Some of you might have caught Your Working Boy on the NewsHour last night. I'm glad I didn't see me. For the first long segment, the control room in Washington inadvertently piped my own voice back into my ear, a half-second behind my saying the words. It was completely disorienting. I lost my train of thought trying to ignore the sounds in my ear. If I sounded incoherent, that could well explain it. Or maybe I'm so naturally incoherent you couldn't tell the difference.
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Wednesday July 11, 2007
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The most sincere apology for the disaster trusting the administration on Iraq has brought about from any NR writer I've seen. I am still opposed to most everything you stand for politically, but as a man, what you said took guts.
Yup. What Red Dirt said. Pull the headphone and trust the engineers. Were you in a situation where you could do that? IE, could you have heard the interviewer without it?
Yup. What Red Dirt said. Pull the headphone and trust the engineers. Were you in a situation where you could do that? IE, could you have heard the interviewer without it?
No, unfortunately. I thought about doing that, but I wouldn't have been able to hear Gwen Ifill.
Didn't catch this last night, but I just watched the streaming video at PBS's online NewsHour site. FWIW, you didn't seem incoherent to me, Rod, other than the 'sticking/staying' moment which honestly could happen in casual conversation without any engineering glitches.
I'm curious as to whether you've encountered any people in Dallas, particularly the more-Republican-than-conservative sort, who still give unqualified support to the war in Iraq? It seems to me that even some of the die-hard supporters I used to talk to are starting to admit that we need to get out of the situation, and it struck me when I was watching the video that it's been a while since I've heard anyone claim that we need a permanent presence in Iraq to safeguard American interests, or take a position even close to that. I can't help but wonder whether a sense that this administration really is incompetent and untrustworthy isn't responsible for the loss of commitment to Iraq among those who initially supported our presence there and continued to do so up until recently.
I missed the segment, got in late, work, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do. But I did walk in just in time to catch Rod's name and in time to see him on screen. I made a mental note to comment to Franklyn Evans that our presence on crunchycon/beliefnet is affecting Rod. If he, Rod, lets that beard go/grow he'll start looking like his favoritest two contrarians.
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