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March 29, 2009 06:20 PM

This Week: In Memoriam

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This Week marked the passing of historian John Hope Franklin, investor Jack Dreyfus, NBC newsman Irving R. Levine, and six soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Executive Producer of The Professional Left Podcast. On staff at Crooks and Liars since 2007. Master's degree from Harvard. Happy wife of Driftglass. Mother of three geniuses. Obsessive knitter. Blogs at http://bgalrstate.blogspot.com. .
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"This Week" competes with TV Guide Channel
Alleen — 3/29/09 8:36pm

Why do they even waste airtime with this segment every week. We used to enjoy this show but now "This Week" is so dull.

1. Interview with administration rep. George asks boring questions, presses for absolutes, gets vague answers.

2. Panel opines. This is where we sometimes get some entertaining if not enlightening content.

3. In Memoriam. I had no idea who any of this week's departed were. I'm not sure why this segment is even part of the show. Why an "obit section" in a political chat show?

4. Funnies. Reusing jokes from other shows. Usually not particularly funny or missing context of joke to achieve brevity. Could live without this too.

Schieffer is more dull than Larry King now. D. Gregory's MTP has lost its mojo. It's time for something new on Sunday mornings.

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After seeing the seriousness of Canadians
Freya — 3/29/09 9:03pm

concerning their dead who fought, I hold in negative esteem the Americans. Where are our highways to honor the fallen? WHAT? These enlistees are the walking wounded, misunderstood and possibly homeless? NO WAY DUDE.

In my home town, which is rural and forgotten, 7 have died. If you compare that with the entire populace you realize that the poorer folk with school sytsems overtaken by pop machines and taco-bell lunch cafeterias are disproportionately FUCKED.

That's right.

Sorry but not so sorry for stating the woefully obvious.

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Irving R. Levine
Rockytonker — 3/30/09 8:15am

A great name, a great voice, a great newsman. Seems like I'd heard his voice in the cradle. I'm wistfully recalling the ancient days when newsmen and women were journalists, not entertainers.

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Re: This Week: In Memoriam
Carrie Cann — 3/30/09 9:06am

Let's not forget Danny Seals.

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AGAIN, MORE U.S. DEAD THAN POSTERS
Dateline Baghda... — 3/30/09 3:07pm

Six U.S. Troops killed and only four posters one, who asks a very pertinent question... Why does 'This Week' even have an "In Memoriam" segue?

Not knowing whom any of the departed were is a plausible reason for killing this segment however, this two minute vignette is the only one to highlight the U.S. KIA each and every week. Of the over 10,000 hours in programming each week this two minutes stands apart. To honor the dead left behind in the wake of the disastrous Bush Administration's "War On Error" and tally the newly departed under the Obama regime. Unfortunately, ABC does not recognize the Iraq and Afghan civilians murdered on Bush and Obama's watch.

I am so very disappointed in President Obama and his War Policy. Sending additional troops to Afghanistan is not the platform the President ran upon nor why many Americans voted for him. The continued futile effort in Iraq compounded by the Presidents insistence to expand the Afghan front will only cause wider bloodletting. This is policy failure forcing a tipping point in Pakistan and beyond.

END THE WAR. STOP THE MADNESS. BRING OUR KIDS HOME NOW. DO YOUR DAMN JOB MR. PRESIDENT.

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