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Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Meet the Press?

Someone perhaps can explain how getting rid of one entertainment media sycophant who could not attract an audience and replace him with another sycophant will perk up those falling ratings for Meet the Press (MTP?)

Can you imagine an interview show that produced a combination of knowledge, research, focus and discomfort to the grilling of politicians and bureaucrats?  We sure can.  For years it is all we had in America.  Here is a small gathering of candidates who would not only save MTP from well deserved doom but also bring informative, serious journalism back to the entire Sunday interview show debacle.
Our Top candidate:  Trey Gowdy.  You may know Mr. Gowdy as one of the few prepared congressional questioners of bumbling bureaucrats.  Mr. Gowdy brings the delightful combination of knowledge, research, focus and discomfort to the grilling of politicians and bureaucrats.  Gowdy has many attributes that would make him a superior host of MTP.  We will mention just two – he grasps that those who collect a government paycheck, regardless of position and tenure, need to report openly, honestly, constantly and thoroughly to the people who pay their wages.  And, he grasps that  the job of MTP host is to make the interview subject uncomfortable; not pander for access or an “off the record” phone call that is anything but. 
One more top candidate – Sheryl Attkisson.  Sheryl grasps the concept of investigative journalism – current and past MTP hosts do not.  In case you don't know Sheryl, here she is:
 
Sheryl is as bright and tenacious as she is attractive and a top former CBS investigative journalist.  She also knows Washington well, as do all our candidates.
 
Three other very good candidates  – Paul Ryan (yes, the representative from WI), Lisa Meyers (top former investigative journalist from NBC) and Jim Jordan (who frequently matches Gowdy with informed questioning of lazy bureaucrats.)   We suggest you Google them if you wish to learn more about them.
But perhaps the best candidate of all – Megyn Kelly – tell us she wouldn’t perk up the limp ratings at MTP?
 
 
Take your pick from the six - all spectacularly qualified!


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