I feel a strange kinship with Michael (Moore). They`re trying to pit us against each other in the press, but it`s a hologram. They really have got nothing to do with one another. It`s just some kind of device, some left-right. He makes some salient points. There was some very expert, elliptical editing going on. However, what the hell are we doing in Iraq? No one can explain to me in a reasonable manner that I can accept why we`re there, why we went there, and why we`re still there.
- Mel GibsonA news editor takes the hot story of the day. People take the salient moments of ones life - Those defining moments - and Rocky`s got to be there.
- Richard O'Brienin the studio that went unnoticed for the full hour... Like Matt Cooper, Russert had testified to the grand jury on the Plame affair, yet at no point during the interview did the salient fact sally forth to the viewer. The pretense was uninvolved journalist interviewing involved participant: the reality was one pea in the pod interviewing a fellow pea.
- Anita MitchellFrom time to time in my metro column, to create the desired impact or slam home a salient point, I attributed quotes to people who didn`t exist.
- Aurelio Rodriguez