Posted on 06/26/2005 4:09:55 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, June 19th, 2005
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld; singer and activist Bono.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, former FBI Director L. Patrick Gray.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Gen. John Abizaid, commander of U.S. Central Command, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, President Emile Lahoud of Lebanon.
A liberals glass is always half empty.
Chris Wallace to break - coming back with Rove's comments, the swimmer and ... NO DURBIN.
Wallace didn't fall far from the lying tree.
Yes - yes he is.
Chris insists on using "news" reports ......
Timmy brings up DSM. No discussion of what to do after the war. Rummy says there was a good deal of post war planning.
That's my fear that this story gets buried by the usual MSM diversion.
MTP: Secretary Rumsfeld and Bono..... from the sublime to the ridiculous.
But I'm glad to see Rummy getting out there to put the kibosh on all the quagmire and defeat orgy going on in the MSM.
I'd take Wallace at his word on the phone call. He sais it was a man who served in Vietnam whose sone is now serving in Iraq. The father expressed concern that we were fighting this like Vietnam; that we did not have the troop strength there to win.
Rumsfeld explained yet again that the troop levels are set by the generals and that he and the president concurred.
He also said that the U.S. will not beat the insurgency, but the Iraqi people will beat them--that is how insurgencies are defeated.
He also commented on the report of meetings between the U.S. and Iraqi insurgency leaders. He said they happen all the time and to not make too much of this report. He said one of the goals of the meetings is to peel off the Iraqi insurgents from al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Rumsfeld once again says torture is not our policy and that the isolated instances of mistreatment have been investigated and those responsible punished.
Timmy now on the arming of humvees gambit.
Ohhhh.. Stephy's panel shows Rove's recent comment.
Stephy: Assumes it was well thought out, and asks did he set it up as a trap or did he just overreach.
Panel says:
Bush's standing on independants is just as bad as standing with 'liberals', and says this is just pushing away more independants.
Admits there are some in the liberal camp as Rove says, but says he overgeneralized liberals on whole.
Stephy asks: Does the military pay attention to this?
Panel: Nope, they don't listen to any of that. Doesn't matter why they are there, they have a job to do.
Mild slap down by Rummy when interrupted by Wallace.
Rummy hitting it home by stressing torture claims include holding combatants without a known date for release. Compared
to POW not knowing release date.
Rumsfeld asked to comment on Rove's remarks about libs this week. He says Rove was talking about folks like MoveOn and Michael Moore and that Rove was right.
I'm sure ole Timmy will have fun getting cozy with 'Bono'. And I wait with baited breath for the nuggets of knowledge that fall from 'Bono's' lips.
He's never getting my vote again!
How about a Cheney / Rumsfeld ticket????
Morning all, been up the garden working so late to the party this morning just going wash and scrub up and I will be back to see what I missed.
Thanks! But, which program? I hope all of them.
Rumsfeld slaps down Kennedy by saying he's never been to Iraq. Wallace asks if Rumsfeld, as on old wrestler, wanted to put Kennedy in a headlock. Rumsfeld laughed but said he's not supposed to get into politics. He also chided Wallace for not showing clips of the generals standing up to Kennedy after his tirade.
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