Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 24 July 2005

Various big media television networks ^ | 24 July 2005 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[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.

[snugs]

Am going to dissapear and do some chores and get a bite to eat.

Freep me later when you are ready.

We be back later to post the ribbon.

As always thanks for the chat and company.

All the best
Eleanor

[EDINVA]

"Interesting NO LEAKS!!!!!"

omg, you're right ... can't imagine why their offices didn't leak the info, surely they KNOW. And you know how the American People have a NEEd and a RIGHT to know !!!

[Peach]

Hugs, sweet snugs. (A poet!)

[Southack]

"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."

Gergen is America's Talleyrand. He's dangerous because he is adept, among other things.

And yes, in the hyper-simplistic world of modern Democrats, "hating W" is an easy currency to counterfeit...useful for buying your way into their most treasured confidences.

Modern Republicans have no use for Talleyrand's court intrigue, however. Gergen *can't* trick his way into our power circles because our currency involves morals, ethics, principles, and life-long examples of living and working. These are things that are difficult to be faked.

This leaves Gergen completely out of Power...after all, Democrats have no Power. They've lost the House, the Senate, the Presidency, most state governments, most state legislatures...even most registered voters.

When Talleyrand (ooops, Gergen) made his move from HW Bush over to WJ Clinton's team, the Democrats had all of the Power (circa 1993). What Gergen couldn't see was that the morally rudderless Democrats would throw all of that Power away under the Clinton Administration.

...And because he couldn't see that future, he chose poorly...much to our advantage. We would have had difficulty dislodging him from our circles of Power had he not revealed his true nature so many years ago.

Gergen had come close to counterfeiting *our* currency, after all. We won't make that mistake again, though.

[SuzanneC]

From what I've seen of Mr. O'Donnell lately, it's wishful thinking on his part for sure.

[Patriot from Philly]

Seems like Time is leaking to Newsweek a lot on this story and that O'Donnell's source is Cooper. Cooper sounds like a real sleazy guy. He was the one who told Wilson that Rove was leaking his wife's name for retaliation. The facts just don't support it. Wouldn't it be ironic if the investigation shows that the liars are not the government officials, but the media. I'm worried about the SP on this one though. Seems like another grandstander.

[Quinotto]

Amazing, just freaking amazing...watching the end of CBS sports bit on Lance Armstrong...and then a commercial for tonight's "60 minutes"...it shows a plane landing and then the narrator "Could this be the American plane who snatches terrorists taking them to the torture chambers?"

DO THEY HATE THEIR OWN COUNTRY SO MUCH that they are eagerly portraying terrorists as victims? Where is their outrage when innocent people are being blown up or their throat being slashed? How much are we going to just let them do this because they keep doing it simply because there is NO consequence to their immoral, unethical and conniving actions.

[Southack]

"Gergen and the rest will use every opportunity to mislead and befuddle the public into accepting their spin on W's administration."

They can push their spin quite hard right now while the Grand Jury secrecy laws prevent all of the players from setting the record right...but the Grand Jury ends in October, and that will bring down the media's House of Cards.

Now, if this was an Election Year, that would make for perilous timing...but it isn't. We can easily afford to wait for the Grand Jury to take appropriate actions.

We *know* that Wilson lied, after all, when his first interview in 2003 specifically said that his wife wasn't involved in any way in sending him to Niger. So Wilson is busted, for starters.

Judith Miller is in jail rather than reveal the crime that she witnessed (i.e. leaking classified information). So she's busted come October, too.

Valerie Plame herself is in felony violation of the Hatch Act; her CIA front company donated $1,000 of taxpayer money on her behalf to the Democratic Presidential campaign...so she's toast as well.

Gergen and Gregory and the rest of the big-time "spinners" are going to be publically surprised and embarassed by mid-October. Until then, they get to continue sowing seeds of "doubt," small as they may be.

[Txsleuth]

Well, I used to watch Hill Street Blues, and NYPD Blue, (Blue until they made it too much about Jimmy Smits' and Delaney's personal life...gack)...

Anyway, they seemed pretty straightforward, BUT that was before the real politicization of Hollyweird, IMHO.

Plus, NO ONE (except crooks) is against the police, but a lot of people are against this war...so I am afraid the temptation to propagandize may be too great...

Are you going to watch it?

[Bahbah]

O'Connor is an idiot.

I finally got a chance to go back and check out your link. LOL. Not a great legal mind there. I guess that is what the dems want. They are not going to get it though.

[GOP-Pat]

Actually, all the screamers who have safe seats are the ones outfront now, spiting their venom, while hillary remains quiet, for the most part. All of this is a plan to make them look so extreme that hillary actually looks like a amoderate--which she must appear, when she runs in 2008.

In the meantime, some republicans are gushing over how nice and smart she is. Their words will be in her 08 commercials. They're just too stupid to realize it.

[NavySEAL F-16]

The Dems had telephone conferences with 15 Liberal Blogger Sites

Probably for coordinating and getting out the "stalking points". (Credit to Freeper from today)

[csmusaret]

Leahy was referring to Roberts' time as Solicitor General not his time as White House Counsel.

[Barset]

Summertime is company time here, as well.

I always look forward to reading your posts so, selfishly, hope you don't get too much company. b

[thelastvirgil]

>>Krauthammer says that all of the dem presidential candidates will vote against Roberts. Watching them jin up their justifications will be interesting. Kristol says that, a week before the vote on Roberts, the NYT will play some dirty trick.<<

Point One: There will be a voice vote on Roberts' confirmation in order to give cover to Hitlery.

Point Two: Why would the Times wait until the week before the vote to pull its shenanigans?

[NathanBookman]

This is definitely a "prediction" from Larry. He obviously has not source in Fitzgerald's office. If anyone has a connection, I am sure someone in the WH would. If Rove or Libby seriously thought they had a decent possibility of being indicted, they would have resigned on their own. They are not stupid. Larry on the other hand...

[Gritty]

All of this is a plan to make them look so extreme that hillary actually looks like a a moderate--which she must appear, when she runs in 2008.

Just for fun, I just checked again with Tradesports. They have Her Thighness running way, way ahead of the nearest Democrat by almost 5-1. They also have a "Democrat" winning the Presidency in 2008 by 51-48.

Even with the 2008 Election way out, those are ominous numbers, especially as Tradesports has an impressive record of being nearly always right as these are real people betting real money, not phony cooked opinion polls.

The GOP has their work cut out ahead of them, and right now it is an uphill fight. Nobody should think beating Hillary is going to be easy.

[Patriot from Philly]

I love how the media is being so helpful to the Special Prosecutor in coming up with a statute to get Rove on. Don't recall them trying to advance the case against the Clintons in such a helpful manner. In fact, wasn't it the media who told us that obstruction of justice and perjury were not bad things in some cases?

[Peach]

Thank you. That's so nice of you to say.

We live on a golf course and have a pool so that's part of the draw. And we love to entertain and play cards. Our first year here, for 3 months we only had 13 days without company. That was a little much. LOL

[slapshot]

Hate to disagree, vut Chuck the schmuck wiggled out of this like the weasel he is. Hume and Cornyn did not lay a finger on him. Even more infuriating is Hume let this NY liberal rude putz to dominate time. And the hero Cornyn looked like a deer in the headlights.

How come no one asked if Chuck the schmucks new mellowness is the result of some type of smackdown he received due to his phone conversation on Amtrack?

We need a street fighter to take these people out. I am sick of the pussy footing around.