Posted on 08/23/2009 4:40:05 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Jim Towey, president of Saint Vincent College and former director of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives; Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa.; Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.; Tammy Duckworth, an assistant Veterans Affairs secretary.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Chuck U. Schumer, D-N.Y.; Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Karl Eikenberry, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and Kent Conrad, D-N.D.; former national Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN):
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!
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The Sunday Morning Talk Show thread is up!
Thanks for the ping, and ready for the CDJ!
FOX, among other things, will talk a bit about the VA “end of life” booklet.
I'd like to see somebody on the Republican side make a drawing of how private health care insurance will work if/when it becomes portable and follows the employee. After a few years, that will be wee weed up pretty badly.
Interesting that Wallace has been bragging about 'discovering' this book. He must listen to Rush.
By now, many of us have heard about the TOTUS video celebrating Ramadan.
What you may not know is that on Saturday August 22, the White House uploaded to their YouTube website separate WH video productions celebrating Ramadan in each of the following languages:
Punjabi
This great attention to Muslim language detail and Ramadan celebration via the WH YouTube website is ironic for several reasons. My own personal pet peeve is that the WH press conference where Major Garrett questioned Robert Gibbs about the White House email scam was never posted to the site. Every time Gibbs is particularly asinine during the WH briefings, the most transparent administration in history refrains from publishing the videos.
Your tax dollars hardly working.
Oh well- maybe Rush will talk a bit more about it. Sadly I missed his show a lot this week.
Morning AB, thanks for the thread! Made it this time. Looks like an interesting couple of months coming up!
If you expect this administration to put out information to the public that was neutral and honest, without spin and solely designed to educate the people, well, then let's just say you'd have a l-o-n-g wait.
Obama and the dems accused the Bush administration of being secretive and closed mouth, yet here once more, is another example of where their pretty talk to get elected is just another lie, and they're worse than what they condemned.
........and as usual there isn’t anything worth giving these stations ratings! Don’t watch!
What do we have to do to get rid of McCain...and his daughter?
Good morning, Alas!
Start with a pint of strawberries.
I have read that VA booklet, and have some experience with the much more sensitive, shall we say, booklet called “Five Wishes”, which also guides one in making an informed living will or advanced directive.
The VA booklet is horrible. It is long, tedious to read, and leads the reader to believe that life should not be worth living in many conditions that are just difficult - not terminal!!!
If an elderly person in a VA hospital is being told to answer the questions, read to him by a ‘helpful’ social worker or even a volunteer, he will be very likely to agree with the most depressing and negative answers possible. Having visited elderly veterans in a VA hospital, it appears to me that they do not seem to have a very cheerful optimistic attitude in their general demeanor. I can only imagine how depressed they would be when they are more or less being told to choose to vacate their bed for the good of the country’s balance sheet.
I applaud President Bush and his advisers for discontinuing the use of “Your Life - Your Choice.”
I usually watch those conferences live, so I didn’t know they had been scrubbed from the site. (I can’t bear to go there, as it is just too depressing to see those people’s photos in the Oval Office, especially since he is STILL using the rug that Laura Bush designed. That is one of the many small things this small man does which irritate the heck out of me, nevermind his campaign to destroy the country!)
LOL.
PS: I believe that veterans as well as everyone else should have a living will, but not based on the “Push-Poll” written for the VA.
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Cable News Ratings + Sunday Show Ratings (Charts)
Well stated. Perfect analogy with the wizard behind the curtain. Thanks.
I may be mistaken, but I do not believe that this is a thread about NOT watching the Sunday shows. It is about informing ourselves about what is being said (and not being said), and commenting about it.
I want to know what he said in those tapes, and I don't trust White House interpretations.
That website must make democrats skin crawl if any happen upon it by accident. The title of each item is written in words that “are offensive.” LOL!!! Thanks for the link.
Democrats Refuse to Let Americans Keep the Insurance They Have and Like
Democrats Protect Themselves, Not the Public from Government-Run Plan
Democrats ‘OK’ Government Rationing of Medicines & Treatments
Democrats Okay with Government-Run Plan Increasing Wait Times, Cancer Deaths
Since I went to the Vigil Mass last night, I can be here all morning, so I will try to do some reporting today.
I will have to check and see when MTP comes on in this area, as well as This Week.
Several pressers were never uploaded to the site after Gibbs showed his posterior on camera that day. The July 13 presser (email spamscam exposed) is the most recent.
:::chuckles:::
That makes two of us! No telling what the subtitles are giving away to those nations.
One more question about health care; if it’s such a good idea, why wait until 2013 to implement it? Why not now? After all, that poor woman from last year is still waiting for Barack Obama to pay her mortgage and her car payment; how can he expect her to wait 4 years for health care?
We’ll be curiously watching/listening to the Easter message that comes from the white house...I’m sure it will be sincere in its hopefulness...likely it will be written by some professor instead of a pastor (unless it’s Wright).
Seems like we just did this thread a few days ago. The weeks are getting shorter.
I see Mc scored a full interview on ThisWeek. Dang. I’m gonna have to miss that thriller. My TV is on a different channel and I can’t seem to find the remote.
Sorry for my comment... I just woke this morning for a new distain of our current administration and the media....
I somehow don't think I am going to be happy.
Completely understandable.
Well, if they pass it I am going to have to figure out how to get knee replacements before our insurance is taken away from us. I am sure knee replacements on a government plan will be low on the priority list. I will be told to take some of those pain pills and get used to it.
/Why is McCain given the whole AP segment today? Is he back in favor w/the media now?
Thanks in advance!
I have known since the early 1960's that the media folks were trash, and it has only gotten worse. It has been clear for two years that Obama was an enemy of the American people. There is no way that my opinions of these scum can get any lower. Watching them is a dirty job, but the people need to be informed.
Wow MNJ, FNC is slaying the rat stream media in the cable world!
C-Spam was hilarious this morning a total rat fest. One Joker crusader after another. Looks like his acorn buddies were tasked with taking over the phone lines and they did.(wonder who dialed the numbers for them since that's way beyond their job description.)
One guy got through about 20 minutes ago with a couple of rats one from politico some other gal from who knows where and welcomed the DBM.
I almost spit my coffee out. We got through!
Gotta go to Savannah might get to freep a little later.
Barry and his entourage are leaving this afternoon for the Vineyard...Hurricane Bubba delayed their departure.
I know a huge storm surge would be bad to wish for. So I won't.
That was Alyson, who annoys the hell out of me, who decided we should knock it off with the “Nazi” stuff. Hey, Ali...talk to Pelosi and the Dems!
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