Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 11 Apr 2004

Various big media television networks ^ | 11 Apr 2004 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, April 11th, 2004

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq; Richard Ben-Veniste, Sept. 11 commission member; former Sen. Slade Gorton, R-Wash. Sept. 11 commission member; Sen. Dick Lugar, R-Ind.; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Roman Catholic archbishop of Washington, D.C.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Pat Roberts, R-Kan.

THIS WEEK (ABC): L. Paul Bremer, the top U.S. civilian administrator in Iraq; Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine; Richard Perle, former assistant defense secretary.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Richard Ben-Veniste, Sept. 11 commission member; Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Bill Nelson, D-Fla.; former White House counsels John Dean and C. Boyden Gray; Rend Al-Rahim, Iraqi representative to the United States; retired Gen. George Joulwan, former NATO supreme commander; Carie Lemack and Bradley Blakeman, family members of Sept. 11 victims.

[TomGuy]

The Dems are trying to have it both ways:

1. They are critizing the GWB administration FOR NOT being preemptive with al-Qaeda (Afghanistan) before 9-11.

2. They are also critizing the GWB administration FOR being preemptive with Saddam Hussein (Iraq).

They are trying to have it both ways. Too bad none of the folk 'across the aisle' are taking them to task. Where is the Republican leadership in the House, Senate? Why aren't they all over the media, like the Dems are, countering these attacks?

[auboy]

Richard Ben-Veniste (aka "Bent Penista, Ben-Venasty")

Plus, Gorelick worked in the Clinton Administration under Janet Reno, IIRC. What are Clinton lackeys (add Kerrey and Roemer to this group) doing on a so called "truth-seeking" commission?

Answer: to project blame on Bush and deflect blame from Clinton. Good is evil and evil is good.

[EllaMinnow]

Happy Easter!

I'm heading up to Georgia for an Easter lunch with my son, so I'll miss all the talking heads today.

Here's hoping ben Veniste ends up with rotten egg all over his face.

[TomGuy]

Another, The McLaughlin Group (PBS), used to be taped on Friday afternoon/evening. Occasionally, they got caught with later breaking news.

It doesn't have direct interviews of guests, though. It is more of a Jerry Springer format. lol.

[Carolinamom]

Apparently, Bremer's presence on This Week,Meet the Press, and FOX was a late addition. Yahoo does not include him in its line-up. However, Face the Nation (CBS) and Late Edition CNN) did NOT include him.

[Alas Babylon!]

Yeah, that show was funny for awhile. SNL's Dana Carvey did a great McLaughlin, "Mor-TON, WRONG!!!", but McLauglin has been a Bush Basher these last few years. And Eleanor Rodham Clift is simply unbearable.

[TomGuy]

Benvenista screwed up in his questioning.

He asked first about attacks, then asked for the title. He only wanted the title, but he screwed up.

Dr. Rice, quick thinking, realized that. So when Benvenista fumbled for 'just the title', Dr. Rice wouldn't give in, but continued her remarked to include the summary of the PDB.

Benvenista's little trick didn't work. Next step was for the leftists on the Committee to try another bluff--get the WH to release the full document. They thought the WH would refuse, thus giving them an issue to whine about.

Yesterday, just in time for the evening news, the WH released the document, which was mostly as Dr. Rice said--historical data.

The whole thing blew up in Benvenista's face---all he wanted 'revealed' was the doc tite that 'bin Laden had threated to attack within the US.'

[jackbill]

Ben-Veniste is quoting Walter Pinkus for crying out loud. What a scumbag.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Of course, Washington Post news "journalists" have much better insights into these things than members of the commission. What an idiot Ben-Viniste is... Oh yeah: he's a Democrat.

[Just mythoughts]

"Benvenista screwed up in his questioning.

He asked first about attacks, then asked for the title. He only wanted the title, but he screwed up."


Don't you know he got a tongue lashing from old Hillry for this exposition of being slow witted.

[Alissa]

Please link me to the "latest developments!" I haven't been on FR very much the last 2 days.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Now they're going to go after Ashcroft for what didn't happen with the FBI (without a Director at the time) in his first 200 days in office. Let's not look back at 8 years of Janet "The Torch" Reno's tenure.

[olde north church]

It finally hit me. There was something about Bremer, Senor, Kimmit AND THIS IS NO REFLECTION ON THEIR ABILITIES that was missing when I watched these men.
They lack charisma. In an area of the world where charisma means all, we portray the Coalition with these dull men. It's like watching a bad PowerPoint presentation on a Friday afternoon when all you can think about is your vacation.
Find a Washington, Sherman, Jackson, Pershing, Patton, MacArthur and put him up to speak for crying out loud. We are watching the "middle-managementization of America", passionate oratory and projection of virility wins more hearts and minds than hershey bars and nylons.
Think about it next time you're watching.

[CasearianDaoist]

That show is like a faculty meeting at a very small English or polisci dept. in some tiny and obscure liberal arts college. It is sort of funny if one can look at it this way. I am not sure what damage they really do as the true believers cannot be swayed in any event and a great many other people watch it for the shear amusment it provides.

[SkyPilot]

And Eleanor Rodham Clift is simply unbearable.

A friend sent me a wav file of Eleanor taped from the McLaughlin show. It is looped--but it is her actual voice. In it, she whines:

"Bob! Bob! Baahb! BAAAHB! Listen---Bush is stooopid, and Hillary knows it! Baaaaahb! BAAAHHB!

[Carolinamom]

Ben Veniste et al keep saying that the FBI and CIA "didn't talk to each other." Isn't it true that each was forbidden to do so because of a Congressional act/ruling? Set me straight on this if you know.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Now Ben-Viniste is sucking up to Slade Gordon (RINO) to take slide away from his own slimey tactics.

[Miss Marple]

Walter Pinkus...the great buddy of Ambassador Joseph Wilson? He is saying what about Pinkus?

[jackbill]

Chris Wallace is really nailing B-V about his "grilling" of Dr. Rice.