Posted on 07/24/2005 5:29:08 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, July 24th, 2005
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): > U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn., adviser to Supreme Court nominee John Roberts; Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.; former Army Capt. Stefanie Pelkey.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi ambassador-designate to the United States; Saad Hariri, head of Lebanon's anti-Syrian coalition.
I don't bring politics into my marriage NOW. I find other things to talk about with my significant other and SHE agrees with just about everything I believe in anyway. Why would I change and bring it up with them? I could think of other things to talk about with either one....
Pretty much the only time I even discuss politics is when I am on FR. They don't rule my life.
I just heard a snippet of MTP and have to deduce that I was listening to David Gregory, in the Rove discussion, saying that he was surprised that there is not more of an outcry from ordinary Americans in defence of journalists.
Now we have proof that he is delusional. I will always remember this comment when I see him ask the President a stupid question. He has no idea how the majority of Americans see his and the other stalking horses behavior.
Oh, and watch for treason indictments against Joe Wilson and the entire team at CIA where Plame works for running a rogue operation within the agency designed to undermine the elected government through lies and criminal leaks of falsified information.
Dare we dream of a RICO indictment against the entire Democrat party?
Though all would be nice, I'd settle for conspiracy and obstruction of justice. The others would be icing on the cake. Unfortunately, knowing how things work in liberal democratic DC, we may only get crumbs with no substance.
Went through all comments on today's Sunday Morning Talk thread, feeling truly blessed that Alas and FR members report, so I don't have to watch, the political hacks and media whores.
Gergen hates W because Gergen's raison d'etre is his status as the ultimate "Insider," a status he peddled for money and tv face time, and W has shut him out.
Michael Kelly, in his essay, "Master of the Game," wrote of Gergen, "Every species produces its perfect flower and every culture its perfect moment. In the late Spring of 1993, the perfect flower of the Insider species and the perfect moment of the image culture met in the presidential[Clinton] appointment of David R. Gergen, Washington's circular man.
The career of David Gergen represents the triumph of image. The character of David Gergen represents the apeothis of the Insider.
The two are rolled up in him together, in a shining, seamless roundness whose mirrored surface reveals nothing but the political scene rolling by. In himself Gergen has conflated all the old distinctions.
Over the course of twenty-two years, he has traveled from White House to White House, from government to journalism to punditry....From the Democratic camp to the Republican to the Independent to the Democratic...
So perfectly is he of his time and place and class that he is himself a part of the tribal language. To be Gergenized is to be spun by the velveteen hum of this soothing man's smoothing voice into a state of such vertigo that the sense of what is real disappears into a blur. Nothing is more Gergenized than Gergen himself. The blur is the man. He is his own magic movie, forever revising the reality of himself."
Essay taken from "Things Worth Fighting For," a collection of Kelly's writings published after his death in the early days of the Iraq invasion, in which he participated as an embedded reporter.
Snugs, if you want a straightforward picture of politics and culture in the US, you couldn't go wrong with this book.
Glad to know that your father is up and enjoying the sports.
Peach, how are you enjoying Christopher Hitchens" "Love, Poverty, and War?"
Snugs, one thing the UK exports that is priceless, is the genius of your writers like Hitchens and Dalrymple (Anthony Daniels.)
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Too bad lib Chris Wallace is back from vacation next week. I enjoyed Brit and the additional Roundtable time they had without Wallace's "Power Player" segment.
It bothers me that it is now being reported he is NOT a member of the Federalist Society. One of the things that calmed many on here who said he was a stealth candidate ala Souter was his membership in the FS. Now that this is revealed those fears may again come to the fore.
the cynical me agrees with you, but there's a little bit of Don Quixote in all of us here. We may expect the dim's system to grind us down, but we can always "dream the impossible dream."
| To dream the impossible dream. To fight the unbeatable foe. To bear with unbearable sorrow. To run where the brave dare not go. To right the unrightable wrong. To love pure and chaste from afar. To try when your arms are too weary. To reach the unreachable star. This is my quest. To follow that star. No matter how hopeless. No matter how far. To fight for the right, Without question or pause. To be willing to march into hell For a heavenly cause. And I know, if I'll only be true To this glorious quest That my heart will lie peaceful And calm when I'm laid to my rest. And the world will be better for this That one man, scorned and covered with scars Still strove with his last ounce of courage To reach the unreachable stars. |
Heard Ben Stein's opinion piece on CBS Sunday Morning. Thesis was that the MSM is a pack of wolves who are out for raw meat (Rove). Advises Bush not to jettison Rove in response because their real goal is Bush and giving up Rove just makes them hungrier and more vicious. Good op-ed piece, especially for CBS.
I'm getting here late today---
Granddaughter spent last night---I didn't get to see the shows this morning...will watch Fox's show this afternoon.
I am writing to ask if any of ya'll have seen the commercials for the NEW Series on FX---about the War in Iraq?
Mike, in particular, I was was wanting your opinion---if you have seen/read anything about it.. Do you think it will lefty propaganda AGAINST the war, since it is a Hollywierd product?
You coined a new FReeper phrase. You will see it used from now on, especially on this thread next week. Congrats!
I just heard Gergen say to watch the investigation move to the President himself. He actually said "what did he know and when did he know it."
They are just trying to fit the template of the Nixon years on this White House.
It is not going to work! In the same way that Hollywood cannot remake a classic movie very well, they are not going to "remake" the Nixon presidency.
"Stalking points" is a good new Freeper phrase....
Yesterday, someone posted a new acronym...HOL=Howling out loud!!! I thought that was a good new one, also.
Too bad lib Chris Wallace is back from vacation next week.
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How quickly it came to seem normal to have Brit doing the interviews.
Your last name wouldn't be Hill, would it?
I remember Neanderthal man getting crazy with GW, Bush should have told NBC "time to get a new crazed wild dog", but I guess that's not his style. Shows disrespect for the president IMHO, you don't need reporters, and I use the world loosely, like that in the contingent following the President from country to country.
"stalking points"
The big question is which talkie will pick it up tomorrow?
I only saw the last few minutes of The McLaughlin Group which was a discussion of the Plame "leak" situation. Rover and Scooter Libby were, of course, mentioned with the implication they were the guilty parties.
During the predictions segment Lawrence O'Donnel predicted there would definitely be indictments and they would be serious.
John said it was too close to call.
Did anyone else catch the McLaughlin Group today? What else did they discuss?
"that is so priceless ... investigating Durbin, Rockefeller and Wyden! Gotta love it ... as noted elsewhere, long overdue."
Interesting NO LEAKS!!!!!
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