Pundits claim Kerry is dodging interviews

By Joe Murphy Political Editor, Evening Standard
27 October 2004
John Kerry was today hit by accusations he is running scared from being interviewed.


The latest high-profile journalist to complain that the Democrat is avoiding cross-examination is Bob Woodward, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Watergate reporter.

Bill O'Reilly, the veteran Fox News political presenter, has resorted to running an "almost Kerry interview" in which he questions academics and pundits because the politician refuses to appear on his show.

Mr Woodward, whose newspaper the Washington Post this week endorsed the Kerry campaign, revealed he has been seeking an interview since June without success. He blamed "risk-averse" nerves on the part of the Kerry team for the refusal. One of America's most revered journalists, he even took the unusual step of sending his list of 22 questions in advance, in the hope Mr Kerry would feel more confident about answering.

He pointed out that President Bush gave him three and a half hours of interview time for his best-selling book on the Iraq War, Plan of Attack. He wanted Mr Kerry to explain how he would have fought the war differently. "I interviewed President Bush and he answered hundreds of detailed questions," said Mr Woodward. "I wanted to come up with parallel questions that would tell us how Kerry would function."

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And, more importantly, how does the number of interviews he's given stack up against Bush's?

junkyard dog on Pox?

I mean, honestly, why the hell should he bother with the opposition party's propaganda machine?

He's been on mainstream news and a couple of moderate interview shows. If the right wing screamers are upset that he's ignoring their shows, perhaps they need to look into a mirror to find out why.

interview over the weekend. What a bunch of BS.

But others?

strange...

...from the corporate media whores. Bob Woodward is a whiny baby. Grow up Bob.

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Bob Woodward is retarded, O'Lielly is OVER, and the rest of them are shilling for media conglomerates, desperate for a BushCo* win.

I must be missing the "strange" part.

Well, golly, Carl, I wonder why that is? Maybe the Kerry campaign didn't like the way you did your nails. :eyes: It amazes me how these fools can complain when they've been nothing but RW shills all these years. I hope the Kerry admin. freezes them out permanently! They've certainly proved that the partisan hacks in the media aren't needed.

What I meant was "I understand why not O'Lielly, but why would Kerry refuse Woodward"? Either someone is not telling the whole story or something strange is going on.

Don't worry, just because I can't express myself, doesn't mean I buy the spin.

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SO WHAT!

I hope Campaign Kerry doesn't allow those pathetic media f*cks to goad him into doing interviews that he doesn't want to do.

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I wanna hear the Bush* Baby bounce his boobies this Friday!!!

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If this is such a big f**king deal, let's joint schedule Joe Lockhart and James Carville to do a Bushnik interview and Kerry will grant O'Shithead and Knob Woodwork their precious interviews.

How's that, asshats?

Not this campaign, anyway.

Kerry has, though. I don't think it's Kerry who's got interview-phobia.

Screw him and his whining

there's that campaign thingy to do, and more importantly a Presidential Transistion to work on. And why would he want to go on a partisan hack show like Bill "Me, me , me" O'Reilly's?

Kerry's opponents have shown themselves willing to take every single thing Kerry says out of context and lie about it to the world, and the media has shown absolutely zero willingness to correct the record. Maybe if they'd done their job, he'd still be meeting with them. Besides, he's given plenty of interviews already. Go bother the freakin' president.

I don't blame Kerry at this point for not saying a word to any 'journalist' until after the election.

There is too much at stake, for him and for us, to give the whores another chance to pull words out of context to use against him.

Not strange at all, IMO.

it. stupid whores need to get over themselves. and we all know they have a goal which is to help bush. they will take something kerry said out of context and try to make that the news as happened with the teresa thing. fuck them.

Bush in the middle of a heated campaign. He wants Kerry to take time off during the final days of the campaign to talk to him? Maybe Kerry will consider giving him one AFTER he is elected! ;-) However, I'm sure we will have to give Woodward some time to recover from depression due to his candidate losing...

Is he writing a book now? Is that why he wants to talk to Kerry? Or is he just pouting because he wants to write an article for WaPo and Kerry is a little too busy to talk to him?

All the pundits have said all along that Kerry needs to seal the deal by getting voters to know more about him and feel comfortable with the notion of him being President. The only way Kerry could do that besides in the debates was with high profile TV interviews such as Larry King, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric, Jon Stewart, Jay Leno, Regis and Kelly, etc.

He has done these high profile interviews in order to reach the largest number of voters possible. Why would he want to expend so much effort and spend so many days preparing and carrying out interviews that will not reach the mainstream or give him the kind of positive visibility he needs right now?

Truly sorry; couldn't resist.

until that sex scandal hit.. Why would he want to associate himself with O'Reilly now?

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He pointed out that President Bush gave him three and a half hours of interview time for his best-selling book on the Iraq War, Plan of Attack. He wanted Mr Kerry to explain how he would have fought the war differently. "I interviewed President Bush and he answered hundreds of detailed questions,"


I'm guessing the questions were detailed, the answers were, "'dunno Bob, 'dunno Bob, 'dunno Bob. Wanna beer?"

become a little interesting talking to kerry seriously what he wants to talk about. what he has passion about that he wants to give to the people, maybe he would give them interviews. but what they have become, why would he. all they do is spin it and create a negative for him

they and repugs always ask kerry to be the fool, the demand it of him. and having the character and confidence that he has, he says nope. not gonna walk into that trap

Bush interviews.

Of which there are none.

There will be plenty of time in order to discuss the new plan once it has been implemented.

Or sour grapes.

Why would Kerry give O'Reilly anything other than the back of his hand? And Woodward can hardly expect Kerry to sit down with him for 3 and a half hours now - his interview with Bush was several years ago, not in the last week of a hard-fought campaign.

Idiots. Ignore them.

give dildo reilly the chance to do a hatchetjob less than a week before the election? he fucking knows better, so he's trying to do a hatchetjob piece about the hatchetjob he wasn't allowed to do.

time of day if I were Kerry..I'd tell them they could EAT MY DUST!

Let them whine..LOSERS!

Talk about hubris.

. . . that Bush dodged the BET interview request, doesn't go to the NAACP or AARP. Now the media decides Kerry is dodging them because he won't talk to two bush apologists.

they both had to be naked. Kerry refused.

Even if he was..Doesn't even out. Bush is dodgin democracy !

Then these people can start to complain.

a shred of CREDIBILITY!!

Who the hell is gonna sit down with Dill DO'Reilly? And Bob Woodward has yet to wipe off bush*s shit from his mouth for that bush* at war asskissing.

When exactly is bush* appearing on The Daily Show? or AAR with Al Franken?

He looks like such an idiot when he does this, he might as well be intervewing a chair.

I'd like to see Kerry go on his show - he'd eat O'Reilly for lunch.