Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 18 May 2008

Various big media television networks ^ | 18 May 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Rick Dutrow Jr., trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.; former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.; Republican strategist Mike Murphy; Democratic strategist Bob Shrum.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. Charlie Crist, R-Fla.; Republican strategist Ed Rollins; former Govs. Mario Cuomo, D-N.Y., and Roy Romer, D-Colo.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez; former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss.

[Alas Babylon!]

As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions.

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Nine Republicans this morning. Unfortunately, most are RINOs, and of course, that perennial Milquetoast, trent Lott.

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C-SPAN Radio, available on the net also, click here, broadcasts all five Sunday talk shows starting at 12:00 noon Eastern, as follows:

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "Late Edition"

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"

Listen at the link above WHILE you FReep!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Morning AB. Have you seen Michelle Malkin’s proposed new GOP campaign slogan contest?

My favorite: We’re Screwed ‘08!

[Alas Babylon!]

LOL! And so true.

Do you have a link?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Who are the Clintonistas in the lineup?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Just go to MichelleMalkin.com, it is on the front page, along with the hilarious thread about the angry responses on the RCCC’s blog, denouncing the party’s campaign ideas. Now up to over 1200 often obscene posts.

[Morgan in Denver]

Good morning everyone, and thank you for the posting.

I cracked up at the slogan as well.

[Nekman]

Gee,where have I heard that before?...Oh yeah,I've been saying it since February!...In fact,it's been my tag line for 2 months!!!!!!!!!

[mathluv]

Rush has said - several times - 'we are so screwed'.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

FOX has the best guest. Howe many times do you get to hear from the trainer of a Triple Crown Winner?

[Morgan in Denver]

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/15/gop-contest-the-slogan-change-you-deserve/ is the link, I think.

[maica]

I am watching/listening to an old videotape made by my mother in August 2004. Guests included
Fran Townsend on FNS
Rudy Giuliani, followed by Tommy Franks on with Steffi
Condoleeza Rice, followed by Dennis Hastert on MTP

Those were the days!!!

Of course the questioning has not changed:

Everything that President Bush is doing is wrong
Are we going into a recession?
Are the Swift Boat vets going over the line?
Is Tom Ridge overreacting?
Why doesn’t Dennis Hastert call Congress into session (in the middle of August) to act on the 9-11 Commission recommendations RIGHT NOW!!! [Russert pounding desk]
etc

Safire and Mo Dowd on panel with Russert giving their opinion on how to combat the terror threat.

NB: Mo just said that President Bush’s nickname for her is Cobra. (I can see the reason why.)

[Miss Didi]

Happy Sunday, All. The line up thrills me not. So with Ed Rollins and the Huckster on board are we going to hear the Huck for VP campaign? (rolling eyes)

[Izzy Dunne]

Democratic strategist Bob Shrum.

Why does anyone care what this dweeb says?

• 1976 - Worked for Jimmy Carter for 9 days.
• 1980 - Worked for Teddy the K.
• 1988 - Worked for Dick Gephardt in primaries.
• 1988 - Worked for Mike "Tank" Dukakis.
• 1992 - Worked for Bob Kerrey in primaries.
• 2000 - Worked for Al "the Bull" Gore.
• 2004 - Worked for John "F'in" Kerry.

Not exactly a stellar resumé, I would say.

[TomGuy]

MTP

Huckabee is still auditioning for McCain’s VP.

[Miss Didi]

From Rush on Thursday:



RUSH: I want to hit you between the eyes here. I keep hearing from people who say, "Rush, we're screwed. We are screwed, no matter what happens here. Whatever scenario you just announced, we're screwed. If McCain is the president, big-time Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed. If Obama's the president, big-time majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed." I don't think we're screwed.

If I thought we were screwed, I would retire. What would be the point here? A friend of mine runs a business. In this business he's got a lot of egos. He's got a lot of prima donnas, a lot of divas, a lot of people who think the world revolves around 'em and they aren't getting enough attention. He sent a memo out. "I hate negative people. Negative people make positive people sick. Don't think I'm not talking about you," he said. I don't know what the end result of that was, but I assume it shook a lot of people up. I don't like negative people, either. I used to be one. I used to look at it typical: glass half empty. When I got a massage, two minutes in I'd say, "Darn it, this is going to end," and I'd spend the rest of the 58 minutes in anticipation of it ending and being disappointed, rather than sitting there and enjoying it. If I bought a new car, I'd sit there, "Yeah, this is great, but someday this new car smell is not going to be here." I used to do this. I don't anymore, for a host of reasons.

But I can't stand being around negative people. I can't stand being around fatalists. I can't stand being around defeatists. I understand it, but at some point I lose my ability to respond to them. How many times can you say, "I'm sorry you feel that way," and what does that accomplish? I don't want to sit here, "Yeah, we're screwed. Damn it, we're really screwed! Yeah, you're right. We are so screwed. Bend over forward, backgrounds, grab the ankles. We're screwed," and then what do you do? I'll never forget Ronald Reagan. The Soviet Union had been around since the end of World War I, and they kept asking Reagan: What are you going to do about it? He said, "If we just wait 'em out, they'll fail. They will collapse of their own immorality." He gave 'em a little nudge, but they did collapse in their own immorality. I don't think conservatism's finished. People in the Republican Party who are not conservative running for reelection, deserve to lose. Just get rid of the dead weight and start over. Screw them!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

There is a FR thread about the lasty letters to the GOP “http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017233/posts “

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

lasty = nasty

[TomGuy]

My favorite: We’re Screwed ‘08!

A few weeks ago, Rush used "We are so screwed."


The GOP may end up claiming success if they can keep the 08 losses to the number they lost in 06. They are so clueless. At every major loss, they run further to the left.

Ironically, the Dems are electing new relatively conservative Congresscritters.