Senator Kerry on Imus
Senator John Kerry was on Don Imus’s radio show yesterday, and reportedly didn’t pull off a very convincing performance:
Pulitzer-winning historian Doris Kearns Goodwin gave it back to radio blabber Don Imus as good as she got today. “Why do I only get in trouble when I’m on your program?” Goodwin said during the annual “Kiss Me I’m Imus” show at the Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common. The four-hour show, which usually airs from New York, was hosted by WTKK-FM (96.9) and included local Irish rockers Gobshites and a parade of local politicos and WTKK hosts. John Kerry didn’t fare as well. During a soliloquy about Barack Obama’s virtues, Imus shot the senator down. “You’re overselling the guy,” Imus said but added that he’s an Obama fan. When the subject of Obama’s minister came up, Imus wondered aloud how the Illinois senator could have missed some of the more controversial remarks made by the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Kerry joked that maybe Obama had slept through a sermon or two.
To which Imus retorted: “How many interviews have I slept through?” If you want some more conversational stuff: after Kerry’s time on the show he worked the room and was even conducting interviews in the lobby of the hotel for about 30 minutes after he was off-air.
As a Senator who has endorsed Obama, it seems kind of strange that Kerry had no better defense of Barack Obama in regards to the situation with his pastor. Perhaps Obama’s campaign has no talking points on the subject… Either that or Kerry was too stupid to come better prepared for the interview.
As for Wright’s comments, Kerry said, “that’s not Obama.” And Kerry also went on a long stretch of Obama’s credentials, such as how he’d be older than Jack Kennedy if elected and that Obama has more legislative experience than Hillary Clinton.
I also didn’t realize being older than JFK was a credential.
I admittedly didn’t hear the interview, but it sounds as if either John Kerry came ridiculously unprepared to act as a surrogate for Obama’s campaign, or Obama’s campaign really has no defense for the junior Senator from Illinois 20 year relationship with a black supremacist pastor who preaches anti-Semitism, and anti-Americanism.
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Matt Margolis is co-author (with Mark Noonan) of Caucus of Corruption: The Truth About The New Democratic Majority. He also blogs at The Buffalo Bean. Follow Matt on Twitter.
Heard Obam’s defense….will have no impact. AmeriKKKa and the Obama campiagn are apparently all about race. In his defense he’s in a box with NO EXIT except for withdrawal which he will do as PA etc. do him in. Hail Hillary!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120611553243855079.html?mod=Best+of+the+Web+Today
March 21, 2008 — 3:00 p.m. EDT
With Extreme Prejudice
By JAMES TARANTO
Remember John Kerry? He was the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee, lauded by his supporters for his intellect and his nuance, as compared with the simpleminded George W. Bush. Having lost the election, he decided to sit out the 2008 contest. He recently endorsed Barack Obama, and earlier this week he sat down with the editorial board of the Standard-Times (New Bedford, Mass.) to make the case for his candidate.
It’s a real jaw-dropper. ABC News’s Jake Tapper sums it up:…