The Daily Talk Show Thread(IV)

TV, Radio and the Internet | Various members of the Pajamahadeen

[McGruff]

This thread is meant to be a place to discuss all of the daily Talk Radio and TV News shows that don't have their own daily thread. If you want to comment on something but don't think it deserves a separate thread, post it here. Any radio or TV shows may be commented on. Want to rant about IMUS, Matthews, O'Reilly. Feel free to vent your anger here.

We have a daily ping list. if you would like to added or removed Freepmail me.

Here are links to the previous issue of this thread.

The Daily Talk Show Thread

The Daily Talk Show Thread(II)

The Daily Talk Show Thread(III)

I have created a backup board if Free Republic is down here which hasn't been happening much lately thanks to the fine work of the FR team.

[SuzanneC]

You didn't know it was "Hardball Plaza"?

[Springman]

malia, just heard on ABC radio news you had an earthquake. Hope all is well!!!

Tx, Kinky Friedman wants to legalize casino gambling. Trust me, it ain't worth it!!

My wife was robbed, when she was a bank teller, by a guy who was behind in his casino tab.

[malia]

I had not heard - 4.3 deep in the ocean off a little Island.

[YaYa123]

"Hardball Plaza" .... I thought that was in New York City, but with Chris Matthews hard selling his show, I bet he "self-brands" every place he goes.

Oh Lordy! David Schuster is hosting MSNBC's "First Look". Usually there's an anchor babe in the early am chair. David's duds defy description: A black striped gansta suit, with wide lapels, gingham checked shirt, and a butt ugly, (I've never seen anything like it), purple paisley-like tie. I wonder if Fashionista Schuster gets a wardrobe allowance?

[YaYa123]

Fun Friday News on Cynthia McKinney

"Less than two weeks before the Democratic primary run-off election, polls are showing trouble for at least one incumbent candidate.

A poll from Insider Advantage shows incumbent 4th District U.S. Representative Cynthia McKinney trailing challenger Hank Johnson by more than 20 percentage points – with 47 percent of respondents supporting Johnson, and only 23 percent saying they support McKinney. 30 percent remain undecided in the poll.

Pollster Matt Towery says the number of undecided voters could still change the final outcome of the election.

McKinney’s camp had been quiet since election night, but now she has picked up some key endorsements.

Former Ambassador Andrew Young and several DeKalb County pastors came forward to say they are supporting McKinney in her bid to keep her Congressional seat.

“I am not saying, in any way, shape or fashion, that I have lost support,” McKinney said. “What I am saying, is that we have a double whammy before us.”

During a rally at a Decatur restaurant on Thursday afternoon, she received endorsements from various religious leaders who say they are tired of the division and support her.

“Use your one vote to tell everyone that we will not be split; we will not be compromised. But we will do what is necessary to put this vessel, this prophet of God back into her seat,” said supporter Collette Gunby.

Then it was McKinney’s turn to address the crowd. She talked about her problems with the Bush Administration and her issue with Georgia’s open primary system, and the Republican crossover vote, which she says hurt her election night. Finally, she talked about her well-publicized run-in with a Capitol Police officer last spring, which she says played no role in her ending up in a runoff.

“That issue is gone,” said McKinney.

Then she unveiled a radio endorsement from Young that started running on local radio stations on Thursday.

With just a little more than a week to go until the runoff, McKinney says her focus is on turn out, and making sure her core supporters get to the polls.

McKinney faces Johnson in a debate on Monday.

But Johnson isn’t waiting for that debate to get his platform across. The former DeKalb County commissioner spoke out on Thursday about McKinney's endorsements and her claims about Republican cross-over votes.

Johnson has spent the last nine days since the primary meeting the people of the 4th District.

“I started campaigning seven months ago, and that's the reason why we made the runoff – (It) is because people want to see us represent this district and they know that we're not about controversy. We're about solutions and not politics," Johnson said.

Johnson says if elected he plans to improve transportation in the district."

[McGruff]

This is your daily ping for Friday July 28, 2006.

Imus's Guests:

6:29am - Rep. J.D. Hayworth,
8:29am - Rep. Harold Ford Jr.

Not listed was Barnicle Boy who was on at 7:30.

I missed the J.D. Hayworth interview, but it sounds like it got a little heated. The Imus show is having technical difficulties today because of a severe thunderstorm they had yesterday and it's put Imus into a foul mood. I know how can you tell when Imus is in a foul mood. He's alive.

Interesting discussion on Fox and Friends about bombing the Iranian embassy in Beruit. Apparently the Israelis have intel that Hezbollah's #1 guy is hiding out there.

[McGruff]

David Schuster is hosting MSNBC's "First Look"....

I turn on that show at 5:30 each morning to get the latest anti-Bush World news. Shyster's shirt and tie must have been picked out by his kids! I'm surpised they didn't play that clip an comment on Imus's show. I thought to myself does he have no dignity to be giving the 5:30 AM news update. His career must be in real jeopardy.

[Carolinamom]

Now that she's in trouble in the run off, I wonder if Cynthia McKinney will show up for the debate THIS time.

[Bahbah]

Ford, Jr. is telling us that, with respect to embryonic stem cell research and gobal warming, some have subordinated science to ideology. I think that lots of education of the public is needed on both these issues.

I don't know if you saw it, but early on MSNBC had a window open on the corner of the screen with a lady doing sign language to help Imus out with his communication difficulties. LOL. Pretty funny, I thought.

Oh, good grief, Ford, Jr. thinks we should give some consideration to Biden's idea to divide Iraq into 3 parts. Ford is such a little weasel.

[malia]

Watching the "Mideast Turmoil" on Fox has certainly brought back the morning of Sept 11, 2001.

Listening and watching David Lee Miller early yesterday morning and this morning report on the firing, and watching him duck away from being hit is like watching his reporting after the planes hit the Trade Center. I will never forget that morning and one particular interview he had with a 'man on the street' with the billows of smoke and ruin all around.

I pray for all their safety -- Dana Lewis, Mike Tobin, Greg P. and David Lee Miller. And the ones not mentioned.

[YaYa123]

One of the most blatant racist is Don "Harold Ford, Jr. can walk and talk at the same time" Imus. I've never seen a white man be so condescending to a black man and get away with it. "Harold is so bright, such a great congressman" ..it's embarrassing to hear Imus praise this barely mediocre member of Congress, and the Memphis Ford crime family being so highly praised because they're black. As for dapper Harold, Jr., if he were a white southern congressman, Imus and Bernard would be doing gay jokes about him.

And Imus has become such a whore for MSNBC...it's downright funny to hear his repeat over and over "Olberman is killing O'Reilly". Today Imus really outdid himself though, when he started pimping for one of MSNBC's oldie goldie crime documentaries. Lord have mercy, I think he called it "riveting", and I think it was up against Greta's show. MSNBC has thrown some timeslots down the toilet, but Imus didn't seem to get the memo.

But I love watching Imus...it's like a private club for people who can't resist looking at a trainwreck waiting to happen.

[McGruff]

Imus. I've never seen a white man be so condescending to a black man...

If Bill Clinton is the first black president, Imus is the first black talk show host. Ironically some of the comedy skits they pull on that show are Amos and Andy level of comedy.

he started pimping for one of MSNBC's oldie goldie crime documentaries...

LOL, according to Imus they get better ratings than their "live" programming. This weekend you can see their Time and Again and Again... reruns of interviews with Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks,... while the whole world is blowing up on CNN and FNC.

Here's the story Fox and Friends was discussing first thing this morning.

Hezbollah leader said to be hiding in Iranian Embassy ^

Posted by Perdogg On 07/28/2006 9:43:35 AM EDT · 17 replies · 319+ views Washington Times ^ | 07/28/06 | By Bill Gertz Intelligence reports indicate the leader of Hezbollah is hiding in a foreign mission in Beirut, possibly the Iranian Embassy, according to U.S. and Israeli officials. Israeli military and intelligence forces are continuing to hunt for Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah's secretary-general, who fled his headquarters in Beirut shortly before Israeli jets bombed the building last week.

[McGruff]

Glad to see people are finally coming around to my point of view, Time to get rid of Abdul Shepard Smith Fox News propagandist for Hezbollah!

And here's some comedy relieve for your friday. Did Bush Jets Influence Hurricane Katrina?.

[YaYa123]

Khaibar-1 Rockets

I can't find anything about them online, but Hezbollah is firing them, and has hit south of Haifa. Seems to me Israel must go whole hog now. Or am I the only one who feels they aren't already?

[McGruff]

Looked who popped up out of his spider hole on some lefty website.

Armitage Fears Bombing Campaign Will ‘End Up Empowering Hezbollah’

Richard Armitage dramatically broke ranks with his neoconservative allies yesterday, saying in a radio interview that he feared it was impossible to eliminate Hezbollah through airstrikes, and that by attempting to do so, “you’re going to end up empowering Hezbollah, and perhaps introducing an element into the body politic in Lebanon that will take some great period of time to recover from.” Armitage also criticized the Bush administration for refusing to talk directly to Syria.

According to a database search, no major media outlets have yet printed Armitage’s remarks. Listen:

Armitage was Assistant Secretary of Defense under President Reagan when the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon was bombed in 1983, and served as second-in-command at the State Department under President George W. Bush. In 1998, he signed the Project for a New American Century letter to President Clinton urging regime change in Iraq.

The Bush administration has thus far “giving a tacit blessing” to the escalating Mideast violence. During crisis talks in Rome yesterday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice bucked the “entreaties of nearly all of her European and Arab counterparts” to push for a ceasefire.

Full transcript:

NPR: You were an assistant secretary of defense back in 1982, when a peacekeeping force was sent into Lebanon, a multinational force stationed there but ultimately forced to withdraw. Talk to us about that, and what we might draw from that.

ARMITAGE: It was a very troubled time, actually, and sooner rather than later we became involved — or were seen as taking sides — in someone else’s civil war. And ultimately we lost 241 Naval and Marine personnel.

NPR: In the bombing of the…

ARMITAGE: Yes, in the October ‘83 bombing.

NPR: Are there parallels between that peacekeeping force and now?

ARMITAGE: Well, I remember with stunning clarity one of our Israeli interlocutors sitting in my office, telling me that, “Don’t worry about this peace in Galilee operation. We understand our neighbors very well. We understand them better than anyone. We know all the dynamics of the situation in Lebanon.” And that turned out not quite to be the case.

I suspect that people in government now are also hearing that from Israel. Don’t get me wrong — if I thought that this air campaign would work, and would eliminate Nasrullah and the leadership of Hezbollah, I think it would all be fine. But I fear that you can’t do this from the sky, and that you’re going to end up empowering Hezbollah, and perhaps introducing an element into the body politic in Lebanon that will take some great period of time to recover from.

NPR: An element into the body politic that as yet we do not know?

ARMITAGE: I think we do not know. And we’re not, as far as I’m concerned, using all the levers that we have, such as having the Secretary of State talk to the Syrians. I think they want to get involved. I think they want to become more central to a solution, and you might as well give them the opportunity. If they step up to it, fine. If they don’t, we’ll know them for what they are.

note: None of the highlighting is mine.

[malia]

"ARMITAGE: I think we do not know. And we’re not, as far as "I’m concerned, using all the levers that we have, such as having the Secretary of State talk to the Syrians. I think they want to get involved. I think they want to become more central to a solution, and you might as well give them the opportunity. If they step up to it, fine. If they don’t, we’ll know them for what they are".

Why would that would have been a bad thing?

[YaYa123]

Chris Matthews must not be able to get Armitage on Hardball, so he's reduced to asking reporter Richard Engel questions about "the big picture". Like:

"Will Rice talk to Syria?". " Can there be a corridor to allow supplies to get to the people who need it?" Young reporter Engle, now Chris Matthews' resident expert!!!

And then, as usual, Matthews has to hype himself with his signature namedropping, with "You know Richard, last year I talked to King Abdullah of Jordan..."

Don't you wonder when Matthews will join the other "journalists" in the warzone?

[YaYa123]

Frank Gaffney, former under Sec under Reagan is trying to talk slowly and in single syllables to an idiot monkey man, Carlos Pascual former State Dept official, who thinks we can talk Hezzbolah into some kind of agreement. Gaffney isn't laughing at this big eared dreamer, but almost. And surprisingly, Matthews seems to agree with Gaffney.

[YaYa123]

In case you missed HARDBALL when Frank Gaffney and liberal idiot monkey man Carlos Pasqual, debated the Israel/Hizzbollah war, you can watch it here. (after you wait through a short commercial).

Unbelievable to find out Pasqual was in Bush's State Dept, no doubt a Clinton hold-over. His idiocy is brilliantly refuted by Frank Gaffney.

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=093bec9c-ce0b-4553-b8f1-c200461ce9cc&p=Source_Hardball&t=c1150&rf=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/&fg

[McGruff]

If you haven't seen this you must.

Behind the Scenes of a ZOT!

And my adaptation of it.

All Your Base Are Belong To Us Mods.