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Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 19 April 2009
Various driveby media television networks ^ | 19 April 2009 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

Posted on 04/19/2009 5:04:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

p>The Talk Shows



Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former CIA Director Michael Hayden; Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; Denyce Graves, opera singer.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Larry Summers, director of the National Economic Council; FreedomWorks chairman and former Rep. Dick Armey, R-Texas; Democratic Leadership Council chairman and former Rep. Harold Ford Jr., D-Tenn.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): David Axelrod, White House senior adviser; Gov. Ed Rendell, D-Pa.; Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association.

THIS WEEK (ABC): White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel; House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN) : Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and John Ensign, R-Nev.; Gov. David Paterson, D-N.Y.


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As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions.
1 posted on 04/19/2009 5:04:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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Please check out Phsstpok’s EXCELLENT Sunday Talk Show PRE-Thread. It’s a great way to hear analysis on why the DBM picks the guests, what they’ll probably discuss, and other pertinent facts.
2 posted on 04/19/2009 5:05:30 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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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!

3 posted on 04/19/2009 5:05:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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Here are the email addresses or web pages for commenting to the weekend talk shows:

Meet the Press Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments)

Face the Nation ftn@cbsnews.com

Fox News Sunday FNS@foxnews.com

ABC This Week thisweek@abc.com

CNN State of the Union CNN State of the Union (web page for comments)

4 posted on 04/19/2009 5:06:27 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Alas Babylon!

The Cuban government takes 30 cents of every dollar in U.S. remittances that enters the country as a usury fee.


5 posted on 04/19/2009 5:09:43 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Morning AB! Thanks for the thread, as always. There seems to be a reasonable balance on the shows this AM, compared to recent weeks. It is obvious that one or two will be talking about the tea parties.


6 posted on 04/19/2009 5:23:34 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Fox should dump the chump they have on the show and get a conservative.


7 posted on 04/19/2009 5:31:11 AM PDT by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Here's a chance for the network talking heads to excoriate the cable miscreants for the disgustingly deplorable manner in which they demeaned the Tea Parties.
8 posted on 04/19/2009 5:37:36 AM PDT by Cedric
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To: Alas Babylon!; All
Here's a heads up. I just saw a promo for Dick Cheney interview on Hannity Monday night. That would be must watch TV for me if 24 wasn't on at the same time.
9 posted on 04/19/2009 5:48:22 AM PDT by McGruff (I guess it all depends upon what the meaning of "bow" is.)
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To: McGruff

If Cheney can get a word in edgewise.


10 posted on 04/19/2009 5:50:20 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Gregory asks about Zero’s reaction to the Chavez “gift.”

Summers just answers that Zero is incredibly popular. He then continues with talking points and cliches.


11 posted on 04/19/2009 6:05:30 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Bahbah

I’m watching Napolitano and she seems to be digging the hole deeper on the Vets memo. Have to get a transcript of this. She’s such a liar. She’s got to go now.


12 posted on 04/19/2009 6:08:15 AM PDT by McGruff (I guess it all depends upon what the meaning of "bow" is.)
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To: Bahbah

Wallace and Hayden are having a good conversation on FNS. Hayden is truly stunned by what Obambi did in releasing those memo’s and is talking about the effects on CIA operatives.

He is talking about the good that came out of the methods and how they worked.


13 posted on 04/19/2009 6:10:09 AM PDT by Laverne
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To: McGruff

Napolitano is like a repeat of Janet Reno.


14 posted on 04/19/2009 6:10:21 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Cedric
Here's a chance for the network talking heads to excoriate the cable miscreants for the disgustingly deplorable manner in which they demeaned the Tea Parties.

Do not hold your breath (bad for the health).

15 posted on 04/19/2009 6:10:58 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: Bahbah

Summers uses lots of words and says absolutely nothing.


16 posted on 04/19/2009 6:11:29 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Bahbah

Larry Summers is basically saying that the banks are not competent to decide whether they are capable of paying back the money.


17 posted on 04/19/2009 6:15:53 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Bahbah

Gregory points out that the $2 trillion in saving that Zero keeps talking about is a phony.

Summers refers to Washington games.

He is utterly unresponsive to the charge, but he does manage to use the word “inherited.”


18 posted on 04/19/2009 6:17:35 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Bahbah

Interesting that her primary example of a real terrorist is Timothy McVeigh. Nowhere close to Arizona, but in her mind McVeigh sets the standard as she explained the other day, saying how fearful she was after the OKC bombing.


19 posted on 04/19/2009 6:20:55 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver (Barack Hussein Obama: More corrupt than Clinton, more inept than Carter.)
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To: Morgan in Denver

Summers says that allowing the “Bush” tax cuts to expire will only raise taxes for those making over $250,000.

There are more lies in this particular response than I can possibly relate.


20 posted on 04/19/2009 6:23:29 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Bahbah

How in the world did Summers get a reputation for being smart?

Listening to him is like living in Alice Through the Looking Glass.


21 posted on 04/19/2009 6:26:10 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Bahbah

Larry Summers reminds me of Suzanne Summers on Three’s Company


22 posted on 04/19/2009 6:26:59 AM PDT by shadeaud ("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin st)
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To: Bahbah

Thanks. It never ceases to amaze me how Democrats always seem to put people in positions of power even though they are ignorant and ill informed. Summers is but one example.


23 posted on 04/19/2009 6:27:37 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver (Barack Hussein Obama: More corrupt than Clinton, more inept than Carter.)
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To: shadeaud

Summers thinks like a girl.


24 posted on 04/19/2009 6:27:53 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Wallace asking Grahmnesty and RAT Senator NcHaskell about Obama’s apology tour.


25 posted on 04/19/2009 6:28:04 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Gregory’s questions are not half bad, but his follow up is virtually non-existent, which means it is all for naught and the interview becomes empty rambling by whoever the administration spinner happens to be.

That thing with Summers was just terrible and pretty much content free, although he did reveal that a central part of their health care proposal is to have the government decide which procedures are “cost effective.”


26 posted on 04/19/2009 6:32:16 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
When asked about the Tea Parties, Grahmnesty gave a great answer (hitting all the talking points) about the problem being in Washington, Obama budget tripling the deficit, more spending than Iraq, Afghanistan and Katrina...people should be upset if they are paying attention.

Take a breath Miss Lyndsey.

27 posted on 04/19/2009 6:34:35 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Can someone please point me to where I can find “the biggest tax cuts in history” that the Narcissist in Chief and his minions keep claiming to have passed?

They gave a a rebate, but NOT a cut in rates, right?


28 posted on 04/19/2009 6:35:10 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Bahbah
A centerpiece of the healthcare “reforms” IMO will be denial of services to those pushing the top ends of the actuarial charts based on age and lifestyle.
29 posted on 04/19/2009 6:36:04 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

That is exactly right, gov.


30 posted on 04/19/2009 6:37:02 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: digger48

You are correct. Just keep thinking “symbolism over substance” and “perception over reality” and it will all make sense.

President zero does not have to actually do anything. Just talking about it counts as having solved any problem.


31 posted on 04/19/2009 6:39:34 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver (Barack Hussein Obama: More corrupt than Clinton, more inept than Carter.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Thanks for the thread once more AB, more of a work n’ lurk day for me today.
Anyone who wants to see the greatest explanation of what is going on,”the Obamba as a Nationalist Socialist evolving towards fascism” brilliantly done by candor7 on Friday it's here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2231821/posts?page=1

Looks like both the components of the Totus will be on today: Rhambo and Axeldork. It pays to know your enemy so if I get the chance I will watch their every move.

32 posted on 04/19/2009 6:41:04 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
lifestyle

Uhh...unless you are talking about unsafe sex. Aids and abortion patients will go to the front of the (long) waiting lines.

33 posted on 04/19/2009 6:41:18 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Did I hear Summer’s correctly? Did he say Obama would find savings by,

“...taking costs out of Medicare budget. But the really important issue for the long run, David, is changing the way we deliver health care in this country. You know, there’s been a whole set of studies done, they look at health care frequency of certain procedures whether it’s tonsillectomies or hysterectomies in different parts of the country. And what you see is, in some parts of the country, procedures are done three times as frequently and there’s no benefit in terms of the health of the population. And by doing the right kind of cost effectiveness, ... we could take as much as $700billion a year out of our health care system.”

He says that will more than pay for our universal health care coverage. Boy, talk about intrusive! My kid can’t have his tonsils out because Indiana is limited to the same number of tonsillectomies as other states? A woman’s doctor can’t decide for himself whether his patient needs a hysterectomy?

There, right there... a government bureaucrat with a stat sheet is making decisions for doctors.


34 posted on 04/19/2009 6:43:33 AM PDT by Bryher1 (http://nhs77.blogspot.com/2008/10/why-is-news-so-full-of-things-that.html)
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To: Bryher1

Yes, you heard Summers correctly.

And if you transcribed that while listening, that is simply amazing.


35 posted on 04/19/2009 6:45:48 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Laverne
It's clear everyone needs to be the same under Obamaism.

There can only be a small group of selected elites who share in all the gravy at the top. the govt. needs to control all production,everyone else must be paid the same, look the same, think the same and no on can listen to any conservative thought at all.

It's called the Obama nationalist socialist regime evolving towards fascism and its coming at us in warp speed!

36 posted on 04/19/2009 6:46:24 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Bahbah

Richard Stengel is creepy.


37 posted on 04/19/2009 6:47:19 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: rodguy911
So under Obie's plan Kennedy would have been left convulsing on the floor???
38 posted on 04/19/2009 6:47:44 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Barak Obama: Pontificator in Chief and Poster Child for the Peter Principle)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Well, there would probably be a Soviet-elitist type of clause.


39 posted on 04/19/2009 6:49:51 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs...nothing more than Bald Haired Hippies!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

If anyone is listening to the discussion about leaking the memos on Fox News Sunday.......can anyone believe that Juan Williams thinks this is right?


40 posted on 04/19/2009 6:52:04 AM PDT by estrogen (time to fight)
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To: Bryher1

Absolutely no calculation is involved regarding the willingness of men and women to get into or stay in the health care professions.

Just like government calculations of tax revenue ignoring dynamic effects of tax policies, these ‘national health’ gurus are ignoring the obvious.

Available MEDICAL CARE will be extremely different and worse than what Americans receive today.


41 posted on 04/19/2009 6:52:05 AM PDT by maica (Politics is not about facts. it is about what politicians can get people to believe. - Thomas Sowell)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Harold Ford, Jr. says we should not question Zero’s intentions.

He doesn’t say why we shouldn’t, just that we shouldn’t.


42 posted on 04/19/2009 6:52:53 AM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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The MSM talking point is pushing the “obama is going to cut programs” as a counter to the tea parties.

Clearly Obama and co., and the dinosaur media minions, do not “get it.” (btw minions ala a tacky hollywood cliche is most appropriate for the MSM. They might as well be igor)

Obama is going to cut (and count) military programs, faith based programs, anti-abortion programs, alternative to stem cell research programs, and any other conservative favored program.

The WH thinks they can spin the tea party outrage in their favor. Again obama is trying to jump in front of a parade.


43 posted on 04/19/2009 6:54:27 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: estrogen

NPR must have upped Juan’s intake of kool-aid. He is making a bigger fool of himself than usual. A child could defeat his “argument.”


44 posted on 04/19/2009 6:54:29 AM PDT by maica (Politics is not about facts. it is about what politicians can get people to believe. - Thomas Sowell)
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To: Bahbah
Obviously it's about control.

One of the talking heads on C-spam,pretty smart guy to boot, diagnosed what they are doing. Peter Morici from the UNIV. of Md., Georgetown, and others,figured out that its all about control.

If the banks pay back tarp and other zero percentage loans(morici chastised those who could not figure out how the banks are making money with "free" money from the govt. duhhhhh...) Barky loses control! No wonder they don't want the dough back.

Earlier on C-spam one the drive-bys Michael Shear of the Wa Post who has the Whitehouse beat almost fell off his chair defending barky on everything from faux economics to knee padding fat hugo in the islands,a rather disgusting display of driveby-ism while the gal from the Christian Scientist Monitor just stood by with a glazed look on her face.

Somewhat hilarious actually.

45 posted on 04/19/2009 6:54:38 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Morgan in Denver

Manipulation possibly? (snow melted and gone hopefully)


46 posted on 04/19/2009 6:55:43 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Bahbah
Harold Ford, Jr.

Sounds similar to jail house talk, "dont question da boss man"

Just guessin', might be way off ... LOL

47 posted on 04/19/2009 6:57:32 AM PDT by ThreePuttinDude (o) ..junior senator... add fertilizer ... wait awhile... up sprouts a Jr. President..(o)
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To: maica

It is obvious that this policy is going to lead to a major terrorist atack sooner rather than later.


48 posted on 04/19/2009 6:58:38 AM PDT by Lucius Cornelius Sulla ("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Never, a Kennedy any Kennedy,is one of the chosen few who get all the gravy. If a Kennedy even suffered a minor cold Marine 1 would quickly alter its flight plan pick the carcass up and deliver it to the nearest non-govermental hospital where it could get some excellent care immediately completely free of charge and wait of course.
49 posted on 04/19/2009 6:59:26 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

Ever since Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C came on the scene with is his say one thing and do another, he has become media darling. Anytime he is one I don’t watch, if he is on ABC with George or Fox with Chris that’s it for that network for the rest of the day. I’ve all grown tired of Graham and being surprised by his double dealing and two-faced-ness and his saying something that I agreed with being turned upside down by his idiotic voting. I am bone tired, no dead tired of seeing and hearing Sens. Lindsey Graham.


50 posted on 04/19/2009 7:00:39 AM PDT by A. Morgan (The problem with Socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money. Margaret Thatcher)
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