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When Hillary smiles she looks like a Venus fly trap

 

Was Lauer the best they could do? But the more I think of it, in today's media environment, are there any great interviewers any more? Wouldn't you just love to see the news equivalent of Jeremy Schapp or Jim Gray at one of these forums?

 

Thanks for posting, Reince.

 

I'm going to get scoffed at because it's CNN but Anderson Cooper? He doesn't usually allow a guest get away with too much.

 

Tapper, Cooper, even Georgie Snuffalupogus are all good interviewers. Lauer is a joke. He handles the Thanksgiving Day parade just fine, and that says everything.

I would legit like to see Bob Costas corner both Hillary and Trump. At least he'd do some fucking research.

 

Agreed on Tapper and Cooper. Haven't seen enough of Georgie. Unfortunately, all they want nowadays is BP.

 

Mika said that Lauer did a "great job."

 

Their feud with trump has consumed the show.

 

I can't decide what my favorite Trump plan is from last night. I think I have it narrowed down to purging the country's senior officer corps, creating a military court system and leaving just enough soldiers in Iraq to protect oil deposits. Anything I'm overlooking?

 

Which was my point a page or two ago. Maybe he missed the mark by not asking Trump about dodging the draft but he also brought up that tweet during an important question that made Trump hem and haw in front of the military on such a lightning rod issue. It cut Trump off at the knees, which means Lauer succeeded for that question. That said, he did let Trump stump endlessly before, during, and after questions that had nothing to do with what the questions actually were.

 

Moving on from last night's shitshow, I have a question that should engage all thinkers on this board regardless of what they think. Why do campaign commercials suck so bad? Here in Boston, every other ad on every channel in the 5-7 time slot is for the New Hampshire Senate race between reasonably conventional Republican incumbent Kelly Ayotte and reasonably conventional Democratic Gov. Maggie Hassan. The negative ads, all of which are produced by the tons of outside money poured into the race, are of course designed to be frightening, but are about as scary as Scoobie-Doo. They are comically bad, featuring weird photos of the opponent, bizarre music and claims that wouldn't fool anyone for a second. My favorite is a anti-Ayotte ad in which two supposedly old but actually heavily made up coots talk about how Ayotte wants to privatize Medicare (She voted like a good party do-bee for the Ryan budget she knew wouldn't pass. They are dressed as someone who has never been north of Santa Barbara thinks small-town New Englanders dress. It's a riot, and the good liberal Democratic rich people who funded it got ripped off big time. Same for the good conservative Republican rich people who funded the anti-Hassan ads.
By definition, spending on campaign ads has a 50 percent failure rate. It's two months until Election Day, and we innocent viewers in the Boston market, 85 percent of whom can't even in that election, are being harangued into a state of total numbness. My son is in the political world, and he says TV ads are an increasingly ineffective means of reaching voters and a waste of valuable resources best directed elsewhere. Why don't the donors to both parties, all of whom have a vested interest in seeing their money used well, stop being so lazy, get together and figure out how to spend more effectively, or at least less on TV?

 

They really need to get to Santa Maria and try some barbecue tri-tip.