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Preview and Analysis for Weekend of December 30th and 31st, 2006With apologies to Robert Burns' mousie, these are the last shows for the year and all of the best laid plans of the show planners gang aft agley.  No doubt originally all that was to happen this weekend was a review of the (trumpant) Dhimmicrat's "overwhelming victory" in the November elections (never mind that the change in seats in 2006 in the House was barely half of the change in '94, or that the Dhimmicrats don't hold a majority in the Senate, despite what Wolf Blitzer tries to tell you). ...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of December 23rd and 24th, 2006I'm trying a slightly different format this week.  I will put the show by show analysis in the detail post about each show, rather than in this post.  This is the overall analysis and a simple listing of the shows and guests for the five main shows for Sunday, sans comment, so that it's easier to see who is on at a glance.  Since starting my recovery from my eye surgery I seem to have accelerated the trend I was on of getting more and more wordy each week.  I'll...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for December 16 and 17, 2006We've now moved on from the DOA Iraq Survey Group report.  Despite the best efforts last week of the dinosaur media (better known in my posts as the DBM) to prop up the rather lame attempt at "peace in our time diplomacy" it just didn't gain any traction at all.  The central idea that we are not capable of winning and that we must cede Israel's future to the Jihadists as a blood offering, the way Chamberlain ceded Sudetenland to Hitler, was just too obviously sleazy and...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for December 9 and 10, 2006The Iraq Survey Group has delivered their tablets from the mountain and it is time for all of us to accept the fact that we have been defeated in Iraq and to stop worshipping the false god of democracy and freedom!  It's just too hard!  Instead we must accept Realpolitik and turn over all of the Middle East to the Islamists because we want to keep the oil flowing.  Those annoying Jews will just have to get over that whole Israel thing.  They should go back to...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for December 2 and 3, 2006 Having triumphed with a landslide win (hey, a 1 seat margin in the Senate and the smallest historical change in the House in a sixth year of a presidency is a mandate if they say it's a mandate!) the Democrats and DBM are now in full gloat mode.  They are trumpeting their plans to "fix" the country and undo all of the rotten things that the Republicans did since McChimpy Reagan defeated Holy Jimmy the C.  now the masks are off and they can finally reveal...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 25th and 26th, 2006 Very brief preview tonight.  I got the guests and links done on MTP and FTN, and the guests on  FNS Thursday night, before the surgery.  I was able to get the topics and guests for the other shows in tiny bits this afternoon, but that's all I'm going to do.  I got to the hospital a little after 6 this morning and the transplant was done and I was out of surgery, in recovery, before 10 AM and checked out before noon.  The surgery appears to...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 18 and 19, 2006The election is over.  So is the leadership fight.  The old media talking heads are now thrashing around trying to find a way to spin this new reality as a good thing and they're not having much luck.  And they're worried that a serious case of buyers remorse is setting in among the voters that they fooled in this election cycle. The few days since the election have seen the Dhimmicrats rhetorically confirm almost every warning the Republicans raised about what their agenda is.  You know, the...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 11 and 12, 2006This election is best described as the triumph of the inanities.? Let their gloating begin! The most cynical and dishonest campaign in the history of our country has triumphed, IMNSHO.? But what has it gained them? Rather than offering a positive set of ideas for their voters to vote for the Democrats spent their time and money convincing primarily conservative voters, particularly Christian conservatives, that they should stay home and not vote, or that those who think of themselves as "moderates" should vote for pseudo conservatives in...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 4 and 5, 2006 It's the last weekend shows before we change over from campaign mode to litigation mode in this election cycle and the Dhimmicrats and the DBM are in full on hysterics.  This is particularly true of the "experts" like Sabato and Cook, who both have been predicting huge wins for their political masters as part of the psyops campaign being waged by Soros and company.  Cook is now as much as 10 points off of polls like Rasmussen in some races where the trend is clearly for...

Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, October 28th and 29th, 2006 It's the last two weekends of campaign '06 and all pretense (and restraint) has been abandoned.  The reliable hard left old media is pulling out every stop and ignoring even the simplest of ethical consideration in their all out commitment to defeat Republicans and elect Democrats.  CNN is leading the pack with expensively produced specials attacking the Republicans (their Broken Government series, for example) as well as their usual cast of Dhimmicrat attack dogs, Cafferty being the bleeding edge of their moonbat pack.  Even Wolf Blitzer has taken...

Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, 10-21-06 and 10-22-06 Just over two weeks left and the wheels appear to be coming off of the DBM/Dhimmicrat juggernaut.  Ford has imploded and probably provided the image of the election with his dismal stunt "confronting" Corker.  You can just see his world crumble as he stands there, and he knows it.  Lieberman is kicking MoveON butt in Connecticut and beginning to hint that he'll caucus with the Republicans if the Dhimmicrats don't give him his seniority.  Burns, who everyone counted out, is within striking distance in Montana and Steele is neck and...

Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, 10-14-06 and 10-15-06 Week six of the "official mid-term election campaign coverage" (as if it campaign coverage ever stops) and the DBM is in panic mode.  The plot to drive out the "evil Republicans" by using Iraq is in tatters since every time they forced the President to talk about Iraq and the War On Terror his polls and the Republican's polls go up, so they had to get off of that real quick.  Then they went to the dugout for their "relief slander" and pulled out the Foley scandal 3 weeks early,...

Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, 10-1-06 and 10-8-06 It's week five of the drive by media campaign to win back power in Washington for those who truly deserve it (in their minds), the Dhimmicrats.  This week the attention shifts away from President Bush, because their lame but continuous attacks were beginning to work for him.  Instead they are starting to point out to the ignorant boobs out there that the Republicans are really the party of homo values, kiddie porn, dirty talk and probably worse things, like drugs or even (horrors) rock and roll!  They fully expect all...

Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, 9-30 and 10-1-06 It's week four (or 297, depending on how you figure it) of the WOB (war on Bush) and all things "Republi-fascist," as the drive by media might style what they're doing.  We've had a week of spin like we haven't seen since... well, since Clinton was in office.  All the old hateful and hate filled faces were back on the screaming head shows pulling their electrically powered rapid fire mouths back out of storage and plugging them in for one more go around of lies, screaming lies and videotape.  And...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/23 & 9/24/06The campaign to trash President Bush and beatify President Clinton gets into high gear this week.  Perhaps now we know why the Clintonistas were so frantic to kill or discredit The Path To 9/11, because it had the possibility of preempting their re-re-re-re-launch of the "Clinton Legacy" (Take 843).  This is a contest between the Bush and Clinton world views.  Bush views the world in terms of western civilization representing humanity's progress up from barbarism.  Clinton views the world in terms of America's sins and how we must be...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/16 & 9/17/06The President is up dramatically in the polls.  Unemployment is down, inflation is under control, growth is continuing at a robust but sustainable rate and gas prices are falling dramatically.  So what's the topic this week?  Yep.  George Bush and the Republicans are in trouble.  Read on.Meet the Press continues their Senate debate series with Virginia's Republican Senator George Allen and his Democrat challenger former Reagan Secretary of the Navy James Webb.  When they set this up for this week I think they were planning on "macaca" being the...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/9 and 9/10/2006The fifth anniversary of 9/11 is Monday, and the drive by media wants to make sure you know what you are supposed to think.  They also really don't want you to get a chance to hear any other versions of the 9/11 narrative that might raise questions about their approved one.Meet the press has Vice President Dick Cheney ("for the first time in three years" - gee I wonder why?) for the "full hour" (not counting commercials, promos, asides, other business, etc., etc.).  The drive by media is beginning...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/2 and 9/3/06It's Labor Day weekend!  The press can now concentrate (without feeling silly) on the Fall elections.  Who cares if there's actual news that might affect the future of human existence, let alone the fortunes of the United States and all Americans?  They get to report on the horse race!Meet The Press starts off the Sunday shows in my area, so I'll talk about them first.  Lil' Timmah is back and he's got a signature MTP event - live debates.  He'll get to sit upright to ask questions of Casey...

Abbreviated analysis this week.  I'm trying to be good (honest) and not use my eyes much in the lead up to seeing my surgeon next weekend. My bet is 80-20 that the corneal transplant surgery (this will make number 4 in 26 years) is before the end of October.  We'll soon see (no pun intended... at least intentionally). Bottom line for this week, everything in the universe that is not perfect is the fault of George W. Bush.  As if we didn't know that already. The big theme this week is "all Katrina, all the time."  The DBM pulls out...

Weekend Talk Show Preview - Analysis for August 19th and 20thA quick note about the show web sites.  MTP's web site has excellent resources and links to provide background on the guests and they're tending to get it posted earlier on Fridays than they used to.  I want to commend Fox for the new Coming Up on FOX News Sunday feature on their web site.  It gives a good overview and intro to the show.  Maybe they've been reading our stuff?  ABC is doing a good job of posting on their site, including a semi informative intro beyond just the...