Posted on 02/19/2006 5:03:51 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; former Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Chertoff; Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., and Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va.; basketball player Shaquille O'Neal.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Chertoff; British ambassador to the United States David Manning, German ambassador to the U.S. Wolfgang Ischinger and French ambassador to the U.S. Jean-David Levitte; retired Army Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton, formerly in charge of Iraqi army training.
Someone made a post about the MSM not dropping the Cheney story this week and linked it to Drudge (sorry, I don't remember who the FReeper was and can't find the post right now).
Here's the link to the story on Drudge.
MAIN PRESS PLANS ANOTHER WEEK OF CHENEY SHOOTING COVERAGE
The Drudge Report ^ | Feb 19, 2006 | Drudge
Posted on 02/19/2006 8:02:33 AM PST by blogblogginaway
If the nation's top magazine have the pulse of the country -- get ready for another exhaustive week of exhaustive Cheney shooting coverage.
This just in! Both TIME and NEWSWEEK are planning covers of Cheney for high impact on newsstands Monday, with each magazine rolling out top staff bylines and thousands of words on the hunting incident: TIME: With deep reporting by John Cloud, Mike Allen and Matthew Cooper/ Washington, Cathy Booth Thomas and Patricia Kilday Hart/ Austin, and Hilary Hylton. NEWSWEEK urgently brings in its big investigative guns: Evan Thomas, Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Richard Wolffe, Holly Bailey, Mark Hosenball and Eleanor Clift in Washington and Carol Rust in Texas.
NEWSWEEK's Jonathan Alter essays that media budget cuts and shifting news priorities have contributed to the public being in the dark about Cheney's ways and means.
The magazine's editor Mark Whitaker defends his decision to push for another week of Cheney-Shooting coverage: "The reason we ultimately decided to stick with a cover is not because of the hunting incident itself-although we did turn up some new details that you might not have read elsewhere-but because of what it says about the mysterious world of the most powerful vice president of recent times."
...Or what it says about the timing and state of print publications in the slick click age of information and news cycles.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581625/posts
Here are links to the Newsweak article. I suppose Eleanor will be on F&F tomorrow a.m. Note the sub-title on the last one: "He peppered a man in the face, but didn't tell his boss. Inside Dick Cheney's dark, secretive mind-set—and the forces that made it that way."
Cheney's Secret World Behind The Shooting Furor (anthrax exposure)
Newsweek ^ | 2/19/06 | Newsweek
Posted on 02/19/2006 8:05:43 AM PST by TrebleRebel
NEW YORK, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- A few weeks after 9/11, Newsweek has learned, Vice President Dick Cheney worried that he and his family and his staff might have been exposed in an anthrax attack. According to knowledgeable former officials, a mysterious letter turned up at the vice president's mansion. (A former senior law-enforcement official recalled that sensors went off.) The alarm turned out to be false. Still, to be safe, Cheney and his entourage began taking Cipro, the powerful antibiotic. The story was hushed up.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581630/posts
The Shot Heard Round the World (Newsweeks new hit piece)
Newsweek ^ | Feb. 27, 2006 | Isikoff & Clift. Haha
Posted on 02/19/2006 7:06:18 AM PST by roostercogburn
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581596/posts
The Shot Heard Round the World. He peppered a man in the face, but didn't tell his boss. Inside Dick Cheney's dark, secretive mind-set—and the forces that made it that way.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581596/posts
Ted Bilkey - never heard of him.
Idaho Mountain Express
For the week of November 7 - 13, 2001
Trying to understand Afghanistan
By PETER BOLTZ - Express Staff WriterAt first, it seemed a recent forum held at the Community School was misnamed.
People were interested in hearing about Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden, but the forum was called "A World in Conflict, An Evening of Understanding." ...
The authorities asked to speak and answer questions were Tony Mabbatt, Ted Bilkey and Ted Curran. ...
Bilkey is a retired shipping executive who has lived in Iran, Bahrain and other Muslim countries.
Bilkey, who said he was in Dubai during the Persian Gulf War of 1991, said that at that time "Americans were heroes. We were thought of as saviors, but we've totally lost it. What happened?"
He didn't answer this question, but he did have an answer to what he would tell President Bush.
"I think the first recommendation I would make is to take away a serious irritant by telling the Israelis to remove all the West Bank settlements," Bilkey said.
"I feel our government and media are tiptoeing around the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians," he said.
"Our government is not addressing the problem in an vigorous way. If we don't change our unqualified support of Israel, there is no way we can win the war on terrorism," Bilkey said.
http://www.mtexpress.com/2001/01-11-07/01-11-07forum.htm
U.S. TDA: Press Release: Djibouti 10/20/04ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA Earlier today, U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) Director Thelma J. Askey announced the award of a $348,378 grant to Dubai International Djibouti FZE (DID), a Djiboutian subsidiary of Dubai Ports International, to partially fund a feasibility study for the Port of Doraleh Container Terminal Project in Djibouti. Director Askey signed an agreement conferring the grant on behalf of the U.S. Government. Mr. Ted Bilkey, Executive Director for Dubai Ports International, signed the grant on behalf of DID.
http://www.tda.gov/USTDA/.../Oct20_04djibouti.html
Edward H. Bilkey
Chief Operating Officer (Retiring)Edward H. (Ted) Bilkey is the Chief Operating Officer of DP World and reports directly to the CEO.
Ted has over thirty years of diverse experience in the transportation industry. He has served as the President of Norton Lilly & Co., a premier shipping agency in the United States. Mr. Bilkey was instrumental in the development of China Ocean Shipping Company's services to the United States after the opening of China in the 1980s. He also served as Vice President of Maher Terminals in the Port of New York, one of the major US Terminal Operators.
In the late 80s to mid 90s, Mr. Bilkey served as the Executive Director of Dubai Ports Authority and Jebel Ali Free Zone Authority and was involved in establishing the foundation for its rapid growth both domestically and internationally.
Mr. Bilkey is a graduate of Yale University and has Masters Degrees from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, run by Harvard, MIT and Tuffs Universities. He served in the US Navy after completing his graduate studies and has been in the shipping/terminal industry throughout his business career.
Back to researching the port facilities' formal names. The industry is known as "Port; Harbor & Marine Terminal Management"
It's the stuff you don't hear about that ought to have you concerned.
As for what is done in the open, notice that it tends to be in the direction of MORE government, in every case. After all, it's what the people want.
Hi, Seattle. That was me. The left says they plan another week of the Cheney story. This is good news for our side because it shows just how out of touch with Americans they really are.
So now here come Chucky Schumer and his Insane Democrat Senate Clown posse to the "Rescue". There NEXT spin lie will be "Gee there is just too much risk of these operations being in private hands, we better place the Feds in charge like we did with the baggage screener.
What a sweet game for the Democrat Senate Election team headed by Chucky. Grandstand like they are tough on security and get the "Conservatives" to fight the PR battle for them. The for the Coup get the Conservatives to set up PR so the Dems have an excuse to move MORE private business into the Publics Sector. End result? The Govt Unions getting thousands of new workers added to the Union rolls that the Dems can then squeeze for Campaign "Contributions" Yeah, that is really the sort of result "Conservatives" should be pushing for.
Okay...I read your post...thanks to eeeeeeeevil
But I noticed you praised Lou Dobbs for not letting the press or dems framing his story...but, then you stated that he was pretty much all border control, all the time..
That wouldn't be a selling point to me...I don't want a one-topic rant every time I turn on a show...
That is what is happening to a lot of shows..that I USED to watch, like Greta with Aruba...and even O'Reilly, who seems to always want to talk about HIS fights with MSM...
Chrissy Matthews WAS all Plamegate...now he is all Quailgate..
If Dobbs discussed the Able Danger, Barrett Report, and stuff like that everyday, I would tune in...but, if I want border control...I can find dozens of threads here on FR to read.
I agree. She was great!
This is exactly why the media is killing this country!
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The old established/liberal/socialist media is America's most ruthless, relentless, and destructive enemy.
Huxley: “ The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth." — Old Media lives these words.
His (Dick's) wife is one tough little (cute) LADY!
you most certainly did
To: PhsstpokI am watching Heartland w/ John Kasich (yuck)...and he has on Bill Kristol..
And Kristol is talking about a subject that COULD overshadow the Katrina and Cheney stories...even NSA..
and that is the Dubai/UAE acquistion of the British Company that handled the port operations at some American ports...
It seems that Kristol, and a lot of conservatives are angry not just about the approval of the sale, thus installing them as the owners with access to US ports...but also that this allows (because she stuck her finger in the political wind) Hillary to go to the "right" of President Bush on national security...which is HIS main strong suit.
The only person that I have heard speak un-histrionically (is that a word?) about this is Tony Snow...and he seems to find it much ado about not so much.
So...Sunday's "scandal du jour" may be this port story.
The dims seem to have adopted it as a chance to get out ahead of Bush and polish up their homeland security credentials a bit.
but I believe that rodguy's point wasn't the specific issue or topic... his point was that Dobbs SET HIS OWN AGENDA rather than just formatting his show on what others dictate...
did I get that right rodguy?
Bilkey isn't much of a fan of our friendship with Israel...and even linked it with the 9/11 attack, huh?
That is interesting...
Oh yeh, how about this one?
;-)
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And if you don't like that one, what about this one Alan Simpson gave us this morning on the shooting incident?
Alan Simpson: “If this would have happened to anyone else in the country, it would have been like a sparrow’s belch in a typhoon.”
LOL!!!! LOL!!! I LIKE IT!!
GREAT!
You are right....I should have stipulated that rodguy is right, that if Dobbs is "running his own show", that is a good thing..
I guess I kinda used his post to complain about something that bothers me about these evening shows lately...
And that wasn't fair to rodguy...so I apologize RG...your post was very good.
Fox just showed a clip of Lindsey talking about it...and, like you said, he spoke of it as the port security...but, worse than that...he used the dems favorite word..
OUTSOURCING...He said he didn't like the idea of us "outsourcing our port security to foreign firms"..yikes!
Agreed. I don't think it will work either.
LOL!
I can guarantee you that Rush is NOT looking over at his shoulder at a relative lightweight like PoorLitteSeannieBoy ("solemn vow," "blood oath", "Great American") Vanity. That is quite laughable.
;-)
Sean might want to come up with an original thought each decade for Rush to be worrying about him.
Thanks for your earlier link to MSNBC's video. I was able to watch MTP and see Ms. Dowd in all her glory. What a piece of work she is.
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