Posted on 09/01/2013 5:17:26 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
p>The Talk Shows
September 1st, 2013
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State John Kerry Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and James Inhofe, R-Okla.; Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Kerry; Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Robert Menendez, D-N.J.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Kerry; Sens. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., John McCain and Tim Kaine, D-Va.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Kerry; retired Gen. James Cartwright, a former vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Vali Nasr, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and former foreign policy adviser to the Obama administration.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Kerry; Reps. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., and Scott Rigell, R-Va.; Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.; retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, a former head of U.S. Central Command.
If UK’s Cameron dropped the ball...
...then 0bama not only dropped the ball, he also shredded his credibility.
0bama has the Shite Midas touch
And he is using the reverb microphone for added “gravitas” in the Chris Wallace interview.
Did you catch the shot of Chris Wallace sort of rolling his eyes during the first Kerry monologue?
They have already said leave us out of any action taken.
Yes, and Kerry's lizard tongue is fully functional.
SOS Kerry appears (Botox’d to look like a 15 y.o.)
to push Obama’s plans.
“We have learned hair and blood samples
... from first responders ...
have tested positive for sarin.”
[no mention made that al Qaeda now has sarin
... and a history of using it].
Kerry: “We do not lose anything (by not responding).
Wallace explains that he and FOX “News” want
Syria bombed NOW and that a nine day wait is too long.
Wallace is VERY concerned about protecting al Qaeda.
Kerry makes clear, and reminds Wallace,
that the Tyrant has sole decision.
Wallace points out that the undocumented Tyrant
changed course, but Kerry disagrees
and claims this is a “courageous decision”
and purports that this was the plan all along
(although any sentient knows this is nonsense).
FNS
{snide remark alert!}
It takes more make-up to make Kerry look presentable on TV than it does for Hillary.
Some make-up company is getting wealthy.
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Wallace is having a fit that the Admin now is saying it wants/needs Congressional approval.
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Yesterday, Wallace’s inside sources apparently told him that Obama was going to announce that bombers were already on their way to Syria.
Wallace has been having to CYA since Obama’s speech. Wallace’s ego/credibility got singed.
Saw that and took notice on the brief cutaway. Lurch is blathering and filibustering to keep Chris from bringing up counter arguments and tough questions.
In the Wallace interview, Lurch seems very defensive and really knocked back on his heels. It will be interesting to contrast the whole tenor and attitude of the interviews on the other shows. Krauthammer’s “amateur hour” analysis is so sadly spot on.
Between the lines...Kerry is saying that congress WILL agree with Obama or ELSE!
Watch for those congress members who spoke out against action in Syria to change their tune.
Comeon, admit it. Kerry looks like the Wizrd of Oz scarecrow... AND Lurch from the Addams Family. If those two could have had offspring, its name would be John F’n Kerry!
Ploy? Perhaps highlight. We’re just divided on the issue.
As long ago as the aftermath of WWI there was strong enough opposition to the use of gas and other WMD that the world could at least take reliable diplomatic steps to stop it. It was a MORAL issue.
The only morality left in play today is tit for tat across the ideological divide. If it was OK that Clinton was a womanizer then later on it was OK that Herman Cain was a womanizer. The NY Times said Bush wiretapped illegally and we say Obama did. If Bush lied about WMD then Obama lied about WMD. And so it goes.
Our “morality” draws upon the last accusation we faced, and our virtuous “right” to turn it around on our opponents. Never mind that the planet might end up a nuked ruin in the process. As long as we are “right.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3061232/posts
I do heed your warning. I got my link above at post #14 but do not vouch for it since I have not been able to source it, do not know its authenticity or origin. It’s got the look but then who knows.
FNS
Kerry: The reputation of the United States is on the line...
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All those apology tours, and so far, the only coalition Team Obama can build is a nod-without-commitment from France.
That reveals Obama’s international influence, or lack thereof. The other nations no longer trust the US. It will take more than an Obama speech to ever regain that.
Syrians were dancing in the streets and declaring victory right after Obama’s speech.
Great. Fill us in, because if I understand the way things have gone, he made a nebulous statement with his original red line statement, said he would take action, deferred to Congress, and may or may not take action a day, week, or month from now.
What a shrewd thinker and decision maker. /s
Today’s scandal is the leadership scandal, the biggest of them all.
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