Posted on 08/31/2008 5:14:17 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, August 31th, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): John McCain; Mike Miller, director of operations for the Republican National Convention.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Gov. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn., and Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y.; Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.; Carly Fiorina, adviser to the McCain campaign.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain; Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and John Kerry, D-Mass.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Govs. Charlie Crist, R-Fla., Mark Sanford, R-S.C., and Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn.; former Sens. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., and Tom Daschle, D-S.D.; Reps. John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Eric Cantor, R-Va.; Nancy Pfotenhauer, adviser to McCain; Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.; R. David Paulison, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
I couldn't help but laugh at the question from Chris about negative ads. McCain used it as a chance to mention that the o would not do the town hall meetings. He also said that he thought humor was good in ads - even for those who had lost their humor.
The round table is good too. Donaldson makes the disparaging comments on Palin and he gets nail by all the other people on the table, including Cookie Roberts.
Excellent response, indeed!
Thank you for that.
Scheiffer incredulous that Rudy thinks Palin is more experienced that Obama (Schieffer asks this question essentially while laughing). Rudy laughs right back and once again talks about Palin’s accomplishment and Schieffer tries to cut him off.
Schieffer quoting the “irresponble” choice. Liebermann defends Palin as well, it was a bold decision and the right one. He reminds Schieffer that this is a change election, and Palin is a real change agent and her history matches up to McCains history.
Liebermann goes on to say that Obama has NO experience as a change agent, and that McCain is serious about shaking up the status quo and she is fresh air to Washington which it really needs.
According to her MySpace page, she pretty much agrees with him on the general concept. As we learn more about her, we will learn that she isn’t in perfect lockstep with everything we believe. That isn’t an attack... just the reality.
Launching a political career as a small-town mayor creates one of the most interesting resume items a candidate for higher office can have. A small town mayor doesn’t just blabber in the legislature about theoretical soutions to vaguely defined problems but has to actually SOLVE REAL PROBLEMS.
And more than that, they operate in an environment of complete accountability and transparency. Their constitutents know where they live, where their children go to school, their home phone number, etc. It’s far easier for a legislator to hide himself away in a body of 100 other speechifiers than it is for a small-town mayor to duck the public.
In fact, I would argue that the reason you do NOT see many Sarah Palins rise to the top of the political heap from such environs is that most who reach the top would never take the risk of being a mayor, small-town or otherwise, or do so well at the job as to merit a step up to governor and beyond in the first place.
In FACT, I would argue that had Barack Obama taken his empty-rhetoric, barely-in-the-closet Marxist approach to governing a town of 9,000 his career in politics would have stopped dead right there.
LA was the only one that had to change after Katrina.
Yea!!! I plan on watching this on the internet later today.
Go, Sarah, GO!
Doris Kearns no good says that the VP debates really are not all that important anyway....and so the spin goes.
Great photos, thanks for the link. Checking out photos 13 and 20...does McCain have a tattoo?
Juan is trashing Palin with as strong a terms as I have ever heard him: Thought it was a trick, absolutely no foreign experience, none whatsoever. Biden will have to go easy on her to keep from appearing to beat her up.
I’m sitting here laughing. We soon again here the word “misunderestimated” applied to her. Brit said she took on the oil companies up there and got them to “compromise on her terms.”
I was screamin at my tv.....I would have said....” Tom, we picked her for our side,not yours.Oh and can you make MSNBC more fair and balanced, I’d appreciate it”
I’m watching Pawlenty on MTP. He is smacking Brokaw up one wall and down the other.
Isn’t it rich watching those feminist pioneers like Ms. Greenspan and Doris Plagiarist stumble around trying to discredit one of their sisters? Bartiromo, however, did a good job of restoring some unexpected balance from an unexpected source- the Nitwit Broadcasting Co.
I’ve been astonished recently by the amounts paid to local talk show hosts on the radio.
Example: One man in Dallas (who lost his gig because of drug addiction) was part of a 3-man sports show during drive time and was making $500,000 a year before he was fired. I was totally floored. I’ve since found out that this kind of salary (and more) is not uncommon for popular radio hosts even locally.
Newspapers, though, is another story altogether.
All of a sudden she wants to fire her brother-in-law, right when she’s being nominated for VP?
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So he’s still working? If so, this ones going to fizzle
They haven’t posted the transcript yet but here is the link where you can find it either later today or tomorrow.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8987534/
Unreal. I’m watching the 10:00 Eastern Time Meet the Press and the panel for the most part (especially Monkey Boy), are talking positively about Palin... even though Brokaw has been running off the Rats talking points non-stop.
Bartiromo (sp?) really nailed it down regarding Palin’s knowledge energy, shutting down Brokaw.
It was brought up that Palin’s parents had the following bumper sticker.
Vegetarian- Old Indian Saying for Unsuccessful Hunter
If you've got the money, honey, I've got the time.
Good for her, Tom Slackjaw gets a smack down.
I watched the MTP Palwenty interview and I did not see that in the interview - will watch the roundtable, that might be where Brokejaw spit that out.
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