Posted on 11/04/2006 2:53:44 PM PST by Phsstpok
Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 4 and 5, 2006
It's the last weekend shows before we change over from campaign mode to litigation mode in this election cycle and the Dhimmicrats and the DBM are in full on hysterics. This is particularly true of the "experts" like Sabato and Cook, who both have been predicting huge wins for their political masters as part of the psyops campaign being waged by Soros and company. Cook is now as much as 10 points off of polls like Rasmussen in some races where the trend is clearly for the Republican but he doesn't want to let it go. But he's also reduced to making these increasingly bizarre claims on shows like Chris Matthews as old media types scramble to save what's left of their reputations. I've got a surprise for you fellas, it's too late. Even NPR's (and Fox News') Juan Williams admits the the old media types like CNN '(are) in the tank' for the Democrats.
With the exception of CNN the line ups this week are arguably reasonable, but that doesn't count the relentless propaganda campaign that has been waged against some of the Republican guests and the outrageous cover ups being perpetrated to protect all Dhims all the time. I don't think that Henry Waxman admitting that he was a serial killer in a speech on the floor of the House would make the DBM's top news right now. And all you need to do is search for stories on Libby Dole to find a constant stream of criticism and denigration. CNN's line up is simply obscene. There are only two Republicans (one of them questionable) and eleven folks with severe BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome), twelve if understand Lindsey's true nature. Hoekstra is undoubtedly on to answer why he put Saddam's nuclear weapons blueprints on the internet for all to see (a charge I think he ought to be able to knock out of the park, mind you) while Lindsey Graham was no doubt invited to comment on Dick Cheney's endorsement of water boarding.
Anyway, enough preliminaries, on to the shows.
NBC Meet The Press brings together the two traveling road shows of the respective chairs of the Senate and House campaign committees for both parties. Chucky and Liddy have been making the rounds of TV shows and college campuses for some time now. They're very "collegial," in the old fashioned way where the Dhim is vicious and nasty but still expects the Republican to be nice at all times. Unfortunately Liddy, like her husband, is that kind of Republican. She's taken a beating this entire electin cycle and is clearly set up as the "fall guy" (other than Bush) if the Republicans don't do well in the Senate. Chuck, on the other hand, is almost universally disliked in the Senate by members of both parties, but he is being set up as the "king maker" and power broker, ala Lyndon Johnson. On the House side Tom Reynolds is one of the DBM targets in the Foley cross hairs while Rahm Emanuel is being talked about as some sort of Zen master. With cooperation from their print allies in old media NBC has set this up as a pre-race victory lap for the Dhimmicrats and a pre-mortem for the Republicans. I will look closely for any hedging by lil' Timmah, along with what his body language is (hunch or no hunch when questioning Dole and Reynolds?) to give me a clue about what he really believes will happen on Tuesday.
CBS Face The Nation offers up Bill Frist as a symbol of the (soon to be) departing Republicans and Joe Biden as the emblem of the coming Dhimmicrat golden age of dominance. Bob Schieffer is joined by Stuart Rothenberg, another of the "political gurus" predicting massive losses for the Republicans. This is the left wing "preaching to the choir" and expecting all of us to sing along to their imaginary tune. I'm betting Shieffer's closing comment will be one of the most smarmy and insulting ever. Who knows? If my predictions are right it may just be old Bob's last such commentary.
Fox News Sunday Has Boehner, Steele and McCaskill as the guests, plus a "classic" Sunday panel. Boehner is being targeted as the Republican antidote to Kerry's Freudian slip. So far the attempts to make hay out of his comments about Rumsfeld and the generals on the ground just don't have the same ring nor does he have a history of treason as John F'n does. Steele is definitely on the move and, IMHO, likely to defeat Cardin. He may be destined for national office in the coming years. McCaskill, on the other hand, isn't ready for prime time. The more face time she has the worse she comes across. Chris Wallace is a reliable predictor of the inside the beltway "smart set" sentiment and is likely to be totally captured by the drum beat of "Republicans lose, Democrats win." If so he may completely embarrass himself this week.
ABC This Week repeats their stunt of a taped interview with an administration official, this time Dick Cheney, followed by "equal time," live, for the Democrats, this time represented by Howard "the scream" Dean. ABC World News already pulled out some "juicy" tidbits last night so it's evident that Howard and company will have ample time to work on their sound bites and attacks on "the second most hated man on Earth" (George Bush being the first in their minds). I find this tactic to be totally transparent and reprehensible. I find it worse that no one is commenting on it outside of FReepers and a few conservative blogs. The old media will have a lot to answer for over their increasingly destructive and dishonest tactics and outrageous bias. And once again the Bush Derangement Syndrome panel will be in full swing. I really want to see these people next week if things don't go as they're predicting. They are way too invested in this to survive anything less than total victory for the Dhims.
CNN Late Edition is, as stated earlier, an amazing example of CNN being "in the tank" for the Dhimmicrats. The amount of hate directed at George Bush from this one program would be dangerous for most normal people, but our President is made of stronger stuff. Thank goodness. I expect particularly insane rants from Maxine (millions for the Crips and Bloods but not a dime for defense) Waters and Max (blown up by his own dropped grenade while drinking beer with his buddies) Cleland. Lou Dobbs is reportedly thinking of running for President, so he could either play this as a statesman or be in full Jack Cafferty melt down mode. I'm betting on the latter. Boxer and Frank are undoubtedly on a charm offensive and will talk about mom and apple pie till we all want to barf. Hoekstra is in for a fierce attack over the Iraqi document dump, but he's got the perfect rebuttal in that the documents in question prove that Saddam had active WMD programs just as we said before the war. That could be a fiery and very interesting exchange. The media types have one last chance to sell their snake oil and sound wise before they have to begin back tracking and eating crow. When these drones get confronted with what they've done and said during this campaign (if ever) it won't be pretty.
The Saturday shows follow their usual pattern and are watch able to the same degree as they always are (definitely for JER, maybe, maybe not for the others). There is one addition to the mix this weekend, though. Fox is showing an edited version of the documentary "Obsession," about how the US is presented in the Arab media, schools and popular culture (Saturday at 7 PM CST, Sunday at 9 PM CST, Fox News Channel). This is perhaps the most significant program of the entire election cycle. I wish they'd shown it weeks ago and unedited.
Bottom line, all restraints are off and all logic or ethical guidelines are out the window. This is all or nothing for the DBM and Dhimmicrats and I think they see a very bleak future starting on Wednesday morning. Needless to say I'll be watching closely.
This will be 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!
Here's a link to Mark Kilmer's excellent preview of the Sunday shows over at RedState.COM. He beat me again this week. Of course, the fact that I was out of state the last two weeks, so I don't feel too bad, but I'll try to do better starting next weekend.
I'll also post a link to this Sunday's live thread here when it is up.
have at it.
Here’s video of Cheney’s comments on the Vanity Fair piece. The full interview will air tomorrow on This Week with George Stephanopoulos. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iovdIiSE8T8&eurl=
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LOL...yeah, if Tuesday is as "bad" as 2004, we might just have to have a ticker tape parade to get rid of our depression....hehe
If Hoekstra is SMART, and interested in staying in the majority....he will use his time tomorrow to shake his pom-poms at the NYTimes for "finally admitting that Bush was right" about going into Iraq...
Rather than even hinting at blaming anyone in the Admin for putting those docs on the internet.
Did you see the thread from Iraq....with the Gold Star Families...and kristinn, with Move America Forward???
Yes I did and they are in my prayers. This is a terrible time to go to Iraq. I hope they know what they are doing.
You are right...but, I am sure that if my son had died over there....I would not be afraid...it would be too important to see where he last "lived"...
I am glad they are going to areas of Iraq that the MSM never shows.
I think it says a lot that the Kurds have ASKED the USA to build a permanent military base there....
There are Iraqis that appreciate what we have sacrificed...and I don't mean money.
I was SO hoping that there would be more "good guys" on this last Sunday before the election...but, that was too much to ask I guess.
Did you ever see the Tracy / Hepburn movie Pat and Mike? She's a fantastic female athlete, in multiple sports, kind of like Babe Didrickson Zaharias. He's a tough guy sports promoter. The fall in love and, during that process, someone asks him what he sees in that skinny girl. His reply is there's "not much meat on her, but what's there is cherce."
That's how I view todays (real) Republicans. The list includes some "cherce" guests, such as VP Cheney, Majority Leader Boehner, Michael Steele, and Pete Hoekstra. Granted, a lopsided list of guests overall, but we've got some real heavy hitters in there.
And I am sure you are right as well.
I think it says a lot that the Kurds have ASKED the USA to build a permanent military base there....
I would sleep better at night if my son were there. That is for sure.
There are Iraqis that appreciate what we have sacrificed...and I don't mean money.
Of course there are. There are millions of them. You just don't hear about them in the MSM.
I heard Steffie say that Adelman and Perl in the piece saying what seem to be awful things about the Administration. I have already seen the responses coming in from these guys and Frum and Ledeen and they are furious. They were misquoted, taken out of context and, in addition, were promised this would not be published before the election. Will Steffie make anyone aware of their angry rebuttles? I don't think so.
Very true...at least they weren't all Lindsay Graham's and Liddy Dole's...
The News Watch guys are NOT getting what the deal was on the Kerry story. They are missing it entirely.
Hi everyone!
Sleuth - I totally concur w you! Boehner is getting better and Chuckie and Rahm make me cringe (and gives me the heebee jeebees)- - especially the later even when he was in the WH - what a lying snake.
Fox News said she is in Pennsylvania today, campaigning!
Superb job again! Hope you're feeling well!
The "preview" part is here:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2006/12/neocons200612
Mike Ledeen's response here:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MjQ0OTQyNTdhNWE0NzAxNGMxYWQ2ODAxOTNjNWM4M2E=
Michael Rubin's response here:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzdjZDhjM2Y3YzUzNzU1NmJmYzRkYzI0Mzk2Njg0ODU=
Yes....I pray that your son is okay...I know there is a LOT of tension in anticipation of Saddam's verdict and sentence..
I have to say that jon carry's little stunt last week has truly intensified our respect and prayers for our troops, here on FR...and I betcha it is that way across America right now.
Have you heard from your son about that??
Great way of looking at it, Phsstpok! And, of course, you are correct (as usual ;-) Cheney and Steele are among the cream of the crop. And, I've always liked Hoekstra and he's come out fairly strong about the documents thus far, and Boehner is getting better as he gets more face time (plus, IMHO he has a great voice!)
First of all...they should NEVER have believed that Vanity Fair would wait until after the election...sheesh.
Second of all...if they had watched what they said...they wouldn't have to be MAD now. Frum and Ledeen have been know to be very outspoked against the Administration..no surprise there.
If the Beltway Boys on Fox are a harbinger of the Sunday shows it is gloom and doom for the Republicans. They estimated and predicted 22 to 30 loss in the House and 4-6 loss in the Senate. Guaranteeing according to them a RAT House and a good chance for a RAT Senate.
All the doom and gloom is based on the polls. Allegedly Republicans are a fast disappearing species and are about to be overtaken and stamped out by the liberal Democrats who are claiming to be more "conservative" than they have been.
The polls are all based on a preponderance of RAT voters even though the exit polls in 2004 showed 37% RAT and 37% Republican.
All are in full cry the war is lost and we should "cut and run." A disaster awaits us if they are right.
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