Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 29 January 2006 - Pres Bush on FTN!

Various big media television networks ^ | 29 January 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, January 29nd, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. John Thune, R-S.D.; Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind.; Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; former Commerce Secretary Don Evans.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): President Bush.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Dominique Dawes, Olympic gymnast.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : White House counselor Dan Bartlett; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; former President Carter; former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

[anita]

That show's host Eric is a liberal and Cal Thomas is campaigning to get into NYTimes.

Other Media Nuggets

###### New York Times fourth-quarter net earnings plunge 41 percent, hurt by a weak advertising environment.

###### WB and UPN will be merged into one broadcast network and named CW. This is not like 2 successful businesses merge. Instead of closing the losing one, they are trying make it look otherwise.

###### Media General's (owner of Richmond Times Despatch, Tampa Tribune & 23 others, also 26 tv stations) 4thQuarter earnings plunge 32%

###### Fox ratings suffer this year and received lots of complaints from viewers. Fox is shifting it's LA Bureau chief Trace Galleghar (host of "Only On Fox") to NY to fix anything necessary.

###### NBC spent 24 million for their new Series "The Book of Daniel. Being "anti-Christian program," several ProLife organizations warned airing it but NBC ignored. 2 weeks later, after several local affiliates refused to air & strong public disapproval, NBC cancelled the series. West Wing will not be renewed for loss of revenue too.

###### MTP gross revenue for 2003 was 327 million. The same projected for 2006 is 217 million. That 's just gross. Net income is less than quarter of that. GE board members questioning this tumble. Russert is showing his steady ratings lead. But political shows' ad.rev is decided by influence, which GE board is after.

[Mo1]

I suspect from the sudden appearance of digs at Hillary in the media that there has been some behind-the-scenes shuffling by old time dems to get her off the stage so that they might have a chance at gaining the WH

Don't forget the digs on Howard Dean by Matt Lauer and Tim Russert the other day about receiving Abramoff/client money

Something sure is going on in that Party

[Txsleuth]

Well...he is through flogging Frist..now comes the "political roundtable"...

which consists of 4 Bush haters and William Safire...who no one listens to...pfffffft

[Patriot from Philly]

Buchanan did a great job debating that Democratic strategist on MSNBC. They both agreed that Bush is doomed. What happened to our good debaters, are they refusing to go on MSNBC anymore because it's moonbat news and has so few viewers?

[Morgan in Denver]

Not sure if they wonder or not. They DO send people out to keep telling us how stupid we are because we distrust them, don't believe them, and should be voting for them.

[Kaslin]

They need to keep it up and they will be digging their holes deeper and deeper

[mewzilla]

Not all of them did .. David Gregory the suck up defended her

I'm sure that made Mrs. Gregory very happy.

[Miss Marple]

President on Face the Nation in my area.

[johnny7]

Don't believe that one iota... she's their girl.

When it comes to holding what's left of the 'old', Democrat party in 2008... HRC will be the one they choose. Warner, Vilseck & Richardson could never get the moonbats out'a bed on election day... and THEY and their money will be needed in order to win.

HRC is the only one from the DLC-wing the party that has that capability.

[Phsstpok]

Frist is absolutely awful on MTP. From the first moment I saw him I knew this was going to be a disaster. He was sitting on the very front of his chair with his arms propped on the table and was still rocking up and down nervously. He's toast.

And Russert has been arguing with him, not interviewing him. Tim is in his Carvillesque Democrat party attack dog mode. The hostility is ludicrous.

But it comes back to Frist being totally incapable of putting forward the basic arguments on almost any point that Russert raised. Almost every time that Frist started to reply I screamed "NO - don't accept his premise!" You lose whenever you let the other side set the terms of the debate. Things like "domestic spying" instead of "listening to terrorists international calls," or not immediately challenging Timmy's use of the phrase "blind trust" without qualifying that that term means you don't know how much of any stock you have, but you do know what stocks are there.

It's exactly like letting someone get away with asking "Will you agree to stop beating your wife? Yes or No?

Pitiful performance. Frist better refresh his surgical skills because he hasn't got a chance in the world of being elected President.

[Chgogal]

"which consists of 4 Bush haters and William Safire...who no one listens to...pfffffft"

Key fragment, "who no one listens to...."! :)

[Txsleuth]

David Gregory...even Bush is starting to be rude to him...and Bush just doesn't DO rude.

[Morgan in Denver]

Thanks! He will be on here opposite FNS. Rats.

[snugs]

Last week's awards

[mathluv]

'Did she just call us idiots?'

If she didn't, Ellen Ratner implied it, yesterday morning on Long and Short of it on F&F.

[snugs]

I think I recorded it to DVD will have to check and listen to that - thanks.

[Txsleuth]

I often wonder why these idiots, like Kerry and Hillary...who just bash, bash, bash everything that President Bush does...

don't think that would happen to them, should the be elected...

Perhaps they beleive they will get the same kid gloves treatment from the MSM that Bubba got...but, I dare say with the NEW MEDIA...

They would be in for a rude awakening about how they would be treated.

[Mo1]

What report from the WP is Russert reading about the wiretaps?

[anita]

Buchanan fears Bush will deal with Syria & Iran which he is against.

As for others appearing on MSNBC, there was a joke floating around - "If Bin Laden want to be found nowhere, he should be on any of MSNBC show debating something".

[A.Hun]

Doing an excellent job so far!