Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 5 June 2005

Various big media television networks ^ | 5 June 2005 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Amnesty International USA Executive Director William Shulz; former Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste, Watergate figure and radio talk show host G. Gordon Liddy.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): former Washington Post executive editor Benjamin Bradlee, former Nixon White House counsel John Dean.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.(he's back!); former Washington Post executive editor Benjamin Bradlee; rock star Bryan Adams.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.; Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari; Washington Post reporter John Harris; former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig; former Nixon White House counsel John Dean, former Nixon White House counsel Charles Colson, former Watergate prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste.

[CasearianDaoist]

Thanks a lot for that response. I want to think that you are quite right - it certainly makes good sense to me.

I wonder if in time Nixon's reputation will be resotred. I was always a NIxon fan. In terms of sheer brain power, I have always felt that he was the smartest POTUS in my lifetime.

Nixon did what he thought was the honorable thing given that we were in a dangerous position in the Cold War.

[Mo1]

Notice how the debate over American conduct at Gitmo has moved from the question of whether detainees were tortured to the question of whether a book was tortured?

It's to incite anger in the middle east

And some in the media/press will hang anything they can on the US to achieve that goal

[defconw]

It always amazes me how Juan Williams portends to speak for the American People, and that nothing he ever says it rooted in reality.

[Morgan in Denver]

Logic is not their strong suit.

[Bahbah]

Juan Williams says Terry Schiavo was a disaster for the Republicans. I think killing her was a disaster for Ms. Schiavo.

[chiller]

I suspect Tim leans a bit lefty, too, but it is his job to ask both of the party chair tough questions. He did so. No problem from me this morning. Mehlman handled everything well.

Sometimes what appears to be an unfair question is very beneficial, since a good answer exposes the charge as unfair.

....speaking of NBC, any opinions out there on Brian Williams? My brief exposures to him on Nightly News have shown a more fair presentation that Brokaw, and certainly better than the rest of the Alphabets.

[NautiNurse]

I saw it. Biden said Dean's rhetoric is inappropriate, and he is not happy about it; and many 'Rats are not happy about it.

[rodguy911]

He is just spouting or creating new rat talking points snugs. He knows things have gone better than anyone ever dreamed in Iraq but is trying to put the worst face possible on it. Nothing new here.

When the rats run out of lying techniques, they are through politically. That's all they have. They lack any new ideas that make sense, so they just demonize the administration all the time, it's all they have.

[defconw]

Juan Williams says things he wishes were true. I don't see it as a disastor for Republicans. But I do agree it was a disaster for Teri and her family.

[lawdude]

"...with Greta I have no clue whether or not she will be mesmerized by el slicko."

All we will see of Gretna is her head bobbing up and down under the table.

[Morgan in Denver]

Thanks for the confirmation. Just amazing.

[defconw]

Republicans four times as much moeny and 62,ooo NEW donors! Seems like the people are behind the REPUBLICANS!

[CasearianDaoist]

I still do not get this line of reasoning - it is pulled out of a couple of very questionable polls that were conducted before she died. I think that once the nation saw what all of this was about, saw that she was staved to death, the people have a different take on it all together.

I imagine that it will work against them rather than for them.

Still, the GOP needs to point out what the Left's enthusiasm with euthanasia is really about, where it can lead and point out the historical corollaries with such folks as the Nazis.

[snugs]

Too true I am sitting here listening to Sky News where they are suggesting that Jack Straw is going to announce tomorrow that we will not have a vote on the EU Constitution because of the no votes by France and Holland so effectively it is dead.

This IMHO is pack of left lies basically we take over the EU President shortly Blair does not want our referendum clouding his Presidency. Furthermore my fear is yes this Constitution is dead what they promised us a vote on, but will a new revamped one mean that our left wing government will decide on it without going to the country like was done in Germany.

[Morgan in Denver]

Howard Dean is the best Republican fund raiser since Hillary Clinton entered politics and John Kerry lied about Vietnam.

[CasearianDaoist]

That is exactly what it is about.

[Fishtalk]

I was always a NIxon fan

Dear Lord, Nixon was a wonderful president. I hope God forgives me but that He understands that I didn't know any better.

His own paranoia did him in. But what danger did he present? He tried to cover up for his subordinates inept breakin of Demo headquarters. They were trying to get to a call girl list on which were plenty of Dem clients but MOST important, John Dean's wife.

Poor Nixon. He never deserved what he got but that's twice (once he walked away from an election that was highly suspect) that he did the honorable thing for his country.

Let them keep talking about it. Myself has been reading and listening to everything because I want to get my heaD straight on it.

Just remember...this is an era when we've all lived through Clinton. Those who endorsed just a sanction of Clinton are now wondering why Nixon went through so much when he did way less than Clinton.

Lots of those beauty shop gals commenting with just this question.

Sometimes the scales fall slowly but fall they will.

[defconw]

I agree I hope they keep Howard! I hope he brings his act to Indiana, more money will pour into GOP HQ.

[mathluv]

Chris did a great job with that AI guy, but he would not let G. Gordon say much of anything! That was disgusting!

[Bahbah]

I imagine that it [Schiavo]will work against them rather than for them.

Agreed. The old trick of jinning up polls with phony questions has been exposed, but they still keep going with it because they, in their deepest places, rely on the perceived stupidity of the people. I think living in that imaginary world will hurt them, and I hope it does.