Posted on 09/08/2006 8:25:15 PM PDT by Phsstpok
Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/9 and 9/10/2006
The fifth anniversary of 9/11 is Monday, and the drive by media wants to make sure you know what you are supposed to think. They also really don't want you to get a chance to hear any other versions of the 9/11 narrative that might raise questions about their approved one.
Meet the press has Vice President Dick Cheney ("for the first time in three years" - gee I wonder why?) for the "full hour" (not counting commercials, promos, asides, other business, etc., etc.). The drive by media is beginning to report, sympathetically, on Democrat candidates who are promoting the idea that the Bush administration, primarily led by Darth Republican, Dick Cheney himself, are the real perpetrators of the attacks on 9/11. I doubt seriously if Iil Timmah will broach that particular notion, but watch for subtext in the questions he does ask that implies doubt about the "official story." I'll be watching for emphasis on the new Democrat attack profile, particularly that Iraq is not part of the war on terror (which doesn't really exist anyway) and, except for being distracted by Iraq all would be perfect in Afghanistan. I think this marks the 3,761st grand strategy by the dims since January of 2000, and the 3,215th this year alone. Don't expect Darth to cooperate with lil Timmah's plans.
Face The Nation gives my area the first of three appearances by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today. I expect a similar approach for good ol' Bob Schieffer's questioning of Condi as I think lil Timmah will take with Dick Cheney, but with a twist. Once again, arguments of some "reliable voices" of the moonbat left are being picked up by the DBM about Condi, too. This time they are pushing the notion that the President's speech this week, announcing the move of 14 high value Al Qaeda prisoners to Gitmo, was some sort of "victory" of Princess Condi or evil Darth Cheney and the neo-cons. With probably no more than five to ten minutes available, given that there are two other guests, I expect ol' Bob to try to set up questions with Dr. Rice as intros for Chuckie Schumer to make this type of attack (Bob wouldn't broach such a subject with his Republican guest present, after all). How detailed and extensive Chuckie's response is on this specific question will tell me whether or not he had advance knowledge of the questions. I bet Chuck will also be given ample opportunity to denounce the ABC docu-drama, The Path To 9/11, even if it's been pulled or substantially altered already. What's amazing is that they actually think this debacle is good for them and, by extension, the country. I have a feeling that Governor Pataki is only on the show to be asked why he hasn't fixed that hole in the ground yet. He's probably not much of a threat for Hillary in '08, but her allies have to do all that they can to cut off all opposition as early as possible.
Fox News Sunday provides Secretary Rice her second appearance in our area with (probably) a more sympathetic interview. I have come to expect Chris Wallace to hit on precisely the same themes that the other DBM talking heads are hitting, but to give his Republican guests an actual opportunity to respond. Wow, what a concept! Personally, I would prefer that he pursue different questions, but I'll take what I can get. For amusement they've also got Howard Dean on. I'm actually surprised that he would come on Fox, but the rest of the DBM are probably obeying orders not to give him a platform to embarrass the dims. It may be that Howie is on FNC to try to sow discord among the right wingers. It might be instructive to see what the Moby plan is this time. The roundtable is Brit Hume, Bill Kristol, Juan (smack down) Williams and Mara Liasson. I trust that Juan will make some egregiously silly comment to provide Brit grist for his mill.
ABC This Week provides a selective reunion of four members of the 9/11 Commission, Tom Kean Sr., Richard Ben-Veniste, Jamie Gorelick and John Lehman. Lehman has turned into a reliable critic of the Bush administration on all things WOT, while Gorelick and Ben-Veniste are faithfull members of the Clinton Omerta chorus. That leaves Tom Kean as this weeks sacrificial Republican. After all, he participated in that nasty evil piece of filthy right wing Nazi fiction being put out by Rush Limbaugh's friend, The Path To 9/11. George Steponallofus must serve his ultimate masters and, therefore, Tom must be destroyed. And then the always reliable ABC roundtable will provide us their constant BDS review of the DNC talking points. ABC is intent on proving that, right or left, everyone hates Bush. Not as funny as Ray Romano, but pretty bizarre and funny in its own way.
CNN Late Edition provides their usual (much more) eclectic mix of guests. Dr. Rice is up for interview number three, but this time CNN has brought in a "fair and balanced" alternative point of view, John (I served in Vietnam) Kerry. I'm actually looking forward to hours of enjoyment from the foolishness that John Kerry can provide with this opportunity. Oddly enough, I have faith that John Kerry won't let me down on this. CNN brings in Said Jawad from Afghanistan and Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie from Iraq. These are voices rarely heard from in the rest of the DBM. I'm not real tolerant of CNN for how they "report" the news, but their commitment to bringing voices from the actual places being discussed is second to none. They also offer up Brian Jenkins, author and terrorism expert for Rand Corporate, and the Assistant director of the FBI for public affairs, John Miller. In their segments I expect Jenkins to get a sympathetic reception, because his positions lend themselves to criticism of the Bush administration, while Miller is likely to be grilled on "illegal surveillance programs." And so it goes.
The Saturday shows are more interesting to me this week than normal. Mort and Fred will do their usual "yes they are... no they aren't" dance, providing an advance look at inside the beltway conventional "wisdom," particularly on the upcoming elections. Lil Timmah's Saturday warm up show on CNBC has more than the usual (lefty) book promotion. They offer up uber dim Rahm Emanuel, and past tense pubbie, Ed Gillispie. Gillispie has hooked his consulting / comeback to George Allen's presidential train (in opposition to not only the dims but St. McCain, as well) and I have a feeling he is going to be targeted for some talking points questions. Rahm is butting heads with Howie Dean, but I get the impression that this wing of the dims is viewed as the safer bet for the DBM, so I'll look for friendly questions there. Fox News Watch continues their mix of the momentous (9/11) and the banal (Perky Katie Couric's debut). In all cases, however, any fault is elsewhere, as the DBM is only trying to fulfill their "mission." Someday there will be a reckoning for this generations "journalists." It won't be pretty. It will be particularly grotesque for so called "critics" of the DBM who obscured the facts, ignored the truth and defended the indefensible. I think Dante's model will have to add another layer to Hell specifically for these folks, unless they can be shoehorned into the 8th (fraud) and 9th (betrayel) layers. And finally, the (Wall Street) Journal Editorial Report gives us their usual serious discussion of where we were, where we have been and what lies ahead. I enjoy this show and look to it for the adult view of the week's subjects. This week I'm concerned that the topics don't offer any encouragement on this anniversary.
I don't despair because of this weeks shows. I do, however, despair for the old media, as they just don't seem to realize that we aren't sill operating under the fantasy rules of the 90s. History will not be kind to them, assuming we live to see that judgement.
This will be cross posted to FreeRepublic.COM for discussion purposes. This post exists primarily as a heads up for who is on the weekend talks shows, what they've been invited on to push (based on their recent pronouncements) and the spin (meme) the DBM is likely trying to push based on that information. All of this is prep work for the weekly Sunday Morning Talk Show thread posted by Alas Babylon!. That thread provides a live commentary and analysis of the Sunday talking head shows, with rare insight and exceptional fact checking. we are the Jedi Council of FreeRepublic, at least in regards to these DBM gabfests. You wanna know what was said and what it meant, as well as where they messed up? Read that thread!
I will also post a link to Mark Kilmer's excellent preview over at RedState.COM when it is up.
I'll post a link to this Sunday's live thread here when it is up.
They are coming to study at US educational institutions, which welcome foreign students and the chance to exchange views and ideas with people from different cultures and backgrounds. I doubt that the spreading of "Wahabi teachings or interests" would find a very receptive audience on American college campuses. I say that advisedly having lived in Saudi Arabia for five years.
I thought you might find this LGF post interesting:
Saudis Sending 15,000 Students to US to "Stem Unrest"
The Saudi government has approved its largest scholarship program in history.
They’re planning to send 15,000 young students, indoctrinated to despise infidels by the Wahhabi educational system, to the United States: Huge Hike in Number of Scholarships. (Hat tip: Sabra.)
KING Abdullah, who is also the chairman of the Higher Education Council, has approved a program to allocate 15,000 scholarships for study in the US and 3,000 in some Asian countries.
Announcing this here Monday, Minister of Higher Education Dr Khalid Al-Anqari said this is the largest scholarship program by the government so far.
The program will include doctorate, master’s, fellowship and bachelor degrees, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) report.
US college administrators are overjoyed at this windfall: U.S. Schools Compete for Saudi Students.
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Thousands of students from Saudi Arabia are enrolling on college campuses across the United States this semester under a new educational exchange program brokered by President Bush and Saudi King Abdullah.
The program will quintuple the number of Saudi students and scholars here by the academic year’s end. And big, public universities from Florida to the Kansas plains are in a fierce competition for their tuition dollars.
The kingdom’s royal family — which is paying full scholarships for most of the 15,000 students — says the program will help stem unrest at home by schooling the country’s brightest in the American tradition. The U.S. State Department sees the exchange as a way to build ties with future Saudi leaders and young scholars at a time of unsteady relations with the Muslim world.
Administrators at Kansas State University, an agricultural school surrounded by miles of prairie grass, say the scholarships are a bonanza for public education. “The Saudi scholarship program has definitely heightened our interest in that part of the world,” said Kenneth Holland, associate provost for international programs. “Not only are the students fully funded, but they’re also paying out-of-state tuition.”
Kansas State has boosted efforts to court Saudi officials in the last year, flying administrators and department heads to the Saudi embassy in Washington. It’s paid off: last month about 150 Saudi students started classes there, each funded to the tune of about $31,000.
Saudi Embassy spokesman Nail Al-Jubeir said 90 percent of the 10,229 Saudi students the U.S. State Department has registered for the fall semester will also get such scholarships.
By January, U.S. government officials say the program will expand to 15,000 students, which means Saudi Arabia will send more foreign students to the U.S. than Mexico or Turkey. As funding for the scholarship program expands, those numbers are likely to grow.
“This is a critically important bilateral relationship,” said Tom Farrell, a deputy assistant secretary for academic programs at the State Department. “It’s an opportunity to increase understanding of Saudi Arabia for the United States and of the United States for Saudi Arabia.”
College administrators say common misperceptions about the oil-rich nation make it crucial to create a tolerant environment for Arab and Muslim students, who have been singled out for scrutiny since the Sept. 11 attacks five years ago.
So, as Kansas State students enjoy a string of home football games this month, they also are preparing for the campus’ first celebration of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month.
“We really want to make this special. We’re going to truck in halal food from Kansas City,” Holland said. “The Saudi government is trying to place the students in a variety of institutions across the country, but where you get the competitive advantage is how you treat the students when they get here.”
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Cross posting to last weeks Sunday Talk Show thread
Until then lots of cold showers and rollerblading.....
ROFL!
Posted at 1:12pm on Sep. 9, 2006
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - Preview
MTP, FNS, FTN, TW, and LE
By Mark Kilmer
For Sunday, September 10, 2006
Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert talks to Vice President Dick Cheney: "the 5th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the war in Iraq, and the midterm elections." They had better also discuss the problems with Patrick Fitzgerald and his bogus investigation.FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Dr. Howard Dean, MD.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer chats with Rice, New York Governor George Pataki, and Senator Chuckie Schumer.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos discusses matters with former 9-11 Commissioners Tom Kean, Richard Ben-Veniste, Jamie Gorelick, and John Lehman. We'll be reminded of all that was wrong about that political commission.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer interviews Dr. Rice and John Kerry, the junior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
~~~~~It is politics in memory of 9-11, with Howard Dean, Chuckie Schumer, Ben-Venista and Gorelick, and John Kerry, but then again, Schieffer is doing a New York-themed show, and the only alternative aside Chuckie is Senator Clinton. I can understand why Steph would want do disinterr the 9-11 Commission, but I don't get Wallace and Dean.
We'll be told what we should think about 9-11. I wonder if Kerry will shed a tear when he speaks of the "Bushie provocation."
Anyway, (Phsstpok) has his entertaining preview thread up at FreeRepublic.
I'll have the show-by-show review here at RedState.com tomorrow afternoon.
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Dean: ABC Should Reveal Funders of Slanderous 9/11 Propaganda
This may play in tomorrows shows.
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And what might those be? If this is a very, very bad idea, it may become clear in a spectacular way.
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This could be interpreted in several ways... <g>
I did not fail to notice :)
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