Posted on 02/11/2007 5:15:41 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, February 11th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, R-Miss.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; actor Sean Penn.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, former U.S. commander in Afghanistan; Qubad Talabany, representative to the U.S. of the Iraqi Kurdistan regional government; Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and John Cornyn, R-Texas; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; Terry McAuliffe, former Democratic National Committee chairman; retired Army Col. Patrick Lang; Ray Takeyh, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.
The airwaves in my area are inundated with CIA recruitment commercials. Even if I had the computer or linguistics skills they're looking for, I cannot imagine working in that culture. It's got to be demoralizing working for careerists and political appointees who don't seem to have any real interest in national security.
McConnell says NYT editorial page correctly reported news about senate debates on Iraq.
Obamarama up on Reliable Sources....Katy someone (the brit lady) says he is the man of hope, is original, and he looks different so may he can break out of thepack. Tummulty responds to a qeustion about Obama's "blackness" (as in not enough), Karen simply doesn't understand the whole conversation among the black community not jumping onto the Obamarama mania, and that many are rejecting him and don't consider him one of their own. Then she jumps onto the CLinton is the first black president, and so Hillary will benefit from that. Matthew Felling (whoever he is) jumps into the "are you black enough enough" versus the "he is not black enough" debate in order to weaken him. I guess they don't understand that Clinton team is behind all of this in order to weaken Obama. Or maybe they do know it, and simply won't acknowledge it.
Well at least he had the decency to do so but I suppose if he did not could he held in contempt of court or such like?
McConnell: It's correct to say we should have a full-fledged Iraq debate.
The issue with Biden's quote was that he implied that any other black candidates for President had not been articulate, nor clean, etc. Here's the actual quote:
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy," Biden said. "I mean, that's a storybook, man."
If you watch the video (link at the CNN story) he has a distinct pause between "first mainstream African-American" and the beginning of the description of Obama as articulate, etc. He wasn't making an bad comment about earlier black candidates, but complimenting Obama on his "fine qualities." In written form, however, it came out really badly. No amount of explanation was going to correct the impression once the press got hold of that spin and especially once the comedians started in.
I actually took the time to dig into this and watch the video, not just read the quote, after Brit Hume defended Biden forcefully on the Sunday roundtable after it happened. Biden was trying to compliment Obama and it turned into a perceived slam at previous African American candidates for the presidency, probably because Biden isn't very articulate.
My earlier post was a sarcastic shot at the DBM which had bought into and pushed the spin on Biden's comment.
Indeed they may well have
McConnell: We were not trying to limit debate. We were trying to broaden debate.
Thanks, Rod.
"But Senator I think you are confusing the facts with the political perception of this"
Wallace to McConnell: New record. 3 times today you've approved of a NYT editorial
It was quite frightening for a few minutes but the emergency services were great both the operator and that actual paramedics even if by the time the paramedics arrived dad was almost back to normal. They were understanding and did not say we had cried wolf or anything.
It seemed to me that Tim was saying that testifying in court really restricted him from the editorializing and spinning that he is accustomed to doing on his program.
Personal opinion, we have problems with the CIA, Energy Department, State and all the others where liberals have run amok for years. Getting rid of them is difficult too because of the government unions.
McConnell did very, very well.
He refused to say whether we would go into Iran, as was appropriate. Wallace was dumb to press him on something like that.
McConnell was "statesman like."
Huckabee on This Week. This is the second time I've seen him on the national stage. I was impressed with his composure when he appeared on MTP. He has responded well to Steffi's questions today. He seems thoughtful and sensible, but I don't know if he has the weight to stand out in the race against the so-called frontrunners of Romney, McCain, and Giuliani.
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