Posted on 07/22/2007 4:39:17 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, July 22nd, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend; Sens. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; British entrepreneur Richard Branson.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell and Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Pre-empted by coverage of the British Open golf tournament
LATE EDITION (CNN) : White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend; Pakistani Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri; Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; David Bonior, John Edwards' campaign manager, and Rep. Artur Davis, D-Ala., Barack Obama supporter.
Congratulations to the winners and thanks rodguy911 for the hard work.
Wonder why they cannot see the obvious.
Congress started with an approval rating of about 50% in Jan. They did NOTHING for 5 months but fight with the President over Iraq.
The President’s numbers stayed rock solid, except for a 4 point dip during the Immigration bill fiasco, while Congress CONTINUES dropping like a stone.
So contrary to the spin being put on the numbers by the PC Media, it seems the Country is sick and tired of the Democrats Iraq fixations and wants them to actually DO something rather manufacture reasons to fight with the President.
Funny how that comparison is never made by them ain’t it?
McConnell thinks Osama is alive. That is interesting.
Timmy now moves on to “enhanced interrogation” and asks what that means.
Of course McConnell can’t answer that with any specificity.
LOL!!
MUAH!
GREAT to be here!
;-)
Fran is doing a very good job on FNC talking about AQI, the NIE, and terrorism overall. Chris Wallace is asking some pretty biased questions. Example (paraphrased): We have taken our eye off the ball, and the real threat is Pakistan not Iraq, and how come the President talks about Iraq being the central front on the war on terror, when we know that AQ is reestablishing a safe haven in Pakistan.
Townsend: Chris, I remind you of the very words of OBL who stated that Iraq is like world war III and they must win in Iraq.
It drives me batty how the media ignore the facts and go with the spin. I prefer FNS when Brit is in the chair asking the quetions — his are straight forward and non-biased; Wallace does not have the same skills, for sure.
Are we water boarding, asks Timmy.
(I hope so, says Bahbah.)
McConnell of course does not answer that with specificity either. He talks about the medical monitoring and other protections for the bastards we are questioning (my word, not his).
Timmy keeps pushing. Would these techniques be troubling to the American people? (Not to me, as you can see from my comment above.)
What if we did this to an American?
McConnell doesn’t want Americans to have to go through the process, but it’s not torture.
YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
McConnell is doing a very good job. He reminds me of the kinds of serious people we used to see on these shows years and years ago.
After we get the funds for the military and their raise, I say let them manufacture reasons to fight the President. I think it is working in our favor.
Timmy is trotting out all of the MSM’s action lines this morning...Iraq is a recruiting tool, it’s really sectarian violence...we torture...the Administration is trying to elevate the importance of al-Qaeda.
“Seems Harry is just too dumb to know when to simply fold a losing hand and move on.”
And he’s from Vegas no less ;-)
In our opinion, of course, it is not a winner, and the dems could very well lose big because they’re betting their wad that this horse will win for them.
Still, I hear people complaining all the time about the war—and this is in Alabama, a very pro-military and Pres Bush state. The talk that these, I don’t know what to call them, pro-losers? Anti-Iraq war?
Anyway, the talk usually focuses on the fact that in there minds too many guys have been killed, followed by no reason to be there after Saddam was disposed, finished up with we should just nuke the whole place.
I debate them and basically tell the truth, specifically:
-We ARE winning
-We’ve had a remarkable number of LOW casualties—lower than ANY war in history, given the number of troops involved
-Pres Bush said in his speech to Congress and the nation on 21 Sep 2001 that this war would be unlike any other. That fighting would take a long time, probably beyond his administration
—Now, given that you cheered this speech then, and you agreed to buck it up and let America do what the Pres said needed to be done, even if it took a long time, why are you NOW throwing in the towel? (this is very effective here in Bush country—it reminds them that they too made a commitment and to back out now is reneging on that)
-Do you really believe everything you see and hear on the driveby media newscasts? Remember how you scorn their Leftist bias? Is it possible the DBM might be exaggerating the “failures” of this war to discourage you?
-Talk to a soldier, Marine, Sailor or airman whose been there. Ask them what they think about the mission, and whether we’re succeeding or not.
Kit Bond coming up on FNS; I don’t recall seeing much of him on the talk show circuit. Are republicans finally understanding that they need to put out strong SUPPORTERS of the war rather than weak sisters (Hagel, Collins, Snowe, Voinivich) on the air? Based on comments above about what a good job Mitch is doing, and how Fran just did a good job on FNS, perhaps the new strategy is finally getting facts out rather than spin.
Bond and Bayh, should be interesting. Bayh is not Schumer, he usually speaks with sanity, unlike Schmukie.
LOL: Kit Bond essentially laughs at Wallace asking about a covert war in Pak. Says: Yeah right Wallace, we are really going to talk about that on national television. Kit’s facial expression and the words back to Wallace were humorous. I really liked it.
McCain is the former... Lieberman... the latter.
Actually, I wish they would take a six week vacation in the winter, spring, summer AND fall. The less time they spend 'on the job' in Washington--the better for us all. The less legislating they do--the less damage they do.
When you look at many of the liberal, big government 'knows best' programs, and so-called progressive/intrusive/regulatory laws that they pass, I'd much rather have LESS legislation, not more.
McConnell didn’t like the set up of a secondary intel unit in the Pentagon, but my God, with the CIA so utterly corrupted, what the heck else can you do.
McConnell uses the unfortunate “speak truth to power” phrase.
He says now that he’s on the inside, he sees things differently from when he was critical. The President and VP are quite open to the opinions of others, he says.
He is not helping Timmy out at all.
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