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Question: Which of the following journalists would you support for President, if any?
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Bill Moyers		  
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Chris Matthews		  
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Ted Koppel		  
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Walter Cronkite		  
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Brit Hume		  
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Dan Schorr		  
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Lou Dobbs		  
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Tom Brokaw		  
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Mike Wallace		  
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Paul Krugman		  
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Carl Bernstein		  
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Bob Schieffer		  
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Chris Wallace		  
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Dianne Rehm		  
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JSojourner
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« on: February 20, 2008, 07:54:34 PM »
Please don't consider age a factor.  Assume Cronkite or Dan Schorr are in their prime.  I believe all these folks are American-born, but I may have missed one. 

I did not put in the more obnoxious pundits on the left and right -- who pimp their own opinions and call it news.  So no Hannity or Limbaugh, O'Reilly or Olbermann, etc.

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« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2008, 09:04:09 PM »
Quote from: JSojourner on February 20, 2008, 07:54:34 PM
Please don't consider age a factor.  Assume Cronkite or Dan Schorr are in their prime.  I believe all these folks are American-born, but I may have missed one. 

I did not put in the more obnoxious pundits on the left and right -- who pimp their own opinions and call it news.  So no Hannity or Limbaugh, O'Reilly or Olbermann, etc.

Go.

Shame, because I would love to see O'Reilly and Olbermann against each other.
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« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2008, 10:10:42 PM »
If the immigration issue would somehow go away, I would consider supporting Dobbs.
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« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2008, 10:23:39 PM »
John Stossel.  Period.
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« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2008, 10:25:17 PM »
Tom Brokaw, because, simply, Tom Brokaw is America.
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« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2008, 11:45:35 PM »

I don't agree with some of what he says but I love the guy. I hope he runs for office someday.
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« Reply #6 on: February 20, 2008, 11:48:12 PM »
I like Brit Hume a lot.
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« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2008, 12:10:41 AM »
Ha... give me a few weeks and I might think of one.
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« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2008, 12:46:08 AM »
I have never heard of Dan Schnor or Diane Reims.

If Olberman is to be excluded from your list, then Brit Hume and Chris Wallace don't belong on there either.
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« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2008, 07:21:52 AM »
Journalists are even worse than the worst sort of career politicians.
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« Reply #10 on: February 21, 2008, 12:11:49 PM »
None of the above
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« Reply #11 on: February 21, 2008, 02:30:51 PM »
Joe Scarborough
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« Reply #12 on: February 21, 2008, 04:14:23 PM »
Quote from: Pim Fortuyn on February 21, 2008, 12:46:08 AM
I have never heard of Dan Schnor or Diane Reims.

If Olberman is to be excluded from your list, then Brit Hume and Chris Wallace don't belong on there either.


I sincerely struggled with that.  I just tried to avoid pundits and commentators.  Though you are certainly correct.  Hume and Wallace both inject comment and opinion in places, without admitting as much.  I love Olbermann, but like Limbaugh -- he is pretty open and honest that his entire show is commentary. 

For those who don't know, Dan Schorr is 91 years old and has been with CBS and other networks.  He is now a commentator with NPR.  Brilliant guy.  Diane Rehm hosts her own daily talk show on NPR and she is one of the best interviewers ever.  Hard to listen to, because she has a voice ailment.  But unfailingly civil and fair to all sides.

For me, it's gotta be a Moyers-Rehm or Moyers-Krugman ticket! 
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« Reply #13 on: February 21, 2008, 04:16:07 PM »

One of my favorite conservatives.  I also respect George Will.  And I really enjoy Pat Buchanan, mostly because he seems to be having more fun that ever. 

I seldom agree with these guys, but I find them reasonably courteous to the other side and intelligent.
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« Reply #14 on: February 22, 2008, 06:35:07 PM »
Paul Krugman probably would make a good president.
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« Reply #15 on: February 22, 2008, 07:56:46 PM »
How could you remember to put Bernstein and not Woodward?
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« Reply #16 on: February 22, 2008, 11:43:08 PM »

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« Reply #17 on: February 27, 2008, 02:26:40 AM »
I would vote for Amy Goodman.
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« Reply #18 on: February 27, 2008, 01:00:10 PM »
Surely none, but when forced to think about it...

Hume, Stossel, Brokaw are fellows with character, but the man probably most qualified, even if he scares the pants off you....


William Kristol

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Willam F. Buckley RIP
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