Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 30 July 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 30 July 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns; L. Paul Bremer, former head of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq; Dr. Steven Rosenberg, chief surgeon at the National Cancer Institute.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Israeli U.N. Ambassador Dan Gillerman; Lebanese special envoy Nouhad Mahmoud.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora; Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Burns; Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon; cyclist and cancer survivor Lance Armstrong.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Burns; Syrian Cabinet Minister Bouthaina Shaaban; Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

[rodguy911]

Great job on the pre-thread yesterday Phsstpok, a true work of art.

[eeevil conservative]

I hope you are correct!

I truly do... but so far- the rest of the world hasn't gotten that picture.....

but then- since when does the media ever give us an accurate picture.....

[snugs]

I think Shep gets too involved when he calms down I quite enjoy him (don't tell anyone but I think he is good looking if somewhat too pretty for a man).

Laura I like when she is interviewed on a particular subject but I feel she is not objective enough to do a show like the factor where both sides are shown and she tends to show hers more IMHO.

Yes I get annoyed at the subtle attacks on GW by BOR especially recently over Iraq but on the whole I feel he is fair and balanced and enjoy watching him as he normally puts both sides and lets the viewer make their own mind up. He also has been great in trying to get some sort of child legalization through (Jessica's law).

Laura I would say would be good on a show that is meant to portray more conservative/right wing views she would IMHO make a good stand in for Sean Hannity but not for Bill.

[Eagles Talon IV]

I saw it and agree Gabler came off like a hysterical fanatic. Perhaps you didn't notice this but while he was ranting the other panel members behind him were laughing.

[A.Hun]

Great post AB! People should realize now that what we have seen is the battle of Afghanistan, the battle of Iraq, the battle of Lebanon.

Russert was talking about Israel angering the Christians in Lebanon...I guess he was talking about the 50% of Christian Lebanese left after years of being murdered or forced out of Lebanon by Muslims.

The world will be screaming about the 30 Lebanese killed by an Israeli airstrike, but will continue to ignore the 10's of thousands of Christians in Darfur still being murdered by Muslims.

This is indeed a world war now. George Bush has known that it was inevitable since 9/11. Maybe before, as he supported getting rid of Saddam from before his election.

India is fighting Muslims, Thailand is fighting Muslims, Indonesia has fallen to Muslims, and the Phillipines are fighting an entrenched Muslim revolt.

We have now seen the killing of an author in Denmark by a Muslim that showed nothing but religious fervor as opposed to regret upon his conviction. Muslim youth went on a month long rampage in France. Muslims bombed England, and have so infested England that plot after plot is being hatched to harm the English again. Muslims killed hundreds of innocents in a Russian school.

Eventually, the world must realize that this is a religious war whether they want it or not. This religious war is different though....this time it is the Muslims against any non-believer from Christian to atheist carried out on a global scale.

Although it is fanatical Muslims that drive the violence against others, the moderate Muslim majority is refusing to reign them in. In my mind, that makes them just as responsible for the violence.

[edpc]

So two families of Hezbollah leaders, or two random families who may have been held there to be used as photo op "collateral damage" to "win friends and influence people." In either case it was the fault of the Lebanese government and Hezbollah that this is going on, not the Israelis.

No question. I'd be more sympathetic to the victims if they were indeed just people held against their will and used as human shields/propaganda tools. However, I am inclined to believe they were family members of Hezbollah.

If that is the case, I wouldn't give the bombing another thought. Given the way these people think and act, it could be considered a strike on future Hezbollah fighters.

Either way, you are correct in saying this is the fault of those to the North (and don't forget East) of Israel.

[snugs]

Our goal is to eliminate their ability to threaten us...period

Absolutely

[maica]

Can anyone tell me where the French have succeeded as a PeaceKeeping Force?

[snugs]

I agree

[Fishtalk]

I saw it and agree Gabler came off like a hysterical fanatic. Perhaps you didn't notice this but while he was ranting the other panel members behind him were laughing.

God I am glad someone else saw this. No, I didn't notice the other people laughing. You're serious?

Because I really thought he went waaaaaay over the top. I know this thread isn't about Neil Gabler but I am filled with such rancor toward the guy and his amazing hatred.

Moving on ....

[snugs]

They also surprising have quite strict rules at schools such as what the children can wear this has been a big bone of contention not allowing the girls to wear full Muslim regalia I wonder how strict we are in Britain on this I doubt we are.

[MNJohnnie]

One of my least favorite people actually had the guts to speak truth to whiners.

Bill Kristol was lectured by one of the weepy hysteric Liberal types on a Fox show about the Terrorists and their supporters. She ended with what the usual Leftist thinks is the end all be all put down. "So what do you do with them (the terrorists) then?

Kristol looked at her and said "Kill them".

[ThreePuttinDude]

Gabler is doing what we want him doing. Acting like a fool
and siding with the enemy. Lets just stand back and make
mention of his foolishness, and let the results speak for
themselves.

We aren't the only ones to notice this nuttyness. I've had
friends, whom I've suspected of being in the "blue club",
mention different things that the news outlets are spewing
and commenting on the foolish tone being thrown around.

[snugs]

You beat me to it with that comment on headscarves.

[MNJohnnie]

Chad, Central Africa,

[kabar]

Israel can't eliminate Hezbullah as a credible threat as long as Syria is a sanctuary and Iran supplies the weapons and some manpower. How do you eliminate an enemy that wears no uniforms, operates individually or in small units and melts away into the general population?

The Israelis took the bait. Hezbullah wanted this kind of reaction as Blair so eloquently said. Israel's immediate objective is a secure northern border. If it can be done diplomatically, so much the better. Hezbullah is not only Israel's problem but ours. They blew up the Marine Barracks, bombed our embassy in Beirut three times, and kidnapped and killed our diplomats including the COS. Thye are a surrogate of Iran.

Israel has failed to eliminate Hamas as a credible threat despite being in their own backyard. It is far more difficult to "eliminate Hezbullah as a credible threat" than it is to say it.

[maica]

You are letting theory and wishes get in the way of rational thinking based on observed history.

[Eagles Talon IV]

No, I didn't notice the other people laughing. You're serious?

Yes, I'm serious.

[snugs]

You have a freepmail from rodguy

[Harpo Speaks]

THAT'S HOW THE COW ATE THE CABBAGE

"An expression to indicate the speaker is laying it on the line, telling it like it is, getting down to brass tacks - with the connotation of telling someone what he or she needs to know but probably doesn't want to hear. According to Little Rock attorney Alston Jennings, who submitted this southernism to Richard Allen's February 2, 1991, 'Our Town' column in the Arkansas Gazette, the expression has its roots in a story about an elephant that escaped from the zoo and wandered into a woman's cabbage patch. The woman observed the elephant pulling up her cabbages with its trunk and eating them. She called the police to report that there was a cow in her cabbage patch pulling up cabbages with its tail. When the surprised police officer inquired as to what the cow was doing with the cabbages, the woman replied, 'You wouldn't believe me if I told you!'"