Posted on 09/23/2006 9:56:13 AM PDT by Phsstpok
Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/23 & 9/24/06
The campaign to trash President Bush and beatify President Clinton gets into high gear this week. Perhaps now we know why the Clintonistas were so frantic to kill or discredit The Path To 9/11, because it had the possibility of preempting their re-re-re-re-launch of the "Clinton Legacy" (Take 843). This is a contest between the Bush and Clinton world views. Bush views the world in terms of western civilization representing humanity's progress up from barbarism. Clinton views the world in terms of America's sins and how we must be punished and made to atone for all the evil we have done to the peace loving people of the rest of the world. The Bush worldview can acknowledge flaws in America and western civilization, while still arguing that the good brought by western thought, such as personal freedom, equality, democracy and true justice, outweigh the bad. The Clinton worldview cannot stand so long as anything but evil is attached to western thought and while any flaws in the rest of the world (or any personal fault) is not deflected onto someone, anyone, else.
This was to be Clinton's week of triumph, staging his Clinton Global Initiative the same week as the General Assembly meeting in New York, upstaging the current president with his own "coronation" as the true leader of the global community (particularly of those that hate George Bush). But then Ahmadinejad and particularly Chavez turned the spotlight on their own BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) and it looked all too much like Clinton, his guests and the Soros Dhimmicrats were acting as cheerleaders for the clearly insane leaders from the axis of evil. That could not be allowed to stand, so Clinton's minions directed Rangel and Pelosi to fall on their swords (no risk, they're in safe districts) and condemn Chavez to take the heat off of Clinton and friends. Now it is time for the "Great Leader" himself to emerge and try to "move on" from this past weeks unpleasantness and begin to turn to "real solutions" that the current administration has sadly been resisting. Things like massive transfers of wealth from the American middle class evil rich to third world dictators poor. And there's this pesky sovereignty thingy that just has to be dealt with. After all, we can't make the world safe for Clinton's friends the people so long as American's some evil nations selfishly horde power and wealth.
NBC Meet The Press will host the coronation and hagiography, giving Billy Jeff a friendly platform to knock down softball questions about his failings and his successors evil deeds. He'll also be given ample opportunity to spin his vision of utopia (if only he were in charge). I truly feel that this could be the opening of a campaign for Bill Clinton to succeed Kofi Annan as Secretary General of the UN. They might even dream of establishing a true world government with Bill as it's all wise and all powerful leader. He's still a relatively young man, after all (watch for references to his relative youth and vigor as a key indicator). Hamid Karzai is probably on to take the slings and arrows of "Bush failed in Afghanistan," with the distinct hope that he may turn on Bush to a greater or lesser extent. And John Danforth, a Bush 41 insider, is on board to promote Clinton's favorite notion, the real threat to world peace is from right wing Christians. Rosie O'Donnell started laying the groundwork for this message on The View this week.
CBS Face The Nation provides week number two for John McCain to sell his "straight talk" about torture and his own maverick status. When they booked this it was probably intended as a victorious appearance after backing down evil George Bush, but the "Bush blinked" notion has completely crashed and burned. If McCain (and Graham on Fox) can't resurrect that notion then McCain is damaged goods and his allies in the DBM will turn on him. FTN may be his last chance and could even turn into his downfall. The presence of the Washington Post's political editor, and self appointed expert on what dims and RINOs should do to win, may perhaps be telegraphing to McCain that they only want to "help him get it right."
Fox News Sunday also brings on Clinton, but from the blurbs that have leaked it appears it was a much more hostile environment than MTP will be. My great fear is that the promo material provides the only fireworks and the rest of Wallace's questioning will be obsequious and predictable. Perhaps I'm wrong and that the anticipation of this interview is what prompted Wallace to be so negative and typically DBM like with Republican guests the last few weeks. He may have been building up "street cred" inside the beltway, either to win the Clinton interview or to give cover for the questions he planned to ask. I'll certainly be watching to check the accuracy of the rush transcript that's already up on FR, but it sounds like it was going to be a partial coronation and that Clinton lost it over the Bin Laden question. The reaction to this is going to be very interesting. I also wonder if Fox will take the opportunity to respond to his claims. They've got more than 24 hours to check Clinton's "facts." Lindsey Graham is on to try to spin the collapse of Saint McCain's revolt as a victory instead of a foolish quest for publicity. I think he may be seeing the abyss peer back right about now. And Juan is back on the panel. We can hope for a smack down of epic proportions, particularly if last weeks speculation by folks on the Sunday Thread that he was off at Democrat Reeducation Camp prove accurate and he is back to reliably spouting the latest talking points.
ABC This Week had what I think they planned as a funeral for Bill Frist focusing on his failure to get anything done, particularly over the tribunals and interrogation issues. The collapse under pressure from the people of McCain's grandstanding play will mess up that major thrust, but look for them to still try to paint Frist as ineffectual. They want to pre-damage as many potential Republican presidential candidates as early as they can, just on general principle. The Kean/Menendez race in New Jersey is not trending their way and it will be interesting to see how broad a brush they try to paint with when discussing it. If they downplay the significance on the overall balance in the Senate you know that they're throwing in the towel. The other possibility is that they float a few names to replace Menendez "just in case he's forced to drop out." The roundtable gives us three committed Bush haters. We might even see hints that some credence needs to be given to the 9/11 conspiracy theories, particularly from Rich. Oh, not because they're true, but because of the "seriousness of the charges."
CNN Late Edition offers up less superstars and more basics. Again I think Hamid Karzai is on to answer questions about Bush's failures in Afghanistan. Snarlin' Arlen and Jane Harmen will be asked about the evil Bush torture policy and they are counting on Arlen either falling back on some "Scottish law" nonsense or even breaking with the President and the deal (they can hope, can't they?). Haig is on to represent the beginnings of the current oafish policy towards terrorism, while Holbrooke is on as the voice of all wisdom (as a servant of Saint Bill). And Stan Greenberg offers up contradictory positions on Bush's middle east policies and the reality on the ground in Israel. They'll be picking the ones they want, after all, they've got all possible positions to choose from in his work.
On the Saturday shows there is the usual mixed bag. I think the Beltway Boys are calling one in while things sort themselves out. I think they've finally detected this little trend away from the Dhimmicrat's "tidal wave" and are trying to distance themselves from their earlier positions. They will still talk about "Speaker Pelosi" this week, but I think it's in order to dismiss the likelyhood. And the nonsense about Lamont going negative recently is laughable. Tim Russert interviews Frank Rich with his full blown broadsheet indictment of all things Bush. This is the road show try outs. If it doesn't elicit howls of laughter watch for a "Broadway performance" on MTP in a couple of weeks. The FNW folks are in full denial of any and all faults in their ranks, pushing their defensive walls ever higher and throwing increasingly anemic attacks at those nasty bloggers for daring to question the high priests of the 4th estate.
Bottom line, week three of the DBM's campaign for the Dhimmicrats and against the Republicans shifts slightly away from attacks on Bush (though not completely) and begins the hagiography of all things Clinton. The plan is to paint "the good old days" of the Clinton years as nirvana and imply that electing Dhimmicrats in November will bring those glory days back. Watch Clinton for the outline of their latest strategy for the fall. They must sell themselves as wanting to "help save lives, and help people see the future." What could be wrong with that? And presumably their opponents want to take lives (or at least exploit them) and deny people the future. Yeah, that's the ticket. And Clinton's performance on Fox telegraphs the simple message: anyone who questions anything you do or say must be attacked, personally, professionally and with unrestrained fury. The "war room" must be brought back and the rapid reaction forces must be let loose. Overall it strikes me as a bit of desperation on the part of the Dhimmicrats.
This has been cross posted to my blog at Wizards.townhall.com. 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.
Wow! They have electicity in Missouri? Next you'll be claiming they are using bathrooms now......
I hope all is well. Prayers up.
Alert, the 1962 version of The Manchurian Candidate is starting on Turner Classic Movies right now (Central and Eastern time zones).
YOU are soooooooooo bad!!
Actually, my grandparents had a farm in Missouri...we used to go there every summer...and they had an OUTHOUSE..ugh.
Yeah..that is what I thought...since Thursday..
Thanks Phsstpok...I have been "pinging" her to all of the threads...hoping she will answer.
Maybe she just went out of town for the weekend.
I am praying for her though.
YOU get some rest.
Actually, TX, the STL metro was spared any real damage. As far as I know, no one in this area lost power. Now those poor folks south of here had some real problems. Many homes were destroyed..
Hey Morgan! You know we even wear shoes on our 20 mile uphill walk to school, too! Good to see you, its been awhile..
I'm sorry.... I'm sorry.... I'm sorry.....
I have NO idea why I said that. I'm ashamed of myself.
(hanging head in shame)
Shoes?!?! I've heard of them here in Denver but they are relatively unknown up in the mountains. Well, unless you're talking about something to keep the feet warm in winter....
We had an outhouse til I was about 3. Even after we got modern us kids used it so we didn't have to go in the house.
That was back in the "olden days" when kids actually played outside all day!
I remember those days....I would hit the front door at about 7:00 AM....and other than meals...not go in the house until after 9:00 PM...
BUT, we DID have to go in the house, we weren't lucky enough to have an outdoor bathroom....LOL
Okay, thanks...
Maybe Bah just went out of town...I hope.
I take it you are alright...which is good.
I DID walk to school in the snow, I'll have you know...but it wasn't 20 miles..and I had a pair of shoes...but no BOOTS!..my ankles were always frozen by the time I got there.
Well...just because you live in the ultra sophisticated burg of Denver...no need to slam the folks in Missouri...the state that RUSH got his start in, I do believe...
LOL
allowed to wear pants under our dresses but we had to take them off when we got to school.
I also have the cure for half the adhd too. We had a huge playground, much longer than a football feild and about 4 blocks wide. We got to school every day about half hour early and played. Had swings, slides, jungle gyms, teeter totters. Had baseball feild, football, jump rope. (real slides too!! -- not short little plastic things). By the time school started we "blew the stink off" as my mother used to say. Not much tardiness either.
When I was doing student teaching in college in 70's teachers decided they couldn't bother to do the playground duty. Kids weren't even allowed on the playground before school. About half hour after school started kids were bouncing off the walls --- they woke up!! If schools would actually let them play before school they would use up all that energy.
No one even got killed on that nasty dangerous playground equipment, just a few scraped kneew and a couple broken arms.
I hadn't thought of it that way...but you are right.
We used to get to the school early..and play. Plus we had PE every year up through 12th grade. I don't think they do anymore.
And, we used to play DODGE BALL!!! Yes, we did...and NO ONE ever got hurt enough to even stop playing!!! No one ever go their feelings hurt either.
We kept SCORE when playing softball and baseball, too!!
And, we didn't have social promotion...we actually had to sweat whether we were going to get promoted every year.
It may upset some in Denver but this is not what many people consider "sophisticated." In many ways Denver remains a cow town.... and proud of it.
LOL
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