On Sunday's story about the Republican presidential candidates, the Nightly News producers spelled Former Governor Jon Huntsman's first name as "John". It is absolutely mind-boggling that the producers of a network news broadcast can't even manage to correctly spell the name of a presidential candidate. Of course, Huntsman isn't the first candidate to suffer this fate. The Nightly News producers have also recently misspelled the names of Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann (both her first and last names). If you misspell the name of a presidential candidate, you are not a professional news organization. And if you misspell the names of three candidates, you are a joke. It seems that every Republican candidate is taking a turn leading the polls. It also seems that every candidate will take a turn having their name misspelled by the Nightly News producers.

Also on Sunday: During a report about on-line public school education for children from kindergarten through 12th grade, Rehema Ellis told us that, "Thirty states offer a full-time on-line education to at least some students." But in the accompanying on-screen map, only 28 states were highlighted. So in a story about education, the Nightly News producers could not manage to accurately count to 30. Unbelievable.

Last Wednesday, Savannah Guthrie told us that, "Today in Washington, the President did what presidents have done for the last 64 years now--pardoned the national Thanksgiving turkey." So if the tradition started 64 years ago, then Pres. Truman would have been the first president to pardon a turkey, right? Wrong. There is not a single shred of evidence in the Truman Library (or anywhere else) that supports this. Every news source credits Pres. George H.W. Bush (in 1989) as being the first president to pardon a Thanksgiving turkey. Even MSNBC's own "First Read" blog states that, "President Harry Truman is often cited, incorrectly, as the first president to pardon a Thanksgiving turkey." Maybe Guthrie should have perused the "First Read" blog. Oh well, she was only off by 42 years. No big deal. Funny thing--every time Guthrie reports a story for Nightly News, Brian Williams makes a point of telling us that she's a lawyer (as if that has any bearing on her news reporting). Well, if Guthrie can't even manage to do basic research on something as simple as presidential turkey-pardoning, I sure wouldn't want her defending me in court.

Good Evening Mr.Williams, A great broadcast this evening. Looking forward to Rock Center tonight. Always wonderful to see Richard on the broadcast this evening and looking forward to Richard's report on Rock Center.

First of all Richard's report from Cairo about Egypt's elections and the outcome being crucial to the United States partnership with Egypt. The record numbers of people coming out to vote wa encouraging and relatively peaceful. With 4000 candidates running from 40 different parties it is understandable it will take several months to receive any sort of results. The protestors staying in Tahrir Square boycotting the elections showed how they believe the military has too much power and will not relinguish the power to another leader. The Muslim Brotherhood seems to be gaining popularity with the voters in the support seems to be high. Passing out leaflets to voters at the polls and doing exit polling shows much organization amongst the group. Hearing from the one woman voter she seemed to claim there would be worry with them in power. Yet, they are anti-American and anti-Israel which could net help the United States position with Egypt. Definitely, things could change in the coming months. Time will tell.

Excellent Reporting as Always Richard!

The report by Mr.Miklaszewski about the US/NATO airstrike in Pakistan showed how this incident could truly damage the relations with the country in that 25 Pakastani soldiers were killed. Much demonstrating in the streets in stating the attack was unprovoked. This incident majorly effecting the war in Afghaninstan since supply routes fro US troops travel through Pakistan. All the truck lined up along the border are at risk while they sit alonng the roadways. It os a terribly serious situation and needs to be handled accordingly. It is already and fragile relationship the US has with Pakistan and this incident threatens it even more. One hopes the supply routes are opened and official come to a peaceful resolution.

The report by Kristen Dalhgren from the Amazon distribution center showed how huge the warehouse and the incredible amount of packages being sent all across the country on this "CyberMonday" Great discounts by many retailers drew out a latge amount of orders and it was staggering to hear how many miles the worker walked in getting to merchandise from so many floors. One hopes all the packages reach their destination.

The "Making A Difference" segment by Mr.Yang about the Campus Food Pantry at the University of Central Florida and other schools showed how so many students are being helped because of the high costs of tuition. Not going hungry and being able to get some food at this pantry with all the donations is a wonderful way to help students. One hopes the tuition goes down though so students can afford food and along with a valuable education.

Thank You for the broadcast Mr.Williams. Looking forward to Rock Center! Peace to You and to All!

Be Well Everyone!

Stay Extra,Extra Safe and Well Richard! Excellent Reporting as Always!

Take Extra,Extra Good Care Richard and Crew!

Lisa

Herman Cain is sounding quite Clintonesque these days, from sexual discrimination to an affair he’s either casually familiar with them or hasn’t heard of them at all. I think I’ll give these stories the “National Enquirer” treatment, some of their stories are total fabrication but then another of their stories turns out to be 101 percent true. With Cain I wonder how long it will be before we find out which of these women he actually knows (I personally think he’s quite familiar with every last one of them) and which ones he’ll say he doesn’t know.

Herman fits right in with so many others as many only point to Clinton, the list is long with McCain, Gingrich, Livingston, Bachus, Ensign and the list keeps growing. I do wonder with Herman having a 13 year friendship with Ginger wink wink, it was so innocent why he couldn't tell wife Gloria.

Egypt will need time to form the Government they want and really it's the voters business. Their watching the US continue to struggle and it's been over 2000 years. Egypt got to see the US House/Congress/Senate had to have the US Constitution read to them like children. Recently Kansas Governor Brownback's staff reached the students twitter/facebook as one 18 year old student expressed her personal opinion. The student had 60 followers now she has over 4,000 followers thanks to Governor and School. Let's hope Egypt doesn't allow a Grover Norquist to take over their law makers like the Grover took over the GOP. The USA has to clean our own house before dictating to others.

it's hearbreaking to see so many families and children as our Law Makers continue to do nothing as more children suffer. The amount of families losing everything has grown each year as the GOP continue to block/stall any help for Jobs or recovery. What amazing is this great country with it government not only forces kids into being homeless but we see how many men with titles, wealthy, law makers even rape kids and get away with it. I feel like asking the United Nations to add the USA to the list of countries that new help in learning children's rights.

2007 before the chicken little story Hank Paulson shouted about the sky is falling, Hank and the Fed open the voult and allowed Banking friends take 7.7 trillion of taxpayers money. When we saw the large bonuses and money flowing like milk and honey on Wall Street/Corporations/Banks it was sweet. Time to hit the taxpayers again before the new President takes office. So the idea of Bailout was used and you betcha 700 billion was given. The laughs were heard around the World about how easy it was and why not just keep doing it. Grover Norquist was happy and other Wealthy people who had more money then they could dream off. All this time Bernie Madoff had to wait for someone to arrest him and he was getting tried of waiting. The American people elected Obama and he quickly saw the game and announced the Banks would not get another bailout. That started the plan to make sure Obama and the US failed. When the GOP got the majority in 2010 it allowed Grover to instruct his 236 GOP Congress/41 Senate puppets to stick to the plan. As Americans continue to support the GOP with Grover's/Koch Bros/Corporate/Bank mission it will be interesting to watch in 2012.

have a great evening all

Last Thursday, the Nightly News producers treated us to a two-minute story about 40 beagles that had been rescued from a research testing lab in Spain. Apparently, the producers figured that Thanksgiving was a slow news day and there wasn't much to report. But the U.S. is the only country that celebrates its Thanksgiving on that particular day, so for the rest of the world, last Thursday was a regular news day. So instead of showing us pointless stories devoid of any news value (Black Thursday shopping, the troops in Afghanistan eating turkey dinners, homeless veterans, a female football coach, beagles), the producers could have shown us actual news stories from Europe, Africa, South America, Asia and other regions of the world where it was not a holiday. But they didn't. Because the Nightly News producers don't roll that way. They're satisfied to show us drivel instead of news. So now we know all about the rescued beagles. Great job, guys.

But it didn't end there. On Friday, Brian Williams saw fit to spend another 40 seconds rehashing the beagle story. Did he have any new information to report? Of course not. But that didn't matter. Brian can do whatever he wants. However, he did end his story by shamelessly and inappropriately begging the viewers to donate money to the Beagle Freedom Project. Okay--first of all, it's not a news anchor's job to publicly promote his favorite charities or to beg his viewers to donate money to anything. An anchor's job is to objectively report news--nothing else. But there is a much more disturbing aspect to this story.

Question for Brian Williams: How much ad money does NBC Universal (and Nightly News in particular) accept each year from companies that test their products on dogs and other animals? $25 million? $50 million? $100 million? Let's just say it's a lot. That would certainly include cosmetics companies (like Revlon, Estee Lauder, Clinique, Lancome, L'Oreal and others), health and beauty aids manufacturers (like Unilever, Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble) and pharmaceutical companies (like GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and Bayer). All of these NBC advertisers test their products on animals, perhaps even beagles. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the beagles in the story were rescued from a facility owned by one of these companies. I noticed that Miguel Almaguer did not mention the specific place the dogs came from. He was probably instructed not to divulge the name in order to protect an NBC advertiser.

So Brian Williams reported a story about rescuing beagles from a research lab when his own broadcast accepts millions of dollars each year from companies that test their products on animals! There's a word to describe someone like that: Hypocrite. It's obvious that Brian does not care the slightest bit that his sponsors are murdering animals. If he did, he would refuse to work for a network that accepts so much ad money from companies that test their products on animals. Here's an idea: Instead of begging his viewers to donate money, why doesn't Brian march into the office of NBC News president Steve Capus and demand that NBC News immediately stop accepting this blood money? And if NBC won't stop that practice, why doesn't Brian resign? You know when that will happen? When pigs fly.

Speaking of which--do you know when pigs actually do fly? When they're in the Bayer research labs. In order to test their many headache remedies (like Bayer aspirin and Aleve), the Bayer researchers first have to induce headaches in their lab animals. One way they do this is to launch pigs across the room head-first into a brick wall. That usually does the trick. Then they give them some aspirin or Aleve and monitor their pain response through the electrodes sticking out of their brains. After that, the researchers go home and pet their dogs or cats. They're hypocrites--just like Brian Williams. He has the blood of thousands of animals on his hands and he has the nerve to ask us to donate money to the Beagle Freedom Project!

P.S.--Immediately before Thursday's beagle story and immediately after Friday's beagle story, Nightly News aired ads for Aleve. Talk about adding insult to injury! So how many beagles gave their cute little lives so that Bayer could test Aleve before bringing it to the market? I'm guessing it was more than 40. And I'm guessing that one or two of them may have even been named Snoopy.

Brian, I missed the last ten minutes of Rock Center so I am glad I caught the MSNBC Video this morning

with President Obama's "body man". who is only 29 but discreet which will take him far in life, and I wish

him the best. Have a nice day!!!