Tonight's guests include:
Frank Rich, editor-at-large for New York Magazine and executive producer of HBO’s Emmy-nominated comedy series Veep
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, (D) District of Columbia
Executive producer Bill Wolff shares a preview of tonight's show:
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Oh, the anti-American crappola that spews forth from the President's mouth.
Wow. It sounds so much less socialist when Mitt Romney says it.
#facepalm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHoxmMcV_TI The basketball shot from her show!
Yes, but who built the Rock 'n' Roll before we built this city on Rock 'n' Roll?
Answer me that one, smarty pants.
Grace Slick...go ask Alice.
Please, oh Please, ask Mittens what the price of a gallon of milk is.
"Nancy Ann Cianci" sure is fun to say, but, alas, she is an urban myth. Buddy Cianci's wife's name was Sheila. His first felony conviction stemmed from an incident in which he whacked her lover with a log from the fireplace - never a dull moment around here.
-- Jim in Providence (looking forward to the Who concert)
I remember that sad sad episode of WKRP after the incident..(the Who)
oh and Rachel you need to retract tomorrow about nancyanncianci... fire whoever let you give false info, unless you have proof that buddy called his wife "Nancy Ann"
I remember the sad sad WKRP episode about why the WHO never got here...was just a kid so didnt really understand it then.
Rachel... you need to retract/correct this NANCYANNCIANCI gaffe TOMORROW...and FIRE your fact checkers......come on now...are you using the same firm as Willard "Mittens" Romney?
Yeah, I eat barbecue sauce like that. Although the high fructose corn syrup kind is evil.
But you can make up for it by taking hits of pickle juice from the jar, while standing with the fridge door open. Num!
There is no "Nancy Ann Cianci" despite your reporting on this, TWICE. First time in December 2009. Believe me, Buddy Cianci was a clown and a criminal, but his only wife's name was Sheila.
It is a consistent theme throughout Obama’s political career. A theme that he has been quite successful with.
I'm sure Bill Wolff is a nice guy. He certainly seems to be. I'm even more certain that he's a top-notch producer who understands what does and does not work. I have no wish to offend Mr. Wolff, or anyone else, but I have to say that I have come to hate his segments with a passion.
Bill Wolff has no screen presence whatsoever. He must understand how badly he sucks. Would he, under any conceivable circumstances, accept one of his own segments if they were done by someone else that reported to him? Mr. Wolff, why do you keep doing this? Why don't you at very least write a script before you hem and haw your way through yet another awful segment? Do you really think that cheerleading for Rachel's show (which web viewers have just watched in its entirety before they see your clip) has any meaning at all? Why on Earth do you call it a preview? Really now, you are a professional. Contribute something worthwhile.
The camera person is obviously an intern. The on-screen relationship between Wolff and this young lady suggests some unfortunate things as she curries his favor and encourages him in his folly. She simpers. I don't get to use that word very often, and it sucks to waste it on a 19-year-old intern, but it's an accurate description of her behavior. This is an HR disaster in the making. Wake up.
My irritation is exacerbated by some technology features. Wolff's 'web only' clips that purport to 'preview' the upcoming show appear after all of the primary segments (which makes them completely worthless). Right as I see Rachel deliver her final line, I remember that, "Oh no! That moron is coming up!", and then the transition page takes over. You can't pause the web video on the transition page and it stops progressing to the next scene if you wave your mouse over it, so I have to (not very patiently) keep the mouse still and wait until I see Bill's unkempt appearance and plodding delivery before I can pause him and select a different video. Just irritating.
What to do? You have a web video platform, and all your (slower and less dexterous) online viewers have to watch (at least the first few seconds of) your segment. Do something useful. Extended interviews. Pre-interviews. Interview your staff about the research you did to support the show. Pull the curtain aside and show some of the magic behind the scenes. Or just shut up; that would be nice too. Please, just stop being so awful and lame.
- Thomas William Cabernoch
I was glad that Frnk Rich called attention to the fact that candidates being vetted for the Republican vice-presidential nomination are being asked for far more tax return information than Governor Romney is willling to produce. I was also surprised when Rachel said she hadn't thought of that before, so, on the off chance that a couple of other peculiarities have not been thought of, I offer the following:
1.We know that Romney has made and is making much of his income off of esoteric tax deduction techniques. In thinking about tax code reform, he has a huge conflict of interest. Will he really eliminate the laws which make him and his major contributors so much money?
2.We know Bain paid Romney more than $100,000 per year after 1999. If Bain deducted that pay as an expense (a) Bain acknowledges that Romney was performing services for Bain after 1999 or (b) Bain filed a fraudulent tax return. We need to see Bain's tax returns too.
Jim Beatty