Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 17 July 2005

Various big media television networks ^ | 17 July 2005 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, July 17th, 2005

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Mary Landrieu, D-La.; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper; Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman; Center for American Progress president John Podesta; Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): > Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson; Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Pre-empted for coverage of the British Open golf tournament.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the Multinational Security Transition Command in Iraq; Sens. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Mehlman; Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe; former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh.

[mainepatsfan]

They just can't believe that this story isn't going anywhere. It's a like a general whose offensive has been stopped dead in it's tracks but he just keeps on attacking hoping for a breakthrough.

[Capn TrVth]

-Podesta and Mehlman are proving that right now patsfan.

Cap'n Trvth carefully takes note of another FR Mainer..

Yay! Now there's like... 4 of us!

[Carolinamom]

Presidential candidate John kerry told us that HE had a plan but that we'd have to wait until after his election to know what it was. Now, we'll never know.......LOL

[Bahbah]

Melman is doing a nice job of "shredding" Wilson. Says he's wondering who is going to play him in the movie.

[mainepatsfan]

Was Russert on vactaion last week? It seems like he's missed out on a lot of new info.

[Laverne]

I figured it would be; Tim has really prostituted himself of late. Rush referred to him the other day as "Dim" Russert. Truth is a meaningless concept to the demlib media, and has been for some time now.

[chiller]

Cooper said that the first time he heard about Wilson's wife was from Rove

That contradicts his own email, as I recall, that indicated Cooper ended a phone conversatiion with Rove suggesting to Rove that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Did not Rove confirm he had heard the same?

And furthermore, Russert can no longer hang onto that thin thread of objectivity he claimed to have. He's gone completely to the dark side.

[anita]

What is the matter with Fox these days? Sure would be nice if they would get a Repblican on these days instead of the reliable mouth pieces for the Leftist Attack Machine and RHINOS like Specter, who will fall all over themselves agreeing with the Hysteric Left.

Slowly, liberals capturing Fox. Even after MSM was reporting that Rove learned Plame name from reporters, all day Fox was spinning Harry Reid's comments made the previous day calling for Rove's removal.
Just pathetic.

[Timeout]

he's wondering who is going to play him [wilson] in the movie.

Oooo, that's a good angle.

Let's see, who played Pinnochio?

[mainepatsfan]

Rush was right the other day when said the MSM was so sure they had Rove's head. They just can't accept that it's over.

[newconhere]

That was painful and completely ridiculous. Where are we now? What did all of that maddness tell us about the dems strategy now. The freakin think that Karl Rove still did it! Im perplexed more than angry. Does someone know something I dont. Please let me in on it?

[Seattle Conservative]

Ooh Mehlman getting all the good points about Wilson now - mislead about who sent him to Niger, mislead about the report, misled about x,x,x, and appeared w his wife in Vanity Fair. Go Kenny!

Rove good and honest man - people trying to smear him
Unbelievable to him that a Pubbie would hold a major press conference with someone like Joe Wilson. - Go Kenny

Oh, now Podesta calling it a matter of 'utmost national security"

[COBOL2Java]

Jane Harman's not willing to stand for immigration reform...interesting.

Hmmm. Harman represents California's 36th Congressional District. Any CA Freepers know its demographics? Interesting to see if there's been an influx of Muslim or Hispanic immigrants there?

[krunkygirl]

Right now, he is doing the Dem thing of, "Mr. Melhman, if this had happened in the Clinton WH...blah, blah, blah." Russert is trying his best to blow up this 'already over' issue into something akin to all the legit scandals of Clinton and cronies.

[rodguy911]

Excellent point and I do stand corrected! Hard to roll over an ally. Good catch AB.

I watched a few minutes of the C-Span stuff with Chicago professor Robert Pape.He is reviewing, I guess it's his book, "Dying to win:The secret of suicide terrorists."

Pape Claims he has a 42 page document on al Qaida and their plans for the future. He claims the Spain and London bombings were forecast and there are plans for the U.S. later.

His key claim or rant, he mentions over and over, in a mild mannered composed sort of presentation, is the presence of our troops on "sacred"(my word) arab lands are the root causes of terrorism and he links all kinds of stuff to just our "being" there.

What he fails to say however is that we are rapidly training the local Iraqis to self sustain and then we will leave. That must have slipped his mind. Guy is very slick IMHO.

[COBOL2Java]

Panel time now. Mara Liasson's either had the mother of all makeovers, or there's someone else sitting in her seat. :-)

[snugs]

Shreddies and semi skimmed milk, and orange juice. Dad fruit and fibre bran flakes orange juice and toast and marmalade.

I will be disappearing in about 10 mins to visit mum as with dad in hospital not seen her all week.

Look forward to reports of the talk shows when I get back (will be back long before ribbon presenting time LOL)

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

I can't believe how biased Russert is...this is unbelievable. "Avoid the legalisms"? Now Russert is trashing Bush with the polls? What the F? Mehlman is great!

[Capn TrVth]

Russert needling Bush's "Honesty numbers" *EYEROLL*

[mainepatsfan]

It's Rathergate all over again. They can't let go.