Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 13 January 2002

Various big media television networks ^ | 13 January, 2002 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming

[Alas Babylon!]

Guest lineup posted yesterday by FReeper dickmc.

[Torie]

Btw, I take it you don't think the Waxman Jihad that Bush disdained the little people at Enron when he disdained throwing them a life raft will have any traction. Waxman does seem to have an undue interest in energy company employees when he primarily represents Hollyweird types (plus Deb; plus me at one time actually) doesn't he?

[upchuck]

Then there's Eleanor Clift and I speak softly of this lady because I know most of the males on this board have the hots for this woman.



Whoo yeah baby. Get a load of that. Come to me Ellie baby!!!


I love you, there's nothing to hide
It's better than burning inside
I love you, no use to pretend
There, I've said it again...




With a wink and lots and lots of apologies to my bud Bobby Vinton.

[Stultis]

"This administration cares more about corporation fatcats than they do the little people."

An apt description of the previous administration, which saddled small and medium size businesses (that provide most of the jobs for the "little people") with high taxes and excessive and gratuitious regulations, while pimping the White House staff out to secure fat overseas contracts and sweetheart deals for selected mega-Corporations.

'Spouse Katrina is experiencing flashbacks? Or is she just cynically enraged at Bush's genuinely pro-growth philosophy, and a White House which will not step over small business to kiss corporate ass?

[Aedammair]

If I were a reporter I would quote from the speech he plagarized a couple of years back, over, and over, and over, again; every single time I was anywhere near a microphone.

AAA, you would think with all his money, he could buy a better rug.

[Stultis]

Ms. Vanden Huevel prfers not to be called a pinko or a liberal. She's a "progressive".

There is a difference between a leftist and a progressive, you see. A progressive is willing to hypocritically pimp out liberal "principles" to further their agenda.

Wait a minute, maybe there isn't a difference...

[Wphile]

I just watched O'Neil on FOX News Sunday. I thought he did fine. I also saw Rep. Davis (R) and Dingell (D) with Brit and Tony. What distrubed me most was the suggestion, via the questioning, that Congress may come up with some sort of restitution for the employees. Sheesh...Justice is doing an investigation and remedies should come from there. It better come out of Lay's pockets and not the taxpayers. Additionally, the shareholders have filed suit and restitution can come about as a result of that.

I really wish Congress would stay out of it. I fear that nothing good and probably a whole lot of bad will result.

[IVote2]

Sam Donaldson I believe. He was like an aging pit bull today, trying hard, but his teeth are missing.

Regards, Jen

[esther2]

That is exactly what I was thinking earlier today. McCain knows that conservatives aren't going to vote for him, so he can't challenge Bush for the Republican nomination. Here's my prediction: Lieberman is going to hang Daschle/H.R. Clinton/Kerry out to dry as too liberal, McCain is going to try to make Bush look "too conservative"--then we'll have the "centrist" Lieberman-McCain ticket. We'll just have to remind the military that neither one of these guys gave a rip about their votes the last time.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

So the stock was essentially locked as far as the employees were concerned. Point taken. But that is not my point. My point is imagine that the stock wasn't locked. OK. So the Enron people sell. OK. But guess what? If they sold, that means somebody had to buy. So good for the Enron folks but bad for whomever now owns the stock. So, somebody wins, somebody loses but as I pointed out that is a zero sum game. In other words there was nothing Washington did or did not do or could have done that would have changed the net outcome for the country as a whole. The take home message here is that there was undoubtedly some malfeasance on the part of the Enron execs, and probably some good old fashioned bad luck as well, but no matter how you spin it, this is a business scandal not a political one.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

'Ms. Vanden Huevel prfers not to be called a pinko or a liberal. She's a "progressive".' There is a difference between a leftist and a progressive, you see.

Ms. Vanden Huevel is a far better looking version of her father. You can tell from their last name that they are descendants of the old Dutch aristocracy of New York, dating from the days the city was known as 'Nieuw Amsterdam'. During the 50's & 60's William Vanden Huevel was the pre-eminent New York left-wing Democrat, well to the left of the regular and reform Democrats. Katrina wants to make the country Red in memory of 'dear old dad'. In her marriage with the Gorbachev loving Professor Cohen, she is the left-winger. Sad that someone so attractive physically is such a leftwing harpie.

[Stultis]

I was right!!! Lieberman's trip to Afghanistan with McCain was the opening of his presidential campaign. Kristol says Lieberman will make a very important military speech, tomorrow.

Will his "very important" military speech suck as badly as Dashhole's "very important" economic speech? Loving this!

[wooden nickel]

Timmy was resolutely arranging and rearranging his papers and not looking at Evans who was left to sit without any chitchat and bonhomie that Russert usually gives after an interview

This is more telling what Timmy was up to than the interview. Thanks!

[Don@VB]

Enrongate

Companies go out of business all the time and they deal with political personna all the time. Enron did not leave the taxpayers holding the bag, as in Madison S&L, nor was Laura Bush on retainer as a high priced shill.

[conservativesoutherner]

Did you see Fox News Sunday today? (anyone on the forum currently can answer). Because I want to have a discussion with somebody who watched it.

[IVote2]

I thought he did well there, he didn't let them roll him as he has done in the past. He more than held his own I thought.

[wooden nickel]

Logic confronts emotion-- logic wins every time.

If only that were always true, we would not have the post 11/3/92 tragedy.

[Wphile]

Anyone see FOX News Sunday?

I saw it earlier. What's up?

[section9]

God this woman makes me sooooooooooooo hot.

That oval, inviting mouth. Those tender lips. That comely figure. The "come to bed with me" look that she has on her aspect every time she's on The McGlaughlin Group.

She just oozes an earth-shattering sexuality. Oh Eleanor, my Venus! Share your intimacies with me......

Then she talks and I hear the lilting sounds of fingernails scratching across a chalkboard, and I come back to sanity...

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[conservativesoutherner]

I did not get to catch it. I literally only saw the last 2 minutes. Whenever I miss the show on sunday mornings, I check out Sunday freeper threads and a website called American Politics Joural. American Politics Journal is a godawful piece of crap written by and marketed to Leftists. They analyze what all of the guests and pundits say on the Sunday morning shows. The only reason that I go there is to find out what was said on the shows- I ignore the left-wing analysis.

So that's how I fill myself in. But they don't give each specific word (like a transcript), they're more general. Well I looked on the site today and something caught my eye. They started talking about what was said on the panel segment about Enron. They wrote that Brit stated that he thinks the job of the media is to show why Enron isn't a scandal, and that Tony said that there are questions about Enron's influence over energy policy.

Having not watched the show, I can't figure out what was actually stated and how it was meant. I may have misread it or perhaps i'm just not able to figure it out, but that doesn't sound like something Snow would say. What did Tony say during the panel about Enron and Whose side did he seem to be taking (who was he more argumentative with). I'm telling you here and now, if he or any other conservative starts joining in the Bush-bashing, i'm boycotting their shows. I'm all fired up!