This Week today: could somebody tell me what was said at the end?

[LittleApple81]

I am sorry to say, but I fell sleep at the beginning of the show... when I woke up, they were analyzing (if George Will analyzes) the democratic candidates and they said something about 10 people fighting for 15% of their party's something or other... missed it.

Anybody remember what was said?

[asjr]

1. This Week

I turned it off after Mark Halperin and Georgie Will started hyping Georgie Bush. You know, he will do just fine. No problem. I became ill and couldn't take anymore. George (a lot of Georges) Steph just has no credibility as a "journalist."

[Classical_Liberal]

2. There was a good reason to fall asleep

They basically had some guy on who repeated Rove spin on how well the administration was doing vs George Will. Damn it, whoever promises to bring back the fairness doctrine has my vote!

[Cappurr]

3. Clark has supported bringing back the Fairness Doctrine

n/t

[glarius]

4. What is the Fairness Doctrine?....I'm not American

:hi:

[Classical_Liberal]

6. It basically made the case that you have to present all sides

of an argument, instead of what happened today on this week where both points of view represented were pro-bush. It is limited, because in many cases there are actually more than two sides to an argument, but it is preferable to what we have now.

[glarius]

7. Thanks...

:)

[Classical_Liberal]

5. Dean says this too

I believe Kucinich does as well.

[Hamlette]

8. the 15% comment

was that the Dem candidates are fighting over a few points in the 15% range meaning no one candidate has broken away from the field.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. It is early in the cycle yet

all is spectulation at this point


someone will make the Giant leap later

[VolcanoJen]

10. Here ya go, sleepy-head!

:-)

Just finished watching this on Tivo, so I'll transcribe that discussion for you here:

Discussing Clark in the debates and polls:

Mark Halperin (ABC News Political Director): "In the debate, and in the campaign overall, I think he's doing just fine. He's had a few rough spots, but I think he's moving forward. I still think, and the Bush advisors say this as well and I think they're right, what General Clark's success so far shows is that this field is unsettled, and it's very, very vulnerable to somebody with no political experience to come in from the outside. The White House points out these guys are fighting in the national polls who's at 15% versus 17%, rather than somebody showing real strength at 30% or 40%."

George Will: "Just the way he rocketed to the top indicates dissatisfaction with them, his rivals; the way he rocketed ahead of President Bush in one poll indicates a certain level of dissatisfaction with him. On his own, I think he will prove to be the greatest general in American politics since Douglas McArthur."

George Stephanapolous: "The other democrats didn't seem to worried about him. They trained all their fire on Dean. Thank you very much."

[LittleApple81]

11. Thanks a million! n/t