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.
Right about Cooper calling Rove. In fact, in all of the contacts I have heard about between reporters and the White House, it is always the reporter calling the WH. If this Plame/Wilson thing was a WH push to "get" Val & Joe, why are there no reporters coming forward to say, "Yes, Rove/Libby called me to push this story". I have not heard one reporter say that yet. Nor any leaks from the GJ to suggest it.
Russert is a typical "normal" liberal and he is not about to be the one to expose another liberal.
I haven't really read much about it yet.
I have seen the commercials and they kind of remind me of the movie "Blackhawk Down". We will see.
Curiousity will kill the cat Wednesday at 10.
Howdy. Great post and timely reminder of what Gergen is all about.
Haven't gotten to Hitchens book yet...summertime is company time in our house. LOL
More bad news about Brit---
Brian Wilson just signed off of his Sunday show, and said he would see us next week when "subbing for Brit"---so, no Brit on Brit's show, and probably the Sunday Show....sigh.
Lawrence O'Donnell is getting his information from one of the reporters, I suspect. They probably believe this, but did he give any indication that he is getting info from the GJ or SP directly. Maybe just wishful thinking on the part of the media.
I'm kicking myself for missing McLaughlin today. Sure hope someone else here watched, reported, and will ping us.
He's probably going to take a vacation. How dare he do this to us :)
In case you have not seen them, here are a couple of great blog with some good info on the Plame case. The first blog is written by a ex-military intelligence guy. He still has many contacts in the intelligence community and provides some good insights.
Here is his latest on Larry Johnson:
http://macsmind.blogspot.com/2005/07/i-told-you-so.html
Here is the link to his main page:
http://macsmind.blogspot.com/
And one other blog with lots of good info, especially from the legal standpoint:
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/
Just FYI.
#369 has some interesting blogs as they pertain to the Plame matter. Thanks Nathan.
This is the first I've heard of this side of her. The other day someone on FR described her showing her bias during softball questioning of some politican or during the discussion. Sorry, but I can't recall details. I'm willing to change my opinion of her if more information like the Boxer interview becomes available.
My view is of Charlie Brown always having the football pulled away by Lucy.
I saw that interview with Boxer and it was obvious that Kiran Chetry had done her homework.
She made Boxer look like a babbling idiot and a liar.
Anyone who does that to her gets extra points in my book.
I read about that new show by Steven Bocho. It will be on FX because it will be nitty, gritty ala The Shield and he didn't think the networks would buy it.
Bocho has produced Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue, etc.
The new show will focus on both the men and women fighting in Iraq and the families they leave behind.
I agree with your assessment of some bias and softball questions to Dims by Kirran. I'm reserving judgment as well (maybe it depends upon who the producer of the show is and/or who is typing the questions in the teleprompter??)
"...They are not going to 're-make' the Nixon years."
No, but Gergen and the rest will use every opportunity to mislead and befuddle the public into accepting their spin on W's administration.
Someone ought to ask those fat-heads "when will you know what most rational people have learned" that your shoddy personal ambitions have destroyed whatever character you may have once possessed, and your rubbishy, self-serving propaganda has blighted the political landscape long enough.
They have "delusions of relevance."
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delusional is spelled D-U-R-B-I-N
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