Posted on 03/10/2006 6:10:00 PM PST by Phsstpok
Saturday Shows
Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page
Sunday Shows
Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)
NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)
CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)
ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)
CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)
I would particularly ask that anyone with specific knowledge or resources about the topics / guests announced for these shows post them here so that the rest of us can go into the shows with a heads up on what to look for.
I'm not avoiding any of the articles. My sense is that most people will look at a couple but not a list or too many articles. That was my thinking.
I'll look through them as see what would have the most impact for the people here.
LOL!
SLacker!
(just kidding... I'm so ADD I barely make it through an entire story.. let alone a list of them... but I am WORKING ON IT! for the sake of OUR COUNTRY! I am trying....)
Yeah, yeah.... I'll just add you to the growing list of my slave drivers.
Who's on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics
For Sunday, March 12, 2006Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert leads with Senate Foreign Relations Committee members George Allen and... yes, Joe Biden. This one has early portents of 2008 for both candidates, and they will discuss Iraq and political stuff. Then General Bernard Trainor (retired) and Michael Gordon will be hawking their new book, which they claim will be the "inside story" of the occupation and invasion of Iraq.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace had Dunc Hunter and Mike Pence on to discuss what was done to the DP World deal. Pence opposed the deal, but Hunter did it with a dangerous passion.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer talks to Barack Obama, a.k.a. simply Obama. He'll discuss ethics reform legislation, 'cos he's the Dems' point man, US port security, and his 1-2-3-4, we don't need no stupid war in Iraq stance.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos chats with Bill Frist and Russ Feingold, another pair of 2008 possibilities, about port security and national security.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer will talk to Senators John Warner and Carl Levin about the death of the DP World deal. He'll speak with Howard Dean, maybe about Howard Stern, I don't know. I hope he leads with Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, and he'll also jump on the Kemp & Edwards bandwagon.
-----Allen and Biden (MTP) will be interesting just to see how Allen handles Biden. Both Hunter and Pence opposed the A-rabs on the ports, so we'll get nothing there. Obama's Obama. Warner (for) and Levin (grumpy) could offer some post-mortem insight on the ramifications of Congress' behavior.
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WELL!
There's ONE picture that I won't be showing my wife.
(I get into Plenty of trouble, all on my own, Without YouR help.)
Let's hope Allen is more adept at managing the spin. I really like him but he needs to be better at counterspining. Last time he really ticked off a few people by not being as forceful as he could in defending Cheney from the Libby smear job.
VERY GOOD...but, we need to send similar messages to Ken Mehlman also...he is in charge of getting those Republicans re-elected...
So HE might be in a good position to TELL all of them at once how badly they have been perceived during this whole Dubai ports deal....and their lack of open support for President Bush for over a YEAR.
EXCELLENT IDEA!
Btw....join us for Herman if ya can!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1594649/posts
Thank you for that...you are a generous person to post some other site's pre-view.
I thought (I stress THOUGHT) I heard on Fox today, that John Cornyn is supposed to be on with Chris Wallace tommorrow.. have you heard anything about that??
I hate to say this...because I do like George Allen...but, I don't think at this point, he is really great at thinking on his feet...
He seems kind of slow to respond, and on these shows, with only a few seconds at a time to answer questions, he doesn't have the time to formulate a good answer that gets right to the point...
JMO...that is where Mike Pence's history as a talk show host helps him....he is much more quick.
So far the first headline only links back to Drudge's main page, but the other links to the International Herald Tribune. It does appear to credit the NY Times. The two headlines are:
SADDAM'S WAR STRATEGY REVEALED IN NEW BOOK... DEVELOPING...
SADDAM'S ESCAPE ROUTE... DEVELOPING...
The cozy relationship between MTP and the NY Times when it comes time to promote one of their bash Bush books is getting a bit suspect, don't you think? I'm surprised they haven't had Kitty Kelly on recently.
I just listened to nearly an hour of a Russert interview with the author of Jawbreaker, Bernsten.
Most important:
1) Bernsten said the president is a good man, strong president and doing the right things to win the WOT.
2) Bernsten defended Rumsfeld and Peter Goss.
3) He is going to run for the House in NY as a Republican.
Russert asks Bernsten if Kerry was right that the operation to find OBL was outsourced in 2001 and 2002, the author says it was not outsourced and Kerry is wrong about that.
He also made a complimentary remark about Pete Goss and says he trusts him.
He just said he thinks the president is a good man and wants to win the war and he's strong and that's good because we have to face the Iranians. He wrote the WH to give them the heads up that we could have caught OBL but someone (he doesn't know who) turned down the operation.
He also says a lot of what the president has done has worked.
He's convinced that Mushareff wants to capture OBL, even if it's in Pakistan.
Bernsten: The war in Iraq did not distract us from capturing OBL. Mentions another book written by someone in the military and you could come to that decision, but he doesn't believe that we were distracted from Tora Bora in any way.
Bernsten went back to Afghanistan on behalf of Cofer Black in 2000. Bernsten had been learning Persian. This was pre 9/11 in order to gain intel on AQ. The plan was to identify the location of key AQ leaders.
Russert: AQ blew up stuff in the 90's and so they were on the radar of the CIA pre 9/11?
Bernsten: There was a report in 2000 or 2001 (I couldn't capture it) that OBL was aware that CIA was in the region and the operation was aborted. None of the agents were concerned about the reports and begged Washington to let them stay in the region and DC didn't permit it.
Russert: Ports question about UAE. There's a report that princes from UAE were hunting with OBL and attempt to kill OBL was called off.
Bernsten: Wasn't in charge of that operation but he's heard of it. Lack of recognition of how dangerous OBL was. Names the terrorist attacks in the 90's and how we didn't respond. We were given lots of signals of impending catastrophe and we didn't respond. The Iranians interpret that as weakness now. Iran believes we aren't strong enough to deal with them. We have to demonstrate we mean business.
Russert: Cole. Neither Clinton nor Bush dealt with it.
Bernstein: Stunned me.
Bernstein: Republicans and Democrats have to stand together against Iran. People in the world believe that this president says what he means and means what he says.
Iran needs to see leaders of the Democrat party standing with the president on this.
We have the ability to deal with Iran. 2000 pound bunker busters.
Bernsten: We need Muslim Americans who have distinguished themselves in the WOT to help with translations.
We have 1,000 FBI officers in NYC. We probably don't have that many in the entire Middle East!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Russert: Everything I've read says you are the most valuable CIA agent but that this is the book the CIA doesn't want you to read.
Bernsten: The CIA has lost their minds. A lot of the info they tried to take out of my book, they'd briefed already for Woodward's book Bush's War. Many former directors have written books and I wonder if they'll give Tenet the same treatment they've given me. The paperback edition may be able to be written without the redactions. They took out open source information.
I didn't reveal sources or methods. The director of operation is the most important body in defending us in the WOT. I want people to recognize how important this is and to step up and join us in the CIA. I plan to get involved in politics. As a Republican. In the House. Not the Senate.
BERNSTEN PLANS TO RUN FOR CONGRESS AS A REPUBLICAN!!
Bernsten: We need national unity and we're in the fight for our lives. We have to recognize that a small group of people can cause catastrophic results.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1594715/posts?page=1
We have had two threads already today about McCain....but, check this one out gang!!
Will read it in a bit.
Txsleuth - I'm waiting until Monday to do that activism thread. Need to get some thoughts together and people don't pay a lot of attention on weekends.
Okay...thats great...it will give me more time to think if ways to help...
I told eeevil today...after she posted a letter she wrote to one of he congressweinies...that we should be carbon copying these letters and sending a copy to Ken Mehlman..because HE is the one that is in charge of getting these people reelected...so he MIGHT want to know what is being said and thought about his candidates...
Also...he would be able to speak to a bunch of them at a time...and pass on our concerns.
I heard him on Tony Snow's show the other day...and I think that he is a very sincere, earnest guy..that would want to know, don't you?
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