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1 posted on 10/14/2007 5:14:31 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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Please check out Phsstpok’s EXCELLENT Sunday Talk Show PRE-Thread. It’s a great way to hear analysis on why the DBM picks the guests, what they’ll probably discuss, and other pertinent facts. Also, check out his blog!

2 posted on 10/14/2007 5:15:49 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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Caller on cspan from Connecticutt a few minutes ago

I thought she was imitating a Rush illustration of absurdity by being absurd, but she apparently believed that what she said made sense.

“Good morning, guys.[to Steve Scully and James Barnes of the National Journal] You know, I am so sick of this election talk, I have the perfect ticket that will solve all of our problems.
Al Gore - to take his rightful place
Ron Reagan, jr - I have seen him on a lot of talk shows, and he is an intellectual charismatic.
We can get Bush and Cheney out of the White House, get rid of the delegates, and the Electoral College.
All we have to do is March on Washington and demand...
and on and on...”


5 posted on 10/14/2007 5:30:38 AM PDT by maica (Where will Americans go for treatment, when we get a Canadian-style “free” healthcare system?)
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Alas, I'm sorry, but I've just GOT to fix this error.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, RRINO-S.C.
Thanks! I feel much better.
10 posted on 10/14/2007 5:40:30 AM PDT by upchuck (Hildabeaste as Prez... unimaginable, devastating misery!)
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Here are the ratings from two weeks ago:
Meet the Press....2.7/8 3,614,000
This Week.........2.0/6 2,712,000
Face the Nation...1.9/5 2,427,000
Fox News Sunday...1.0/3 1,216,000
All in all, the Sunday talk shows seem to be on an upward trend except for Fox News Sunday.
14 posted on 10/14/2007 5:43:01 AM PDT by jmyrlefuller (The Associated Press: The most dangerous news organization in America.[TM])
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To: Alas Babylon!

It should probably be a fixture of the Sunday Talk Show thread that we include the Wikipedia backgrounds for some of the hosts of these shows. For instance: Tim Russert’s is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Russert and Freepers should be reminded that he was a staffer for Former Governor Mario Cuomo (D) and Former Senator of NY Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D). No bias there...

And here’s the link for George Stephanopolous: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stephanopolous No bias there... Actually, this entry really has some good juicy reminders: of Stephie’s role in trying to quash the investigation of Madison Guaranty along with the work of Roger Altman (one of Hillary’s top economic advisors).

To be fair and balanced, here’s the entries for Chris Wallace: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wallace_%28journalist%29

And I don’t care about the rest.


18 posted on 10/14/2007 5:44:37 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("You ask, 'What is our aim?' I can answer in one word: VICTORY - victory - at all costs...")
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I sent an e-mail to Chris Wallace last night encouraging him to press Rep. Hoyer about the treasonous Turkey/Armenia/Genocide resolution. The Dems can’t stand that good news is coming out of Iraq. They have to stir the pot and offend an ally who has given us overflight rights for our men and material. I’m so angry about this. President Bush and some ten former Secretaries of State pleaded with the Dems not to do this.

This action has the potential to put the lives of American soldiers and Kurds in danger. Turkey has been waiting for a reason to attack the Kurds. Nancy and company have given them good reason by offending them. Some have dubbed it “Nancy’s War”. Indeed.


23 posted on 10/14/2007 5:48:30 AM PDT by freedom4me ("Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."--Ben Franklin)
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...excellent. :)


25 posted on 10/14/2007 5:51:15 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....Run, Fred, Run. :^)
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Rush Limbaugh is auctioning off the Reid fake outrage letter on ebay

Currently $40,200.

at $40,200 dollars that is $980.49 per prostituted signature

It is also worth noting:

47 HOURS AND THE MSM CONTINUES TO HIDE THIS STORY!
no mention or coverage of this in any media outlet not even the MSM.

Drudge report had to do a direct link to the ebay page and show a youtube.com video of Rush making the announcement. NO AP or Reuters story even!

Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, both signed this phoney outrage letter to silence Rush.

The ebay auction has 117467 views

http://cgi.ebay.com/Original-Harry-Reid-Rush-Limbaugh-Smear-Letter_W0QQitemZ260170172469QQihZ016QQcategoryZ4105QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


29 posted on 10/14/2007 5:56:04 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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Rush Limbaugh is auctioning off the Reid fake outrage letter on ebay

Currently $40,200.

at $40,200 dollars that is $980.49 per prostituted signature

It is also worth noting:

47 HOURS AND THE MSM CONTINUES TO HIDE THIS STORY!
no mention or coverage of this in any media outlet not even the MSM.

Drudge report had to do a direct link to the ebay page and show a youtube.com video of Rush making the announcement. NO AP or Reuters story even!

Hillary Clinton, Barak Obama, both signed this phoney outrage letter to silence Rush.

The ebay auction has 117467 views

http://cgi.ebay.com/Original-Harry-Reid-Rush-Limbaugh-Smear-Letter_W0QQitemZ260170172469QQihZ016QQcategoryZ4105QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


30 posted on 10/14/2007 5:56:29 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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Morning everyone!


124 posted on 10/14/2007 7:19:57 AM PDT by txradioguy (In Memory Of My Friend 1SG Tim Millsap A Co. 70th Engineer Bn. K.I.A. 25 Apr. 2005)
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self ping for later
it’s my birthday....................wooooooohooooooo


194 posted on 10/14/2007 8:06:59 AM PDT by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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On this week, George Will says
‘Al Gore has been vindicated’
or so say his supporters

More like Gore has been SPINdicated , imo

a world gone mad, well, at least a media. ;-)


219 posted on 10/14/2007 8:35:18 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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Okay, here’s the story of the RINO and the insult.

I’ve been active with Delaware politics of late, joining the Sussex county Repub Women’s Club and attending Sussex county monthly Repub meetings.

I am acquainted with the Chairman of the Sussex county Repub party but just in passing. He is a Blogger and so am I thus we talk about it, we discuss politics, he leads the monthly meetings. At times I hang around after the monthly meeting and talk….duh…politics.

Dave Burris’ Blog is:

http://firststatepolitics.wordpress.com/ should anyone care. Dave is resigning as head of the Sussex county Repub party because, well he says he wants more time with his family but I think he’s going to head a local guy’s run for Delaware’s Governor. The more important thing to know here is that Delaware has THREE counties. One is Sussex county which, oddly, although located in a very small state, is the largest county east of the Mississippi. It is also very conservative in terms of idealogy.

I love Sussex county. The churches are filled each Sunday, the people INSIST on conservative representatives, not the RINOS from up north, …in short the people of Sussex county Delaware are much…like me as a matter of fact. Stick tongue in cheek here and smile ruefully.

So I’ve been involved with all this pubbie stuff in Delaware’s Sussex county and been right happy doing it, in fact. I manned the pubbie booth at the Delaware state fair. I shared the job with a fellow I’d met at a monthly meeting, a great guy, married with four kids. He’s devoted to his family and has a great smile. A couple of years ago he threw his hat in the ring and ran for senator. No, not senator like Joe Biden, but a Delaware senator. Like the federal government, Delaware has senators and representatives. The representatives in Dover, based on population, are Republican majority because MOST OF DELAWARE is conservative save the cheats in Wilmington.

I also was head of the advertisement for a recent fundraiser put on by the Sussex County Repub Women’s Club…SCRWC. I wrote and promoted ads for the mighty annual banquet, I worked the front desk the night of the banquet, I even donated a bunch of mine own books, written by me, for the Chinese auction. The SCRWC is one mighty organization and raises a great deal of money for the pub party. I’m right in there and working like the dickens. In fact, I am involved as a consultant for two of the biggest businesses here in Sussex county and I got them both to put big advertisements in the banquet’s booklet. So I went out there and raised money, yes I did. I estimate that for this banquet I alone raised over $5 grand, yes I did.

I began to frequent Burris’ Blog. Now here was something a bit different for while I regularly post on FreeRepublic, I don’t really KNOW anyone on Freerepublic save via the Internet. In the case of the Burris Blog, well hell’s bells, a lot of those posters KNOW me, personally like.

Kinda cool.

But hey, not only am I vivacious and happening in person (and not bad looking for a middle aged woman, that seems to be an important thing about women), insert wink here, BUT I CAN WRITE! Well the shock of it! These folks who knew me, mostly men but a few women, were surprised by this. Women don’t read Blogs as much as men, I don’t know why.

Well the folks from Sussex county knew me. It was the RINOS from up north all posting with nastiness that didn’t know me from Adam.

Yon readers, RINOS are as nasty as the Dems whose idealology they often espouse. RINO means Republican in Name Only. I didn’t know this about the nastiness. I thought, well they might be RINOS but hey, they have some kind conservatism in them, right?

Many of them are members of Delaware’s mighty teacher’s union so that makes them schizoid. Conservative philosophy is not especially favorable to a union that would kill creativity while promoting mediocrity. But these teachers might have children or causes that are conservative in nature. Thus we have a RINO and Delaware tends to elect RINO politicians like Mike Castle, our REPUB RINO rep…you can study his history. Hint-he voted in FAVOR of embryonic stem cell research and AGAINST drilling in Anwar. The RINOS in Delaware LOVE Mike Castle while the Repubs in Sussex county can’t stand the man.

So I go and start posting on this Burris Blog and lo and behold there’s RINOS all over the place. I made some nasty post about Mike Castle and they jumped all over me. That’s when I began to understand the phenomena of the “slightly” blue state like Delaware.

In one post I complained that the Repubs in Delaware are a tightly guarded group of elites who show no imagination and , indeed, don’t even represent the state’s demographic. I made some reference to the annual Delaware Repub convention and the “delegates”, all of whom are people I’ve never heard of in many cases but yet these people have the power to nominate the candidates for Governor, senator, rep and such.

This is a common complaint, especially in Delaware’s Sussex County. Sussex county will often back an independent candidate rather than the “official” nominee of Delaware’s Repub party because, well we usually hate them. Said nominees nominated by “delegates” given the job by, well I don’t know who.

It’s been said that I have a big mouth, or else loud fingers as the case may be. So I post my lament about the elite delegates of the Del Repub party always nominating candidates, lousy ones that don’t even come close I might add.

Evidently I offended some fellow from Wilmington (ALL the RINOS are from Wilmington) who then launched into a rant against me that….well it was blistering.

I don’t have the link to this post and I won’t go searching for it. Because after this guy did this I immediately posted that I would never post to this thread again because, hey I do this stuff. People who are vexations to my spirit don’t get second thought from me. Life is too short and there’s plenty of genuinely nice and fair people on this planet.

But I’ll paraphrase his shocking response…”You should get off of your fat ass (my ass is a bit big but I’ve seen far bigger, what’s the obsession with my butt?) and go out to a meeting once in a while. People like you just sit and complain but don’t lift your finger to help. Sit and talk to Bob Lee after a monthly meeting (Ed note-Lee was a Repub candidate for Governor in 2004 and Bob is his son…ALSO A delegate to the Del Repub convention). You should volunteer to work at the Delaware state fair. You should work for the women’s repub club and help raise some money”.

Well this guy’s rant went on and on so now you know why I delineated the things I’d been doing for Del’s repub party above because I had done PRECISELY all the things he accused me and my fat ass of NOT doing.

That’s when I wrote my withering response to his lies, this REPUBLICAN ELITE because his clueless response illustrated EXACTLY what I’d been saying. His world view didn’t go beyond a few folks in his surround.

Of course many of the other posters tuned in and defended me. My Delaware state fair buddy said he worked with me for four hours and found me delightful and fun. Bob Lee said he’d chatted with me after a recent meeting and he enjoyed my discourse. Young Lee also said that perhaps, what with his father having been a candidate for Governor, he would be viewed as the ELITEs I’d been describing. Duh. Others piped up about chats they’d had with me and how much they enjoyed what I had to say.

Oh yeah….I can talk. There’s been times I’ve had a circle of them around me and I’d be putting on a show to beat the band, such is my sometimes humorous passion on some things.

So the fellow who wrote that stupid response did apologize on the Blog and he did it sweetly. He said he was so sorry he opened his mouth and inserted his foot, that if I never spoke to him again (which I told him I would not) he would forever be a lesser person for it (well that is a rather nice sentiment) and yada, yada.

Frankly I don’t know the guy and will likely never meet him. But he jumped in with his stock response to any who would dare to suggest that maybe these entrenched so deep that they don’t see the horizon should rethink how they do things. It was a PERFECT example of the political elite, right there in front of the world’s lying eyes.

Anyway, let me get on to the Rush Limbaugh thing. I’ve bored you enough.


252 posted on 10/14/2007 8:59:42 AM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com)
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Special on “Angler” or our wonderful VP Cheney being replayed on Fox now.
303 posted on 10/14/2007 12:02:10 PM PDT by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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Mark Kilmer has posted his review of the Sunday shows.  Here's the header and the link to the full review

Posted at 12:58pm on Oct. 14, 2007

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review

It's 2007, and we better condemn the Young Turks because the genocide survivors are, Nancy said, "very old." (HINT: Most have long since died.)

By Mark Kilmer

Sunday, October 14, 2007

First on FOX News Sunday, with Brit Hume in for Chris Wallace, House Republican leader John Boehner accused Democrats of playing political games with both the SCHIP vote and the strange resolution, out-of-the-blue, on the Young Turks killing the Armenians, 1915-1917.

Next on FNS, Steny Hoyer proclaimed that the SCHIP vote was a "defining moment for the Republican Party." Will they choose to be compassionate or to follow their leaders blindly? On the World War I resolution, Hoyer scolded the Turkish government with being more concerned about a Congressional resolution than with their own security problems. (Likewise, I'll add, the Congressional Democrats should be more concerned with the well-being of our soldiers in Iraq and the region than with a specious proclamation designed to harm Republicans by hampering the efforts of our troops.

On MTP, Drs. Bill Cosby and Alvin Poussaint were on a book tour, discussing what ails the black community. Poussaint talked of the effects of the women's liberation movement on the black community, and the availability of qualified black men for marriage, which he blamed in part of the mandatory sentencing laws for crack cocaine. Cosby attacked the record company executives who demand the harsh lyrics in hip-hop music.

On TW, Speaker Nancy argued that the time is right to condemn the 90-year-old genocide perpetrated by the Young Turks of the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians during World War I because "many of the survivors are very old." (Most of them are dead, Nancy; the entire remainder are, by definition, very old.) She said that Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo Bay, and torture were more dangerous to our troops than jeopardizing their supply lines into Iraq. And more of the standard Dem rhetoric: no compromise on SCHIP, etc.

Mitch McConnell was next on TW, telling Steph that there would be a compromise on SCHIP because they had to pass something. He predicted that this would be a "short term controversy." He offered a Washington Post editorial to counter General Sanchez's rants, and he said that the Senate Ethics Committee was dealing with Larry Craig.

On FTN, John McCain, in response to Bob Schieffer's questioning, pointed out Romney's flip from having once been "passionately pro-choice," as well as flips on immigration and taxes. He asked for a "little consistency." McCain said that his main problem with retired General Sanchez was that the general was not honest with the Senate early in the Iraq war, waiting until now to make assertions that would have helped McCain get rid of the "Rumsfeld policy" when it would have helped. McCain allowed that this may have happened because General Eric Shinseki was "fired" for speaking truth to power.

First on LE, Lindsey Graham told Wolf Blitzer that Sanchez had repeatedly told him that he had enough troops to prevail in Iraq. Blitzer suggested that Sanchez might be doing "pay back" for not getting his fourth star. Graham replied that the Abu Ghraib scandal was "out of control" under Sanchez's watch, as was the war itself. Graham gave the Maliki government until the end of the year to get its act together on reconciliation.

Next on LE, unrepentant Jimmy Carterite Zbigniew Brzezinski differentiated between our staying in Germany and Japan after World War II and plans to maintain a presence in Iraq by stating that Iraq is a "colonial war," while the Second World War was not. He said that it was "delusional" to call the war in Iraq any sort of World War III against the jihad. He laughed at General David Petraeus's statement that the Iraq Quds force was attacking us in Iran by point that of course the Quds would attack us when we were sponsoring enemies of the Iraqi government. On the Congressional Democrats' Young Turk Genocide resolution, Brzezinski pointed out that Congress had no business passing strange historical resolutions. He ignored that the resolution is designed only to achieve an end with which he agrees, i.e. disruption of the war effort in Iraq.

Read More (for the complete, show-by-show review). …Read More »

It looks like the assessment here on this thread about the reason for the Turkey genocide resolution is becoming the consensus.   It also looks like I was right in the preview to suggest that the reason Cosby and Poussant were on MTP was to bolster the Obama/Edwards (fictional) position that more black men were in prison than in college. (see here for details)

326 posted on 10/14/2007 2:23:11 PM PDT by Phsstpok (When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
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It was a treat having Brit Hume moderate FNS today. His interview of Republican John Boehner was informative and Boehner was serious, getting a lot across in a short time. He explained that the veto of SCHIP was because the program has drifted from helping poor children caught between Medicaid and affordability of private insurance. He specified Minn and Wisc as having more adults than children benefiting from SCHIP and Republicans want to make sure the money goes to where it was intended, poor children. Regarding Turkey, Boehner essentially said the current, or third, proposal by the RATS to condemn the nearly century old genocide of Armenians was bad for American troops etc. OTOH, democ rat Steny Hoyer shucked and jived his way thru all discussions the same as Hillary did in her interview with Chris Wallace. These RAT politicians talk, talk, talk, saying absolutely nothing of substance and outright lying by omission of pertinent facts. Hoyer had that same smart ass smirky, cat who caught the canary, look that Hillary's co-president Bill was known for. Hoyer has been involved for 25 yrs with the condemnation proposals and sees now as a very good time to bring one up yet again. Not at all concerned about the war repercussion because Turkey needs us more than we need them. So he says. On the SCHIP deal, well the RATS have their own magnificent plan which they are now working tirelessly to churn out in the near future. No doubt the one that raises the definition of children to age 25, and the poverty level to $80,000. And, lest anybody forgets, the Republicans do not care about children, especially poor ones. Lord, these RATS do disgust me.
329 posted on 10/14/2007 2:40:19 PM PDT by mountainfolk (God Bless President Bush)
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Honorable Mention Awards for Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Alas Babylon!

Arrowhead1952

Bernard

Fishtalk

freedom4me

HonestConservative

jmyrlefuller

Miss Didi

mountainfolk

NormsRevenge

PrinceOfCups

ReleaseTheHounds

STARWISE

TN4Liberty


369 posted on 10/20/2007 10:46:27 PM PDT by Phsstpok (When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
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Top Ten for September 14, 2007

10th Place bray

9th Place tarheelswamprat

8th Place snugs

7th Place anita

6th Place Bahbah

5th Place maica

4th Place kabar

3rd Place rodguy911

2nd Place txradioguy

1st Place longtermmemmory


370 posted on 10/20/2007 10:47:11 PM PDT by Phsstpok (When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
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