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.

[Phsstpok]

great post, but the eye strain!!!!! punctuation is our friend ;^)

I saw your mea culpa.  If you can I'd suggest using FireFox and getting the Xinha plug in. It lets you do WYSIWYG editing in a popup from any field, including the "Your Reply" field in FR.

There was a thread a week or so ago with discussion and the link:

Spiffy Firefox Extension allowing HTML WYSIWYG pop up editing of posts. (Enjoy Xinha Here)

If you can't (or won't) run Firefox then get yourself some form a WYSIWYG editor that will let you copy and paste the resulting HTML.  It saves considerable wear and tear ON OTHERS!!!!

[eeevil conservative]

OPPORTUNITY IS NOT BLACK OR WHITE!

Former President Jimmy Carter said last week at Coretta Scott King’s funeral:

“The struggle for equal rights is not over. We only have to recall the color of the faces of the people in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi — those who are most devastated by Katrina — to know that there are not equal opportunities for all Americans.”

The unfortunate snapshot of poverty exposed by Hurricane Katrina is not an accurate portrait of the equal opportunity available all across America. Carter’s comment dismisses the millions of black Americans who ran through the doors of opportunity following the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but he could not resist a chance to further stir feelings of racial resentment.

Our great nation was established on a concept once thought revolutionary, yet considered by our founders as so fundamental that they described it as “self-evident.” The concept is that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Although it took America nearly 200 years to live up to that ideal, the fact is that we are a long way from the struggle. Today’s challenge is to protect equal rights and opportunity for all of us...............(read it all......)

"Opportunity is not a snapshot of Gulf coast victims".

[Cboldt]

I was having a difficult time undestanding on what grounds Congress could getinvolved (I may be missing something, but don't see how they fit in, except if they pass a law that no foreign companies can operate US ports)

At least one Senate oversight hearing is planned for later this month.

http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_3525633

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a bipartisan group of seven House and Senate members demanded that an interagency task force on foreign investments, which approved the transaction, examine it more closely. ...

Although the administration brushed off worry about that deal, congressional opposition to the Chinese takeover of Unocal Corp., the international oil firm, helped transfer ownership of Unocal to another U.S. oil giant. That controversy also inspired plans by powerful members of Congress to tighten the 1988 law that created CFIUS.

Talk of major changes in the law has subsided, but the Dubai Ports World deal could reignite the effort. If the administration is perceived as not vetting the deal carefully enough, congressional skeptics of foreign investment may feel obliged to take matters into their own hands, said Todd Malan, executive director of the Organization for International Investment, which represents the U.S. subsidiaries of many foreign companies. Mr. Malan was especially concerned because CFIUS did not conduct a 45-day investigation on top of the initial 30-day review that it usually gives to foreign purchases of U.S. businesses. ...

"We have a relationship with this company because they have been a participant in some of our cargo and port security measures," Mr. Baker said. "Remember, our interest in port security extends well beyond the United States. If we discover weapons of mass destruction inside a U.S. port, we've already lost. So we do a lot of screening abroad, and our general experience with this company has been positive."

The extra 45-day investigation wasn't necessary, Mr. Baker said, because the company approached CFIUS in late November ...

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06050/657283.stm

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Actual security at the ports will still remain in the hands of the Department of Homeland Security, regardless of who runs the port business.

http://www.evilconservativeblog.com/2006/02/18/going-overboard-over-our-ports/

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A New Jersey lawmaker said yesterday he intends to require U.S. port security officials be American citizens, to prevent overseas companies operating domestic shipping facilities from hiring foreigners in such sensitive positions.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060218-113952-1821r.htm

[Bahbah]

He let Maureen get out all the DNC talking points and didn't show Mary's clip slapping her down - showed another briefer clip of Mary - no media bias, nah!

Heh, saw that. It tells me just how effective Mary really was. No way Wolfie was going to show that.

[rodguy911]

Many apologies to all for putting anyone though 409, obviously I am just learning html and not that well yet. Plus I am still sick. If I had split that up into 4 or 5 other posts it would have been a good idea. The italics came on and never went off, what a cluster.... Bottom line is IMHO, Able Danger was the topic of the week but by letting the MSM set the agenda we got stuck with Dick Cheney the drunken killer instead. And I will take your recommendations as well phsstpok.

[Phsstpok]

since I'm subbing for the top 10 awards this week to give others, particularly rodguy911, a well deserved day off, I've been keeping a running document with selected bits from posts.

I'm planning on a "special award" for Alan Simpson himself based on that line and the response it got here on FR, therefore I saved it:

"All you get from the press corp is controversy, crap and confusion."

[Bahbah]

Actual security at the ports will still remain in the hands of the Department of Homeland Security, regardless of who runs the port business.

Somebody better tell Lindsey Graham as he is clearly unawere of this. Yet again he runs off at the mouth before he has the facts. Not VP material, imo.

[Seattle Conservative]

OK, so we knew all week that 'secretive admin' was going to be one of the DNC talking points this week (though, if IIRC they've used it for sometime, at least since the NSA terrorist survellience became official). Pelosi, Dean, Reid, Boxer, Hitlery have all used it as have others. It's now 'official' Bubba just came out w it too. Pot-kettle

Clinton: Secrecy Sparked Shooting Reaction
Yahoo ^

Posted on 02/19/2006 9:18:43 AM PST by Sub-Driver

Clinton: Secrecy Sparked Shooting Reaction

23 minutes ago

Former President Clinton said Sunday the Bush administration's "enormous penchant for secrecy" sparked the strong reaction to Vice President Dick Cheney's shooting mishap.

"We have people quite often who are shot in quail incidents, so I didn't feel the need to get into the pile-on," Clinton said Sunday on ABC's "Good Morning America."

Cheney has been criticized for not disclosing the shooting on Feb. 11 of Texas lawyer Harry Whittington until the following day.

"I think the White House should have said something about it sooner," Clinton said. "I think that it's gotten a little more light than it would have because the administration has an enormous penchant for secrecy for not telling anybody anything about anything."

The shooting had little impact on public opinion about the job done by Cheney, which was already low. A Time magazine poll found 29 percent of those surveyed approve of the job done by Cheney, close to the 32 percent approval for the vice president in November.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581663/posts

[Cboldt]

I'm doing some digging into "who does what" at each terminal, as well as trying to find a history of "ownership" (for want of a better word) at each terminal.

Haven't made much progress yet (not that the information is hidden, just that I've been looking for only a few minutes).

• P&O oversees container cargo operations at the publicly owned Seagirt and Dundalk marine terminals in Baltimore.

[sanjacjake]

My VP..Dick Cheney joins me in our disdain for bias
press junkies...Cheney could care less, whatever you
think of him..unlike the "wannabess"...Jake

[mtnwmn]

"Do you know Collins is McCains point-woman in the senate for his 2008 campaign?"

I know they looked awfully cozy during the State of the Union. Collins was talking every time the camera came her way. She was very disrespectful....talked all through the speech.

[p23185]

Since a secret isn't known, by definition it can't be quauntified... So I wonder how harry knows this...

Therefore if Harry knows it then it is no longer a secret is it!!

[csmusaret]

There is a great photo of MoDo at strangecosmos.com. I would post it if I knew how.

[Cboldt]

Probably the more interesting research is "follow the money." There's an interesting symbiosis between big government and big business.

The company [DP World] quietly dispatched advisers to reassure port officials along the East Coast, and its chief operating officer -- internationally respected American shipping executive Edward "Ted" H. Bilkey -- is expected to travel to Washington this week for meetings on Capitol Hill and elsewhere.

http://www.washtimes.com/national/20060218-113952-1821r.htm

Ted Bilkey - never heard of him. I never heard of John Snow or Dave Sanborn before looking at this sale either. ;-)

[beyond the sea]

I think it sounded more like b*llcrap.

[Phsstpok]

Prepared for THWAP........donning my THWAP protection gear....

funny bit and the perfect is picture

I don't think I've ever seen reference to THWAP on FR before this thread, so is this a new adjunct to the Viking Kitties?  Kind of an in house friendly notzot?

If so you get credit for a good one.

[rodguy911]

Collins/McCain-- Rinos supporting Rinos

[Txsleuth]

Thanks....I wasn't sure when the legislation was done...but, I knew it was before 9/11...AND before Bush was elected.

[Seattle Conservative]

Thanks for 'controversy' - I knew it began w a 'c' but got sidetracked while posting (and hadn't had enough coffee at that point ;-)

[mtnwmn]

"I am sure the "tough and smart" comment is part of the plan to attack Republicans this year. Without saying what they would do differently, Democrats want us to believe they are, and would be, smarter in the fight against terrorism."

Sounds a lot like the Kerry approach to me. Didn't work for Kerry and it won't work for him.