"As was the
practice in all that he did, Dan was meticulously careful to be fair and
balanced and accurate. When did we stop believing that this is indeed
how we all perform our jobs, or try to? When did we allow those with
questionable agendas to take the lead and convince people of something
quite the opposite? It’s shameful. But I digress."
— MSNBC President and former ABC and CNN news executive Rick Kaplan
praising ex-CBS anchor Dan Rather on September 19 as the latter received
a lifetime achievement award from the National Television Academy, a
ceremony televised on C-SPAN on October 1.
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And the winner is...
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Anti-war
activist Cindy Sheehan:
"We’re not going to cure terrorism and
spread peace and good will in the Middle East by killing innocent people
or — I’m not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The
occupation — they don’t have food, they don’t have clean water, they
don’t have electricity. They don’t have medicine, they don’t have
doctors. We need to get our military presence out of there, and that’s
what’s gonna start building good will....I see Iraq as the base for
spreading imperialism...."
Host Chris Matthews: "Are you considering running for Congress,
Cindy?"
Sheehan: "No, not this time...."
Matthews: "Okay. Well, I have to tell you, you sound more
informed than most U.S. Congresspeople, so maybe you should run."
— Exchange on MSNBC’s Hardball, August 15.
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