Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 7 Mar 2004

Various big media television networks ^ | 7 Mar 2004 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): > L. Paul Bremer, U.S. administrator in Iraq, and Bush campaign chairman Marc Racicot.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla.; Govs. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., and Ed Rendell, D-Pa.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Matthew Dowd, campaign strategist for President Bush; Tad Devine, senior adviser to Democratic candidate John Kerry.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : L. Paul Bremer, U.S. administrator in Iraq; Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.; retired Gen. Wesley Clark, former Democratic presidential candidate.

[Barset]

You speak the truth. Thanks for that, and for starting this thread every Sunday. I can't watch these people; their eyes are horrible looking. So much deceit.

[Thom Pain]

Refresh my memory - How is the U.N. doing in Haiti?

[Gritty]

If Bush wants to cinch the election, he'd get Rudy Guilliani on the ticket.

That would knock Cheney off the ticket. The Dems have been busy demonizing Cheney for four years. But when the Campaign gets going, he will shine again. We don't need Rudy to win.

9/11 would not be "off the table" then.

We don't need, and shouldn't, take 9/11 off the table. It should be front and center. We don't need Rudy to showcase it, although he is effective.

However, we do need to confront the Dems agressively with 9/11. They just don't want to talk about it, for obvious reasons. They are 9/10 politicians living in a 9/11 America. We need to set the agenda, not react to their phony outraged shrieks!

Besides, Rudy is pro-abortion and anti-2nd Amendment. That alone is reason enough to keep him off the Ticket.

[OldFriend]

Same way they're doing in Sudan, Ivory Coast, and every other country where the dictator pays them big big dollars and they look the other way as the despots murder and maim the citizenry.

[clintonh8r]

Just watching the rerun of Fox. Is Juan Williams a masochist? Does he like having Brit spank him every Sunday morning? He reminds me of Tom Smothers' schtick, the way his eyes get wide and he get tongue-tied whenever he's in an argument.

[TaxRelief]

Marc Racicot did terribly. I am truly worried after today's interview.

Racicot completely blew the "jobs" question, blew the manufacturing numbers, failed to mention the job growth in more important sectors of the economy and missed the opportunity to diss the 911 "commission". I am disappointed to say that he just had a general mannerism that said "I'm unprepared" and "I think this is a waste of time".

This is campaign season! Who ever represents President Bush has to appear competent, well prepared and pleased with the progress of the administration. Every chance that the campaign gets to be on TV should be embraced and used to Bush's advantage. The campaign needs to express our President's love for America and his belief in the future of our nation.

Racicot should have been less focused on answering the questions and more focused on how well the campaign is going. Instead he came off as incompetent, which just adds to all the DemoRat charges of "incompetence".

One more thing, "these outrageous charges from the other side aren't worthy of a response" is never, never a good answer. It's rude, arrogant and pompous. He should appear more willing to reach out to the general public by saying something like "The American Public is smart. They know the truth. They know President Bush is making decisions that affect the entire country..." This tactic compliments the viewer (which is a win) and dismisses the charges, tactfully (which is another win).

Politics 101: If you want the moderate and conservative democrat vote, don't ridicule them.

Is Racicot really on our President's side? Truthfully, I'm beginning to wonder.

[onyx]

I'm not the one who asked you about a ping list. :)

[oceanview]

exactly right, as Brit Hume said, a lie from your opponent left unanswered becomes the truth in the eye of a typical "swing" voter.

So far, after 1 week of head to head campaigning, I am sad to say that Kerry wins week #1.

[Alas Babylon!]

Please see my reply number 383.

Sorry Onyx!!!!

[oceanview]

Rudy is always great, yet many freeper dislike him because of his liberal social agenda. In the meantime, we have a Republican congress and president and we are streaking towards legalized gay marriage (not that its their fault). Rudy as president would do no harm on any of these liberal social positions.

[cyncooper]

I so love Rudy's response!!! I wish Bush' team could come up with these things!!

What?

Rudy IS on the Bush team, so the Bush team IS "coming up" with these things.

Feel better?

[BigSkyFreeper]

Missed em all this morning, but MTP looks worthy of watching.

[cyncooper]

On the Chris Mathews show the special panel of pundits, anonymously voted and came up 9-2 GWB wins....

I heard that. Don't count on it as a reliable touchstone, though I do think Bush will win. It reminded me of the reporters on the Bush campaign trail in 2000 taking a head count and overwhelmingly opining that Gore would win.

[txradioguy]

"Marc Racicot did terribly. I am truly worried after today's interview."


Am I lost here? Every other post I've read on here says that Raciot did a stand up job actually a great job answering the questions. And you said he did terribly?

Now granted I'm not able right now to watch any of the shows but I've found that everyone's take from this thread is a pretty accurate judge of how the shows go. So 99.9% say Raciot did great and you poo poo it?

No offense Tax but....you're not related to Moby are you?

[terilyn]

I'll opine. I thought he did awful.

It was all canned. There's enough info out there to blow Kerry out of the water early in the game, yet our spokesperson chose to say we were above responding to partisian attacks.

They might as well wave a white flag.

[EERinOK]

alot of the took early retirement, and now work for the same company as they used to on a contract basis. different and less costly to the company, not the employee healthplans, but no longer on the company "headcount". they are under-reported workers, classified as free-lancers, self employeed.

many i know in the oil and gas business got out with nice early retirement packages and work less, and earn about as much. alot of I.T. types too are doing this.

[TaxRelief]

When we care about someone, we sometimes put our blinders on. I watched this twice to be sure.

[CedarDave]

Got a new tag line out of your reply. Trust you don't mind. Thanks!

[mwl1]

Guiliani very good at defending the president. Russert says why no showing the flag-draped coffins coming into Dover. Guiliani says 9/11 should not be out of bounds. It is part of history.

Agreed. Funny, no outrage when the RATS and their media handmaidens use film from the JFK assassination for 40+ years to political effect. Seems to me they are exploiting the pain of the Kennedy family for political gain.

[justshutupandtakeit]

While the merits or lack thereof of JFK can be debated, I don't think you can claim with truth that he caused the Cubean crisis by not having a foreign policy. That was thrown into his lap within months of achieving the office just as 9/11 was for Bush.

Not only had the entire Bay of Pigs been prepared in secret but he was misinformed about major aspects of it and from every indication did not have proper leadership provided by the planners. Dulles and Bissel were both out of the loop when the invasion went down and unavailable. That was inexcuseable and not JFK's fault.

His Sec STate and Sec Def were both Republican as was the SecTreas. His foreign policy was not greatly different from Eisenhower's from what I can see.