Weekend Show *Preview* for 10/14 - 10/15/06 (not the live thread)

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[Darth Republican]

I hope you're not saying they need to find the body of a dead Congressional page buried on Dirty Harry's land before the DbM take notice.

[Seattle Conservative]

18 pages of land deals!!!! - - Oh what a tangled web he weaves....

Frist needs to get on this. I've heard (think it was from Mark Levin - but it could have been from a couple of places, including FR) that Republicans aren't street fighters like the Dims, and I believe that to be true. I don't want them to go down in the gutter like the Clintonistas do, but they need to start fighting back more, calling the Dims on wrongdoings, and be a bit more punctual about it. Geez, they are now going to investigate Sandy Burglar. From what I've read is that the DOJ asked them to wait until the the trial, etc. was over. - - IIRC that was over about a year ago - - now, they're just getting around to it. I support the President and Republicans as much as anyone (more than some) but dang, sometimes they look like, well, quite frankly bumbling idiots - - they need to get their act and their talking points together (apparently they don't receive the daily (hourly) faxes like the Dims do.

I am an eternal optimist and think we can still pull this election out, but the Pubbies need to GOTV and start hammering back (in a 'nice' way, of course ;-) - -
Santorum wasn't letting Casey get away w anything on the debate and Corker was going after Ford (he looked like a fast-talking snake).

I had planned on doing a lot of work around the house today, but just finished watching the Air Force Memorial Dedication. - -It was WONDERFUL. I hope a lot of people got to see this - talk about inspiring patriotism. If you missed it, it will probably reply on C-Span 1. Now I need to get to work

[Phsstpok]

great work, AB. You should send this to all of the outlets, but I'd specifically want to slap Fox News Watch with this because la cage aux Foley is still one of their topics this week. This is as obvious a case of distorting the news coverage for political reasons as I've seen in quite some time.

The Fox News Watch email is Newswatch@foxnews.com

On general principle, since it deals with media bias, I'd also send it to Reliable Sources. They take info via a web page form:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form5.html?25

and for grins I'd send it to FNS, which is FNS@foxnews.com

The Fox News Channel phone number is 1-888-369-4762

[Phsstpok]

That old brilliant street fighter, John Fricking Kerry, has a new slogan he's trying out.  There's a thread posted about it from a UPI story

Kerry: Bush policy 'stand still and lose' 

Watch for this phrase when he's on Fox tomorrow.

[rodguy911]

As usual you print words of wisdom. We have to get down and dirty as the situation dictates. Whether on talk radio, t.v, debates or whatever the forum, we risk it all by letting the dems get away with anything. And just like the terrorists if we let them get away with stuff we look weak and they press all the harder. They are just like Muslim extremists, you have to push their noses to the jail room floor before they get it.

[Phsstpok]

Even the AP seems to get it, though they're trying to spin Republican turn out as something unfair. Here's another thread

Dems Facing Proven GOP Turnout Machine
AP ^ | 10/14/6 | LIZ SIDOTI

Expect to hear more stories like this and extra complaints about Republican fraud and suppressing Democrat voters.  They're already trying to set up both an excuse for when they fail and the possible logic behind either legal action or, for the serious moonbats, for a revolution (or at least some violent demonstrations).  This is also why the polls are getting more rapid and more slanted.  Again, the WaPo poll from the week after Foley resigned was right around 50% Democrat and less than 30% Republican.  And they wonder why we don't believe them and call them biased.

[Phsstpok]

Mark Kilmer has posted his preview over at RedState.COM 

Posted at 2:47pm on Oct. 14, 2006

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - Preview

Rice and Bolton for the GOP - Dean and Kerry for the Dems. That says it all.

By Mark Kilmer

For Sunday, October 15, 2006

Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert talks to our ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton. After that, he slips into one of his little faux-debates, this one between Representative Mark Kennedy of of Minnesota and Amy Klobuchar, his DFL opponent.

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace offers us something which honeslty should have been left in the past. Q: "Have President Bush's policies left America less safe?" Answering this question in the affirmative (and "reporting for duty") will be John Kerry. He then talk to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about North Korea.

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer talks to Rice then to John Warner and Sam Nunn, who co-founded the Nuclear Threat Initiative with drunken billionaire Ted Turner.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Bolton then does one of those taped things with Bob Corker and Harold Ford.

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks to Bolton, Howard Dean, Ken Mehlman, and Levin & Hagel.
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I find it kind of sad hearing John Bolton defend the effectiveness of the United Nations, but that's his gig now. Secretary Rice always has something significant to say, and the Warner-Nunn interview on FTN could be interesting. Howard Dean never appears opposite Ken Mehlman, and I'm not surprised. Karl Levin is a sourpuss and Chuck Hagel is odd.

Perhaps Russert can ask Klobuchar and Blitzer can ask Howard Dean about Claire McCaskill's problems.

And as always (Phsstpok) has his Talk Show preview up at FreeRepublic.

I'll have the review in this space on Sunday afternoon.

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[Bahbah]

And they wonder why we don't believe them and call them biased.

That made me chuckle, but you know, the truth is that they come to believe these polls, even though they KNOW deep down they faked them and it seems to lead to a kind of dementia.

[Alas Babylon!]

I sent an email to Brian Ross of ABC News asking if "Brian Ross Investigates" shouldn't be renamed "Brian Ross Investigates Republicans" in light of the high fiving he's doing on his site regarding Foley and his lack of ANYTHING AT ALL on the highest ranking elected democrat....

After all, if your hyping yourself as an "investigator" shouldn't you be right down the middle non-biased?

Don't expect I'll hear an answer!

[Seattle Conservative]

That's the 1st I've seen that about Claire - -WOW! I suspect it will go the way of the Reid dealings - DBM won't be reporting on it. Now, if they were Republicans, well, then it would be all over and numerous times each day (as AB has shown)

[Morgan in Denver]

This always makes me laugh. And, just how are Republicans suppressing Democrat voters in Democrat strongholds with Democrats manning the polling stations and controlling these counties?

Those Republicans and Karl Rove must be really good to get past all this.

[Phsstpok]

Rush is fond of pointing out that the districts in Florida where all of the Republican cheating supposedly took place, e.g. the infamous butterfly ballots, are 100% owned and operated by Democrats. Same with the districts in Ohio where the vote rigging and voter suppression was alleged.

Their excuse is that the state officers at the top of the election pyramid in both states were Republicans. Yep, they've figured it out. The Republican state office holders ordered the Democrats to throw the election. Yep, that's the ticket.

[Phsstpok]

Mort is predicting 21 seat pick up for the dims in the House and Fred is now predicting 18 for the dims. For the first time they are both predicting that control of the House shifts to the Dhimmicrats.

Both think the pubbies will hold the Senate, but barely.

These children need to grow up and stop listening to the inside the beltway echo chamber. I'm going to send them a note and ask what kind of groveling will be appropriate from both of them when the Republicans not only hold both the House and Senate but what extreme thing should they be expected to do if the Republicans pick up seats?

Believe me, I won't settle for them putting a trash basket on their heads like Carville did in 2002. It will be much more colorful and should be designed to teach them a lesson.

I'm open to suggestions.

[Txsleuth]

Okay...no one needs to worry about voting according to Fred Barnes..is is OVER...THE DEMS WIN, THE DEMS WIN!!!

But, you know what is really maddening, and scary???

I heard an election historian on a radio show last night..and he said in 2002, appro. 39% voted that could have..and he said that projections for this year are about 27%...

Can you guys imagine out foreign policy, our "permanent" tax cuts...our war in Iraq could depend on less than 30% of the electorate????

ANDDDDDDDDDDd...worse yet, that it could go BAD for Republicans mainly because of ONE representative sending sexually explicit IMs?????

[Phsstpok]

More on the problems for Democrats in California because of how badly Angelides is as a gubernatorial candidate.

Angelides could dash Dems' hopes California's Dems might not fare well

What if Republicans pick up seats in the California delegation?  What kind of affect will that have on the narrative?  Even more what if picking up those seats is the difference in holding the House or increasing their hold as opposed to losing seats or control?

[Txsleuth]

I was listening to Mark Levin's show last night...and he played the hymns of all of the different services...very patriotic, of course...but also inspiring.

SOOOOOOOOO...my idea is to have a Republican get a recording of all those hymns...and park by the polling places in the close districts and states...and play those hymns loud enough so voters can hear them as they go into vote...

Of course in lily-livered lefty areas of town....it won't work....but in moderate areas, or places where the Republican "problems" may have the polls really close...it just MIGHT get people to really think about our COUNTRY and our troops...and what is important right now..not Foleygate.

[Phsstpok]

Start picking up the phone and making calls. Organize car pools to get voters to the polls. Make sure everyone knows about early voting if it's available in your states. Make sure folks who can't get to the polls or will be out of town have absentee ballots by the time the cut off for getting them comes around (here in Tennessee it's the end of this month).

What if we can get our turnout up to 35% or even over 40%? We certainly have the pool to draw from. Don't accept anyone telling you that they're staying home this time. Just remind them "Speaker Pelosi, House Majority Leader Murtha, Senate Majority Leader Reid, Chairman Rangel, Chairman Conyers, Chairman Leahy, impeachment, surrender, Jihadi nukes, no missile defense, etc." and they'll get the idea.

[mystery-ak]

I don't know what to make of all the polls lately...up until now I haven't believed them....but the last couple of days have me worried....every Repub pundit I have seen on tv all look down in the dumps....if the polls are so wrong why are they down...the only person that sounds optimistic is Rush, and thank God he is......

[Alas Babylon!]

That is exactly the way it was on Election Day, 2004. I had voted in the morning. Later that day, on the drive home from work, I listened to Hannity, who sounded hysterical, begging for and pleading with folks to get out and vote. Once I got home, I put on Fox News only to see a very happy Juan Williams and Susan Ostrich. Britt looked glum, Fred was solemn, and Mort was, just, well, Mort. Mara Liasson looked pleased.

I knew right then there was big trouble. I didn't feel that way, or my sense was things were ok, but "Dang!" I thought, "All the pundits seem so worried. Maybe I should be."

Vindication came about 8:30 pm that night, with the first of many Michael Barone stories. He kept telling us, while the exit polling was looking real good for Kerry, the early vote tallies simply weren't showing that. As the night wore on, it was plain that the pundits, even the conservative ones, were wrong, and all those who were basing their coverage on exit polls, right up to the actually tallies, were wrong!!!!!

I think it is happening again! The surprise for them will be on November 7th, when the Republicans keep control of the House and Senate. Keep the faith, and don't forget to vote!!!!!!

[mystery-ak]

The only person I respect and believe is Michael Barone...but he is even glum and does not offer much hope....I remember 04 as well and you are right about Hannity...I almost had a heart attack when he came on...I thought for sure it was all over...maybe there will be another surprise this Nov 7th...