Charlie Rose

judithod  01/11/2011 11:54 PM Report

I'm grateful that Brooks brought an even tone to the discussion concerning the Tucson murders, particularly versus Remnick's stretch of tying Tucson to the Israeli assassination. Unfortunately, Remnick permits his political partisanship to cloud his common sense.

stubbskl  04/21/2010 10:20 AM Report

Color in Politics….

I was extremely enlightened while listening to this interview by Charlie Rose. In which David Remnick, NY Times Editor, presented a most articulate understandable view for the Democratic platform fundamentals, which may be the only clear representation to date. The interview gives great insight to truly understanding leftist workings which perpetuate ignorance within the Democratic or constitutional demolistic party. David Remnick’s comments where most educational until he momentarily fell off his very own paradisiacal soap box, when with enlarged prowess to seize an interview moment --- he, in systemic order, proceeded to emasculate more racial rhetoric upon Tea Party members.

David Remnick unusually stammering stated, “or radically on the other side as you see at the far end of the Tea Party movement --- they see in Obama, a threat to American-ness . There is a real kind of racial -- racialist and racist tinge, to the far end of the Tea Party movement…”

David Remnick, intelligently, chose to subtly fan the racist fire and knowingly tread heavily upon the constitutional values that Tea Party members hold dear in their hearts.

I attended my first Tea Party meeting April 15th, in Cortez, CO, and found there a peaceful, clear dedication deeply rooted in the freedoms we all enjoy here in the United States. I found there a deep love for God, I found there a exercised foundation and strengthened commitment in free speech, where witness after witness condemned tyrannical taxation as our founding fathers did condemn the British taxation, where I found others who worship God in their own way with full understanding of their right to defend and preserve these self chosen moral truths, handing them off from generations of elders to the tender lives of our children.

I joined the Tea Party community orgainization at once!!!

NeilMacCallister  04/11/2010 08:13 AM Report

(Please Sir or Madam, will you read my book, it took me minutes to write, will you take a look??):

Dear Mr. Remnick,

I believe I have isolated the definitive difference between the Democrats and the Republicans.

The Democrats do not care WHERE they get their money, ..they will abscond it from a neighborhood school charity founded by a wealthy philanthropist; they will submit floods of specious federal grant proposals, they will call breathing-out a taxable behavior, ..and then seek to assuage their guilts by directing that money towards suitably noteworthy causes like ending world hunger, or cleaning a toxic waste dump.

Conversely, Republicans pride themselves in their gathering money only through "hard honest work, personal endeavor, and completely elective donations", ..but they will then celebrate their "noble" achievement by frivoling that money away at some West Hollywood strip club, or inside some New York sport stadium's luxury boxes.

Maybe we should try "bipartisanship"!

Why don't we have the Republicans in charge of only gathering the money, and the Democrats in charge only of spending what was gathered?

Maybe then we'd finally find the mythic "Bridge" to one of those "balanced budget" dreamscapes!

bratschekind  04/07/2010 04:16 PM Report

Wow according to Remnick, Obama is so perceptive that he's able to ascertain that his being pulled out of an airport line for further scrutiny, something that any frequent traveler has experienced, was the result of racial bigotry on the part of the screener. Hmm, I wonder how this perceptive man managed to sit in the pews at Rev. Wright's church for twenty years and failed to notice that his pastor was spewing hate. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. So before Obama's assigns racial intent to airport screeners, Cambridge policemen and members of tea party, perhaps he should examine his own self. He's been privileged in a way that few whites have been, i.e. gone to the best schools, and as a black man was elected to president of a nation in which blacks make up 12% of the population, so maybe Obama and his sycophants like Remnick should give up that lazy argument a rest attempt more substantive ones.

ShalomFreedman  04/07/2010 02:59 AM Report

David Remnick is a bit slower and more deliberate in this interview than he has been in the past. Perhaps the fact that he had the whole fifty- three minutes enabled this. In any case I found him a trifle too serious and moralizing. Still he provides us with his view and for me new information and perspective on the President.

He is clearly in the President's camp and celebrates the President's first year in office, largely thanks to the passage of the 'Health Care Bill'.

He does not speak much about foreign policy though he suggests that things are not going well in Afghanistan. He does not mention the personal alienation from foreign- leaders. Nor does he mention the one- sided pressure on Israel and the apparent failure to bring about any change in the Arab and Islamic world.

Remnick's last response affirms the toughness of Obama. I think that is right in regards to his own political position. I am not sure it is right in regard to dealing with the Ahmadinejads,Chavezes, and other U.S. enemies. It remains to be seen if he will keep his promise in regarding to prevent the Iranians North Koreans and others from moving us closer to nuclear nightmare.

REMant  04/06/2010 01:02 PM Report

I hope you won't blame me for not watching this at its regular time. Let me say in that regard that not only did Butler acquit itself well, I think they clearly outplayed Duke and were the recipients of several bad calls, but as in the Mich St game they were worn down by an older and deeper opponent only this time they failed to pull it out. I suspect tho that they will be back next year.

As for Mr Remnick...a man who found the collapse of the USSR exciting, would I suppose also get excited about Obama. I'd call that enthusiasm, and I glad Charlie did. Obama is not an Afro-American, first of all. He is the son of black Kenyan and a white Kansan, but what difference would it make if he were? Does he really believe there's some sort of Rocky story here? Have the blacks all been oppressed? Was anything of this kind really true of the Soviet Union? Be serious. I have thought Obama's speeches were always and have become increasingly campaign pablum. The point about Malcolm X is significant, but seems to be misunderstood. The story of Obama's family reads like something out of latter-day LeCarre, for instance, Absolute Friends. Some Americans need to make money and rise in a corporate hierarchy. That Obama wanted community instead is the telling factor. Yet I am not sure at all that the community he seeks has anything to do with the present Afro-American community or its churches. He must have felt he needed their votes, but like King, he undoubtedly knows the problem is bigger. That he wants to understand the principles behind slogans and stances, is also significant, as it is the vocation of a teacher and the attitude of a republican. He is NOT a socialist, as some contend, altho his party certainly mostly is, and it will be a shame if he cannot make those bridges to the Republican party, because they are there, albeit on the "Tea Party" side, very few of whom I'll aver are simply racial bigots. I'd say they want community, too. I'd be bored by the Illinois and US Senate, as well. I'm bored by The New Yorker. I think overall tho that he is not really ready to be president, and I'd not be surprised to find that he often wishes for more time to study issues, which is unfortunately not available. I do not agree that he has sacrificed his principles to his ambition, but rather that he has realistically used his party to get into a position to make a difference. But back when he first announced I asked on the Moyers blog that even if elected, what good could it do? That is why I'm not a politician, or a civil servant. I would also not dwell on the success of his campaign, because I don't think that was as much a factor as Dean's insistence that the party contend in all 50 states, the demographics, Bush's incredible unpopularity, and the stock mkt crash and financial debacle. To a large extent his big campaign problem was simply to hold his party together. And it still is. The economy, BTW, was not plunging, it was and is ridding itself of vastly inflated asset prices and superfluous hangers-on so that productive labor can emerge, but it has so far been stifled by some of the most bald-faced acts of thievery in recorded history. It's as though a top-heavy ocean Titanic with a hold full of hopeful immigrants would flip over instead of sinking and the first-class passengers leaving in lifeboats. However, none of this has anything at all to do with Selma, Ala.