While we would all LOVE to hear such flamables, JK has a wider audience

in mind. To insult (maybe rightly so) Sawyer in that forum and cause a "controversy" would absolutely not serve him well. Do you really think that would endear him to viewers of GMA? Sounds like his appearance was dead-on -- firm, commanding, clear, substantive, presidential!

[AmerDem]

24. considering

This is the tact his campaign has taken so far and looking at all the problems he has had getting his message out, beating back nonsense issues, I think it's way past the time to try something new.

This high road position has failed him miserably to date!

[wolfgirl]

32. GMA has

always been my fav morning show (except for C-span) and I saw the interview. Kerry was very good...it didn't piss me off tht he hammered Diane.

We have got to stay focused and stop all the squabbling among ourselves. Honest debate is fine, but let's focus folks! Write those letters, call those news orgs, lets stay active fighting against the GOP and for Kerry...not each other...

[krkaufman]

15. What a schmuck.

> where was Kerry's so called "orange face" that
> ... Tweety want to speak about yesterday

Yeah, I love hearing Matthews complain that the candidates aren't talking about the real, important issues -- and then he does a segment on Kerry's skin/hair, Swift liars, etc.

Schmuck.

[Supersedeas]

65. and the irony is: Tweety is yellow

[Boredtodeath]

16. I have to agree with you, AmerDem

Sawyer was very demonstrative during the interview, with eye rolling and tut-tutting. It was clear what we were supposed to think of Kerry's answers.

Kerry was very assertive when she tried to put words in his mouth, correcting her strongly, but she got the digs in and that was her purpose.

Sawyer twisted herself in a pretzel shape to make Kerry look bad, and Kerry handled her well, but the whole interview was about Sawyer v. Kerry and he didn't get his sharp, simple talking points out there.

Kerry's attempt was good, but Sawyer made sure his answers were dismissed by her questions and her body language.

[DemNoir]

18. Yeah right

This election will be decided by Diane Sawyer's body language.

[Boredtodeath]

21. No one said any such thing

But jeez, folks, just because someone disagrees with you, or sees the same thing differently doesn't mean we're the enemy.

And, frankly, it's more likely to be decided by the people watching GMA than it is people watching the debates. Trust me, more folks are watching GMA.

I haven't watched GMA for 2 years because of their right wing bs, but I tuned in this morning just to watch Kerry's interview. I posted my observations. I did NOT attack John Kerry. I posted what I saw.

That doesn't make me the enemy.

[AmerDem]

20. well put

The whole piece was set up to further undermine Kerry. Let's not forget Sawyer work in the Nixon administration.

[Cha]

40. Well there nothing we can do

about sawyer..she works for disney..but if Kerry was on message and delivered it well..that's what is IMPORTANT!

[CarolynEC]

76. Exactly. People were watching JK, not Sawyer.

[Peanut Gallery]

45. This was my impression of Sawyer too

I've never been a fan of hers.

They also kept cutting away from the interview to images of Kerry with Sawyer's voiceover on whatever subject matter they'd just been discussing - I found this disruptive. I don't care what she has to say, I tuned in to hear Kerry speak.

[LiberalEsto]

27. Sawyer used to work for Nixon

which explains a lot, doesn't it?


I think we should demand proof of *'s brush cutting, including a real brush pile and film of him actually doing it.

[Cha]

38. From your description and I didn' t see it..

but sawyer is the one who would come off looking like shit..which is exactly what she looked like with the Dixie Chicks when she tried those looks with them..and they mopped the floor with her.

[MsTryska]

49. So at what point do we start

spamming diane on her obvious bias?

it worked with matt lauer and his kitty kelley interview.

[Racenut20]

6. R there 3 people in the entire world that think * actually clears brush?

[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. You mean two others besides FratBoy?

[senseandsensibility]

11. Unfortunately

the majority of murikans do, thanks to the corporate media doing *'s PR for him, 24/7.:-( Not revealing his fake cowboy persona is minor compared to all the other things they let him get away with ,though.

[Booster]

68. Bush clears "brush" because that's what Reagan did.

Mark my words, when he loses he's going to sell that piece of crap he calls a ranch and move to some upscaled condo in Houston to be near Poppy "cause Poppy's getting on in years". My tiny little yard has more animals in it that Bush's ranch. He's a total fraud in everyting he does.

[Southern Patriot]

50. There are millions in America & they'll vote for him. nfm

nfm

[efhmc]

59. Take it from a little old Texas, ranch running lady who does clear

prickly pear and cedar and mesquite, that was a photo op, pure and simple. The man is counterfeit from stem to stern and those that want that phony image child as their pres. are too simple to be allow to make important decisions. Don't take that statement to mean I don't think they should not have the right to vote. They just need to have their value system checked and refurbished.

[skygazer]

60. I agree

Every time I see those photos, I'm shaking my head in disgust. I know how to run a chain saw. If he was really using the thing, he'd have cut off his leg by now! It's as fake as the accent and the cowboy hat.

[SpiralHawk]

61. I know brush clearing.

I have cleared a lot of brush in my time.

And I know many other brush clearers.

And I have watched them work. Clearing brush, that is.

And you, Senor Arbusto, are no brush clearer.

You are a Connecticut preppy cheerleader frat boy business sleazo election nabber. But not a clearer of brush.

[efhmc]

64. That's perfect. Just so good. Thanks.

[AngryOldDem]

62. Only when there's a camera around n/t

[girl gone mad]

8. Did he show off his tan lines..

so that people will stop saying it's fake?

[babylonsister]

30. TAN LINES

He looked good and not too tan. That is such bullshit anyway; all the problems we have, and the repugs are concentrating on THAT? And what, should he look pale and wan? Yep, repugs would love that as that would inspire just as much if not more criticism. They need to get a life!

[slor]

9. Damn I missed it....

is it part of a longer interview to be aired later?

[crickets]

23. Part 2 is tomorrow

Sorry you missed this one, but there will be another segment tomorrow. They are going to talk about taxes, "possibility of a nuclear 9/11" and what music he might listen to on the way to the debates. Be prepared: Diane is scraping the bottom of the smarm barrel with her snide facial expressions. Don Henley must have had her in mind when he wrote, "Dirty Laundry."

[trogdor]

12. Told ya.

Kerry's solid as a rock. It's one of his best qualities. If he doesn't try to tweak his persona during the debates, he's golden.

[Triana]

13. 'fancy sports'? - is THAT all the whores can find to bitch about?

God. The Little Weaselly Man (W) never HAD a ranch and the City of Crawford didn't even exist until he decided (rather abruptly so) to run for President. Talk about FANCY. That's some FANCY propoganda, isn't it?
Kerry never had an entire city created just for his image...

So Kerry windsurf and skiis - big f*cking deal. So do a lot of people. So Kerry has to be a pretentious Crawford REDNECK like bu$h to be 'acceptable' to people - is that what Sawyer was trying to point out?

It's a good thing I didn't see it. I would have tossed something at the television.

[AmerDem]

17. yea, that's the talking point this week

Kerry's windsurfing and his so called "orange face" yesterday. Funny thing is, this interview with Sawyer was taped yesterday and there wasn't even a hint of an orange face.

Our country is so fucked at this point!

[in_cog_ni_to]

19. Did Sawyer mention the bush yacht that they cruise on

when he's on perpetual vacation? Fucking wench. :grr:

[progressivebydesign]

79. Or his green golf pants???? "Now watch this drive!!"

Stupid cow, Bush clears brush for a hobby? Give me a break...

[fob]

67. You've touched on a point I don't understand. They've spent a TON

of time and money to make bush* into a downhome, southern cowboy who bettered himself and the freeper types eat that shit up, but Clinton was ACTUALLY all of that (except the cowboy part) and they hated and still hate him with all they're worth. Why's that?

Why do southerners(and those that seem to identify with a "southern" lifestyle) support a faux-"southern" repuke idiot, but pissed all over a REAL southerner, Rhode Scholar Democrat?

On second thought, please no one answer those questions, I fear my guesses will be confirmed.

[npincus]

25. How about Dems showing Bush falling from Segway?

if windsurfing is a rich sport, how many poor slobs can afford a Segway? Not this poor slob. Or how about Bush fishing on his daddy's boat neat his daddy's Kennebunkport mansion? My daddy never had a boat (or a mansion).

Any link to the Kerry ABC interview?

[jmowreader]

75. The boat Bush's daddy uses is quite strange indeed

This is a side view of a boat like Dipshit's daddy has...



I know what you're thinking, and you're exactly right--it's not very big, especially for what Bush Senior uses it for, which is offshore fishing. If there's anyone in America who NEEDS a 55-foot sportfisher, it's Bush Senior.

[Kolesar]

26. like the Bushies don't buzz around Kennebunkport in their yachts...eom

[dumpster_baby]

28. Sawyer is getting old--her brain does not work as fast as it used to

It happened to all of us, but it looks like Kerry is running rings around her....she is groping for words.

[dumpster_baby]

29. wow! She really does not like Kerry. Her tone tells me she is GOP

She worked for Nixon, and she is a multimillionaire. That tells me she is a republican....

[Rageneau]

31. It feels good to say, "Way to go, John!" for a change.

Saw the interview and have to give Kerry a B+ for the way he handled himself. He was clear, forceful, articulate and he looked good, too!

Most important, he let Sawyer know that he'd bitchslap her if he had to.

This morning, JFK was the candidate I've been wanting him to be for months and months.

More, John, more!

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[Cha]

41. Remember guys...she did the same damn

thing with the Dixie Chicks! Let's see how many interviews she gets when Kerry/Edwards are our new President and Vice President!

[Ernesto]

63. What about when she grilled the chimp

about Iraq? She cut him NO slack.

[Cha]

78. Really?!

What did the chimp say..try and lie his way out of it?

That wure as hell doesn't excuse her for her treatment of Kerry or The Chicks!

[Ernesto]

82. How soon we forget..... (if we ever knew, that is)

[liberal N proud]

35. Killer! This guy is cool, calm and collected

If he can keep himself in the spotlight as today, he should be able to beat both the media and shrub
Go John Kerry!

[soleft]

39. How can Mike Nichols work on project like Angels in America

And then go home to her. Don't get it.

[Cha]

42. That's kinda what I said in an

above post..it seems like it's one of those Carville/matlin arrangements.

[wishlist]

43. Diane Sawyer was her usual awful nitwit self asking trivial questions

She was all about image- once again trying hard to reinforce the negative stereotypes about him instead of concentrating on the important issues facing the country in this election. She was disgusting to watch but I loved how he was so pleasant, humble, direct and not overly defensive over her ridiculous questions. He was great in quickly commenting about her pic of GWB cutting brush on the ranch that instead of cutting brush, GWB needed to clear up the problems of this country. He was very good about turning the interview back to the main issues.

He looked great, his eyes very bright and pleasant and there was no obvious tan even though the interview was just conducted yesterday. Those in the media who have been trying to ridicule him over the so-called tan have been conveniently ignoring how normal he looks in this interview (which was partially shown last night on ABC news).

[BlueNomad]

44. He looked

very good, very relaxed. Diane was miserable. She kept shaking her tresses and leaning her head with that Katie Couric perplexed Barbie thing they all do. She acted as though what he was saying was ooooohhh confusing her badly. The best part was when Kerry cut her off and told her not to twist his words.

[Nashyra]

46. I saw the whole segment

and Kerry I thought looked great. Told her not to twist his words, told him that they should talk to the regular guys he windsurfs with, carpenters and electricians. About the * clearing brush, said that he was not going to "fake" things and maybe the American people would rather have * "Clearing things up for Americans". The media as we know are shills for the WH, kept trying to put words in his mouth, he wouldn't let her. I like the part about no foreign diplomat will say what he will do with a new adminstration while a sitting president is in office.

[haydukelives]

52. Sawyer sucks

is there no honest media left?

[Cha]

53. OOOOUUUH! Thanks for that!

I love it when our guys tell the tools ..Not to twist their words!

[City Lights]

51. It just aired here in Phoenix.

What a wicked hag! Too bad the trick lens she uses to try and hide her wrinkles does nothing to soften her demeanor. Technology can only go so far. I haven't watched GMA in years, and diane remined me why in less than a minute. I thought Kerry did great.

[gauguin57]

70. Yeah ... pull that cheesecloth off the lens, Diane!

I always feel like I need a new perscription for my glasses when I look at her camera shots ... then I realize that filmy, twinkly atmosphere is the filter!

[onecent]

54. I just wrote them a note....I can't even turn TV on anymore.

[SammyWinstonJack]

56. I can't even turn TV on anymore.

Same here. It's all so disgusting and obvious that the media is bush*'s own private PR firm. :argh:

[wildflower]

58. What made it even worse for me...

was that before the interview, they went to Terry Moran at the White House (or was it the ranch? I think the ranch), and he was talking about how pleased and confident and happy the Bush team is.

On top of that, they mentioned Bush's recent rally of cheering 50,000 supporters. 50,000? (When do they *ever* mention Kerry's cheering crowds??) And talked about B/C's firm, enthusiastic base and how the B/C team is hoping to woo away the softer base of Kerry.

-wildflower

[lancdem]

73. Kerry's "softer" base will not go for Bush

if they haven't already.

[kaitykaity]

55. Thanks for the update.

I got to record at watch it here on the West Coast
and I thought he was great.

One thing I noticed on the picture of him windsurfing
is how muscular his arms are. The picture made him
look virile and masculine. (Kind of like the hockey
video did.)

[Cha]

57. Hehe! The repukes are carryinging our water

to get the subliminal message out there that Kerry is stong enough
to lead our Nation!! }(

[gauguin57]

66. Diane's years working in the Nixon Administration ...

... is making her have flashbacks to her days of having to defend a criminal president.

Bush=Nixon, only worse!

[maxsolomon]

69. CLEARING BRUSH IS NOT A SPORT

& neither is CHEERLEADING.

who buys this crap?

[Eric J in MN]

72. "clearing brush" is a photo-op (nt)

nt

[pdx_prog]

71. Face it.....

We have another "Gore in earth tones" situation going on. The media is poised to focus on the flip flopping thing. They are so much more concerned about wether or not THAT is true than bringing up the REAL issues. Kerry is going to have to work extra hard to overcome that.

[lumpy]

77. Sawyer is a Barbara Walters wannabe

Lots of luck Diane. Sincerity is Barbara Walter's secret weapon.

[NightOwwl]

80. F Sawyer. F them all.

"Sawyer showed pics of him windsurfing and skiing, and said they were fancy sports."

If this doesn't prove that Kerry can do no right in the eyes of the media I don't know what will. The wrong kind of f*ckn sports? Jesus F. Christ. If it were Bush, Sawyer would be drooling all over him praising his "manly" athletic abilities.

[Silver249]

81. "fancy" sports???

i don't really know what to say to that other than ARGH~

[bobbieinok]

83. IMO, golf, yachting, and polo are 'fancy, rich men's sports'