Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 28 May 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 28 May 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Staff Sgt. Alfred Lanier, head honor guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; singer Tony Orlando.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Barham Salih, Iraqi deputy prime minister; Prince Hassan of Jordan; Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa; "Meet the Press" host Tim Russert.

[samantha]

Good post #194, it is true that Jefferson can now be associated with Bribery and he is the Poster child for what is wrong with Democrat Think. Pelosi is trying to bail water out of her sinking, full of holes,leaking like a sieve (republican Corruption) Rowboat, and the Black Caucus has a pressure hose spewing water back into it. I like to talk to other Pubbies in Supermarkets or Department Stores especially in a large line where we bring up all the Democrat Corruption and start laughing about how Jefferson hid the stash in the freezer like Steak FGS, and had the Hurricane Katrina Coast Guard rescue people by pass people waiting to be rescued from rooftops so he could get his Freezer in NO stuffed with money taken away from Looters and the FEDS. You cannot make this stuff up Folks!

[bray]

That may work in VA but out here in Paris, Oregon we had a moderate Republican against a Liberal Republican for Gov in the primary and the Lib won. I voted for a Conservative who got 15% of the vote. There are realities in Blues states that have to be dealt with.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[rockrr]

Thanks again to Alas Babylon! for hosting the Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread!

OK, I'd like to indulge this group in a little experiment if I could. If there was a way to set up a straw poll I would, but I don't know how so I'll just ask straight out: what Sunday Morning Talk Shows do you watch?

I'll go first:

Fox News Sunday - I do watch FNS every chance I can. I miss the "good old" FNS that was hosted by Tony Snow, but Brit Hume keeps me coming back!

Meet the Press - I will tune in "the timmy show" (MTP) depending on comments from this thread, but haven't watched it with any regularity in about two years now. It isn't that timmy disgusts me with his overt liberal pandering, but the show is boring with its useless predictability (Bush Bad(tm). I do enjoy watching timmy get his butt kicked by Republicans (happens quite often).

This Week - I've struggled through perhaps three "This Weak" episodes in the last five years. I'd rather go to the dentist that sit through another...This "news" show is a showcase for the DNC even more than timmy's, but unlike MTP, little lord steffy keeps a tight rein on things so that no one can upstage him. I used to tune it is to see George Will, but since he wandered off into the tall grass, there i nothing that attracts me to this infomercial for the Dhimmicrat Party. Pathetic!

Face the Nation - In my area it comes on opposite FNS, so I've seen it even less than TW...

Late Edition - I don't have cable....don't want cable...and don't miss a thing!

The McLaughlin Group - I know that Alas Babylon! doesn't include this offering into the mix due to spotty coverage, but it remains one of my favorites. Why? Because it more accurately reflects the chaos that is American politics than all of the other shows combined. Take a "round table" of contributors that range from the Lunatic Left (Eleanor Clift) to the Rabid Right (Pat Buchanan), set them loose on one another, armed only with their tongues and their wit (well, in Eleanor's case just her tongue ;'} and then allow John to capriciously override them all with his opinion.

It's just like "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" on politics!

So, what do you watch & support, and why?

[NonLinear]

David E. Rosenbaum, the reporter for this article, died in January.

They must have been waiting on Benson to die since last year some time....

[SCHROLL]

Geez Chuckie, if we're at full employment why do we need all those new immigrants?

[bray]

Thank you for your 14 sevicemen, we are so blessed to have families like yours. We can never repay you.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[Morgan in Denver]

This is still the heart of the battle that must be won. We had a similar situation in La Plata county. It took electing a new county chairwoman who then cleaned house and brought more conservative supporters on board. Together, they found a better candidate and were able to get him nominated. We'll learn in November how successful they were but it sure looks good at the moment.

[Txsleuth]

Hello....I am just getting here...will have to go back and read the thread...

Any "new" news? about anything?

[Morgan in Denver]

Welcome! Actually, it's been a good day of comments. Not enough on the shows, but that happens. No fights that I can remember. But, a LOT of good comments and things for us to consider.

MTP looks good and I'll catch the internet copy of it. No smack down of Juan either. Rats.

[Phsstpok]

Are they saying that constitutionally you cannot search the office of a Congressman or was it way it was gone about.

The basis for the claimed privilege is Article I, Section VI of the Constitution, specifically this part:

They shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

The argument is that searching their offices could lead to interfering with their duties and punishing them for their "speech or debate."  It's a thin reed, but it's the argument. 

It's a legal truism that bad cases make bad law.  The danger is that, once the precedent is set, future members of Congress will be subject to searches specifically to find embarrassing dirt as punishment for their legislative positions.  George Bush wouldn't do it, but a President Clinton (Bill, Hill or some like minded despot) surely would.

Since this search warrant was based specifically on a felony investigation and the Justice Department had gone through a months long attempt to compel Congressman Jefferson via subpoenae, which he'd ignored.  Further they had been rebuffed by official House bodies when approached for help in obtaining the subpoenaed records.  The search was the only recourse and was reasonable.  A face saving way out of this, provided by President Bush's 45 day "cooling off period," is for the House and Senate to insist on a procedure for serving the warrants.  They'll try to gut the practical effects of a search warrant by imposing unreasonable conditions.  If Gonzalez is doing to negotiating, which I believe he will, he won't let them get away with that.

[rodguy911]

America's genius has been it's ability to come up with the leadership and the will to bring about constructive change at the critical moment. But materialism and a false sense of security have been rocking a large portion of our society to sleep for decades.

Excellent post here.

One thing that is always in the back of my mind is" are there sleeper terrorist cells right here in the US just waiting for a wake-up call from some wack-job leader to try another 911." This time it will probably be something far removed from planes since we have alloted so much security to prevent air disasters. There are plenty of ways to terrorize a nation like ours so open and free.

Last week we learned,courtesy of channel 5 in South Texas, that at least two ied's and the parts to make 30 more had been confiscated by the border patrol taken from MS 13 border crossers working in conjunction with middle east type terrorists.

Since this is real, it should light a fire under the butts of Congress to at least seal the border if nothing else, but it doesn't. Politics as usual still rule the day, makes you wonder. Does it really take a 911 every few years to get every one's attention?

[Bahbah]

I watch MTP. It is the first that comes on here while many are getting FNS. I mostly do it to give folks here a heads up on what's coming. The format with Timmy reading gotcha quotes from the NYT, WaPo and the guests prior comments, is boring and predictable. If there was a scale for excellence in this kind of role, Brit Hume would be at the top with a 10 and Timmy would get a -5.

NFS: I miss Tony Snow (who always seems to be leaving me, LOL), but they have the best in the business with Brit Hume and Chris Wallace can surprise with the occasional good inquisition.

This Weak: It is hard to handle this for more than a few minutes, but sometimes I leave it on and hear something worth remarking on.

After all that, I'm more than fed up with the whole thing.

[Morgan in Denver]

If you caught FOX News Sunday, Durbin said he looked and he found precedent. Case of searching a judges chambers for evidence (judicial branch). So, he commented that there IS precedent. Where that goes, no idea, but it's there.

[Txsleuth]

Thanks...I am going to bounce back and forth from reading from the beginning...to keeping up with any new posts.


BTW, I heard something on Fox News yesterday that blew me away..I only heard it once..but, I heard that in Connecticut, the State School Board voted in a rule that says that if a high school football teams wins any game by a huge margin, the coach could be fired....

His "sin"...making the players on the other team, "feel bad", but losing by so many points.

I kid you not!

[Bahbah]

Any "new" news? about anything?

Check out the comments about Murtha impugning the integrity of General Peter Pace.

[samantha]

They have the Power to search the Offices of the Congressman because there was a Warrant signed by a Judge. Jefferson ignored the subpoena's for the Papers they were asking for, therefore they had no choice. The problem is that these Congress critters think that they are elite, and above the law, and this has never been done before. If this was a Businessman that had been stealing from his customers or committing fraud and taking bribes,then would not answer to the Subpoena, I am sure the elitists in Congress would have no problem with the Police, federal or local searching everything they have. They are just Beltway Kings and Queens that had to pass a law a few years back to make the Congress critters comply with all the Laws that the average American has to. Why did they need a separate law? That tells you that they were not abiding by the Rules/Laws that they wanted the Average American to abide by, like the Americans with Disabilities Law. They pass the Bills and it becomes law and they were totally ignoring them.

[Txsleuth]

Thanks...will do.

[Morgan in Denver]

ROFLOL..... Well.... look what I found?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1638493/posts

[kabar]

I actually live inside the Beltway and have seen the gradual transformation of established local businesses to immigrant workers, most of whom are illegal. It is simply a matter of competition. If we make the illegals legal, the illegals will again become more attractive. Until you cut off the supply at the borders, we will continue to have a problem with no end.

The Senate amnesty bill just kicks the can down the road and makes it worse by increasing the number of LEGAL immigrants threefold, down from the fivefold increase in the original bill. The illegals will still come compounding the problem.

[Morgan in Denver]

This is what upsets me about Hastert. The first tenent of the Contract With America was that congress should abide by the same laws the rest of us have to follow. I guess it's easy to forget that.....