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.
I think the WH have dug themselves into such a deep "control the message" hole that the MSM will never let them get out of.
LOL You're right!
Yah, really! This Wilson/plame-blame-game smells more every day.
Why isn't Kristol fighting back for the truth instead of sitting on his butt, like most of the other "Conservative Pundits",; whining "Why doesn't Bush fight back".
Not Bush's job, that IS the job of the Conservative Pundits. Bush's job is to be President of ALL the people, not just the Conservative Punditry. When are they going to get off stupid and start fighting for the Movement's agenda? Frankly sick of this non stop whining from the Conservative Punditry. Funny how the SAME people who whine about "Bush is raising Bill Clinton stature" now want him to raise the stature of every liberal Senator by engaging them in a debate on the war. They LOST this fight in 2002 and 2004. If they want to lose the same argument again in 2006, I say "Let's get out of their way".
With apologies to Bernie! even that dead Criminal has more class and integrity than Ted Kennedy..
Tony Snow mentioned on his radio show last week that he has a source in the WH who told him to expect the WH to come out fighting very soon. Hope it's true. The facts are on their side; they need to bring those facts directly to the people.
Morning. I've already threatened rodguy911 with one way tickets to MN if he doesn't shape up.
Well if that doesn't shape him up, nothing will.
How about Ice Fishing!!!
Bill did thank Chris for not showing when he was wrong.
Brit Hume just said essentially the same thing. Kristol said that one of his collegues has been begging to release some information, but the WH has been holding them back. Things may be about to turn around, and they really need to.
This is also the same group that trashed Harriet Miers. So they can accomplish something with their writings. Why the hell don't they use their power more often to get the truth out instead of bitching that the WH doesn't? Sheeesh
Chris interviewed his dad, Mike Wallace. If Mike Wallace tells the court in Los Angeles the truth next year, Hillary is toast. Wallace knows that Hillary spoke with Gary Smith on the phone and negotiated lowering the fee for Smith's production work for the gala fundraiser for Clinton in the 2000 Hillary senate campaign. She had the fee lowered to 800K. It will prove her complicity in allow three fraudulent FEC reports to be filed.
Watergate playbook: The vice-president was removed first, replaced by a congressman (Gerald Ford.) Then, they went after Nixon.
These modern libs are trying to "remake" Watergate. We know that "remakes" are rarely the successes that the originals were. The libs are living in the past and in denial. Not a strategy for success.
Maybe Sen. McCain could check in with his buddy Sen. Schummer to make sure we're still using the soft touch on this monster in New York?
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 7, 2004
SCHUMER SECURES VAN, AMBULETTE, HOME UPGRADES FOR NYC FEDERAL PRISON GUARD PARALYZED AND BLINDED BY BIN LADEN AIDE
Federal prison guard Louis Pepe was stabbed in the eye by top Bin Laden aide in 2000; Was booted from Federal court during terrorist's sentencing in early May 2004
Two years of Schumer pressure on Feds yields big results; Yesterday, Pepe was able to use new ambulette to visit dentist for first time in five years
US Senator Charles E. Schumer announced today that his office has secured badly-needed Federal help for Louis Pepe, the Federal prison guard who suffered brain damage, partial paralyzation, and partial blindness after a former top aide to Osama bin Laden stabbed him in the eye when Mr. Pepe was working at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
After two years of pressure from Schumer's office, the federal Workman's Compensation board is finally helping the Pepe family, and yesterday Pepe was able to use a new ambulette Schumer secured to visit dentist for first time in five years
"When I heard that Louis Pepe, a hero and one of the first victims of al Qaeda terror in the United States, was being denied his federal benefits, I had just one thing to say - not on my watch" Schumer said today. "Louis Pepe is a credit to all prison guards, to his family and to his country, and the last thing I was going to do was stand by while some bureaucracy denied him the help he earned."
Four years ago, Louis Pepe, a federal security guard, was assigned to a high-security wing at the Metropolitan Correction Center (MCC) reserved for some of the most dangerous international terrorists being held in federal custody including several alleged al Qaeda operatives. On November 1, 2000, Pepe was brutally attacked by Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, a former top aide to Osama bin Laden who was awaiting trial on charges that included attempting to purchase nuclear weapons components.
Salim used hot sauces purchased in the prison to temporarily blind Mr. Pepe and then thrust a sharpened plastic comb three inches into Pepe’s left eye, resulting in severe brain damage, partial paralysis, the loss of his left eye and the loss of 60 percent of the vision in his right eye. Notes later found in Salim’s cell indicate that the attack may have been part of a plan to seize hostages in an effort to break out of jail.
Salim still faces trial and a possible life sentence on conspiracy charges in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. Salim has also said he attacked Mr. Pepe to try to get the prison keys and stab his two court-appointed lawyers waiting in a nearby conference room, so that the judge in the terrorism case would be forced to appoint him new lawyers.
At the time of the attack, Pepe weighed 300 pounds and was a member of the elite sqaud assigned to the high security wing called the MCC Enforcers Disturbance Control. After dozens of operations, Pepe has lost more than 100 pounds and remains partially paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. While working at MCC, Pepe used his $47,000 a year salary to help support his parents. He now receives only 2/3 of that salary under worker’s compensation in addition to Social Security payments and the Pepe family now struggles to pay for his heath care costs.
On May 4, 2004, Salim was sentenced Monday to 32 years behind bars for stabbing Mr. Pepe. At the time, US District Judge Deborah A. Batts ordered Mr. Pepe removed from the courtroom after several outbursts. As he was taken out, he shouted: "I'm dead! You understand that? I'm dead!"
In May 2002, Schumer's office learned from Mr. Pepe's family that the federal Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP), a division of the US Department of Labor, was dragging its heels in providing aid for which Mr. Pepe qualified as a former federal employee severely injured in the course of his work. Specifically, the Pepe family sought help with upgrades to Mr. Pepe's living quarters like widened interior doors to accomodate a wheelchair and bathroom renovations, and a help with transportation so Mr Pepe could more easily go to his many doctors appointments. Schumer's office immediately began a long process of inquiries and pressure on the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs to provide Mr. Pepe with the help he needs.
Yesterday, Schumer received confirmation from Office of Workers' Compensation Programs that they have approved the modification of a wheelchair-equipped van for Mr. Pepe's use, and have already secured two bids on the project. (Federal acquisition rules generally require government agencies to get at least three competing bids for a project before one can be selected.)
The Office of Workers' Compensation Programs also told Schumer that they have approved upgrades to Mr. Pepe's home, and have also secured two bids on that project.
And the Office of Workers' Compensation Programs has already approved use of an ambulette for Mr. Pepe to use to travel to and from doctors appointments. In fact, Mr. Pepe's family reports that yesterday (Tuesday, July 6) Mr. Pepe was able to use an ambulette to visit the dentist for the first time in five years.
"Most of us dread going to the dentist, but for Louis Pepe it was the kind of thing that he dreamed about for years. After all Mr. Pepe has gone through, it's good to know that sometimes a faceless bureaucracy can have a heart," Schumer said.
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I have some doubt that Wallace will last into next year. I don't think he is well. His faculties are certainly failing him.
I heard Tony say that and now Brit saying the same thing. I pray it's true. In fact, I'm on my way mass, and I will definitely pray for President Bush and this country.
The President does have his priorities. Last week was the SCOYUS appointment, an initiative against a possible pandemic and the Latin American economic conference.
All that now done this should be the week the Empire Strikes Back.
I hope.
How will Mike Wallace's feet be held to the fire if he DOESN'T tell the truth?
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