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Posted on 11/06/2005 5:19:35 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, November 6th, 2005
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; John Barry, director of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park, to discuss the zoo's baby panda.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and George Allen, R-Va.; British Defense Secretary John Reid.
For the extreme multi-taskers:
http://www.wabcradio.com
Sweet! I like that better than my word "fanatics"
From now on I am an extreme multi-tasker.
Might even put that on my business card!
Hey Fudd,
Guys my friend started a thread on Wilkow (Levin Jr.), if you get too disgusted with a guest... pop over.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1516735/posts
*L* ... yes I've noticed
Oh goodie ... MTP and Kennedy is on here now
Did they ever find out what really happened with his son?
"We couldn't during Nixon/Carter."
Speaking of Carter, have you all seen this? I found it interesting (not that we will hear anymore about it in the MSM or in Jimmy's new book - "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis", which draws on Carter's experiences as a president and a Christian.) ).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1516436/posts
Role of US Former Pres. Carter Emerging in Illegal Financial Demands on Shah of Iran
aryamehr.org ^ | March 15, 2004
Posted on 11/05/2005 2:02:19 PM PST by operation clinton cleanup
Defense & Foreign Affairs Daily
Volume XXII, No. 46 Monday, March 15, 2004 Founded in 1972 Produced at least 200 times a year
© 2004, Global Information System, ISSA
Role of US Former Pres. Carter Emerging in Illegal Financial
Demands on Shah of Iran
Exclusive. Analysis. By Alan Peters,1 GIS. Strong intelligence has begun to emerge that US President Jimmy Carter attempted to demand financial favors for his political friends from the Shah of Iran. The rejection of this demand by the Shah could well have led to Pres. Carter’s resolve to remove the Iranian Emperor from office.
The linkage between the destruction of the Shah’s Government — directly attributable to Carter’s actions — and the Iran-Iraq war which cost millions of dead and injured on both sides, and to the subsequent rise of radical Islamist terrorism makes the new information of considerable significance.
Pres. Carter’s anti-Shah feelings appeared to have ignited after he sent a group of several of his friends from his home state, Georgia, to Tehran with an audience arranged with His Majesty directly by the Oval Office and in Carter’s name. At this meeting, as reported by Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveyda to some confidantes, these businessmen told the Shah that Pres. Carter wanted a contract. previously awarded to Brown & Root to build a huge port complex at Bandar Mahshahr, to be cancelled and as a personal favor to him to be awarded to the visiting group at 10 percent above the cost quoted by Brown & Root.
The group would then charge the 10 percent as a management fee and supervise the project for Iran, passing the actual construction work back to Brown & Root for implementation, as previously awarded. They insisted that without their management the project would face untold difficulties at the US end and that Pres. Carter was “trying to be helpful”. They told the Shah that in these perilous political times, he should appreciate the favor which Pres. Carter was doing him.
According to Prime Minister Hoveyda, the Georgia visitors left a stunned monarch and his bewildered Prime Minister speechless, other than to later comment among close confidantes about the hypocrisy of the US President, who talked glibly of God and religion but practiced blackmail and extortion through his emissaries.
The multi-billion dollar Bandar Mahshahr project would have made 10 percent “management fee” a huge sum to give away to Pres. Carter’s friends as a favor for unnecessary services. The Shah politely declined the “personal” management request which had been passed on to him. The refusal appeared to earn the Shah the determination of Carter to remove him from office.
Carter subsequently refused to allow tear gas and rubber bullets to be exported to Iran when anti-Shah rioting broke out, nor to allow water cannon vehicles to reach Iran to control such outbreaks, generally instigated out of the Soviet Embassy in Tehran. There was speculation in some Iranian quarters — as well as in some US minds — at the time and later that Carter’s actions were the result of either close ties to, or empathy for, the Soviet Union, which was anxious to break out of the longstanding US-led strategic containment of the USSR, which had prevented the Soviets from reaching the warm waters of the Indian Ocean.
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The vigilante then asked why the Islamic Government would bother to be so accommodating to the Great Satan and was told that the whole operation was planned in advance by Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan’s revolutionary Government with Pres. Carter in return for Carter having helped depose the
Shah and that this was being done to ensure Carter got re-elected. “He helped us, now we help him” was the matter-of-fact comment from the cleric.
In 1978 while the West was deciding to remove His Majesty Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi from the throne, Shariatmadari was telling anyone who would listen not to allow “Ayatollah” Ruhollah Khomeini and his velayat faghih (Islamic jurist) version of Islam to be allowed to govern Iran. Ayatollah Shariatmadari noted: “We mullahs will behave like bickering whores in a brothel if we come to power ... and we have no experience on how to run a modern nation so we will destroy Iran and lose all that has been achieved at such great cost and effort.”2
Pres. Carter reportedly responded that Khomeini was a religious man — as he himself claimed to be — and that he knew how to talk to a man of God, who would live in the holy city of Qom like an Iranian “pope” and act only as an advisor to the secular, popular revolutionary Government of Mehdi Bazargan and his group of anti-Shah executives, some of whom were US-educated and expected to show preferences for US interests.
Carter’s mistaken assessment of Khomeini was encouraged by advisors with a desire to form an Islamic “green belt” to contain atheist Soviet expansion with the religious fervor of Islam. Eventually all 30 of the scenarios on Iran presented to Carter by his intelligence agencies proved wrong, and totally misjudged Khomeini as a person and as a political entity.
Today, Iranian-born, Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, the dominant Shia leader in Iraq faces Shariatmadari’s dilemma and shares the same “quietist” Islamic philosophy of sharia (religious law) guidance rather than direct governing by the clerics themselves. Sistani’s “Khomeini” equivalent, militant Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Sadr, was gunned down in 1999 by then-Iraqi Pres. Saddam Hussein’s forces. Sadr’s son, 30-year-old Muqtada al-Sadr, lacks enough followers or religious seniority/clout to immediately oppose Sistani but has a hard core of violent followers biding their time.
According to all estimates, the young Sadr waits for the June 2004 scheduled handover of power in Iraq, opening the way for serious, militant intervention on his side by Iranian clerics. The Iranian clerical leaders, the successors to Khomeini, see, far more clearly than US leaders and observers, the parallels between 1979-80 and 2004: as a result, they have put far more effort into activities designed to ensure that “Reagan’s successor”, US Pres. George W. Bush, does not win power.
I really liked the Wallace/Wallace interview. All politics aside, it was a father/son thing and quite touching. Chris would jump in and continue the interview when he saw his dad's mind wandering. It was quite tender.
LOL
Glad I missed that segment.
That had to be some of the worst Sunday "News" television that I have ever seen. Fox is really sinking to new lows.
Thanks. I bookmarked some posts on that. In the past, adding an automatic 10 to 15 points for Bush in any poll was closer to the truth, and adding 5% to the final poll result has usually been closer than anything else I've seen. Nor do poll results reflect Bush supporters who want more done, not less. Not to beat a dead horse, but polls are inaccurate these days and a poor substitute for reporting news instead of guesses.
But they can fly to Vietnam to debunk the Swift Vets.
I suppose they would then want Bush to put in a Rat as VP so the minority could restore their representation?! /sarcasm
LOL. There is nothing "good" about it. Listen for the answer from the Swimmer on the ethics issue and the non-answer when Timmy reads him quotes from Kerry on wmd in Iraq.
What's the numbers since Corslime dipped nine points two days ago?
/Rant off..Now where were we.......?
Sun Nov 06 09:21:49 2005
My father, mike wallacE. I would talk to him about his career and his life and his new book. It's called "between you and me." Well, since then I have reconsidered the idea at least a dozen times, and so has he, but this week the wallaces sat down for a formal interview. I get emails from time to time saying to me you're just like your father. And they don't mean it as a compliment.
[ Laughter ]
>> What does that mean?
>> They say go to cbS. Go to one of the big networks. Go to the mainstream media as if that were a foreign land. Do you understand why some people feel such disaffection dis affection disaffection for the mainstream media?
>> They think we're wild-eyed comies, liberals. Yes?
>> That's what they thinK. And how do you plead?
>> I think it's damn foolishness.
>> Really?
>> Look, you know as well as i, reporters are in the business because they want to be -- first of all, they're patriots just as much as any conservative, even a liberal reporter is a patrioT. Wants the best for this country. And people, you know, your fair and balanced friends at fox, don't fully understand that. And i can't believe that this is going on. This is not like a dinner table conversation.
>> I understand. All right. But you say and you have been saying it all week that dan rather should have resigned when his producer and his executive producer were fired over the bush national guard story with the fake memoS.
>> Right, righT.
>> Wrong.
>> Who does the research for and with you?
>> I have a teaM.
>> Right. And he has a team. Now, if your team, if your team were fired because of something that happened in a broadcast that you anchored, would you not think about, look, if you get the money, you get the attention, you get the kudos, and what do they get? They're paid a lot less. They're not on the air. They work like the dickenS. You're unpleasant to work for.
[ Laughter ] So -- so, you know, i simply asked rather in a very pleasant, civilized conversation in the bathroom. There was no shouting, as has been suggesteD. Come on, we're friendS.
>> Let's talk about the story itself. Some people, the people that have questions about the mainstream media, say rather and his team were so quick to believe the fake memos because they are so quick, as are a lot of people in the mainstream media, to believe the worst about george W. Bush.
>> Are you serious? You believe that they -- somebody on purpose failed to authenticate those memos? I mean, come on.
>> I think --
>> Do you buy into the fact that --
>> Now, this is feeling familiaR. I think they were quicker to believe it and, therefore, sloppier about checking it out than they would have been about john kerry.
>> I don't believe that for a moment.
>> All right. Let's talk about the book.
>> YeS.
>> Because what's amazing is all the people you have interviewed over the yearS. In the case of the middle east, everyone from begin to anwar sadat to the ayatollah khamenei. I want to show you clipS.
>> Do you forgive me, no similarity of purpose between the begin of 30 years ago and the yasser arafat of today? He calls you, his words, not mine, a lunatic.
>> When you say forgive me to a middle east leader, does that mean you're about to drop the hammer?
>> Frequently, frequently, that's exactly right. But i've got to tell you, begin, when i compared him, do you not see the difference between or the similarity between him and yasser arafat, i thought he was going to hit me. I mean, really. We got his attentioN.
>> Someone once said about you that mike wallace has an underdeveloped sense of other people's privacy, and as your son, I'm here to testify it is absolutely true.
>> Really?
>> YeS.
>> What have i revealed about you that upset you?
>> No, but i want to show you something. A few clips from interviews that you have done with celebrities over the years. Take a look.
>> You really believe in extraterrestrials? Have they come visit you on the porch?
>> Now you're being unpleasant, wallace, is what you're saying.
>> Yes, this is what I'm a little afraid of. You don't have to be that unpleasanT. It doesn't become you.
>> I stopped doing jokes immediately when people found out he was an alcoholic.
>> Of course, it takes one to know onE.
>> True. You're cruel.
>> Why do you do that?
>> Why do i do what?
>> Why do you sit there and say takes one to know one?
>> He's a drunK.
>> Why do you say to barbra streisand on national television, you know what your mother says, you don't have time for anyone.
>> These are interesting questions. Why are you asking? Because they're interesting questions. And what you do is or what I've succeeded in doing over a period of time is to get the attention of the person that I'm interviewing. I'm about to interview you, as a matter of fact. The -- look, i've --
>> Do you never say to yourself I'm going to embarrass them? I'm going to hurt his feelings?
>> No, no. I don't have subpoena powers. They know who i am when they come on. They know the kind of questions that i asked all my -- actually, I didn't start really asking questions until i was 38 years old. But -- and i had to do certain things. I remember before -- before you -- we lost your brother. I used to do all kinds of --
>> Commercials, cigarette commercials. Sent me to college.
>> That's correct. And I used to say i've got to raise the kids. Therefore, i'll do whatever I have to do. And after we lost peter, i said i can't hide behind that anymore, and what I'm going to do is in the memory of your brother, your older brother, peter, I'm going to do something that i am proud of doing and that he would be proud to have me do.
>> As you look over the whole career, all the places you've gone, all the people you've met, what do you make of of it? I mean, what do you make of myron leon wallace from brookline, massachusetts, having had this extraordinary journey?
>> It is extraordinarY. It is just -- i -- sometimes i can't believe it. Can you imagine talking to eleanor roosevelt back in 1957? This extraordinary woman, the eyes and ears and legs of her husband, franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1958, margaret saenger, the mother of birth control. You wouldn't be able to do what you do if it weren't for margaret saengeR.
>> Since i have more kids, i didn't do it often enough. I want to ask you a question, dad, in the book, and i didn't realize you asked it, you asked thomas hart benton, the great artist, in 1973, and I'm asking you, do you hate getting old?
>> Well, i tell you what. I had my hearing aids fixed today so that i could probably hear you.
>> Good.
>> I can't see as well. I used to be able to play tennis. I now have -- this has stopped me from smoking -- a pacemaker. Have for the last 15 yearS. Yeah, i don't like getting old.
>> And you don't retire because --
>> Because I love -- it is not work what i do. I love what i do. When I get up in the morning and I think i am going to have the opportunity to -- i wasn't that happy about waking up this morning.
>> I felt the same way.
[ Laughter ] Finally, you've been shamelessly pitching this week that you would like to do an interview with president bush.
>> Yeah.
>> Well, i have another idea for a target for your next interview. And the question is, what would you like to ask this fellow?
>> October 30.
>> Your grandson. What would you like to ask him?
>> He's a good looking kid, isn't he?
>> Yes. He takes after his mother.
>> That's right, he does.
>> Look at this guy. You've never seen this tape.
>> No, I haven'T. He moves around. That's a nice surprise. Bless yoU.
>> Well, it's a great book. It is a great life. I couldn't be prouder of both. And I love you.
>> I love you. And i'm proud of you.
>> After that, i had to remind myself there's no crying in sunday morning talk shows. Coming up,...
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