Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 15 April 2007

Various big media television networks ^ | 15 April 2007 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; the Rev. Al Sharpton; Thomas Blanton, director of the National Security Archive.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Retired Gen. Anthony Zinni.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Vice President Dick Cheney.

THIS WEEK (ABC): New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; comedian Rich Little.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Walter Mondale, former vice president; Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Jim Webb, D-Va.; Marc Morial, president and CEO, National Urban League; Amy Holmes, one-time speechwriter for former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist; Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president, Children's Defense Fund; Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute; Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh.

[Txsleuth]

Yeah...notice the word “CONSERVATIVE” in their opening salvo.

[rodguy911]

Exactly, Imus is a confusing figure at best, trying to stereotype him into a little pigeon hole will simply not work.

[AliVeritas]

Hey rod, even the O&A guys are heated... and they can't stand Imus, complete with a graphic. They see what's coming:

[AliVeritas]

Former Clinton CENTCOM commander Zinni? Of course he is.

[rodguy911]

Methinks the pendulum may swing.

[AliVeritas]

General Amnesia: A Tale of Two Zinnis
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/04/general_amnesia_a_tale_of_two.html

General Zinni and Pre-War Intelligence
http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/04/general_zinni_and_prewar_intel.html

[AliVeritas]

Short Version:

Former Clinton CENTCOM commander, Anthony Zinni — the most prominent of the retired generals attacking Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld — now says that, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, “What bothered me ... [was that] I was hearing a depiction of the intelligence that didn’t fit what I knew. There was no solid proof, that I ever saw, that Saddam had WMD.”

But in early 2000, Zinni told Congress “Iraq remains the most significant near-term threat to U.S. interests in the Arabian Gulf region,” adding, “Iraq probably is continuing clandestine nuclear research, [and] retains stocks of chemical and biological munitions ... Even if Baghdad reversed its course and surrendered all WMD capabilities, it retains scientific, technical, and industrial infrastructure to replace agents and munitions within weeks or months.”

Zinni’s a gooood buddy of Pakistan as well.

[Txsleuth]

Very interesting...

Did you see the reference to justoneminute in the comments section?

[Miss Marple]

Right! (Isn’t that what I said? I admit to getting confused once in a while.)

[Miss Marple]

I LOVE “what Not to Wear!” whenever I feel bad about my appearance or wardrobe, I watch Clinton and Stacy and whoever their project is, and suddenly I feel that I am a woman of impeccable taste! LOL!

[kabar]

The RU roster includes girls from Newark, Paterson, Camden and Montvale NJ plus girls from the Bronx, Brooklyn, E. Chicago, Cinncinnati and Ogden Utah. As I understand it, they worked hard and beat some pretty good teams to get to the finals. Good for them that they don't like the term that some other kids use.

Under the circumstances, they had no choice but to denounce the use of the term. I suspect that they hear it all the time around the dorm and probably play lots of rap music.

I watched the entire tournament, as I do every year. Rutgers was the surprise team coming from a four seed to make the finals. No team lower than a four seed has ever won the Women's title. Rutgers also upset Connecticut in the Big East tournament, so it has been a banner year for them. Rutgers plays a very tough, hard nosed defensive game holding their opponents to very low totals, among the lowest in the nation. They don't score much, so they rely on their intimidating defense to win. In that context, I can understand some of Imus's remarks.

Vivian Stringer, the Rutger's coach, has taken three different schools to the Final Four, including Rutgers twice. She has had a tough personal life losing her husband suddenly to a heart attack and having a disabled child who is wheelchair bound. I was rooting for her to win her first title. Instead, Pat Summit got her 7th.

[rodguy911]

See Zinni knew about the chem weapons Iraq had and even if I am the only one here that ever speaks about it I still say Gen. Georges Sada blew the whistle on all of them. when did his many interviews over here.I listened to five of them on talk radio.

In most of Sada's interviews he talked extensively about how massive amounts of chem weapons were flown into Damascus from Iraq. Saddam had ordered the seats removed from two planes, a 707 and 737 and then 50-60 flights hauling tons and tons of wmd's were than flow out of iraq into Damascus, Syria,Pilgosi's home away from home.

He risked his life and that of his family to write the book and do the interviews yet you never ever hear a word about it.Go figure.

[OESY]

The Dude stepped on the wrong toes this time. He wanted to make an outrageous comment to be cutting-edge funny but picked on the New Untouchables Class. Unlike India, these Untouchables are elevated in rights above all others, as defined by our two-faced media, some courts and populist politicians. They wanted to make an example out of Imus as a warning shot to others and to reassert their own power, both political and economic, even if it hurt liberals catered to by the dude. They were being challenged by Obama and those calling for new, less destructive black leadership, like Cosby and Whitlock. One word from the Clintons would have stopped the charade. They and other Imus-favorites failed to act. Arbitrary and capricious Political Correctness survived and thrived.

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[maryz]

I'm sure that's the way I learned it in 10th grade. (Also in 7th grade, I think.) Of course, when I was in 10th grade, no one worried about global warming or carbon credits!

I'm having trouble finding an appropriate link -- either they're oversimple or overtechnical (a lot of things that come up in my search are quizzes!). Here's a bit from an indoor gardening site: gardenweb.com

Plants have two distinct phases in their metabolism, one in bright light where they are making sugars from sunlight and carbon dioxide, and one in the dark where they are burning those sugars in a very similar way to animal metabolisms.

There's a much more technical one here, comparing the processes of photosynthesis (gives off oxygen) and respiration (gives off CO2) in plants. PHYSIOLOGY: PLANT GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT

[AliVeritas]

Yep. The six ‘old school’ Clinton generals... came out against Rummy like clockwork. Then again, a lot of them were lined up with the Dean or Kerry campaign... too easy.

Zinni, Clark, Shinseki, Eaton, McPeak (another Wes, my hubby served under him, he did serve under Reagan and at the start of Desert Storm under 41 though when Dugan was sacked), Odom (NSA who was wrong and shocked re: Soviets)... the rest. Funny how a lot of opinions changed over the years.

They were too afraid to enter into this new type of war, and had no idea how to do it.

[kabar]

I think I found the answer. You are partially correct. They actually give out CO2 day and night.

Why do plants give out Oxygen during the day and Carbon dioxide at night?

Ans. Plants, like all living beings, Respire, which means they take in Oxygen and give out carbon dioxide all the time, both at night and during the day. At night, only Respiration occurs and plant give off carbon dioxide. During the day however another process occurs in the green parts of the plant. Using carbon dioxide from the air and water, the green chloroplasts in the leaves trap the energy of the sun to form starch . In this process quite some energy is given out. The proportion of the oxygen given out during this process is far more than carbon dioxide given out when the plant breathes during the day.

[AliVeritas]

I’m sure you saw the Rove had Imus Whacked Pravda story:

http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/89728-0/

[kabar]

Correction: lower than a three [vice four] seed has won the title.

[maryz]

LOL! You only mentioned the photosynthesis (daylight) part, where they give off oxygen. Not the respiration part, where they give off CO2.

I realize how simplistic my own understanding is -- unfortunately, I remember 7th and 10th grade biology better than college biology (an excruciating boring course for non-science majors!).

[bray]

He should have called them Whiteniggers and he would have been fine.

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