Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 28 February 2010

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The Talk Shows

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen; Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Robert Menendez, D-N.J.; and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; White House health reform director Nancy-Ann DeParle; Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.; Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.; Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.; Sens. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla.

THIS WEEK (ABC): House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Pelosi; Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

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

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This is the Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread Ping List! If you want to be on it, reply to this post. If you want to be taken off, simply send me a FReepmail.

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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!

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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)

[mainepatsfan]

I’d love to see Coburn get five minutes to debate Pelosi but I doubt they’ll be on at the same time.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

can’t mccain keep his trap shut for 5 minutes?

will he still be on all these shows if he loses his senate seat?

[Roccus]

Good Morning.

Ryan may be worth a watch on FOX.

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I talked to Phsstpok last night for about 45 minutes. He related that he has much trouble seeing so he doesn't get to read much Free Repulic any longer. However, he is scheduled to have eye surgery next month so there is hope (and prayers are needed) that his sight will be improved by this. His own words from yesterday:

sorry to drop out guys I'm functionally blind and reading and writing are too difficult for me to even read the thread much, let alone post. I only get on FR or most other sites rarely. I have to use what limited abilities I have to slog through my work. Written stuff takes me an order of magnitude longer to get through and you wouldn't believe how carefully I have to proof read to make sure I haven't misread or mistyped something. "Semi" transplant surgery last month to try to fix things didn't work. In fact it made things worse. We're looking at a redo of that procedure in March. if that doesn't work we probably do a full on corneal transplant soon after. Celiac is mostly stabilized. The biggest thing there is that I'm now 90 pounds lighter. I needed to lose the weight but 18 months of involuntary bulimia while they tried to find out what was wrong wasn't the way I'd suggest going about it. If you remember me limping or using a cane at the last Tech Ed that was actually from another arthritis like symptom of the Celiac disease. I'm only on FR this morning to try to find news about the earthquake in Chile and reports about the tsunami. I'm spending the bulk of my limited online time right now keeping up with friends and news related to the death of the trainer at SeaWorld. We were friends with her and a few of the other folks there for over a decade, though we haven't been in touch in a couple of years. We were actually with her the morning after the last incident with that whale. I won't go into it here but the news reports about the other two incidents are grossly inaccurate, at least based on what she told us. I miss you guys a lot. Keep up the good fight. the above took me over 30 minutes. I hope it's coherent

He's just as politically astute as ever and is excited about this coming November, to say the least!

[gov_bean_ counter]

will he still be on all these shows if he loses his senate seat?

No, but I'm hoping he'll replace Shep Smith...

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Remember, as Obama says, “John is still campaigning.”

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Isn't it interesting that Pelosi is making two appearances this morning while Steny Hoyer is making an appearance as well, but on a different network. Some may be interested in anything said by Hoyer that shows a division with Pelosi’s mutterings.

Insurrection and a coup is still a possibility, given her totally obliviousness to the will of the People and the disaster that awaits the dems this November.

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Lt. Daniel Kaffee: He's arguing. He's making an argument.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

mccain an improvement on shep smith. yeah that’s probably right.

But NOT after he loses his primary. He’ll be so bitter he’ll be like 20*shepsmith

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Good morning, Alas!

I watched that whole summit on Thursday. I was very proud of the GOP guys, who didn’t let Obama intimidate them.

As someone on another site said, perhaps now McCain wishes he had actually campaigned.

I will be here today, so let’s see how the democrats try to spin Obama’s terrible performance Thursday. Don’t know how you can spin that insurance bungle and the nose-picking, however.

[mainepatsfan]

I wonder if she’ll be able to hang on to the speaker position if the Dems barely hold the house.

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CBO’s static (shallow) analysis of Paul Ryan’s tax cut proposal...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2460976/posts?page=2#2

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See my number 8. Phsstpok was pleased to know you still post on this thread.

[Bernard]

I’d love to hear somebody talk about the arrogance and hubris that the president displayed at the Thursday lecture/discussion. He keeps acting liek he wants to be the coolest kid in 7th grade, and the media types keep enabling him. I supposed in 2012 when he is out campaigning and trying to act like the “little people”, he’ll walk into a fast food place and bow to the Burger King. Force of habit, after all.

[tarheelswamprat]

Thanks for the update on Phsstpok, AB. In case he doesn’t get to read this, please pass along to him that our thoughts and prayers will be with him as he fights this difficult battle with his disease.

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No way. Steny will be Speaker if that happens. Now if the Republicans regain the House, I even doubt she'll be Minority Leader. Either way, baring a political shift of epic proportions, she's on her way out.

Dead Speaker Talking!