It has been dissapointing job by the president. To see him where he turned his back on his own people. They tried to impeach Clinton for lying to his wife, but the president lied about knowing about how sever the storm was. He lied. He lied about bombs in Iraq. He just keeps lying. He needs to step down. Our kids are dying right now for people who could careless about the US. Every person they interview over there never blam there own people for the bombings. We are send our kids to die for nothing. i could careless if they are free, because they would not care if we were killed. If they cared they would step up and help the Iraqie & US army with the
mission. You don't see them maching for freedom. they don't care. So Bush bring are kids home.
Thank you. A proud Texan

You were extraordinarily arrogant and condescending to the president when you asked him if he watched television, and he responded that he watches only baseball on TV. Your reaction was totally unprofessional. You left the perception that you had no respect for President Bush--which is probably not far from the truth.

Personal politics aside, you ought to try and appear more objective. Your fencing with the president does not lend any credibility to you, or the organization that you work for.

You have covered the federal response with a fine tooth comb over Katrina. How about some balance? Where is the equal scrutiny of Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco? We know N.O. had an evacuation plan. They didn’t follow it. We know they had a lot of buses, the mayor left them to be flooded. We know FEMA had buses ready to come in, but the drivers refused to go into the city without armed guards on board due to the lawless reports from N.O. A week or so later when Rita hit near Texas the mayor of Houston got his people out on buses. Why didn't mayor Nagin? We were told how slow the federal response was for Katrina. Did you guys ever do a comparison with other hurricanes to show just how slow? I don’t recall it. How about a 20 hurricane sample so we can see the difference. We know the Red Cross and Salvation Army had food and water ready to go into the city as soon as the storm passed but was not allowed in by order of the governor. So all of that suffering we saw may have been avoided. Where was your coverage of this? I found that one on the Red Cross website the week of the storm. With all the big budgets the networks had you’d think you guys would have seen this or interviewed them. One network did, guess which one? Face it you guys have a built in bias one just about every issue and that how you cover news.

Brian,

In looking at your interview I was taken aback by the fact that you mention that particular professor and accusing President Bush of being patrician. With all due respect that is current MSM.

I mean he's one of a thousand professors and I'm just curious as to why you picked him. Did you have other choices? That is 1 man's opinion out of 300 million in this country, it does not matter what he thinks. It's like you in the MSM just want to destroy the credibility of this President.

I ask you in honesty did anyone ever treat Clinton as bad and some of you in the media. Sadly no. No one ever gives this President any credit whatsoever. They demean him, they mock, they say he lies, and on and on.

I remember watching on CBS NY a long time ago during a hurricane and I said 'what a nice reporter', and it was you. Unfortunately there are those in MSM who have the same think mentality and that is the way it has been designed.

Your questions to President were not good - he has given 110 million to the recovery, we have not had an attack in this country in the past 5 years, the economy is good and he has given more to Aids than any other president ever. Please give him more credit. You don't need to be like everyone. You can be different and just you watch, you will be a success. Why does everyone pick on the president?

Respectfully,
Jean Sember
New Jersey

Re your recent interview with President Bush:

Thumbs down to everything from your smarmy and disrespectful demeanor to the agenda-driven questions. Speculation about the president's
relationship with his father? What is this, the Doctor Phil show? Quoting left-wing professor Dyson to Bush as though Dyson's accusations were established truth instead of yet another tiresome manifestation of Bush hatred? And trotting out the equally over-used liberal mantra, "They don't
like us overseas!" as though it's already agreed that America could or should fashion an effective foreign policy on a Sally Fields-esque need to be liked.

This interview was so slanted I half-expected to hear you ask Bush if the rumors that he's stupid are true.

It's sad you squandered a rare opportunity to engage the president in meaningful discourse and the result was an interview laced with opinions poorly disguised as questions. I doubt you fooled too many people.

I first read about the interview in New Orleans on this blog (I get my news on the internet, mostly MSNBC.) I then went to YOU TUBE to see what all the fuss was about. That alone tells you how the news-deciminating process has changed.

I was struck by how much smarter Brian Williams is then the president. It wasn't that Williams was "disrespectful," its just that Bush suffered in comparison to the obviously bright, well educated professional. Bush is all about "deciding," like a child who enjoys exercising his will by "deciding" when he will go to sleep, or which cereal to buy. Williams, on the other hand, comes across as an adult, a man who accepts doing an interview on the fly because that is what reality has presented him. You get the feeling Bush thinks only of his image, like how history views past presidents, and not about how presidents actually accomplish things.

Brian I don't think you were disrespectful either, don't let those republicans / catholics tell you any different. Ok except maybe the fingerpointing to the chest near the end was a little excessive. It never entered my mind whether or not you were disrespectful. George sounds like he's winded, guess you wore him out. You know it's difficult for him to speak without a script or a mic in his hear. I've been hearing comments about how you were too close to his face etc, but actually I see George stepping into your space and all you're doing is standing there talking. He seems insecure. I guess I would be too if I was in his shoes and couldn't do anything but stutter. In some ways I feel sorry for George. You lost me on the whole book thing though, it seemed the conversation turned a bit heated on the topic of what George was reading, I missed something.

You're the new Dan Rather.

Brian,You are one of the very few good reporters at large and respectful,,,,you can expect negative response from the republicans, because they are grasping at straws to defend their sinkng ship and poor leadership of their Captain.
You asked very important questions, which the GW factor doesen't want to answer as one can see how evasive the our pres. was!!,,,,please keep the good and honest reporting a must in your career.

bush = liar. w - stands for worst ever! how hard was that?

(Here is a letter to my Senators Based in Washington DC for the citizens in Anchorage, Alaska...)

I cannot believe this country could re-elect to a second term such an imbecile as George W. Bush. That megalomaniac is bound and determined to get us into war (of biblical proportion) within the Middle-East.

Take an honest look at the intelligence that serve as grounds for our current incursion into Iraq. You and your counterparts within congress/senate cannot be so insulated from reality to suggest that war on Iraq is based on anything but a goddamn lie!

Too many of the significant players within the Oval Office come from the oil industry to be coincidental. If we truly had a representative government, it would be representing ordinary citizens rather than multinational oil company interests.

I have not been this angry about politics, corruption and our foreign policy since Richard M. Nixon. I am not alone in my feelings on this matter. In fact, it’s damn hard to find anybody these days that will admit having voted for Bush. If you cannot find the courage to help re-direct this Executive Branch in a more sane direction, at least mention to the president, that the word ‘nuclear’ has only one (1) ‘u’ in it, and is pronounce ‘nu-Cle-ar’ just as it is spelled rather than ‘Nuke-U-lar’.

I, for one, am tired of the constant Bush-bashing. To listen to Brian Williams and others in the media, everything is the fault of George W. Bush. Hurricane Katrina and the response? Bush's fault. According to them, it doesn't matter that the STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS HAVE THE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY FOR EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND PLANNING FOR LOCAL EMERGENCIES, AND THAT'S THE WAY IT HAS BEEN FOR YEARS. FEMA IS NOT NOW, AND HAS NEVER BEEN, A FIRST RESPONDER! How come we don't hear any whining from the governors and mayors in Texas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, who have all dealt with multiple hurricanes? Answer: Because they are COMPETENT (unlike Blanco and Nagin), and they were able to work together with the federal government without the histrionics and finger-pointing. Why did Nagin not use school buses to evacuate those who could not evacuate themselves? Why did he not follow the emergency plan that was published on NOLA's own web site? Whose BRILLIANT idea was it to designate the Superdome as a shelter of last resort, when they HAD to know that the Superdome is in an area that would be flooded if the levees broke and they would have problems getting people out of there? And why, in this Democrat-controlled utopia, were the levees NOT reinforced, even though it was known FOR YEARS that they could not withstand more than a Cat 3 hurricane, and Congress had allocated millions of dollars for that purpose over the years? WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL OF THAT MONEY??? But I forgot. Just like everything else, it's George Bush's fault. Oh, and George Bush blew up the levees, too. Just ask Screwy Louie Farrakhan and Kanye West.

And one more thing: "Brownie", the former head of FEMA. Shortly after Katrina, the media was focused on him, calling him "incompetent", and blaming Bush for appointing him, citing Brown's lack of experience. Hate to tell you this, folks, but Brown HAD TO BE CONFIRMED by the Senate, which was controlled by Democrats at that time (thanks to Jim Jeffords declaring himself as an Independent and throwing control to the Democrats). They love to grill Bush's judicial appointments, all the way down to whether or not the nominee beat up other kids to get their lunch money in third grade. If Brown was such an abysmal candidate for the job, why didn't the super-sleuth Democrats ferret that out during the hearings? But that's a moot point, now that Brown has gotten back in the media's good graces by putting most of the blame for the Katrina response on Bush.

Brian, (excuse me: Mr. Williams) you were not being disrespectful in any way that I could see to the President, it was a good interview with good questions. After all if we write the President he doesn't even read our letter, we just get a nice card thanking us for our letter.

By the way folks, as you can see by the many comments, this is what democracy is all about. The good comments, the bad grammer, and the ugly way some people responded is what makes America special. I would suggest that "we the people" take back America from the career politicians by voting, getting involved in the issues, and letting our elected officals know where we stand. If we don't like them vote them out!
One question not asked was, "If Saddam was so bad, when we have killed as many Iraqi's as he did, shouldn't we then leave?"

Hi Brian, I thought your interview with the President was excellent. I was really proud to watch you ask the hard questions. It made me proud to be an American again. From my perspective, your body language was a bit closed off to the President, but understandably so. I do have one question I would love to ask our President, How in 5 short years have we become the most unstable presence in the world? 5 years ago after the 911 attack, we had the whole world with us, and in 5 short years we have become the most unstable presence in the world. How did that happen on your watch Mr. Presdent ??? We are no longer respected in the World??? How did happen, is noone to be held accountable ???

If anything, Brian wasn't hard enough on the President. The President created his own PR nightmare here. He was told about the Levees. He said nobody could predict it. While Katrina was hitting and in its aftermath, he was playing guitar, touting his policies, and doing everything but showing up on the ground. Nagin, the Gov. were both equally inept in their handling of the situation, but Bush showed ZERO leadership during Katrina, and wasn't even a good politician. If he TRULY cared, we wouldn't have seen him doing his typical "aw shucks" smile during interviews where he acts as though everything will be sunshine and rainbows if we will it to be so. Bush says history will be the judge. I'm sure that when the books are written decrying him as one of the worst presidents in our history, Bush will be busy drinking, reading more "ecelectic" books, and giving his moron friends nicknames.

Is it that hard to believe Bush read The Stranger, given its subject matter?

Brian, Thanks for the great interview with President Bush. You did good. You asked tough questions and you got some "velly interesting" answers. Especially about the subject of Iraqis and Terrorism. I never have understood his rationalization of these 2 issues. I wish I could get a transcript of this interview.
You are an honest man, Brian Williams, and I appreciate that more than you know.
M. Owens

Note to Pat in Denville NJ, if you did not see or hear the interview, I don't think you can comment. You sound brainwashed.

Brian,
You're a joke. You will preside over the worse period in broadcast news EVER. Can't wait to see your ratings go down the drain.

Good night and good luck with that.

Brian, your declarations of respect for the office of the President are admirable, but who are you trying to kid? No one does a better job at disrespecting the office of the President than George W. Bush himself. I'm sure you, John McCain, Tony Blair, and every other person who feels duty-bound to show respect for the office of the President (despite the fact that it's currently occupied by a twit) can't wait until January of 2009, when we can all stop pretending to have respect for someone who so clearly does NOT deserve it and, hopefully, we'll have someone taking the oath of office who's actually worthy of genuine respect AND qualified for the job(in other words, NOT George Allen).

I didn't watch the interview Brian, because of the absolute bias of your "news" organization. Lefties like yourself and your collegues never put anything into context. Katrina was a natural disaster -- funny how Brian and his colleagues at NBC/CBS/ABC never seem to mention that it was President Bush who declared a state of emergency days before the storm hit. It was NOT the democrat "leaders" of the state. Funny too, how the other four states who were impacted by Katrina have made progress, the only one lagging behind is the one who has the Democrat Governor. That Brian and his lefty "news" readers never point this out is just more indication of their inability to put out the whole story.

Brian,
Kudos to you for asking the hard questions and not settling for the namby pamby answers we usually receive from our esteemed President. I believe we as citizens of a democracy have an obligation to hold our elected officials accountable for their actions. I sincerely thank you for being an instrument by which we are able to do just that. Keep up the excellent work. Thanks again.

i really think its gross,, saw some clips of your interview,, i wouldn't watch your show except by mistake. I find your opinions and atitudes archaic and idiotic, lost in the past.
get real, please, before you end up like rather or jennings or brokaw... a laughing stock to the vast majority of those who view you

Brian, I watch the three major network news shows each night (NBC,CBS,and ABC) to see which one can slant their reporting against anything that is related to the Bush administration.

These three networks and their liberal cronies have done more to further the cause of the Islamist extremist worldwide than any policy coming from the Bush administration. This administration has the stomach to stand up and show American strength.

I am amazed how much you can slant a news story just by adding a change in tone of voice, or the addition of one or two words added to the end of a story.

If this country is lacking anything it is the major news sources giving us just the facts and not editorializing the front pages of Newspapers or the 30 minute news cast on our TV's.

America is a country of people that go down swinging. Having said that, I'm not surprised that the 30% of the US population that still supports Bush, is trying to take cheap shots at you Brian, for asking simple and reasonable questions of our so called "leader". If people don't think the President should have accountability then my question to them is, "Do you want a President or a Dictator?" Bush loves to talk about accountability in his speeches, probably even to you Brian in casual conversation, but his own supporters don't believe in it! Now that's a failed President.

It's been a tough 6 years under Bush's rule, I think most of us are done with it, mentally, financially and morally.....but, in the meantime.....The Fleecing of America continues.

I have never seen that side of you...I have lost complete respect for you and NBC. It looked as though you wanted to punch our President. And the Shakespeare comment...uncalled for! What exactly was your point? Absolutely disrespectful!