Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 13 January 2002

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

[hellinahandcart]

They are just using each other because both of them hate George Bush.

The question is, do they hate Bush enough to play Ross Perot in 2004, and I think the anwer is "yes".

[barker]

".........also threatening!!!!!!!!! Did anyone catch the not-so-thinly-veiled threats about Bush's Interim Appointments"

---The threat wasn't veiled.

What exactly was this threat? What did he say?

[StarFan]

I'll just sit here and watch this commie pinko Katrina Vanden Heuvel spew her venom on C-Span. And absolutely no one can spew it better than this hateful, frightening woman who must lead a miserable life with Dubya's high approval rating. My pity is for her husband (if she's married).

[Wait4Truth]

Ok, taking tinfoil hat off now...LOL

[Wait4Truth]

Hillary/Al? No, I don't think so...Al should know by now that he would be nothing but a puppet for Her Majesty. However, what a nightmare team that would be! LOL!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

A McCain/Lieberman ticket would have to be an Independent ticket which means their only role in the election would be that of disruptor. The major parties would not support a R & D presidential ticket.

Also, I suspect this would hurt democrats more than republicans as they are both liberals. I don't think grass roots conservatives could stomach either of them.

[leadpenny]

Good for C-SPAN. They just ended their hour with Kristol by plugging the upcoming Alan Keyes show on MSNBC. Kristol gave it faint praise by saying, "I'll watch it once in a while."

[Wphile]

Liebermann/McCain - No Way. It would have to be McCain/Liebermann. No way in hell McCain would accept VP. Remember his snit about some bill that had to be broadcast as McCain/someone first?

So, McCain/Liebermann - yes, I could see that happen but I think it would only guarantee W's re-election because they would have to run Independent and would draw more Dem votes than Repub votes.

Enron is turning into a total joke. Lesson to the press and the Dems: better to learn the facts first before the frothing starts. Waxman is such an idiot. Now he says Bush should have bailed out Enron to help the employees and stockholders. Say what? This should only be a criminal investigation through the justice department. It's white collar crime, period; except, of course, for all the nasty entanglement with the prior administration - India, Mozambique, etc. Looks like W wins again!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Bill and Al were not much more than a puppet for her during their control from 92-00. It would be nothing new, IMO

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Katrina vanden Heuvel
editor

Katrina vanden Heuvel has been editor of The Nation since January 1995 and was acting editor of the magazine in 1994. She joined The Nation in 1984 as assistant editor. She writes frequently about Russian politics and society and for the past 10 years has divided her time between Moscow and New York. She is the co-author (with Stephen F. Cohen) of Voices of Glasnost: Interviews with Gorbachev's Reformers (Norton, 1989), and the editor of the magazine's anthology, The Nation: 1865-1990 (Thunder's Mouth Press, 1990).

"Gorbachev's Soviet Union," a special issue of the magazine she conceived and edited, won a 1988 Olive Branch Award. Her articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and Vanity Fair. Vanden Heuvel is also co-editor of Vyi i Myi, a Russian-language feminist newsletter.

She is a summa cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where she studied politics and history. She lives in New York with her husband Stephen Cohen and their daughter Nicola.

[Politico2]

... But does she know who her Member of Congress is?

[yikes]

Kristol should really go back to the Rat party and stop masquerading as a conservative. His supercilious attitude, arrogance, and his "I am so much smarter than you" way is much more Rattish. Quite honestly,I don't think he knows what he is.

[Cowgirl]

Why the Republicans even bother to answer the stupid news media is beyond me. Nothing was of any consequence when traitorous clinton was in office. I just keep asking them what about clinton's traitorous actions with China and his hit list.

[Wphile]

Still on ground troops, eh?

I can't stand it when he (I assume it's Kristol) does this. What the heck does he know about military operations? I canceled my Weekly Standard subscription because of this last Fall. I thought it was so disgusting when McCain and all the pundits were talking about ground troops - massive amounts - in Afghanistan. Sheesh...Thank goodness we have a commander-in-chief who cares about those guys in uniform and will not send them into battle willy-nilly. Talking heads, yada, yada...no wonder Bush didn't give him a place in the administration.

[Fury]

Yes, but Brit Hume just laid out Juan Williams on the Washingon Redskins name issue. "I'm of Scottish descent and the Boston "Celtics" offends me. And I want reparations too"! Go Brit Go!!

I laughed when I saw this! With a full FedEx stadiaum and a waiting list? for season's tickets, Dan Snyder will tell them to pound salt...

[GraniteStateConservative]

Bush would win a 3-way match-up. When you look at the numbers, Bush's base is stronger than any candidates in a 3-way matchup. He would be a 40%-er like Clintoon in 1992, but he'd win more than enough electoral votes.

[conservativesoutherner]

At the end of Fox News Sunday, they always do a 'mailbag' segment where they read letters they get from viewers. I got a phone call right about that time and missed it. Does anyone remember what they were about or what they said? I would be much obliged to the perceptive soul who could fill me in. By the way, it's possible I may be falling in love with Brit Hume (just wanted to let you know)!

[Wait4Truth]

LOL! YaYa told me to take my tinfoil hat OFF - you tell me I can put it back on...sigh, now I'm really confused. One thing I do know is that I trust McCain and Lieberman about the same amount - NONE.

[IVote2]

I think it's more a case of an honest to the bone guy who doesn't know how to lie, spin or otherwise spew BS (Barbra Streisand) on TV.

Not to denigrate what you say, I think that we have become accustomed to seeing slick, articulate people on television and he's just not one of them. Probably they should find someone better than him to make the case for the administraton.

[conservativesoutherner]

Who interviewed Paul O'neil?