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.

[Txsleuth]

I tell you what, though---in order to get that agenda through, it is going to take a strong headed attack from the Republican senate---I would include the HOuse, but we HAVE strong headed people in the House, like Tom Delay and Mike Pence...

See Senators don't make good POTUS candidates, but if they don't work to get the Presidents agenda through, then they pretty much will set up ANY GOP candidate for failure...

The tricky part is---the dems, with the filibuster of judicial nominees (I am ignoring that stupid compromise), Soc. Security, and now possible impeachment hearings and the hearings that Specter is going to hold re: torture, the dems have pretty much bottled up the legislative calendar, so nothing will get done at least until 2006!!!

That is why it will take someone--maybe President Bush himself, to stand up and say "enough is enough"---cut the crap and do your jobs, congresscritters and quit campaigning 24/7/365!!!!

[Soul Seeker]

You've nailed it.

The nonsense needs to end. Whether it be the President or someone else, these people were hired to represent the American people, not to bottle up nominations or allow losers to put on Faux trials to make themselves feel important.

Spectre only resides in that Senate because the President willed it, whereas the President was given the approval of the Majority of the country. The egotist needs to sit down, shut up, and learn his place. If that is beyond his reach, strip his Chairmanship.

See Senators don't make good POTUS candidates, but if they don't work to get the Presidents agenda through, then they pretty much will set up ANY GOP candidate for failure...

Exactly. Couldn't state it any better. Yet that is part of the problem. If they showed the leadership necessary to navigate this agenda into reality they would be worthy of consideration for POTUS. The main reason they are usually poor candidates is that Senators are viewed as verbose compromisers, where Governors are decisive delegators. ANY Senator with conservative credentials that wants to be president needs to win in the Senate. If they cannot win there, I am relunctant to support them against the National Democrat or World Body. They may be a nice guy and say the right things, but that doesn't matter to me as much as action.

[jayef]

It was that nanny trial. The British au pair thing.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Are the MSM's running this?
Because I have not heard about except through this thread.

I haven't seen much, I stumbled into awareness of the DemonicRat plan, came across a website Downingstreetmemo.com.

More here :

dailykos.com

I think there has been media play in Britain though, maybe some of our English Freepers can add to that.

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Let's capture what we can, might be nice to have:

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ACTION: DowningStreetMemo.com

by georgia10
Fri May 13th, 2005 at 13:20:16 PDT

"It is foolish in the extreme not only to resort to force before necessity compels, but especially to madly create the conditions that will lead to this necessity."

-Benjamin Tucker, Liberty, May 22, 1886

Congressman John Conyers has an excellent diary up addressing the lukewarm reaction the Downing Street Memo has received in the press---well, at least in the news outlets that have the courage to cover it.

It has been nearly two weeks since the damning memo was released, and the Fourth Estate has failed us.  Every American has a right to know about its government's decision to wage war, and every news outlet has the responsibility to bring that information to the public.

Since the media won't inform our fellow citizens, we will.

Diaries :: georgia10's diary :: :: Trackback ::

Thanks to all who contributed ideas and assistance in the previous Downing Street Memo Diary.

Members of the Daily Kos community have worked non-stop in the last 48 hours to launch a website where citizens can learn about the memo and take action.

Highacidity, Mikecan1978, and myself have established this site as one where people can learn about the memo, and, most importantly, take action.

DowningStreetMemo.com

The website, DowningStreetMemo.com has the following features:

1.  The full text of the memo
   
2.  A call to action, complete with a way for citizens to contact the media, their representatives, and the President.
   
3.  A page comparing the text of the memo to statement by the bush adminstration
   
4.  A petition for signatures to join Congressman Conyers in demanding answers.

The site will be updated as the issue hopefully gets the news coverage it deserves.

Getting The Word Out

Additionally, we need your help promoting the site.  We've made a graphic which you can insert in your emails and forward to your friends and family:

There is also a banner that you can put on your websites to encourage people to visit the site and learn more about the memo:

Looking Ahead

Again, thanks to highacidity and mikecan1978 for their hard work over the last 48 hours.

There is still much work to be done.  Getting the truth to the American people is paramount, and this website is the first step.

If the media won't do the job, let's show them how it's done...

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[Mo1]

the Dkos is pushing another story again huh?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See post #564 , MSM hasn't been enthusatic about the Downing Street Memo revelation so some folks are working on getting some action going!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I hadn't bothered to look at them before, but they now seem to have Conyers and Kerry trying to do something.

[Mo1]

Yea .. that site is in the DNC's back pocket whenever they want news pushed out

Barbie Boxer is a poster there and has posted a couple diaries also

My undertstanding of this memo is it is an opinion with no facts to back it up

[onyx]

Marking place for reading tomorry.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Link to the alleged Memo as published by

The secret Downing Street memo
The Sunday Times - Britain
May 01, 2005

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Though we had lost you due to your packing and moving activities.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

American MSM with story on this thread:

British memo: Bush bent data to fit Iraq policy

[onyx]

No, I'm still here, but my packing is almost finished! Dang near killed me... for the past 48 hours I have been running a fever no lower than 102. I think it's dehydration.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Better have the good Doctor look at you and give you a prescription.

I had something myself a few days ago, but seem to be over it now.

I put the actual Memo up on a short thread and pinged you and Mo1, lot of people talking about it, not sure many have actually read it.

[onyx]

He has me on antibiotics. I'll be fine once this fever breaks and I gain back what I think is lost water weight.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Well Duh, see the link at post #572.

Must be my bedtime....

[onyx]

HUH? No, I read the memo you posted. If anyone is missing the point.. it's fever ravished me...lol.

[beyond the sea]

Mehlman is SMART!

[beyond the sea]

BTW if you haven't read his biography, WILL, do so. It's very good. He also has a new book out about the way things used to be when he was a kid. ----

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Right on.

[beyond the sea]

If God Forbid Hillary would get elected, how long before the first crime is commited?

Her GETTING ELECTED would be the first crime commited!

;-)