Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 3 September 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 3 September 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and his Democratic challenger, state treasurer Robert Casey.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., and his primary challenger, Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey; actress and animal rights activist Bo Derek.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn.; Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Salih; Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iranian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency; Teamsters president James Hoffa and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao; former Clinton adviser Lanny Davis and former Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd.

[jackv]

Way to go Santorum!!

[Carolinamom]

"Clinton....he was one of them."

David Frum's column today speaks to the topic of them vs outsiders (like Rove).

[demkicker]

Did Powell give any thought to the effect on our men and women in harms way when he sat back and allowed the Administration to be weakened.

Based on Powell's complicit silence, the answer is a resounding NO. CP is a traitor, plain and simple.

[shrinkermd]

Yes, well put and good post; however, what about NOvak? He knew even before Fitzgerald knew and kept the story alive by feeding it silence and teasers.

Time for both Novak and Fitzgerald to depart the Washington scene. A panel of judges should be impaneled to review and recommend to the Justice Department the merit or lack thereof of this special counsel. Then let us make Novak the issue. How about him coming on and explaining why he waited three years while people were being personally destroyed and bankrupted. Maybe Townhall.com should find a conservative with committed morals.

[tiredoflaundry]

Not sure either. BTW DU says that Rick is getting b***h slapped by Casey. I'll have to check it out at 10 am.

[mainepatsfan]

So he thinks someone making $200,000 doesn't deserver a tax cut but someon who makes $199,999 does?

[longtermmemmory]

All media outlets reporting the new MSM talking point, " The Republicans WILL loose the house." (don't bother voting its over, yadda yadda yadda...)

Bloomberg the boob is saying SMOKING is more dangerous than terrorism! Newsflash to mayor, bombs are instant death. Cigarettes are a choice and slow.

[mainepatsfan]

Those loons probably also thought Carter smoked Reagan.

[Fishtalk]

BUSH IS GUILTY!!!!

You're right, of course.

What bothers me is how Bush fell for this. Yes I know it was an election year, but he went on and on about how Fitzgerald was a great guy and he wanted to get to the bottom of it. Bush also admitted that he shouldn't have mentioned Iraq's attempt to buy yellowcake from Niger in his SOTU speech.

Bush got bamboozled by the State department with a little help from Colin Powell. Somebody paid Powell off, either he was blackmailed or got something for it. I have exactly zero respect for the man.

Then, while Fitzgerald's all busy trying to create the Drive-by media's wet dream of another Watergate, the administration sits mum about it all. NOW is the time for the Republicans, who are STILL the majority in our government I might add, to get out there and keep hammering on Joe Wilson and his lying ilk.

The Republican party needs me. I used to be a liberal. Liberal's minds don't work right. Republicans are guilty of thinking they play fair but get a clue, they don't.

[snugs]

I suppose it is a question of suspecting and knowing that Fitzgerald knew but another thing proving it legally.

I just hope the case is dismissed due to some technicality because if Scooter did commit perjury which of course was not what was originally supposed to be investigated then he could be found guilty.

[musicman]

"Santorum doing a good job up against BOTH liberals!! Fat Timmy is getting way too obvious with his bias."

Today is the first time I have seen this "Bob Casey" guy.

I hope it's my last as well.

...and here I thought F'n was king of the flip-floppers, and topic dodgers....to describe Bob Casey in a word.....

..IMHO....SLIMEY......in two words...DANGEROUSLY SLIMEY!!

Rick is doin' GREAT 2 against 1 !!

[Peach]

You know what I don't get about the whole Plamegate affair? The left constantly said that the Bush administration wanted to retaliate against Joe Wilson because he exposed a lie about Iraq trying to purchase yellowcake uranium.

But the Senate Intelligence Committee Chair and others have said that what Wilson told them privately actually bolstered the CIA's view that Iraq was trying to purchase uranium.

Yet we had Republican guest after Republican guest on television shows who couldn't or didn't make that point. They allowed the lie to fester for literally years.

When housewives sitting at their computers can do a better job defending the administration than Congressional Republicans can do, we're in trouble. Big trouble.

I'll check out the thread and the rest of freeper's comments later. bbl

[mainepatsfan]

Maybe this will backfire and some Dem voters will stay home thinking the election is in the bag.

[Solamente]

Excellent comments by Mark Levin on Chuckie Shoe-Muck Schumer!

http://wabc.freepgs.com/09012006/schmucky.wma

[anita]

There 's another kicker in this. About 200 College Republicans gathered in front of the Hotel to accompany the President's tour were all in smiles for Secret Service's action. Do you remember that Prsident personally escorted his Secret Service Agent in Chile some time ago?

[old_sage_says]

I wish Timmy Boy would ask Casey if he favors raising Social Security taxes.

[snugs]

For your State Department = our Foreign Office and I am certain they are not on our side. Nor for that matter is our Home Office.

Both of these departments go native and flex their muscles it is amazing in 2006 how much the men in grey still have influence.

[rodguy911]

It's a power struggle plain and simple

Absolutely mainepatsfan,and the same is true in Iraq and in many other areas of the world. Power struggles of those who tender tyranny and despotism vs. the voices of freedom. We represent freedom and that's why we combined with our allies to help liberate the people of Iraq.

Some ask why we are in Iraq? Many and most of the msm/dbm are all too ready to spin the war for freedom and out of control as just one breath away from civil war or at the very least a war of factions such as the Sunni/Shia strife that has gone on seemingly forever.But there is more to it than that.

The telegraph.co.uk ran an extensive piece on "how things are getting hopeless" between the Sunnis and the shia.(at least that was the gist of it). Now that Grand Ayatollah al sistani (described as a moderate Shia leader) has abandoned attempts to prevent civil war since he is being ignored.

The article sites the travails of an engineering student Sabah ali, 22, who switched allegiance to Sadr from Sistani after going to sistani reps and asking for "revenge for my brothers death at the hands of terrorist". He said "local authorities could not do anything."

But when went to the al-Sadr's office, and told them about the terrorist family, two days later Sadr's people had killed nine of the terrorists, so he felt he had his revenge.

Does all this sound a bit Bevis and Butthead inspired? It might but that is life in Iraq these days. In some areas its 'my gang is bigger and better than yours'. Is it pretty? No. Will the country sink into civil war, not likely,IMHO.

What was left out of the article is the reason troops are there to begin with.

We extricated a brutal dictator who constantly violated UN queries as to the status of his WMD's. Sadaam led the world on a merry chase holding,hiding weapons, lying and killing the populace.And as time went on and spawning terrorists every chance he got. His rule and reign of terror had to be stopped or be left to set an example for other terror states to follow in his footsteps.

We now see other terror states in the area,Syria, Iran etc. desperate to stop the voices of freedom who would speak out in this ancient land of Iraq. It's not in their interests and they will do anything to stop freedom and Democracy for getting a foothold in Iraq. Unfortunatly forces within the US, dems and dbm have come to their aid, making the battle even more formidable.Is it a power struggle? You better believe it is!

Those who could not see Saddams' ties with other terror types and even the Murrow bombing in ok city are just not looking hard enough or most likely don't want to see anyway.

The U.S. and allies like Britain stepped in and as they say the rest is history.

There are those who liked to say we did not find wmds but if you listen to Gen. Georges Sada from Sadaam's Air Force who supervised the airlift of 72 flights of wmd's to damascus he paints a different picture. Once again you have to look a little bit harder, and it won't be on the front page of the nyt, it's no in their interest.

Will democracy in Iraq be the same as Democracy and freedom in the US? Probably not. Will it take years to achieve and will the country become divided in the end? Few know the answers to that.

After all that is the miracle of democry and freedom. When achieved its people have the right to freedom of choice, not the dictators wishes but elected reps "of", "by" and "for" the people.

What those "on the ground soldiers" who are doing the hard work of fighting the war will tell you is that it(Iraq) will become a democracy and the people want it and many thank us for what we are doing in the war torn country.

As we face other power struggles, upcoming elections one should remember who is for freedom and democracy and who is for the Murtha cut and run strategy that surely will be the demise of a burgeoning democracy in Iraq.

There are clear cut philosophies here. One party will sell out any time any where for power. The other sends its soldiers to protect freedom and our way of life after one of the most brutal attacks on our soil ever!

In short are there power struggles in Iraq and in the U.S. and every where? Of course. But for me I choose Democracy.

[maryz]

So he thinks someone making $200,000 doesn't deserver a tax cut but someon who makes $199,999 does?

Wasn't $200,000 Kerry's cut-off too in the debates? A letter to the editor in the WSJ some time ago noted that if anyone's serious about "soaking the rich," he should advocate taxing wealth, not income. LOL! That didn't figure into Kerry's populist position either!

[saveliberty]

I am remembering when Tony joined this administration, that there was a series of accuracy challenges to articles published and there was some adolescent response from the press. He has been holding their feet to the fire, he's just not being offensive about it, which makes it harder for them to fight.