Kookie Roberts says debates have as much impact with sound off

Coming from an NPR radio (RADIO) commentator this is pretty astounding. We have come to expect the TV Networks to focus on appearances and superficiality and leave the content and substance of what was said in the debates to the print media...but coming from a RADIO commentator who professes that the debates have as much impact (if not more) with the boob-tube sound turned off is...well...kooky.

That was her commentary after "listening" to sound-bites from several other Presidential debates that had such a critical impact on previous elections--Morning Edition never fails to amaze.

Apparently, past sound-bites matter...but in this debate, it would be better to focus on choreographed smiles, stage managed handshakes and tie colors. Wow! Kookie would make a great juror, huh?

Sure is easy to get the impression that TV Advertising matters so much more than actual policy debates...but it could be me.

Either that or the Network Insiders are doing their best to lower all expectations about the importance of these debates. Who was it? David Brooks who said yesterday on NPR that these debates are the small taco, not the whole enchillada.

America is eating lite these days. The shallowness continues.

Nose in the toot again, Cokie?

I guess she would know - her reporting is also just as useful with the sound off.

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..gushing about Reagan's performance in 1980 against Carter. Then went on to imply that the major reason that Clinton kicked Bush I's ass in 1992 was because Perot was there to leaven the lump and draw fire. Gimme a break. Cokie - time to retire.

And according to her, Reagan was all about substance.

Substance is hard to come by with the sound off--these days--but maybe shallowness has become the new 'Merican ideal.

That's how we should listen to her on NPR, with the sound off.

:kick:

No sleep for the wicked...unless you drink yourself to sleep.

She must have a terribly guilty conscience. And then she's too hungover in the morning to behave like a moral ethical adult. She sobers up. Realizes what she did in the early evening. And then she hits the bottle again.

mind if i do a J?

...what that numbskulled beyatch says? I quit NPR because of her (Reason #1 - there were others).

that the value was zero, but unfortunately, having the volume up on her reports has huge propaganda value.

I bet Cokie "Crack Whore" Roberts is 70% responsible for the creation of the NPR Security Mom.

At least she didn't say, "The debates have as much impact with the TV off." :eyes:

more impact with the SOUND off--as if the 'spoken word' in debates were less meaningful than "images" OR that televisized pictures will determine the winner of this particular debate--making radio broadcasts irrelevant. Little odd coming from a NPR commentator.

I plan to listen to the debates on the radio.

Cokie Roberts is a stupid bitch with no credibility. She whores for the Repukes every time she opens her ugly cake hole. She is one disgusting moron.

who looks good on TV and smiles a lot; Robert Redford and Tom Cruise come to mind. Run one of them for president, with their handlers to do the actual work of governing the nation. Oh, wait, we already did that with Ronald Reagan, didn't we? George W. Bush has his handlers too, but he fails in the good looks department IMO.

NPR has become just another "balanced" source. I've quit listening... or donating.