Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 12 March 2006

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, March 12th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Reps. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and Mike Pence, R-Ind.; opera singer Placido Domingo.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. George Allen, R-Va., and Joseph Biden, D-Del.; retired Marine Gen. Bernard Trainor and Michael Gordon, chief military correspondent for The New York Times.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.; Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Russ Feingold, D-Wis.; political satirist Art Buchwald.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad; Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John Warner, R-Va.; Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean; former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.; former Rep. Jack Kemp, R-N.Y.

[samantha]

I did not mean for the Bashers to apologize, they are still making excuses why they chose Chuckkie/Unions over The President and common sense. They will never see themselves uninformed and bigoted on this issue. I wanted all the freepers that do not have the Bias against all Arabs,and that are mortified and saddenend by how we all in America have been painted. I could say it in two or three sentences. It could be a huge thread kept up for a few days, and then downloaded and sent to the UAE Ambassador. We freepers are serious about Security, but we do not look under our beds for Arabs that may or may not be Radical Muslims that hate us and want to see us destroyed.

[Huck]

LOL! thanks!

[Txsleuth]

HOW could the Congressweinies have heard from their constituents that fast..and with those constituents having the whole story???

I was on the fence, waiting for the information to come out...so I could make up my mind...but while I was sitting on that fence, I was watching Jerry Lewis put a Stop the ports deal in a Supplemental Bill to supply our TROOPS...USING them..to get his way!!

HOW did that inform me??? How did Lewis or his constituents know all the facts by then??

All eeeevil and I are complaining about is the "process" that the detractors used to quash the deal...after demanding that Bush give them 45 days to check it out...

How can we trust them to make reasoned decisions in the future about anything, if we can't trust them to keep their word that they will wait for a review before making up their minds??

[MNJohnnie]

Would it do any good if I said yes?

[La Enchiladita]

I read many of Prince of Cups posts. That was part of my research.

But, sadly, Johnnie I learned after awhile to skip most of yours. There's no way you and I can have a meeting of the minds.

[OldFriend]

FNC has gown down the drain.

[Huck]

I didn't see it, but I don't doubt that the laughter was genuine. I was referring to the applause at the end. If there had been applause at the end of a press conference--you now, David Gregory and that whole crowd--it would have been remarkable. But when you visit an organization, like all those people that go to the National Press Club, they applaud at the end, as a courtesy. My impression is that this was akin to that. Doesn't mean the speech didn't go over. I'm sure it did.

[eeevil conservative]

ROFLLLL!!!!!!

no- cause then you would want me to go ice fishing!

I cry when I get cold and it is NOT PRETTY!

[OldFriend]

Everything in your panting over hannity was wrong, including the fact that he's a joisey guy.

[Huck]

knee jerk criticism and unthinking anger at the Republicans

I agree with you. I don't put much stock in either of those things.

[Txsleuth]

Well, both Homeland Security and DOD already have a seat at the CFIUS table...so, okay....let's tell them to make sure that they communicate better with the POTUS/CIC better, before signing off on deals..

BUT, Frist was calling for "changes" to make Congressional oversight part of the process....I know that..because it made my ears perk up when he said it...

I am SURE his dem colleagues will applaud that idea...and President Bush will NOT.....LOL

[Phsstpok]

Intro to the Sunday review on RedState.COM:

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - Review

By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics

Sunday, February 12, 2005

This was an odd week. Joe Biden declared on MTP that the Iraqi insurgency has "nothing to do with terrorists." Host Tim Russert conceded, in a question to Biden, that Saddam did in fact possess WMD. He asked Biden if he would have voted for the war if he knew at the time that "there were not significant levels of weapons of mass destruction."

Biden also quipped that as the Administration talks of drawing down troops in Iraq, the only difference between their plan and Jack Murtha's is "the timing."

On TW, Russ Feingold said he was going to introduce a measure tomorrow to censure the President for "thumbing his nose about the American people" in regards to the NSA terrorist surveillance program. Bill Frist came on next and accused Russ of attacking the President instead of al Qaeda.

On FNS, Dunc Hunter and Mike Pence were all over the DP World Ports Deal, but they defended the President as the victim off being poorly served by his advisors. Dunc bragged that he had investigated the ports deal for the President. Also on FNS, Chris Dodd promised that the Dem agenda was coming out in fits and starts.

On FTN, Barack Obama said basically that the Democrats had to do a better job of dumbing-down their message so that the American people would understand it. Later, host Bob Schieffer asked Mike Huckabee if General Pete Pace had been lying last week when he told Russert that things were going "very, very well" in Iraq. (AcademicElephant treated this line last week.)

On LE, Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad had just emerged from a meeting with Iraq's leaders about getting serious, resolving their issues, and forming a government. This could be the best news we've heard yet this year. Later, Jack Kemp demanded a "date certain" for withdrawal from Iraq.

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[Morgan in Denver]

I can understand the sentiment.

The problem, as with other issues, is where does one draw the line? It's hard to get everyone to agree on what constitutes friend or foe, supporter or detractor. Must one agree 100% of the time or is 80% enough?

For example, I support Israel and most of what she does to protect Israel. I'm not Jewish but simply support Israel's position in the world. But, I am unwilling to put Israel's interests over my support for the USA. So, whether or not an Arab country recognizes Israel or not is not something that would influence my support or nonsupport. Yet, supporting Israel was used over and over to justify opposition to the DPW deal.

Another one. William Kristol and the neo-cons want more international relations for the US. Pat Buchanan and the paleo-cons are more isolationist and want to stop much of our international relationships. I can see valid reasons for both approaches but neither is totally correct from my perspective. Again, a line has to be drawn that I can live with and support.

But, with all that being said, the animosity from both sides was unfortunate.

[Txsleuth]

HMMMMMM...are you saying that Freepers that were PRO-ports deal don't care about America first?

[Seattle Conservative]

Here's what Frist had to say on Steffy's show today about FG's censure of Bush:

Frist: Feingold Censure Talk 'Dead Wrong'
NewsMax ^ | 3/12/06 | NewsMax

Posted on 03/12/2006 11:42:12 AM PST by wagglebee

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist tore into his Senate colleague, Russ Feingold, on Sunday, saying the Wisconsin Democrat's plan to introduce a resolution of censure against President Bush in a time of war would give aid and comfort to America's enemies.

"Russ is just wrong. He is flat wrong. He is dead wrong," Frist fumed on ABC's "This Week," minutes after Feingold announced his censure plan on the same show.

The top Republican complained: "As I was listening to it, I was hoping deep inside that the leadership in Iran and other people who really have the U.S. not in their best interests, were not listening because of the terrible, terrible signal it sends."

Asked if he thought Feingold's censure resolution "actually weakened America abroad," Frist told "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos, "Yes.

"We are right now in a war, in an unprecedented war - where we do have people who really want to take us down . . . So the signal that is sends, that there is in any way a lack of support for our Commander-in-Chief, who is leading us with a bold vision in a way that we know is making our homeland safer, is wrong."

The Tennessee Republican warned that Feingold's resolution will prompt "leadership around the world of our sworn enemies to say, 'Well, now we have a little crack there.'"

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595072/posts

[eeevil conservative]

you are a genius!

thanks for that post!

[Txsleuth]

Sounds like what President Bush calls the bias of low expectations to me.

[beyond the sea]

LOL! thanks!

That's what I'm here for. Some FReepers are wise and are aces........... I'm mostly a mere joker.

[La Enchiladita]

Politicians are usually behind the populace, to say the least, due to the bureaucracy of the Congressional beast.

This was a rare time when the voice of the people had a hot line to their representatives.

That's how I see it. You see it differently. And so it will remain.

I will concede that the brinkmanship was not pretty, probably not the result that Americans wanted but the ultimate reneging of the deal was.

What to do about Congress? It's an uphill battle, but we can envision ourselves as being like our troops and borrow some of that warrior spirit.

[eeevil conservative]

I need duct tape.....