Posted on 11/25/2012 5:07:30 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
November 25th, 2012
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Reps. Peter King, R-N.Y., and Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.; Dave Cote, chairman and CEO of Honeywell International Inc.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Annual books and authors show.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash.; actor/director Ben Affleck.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.; Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
Please keep this in mind, all. Not only in Bray's case in Oregon, but all over as in 2010.
When we decide to go on offense rather than defense, good things happen. My county is going to be an experiment for running Conservative candidates in a Blue state. Let’s see what happens.
Now what?
We’ll see Alabama and Notre Dame in the BCS Championship Game.
From experience, find your Guy or Gal, and start knocking on doors tomorrow.
AB.....
....I see you’re getting it!
Your idea of constantly publicizing who they call to speak, who they deny, .....it’s how we have to start doing.
My summary of this recent election, bearing in mind that I was WRONG about the election result, wrong almost as much as Dick Morris, is as follows:
Look at Romney. Look at Ryan. Romney, rich guy, mid-sixties, good looking, rich, perfect kids, grandkids, beautiful wife....religious, an okay speaker. Look at Ryan, a bit of an odd look but basically wholesome, Catholic, cute little kids....
...I think American just decided that Romney wasn’t for them. This is century 21. We’re beyond Leave It to Beaver/Fathwer Know’s Best types.
The above is a simple knee-jerk summary but it’s what I think happened.
More, and this will inflame some of you....this thing about Republicans constantly predicting doom ain’t working.
It’s not that I don’t believe there’s financial rocks ahead. I own a home, I work, I got bills.
The pubs, they always predict gloom and doom, some of you too, and for now even I look around and ponder on what they base this.
Further, in my day as a liberal I recall a couple of things the pubs did that was just flat out wrong-headed.
Airbags in cars.
That’s right. The pubs were all against mandatory air bags in cars, something fought for vehemently by the Dems who received insurance companies’ big bucks to promote air bags.
The debate over air bags is a typical political thing, as pubs we do encourage private industry input into the process no?
Air bags are one of the best safety devices ever invented. The car companies boohooed and the pubs predicted financial armageddin.
Here’s a good one....and it happened to me and affected me more wrongly than anything America ever did.
Now I don’t know why or what imbecile came up with the idea, but it was President Nixon who, for whatever reason he was convinced it was what needed doing...FROZE MY WAGES!!!!
Yes he did, it happened to me. I was young, mid-20’s, worked at Western Electric, up and coming, smart, beloved by my employers. I was up for a step increase in my grade and DENIED IT BECAUSE OF A REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT!!!
Why on earth would a Republican ever advocate freezing of an individual’s fair market salary? My company, not wanting me to quit and go get another job, actually gave me an imaginary promotion because salaries could go up in the event of a promotion.
Again, I’m not clear on why it was done but I know it was a Republican president who froze my wages and what the hell on earth did I do as I struggled to achieve my American dream to deserve that?
Point is, Republicans sure the hell ain’t always right so who says they’re right now?
They’re out an about telling Americans we’re going off some cliff, the world will end, women will lose their birth control then be denied abortion to double the whammy.
Hey, make no mistake, right now I’m very anti-Republican. They don’t represent me and I question every thing they do.
The pubs have never been able to explain with the vigor needed why cutting expenses is needed because, come on guys, those Blue Bloods have a lot of things going on in their districts....
.....we need a Tea Party. I volunteer to be a scribe when the time comes.
I nominate AB to lead the free hats for life campaign.
I wish you luck Bray, and much success.
AB will help you with the Lice Free Hats for Life campaign and I’ll be the snarky scribe.
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You bring up a good point about the MSM. The Old Media is morphing into a melding of Hollywood pop culture and old style news. The best examples are Colbert and Stewart. This is dangerous and effective propaganda.
Going on offense and being aggressive is the best response to it. Romney showed in the first debate that is effective. But then went back to the tip toe strategy and lost.
We need to lay out the facts and mock the dims for their truly insane economic policies because it is the only way to connect with these swing voters.
Good observation about Rush not pursuing conservative media enhancement ala Glenn Beck does with every fiber of his being.
I believe most newspapers were once owned by conservatives. Maybe they were simply overwhelmed by the flood of brash investigative “journOlists” from libery schools, and literally sold out?
Some like Richard Mellon Shaif of Pittsburgh and Rupert Murdock got pummeled into submission by personal attacks and exposes.
My problem with Rubio is his taking the amnesty baton and running faster with it than McCain and Graham. And, he is a Senator. Legislators do not make good executives. We have one of those in the WH now.
My problem with Palin is that her whole family discovered Hollywood reality TV. That moved her in the direction of $$$ rather than party politics. Of course, the MSM pretty much ruined her chances at a national political office. Her stepping down during her governorship didn’t help either.
Pat, you’re almost there too when you talk about the 21st Century.
But you bring up the past like it was yesterday—Nixon froze wages 41—thats FORTY-ONE—years ago.
To a huge number of voters, that was before they were born! Heck, half of them never even saw Ronald Reagan on live TV. Clinton is the first president they can remember thinking about.
The America that used to be is a figment of us older voter’s memories.
Can we envision and articulate an America that is yet to be, an America that’s even BETTER than what she used to be?
Can we do so with the Big Media Democratic Party against us?
No, not with the current crop of “leaders” in the GOP.
So I’m not all doom and gloom. I’m just resigned to the fact that while I type away at this keyboard, I’m not doing much more than any of these GOP leaders.
Things have got to change, but I’m not up to being part of the change.
I do salute both you and Bray for standing up and being involved, so I’ll defer to your collective leadership...
To paraphrase Princess Leia, “Help us Fistalk/Bray (and activists like you—not the GOP), you’re our only hope!”
It was either Colbert or Stewart, both of them full of themselves but liars like the celebrated tend to be.
But one of them got in Bill O’Reilly’s face and declared that he knows for a fact that Fox news viewers are more ignorant on politics and national affairs than other citizens.
This sounded so wrong to me and while I don’t like Bill O he did research this, did a sample history/current events quiz and proved the liar sooooooo wrong.
Just like that, if they have no rebuttal....THEY LIE!
If the pubs would recruit money to start a network, hire a movie director.....tackle the media, they could show this example of how they lie on us.
For now, they are holding on to their cherished Blue Blood spots because they know they are complicit.
You might direct liberals & libertarians to Nat Hentoff...
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/rauch/nvp/hentoff.html
He has some excellent arguments for the pro-life position.
It was either Colbert or Stewart, both of them full of themselves but liars like the celebrated tend to be.
But one of them got in Bill O’Reilly’s face and declared that he knows for a fact that Fox news viewers are more ignorant on politics and national affairs than other citizens.
This sounded so wrong to me and while I don’t like Bill O he did research this, did a sample history/current events quiz and proved the liar sooooooo wrong.
Just like that, if they have no rebuttal....THEY LIE!
If the pubs would recruit money to start a network, hire a movie director.....tackle the media, they could show this example of how they lie on us.
For now, they are holding on to their cherished Blue Blood spots because they know they are complicit.
I don’t feel the need to pick a 2016 candidate right now. We are at Ground Zero. The GOP has failed miserably in opposition to one of the worst presidents in history.
The GOP needs to EARN our votes starting now. We are not off to a good start with Barry leading Boehner by the nose through the fiscal cliff talks. Then there is amnesty right around the corner. Not looking good...
Speaking of mispelling your name and attempting to correct it here FisHtalk, got me thinking about Phsstpok.
I wish he could weigh in with some of his wisdom once in a while!
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