Charlie Rose

AntonGrambihler  06/30/2009 05:27 PM Report

Has Roger Cohen ever visited and done a report on the illegal invasion and current illegal occupation of Palestine.

Why is the United States helping fund the rampant racism which allows the Genocide of the Palestine People and denies their right of return for the creation of a Jewish Homeland? Did the United States learn nothing about what happens when land is taken from one people and given it to another? Do you not recall what happened when land was taken from Czechoslovakia and giving it to the Nazis, and the Genocides committed by the Nazis? How many people must die before this Genocide is called a Holocaust?

Why is it that only former President Jimmy Carter speaks out on this subject?

Where is the News Media that is suppose to keep the Citizens informed?

Why was the deliberate attack on the USS Liberty covered up and not considered an act of war against the United States, but a minor incident with a vessel was used to justify the Vietnam War? Do you not know that the bombing of any United States Military Vessel by a foreign government, is in fact an attack on the United States?

Why is it wrong for North Korea and Iran to maybe supply weapons to the Palestine Freedom fighters trying to get their land back from the illegal Israeli invasion and occupation, while it is considered OK for the United States a member of the NPT to provide missiles to Israel, a non-member of the NPT, for the delivery of Israeli Nuclear bombs?

If the 100% citizens were informed, do you think they would have supported taking land from the Palestine People and giving it to Terrorists? Do you think that they support funding the continued Racism and Genocide being committed by these Terrorists?

It appears that the United States is controlled by Israeli Citizens posing as United States Citizens through the use of Dual Citizenship.

NoPardonforMichaelMilken  06/30/2009 02:23 PM Report

JMM,

Yours is truly an insightful post and, correct me if I am mistaken, one that deserves a serious, meaningful reply.

Like you, I attempt to obtain information from a wide variety of people, be they of different statuses of race, religion, ethnicity, class, social, economic, political, and National vs. American League on the worthiness of the designated hitter.

I also have a fairly rigid idealistic nature, tend to believe that we're all not going to be here that long so we may just as well stop all the mindless bickering, enjoy the viewpoints of others different from my own, and simply like a good conversation.

I once respected Mr. Rose. Once. Sadly that respect no longer exists and I attribute its loss to no one other than Mr. Rose, with the possible exception of his handlers at the Public Broadcasting System, his accountant(s) and/or banker(s), and his love interest(s).

What was once an opportunity for the serious, meaningful discussion of ideas, policies, and concepts most valuable to ourselves and our world has devolved into an endless spin cycle of far too often the rich and/or powerful attempting to pull their own backsides out of the veritable infernos of their own creation and to blame the arson on the other side and/or organization. No one has aided and abetted the terrible erosion of journalism and conversation more than Mr. Rose, who seems wedded more to his financial and power interests and accesses than to the lives of those who watch his program, who fund PBS, and who desire and require intelligence, integrity, fortitude, and courage in our interviewers and journalists.

I loathe cocktail parties. Yes, I readily admit to my horrid bias and apologize for my weakness in this area. Sadly, I see Mr. Rose's effort, or lack thereof all the more these days, as little more than an endless cocktail party of the elite, wealthy, and privileged prattling on about the difficulties in their lives and the challenges they face in Manhattan, the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard, Georgetown, London, Paris, Hong Kong, etc. Mr. Rose, in homage to his bank account and as a direct affront to the craft that is journalism, only enables this endless cocktail party as its bartender, of sorts, serving up a line of weak, watered-down drinks to the litany of attendees and self-centeredoholics (if such a word is possible) all too eager to gulp them down and order another round on the house - just so long as the house pays for it.

And we, the house, do pay, you and I, each and every day. We pay for the detachment of these people from the rest of society. We pay for their avarice and greed. We pay for their blatant willingness to abandon their responsibilities to their communities, states, nation(s), and world. We pay for their offshore bank accounts and tax dodges. We pay for their $2 million bathrooms in publicly traded companies and their $400 million debts upon death. We pay for their all-too-eager efforts to ignore the law, whether in financing the construction of an illegal settlement or the creation of the next short-term financial scheme to "BernieMadoff", as it were, as many of their fellow men and women as possible. We pay for their willingness to separate capitalism and ethics and to unite corruption and accomplishment.

You may notice the title I have chosen for my entries to this blog. I encourage you, and others, to make use of Mr. Rose's website and review his series of chats with Michael Milken. Watch every single one of them. See when Mr. Rose asked Mr. Milken about his activities at Drexel Burnham Lambert. See when Mr. Rose pressed Mr. Milken on why he believes, and has believed for the past decade, that he somehow qualifies for a pardon for those activities at DBL. You'll spend a long time watching Mr. Rose and Mr. Milken and you'll find the answers to these questions rather unbecoming.

Unbecoming of Mr. Rose.

Unbecoming of PBS.

Unbecoming of journalism.

Unbecoming of our society.

Again, I thank you for your post. I appreciate its depth and candor. I hope you will afford mine the same courtesy.

JMM  06/30/2009 12:04 AM Report

A human life can be reduced to labels only by a mind closed to anything more.

I started watching Charlie’s show regularly once I realized that he pulled out interesting bits of information from guests whom I had considered possibly boring. I don’t watch any of these business people and politicians other than when they're on Charlie’s show. I’m glad he has these conversations with them, as this humanizes them for me, gets me past the labels.

I also find it interesting to learn about the mindsets of the people who are responsible for the systems and projects that already exist in this world. It’s easy to criticize them … and I do, as I’m fairly idealistic … so I like it when even that habit gets broken, when I have to think of these guests as people trying to create solutions for, or success out of, what already is. They are doing something … and I wouldn’t find out what that is if I didn’t watch Charlie’s show.

NoPardonforMichaelMilken  06/29/2009 05:53 PM Report

Where was he at this moment in time?

Charlie, try $400 MILLION in debt. Not even John Thane was in hock that much.

Jackson lived like king but died awash in debt

By RYAN NAKASHIMA and ALEX VEIGA – 3 days ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson the singer was also Michael Jackson the billion-dollar business.

Yet after selling more than 61 million albums in the U.S. and having a decade-long attraction open at Disney theme parks, the "King of Pop" died Thursday at age 50 reportedly awash in about $400 million in debt, on the cusp of a final comeback after well over a decade of scandal. ...

Jackson lived like king but died awash in debt

By RYAN NAKASHIMA and ALEX VEIGA – 3 days ago

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Michael Jackson the singer was also Michael Jackson the billion-dollar business.

Yet after selling more than 61 million albums in the U.S. and having a decade-long attraction open at Disney theme parks, the "King of Pop" died Thursday at age 50 reportedly awash in about $400 million in debt, on the cusp of a final comeback after well over a decade of scandal.

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Scandal, Charlie? Seems the dear departed Mr. Jackson liked little boys.

But the bombshell hit in 1993 when he was accused of molesting a 13-year-old boy.

"That kind of represents the beginning of the walk down a tragic path, financially, emotionally, spiritually, psychologically, legally," said Michael Levine, his publicist at the time.

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Didn't know you endorsed pedophiles, Charlie. Or that PBS considers pedophilia and those charged with commit those disgusting acts to be worthy of glory on the public airwaves.

I guess you'll do just about anything for a buck, Charlie. Can a bunch of your staff. Bring on one Wall Street criminal after another for spin, spin, spin. And, now, endorse pedophiles.

Maybe, in your honor, Charlie, PBS ought to rename your show, or itself outright, the Pedophilia Broadcasting System?

antonino227  06/29/2009 02:01 PM Report

The idea that the current hostility between the hardliners and Mir-Hossein Mousavi stems from a desire for legitimiacy in responding to the overtures made by Obama is noteworthy and should be elaborated in the mainstream media.