Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 18 May 2008

Various big media television networks ^ | 18 May 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Rick Dutrow Jr., trainer of Kentucky Derby winner Big Brown.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.; former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.; Republican strategist Mike Murphy; Democratic strategist Bob Shrum.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. Charlie Crist, R-Fla.; Republican strategist Ed Rollins; former Govs. Mario Cuomo, D-N.Y., and Roy Romer, D-Colo.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez; former Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss.

[Alas Babylon!]

As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions.

[Alas Babylon!]

Nine Republicans this morning. Unfortunately, most are RINOs, and of course, that perennial Milquetoast, trent Lott.

[Alas Babylon!]

C-SPAN Radio, available on the net also, click here, broadcasts all five Sunday talk shows starting at 12:00 noon Eastern, as follows:

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "Late Edition"

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"

Listen at the link above WHILE you FReep!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Morning AB. Have you seen Michelle Malkin’s proposed new GOP campaign slogan contest?

My favorite: We’re Screwed ‘08!

[Alas Babylon!]

LOL! And so true.

Do you have a link?

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Who are the Clintonistas in the lineup?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Just go to MichelleMalkin.com, it is on the front page, along with the hilarious thread about the angry responses on the RCCC’s blog, denouncing the party’s campaign ideas. Now up to over 1200 often obscene posts.

[Morgan in Denver]

Good morning everyone, and thank you for the posting.

I cracked up at the slogan as well.

[Nekman]

Gee,where have I heard that before?...Oh yeah,I've been saying it since February!...In fact,it's been my tag line for 2 months!!!!!!!!!

[mathluv]

Rush has said - several times - 'we are so screwed'.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

FOX has the best guest. Howe many times do you get to hear from the trainer of a Triple Crown Winner?

[Morgan in Denver]

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/05/15/gop-contest-the-slogan-change-you-deserve/ is the link, I think.

[maica]

I am watching/listening to an old videotape made by my mother in August 2004. Guests included
Fran Townsend on FNS
Rudy Giuliani, followed by Tommy Franks on with Steffi
Condoleeza Rice, followed by Dennis Hastert on MTP

Those were the days!!!

Of course the questioning has not changed:

Everything that President Bush is doing is wrong
Are we going into a recession?
Are the Swift Boat vets going over the line?
Is Tom Ridge overreacting?
Why doesn’t Dennis Hastert call Congress into session (in the middle of August) to act on the 9-11 Commission recommendations RIGHT NOW!!! [Russert pounding desk]
etc

Safire and Mo Dowd on panel with Russert giving their opinion on how to combat the terror threat.

NB: Mo just said that President Bush’s nickname for her is Cobra. (I can see the reason why.)

[Miss Didi]

Happy Sunday, All. The line up thrills me not. So with Ed Rollins and the Huckster on board are we going to hear the Huck for VP campaign? (rolling eyes)

[Izzy Dunne]

Democratic strategist Bob Shrum.

Why does anyone care what this dweeb says?

• 1976 - Worked for Jimmy Carter for 9 days.
• 1980 - Worked for Teddy the K.
• 1988 - Worked for Dick Gephardt in primaries.
• 1988 - Worked for Mike "Tank" Dukakis.
• 1992 - Worked for Bob Kerrey in primaries.
• 2000 - Worked for Al "the Bull" Gore.
• 2004 - Worked for John "F'in" Kerry.

Not exactly a stellar resumé, I would say.

[TomGuy]

MTP

Huckabee is still auditioning for McCain’s VP.

[Miss Didi]

From Rush on Thursday:



RUSH: I want to hit you between the eyes here. I keep hearing from people who say, "Rush, we're screwed. We are screwed, no matter what happens here. Whatever scenario you just announced, we're screwed. If McCain is the president, big-time Democrat majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed. If Obama's the president, big-time majorities in the House and Senate, we're screwed." I don't think we're screwed.

If I thought we were screwed, I would retire. What would be the point here? A friend of mine runs a business. In this business he's got a lot of egos. He's got a lot of prima donnas, a lot of divas, a lot of people who think the world revolves around 'em and they aren't getting enough attention. He sent a memo out. "I hate negative people. Negative people make positive people sick. Don't think I'm not talking about you," he said. I don't know what the end result of that was, but I assume it shook a lot of people up. I don't like negative people, either. I used to be one. I used to look at it typical: glass half empty. When I got a massage, two minutes in I'd say, "Darn it, this is going to end," and I'd spend the rest of the 58 minutes in anticipation of it ending and being disappointed, rather than sitting there and enjoying it. If I bought a new car, I'd sit there, "Yeah, this is great, but someday this new car smell is not going to be here." I used to do this. I don't anymore, for a host of reasons.

But I can't stand being around negative people. I can't stand being around fatalists. I can't stand being around defeatists. I understand it, but at some point I lose my ability to respond to them. How many times can you say, "I'm sorry you feel that way," and what does that accomplish? I don't want to sit here, "Yeah, we're screwed. Damn it, we're really screwed! Yeah, you're right. We are so screwed. Bend over forward, backgrounds, grab the ankles. We're screwed," and then what do you do? I'll never forget Ronald Reagan. The Soviet Union had been around since the end of World War I, and they kept asking Reagan: What are you going to do about it? He said, "If we just wait 'em out, they'll fail. They will collapse of their own immorality." He gave 'em a little nudge, but they did collapse in their own immorality. I don't think conservatism's finished. People in the Republican Party who are not conservative running for reelection, deserve to lose. Just get rid of the dead weight and start over. Screw them!

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

There is a FR thread about the lasty letters to the GOP “http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017233/posts “

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

lasty = nasty

[TomGuy]

My favorite: We’re Screwed ‘08!

A few weeks ago, Rush used "We are so screwed."


The GOP may end up claiming success if they can keep the 08 losses to the number they lost in 06. They are so clueless. At every major loss, they run further to the left.

Ironically, the Dems are electing new relatively conservative Congresscritters.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

I hope Rush is right, but even he doesn’t deny where we’re going in 08.

[rodguy911]

Morning AB and thanks once again for all you do.
Looks like the rat stream media has once again spiked the game with those just chomping at the bit to take on GW for what he said abroad about Barry Hussein our untouchable Teflon rat candidate.
Rinos crist and the huckster both VP wannabess are prominently featured so the dbm can claim “fair and balanced” but with balance like that most any ship would sink.
One thing you won't find on any of the shows today is any mention of HR 5515 the NEVA or New Employee Verification Act which is being toyed with in Congress as we type.

Initially it looks like a great idea to electronically reject any one who is an illegal. But of course this is the Federal govt. we are talking about. Nothing is ever as it seems and this time is no exception.
In addition to checking on only “new hires” and exempting those “zillions of illegals already hired” the bill has a few other little zingers pointed out by a terrific article in Human Events by William Campennini and referenced on FR by our own EC and MNJ with some assists from Ali Veritas as well yesterday. One of the zingers is to get rid of any local law enforcement which as we all know here is basically all there is right now since the Fed/politicos are not really “too serious” about getting rid of what they consider a new emerging voting block.

The article is here and is well worth the read.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?print=yes&id=26496

[mathluv]

'Ironically, the Dems are electing new relatively conservative Congresscritters.'

They are running 'conservatives' who will vote lib when they get to DC - just like in '06 - and the pubbies mightbe finally getting the message.

[Alas Babylon!]

Hey that's pretty good, for a life philosophy.

Politically, we're still screwed, though.

The pendulum will swing back someday, but not this election. See, I'm not entirely negative!

[Miss Didi]

Thanks for posting...I’ll take a peek later before I prepare my letter to the McCain campaign. I already blasted the lady from the RNC on the phone on Thursday. She just laughed and said—do you know I hear this all day long?

[rodguy911]

Morning Morgan! Hope all is well up there! Looks like the only change either party will deliver is taking what's left of the change in you pants pocket. What a bunch of losers.

[AliVeritas]

Make sure you stop by Numbers USA later on HR 5515.

[Walleye_Walter]

“Democratic strategist Bob Shrum.
Why does anyone care what this dweeb says?”

Let’s hope he joins the Obama campaign this year.

[Morgan in Denver]

Morning rodguy911. Sun is out here so I presume it’s hot where you are.

Oops, time to change computers. Be back in a bit.

[AliVeritas]

Guess who realized the surge was working?
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/05/18/guess-who-realized-the-surge-is-working/

As stated in comments, this is a reverse op. Mission accomplished so get out... nicely timed with the AG and immigration crap jammed in the Iraq bill).

[rodguy911]

Excellent post Didi!!

I hate being pessimistic as well! It pays to point out absurdities from time to time but the best course of action is always to stir up and support more conservatives both locally and nationally.

Last week I got a chance to jump on the bandwagon of a new candidate locally who has a stellar resume and is wiling to get things done locally. I shall and will support him as best I can and urge everyone to do the same in their own hometowns.

Ronald Reagan II is out there. It's up to us to find him and support him/her!

[AliVeritas]

Anyone see a transcript or video of the Bush speech re: World Economic Forum?

[rodguy911]

Will do (I forgot the cookies once again—please slap me now)

[rodguy911]

Yeah, we had a super long winter here but it looks like from here on out until Nov. its 80/90 day in day out.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

"If I thought we were screwed, I would retire."

Riiight.

[Morgan in Denver]

You are SO right, that we need to find and support local candidates who are good conservatives. We have a major rebuilding of the party if we want to win again.

The sad aspect of this coming election is the census will be done in 2010, and we KNOW the Democrats will Gerrymander districts to benefit themselves, as they have done in the past.

[maica]

His PR firm takes 15% of every advertising dollar spent by the campaigns that he works on. He wins no matter who wins the election.

[Bahbah]

Good morning, all.

Jim Webb uses China as an example of the wonders of diplomacy as, he says, we have arguably brought them into the world.

How is that working out for us?

[rodguy911]

Actually now that Piglosi has such enormous power that she can buy huge numbers of votes by using budget money to her advantage she is targeting anyone who would dare usurp/challenge her authority to do so.

High on the list is the govt. of Iraq who dares take our budget money that she could be using to buy votes with to rebuild their country. The nerve!

She is reportedly fuming about our rebuilding of Iraq and is demanding that Iraq start spending more of their own money so she can get to the business of buying more votes for more socialists.

After all piglosi knows good govt. when she sees it!!

[Fishtalk]

Morning AB, All....

I return more healed than last week, less healed than two weeks from today.

When I shall be able to drive again, by the way, an activity that is way under-rated as I see it.

This week, I study appeasement and wonder why our President, who finally spoke up by the way, doesn’t put out to us fools out here in la-la land why the notion of conversing intelligently with thugs, thieves and terrorists would be like the judge sitting down with Charles Manson and discussing his crimes and how to best deal with same.

Ah...that’s right. The political elites don’t speak our language do they?

My Enemy of the Week this week would be Mort Kondrake of the Beltway Boys.

This man, who I USED to respect, carried on like a tiny baby over Bush’s comments in Israel and how it just wasn’t right for Bush to be talking about Hitler and the Holocaust, no that was just a terrible thing.

Now I know that Mort Kondrake, the idiot and fool, is way smarter than my own humble self, but someone whisper in this man’s ear....

BUSH WAS SPEAKING FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF ISRAEL!!!

Yes, THAT Israel! The country formed after the Holocaust to welcome the refugess betrayed by their own countrymen, the remnants of families eviscerated by....duh...HITLER.

Kondrake says this was inappropriate.

They think we are all idiots out here in la-la land, do they not?

[rodguy911]

Yeah, we have our work cut out for us like never before, but, we also have an ever building advantage. Conservatism grows stronger than ever on the New Media as the Old DBM slowly declines.

Sooner rather than later our philosophies will be the norm and theirs will be the abnorm.

[Bernard]

Ironically, the Dems are electing new relatively conservative Congresscritters.

Even better, they are relatively inactive. And the less Congress does, the better off we are.

[Walleye_Walter]

On ABC This Week, Biden said he was told by CNN after Bush’s “appeasement” statement that Bush was referring to Obama.

I wonder if he believes everything CNN tells him.

[Miss Didi]

Thanks...I was just trying to cheer everyone up. ;)

[AliVeritas]

For the break:

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/

[maica]

Iread this comment on a thread on Newsbusters, and it is so on point, regarding the DBM association with dems and Obama in particular:

In the tank
May 16, 2008 - 13:32 ET by Jonah Johansen
If you had any doubt about how the MSM was going to report the coming election; yesterday you got the opening salvo/preview of coming attractions.

You knew of course they would be biased and spin like mad for the Democrats, I think the only open question was just how far they would go.

The answe r(which is no surprise, really) is that the Obama campaign are not just reading from the same page they are in fact a joint operation, working together to produce the page.

It is not that Obama’s campaign makes a statement and the MSM responds favorably; instead its is the MSM conferring in advance with the Obama campaign about what the statement should be.

The relationship is like that between the author of the screenplay, the author of the original work the screenplay is based on and the director of the movie.

We need to be calling what AP, NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NYT, WP, MSNBC are doing what it truly is, not spin, but collaboration.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/05/16/media-disgrace-america-israel-themselves

[rodguy911]

The blue dog dems that is part of the dem/rat strategy to advance socialism is truly a stealth event.

They(the DNC) bring on former military types who appear to be conservative and campaign that way, win in many areas due to the incompetence of the RNC and than the instant they are elected they are all summoned to Piglosi's office.

Once there she lines them up, undresses them, and tells them in no uncertain terms that they can act as they wish back home but here in DC you are all socialists and will act the part!!

There are no other agendas but liberal and don't even pretend to be even a little conservative when you are here in DC, yells Piglosi.

That's how they play the game and so far most all are falling in line like the good little rat lemmings they truly are.

It's up to us to expose all this.

[padre35]

Nice Miss Didi, some sage advice from Rush.

We may be screwed, we may not be.

[Morgan in Denver]

Democrats today are, by definition, abnormal. They simply cannot win elections by telling the truth as to what they plan on doing, so they hedge and lie to misdirect voters.

I think you are right, new media will keep making them admit the truth but it will take time.

[rodguy911]

You did great post!