After watching Meet the Press this Sunday I would imagine that some presidential candidates whose names are not Clinton and Thompson should be screaming at NBC for equal time for themselves. On Sunday’s program, Tim Russert, host of the program, had a round table discussion of the 2008 presidential election and two of the guests were husband wife nut jobs James Carville and Mary Matalin. Matalin and Carville’s performances should be cause for outrage.
During the discussions on the race for president, both Carville and Matalin promoted their candidates on the program. Several times Matalin mentioned her work for the Thompson campaign, often discussing the candidate’s new position papers and defending his lackluster campaigning. Carville for his part did the same for his candidate Hillary Clinton. The other guests, Republican Mike Murphy and Democrat Bob Shrum fortunately did not hawk any particular candidate on the program.
So much for any sense of fairness and quality and respect for the people viewing the program. Basically Russert and NBC allowed their Sunday morning show to be hijacked by two of the candidates for president. It would be one thing if both Matalin and Carville had come clean about their affiliations,which they did, and simply left it at that. Problem was they didn’t. Almost every time either one was asked a question they framed it around their candidate. It was a sad show that once again shows how ridiculously manipulative Russert and his show can be for those they favor.