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NPR interviews PUMAs Darragh Murphy and Pamela Merritt

by: sharmajee

Tue Aug 12, 2008 at 10:17:24 AM EDT


The purpose of yesterday's show was a 'Tell Me More' style of discussion of the issue of placing   Hillary's name in nomination at the convention.  
sharmajee :: NPR interviews PUMAs Darragh Murphy and Pamela Merritt
More on the show in a bit, but first this next link takes you to the Tell Me More blog page which has a comment box, please leave some thoughts of support. (I am still composing my own)

Now first off, I am just plain glad this happened. Any discussion of roll call at Denver in the wider mediasphere is good. Specially NPR is even a better place, it is listeners of this demographic that really need to do a lot of soul searching. And they can have an effect if they put their mind to it.

Both Darragh and Pamela were excellent. They were composed, lively, quick, and happy sounding. The last was important since the host Michel Martin,   click for a youtube video on her, kept pushing the angry Hillary voter agenda. Both lady pumas did well on that score. All in all a good show, but the host let her slip show, I think.

Please advise all your friends to post these links in their blogs. Finally, does anyone know how to upload the interview as a youtube video?
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NPR interviews PUMAs Darragh Murphy and Pamela Merritt | 5 comments
This is great! (0.00 / 0)
I particularly appreciate Darragh's comments that putting Hillary's name in nomination isn't about catharsis.  It isn't about whether its "a good thing or a bad thing."  This fight is about following the rules.  Putting Hillary's name in nomination is the "normal thing."  It shouldn't be exceptional.  It should be taken for granted.  As it is, Hillary is being made to feel that she has to ask Obama's permission to put her name in nomination.  That's not the way it should be.
Great show (0.00 / 0)
I caught it yesterday. They both did a great job of getting their points across in an honest and articulate way.

Alice left me in Wonderland.  
found a link... (0.00 / 0)
you can listen to it here.

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.
just listened. (0.00 / 0)

and Darragh and Pamela were great!

Michelle Martin's introduction, however, was not so great.  First she made this statement as an accepted truth:  "Everyone knows that BO has long since collected enough delegates to make him the Party's nominee."

She then went on and asked her quests something else, so she was never called on her false statement. I hope some callers in to the show corrected her on that one.

Then she said something like Hillary's supporters wanting to put her name into nomination ANYWAY.  anyway, meaning since BO has already clinched the nomination (NOT), there's no rationale or precedence for Hillary's name on roll call for vote; in fact, it's the opposite.

anyway...........

they did well with a hostile interviewer. (0.00 / 0)
PUMAs are getting LOTS of practice doing that. the media is is the tank for obama, especially NPR.

Barack Obama's election proves that any male can grow up to be president, provided he's willing to use misogyny as a campaign strategy.
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