Posted on 09/24/2006 3:15:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Bill Clinton (D-FIRPOTUS); Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.); Dr. JoGayle Howard, National Zoo panda doctor.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Bill Clinton (D-Arkancide); Afghan President Hamid Karzai; John Danforth, former senator and U.N. ambassador.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. John McCain, (R-Ariz.)
THIS WEEK (ABC): Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, (R-Tenn.); New Jersey Senate candidates Sen. Bob Menendez, (D-N.J.), and Republican Tom Kean Jr.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Karzai; Sen. Arlen Specter, (R-Pa.); Rep. Jane Harman, (D-Calif.); Iraqi President Jalal Talibani; Alexander Haig, former secretary of state; Richard Holbrooke, former U.N. ambassador.
Great post! I can only hope you're right in that it will make many of the average Americans lose respect for him. I suspect his water carriers will be out in full spin over the next few days. Hopefully, many avg Americans actually saw the interview and won't be taken in by the spin.
no I'm watching Bubba on MTP...he's being very civil to Timmy:) and it's all about "I" as usual...and shading all his way
I didn't see the interview so didn't know that Clinton was forewarned. I still don't think it matters. I don't think this interview advances our national interests since Clinton, as president, was indifferent to our national interests and ignorant of the peril in which this indifference placed us.
He has nothing to contribute to the history of his time in office and out except his failure to understand the duties of the presidency. His lashing out in blind fury at even the intimation of failure will not even be a footnote in the history of this tumultuous time.
For Clinton it has always been all about Clinton, his image, his legacy, his bottomless neediness. The horror of Clinton as president, is that this country served as a backdrop for the Clinton soap opera; we, the citizens, became the chorus, the adoring audience and those of us who demurred were vilified and silenced. The media crawled into the gutter for him, and our enemies judged us by watching this sordid fairy-tale, then struck.
I think that we learned that a president cannot be a diva, that the grown-up business of protecting and defending our future cannot be subordinated to the personal psychodrama of an infantile climber who cheapened the perquisites of power even as he exploited them.
Clinton remarked of the presidency, "It's just a job." If he really believes this, then his failure to understand the immense power of the office and the terrible burden of exercising that power led inexorably to September 11, and he must know this, even as he writhes and snarls when he is reminded of it.
I think that he and his detestable wife represent the worst of our system. They are greedy, conscienceless, vulgar, impudent, and lacking the humility necessary for those who seek to exercise power in this system. Except for his pathetic bragging about his rich friends, he has nothing to add to the great questions of the day, nor does he have the understanding of even himself, to proffer answers.
Clinton was not only disengaged from the responsibilities of the presidency, he was, and is, disengaged from himself. Now old, ill, with the horror of the waste that was his life perhaps dawning on him, he haunts our tv screens, seeking, no, demanding that we affirm his lies, even as the images of Americans hurtling through space racing their reflections in the glass towers, down to the streets of New York City haunt our dreams.
I don't feel sorry for Clinton. I think the main reason we turn our eyes away from bear-baiting is to avoid the temptation to forget, in our glee at the bear's impotent rage, that the bear caused the deaths of people we knew, the young man whose senior prep pianoforte performance of Bach we taped but cannot bring ourselves to listen to, the young blonde dancer/lawyer/writer we all loved and still miss, and that the bear almost destroyed our village.
lol you didn't miss much
I'm sitting here watching Lindsey Grahm on FNC .. he really needs tot sthu
LOLOL.....don't you mean......if Hunt ever was working for Hilary.....he's not working for her anymore!!!!!
remember Graham is in the military as a lawyer as a reservist if memory serves me correctly or was...he's still wrong of course
I read up the thread that she needs some time off. I know they put her on later in the day, maybe to accomodate her but it must not have been enough.
She is a new Mom.
Lately I've started wondering if there's a connection between the illegal contributions Clinton and Gore received from China as well as the technology given to China and this event.
Clinton, bin Laden, Wag The Dog and Fox News
Check it out, the Toon's history rewrites continue...
I'm watchin'!
LOL! So true.
Doggone it....I missed it!
They seemed to feel sorry for him to me.
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