Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 5 February 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 5 February 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Gen. Michael Hayden, the principal deputy director of national intelligence; House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Boehner; Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Jeff Sessions, R-Ala.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Gen. Michael Hayden; Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; Afghan President Hamid Karzai; former interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi; Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi ambassador to the United States; Pittsburgh Mayor Bob O'Connor; Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels.

[samantha]

I think you are right, having a bunch of little kids by an older guy that is slightly bipolar (like being slightly pregnant) is a terrible burden to bear. You never know if he will kiss you or kick you, and she is already known to have abused Prescription pain killers that were not even hers. We have not been in his home, we have only seen the schizoid behavior of Mccain on Camera. If I recall he dumped his first wife for Cindy after she stayed with him faithfully during after his POW status.

[rodguy911]

Great stuff her Laverne, I heard part of mtp and was thoroughly disgusted with fat tim's performance, hope to see FNSunday at 6 tonight.

[Mo1]

Russert was being intellectually dishonest in his questioning to Specter and sounded like the looney kos kids

He was making accusations on information about the wiretapping that he has no proof of

I'm glad Specter pointed out that Congress has a history of leaking ... I just wished he mentioned the Judge that quit the court shortly after the NYT came out with this article


As for Russ Feingold .. seems he is a Kos Kid also


Pre-1776 Mentality
by Senator Russ Feingold
Thu Feb 02, 2006 at 08:58:01 AM PDT

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/2/2/10581/84829

[Revererdrv]

I am also avoiding certain political liberal shows.
It is hard to watch nonsense over and over again. I am able to predict, now, what certain Democrat operatives will say. These shows are all about using silly advertisements targeting silly liberals. These shows are not about providing "food for thought" to anybody who is serious about politics.

[Mo1]

As I remember it, the MSM was all excited about so many young supporters meeting a plane that was coming in late. In an interview, one of the kids said someone called their frat house and said "free beer" and the rush was on to get out to the airport

I rememeber that

[cardinal4]

Im just curious, is Boehner Catholic?

[Phsstpok]

"I can remember when 'discriminating' was a nice word."

I can remember when it was OK to sing a Christmas Carol with the words "don we now our gay apparel."

Heck, I can remember when it was OK to sing Christmas Carols!

[Morgan in Denver]

Thanks Mol. Glad my memory is still intact. I just know we kept laughing over the MSM gushing over all the young McCain supporters and comparing McCain to Howard Dean's attracting the younger voters.

[johnny7]

Whenever the MSM refers to 'what the blogs are 'sayin'... they mean DailyKos.

Whenever they refer to right-wing hate-speech... they mean us & Rush Limbaugh.

[p23185]

Mostly correct. However, during the 1990s, the Dept of Defense budget actually DECREASED. It is the only part of the Govt that ever actually gets CUT, not just a reduction in the rate of growth.

The Toon peace dividend after the Repub won the cold war and the RATS wanted to decimate the DoD for the sake of social programs since Defense was no longer anyones concern.

[MNJohnnie]

Don't you think that Barone reads the internals of these polls The only way to think Reps are in trouble is reading the polling data. Given he thinks the Pubbies are in trouble, I suspect he is not sifting out the garbage from the polling data. He also isn't apprently looking at the Congress Critters. People hate Congress in general, but LOVE their own guy. Very few Congress Critters have approval numbers in their states uunder 50%. Out of 100 Senators only 16 are under 50 and NO ONE is under 40%. That does NOT indicate high level of voter disastisfaction with their Congress. I suspect what we will be talking about Nov 8th is why it was such a good year for the political status quo.

[samantha]

I understand your point, but unless you are in the media the chances are you will not come across on these programs very well. You have to know the bells and whistles and the director's signals etc otherwise you may sound rambling, or tongue tied,dumb struck and otherwise ridiculous. Someone like Tom Sullivan is a Businessman that handles Investments and portfolios and he has his own talk show, and subs for Rush and he is Conservative. He would be my choice for one of the substitutes we are talking about,but sadly you will never see him on any of these shows.

[Morgan in Denver]

Just keep in mind, the Peace Dividend talk started during the George H. W. Bush four years. With a Democrat congress, but it still started under Bush 41.

[Carolinamom]

Boehner is impressive to me because he does not waffle. I am so weary of Republican politicians speaking so carefully that whatever they say does not register or offend dems.

I like what he said about full disclosure of campaign contributions...if that were in place, there would be no need for any other campaign finance laws.

[snugs]

It is just something I have noticed in general with American news programs that they tend to have more media types on them than we do in the UK.

On a news type program we often have a businessman or someone from the city.

[Phsstpok]

great catch

I love Victoria Toensing and her husband Joe diGenova. They are always some of the best sources in these types of disputes. I love it when, in the middle of an argument with some left wing flack, one of them (particularly Victoria) will trot out "well, I wrote that part of the law, so I know what it really means."

Devastating.

Her ability to bring real world and practical examples to this discussion, particularly framing the issue as FISA being a central part of the problem that kept us from "connecting the dots" before 9/11, should turn this whole controversy from one of "what did Bush do wrong" to "how quickly can we string up the Democrats for the way they have made us vulnerable to attack." And they are still trying to do the same thing (with help from clowns like Arlen Specter).

[rodguy911]

Great post here.

I was really upset about the pubbies who poo-pooed GW's state of the union speech, I thought it was terrific and deserved all of our support.

[Mo1]

Thanks Mol. Glad my memory is still intact. I just know we kept laughing over the MSM gushing over all the young McCain supporters and comparing McCain to Howard Dean's attracting the younger voters.

If I recall also ... McCain got some heat because many of the college students were under age for drinking

[Morgan in Denver]

Just saw Boehner on FNS. He did fine. He even admitted his golf 6 handicap will probably suffer in the future.

Boehner said he's one of eleven kids, and their father owned a bar. So, he HAD to learn about social issues. LOL Yeah, I'll bet he did. Up close and personal.

[rodguy911]

showing where the slimes stands on nat. security--on the side of the terrorists.