Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 8 October 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 8 October 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reps. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., and Martin Meehan-D-Mass.; conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and Citizens United President David Bossie; retired Maj. Gen. Edward F. Grillo Jr., president of the Air Force Memorial Foundation.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., and his Democratic opponent, state auditor Claire McCaskill; journalist Bob Woodward.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Reps. Tom Davis, R-Va., and Ray LaHood, R-Ill.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Reps. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y., and Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.; former Secretary of State James Baker; actress Patricia Heaton, spokeswoman for Cure Autism Now.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and John Cornyn, R-Texas; former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan.

[Christian4Bush]

The Republican was Jack Kingston - I've always liked him. He's the one that initiated and sent the letter to Pelosi re appearing under oath. I'll look for the thread

Kingston stood out positively to me on the day of the 403 to 3 vote last year, as did Gingrey and Johnson (TX).

[AliVeritas]

Oh, so if he didn't know and if he did know. Sheesh.

[OldFriend]

LOLOL....others have referred to Woodward as Kitty Kelly.

Not the way he wanted things to be. For sure!!!

[Laverne]

I saw him on CNN as well (last word); he was up against Charlie Wrangler. He really went to town on the hypocricy of the democrats. He also laughed in Wolfie's face. Wolfie asked him, "shouldn't Hastert resign"? His initial response, was why? there was nothing criminal here. So then Wolfie followed up with a question about resigning for lack of judgement? The gent from the Carolina's then laughed and launched into a whole slew of issues regarding dems who didn't resign, inculuding SLick who has sex in the oval office, etc. It was great to watch. We need more like him who come up and stand up to the liberal democrats and their mouthpieces in the media. It was a good segment. Woffie got taken to task and it was great to watch.

[AliVeritas]

You haven't been listening to her show lately.

[cardinal4]

Hello, Morgan! I hope all is well. Im supposed to be studying for a test on Mitosis and Meiosis, but I really need assurance on the state of affairs. I know as well as next as the next guy that this whole Foley thing was timed for the elections. But last night I was at Las Palmas and overheard another table saying they were voting straight democrat because they were tired of lies and corruption. I kept my counsel, but it left me worried..

[OldFriend]

So McCaskell wanted Hastert to wiretap Foley, but not terrorists.

The left is insane.

[HawaiianGecko]

Rahm says the difference between Gerry Studds and Mark Foley is that his party didn't cover it up.  Odd, I thought the difference was that Studds actually did bugger a 17 year old minor boy, whereas, Foley only Instant Messaged an 18 year old EX-Page.

As an addendum Emanuel was born in Chicago, Illinois to an Israeli pediatrician and social worker four months after they moved to the United States. Trained as a ballet dancer, Emanuel won a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet but turned it down to attend Sarah Lawrence College where he graduated in 1981.

 

[Bahbah]

Buchanan on CNN says that Hassert should be forced to resign if he didn't know what Foley was doing

I just don't get that. Are all of us supposed to be well versed in the means and methods of the chicken hawk, a term I had never heard until recently. Many of us, I suspect Dennis Hastert is one, do not have a familiarity with this low form of life. I really don't see it as part of his duties as Speaker to familiarize himself with all possible forms of sexual deviance and their manifestations.

[texicali]

thanks for that input! I've missed those shows on CNN and am glad to hear that he took a strong stand...sounds like he's the "point man" and a good one hope others take his lead

[AliVeritas]

What pissed me off if she has law background... if anything, the first thing she should have looked for was proof.

[advertising guy]

and more to the point about that bar scanning label...What GH Bush was amazed about was the label was 1/2 ripped off yet the scanner processed the item accurately....that is the facts

[GOPJ]

Nah, that's how Kean really feels. Time will tell if he's right.

[Seattle Conservative]

Rahm lies all the time, including (maybe especially)when he was in the Clinton WH - he made my skin crawl then and still does.

I was looking up something on Emanuel yesterday. A few interesting tidbits in here.

"Well since Nancy the Protector has informed us to protect the children from the gays I now have to ask if Emanuel is gay???"

Not sure about that, but he was a ballet dancer and he is married w 3 kids (see below). Here's some interesting info on him.
Early Career
Emanuel was born November 29, 1959 in Chicago. Emanuel was a ballet dancer as a boy and in high school and won a scholarship to the Joffrey Ballet. He turned down the scholarship to attend Sarah Lawrence College, a school with a strong dance program and "there were four women for every guy."[1] (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/8091986/the_enforcer/?rnd=1141682869671&has-player=unknown) He graduated in 1981 and received a Master's Degree in Speech and Communication from Northwestern University in 1985. While still a student at Sarah Lawrence College, he joined the congressional campaign of David Robinson of Chicago.

Emanuel began his career with the consumer rights organization Illinois Public Action. He went on to serve in a number of capacities in local and national politics, including liberal Democrat Paul Simon's 1984 election to the U.S. Senate, political director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee in 1988, and senior advisor and chief fundraiser for Richard M. Daley's victorious campaign for mayor of Chicago in 1989. Emanuel became known for his fundraising abilities in the mayoral campaign of Richard Daley. He would insist on donors giving more than they previously gave, even hanging up the phone on donors to convey his disgust. At the age of 30 he raised an unheard of $7 million for Daley. This helped win him a job as Director of Finance in the 1992 Presidential campaign of then-Governor Bill Clinton.

[edit]Clinton Administration
He joined then Governor Bill Clinton's presidential primary campaign in 1991 and worked as part of the original "War Room" with George Stephanopoulos, James Carville, and Paul Begala. Following the campaign, Emanuel became a senior advisor to Clinton at the White House (1993-1998). In the White House, Emanuel was initially Assistant to the President for Political Affairs but was fired for overstepping his bounds. He then worked his way from the bottom of the administration, lobbying Congress for NAFTA and working to recast Clinton as a centrist[2] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/rahm101698.htm), until he was appointed Senior Advisor to the President for Policand Strategy. He was a leading strategist in the White House's ultimately unsuccessful push for universal healthcare in 1994 and worked on a variety of other issues including expanding the use of school uniforms[3] (http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1153661,00.html) and putting trigger locks on guns. Emanuel's proudest work came from organizing and choreographing the meeting and handshake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.[4] (http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=9902)

He left the White House to accept a well-paid position in investment banking at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in Chicago where he worked from 1999-2002, when he was elected to the U.S. House.

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Check this out:
Chicago Water Deparment
In May of 2005, Gerald Wesolowski, a top lieutenant in City Hall's Water Department, pled guilty to collecting $200,000 in bribes from trucking companies.[13] (http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/local_story_122121138.html) Wesolowski also stated that his former boss Donald Tomczak, who has since been ordered him to raise funds and direct water department workers to campaign for a number of politicians including Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel back in 2002. David Keene, the President of the American Conservative Union, brought up this incident as evidence that Emanuel is hypocritical for assailing Tom DeLay over ethics issues.[14] (http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Comment/DavidKeene/051005.html) Emanuel has never been alleged of wrongdoing and has stated that he was unaware of the pressure Tomczak was using on water department workers to campaign in the 2002 election.

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rahm_Emanuel

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Emanuel's wife Amy Rule, and their three children, Zachariah, Ilana and Leah, live in the north side of Chicago, in the neighborhood of Roscoe Village. His father, a pediatrician still practicing near Chicago, immigrated to the United States from Israel and spoke Hebrew with his son, when Emanuel was a boy. Emanuel, whose first name, Rahm, means "high" or "lofty" in Hebrew, and his wife are active members of a Modern Orthodox congregation in Chicago.

Bradley Whitford's character Josh Lyman on NBC television series The West Wing is based on Emanuel.[1] His younger brother, Ari Emanuel, is a Hollywood agent and inspired Jeremy Piven's character Ari Gold on the HBO series Entourage.[1] His older brother Ezekiel Emanuel is an oncologist and medical ethicist.

Emanuel is the co-author of The Plan: Big Ideas for America published by PublicAffairs Books in 2006. On their website (readtheplan.com), Emanuel and co-author Bruce Reed state that they wrote The Plan to "give Americans an answer" to the question of how the country can be turned around with "an innovative agenda" to become a "new social contract for America". Emanuel appeared on the Charlie Rose show on August 21, 2006 to discuss the book and proposals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahm_Emanuel
44 posted on 10/07/2006 9:58:53 AM PDT by Seattle Conservative (God Bless and protect our troops and their CIC)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1715370/posts?page=44#44

[texicali]

BW is all hot air and ego....

[OldFriend]

The polls are always right, that's why Kerry is president.

[Seattle Conservative]

ROFLMBO!

[AliVeritas]

They just put it out there... they never have to 'prove' anything.

[Candor7]

The dems and the slimes have attempted to fixate the whole ( hole?) election on an ANAL issue.

Why?

So that the Republicans will not be able to play the security issue.Thats the Pubbie strong hand.

But the question still remains:

Would ANYONE want a party of ANALY fixated Democrats in charge of national security?

This Foley fiasco is such a laugh.What about Massachusett's flaming page porker,Barney Frank, who hires girlymen to be his servants and chauffers?

I compliment the Pubbies for not even going there.

After all, only democrats have real gays , real women, and real blacks who have integrity?

LOL!

Here Barney gets in a little butt squeeze on a "page":

I'd say Frank's continued sodomite fest tops the Foley IM "scandal"

[anita]

I agree with you, OldFriend. Just watching the news ticker on all the channels, you 'll notice that FNC is the most anti-admn, anti-american in ticker news. They repeat the same in headlines.

I think there is a connection - Sheperd Smith's producer Jay Wallace was named recently exe.producer of the entire news operation. By proxy Sheperd Smith has taken over it.