Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 17 December 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 17 December 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, December 17th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.; FedEx Corp. CEO Frederick Smith; retired Marine Corps Commandant Gen. P.X. Kelley, co-chairmen of the Energy Security Leadership Council; Morrill Worcester, president of Worcester Wreath.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.; retired Army Gen. Jack Keane; Rep.-elect Joe Sestak, D-Pa.; actor and activist Isaiah Washington.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi; Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Shibley Telhami, Brookings Institution; retired Army Gen. Daniel Christman; Vali Nasr, Council on Foreign Relations; John Podesta, Center for American Progress; Danielle Pletka, American Enterprise Institute.

[CDB]

Thanks, Eleanor, and Merry Christmas to you, and everyone on this thread!

[rodguy911]

ROTFLMAO!

[rodguy911]

I am hoping that, should this become the scenario,and it could, maybe we can upset the apple cart down the road,it always spoils the rats day when we figure them out.

[rodguy911]

Yeah, we have rigs where we uses multiple lures while fishing for trout and at times catch two at once.

[Txsleuth]

I have seen very few Bond movies...but, when I was young, I read all of Ian Fleming's books..my father had them in his bookshelf...

I liked the books, because as a GIRL, I wasn't all that excited about seeing a movie that had to have women with big boobs as a VIP.

[samantha]

I really got angry listening to Wine Williams on the panel telling all kinds of lies about the Republican Party talking about the Power in Congress and all the speculation surrounded Johnson. I have heard only Democrats especially the lefties in the DBM talk that way. Some of the crassiest comments were spewed by Margaret Carlson,Eleanor Rodham Clift, and their ilk. They talked like keeping the Seat was more important than his life. Ghoulish, horrible people. I hope he cannot hear all their sickeningly negative, and disgusting comments. Conservatives and Pubbies have been praying for his recovery from Day 1, all the Rats want is a "Weekend at Bernies" body.

[rodguy911]

Great stuff here MNJ. It's too bad you have to cover the same ground over and over but it's obvious some still have not learned what an asymmetrical war is or what the true nature of what islamofascism is all about.

Did you catch Newt's comments on MTP about how he wants a half million troops, be very interested in your comments.

[snugs]

Change of menu Not roast potatoes but boiled Not sprouts but sugar snaps

Also addition, Yorkshire Pudding and sausages and bacon/stuffing balls small cocktails sausages etc. A packet of turkey accompaniments I got on the reduced counter at ASDA yesterday which was looking very festive.

Entrance

Main store

[rodguy911]

Great shots.

[snugs]

Your point is equating apples with pears. He was not in public life at the time Newt was.

The word drunk is also an emotive term someone with alcolhol problem is a better definition as this covers the whole spectrum, the word drunk seems to imply someone whom you might find in a gutter.

[snugs]

Thanks

[johnny7]

I should have been clearer. Two fish on one cast... WITH ONE LURE.

[Phsstpok]

He obviously has fantasies of being in the same league with Hannity and Rush but guess what, you have to be a true believer not a "wannnnnabe" Bill. We spot phonies in a heartbeat.

Now, to be fair, BOR is a true believer... in BOR. 

Bill O'Reilly.  A man with a career built 100% on ego with nothing to back it up. 

[rodguy911]

I only saw it happen once using a TT11 Mirrolure one trout on the back hooks and another on the front set.

[rodguy911]

OK I forgot, agreed!

[StoneWall Brigade]

Its nice a way of saying drunk and you missed the point that rush was making DBM will be out for blood they will bring up everything personal about any Republican that runs against Clinton i mean everything just wait and see

[snugs]

No doubt they will as with everything in politics - it seems that on Newt we are talking at cross purposes as I agree entirely with you on this post.

[Phsstpok]

Hillary and now the entire Democrat Party live by old Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals".

Saul Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals"

RULE 1: "Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have." Power is derived from 2 main sources - money and people. "Have-Nots" must build power from flesh and blood. (These are two things of which there is a plentiful supply. Government and corporations always have a difficult time appealing to people, and usually do so almost exclusively with economic arguments.)

RULE 2: "Never go outside the expertise of your people." It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don't address the "real" issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)

RULE 3: "Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy." Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

RULE 4: "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules." If the rule is that every letter gets a reply, send 30,000 letters. You can kill them with this because no one can possibly obey all of their own rules. (This is a serious rule. The besieged entity's very credibility and reputation is at stake, because if activists catch it lying or not living up to its commitments, they can continue to chip away at the damage.)

RULE 5: "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." There is no defense. It's irrational. It's infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

RULE 6: "A good tactic is one your people enjoy." They'll keep doing it without urging and come back to do more. They're doing their thing, and will even suggest better ones. (Radical activists, in this sense, are no different that any other human being. We all avoid "un-fun" activities, and but we revel at and enjoy the ones that work and bring results.)

RULE 7: "A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag." Don't become old news. (Even radical activists get bored. So to keep them excited and involved, organizers are constantly coming up with new tactics.)

RULE 8: "Keep the pressure on. Never let up." Keep trying new things to keep the opposition off balance. As the opposition masters one approach, hit them from the flank with something new. (Attack, attack, attack from all sides, never giving the reeling organization a chance to rest, regroup, recover and re-strategize.)

RULE 9: "The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself." Imagination and ego can dream up many more consequences than any activist. (Perception is reality. Large organizations always prepare a worst-case scenario, something that may be furthest from the activists' minds. The upshot is that the organization will expend enormous time and energy, creating in its own collective mind the direst of conclusions. The possibilities can easily poison the mind and result in demoralization.)

RULE 10: "If you push a negative hard enough, it will push through and become a positive." Violence from the other side can win the public to your side because the public sympathizes with the underdog. (Unions used this tactic. Peaceful [albeit loud] demonstrations during the heyday of unions in the early to mid-20th Century incurred management's wrath, often in the form of violence that eventually brought public sympathy to their side.)

RULE 11: "The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative." Never let the enemy score points because you're caught without a solution to the problem. (Old saw: If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem. Activist organizations have an agenda, and their strategy is to hold a place at the table, to be given a forum to wield their power. So, they have to have a compromise solution.)

RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

[Bahbah]

It seems jon carry managed to corral a few of our finest in Irak. How out of place he looks.

[StoneWall Brigade]

I'm not trying to look down Bush he's great guy true hero all i'm saying is lets forget about past move on and give everyone a fair chance lets watch the debates and see who's the best