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This Week Moves to the Newseum Tomorrow
April 19, 2008 7:44 PM
It's finally time! After months of preparation, "This Week" is moving to the Newseum.
Tomorrow's premiere broadcast guest is Senator John McCain. We also have a "Classic Roundtable" with Sam Donaldson, Cokie Roberts and George Will.
On Friday, we held a rehearsal from our new set overlooking the U.S. Capitol. George Stephanopoulos and George Will were there, and I had the privilege of standing in for Cokie Roberts alongside my colleague Matt Jaffe, who played Sam Donaldson.
The picture on the left provides a sneak peak of our new view. It's a screen grab from our practice roundtable. We're all listening intently as Sam's stand-in Matt discusses Barack Obama.
Tune in tomorrow for the real thing!
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We Canadians have to laugh every time the Bushs and now McCain denigrate our health plan. Try to find a Canadian who would trade our system for yours. I've just had a series of small operations and the only cost to me was time and $4.50 parking each visit.
Time Americans find that the rest of the world has a few good things about them as well!
Posted by: Ralph | Apr 20, 2008 9:44:21 AM
You Clintonites defending that debacle of a debate should be ashamed. You should be ashamed as Democrats.
McCain will be the guest on "this Week" today. Why aren't you on this site demanding that George S. ask McCain:
1. Does he love America as much as John Hagee does?
2. Does he believe (like John Hagee does) that Hurricane Katrina was God punishing New Orleans for the planned gay pride parade?
We accuse Republicans of being blindly "party before country", you so-called Democrats still supporting Hillary and her tactics are "Hillary before party before country".
Wake up and realize what you (and she) are doing to this party! She CANNOT win - all she can do at this point is help McCain beat Obama. This primary is over. She lost. Get on board with the Democrat who will run against McCain.
Posted by: dpmn | Apr 20, 2008 9:45:39 AM
TV Guide had the time at 9:30-10:30 but then when I turned it on it was from 9-10 on my station. Is the interview with McCain going to be available online hopefully? It didn't look like it was being rebroadcast anytime soon.
Posted by: I missed it :( | Apr 20, 2008 9:48:01 AM
It is crystal clear to me that Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson and Geeorge Stephanopoulos are all Hillary Clinton supporters as made apparent on "This Week" on Sunday morning. As reporters, reporting of the news should be their primary goal, not overtly campainging for Hillary and callling what they're doing "reporting."
Even during their round table discussion, both Cokie and Sam displayed their visceral disdain for Senator Obama, almost spilling over into outright anger on Sam's part.
Hasn't ABC's news division suffered plummeting ratings since the debacle of the debate several nights ago? We, the American people, are not so ill-informed, as to not recognize what your "reporters" are attempting to do and we reject it and you, ABC.
Posted by: Patricia Walker | Apr 20, 2008 10:01:07 AM
Sam, The difference between Hillary's speaking of the Bosnia "sniper" landing and Barack's "bitter" comments is that Barack's comment was an OPINION of SOME of the refuges that Americans cling to as something comforting and unchanging, while Hillary's 3 or 4 (minimum) story tellings of the landing "under sniper fire" was just plain untrue...even Chelsey is complicit in this falsehood...!
Posted by: Tony Kramer | Apr 20, 2008 10:01:15 AM
It is crystal clear to me that Cokie Roberts, Sam Donaldson and Geeorge Stephanopoulos are all Hillary Clinton supporters as made apparent on "This Week" on Sunday morning. As reporters, reporting of the news should be their primary goal, not overtly campainging for Hillary and callling what they're doing "reporting."
Even during their round table discussion, both Cokie and Sam displayed their visceral disdain for Senator Obama, almost spilling over into outright anger on Sam's part.
Hasn't ABC's news division suffered plummeting ratings since the debacle of the debate several nights ago? We, the American people, are not so ill-informed, as to not recognize what your "reporters" are attempting to do and we reject it and you, ABC.
Posted by: Patricia Walker | Apr 20, 2008 10:01:15 AM
Sam, The difference between Hillary's speaking of the Bosnia "sniper" landing and Barack's "bitter" comments is that Barack's comment was an OPINION of SOME of the refuges that Americans cling to as something comforting and unchanging, while Hillary's 3 or 4 (minimum) story tellings of the landing "under sniper fire" was just plain untrue...even Chelsey is complicit in this falsehood...!
Posted by: Tony Kramer | Apr 20, 2008 10:01:22 AM
Yep! Obozo's supporters still blame ABC for their candidate's ineptitude.
Posted by: S | Apr 20, 2008 10:17:41 AM
S: Let's see how your guy (McCain) handles the tough questions from George Stephanopoulos today:
1. Do you love America as much as John Hagee does?
2. Do you believe (like John Hagee does) that Hurricane Katrina was God punishing New Orleans for the planned gay pride parade?
Oh wait... my mistake. He won't get those questions. He'll get questions like:
Why are you such a beloved patriot and maverick?
Posted by: dpmn | Apr 20, 2008 10:26:48 AM
ABC- the Anti Barrack Channel. Again we sat and watched the continued attack on his character by the pros at ABC. Yes we know this is part of the political games played by the media giants in order to boost their ratings, make themselves more important that what they are really. I just want a balance in the reporting on moral character if thats what they are basing comments and attitudes on. We have heard anything about Bill And Hillary behaviors while they were in the White House. What kind of morals do they have that the Congress thought were impeachable acts? What kind of woman would stand by and be publicly humiliated the way she was. What kind of man would now try to attack another mans character after all the things that have been proven that he was guilty of. Are these the kind of leaders we want to put back in the home of the President? Less more the Oval Office. So far, no one has been willing to bring up their past or ask the question, How have you changed since those disgusting years in Office? ABC and the other networks seem to have selective memory loss. Or maybe the correspondents are job hunting.
Posted by: Terry | Apr 20, 2008 10:27:44 AM
Democrats, Dave Barry is also running for president. Now here's a candidate who knows issues.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/qna/forum/dave_barry_for_president/index.html
Why would any democrat vote for the two main candidates when there's somebody who's truthful and insightful?
Posted by: S | Apr 20, 2008 10:32:00 AM
George Will said this morning that “if you’re American” you pay social security tax. This is not true, ALL salary earners pay social security tax which is withheld by the employees according to the law, no matter of your citizenship.
Posted by: Peter | Apr 20, 2008 11:20:45 AM
I was curious if as a "journalist" George Stephanopoulos would try to discuss the debate controversy in balanced way but he again showed his lack of journalist integrity by stacking the discussion panel with friends on whose opinion he knew he count. Where are the critics? George Stephanopoulos is frankly a hypocrite or even a coward. If some newsmaker is on his show he makes sure that the critics viewpoint is presented but when he is the newsmaker he hides behind his friends.
Posted by: Kelly | Apr 20, 2008 12:58:30 PM
McCain seemed to be an angry man at one time trying to remember what rehearsed the other day. This scares me because McCain is to old and his age should matter and bothers me that George did not hammer him on the age issue and the Hagee issue like has been done to Obama over and over again. George brought up the Hagee issue because they made him, but he quickly skated over it like it did not matter. Tell me this why is McCain still embracing John Hagee, the man who made these horrible statements about Catholics and that this religion being a gutter religion and that Katrina was Gods way of punishing New Orlean. So when Katrina hit Mississippi, was it God's way of punishing Mississippi?
Posted by: A. Johnson | Apr 20, 2008 12:58:32 PM
Hey George,
Neither Hillary or McCain wear a lapel pin!
Posted by: Danny | Apr 20, 2008 1:56:02 PM
Nice set George:
I'm bitter that if a want a slanted view of this election I would have watched Chris Wallace today. On C-span you you hosted a panel of radio heads,did you learn anything from it. Like asking dumb questions. You were very soft on Sen.McCain today,his tax returns were released this week not his wife's yet when is she going to. J.Kerry's wife was forced to by the RNC also the MSN you were not asking him more follow-up questions.I know he is 72 but he can take it. Wait till the real debates this fall. Also tell Cookie that I want a President that can run this country as an adult, not one I can have a beer with,we have one like that now. Yes you have to be vetted but both parties or candiates. WE need to know the real McCain tThe one that sent jobs to a company overseas i.e tanker jet,he saved the US money but cost jobs thats the real McCain, look it up, does not support the new G I bill and he is a vet. Shame on him. George stop the right-wing talking points,we want the truth we can handle it.
Posted by: 124unionmember | Apr 20, 2008 2:51:01 PM
George you jack###, you refuse to apologize for your shoddy debate moderating -- it was clear you were trying to help your old boss's wife. You have no professionalism as a journalist.
Your show makes me sick to the stomache, they should fire you and get a real host!
Posted by: bob | Apr 20, 2008 10:41:58 PM
George, with all this talk about being a former Clinton operative how do you like this guilt by association tactic, you guys thought it was appropriate for Obama and he wasn't nearly as close to any of these people as you were to the Clintons. If ABC thinks that taking clips out of context and saying that Obama and his supporters are just mad about him being picked on or that all the th criticism is simply going after the messenger is a sad way to try and deflect your poor debate performance. Cokey used to be one of my favorites until she became so obviously pro-Clinton and openly hateful toward Obama (so much for journalistic integrity), Donaldson is a good company man and will say whatever sounds good for ABC and George Will is as conserative as you can get. Funny how you couldn't find anybody who thought there was a problem with your work at the debate or you could have had a real discussion of the pros and cons and maybe even convinced some people that there is still some hope for ABC news. What are you going to do when Hillary finaly caves and you're stuck backing the wrong horse? 45 minutes of flag pins and Rev. Wright is pretty sad, but even there, spend a few minutes listening to Rev. Wright's chickens coming home to roost sermon and you may find that even there you guys got it wrong (he didn't say it, some white state department hack did and he was quoting something he saw of Fox news--I had to go to a black web sight to hear the whole thing)
Posted by: tel | Apr 21, 2008 3:49:43 AM
can someone at ABC tell me why it is so difficult to view "This Week" online? There is video all over the place, but when one goes to teh "This Week" page - there is no immediate link to just plain view the show. Please get it together. when a person goes to the website, they should be able to "watch the entire netcast" with one click
Posted by: bree | Apr 21, 2008 4:05:49 AM
Regarding the ???....debate, do you really expect objective criticism from your co-workers? After all, all of you are expected to support ABC.
GET REAL George. You know better. That is why we are disappointed with your performance during the???...debate???
Posted by: hillyn47 | Apr 21, 2008 8:13:26 AM
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