Posted on 02/24/2007 2:34:59 PM PST by Phsstpok
Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
NBC's "Meet the Press"
"Fox News Sunday"
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CBS's "Face the Nation"
ABC's "This Week"
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The Dhimmicrats and drive by media are fully invested in the defeat of the United States in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, along with North Korea and anyplace else they can think of. Rush's new line is completely correct, they own defeat, but they don't see that yet. They still think anything that hurts the US can be blamed on Bush. Hence Nazi Pelosi's very public melt down and temper tantrum because Dick Cheney dared to tell the truth about how Al Qaeda views the Dhimmicrat's actions and rhetoric. This weekend's shows are all about blaming Bush for anything and everything that is wrong in the world.
And they're trotting out the full goose bozo moonbats to do it.
The Dhimmicrats are also starting their own feeding frenzy in attacks on one another, particularly Obama and Hillary. Her thighness has rolled out the usual Clinton attack machine that the DBM slavishly took their talking points from to start trying to chip away at Obama and Obama has rolled out his own deep pocket big guns to do a Michael Myers (not that Michael Myers, the one in the hockey mask) on Hillary. And Bill got a bit splashed in the dust up as well. The DBM, however, seem to be failing to march to the Clinton drumbeat as they used to. Whispered comments that "Hillary can't win" are to be found from unusual sources. Is there trouble on the horizon for the party of George Soros?
My comments on the Sunday shows, in the order they are shown here in Memphis:
NBC Meet The Press trots out Carl Levin after he had a chance to try out his rhetoric "on the road" on Fox last weekend. Old wise Carl will ponitificate wisely on how we should always keep our soldiers away from any danger as the best way to protect our country. This is beyond Orwellian and is approaching Lewis Carroll territory. Scratch that. Carl makes Lewis seem perfectly clear and logical. Following Carl's sermon Lil Timmah will sit down with two good old reliable journalists, a wise and upright scholar and a crazed right wing extremist masquerading as a journalist. Or at least that's how I expect Timmah to treat Balz, Dowd, Kearns Goodwin and York. In case you haven't guessed York is the crazed one (from Timmah's perspective). Clearly the intra-party controversy kicked off by the Dowdy one's column will be central to the discussion. The inclusion of Kearnes Goodwin, whose latest book is about how Lincoln was able to reach out to his opponents and make nice with the opposition (not how he stood to his principles and fought an unpopular war that saved our country), makes me think they are going to try to bolster the Obama as Lincoln meme. Not good for Hillary. York is probably there to bolster the Hillary can't win argument, but might he stray off the reservation and lay a little smackdown on Timmah over the Libby debacle? I doubt it will be allowed to happen, but It would be sweet.
CBS Face The Nation provides friendly interviews (I'm sure) with a "good" Republican, California's greenie governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the breck boy candidate, John Edwards. Arnold is on a three day swing ending in Washington for a governor's conference and a meeting with the President. No doubt Ol' Bob will urge the Governator to try to sway McChimpy Bushitler away from his nefarious ways. Edwards will no doubt be encouraged to weigh in on topics designed to win him votes. It's the CBS way.
Fox News Sunday vomits forth Chuck Hagel. I'm sorry, that's the only way I can characterize his appearances the last several months. The man is just that offensive on so many levels. Perhaps Chris Wallace thinks he's a "good" Republican and wants to promote his potential candidacy. Then it's on to Governors Rick Perry of Texas and Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania. Perry will be excoriated for his mean and dangerous health care plan to force young girls to take the vaccine that can prevent cervical cancer. No doubt the fact that there are ex aides of his working for the company that makes the vaccine will be teased as a scandal of epic proportions. In contrast Ed Rendell will have praise showered on him for proposing "universal coverage" for all children (even rich ones) at taxpayer expense. I doubt very seriously if either the ice storm debacle (global warming, remember?) or the thuggery of the Don Adams case will be even hinted at. There's no Brit Hume again this week and only Fred Barnes and Bill Kristol to wage verbal battle over the Clinton/Obama tussle and all things Iraq with Juan Williams, Elisabeth Bumiller and Chris Wallace. Not a lot to recommend Fox this week.
CNN Late Edition has a laundry list of guests, as usual, focused on discussing the failures of Bush's foreign policy and the prospects for a couple of Republican also rans in the '08 presidential derby. Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie will be greeted with skepticism if he says anything about success in Iraq, but he may make exactly that kind of social faux pas, the scoundrel. To correct any such foolish utterances the great, no, the legendary journalist, Seymour Hersh, will be on hand to expose the evil that is the United States. Unless Henry Kissinger repudiates his testimony before the Senate last week he will have the Nixonian arrogance to suggest that the surge is a good thing, but at least he'll say that it's only good in order to set the stage for the Iraq Study Group's proposed negotiations with Iran and Syria. Mad Maddy Halfbright will no doubt correct any of Henry's foolish notions. She will also expound (at length) on the deficiencies of the Bush administration foreign policy and laud the brilliance of the last two Dhimmicrat administration's conduct of foreign policy when they had the power. The segue from international affairs to domestic politics will come by way of Jane Harmon. She will be of mixed value to the dominant meme of our lack of progress in the Middle East as she refuses to go along with the notion that, besides it all being Bush's fault, it really is the fault of the jooooos in Israel. No doubt her well known ties to... those people... can be hinted at to discredit anything she says of an inconvenient flavor. She will probably be back on board with the Dhimmicrat talking points if the discussion turns to Homeland Security, as she is consistent in attacking the Bush administration whatever they do on that front. Continuing the turn to domestic politics Duncan Hunter and Sam Brownback will weigh in. Hunter is a target this week for daring to actually appoint people that think illegal aliens should go home to his campaign (heartless brute) while Brownback is still against the surge, but isn't willing to back the Dhimmicrats non-binding resolution. What's a journalist like Wolfie to do with such Neanderthals? If Wolfe has his way I'm sure he'd nominate them to fill in for the cavemen in the Geico commercials.
ABC This Week has only two guests and apparently no panel. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice will be interrogated (water boarded?) over her failure to solve the Middle East problems (meaning getting Israel to agree to die quietly) and the ridiculous notion of actually involving the countries that border and support North Korea to help negotiate a peaceful resolution to the nuclear stand off. Silly Condi. The Clinton approach was obviously so much better. We didn't know the Kim Family Dynasty was cheating until McChimpy Bushitler got in office. The Dhimmicrat's prefer the Zaphod Beeblebrox Peril Sensitive Sunglasses approach to such questions. Simply not knowing is so much more comforting. To reinforce this notion The Man himself, Jimmy the C, is the second guest (his initials have gone to his head, I think). His presence promises to raise the level of anti-semitism and the anti-American rhetoric to a never before seen level. According to advance reports of his interview the Magic Peanut Farmer will also endorse Al Gore for President in 2008. And now the circle is complete. At least in the Dhimmicrat party the lunatics are truly in charge of the asylum.
The Saturday shows set up the same themes that the Sunday shows will cover. The Beltway Boys alternate between the 2008 race and foreign policy, but primarily concentrate on things domestic, as is their want. CNBC's Tim Russert Show sets up his interview with Carl Levin on Sunday by featuring an NBC correspondent who says all of the American soldiers he talks to want to give up in Iraq and an author who sings a song of impending disaster with a chorus about the Bush administration's criminal incompetence for failing to protect us 100% from every hypothetical threat. I will try and watch Lil Timmah to compare questions between his Saturday and Sunday shows. Fox News Watch continues its slide into the tabloid gutter in their desperate attempts to avoid discussing any of the faux news scandals in their profession. Truly sad. I still say Roger Ailes should expand the show to an hour, give Accuracy in Media 15 minutes then 15 minutes for the panel to try to respond and then repeat the exercise with someone like Media Matter for America. Now that would be a worthwhile program. And the Journal Editorial Report provides its usual first rate program at a second rate time, with someone who actually knows the region and the players putting forward a viewpoint 180 degrees out of phase with the 'conventional wisdom' of the DBM. Such is the failure of the modern media, that the one program that actually offers a chance to enlighten and inform people on the issues is relegated to a time when no one is watching. I predict that JER will move from Fox to the web within two years, unless Fox has the brains to start streaming it themselves.
This should be cross posted to my blog at Wizards.townhall.com later today. 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 valuable 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!
Mark Kilmer has posted his excellent preview of the Sunday shows over at Redstate.COM. I will try post a link to his Sunday review when it is up.
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What an amazing thread!! Thank you for putting forth the heroic effort it must have taken.
Your thread is the first place to come on Sunday norning to get the REAL analysis.
These people are so lazy and self-indulgent. They pretape these shows. There will be no mention of the big news of an oil sharing deal from Iraq yesterday. Obviously, they did the shows Friday and went skiing over the weekend.
I like your suggestion. There is something missing in her skills to carry a full show; it's just not working for me.
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