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Man Bites Dog: NBC Conducts Real News Interview!
“We’re not going to cut corners…I see this thing [the Durham investigation] reaching an important watershed in the late spring [of 2020], perhaps early summer.” — Attorney General William Barr
Credit where credit is due. NBC News’ Pete Williams just conducted an entirely professional interview of Attorney General William Barr, 10 December 2019. Then NBC posted the entire interview to their YouTube channel, not chopped up to match their narrative.
Fox News, and especially Chris Wallace, would profit from studying this truly professional journalist’s interview technique. Oh, and Attorney General Barr is a true heavy weight. Would that he had been appointed as President Trump’s first Attorney General! Or perhaps we all needed to get this object lesson, drawn out to the current extreme, before we might be sufficiently motivated to press for real, needed reform on the order of the Church Committee hearings.
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I did a double-take when I saw the post title. Pete Williams should dust of his resume, because he may not be working for NBC much longer . . .
You know Williams was once Dick Cheney’s press secretary, right?
Barr is a winner. Our country needs more competent patriots like him.
This was a solid, respectful, and truly informative interview. The reporter allowed Barr to complete, not just sentences, but full paragraphs of thought. When Trump picked Barr to replace Sessions, everyone did the “respect dance” throughout D.C. This guy, it was fawningly stated, is respected by all the right people. Whenever that happens, I get very nervous. It often doesn’t work out very well from my perspective. But, I have to say, every time Bill Barr speaks, his demeanor is calm and deliberate and his answers are completely authoritative. He doesn’t play games with the truth (he tells it like it is), but if there is a question whose answer Barr does not deem ready for public consumption, he straightforwardly refuses to answer it. His first name could easily have been Moses. Thanks for posting this @cliffordbrown.
Also, he reminds me of my dad.
Which makes me happy.
No, I did not know Williams had worked for VP Cheney. All the more credit to NBC for hiring and retaining him, and credit to him for not trading on his past to lend credibility to the leftist mob.
Excellent interview. I’m left with a serious concern about the ability of police forces throughout the country to attract good candidates. Barr is a smooth politician who is impressive with his thoughtful answers.
Excellent interview. I’m left with a serious concern about the ability of police forces throughout the country to attract good candidates. Barr is a smooth politician who is impressive with his thoughtful answers.
Not to be a wise guy but does Pete Williams have a future with NBC? What’s the Over/Under?
Williams has been at NBC for over a quarter-century now, (after working in the Bush 41 administration with Barr) and really, for all the times that the network and its cable arm have caused the right to (justifiably) get upset at their coverage, I really can’t remember Williams being at the eye of any of the major storms. Since NBC has at the very least been letting its progressive freak flag fly since 2003, the network seems to be content with just letting him do his job.
Cliff,
Could you imagine the difference it would make if 1 out every 5 interviews on major media were on subjects and people who are solid conservative? There would have been nothing surprising about this interview 25 years ago.
A totally biased media is a disaster.
Regards,
Jim
It was an excellent interview. What I want to know is will NBC actually air the interview on their news show?
They won’t fire the gay guy.
They are apparently using bits of it. I do not think they have a long form show that would allow the whole interview to be aired in a timely manner. Yet, showing bits may drive viewers to the NBC News YouTube channel.
Scott Johnson of Power Line points to a lengthy WSJ interview as well.
How interesting that Fox News was not given a prime interview slot, or did not seek one. Doing the NBC interview was probably a better media/political communications move.
All I want is for NBC to show clips that capture the 24 minute interview. Not the usual hatchet job of clips.
I imagine I am not the only person here who wondered what the blowback would be for AG Barr’s recent eloquent interview on NBC.
During the interview, he was speaking so definitively and with such calmness about many of the underhanded activities that the Demonrats employed for their trumped up impeachment hearings and now the two charges they plan on making into a Senate trial.
One source to read about Eric Holder’s Wednesday WaPo attack on Barr is at the following link:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/12/eric-holder-sends-warning-to-john-durham-says-william-barr-unfit-to-be-attorney-general-in-wapo-op-ed/
Hardly blowback. This is the fellow who was voted in contempt of Congress for his coverup of the gun-running scheme into Mexico, a scheme that resulted in American deaths at the hands of Mexican cartel gunmen armed with weapons courtesy of our DOJ.