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.

[saveliberty]

I will look for the link - I can't recall if I read it Friday or yesterday . Hopefully within the next few minutes. Okay? :-)

[Bahbah]

Santorem is doing a darn good job on the war in Iraq. He has got his facts down. I doubly forgive him for the Spector thing.

[maica]

Sen. Dole: The dems HAVE an agenda, they just can't talk about it, Americans would not vote for it if they talked about it.

Does she listen to Rush?

[lawdude]

"DBM=Drive By Media "

D'oh. Thanx

[anita]

Here 's this sunday's Media Nuggets

###### Brian Williams tries his grand-standing with the President & Secret Service returns the favor. [They did not allow him for more than 1 hour to enter his hotel room because President was in the restaurent].

###### Chris Matthews lives in his own paradise - ie., "fools paradise".

###### Two strikes already! - For the 2nd consecutive year, Fox News Channel Ratings was down 28%, while CNN ratings increases by 21 to 25%. [Fox News is still the leader of Cable]. Peolpe always vote with their Remote.

###### Trends! - CNN's HLN beat MSNBC in the coveted Demo. Glenn Beck beat Hardball by 86%, Prime News w/ Erica Hill beat MSNBC's Tucker by 70% & Nancy Grace beat MSNBC's Countdown w/ Keith Olbermann by 82%.

###### Jumping out of sinking ship! - Bianca Janosevic, who launched the TimesSelect subscription service quit NYTimes to join NYDailyNews as general manager. Glenn Frankel, Pulitzer Prize winner [supporter of Colin Powell, the French, all things anti-Bush and anti-Rice] & 27 year journalist is out from the Washington Post. Newsweek editor Mark Whitaker out & Jon Meacham takes over his position.

###### Treasonous Associated Press.

###### Treasonous NewYork Times.

###### Keep dreamin! - Ted Koppel lost his job after public [& military] outrage on his insulting of fallen soldiers on ABC. Now, he is complaining that he can't get to interview Rumsfeld on Discovery Channel.

###### Incuriouser & Incuriouser - Bush or the Press? -> The Anchoress' challenge.

###### F i n a l l y - Pentagon Moves Toward Monitoring Media. If you just fall asleep, AP will declare you dead.

[Alas Babylon!]

Lawdude, this picture explains it all!

Picture courtesy Rushlimbaugh.com

[TomGuy]

FNS


lol

Wallace cuts of Shumer's spiel and tells him they need to get on to other topics.

Dole interrupts and spiels for over a minute. Wallace finally interrupts and gives Shumer a chance to respond.

Wallace tries to interrupt Shumer, but Shumer is filibustering.

[DTogo]

She SHOULD listen to Rush!

[tiredoflaundry]

Sen. Dole hit the nail on the head, and Chucky yelled out in pain!

[Fishtalk]

Now he is one of McCain's elite advisors in his presidential campaign along with Armitage.

Allow me to start the day with a rant. Gets my engine started.

...So, Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State for Colin Powell, is the gossip who let slip that Natasha Plame was an NSA employee to Robert Novak? AND, get this, the vaunted Joseph Fitzgerald knew it!

This past week, the Washington Post and NY Times came out with lame rebuttals even though both of these media outlets were fanning the flames of this non-story.

How many millions were wasted on this joke of an investigation? How long before the American public who carries this planet on their backs gets sick of these out of control prosecutors and their media enablers?

Let's see, we have Patrick Fitzgerald, who knew before he spent one dime of taxpayer money on the Plame Game, that the leaker was Richard Armitage. We have that Duke prosecutor who, well hey the guy was running for re-election so surely we understand that accusing innocent people and ruining their lives is secondary to election victory. We have that idiot Colorado prosecutor who actually, get this, imported a child predator from Thailand because, well she's an idiot. Will the next child Karr molests get to sue the state of Colorado? How much American taxpayer money was spent on that joke?

And let's not forget those Texas prosecutors in the pockets of the Democrats who routinely charge Tom Delay with failure to wear clean underwear or any other trumped up charge.

They can't win by election, folks. They can't win so they appoint judges who legislate from the bench. Soon the American public gets a clue and starts appointing judges who know their damn job. They rig elections and fight voter ID even though the American public can't even buy a bag of bergers anymore without photo ID and we understand this. Hard to steal an election when voters are expected to provide a photo. Hard to provide photos for the dead people.

Now we have the age of the runaway prosecutor. This is an especially dangerous strategy because hey, Americans don't take kindly to prosecutors harming our own innocent selves. Those Duke Lacrosse players might not have been the prettiest group of adolescents on the planet but the prosecutor has flimsy evidence and likely it will all be dropped. Meanwhile innocents have been villified. And Colorado dances to the tune of the Ramseys and that idiot prosecutor actually quoted one of the main suspects in Jonbenet's death as reason for bringing back a child molester and goodness knows America can't have too many child molesters. I saw her news conference and I could mentally see the words IDIOT flashing over her head. Quoting John Ramsey as evidence to bring back John Karr is like quoting O.J. Simpson that sure that weird stranger killed Nicole and we definitely should spend bucks to extradite him to California.

Hey, it's us ordinary citizens getting hit by these prosecutors run amok and now we have Beau Biden, son of Joe, running for prosecutor in Dellywear and this guy has NEVER even prosecuted a criminal case. Not that his father the senator is a factor here and it's nepotism as criteria for the job instead of actual qualifications.

Now Fitzgerald has been shown to be a dishonest cad and Scooter Libby lost his job. What congress critter is going to be a manly man and step up to the podium and put an end to that silly PLAME GAME?

I'm done but I'm still mad. Bait me.

[snugs]

Fish, 56, is just one of a number of citizens and writers who have tired of the mainstream media – which she affectionately dubs “the lame-stream media”

I suspect you do not have much affection there LOL

[maryz]

The awful thing in this is that Scooter Libby could still go down for this unless miraculously the case is dismissed

And Fitzgerald still has a job! I am upset with Armitage and Powell, too, but I think Fitzgerald is most culpable. Surely, some sort of sanctions could be invoked against him -- even disbarment. Someone reported on another thread that Mort Kondrackek said Fitzgerald told Armitage back in 2003 not to say anything. I didn't see that it myself.

[Sal]

Good morning and thank you, AB. Phsstpok nailed it in his intro thread when he said (paraphrasing) that we're in a war for our very lives (a war that could go nuke) and they're going to spend the day handicapping a horse race.

For good reason.

Most of us here have understood for a long time that the Plame/Wilson crap is evidence of a DBM/left-wing-of-the-CIA cabal to undermine a sitting president in a time of war, including trying desperately to prevent his re-election. Ra^ther, Plame, Mary McCarthy, and I'm sure more to come of Enemies Domestic.

Quite a few of us here think that cabal extends into the State Department. Now we have some level of confirmation with the exposure of Armitage and Powell. When I was a little kid I remember my father saying, "I'm not sure the State Department's on our side." Now I understand what he meant and I agree. Enemies Domestic.

I can't wait to see if Timmy brings it up at all. Remember he and his wife (editor of Vanity Fair) have both been served by Libby's lawyers. They want that trial to go away.

Will he refer to the WaPo's tossing Wilson under the bus and conclude the charges should be dropped, or is he too frightened by his own complicity to even mention it?

[Bahbah]

This behavior used to be called treason.

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.

[snugs]

Great news and well said

[Laverne]

Wallace asks Schumer about Armitage as the leaker. Schumer defends Armitage....says there is no need for an apology to Rove since Rove leaked it too. Wallace reminds Schmucky that there is no leak prosecution, Fitzy didn't find a crime committed. Schumky says that doesn't matter, it was "dasderly", and continued to blame WH for it, regardless of the truth. I wish Dole had said something about what Schmucky did to Steele, but she was too nice.

[beyond the sea]

A Schmuch and a Sphincter on Fox ........ oh goodie.

[demkicker]

I am equally disgusted that this story isn't getting out to the masses because the DBM is ignoring it. Libby needs to grab the headlines by getting his lawyer to give a press conference, IMO.

[Carolinamom]

Powell was too busy covering his own *$$ to think about that.

[beyond the sea]

'This Week' is a 10 this week.