Charlie Rose

Mockingbird  12/17/2008 06:04 AM Report

Why do we continue to be given solicited advice from discredited and unreliable advisers whose credibility is questioned not only from their lack of respect for the rule of law but also from threat of legal action for crimes they are alleged to have committed during tenure in office?

Tyler Cavell  11/04/2008 02:25 PM Report

The new news channel www.MediaScrape.com has a lot of video on this subject

Christopher Richard Wade Dettling  11/04/2008 01:59 PM Report

Remnick is out of his league.

Shalom Freedman  08/06/2008 07:32 AM Report

An interesting discussion as far as it went. I tend to think Kissinger correct in his dispute with Remnick over the effect of U.S. foreign - rights 'abuses' on Putin's rollback of democratic freedoms.

However the discussion did not go very deeply into the negative role Russia has played, and continues to play in a number of vital foreign - policy issues. One is their supplying nuclear equipment to Iran, and shielding Iran from stricter U.N. sanctions. Another is their supplying Syria once again with weapons. No one talked about the reviving of the old Russian Cold- War antagonism to the U.S.

I am surprised at a realpolitiker like Kissinger not pointing out the underlying antagonism and ambition of Russia to any power greater than it.

David Chowes  07/17/2008 03:27 AM Report

DAVID REMNICK, EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER... Yes, THE NEW YORKER... [7-16-08\

THE NEW YORKER is one of the finest up-scale magazines published by and for other intellectuals. Reminick is doing a fine job -- and, in this print unfriendly ambiance, has actually turned a profit for the first time in many years.

He continues to provide a rich diet of superb fiction, non-fiction, cartoons and poems. They do tend to preach to people like themselves. They may rarely talk to 'the masses.'

THE OBAMA & WIFE COVER CARTOON: I believe that they should not have used iT... Fools

would know that Remnick and staff made a poor decision.

Reminds me of (the late) William F. Buckley, Jr. who once commented that he would rather be governed by the first 100 persons listed in the

Boston Telephone Directory than the people in the Senate and House of Representatives.

Ergo, I tend to be reticent concerning the ideas and decisions of "intellectuals" -- for they tend to talk and agree only with each other. Incestious?

Had I been old enough to vote, I would have preferred Eisenhower over Stevenson. Stevenson's friends were mostly "intellectuals." And they tended to project their ideas to the entire population.

Yes. The subscribers to the magazine understood

that the cover was satirical amd was critical of right-wing stereotypes of Barack Obama.

But, the darn NEW YORKER was displayed on practically all news stands all over the country and featured on every cable news station and... Furgetaboutit!

Citpeks  03/28/2008 09:55 AM Report

Very disappointing "discussion" (well... as almost any "discussions" on western media about Russia):

e.g., Remnick is talking BS and there is NOBODY to respond.... sad and boring... american-style "freedom" of speech.

Citpeks  03/28/2008 09:15 AM Report

Why there are NOBODY in this "discussion" who'd have an a neutral or pro-Russian point of view??? Invite Peter Lavelle (who could stand for russian side)! Where is Stephen Cohen (neutral)? Let, at least, Anatol Liven speak... is this discussion do a service to Americans by hiding ANOTHER POINT OF VIEW???

Lui  03/05/2008 06:03 PM Report

Good point by Alice, below.

query  03/04/2008 02:46 PM Report

Henry looks as if explosive flatulence is impending. From both ends simultaneously. The ill-wind theory will be totally discredited.

Lena Herzog  03/01/2008 02:12 PM Report

Finally, the first competent discussion on contemporary Russia. Thank you for that, but, please, find a way to fast-forward Henry Kissinger.

If I may, a few points â?¦ quick â?¦ from a Russian expat.

Re wealth: Yes, Putin was lucky with petrodollars, but so are Nigeria and Venezuela â?? failed states, which is what Russia was by the end of the Yeltsin era. Out of chaos and despair, a country the size of an ocean, one sixth of all dry land emerged as a functioning â??normalâ?? state within a matter of just a few years. Nothing to sneeze at. Re the luxury of belief: Consumerism combined with centuries of disillusionment has driven a dagger into whatever was left of the romantic ideals in a Russian soul. And it has been a long and a tragic romance: millions dead for â??paradise on Earthâ??, millions humiliated and driven into misery for â??democracyâ?? of the 1990s. They are just tired, fed up. And in no mood for lectures especially from the Americans. And here comes the irony! The same people (see Dick Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, half of the fellows of the American Enterprise Institute etc.) who whispered into our ears lovely things on democracy via Voice of America (and, god, did we fall for it!) have done the following to name a few: abandoned all 800 years of habeas corpus, eavesdropped on their own citizens, committed war crimes, went to wars on fake pretenses. â??If you are not with us â?? you are against us!â?? all of it is oh so nauseatingly familiar to a fainthearted Russian. And that extravaganza of a check made out to Halliburton, vice presidentâ??s company, which profiteered in the war â?¦ Vice president being the defacto leader and not his ignorant boss â?¦ donâ??t you see a Russian grandeur to all this? I do! And I did not need a prism of the Russian media, the uncritical American one was plenty! But we shall keep things in perspective: Guantanamo is not a Gulag, we may not (or ..) be all bugged, it is just that it all prevents American heads from shaking and fingers from wagging. And IT IS A PITY! It was good to dream that sanity was possible and that there was a good guy on the block. Btw, what happened to Zbigniew?

Alice  03/01/2008 01:38 AM Report

I find it amazing that we would spend nearly an hour talking about the icy relationship we have with Russia without talking about the why.

We demonize Russia (and China) because they haven't joined us in our anti-Iran obsession. Even Pickering danced around the subject without spelling it out.