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Weekend Show *Preview* for 4/21 - 4/22/07 (not the live thread)
Network and Cable News Networks | 4/21/07 | Network and Cable News

Posted on 04/21/2007 3:20:51 PM PDT by Phsstpok

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Saturday Shows for April 21, 2007

Below are the topics and guests announced for these programs, along with my take on the "memes" that the shows are trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

CNBC's Tim Russert Show (Tim Russert)

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page


 

1 posted on 04/21/2007 3:20:56 PM PDT by Phsstpok
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NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.


2 posted on 04/21/2007 3:21:43 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.


3 posted on 04/21/2007 3:22:17 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.


4 posted on 04/21/2007 3:22:55 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.


5 posted on 04/21/2007 3:23:27 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.


6 posted on 04/21/2007 3:24:02 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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I am going to go back and read....but I just wanted to tell you how glad I am to see this...and ask you how you are doing.

How are you?


7 posted on 04/21/2007 3:25:55 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: A.Hun; Bahbah; Txsleuth; MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative; Alas Babylon!; Seattle Conservative; ...
Ping

The Weekend Talk Show Preview Thread is up

It will also be cross posted (sometime soon... maybe) to my blog at

http://wizards.townhall.com/

Here's a sample of  my usually witty commentary...

This week the dinosaur media provides a case study in the same type of schizophrenia, self absorbed psychotic view of reality that led the VT killer to go on his rampage.  We, the unwashed masses, made them show those horrendous videos.  Laws must be passed to take away guns from everyone, despite what that stupid old Constitution says.  ...  Then we have the spectacle of President Leahy, President Specter and President Schumer consulting on the death penalty for the Attorney General because he did something legal, while President Pelosi, President Reid and President Dodd race each other to see who can put the most terrorist friendly foreign policy in place.  And to top it off we have Saint's Friedman, Davis, Gingrich and the rest of the all wise to declare, Ex Cathedra what is right and what we must do.  They have spoken.  We must obey.

<snip>

So, one of the most violent weeks of terrorist attacks in Iraq in four years and a Supreme Court decision that rivals anything in the last 30 years, and the media wants to go with "if it bleeds it ledes" and the non-scandal manufactured by the moonbats who are in charge of Congress.  I wonder if this is what it was like in Rome under Galba and Otho? ...



8 posted on 04/21/2007 3:27:49 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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Good evening, Phsstpok.

Great to see you.

Love the witty commentary :)


9 posted on 04/21/2007 3:33:19 PM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: Txsleuth; rodguy911; Alas Babylon!

I’m OK. Still no doctor’s visit so I’m still limping along, using my patch more and more to just shut out the non-vision in the right eye. Hopefully they’ll get the test lenses in and the computer topography machine back from the repair shop in time for a visit to my surgeon soon.

I did get some good news, however. My wife, who is a travel agent, earned us a five day trip to Hawaii in about three weeks, all expenses paid, as one of the top 25 sellers of Hawaii vacation packages for one of the airlines. It will just be the two of us and should be a lot of fun. Then just two weeks later we have the Microsoft Tech Ed conference in Orlando and she and all three kids are coming along to go visit Mickey while I visit with Bill. More importantly I’m hoping to get a chance to spend time with Alas Babylon! and maybe even Rodguy911. now that should be fun.


10 posted on 04/21/2007 3:35:17 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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WOW...I am so happy for you and your wife...getting that trip. Hopefully, you will have your eyesight fixed by then.

Orlando sounds like fun...and you HAVE to get together with those two...you guys would have so much fun, and you can report all fun and games you all have!!!

LOL


11 posted on 04/21/2007 3:47:00 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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Well, sure enough, there is Jane Hall telling us that it was important to subject the country to non-stop running of the self-made killer’s “manifesto” in order to shock us into having a debate about what to do about this sort of thing.

The slaughter of 32 innocent human beings on a college campus was apparently not going to be shocking enough. How do they come up with such dumb statements?


12 posted on 04/21/2007 3:54:27 PM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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and you can report all fun and games you all have!!!

Or...what happens in Mickey Land will stay in Mickey Land.

13 posted on 04/21/2007 3:56:00 PM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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How do they come up with such dumb statements?

The same way you get to Carnegie Hall?*

Neil just totally blew off the guy raising the HIPPA privacy problems not allowing this psyco's mental condition to make it into the system so that he couldn't buy a gun in order to go back and try and score some points against the evil NRA.  The man has blood on his own hands and he can't get off of his extreme left wing template.

They end with homages to Shep Smith and Jerry Rivers (Geraldo Rivera) about just how tough it was to report on the VT story.  Someone in the media is going to have the insight to point out that the murders happened precisely because of the "investigative reporting" that made Geraldo famous on the truly horrendous conditions at NY mental hospitals.  The net result of that expose, however, was laws that led to the dumping of truly distrubed people out onto the streets from many other institutions.  It also led directly to the current disfunctional health care system that lets dangerous maniacs out on the streets and campuses of America and, in the name of privacy (remember the penumbra granted privacy rights in the Constitution) prevents law abiding citizens from knowing about the danger, to the point that the gun dealer couldn't even find out about Cho's mental condition.

In some ways this can be viewed as the Jerry Rivers massacre.

* the punchline to that old joke "how do you get to Carnegie Hall" is "practice,  practice, practice."

14 posted on 04/21/2007 4:11:55 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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Excellent tying in and you are quite right.

One of my fellow lawyer friends was working hard back then to get lunatics released from their “unfair” detention. I told her she might just be crazy if she wanted these people out on the street where they would become both prey and predators.

I was pretty liberal myself at the time (or I thought I was), but some things just defy common sense.


15 posted on 04/21/2007 4:17:17 PM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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I was pretty liberal myself at the time (or I thought I was), but some things just defy common sense.

My definition for the kind of conservative I am is a cynical liberal.  I believe in the stated liberal ideals, such as equal treatment regardless of race, religion, etc., as well as helping out those less fortunate.  I just don't believe for a minute that folks like Teddy Kennedy or Jesse Jackson are out for anyone but themselves.

I believe in what works.  That's why I can hold up extreme partisan Democrats like the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan as one of my heroes.  Yes he was partisan as the day is long, but he also spoke "truth to power" about issues like the destructive results of the welfare state, particularly in the minority community.  And he did this in the sixties!  It was truly disgusting when he was replaced by Hillary in the Senate.  I consider that her greatest shame, which should express just how disgusting I view that little bit of historic grotesquery. 

16 posted on 04/21/2007 4:34:06 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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I just don't believe for a minute that folks like Teddy Kennedy or Jesse Jackson are out for anyone but themselves.

No one in their right mind would think otherwise.

17 posted on 04/21/2007 4:37:54 PM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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“The net result of that expose, however, was laws that led to the dumping of truly distrubed people out onto the streets from many other institutions. It also led directly to the current disfunctional health care system that lets dangerous maniacs out on the streets and campuses of America and, in the name of privacy (remember the penumbra granted privacy rights in the Constitution) prevents law abiding citizens from knowing about the danger, to the point that the gun dealer couldn’t even find out about Cho’s mental condition.”

^^^^^

Not even parents can find out about their child’s aberrant behavior if the child does not give permission to the health care professional. Truly bizarre! One caller to a radio show this morning gave the example that a hospital phoned to advise parents that their child was in a hospital, but could not provide any details on condition due to HIPAA rules. In that case the child was unconscious, and not in any condition to talk to his own parents!

Well, a lot of persons having difficulty with mental health are just as incapable of communicating their health problems to someone like a parent who should be informed.


18 posted on 04/21/2007 4:48:37 PM PDT by maica (America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
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LOL...you have a point, do we REALLY want to know?


19 posted on 04/21/2007 5:15:15 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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Anyone who wants something truly gag-inducing can try this.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3621.html


20 posted on 04/21/2007 6:16:03 PM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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