Today’s ‘This Week’ Program

Hi. I don’t think you should say a segment, e.g. the roundtable, “continues online” as if there is additional footage of the current conversation, when in fact there isn’t. This is misleading and vexing.
Tapper was great though.
Btw, I think ABC should start a basic cable news channel, like cnn, msnbc, and foxnews. There is a market for an intellectually-oriented and respectably managed news channel. ABC could possibly partner with PBS or BBC to produce a strong competitor to msnbc, fox, and cnn, being respectively too conservative, too liberal, and too simpleminded and irrelevant (WB, CA,and FZ notwithstanding) respectively. Steal FZ and RM.

Yah to Jake Tapper. You did a great job today.
The republican senator would not commit to running his campaign against the health care bill. I think they should do this. Afterall they are pro life unless we have to give these children and their parents health care, then they are on their own. Krugar is right its not popular because it is not enough. I hope the Demacrats show some fight and hold the republicans accountable to making sure the insurance companies change for the better, since a public option was so bad. From a regular american like me Lost my job last Dec., No medical insurance, I feel a personal threat with the way they govern and how they dont think of everybody. Why would any Ameican Be So Heartless. Democrats please continue to fight for us.

Why is everyone letting Gibbs get away with this lame excuse of “500,000 names in the database”? As though the record would have to be searched by hand for each passenger. We have computers, and that’s just the kind of thing they do fast and well.
I had never bought the claim before, but I now have the distinct sense of the administration “always passing blame”, and not taking responsibility simply and directly for (possibly systemic) errors. The smug Gibbs has got to go. Effective advocacy, not political doggedness, is required now.
This plays into the same dissembling and shielding incompetence criticisms they just got for the Salahi incident.
Also, re: the flight incident, the issue of “over-PC” dismissal or failure to follow up on legitimate warning signs, citing the Fort Hood failure as another example, should be more discussed.

Jake, Why would you not mention that since 911 no one actually suceeded to get on a plane with this type of explosives till this year!!! Hmmm. Also when Janet repeatly said everyone did their job to stop this disaster. I did not realize it was the passengers’ job to thwart terror attacks. We as citizens will continue to do our part, but having had no attacks on the homeland for 7 years since President Bush recognized a “war on terror” and now 2 attacks in less than a year since President Obama brought his brand of “change” one wonders when this administration is going to do their job in keeping it’s citizens safe. I recognize ABC is trying to ask tougher Questions but they still have a way to go. Please hold our government accountable. Thank you!

I will miss George Stephanopoulos’ impartial questioning on this show. Today’s show Jake Tapper asked Janet Napolitano “Has a definitive connection with al-Quida been established yet?” Mr. Stephanopoulos would never have added the “yet” to the question reflecting the questioner’s opinion. What I have always liked about Mr. Stephanopoulos is that he doesn’t try to influence the public one way or another.

Please dont have J Trapper substitute for George again. He may be a good correspondent, but he is not a good interviewer. He constantly looked at his notes or the prompter. He was constantly fidgeting, and it was clear he was formulating his next question, not listening to the response. He questions were less than professional,e.g. “I know the president and I cant believe he wasnt going nuts…” Really, he knows the president? Let him practice somewhere else and give us an experienced interviewer

Jake Tapper did a great job. I’d watch him host the show unlike the ‘meet the press’ replacement.

Oh I see, hoax emails can be received by millions of people at the same time, but a name on a list of 550,000 names just can’t be flagged on all western countries’ airport immigration desks for extra surveillance? The passengers and crew performed heroically, but the screening system processes failed miserably. This is not “man made disasters”. This is a war against radical US haters on many international fronts, with more fronts emerging every day.

Jake was great. George, hand over the reigns. You are far too enamoured of the President to be objective. Put Jake in and watch the ratings soar.

Jake did a great job today, as I knew he would. He was my first choice to replace George after learning George was going to GMA. I’m glad ABC gave him the chance to host. I don’t see Terry Moran doing any better. Jake gets my vote!

No to the Tapper . . his angry, scowling “gotcha” questioning is better suited to Faux News . . . It’s one thing to hold interviewees accountable but another to sow and fertilize seeds of contempt for all government . . I can’t remember when I didn’t watch This Week . . if he replaces George, I will, it will be the date he starts!

JAKE TAPPER YOU DID A GREAT JOB ON SUNDAY THIS WEEK
GOOD PICK GEORGE KEEP JAKE TAPPER ON THIS WEEK FOR GOOD.

No to Tapper. Among other things, his use of “Obama-care” as a definitive term for federal health care shows his true colors. Tapper’s bias toward the right needs to take a back seat to objective reporting and incisive questions that have no bent to them. George S. could ask tough questions, but you didn’t see a strong leaning toward the Dems, even though he was in the Clinton White House. He gave the limelight fairly to both Will and Brazile alike. If I want right wing bloviating I’ll turn to Fox.

LOVED Jake Tapper! Especially enjoyed Jake’s question, “Who’s watching the watch list?”
To Rita, who thinks Jake is “too in your face” – why should government officials NOT be put on the spot when they make absurd comments concerning our national security?

The reporter from Atlanta suggested that the bomber’s father would have been more interested in how his son would have beeen interigated than saving the lives of the people he was trying to kill, has got to be one of the most uninformed statements of the year after only 3 days. When will the left stop blaming the former administration for everything?

Great, Jake! You would be a very good successor to George Stephanopolous. I like your directness and clarity and the way you press questions politely but firmly when the interviewee sidesteps or waffles. Unlike some of the other commentators,I did not note any “right” or “left” bias. As another commentator said, David Gregory could learn a lot from you.
ABC/George Stephanopolous: I have enjoyed George’s handling of “This Week” since he joined the program. I wish George would stay with it. But, if ABC is looking for a successor, Jake Tapper would be ideal, in my opinion.