Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 19 February 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 19 February 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, February 19th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Chertoff; Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.; basketball player Shaquille O'Neal.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Chertoff; British ambassador to the United States David Manning, German ambassador to the U.S. Wolfgang Ischinger and French ambassador to the U.S. Jean-David Levitte; retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, formerly in charge of Iraqi army training.

[Seattle Conservative]

"Other thing is, press knows well that Hillary CANNOT be stopped getting dem.primary. They conducted a secret poll among themselves."

Recent polls don't look too good for Hillary. That said, I think if she wants to be the Pres candidate, they'll do whatever they need to to get it for her, with the help of the MSM. One of her biggest issues IMHO is going to be answering questions - - something she's never done - - -everything has to be scripted for her and in a Presidential campaign, it may be difficult to avoid questions (though I suspect the MSM will help her).

Hillary Clinton Looks Like a 2008 Candidate (Propaganda Alert)
ABC News ^ | February 17, 2006 | Staff

Posted on 02/18/2006 2:36:53 PM PST by yoe

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., simultaneously one of the most revered and reviled people in the country, is the subject of perhaps the most burning question in politics: Will she run for president?

[snip]Clinton, however, insists she hasn't made up her mind, but she's sure acting like a presidential candidate. This month, Clinton, who's up for re-election in New York in nine months, will be campaigning — in Florida.

[snip]"I predict this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." -

"When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, [it's] like a plantation. And you know what I'm talking about." -

"Contrary to … Franklin Roosevelt, who had nothing to fear but fear itself, this [GOP] crowd is all: '[What] we got is fear, and we're going to keep playing the fear card.' "

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...

Here's some more from the article:

Clinton may not want to declare her intentions because she doesn't want to confirm suspicions that she's using New York as a launching pad for her presidential ambitions.
A Good Candidate?

Political analysts say Clinton will be hard to stop in the Democratic primaries, but may struggle to win in the general election.

"There's gonna be one question on the table," Joe Klein said. "'What's he going to do? What's Bill Clinton's role in your administration going to be?' And I don't think there's a very good answer to that."

Added ABC News' political director Mark Halperin: "Hillary Clinton stands for what a lot [of] Democrats stand for: They're against George Bush. She doesn't have a set of ideas that clearly say: 'This is why I should be president.'"

Said Klein: "The first woman president … is going to have to be both strong and likeable. In other words, she's gonna have to be a genius politician. I think Hillary Clinton is pretty good, but I don't think she's a genius politician."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581317/posts

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Hillary Won't Run
c...bs ^ | 2-18-06 | doug mckinnon

Posted on 02/18/2006 8:51:58 AM PST by LouAvul

snip

I am a Republican who happens to have a lot of Democratic friends. That's the way it goes when you come from Dorchester, Massachusetts. And what most of these Democratic friends of mine tell me for private consumption is that their party is really, really, really desperate to win back the White House, and in their minds, for that to happen, Hillary Clinton has to get out of the way.

Their rationale, not mine, is that they don't think enough Americans, especially American women, are actually going to vote for Senator Clinton in a general election. While I'm no fan of polls, a recent CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll would seem to indicate that these Democratic friends of mine are on to something. When asked, only 16 percent of respondents said they would "definitely" vote for Hillary Clinton, while 51 percent said they would definitely not. She even lost in the poll to Condoleezza Rice, a woman who has made it crystal clear that she has no intention of running for president.

Next on the hit parade of things my Democratic friends worry about when it comes to Senator Clinton is that they really would like not to revisit the Whitewater, commodities, Monica, Lincoln Bedroom, Hillarycare days. Some of them worry, rightly in my opinion, that if Mrs. Clinton runs, all of this old, unpleasant, and somewhat unresolved baggage is going to be run on a loop by certain conservative, Christian, and even Democratic groups. The obvious question of these friends being: "Why should our party relive that pain?"

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581135/posts

[rodguy911]

Great, can't wait!

[p23185]

Mara: There is remarkable consensus (65% of Americans) who think Cheney should have come out sooner with the info. But 69% said it will not make them change their minds about the VP. The press thinks the WH is too secretive and the VP's power is unchecked.

And I am sure with the appropriately worded questions a pollster could come up "95% of Americans believe Cheney should step down immediately." What utter non-sense!

[rodguy911]

Really good maggie all your stuff.!!

[Peach]

Difference was Hilly people were being paid by the Govt thus the records were public Docs she illegitimately stifled, the people who met with Cheney VOLUNTEERED their time and thus the public records rule did not apply.

I never knew that. Good point and good to know.

[Darth Republican]

Will Rogers said...
Our constitution protects aliens, drunks, and U.S. Senators.

Two out of three ain't bad.

[chiller]

re: Dowd's endowments; Deep down she's got to know that's why she got the job...that and her scarlet red hair. Deep down that would make one very sad, moreso when everyone dumps on what she thinks and writes.

She must ask if she got her job because of her breasts.

[altura]

Isn't that 'zip, zero, nada?'

[rodguy911]

Got a link for that CD I missed it as well.

[McGruff]

Chris Wallace just saying ...because there was no other news out there.

That statement just shows how much Chris Wallace is just another MSM clone.

1: Al Gore's outrageous statement in Saudi Arabia.
2: The Able Danger hearings this week.
3: The Saddam WMD revelations this past week.

But I'm just a armature in pajamas compared to a career news man like him.

We want Brit or Tony back!

[altura]

A beer at lunch ain't drinkin'

[LibLieSlayer]

With James as First Lady? NEVER!

LLS

[Seattle Conservative]

"I'll betcha David Gregory had lots of kids in school wipe boogars on him."

LOL! I'll bet you're right!

[tioga]

Amen, Brother John!!!

[snugs]

Well he looks like an alien in the Star Trek sort of way so you may well have 3 out of 3 :0)

[Peach]

Drudge has details that the Antique Media plans another week of coverage about quailgate.

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581625/posts

[Peach]

Your post bears repeating:

Chris Wallace just saying ...because there was no other news out there.

That statement just shows how much Chris Wallace is just another MSM clone.

1: Al Gore's outrageous statement in Saudi Arabia.
2: The Able Danger hearings this week.
3: The Saddam WMD revelations this past week.

[johnny7]

More like having his snot-locker kicked in.

[Txsleuth]

Just turned on Wolfie....and Jane Harman just said that Bush needs to get rid of Rummy!!!

[Mo1]

A beer at lunch ain't drinkin'

No it's not

Though the holier then tho press .. who I'm sure drinks up a storm at their political get togethers and then drives home wants to paint Cheney as an alcoholic

Oh geez .. Bob Novak is on FNC saying that Andy Card isn't really a chief of staff