Charlie Rose

Charlie is an Ass  06/10/2008 10:36 PM Report

Charlie Rose is absolutely biased and stupid. He is quite obviously enamored of France and the French, and often defends amoral individuals such as Sarkozy. I was really disturbed by the manner in which he jumped up to defend Sarkozy's racist, thuggish rants with characteristic license. As it turns out, Sarkozy is the thug, and not the young, poor adolescents he chose to bully as a minister. And to watch this Jew speak grandiosely of such behavior is disgusting in view of Europe's Nazi past, no matter how subtle the delivery. The fact that many consider Charlie among America's greatest living journalists is an indication of the sorry state of affairs in America.

Hypocrite Franco-Pig  06/10/2008 10:25 PM Report

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Hypocrite Franco-Pig  06/10/2008 10:24 PM Report

The following bsolute drivel is from Stanley's work: "The anti-Americanism on the rise throughout the world . . . is, more often than not, a resentment of double standards and double talk, of crass ignorance and arrogance, of wrong assumptions and dubious policies." This coming from a man who routinely defends France, a country which embodies arrogance, ignorance, double standards and double talk. Is anyone surprised that the French are now trying to do business in Iraq?

William Neville  08/08/2007 08:06 PM Report

I missed this programme when it first broadcast but I am very pleased to have been able to watch it here. Stanley Hoffman is one of the foremost voices of sanity in the United States. Remembering some of his earlier conversations with Charlie Rose, prior to the invasion of Iraq, his analysis was right on the mark; and so much of what predicted has, alas, come to pass.

X  05/18/2007 10:27 AM Report

First, I would like to say that I wish anybody who leaves a comment would STOP COMPLIMENTING THE VIDEO, or leaving comments as though Charlie is going to read them. He is very busy, what with talking to people all stinking the time.

Second, he is entitled to say, by my estimate, as much as he freaking wants to say. It's his show. It's not called "The Charlie Rose Interview Hour." But, "A Conversation with Some Schmuck."

abendra naidoo  05/12/2007 08:06 PM Report

Mr. Rose your program is among the rare gems of television left in this era of mindless drivel that passes for television viewing. Your selection of guests and your ardour in your work is inspiring. Thank you!! It is the case that the existence of an uninformed electorate results in the foreign policy catastrophes that have marked American history. Surely the "military industrial complex" has no small role in intentionally keeping the masses cacooned from balanced reporting.

Bharath  05/12/2007 06:20 PM Report

Great work..I look forward to the show every night.Only one complaint though, I wish we could

keep Charlie from finishing his guest's sentences..

Ruth Kahn  05/11/2007 08:52 AM Report

Professor Hoffman provides penetrating, elegant and most knowledgeable analyses - demonstrating an understanding of both the history and politics of the matters he discusses. We are grateful for the opportunity to hear him and hope he will be back frequently.

Judith  05/10/2007 07:01 PM Report

Thank you very much for the visit from one of my favorites. Professor Hoffmann was one of the few voices of reason and historical perspective to stand up before the Iraq attack and call it what it was based on analysis and calm insight. I was very pleased to hear him again last night as he cut through all the nonsensical noise and made right straight to the heart of the matter. I have no doubt that those shameful people in the administration who pushed for this nightmare will ignore him now just as they did before. They dont have the moral clarity and courage to make the hard decisions and fix their mess. Charlie, please have Professor Hoffmanncome by every so often. We need him. Thanks very much.

Barry O'Connell  05/10/2007 06:45 PM Report

I'd always be interested in having Mr.Rose ask his guests this series of questions: Who should sell the oil in Iraq, who should buy it? How does a western nation prevent China from deciding the answers? How many people is the west willing to sacrifice to keep Israel as safe as possible from attack.

All foreign policy discussions should have these four words mentioned in detail: OIL, CHINA, ISRAEL, SACRIFICE.

judith  05/10/2007 04:36 PM Report

I hope Bush is listening.

Randall Duncan  05/10/2007 03:21 PM Report

...I hope Bush is watching.

Pierre  05/10/2007 12:36 PM Report

I do not agree with all M. Hoffmann says about France and French politicians (however most of), but he has a sound understanding of the French reality. I mean that it is not a pseudo France out of his own fantasy he is talking about, or a false idea of France based on usual prejudices. For example I agree that may 68 did not change the political system in France, but on the other end, as for the manifestations against Vietnam war in the Us at the same period, it changed the mentalities about the perception of the authority and the conception of social and moral values. The dream was unrealistic and somehow naïve as M. Hoffmann says, but nevertheless it shaken the reverence for traditional authorities and encourage all forms of self expression afterward. For the better or for the worse. It did change the French society and beyond. Although the ideologies of these movements where not exactly the same in France and in the US, it is remarkable that it happened almost at the same time and with similar effects. ----------------- On another point, I was against the Iraq intervention, for the very reasons M. Hoffmann says, however, if more realism is still needed in the US administration, and much less ubris from M. Bush, I am not sure that the solution is, unfortunately, as simple as withdrawing to let the Iraqi solve their problems one way or another. Now that the US has broken the hideous box of Saddamâ??s regime and found that there where no WMDâ??s (that where supposed to be ?) but instead discovered other devils inside (that where not supposed to be ?!), they have the responsibility to prevent those devils to create a greater tragedy inside of Iraq and to spill over in the region. How to do that? I do not know but you have to begin to discuss it seriously and pragmatically instead of blaming each other in ideological or political posturing.

Barbara B. Donner   05/10/2007 01:46 AM Report

Charlie Rose has the best brains of this world on his program. I look forward to it every night!

G. A. McCall  05/10/2007 01:29 AM Report

Although I admit we owe a lot to France in getting our revolution to a favorable outcome against the British, witness French ships in the harbor provoking British surrender, it took Franklin three years to get them to commit.

It must be nice to sit in a sidewalk cafe and order another cognac, while philosophizing about the impossibility of bringing democracy to anyone, given the stratification of most cultures. But, let me propose this idea - if you don't start, when will you begin?

To this midwesterner, I'm really not concerned about our "tarnished image" in other countries. Rather, a welfare culture should really be worried about who's going to foot the bill for such an idealistic socialist milieu. Maybe they can convince the nascent EU to do it. Good luck!

Brian Burns  05/10/2007 01:21 AM Report

Your conversation with Prof.Hoffman was interesting. I appreciate the level of intellect which is the standard of this show. I also enjoy the lack of intrusion on the part of the Mr. Rose. He lets people speak at length and only gently redirects them to essesntial elements of the dialogue.

My concern lies, in this case, with a tendency to allow a theme to emerge in which America is instructed to change its ways in order to assuage a fanatic, determnined enemy. As I listen to the erudite comments of the professor, I cannot but but harken to the mindset of Neville Chamberlain. He spoke similarly of the need to be patient given the slings and arrows the Germans had suffered following their "humiliation" in WWI. This verbiage is welcomed by a determined enemy. It is naive at best. Fatal at worst.

Why was the professor not challenged to offer a different strategy other than direct confontation of the islamic fundamentalist problem? What would he do? Talk? Talk some more? Talk again? Just keep talking, no matter what? Wait for the knock on the door?

The answer: He has none. He sees the world from an ivory tower. It is a world of "reason" after all. All we need to do is have a meeting of minds and then fly back to Washington waving a white piece of paper guaranteeing "peace in our time."

He's a fine man. Someone to be respected.

...but seriously, do we need men like this to keep us safe? I think not. For all the good he stands for he is a fool living in a child like world of self deception - because... like all liberals it simply feels good to think this way.

Like it or not, sometimes we must fight!!

Sincerely, (I love you Charlie)

Brian Burns

(941) 704-0310

ps. AM I to be as disappointed with a lack of response as other writers to you your show?

e-mail me or something to show that the PBS is not a so smug with it's federal funding in place as to be completetly unconcerned with actual viewers.

Brent Rile  05/09/2007 10:12 PM Report

Recommend Uri Avenery and Palestinian PM Haniyeh as guests. Thanks for the thoughtful discussions.

Ursula Rothel  05/09/2007 08:51 PM Report

Hi,

I have been watching your show for a few years usually with friends. While we enjoy most of the guests, we don't enjoy Mr. Rose's answering his own questions, he should let the interviewee do that. We watched the interview with Mr. Bush which was done very professionally and he did not interrupt him, we wished he could do that with all of his guests. We do appreciate however his selection of his guests, the science series is especially interesting. Keep up the good work with just a bit more humility that is to say , let the guest speak.

Thank you,

UR

john coppett  05/09/2007 08:27 PM Report

Yours is the best show on television. I thoroughly enjoy the quality of the intellect I see exhibited each night. Keep up the wonderful work!

Lee Plaud  05/09/2007 08:08 PM Report

I have been watching this show since it's inception. In all those years, I have e-mailed a comment about five or six times. For all I could tell, they just empty into a void. I am upset that there has been no acknowledgement of the passing of David Halberstam. He has been a guest on your show several times over the years. He has been a distinguished and preeminent voice in the politics and culture of this country in the last 40 years. I have inquired in this manner twice since his death. I have received no response and have heard no mention of him. I am sure you get many e-mails and can't respond to each one. Considering that in all the years I have been viewing your show and have never had a response to any inquiry, I must conclude that this is pointless and you are just unresponsive. This leaves me with being too angry and disaffected to want to watch your show..........Lee Plaud

bill sutherland  05/09/2007 06:33 PM Report

You need to get Bart Ehrman on your show.