Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 16 April 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 16 April 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, April 16th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Mark Everson.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Joan Chittister, executive director, Center for Contemporary Spirituality; Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor, Tikkun Magazine; Jon Meacham, managing editor, Newsweek; Seyyed Hossein Nasr, professor of Islamic studies, George Washington University; Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, editor, First Things; Joel Osteen, senior pastor, Lakewood Church.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and Sen. George Allen, R-Va.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Evan Bayh, D-Ind.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Samir Sumaidaie, Iraqi ambassador to the U.S. ; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.; former Secretary of State Kissinger; retired Army Brig. Gen. David Grange; Rev. Jerry Falwell..

[Semper Paratus]

What about Good Friday?

Schools are out. Many businesses knock off before noon, but it's nothing official.

[kabar]

Don Rumsfeld is the youngest and oldest SecDef in history, therefore, ipso facto the most experienced. He is no stranger to military matters having served in the U.S. Navy (1954-57) as an aviator and flight instructor. He was in Navy Reserves for 18 years and retired as a Captain (O-6). Rumsfeld was also U.S. Ambassador to NATO in Brussels, Belgium (1973-1974).

Rumsfeld understands how Washington works from various perspectives. He has been the White House Chief of Staff, and served four terms as a Congressman.

Don Rumsfeld is no stranger to running a large organization aside from DOD. From 1977 to 1985 he served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and then Chairman of G.D. Searle & Co., a worldwide pharmaceutical company. The successful turnaround there earned him awards as the Outstanding Chief Executive Officer in the Pharmaceutical Industry from the Wall Street Transcript (1980) and Financial World (1981).

Rumsfeld served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Instrument Corporation from 1990 to 1993. General Instrument Corporation was a leader in broadband transmission, distribution, and access control technologies. Until being sworn in as the 21st Secretary of Defense, Mr. Rumsfeld served as Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences, Inc., a pharmaceutical company.

I haven't scratched the surface of Rumsfeld's impressive resume, which is replete with outstanding management and executive performances.

Rumsfeld, unlike most of his civilian predecessors, is not just a figurehead deferring to the military. He is actually in charge, which must be upsetting to some. He makes decisions after consultations. Again, Rumsfeld has a long and distingusihed record as a manager and executive in the government and the private sector. Now suddenly, he is a browbeating tyrant who doesn't know how to manage people and resources. I just don't buy it.

[tiredoflaundry]

It most certainly is.

[Semper Paratus]

He is actually in charge, which must be upsetting to some.

Must have been a big shock after that empty suit RINO from Maine.

[tiredoflaundry]

Like I said a bit up the thread, "agendas are more dangerous than WMD."

[rodguy911]

Hard to image especially after Gen Sada did an hour interview with Monica Crowley on WABC.

[johnny7]

Noodln'... LOL. Watch out for the toxic barbs on those big cats. That's 'oddball' fishing in the Xtreme.

I've heard of people fishing for big gar or paddlefish using a bait made up of loose, twisted fiber... with NO hook. The teeth of the gar get enmeshed with the fibers and they can't get loose.

[snugs]

What Kristol is not taking into consideration either is how dreadful a confirmation hearing what be for the President and the Republican Party.

I cannot think he has not thought of this it must be that either he thinks that the general public are too thick to realise this or that he knows that is is so unlikely to happen it does not matter.

[Fury]

A Happy Easter to all!

I though the name of Sr. Chittister sounded familiar. Did a little research and this sounded familiar. From The Nation in 2001:

"Arguably, the best known is Sister Joan Chittister. A fiery orator and prolific author, this 66-year-old Benedictine nun made international news last year when she refused to obey a Vatican order forbidding her to speak at an international conference in Dublin on the ordination of women. Chittister made her decision in the face of Vatican threats of "grave penalties," which could have ranged from excommunication to expulsion from her monastery in Erie, Pennsylvania. "The Church that preaches the equality of women but does nothing to demonstrate it within its own structures...is...dangerously close to repeating the theological errors that underlay centuries of Church-sanctioned slavery," she told the emboldened crowd at the gathering."

see http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020819/bonavoglia

[rodguy911]

Not too surprised to see Kristol back to his normal Bush bashing subtle tirades again.He is pathetic.

[OldFriend]

This was the morning guy. On from 6am to 10 am.

[kabar]

Exactly, where were the generals when Clinton and Cohen were gutting the military? Where were the generals when Aspin refused to send armor to Somalia costing 19 American lives and wounding 75 others? This is all political. It is being led by Zinni, who is upset that his war plan wasn't followed.

[rodguy911]

Happy Easter AP.

[samantha]

I think you just made the Statement of the Year. "If we listen to the MSM we will never know the truth about what is going on anywhere". That says it all. Everyday the media reports not actual news but Democrat Talking Points and they spin and backtrack when they are caught. Thanks to the New Media we are catching them more and more and allowing more innocent everyday citizens to see their duplicity with the DNC. The last two years has been especially informative to those that work too many hours to really know what is going on outside of a misinformation sound bite by the Drive By Media. Now they are finding out the real story and are rejecting the MSM/DNC.What I find really amazing is that people can makes sense of anything the MSM/DNC says because it is so convoluted and they keep changing the story as they get called on for their lies. I wonder if their Children ever ask them "what they Heck is the real story Dad/Mom?"

[eeevil conservative]

he understands alright...
he loves McCain....anything he can do to snipe at Bush without looking like a Lib...even though he still looks like a lib when he does it anyway....

he makes me ill...his little cross the arms thing like "ha! I am brilliant so just eat the spoon I give you" irks me!

[OldFriend]

600,000 dead in the Civil War.

With a tiny proportion of the population we have now.

With so many Americans so ignorant of our history, they are prey to the media's misrepresentations and outright lies.

[rodguy911]

We would neverrefer to you OldFriend

[maica]

From today's Steyn column:

You know what's great fun to do if you're on, say, a flight from Chicago to New York and you're getting a little bored? Why not play being President Ahmadinejad? Stand up and yell in a loud voice, "I've got a bomb!" Next thing you know the air marshal will be telling people, "It's OK, folks. Nothing to worry about. He hasn't got a bomb." And then the second marshal would say, "And even if he did have a bomb it's highly unlikely he'd ever use it." And then you threaten to kill the two Jews in row 12 and the stewardess says, "Relax, everyone. That's just a harmless rhetorical flourish." And then a group of passengers in rows 4 to 7 point out, "Yes, but it's entirely reasonable of him to have a bomb given the threatening behavior of the marshals and the cabin crew."

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It is obvious that the Fox panelists who are for appeasing, cajoling or ignoring the threat from Iran, need to read this and memorize it!!

[OldFriend]

It is clear that the MSM reports directly from the DNC fax line, talking points included. You can hear the same few words being used by every single one on the left.

Other than Brit Hume, we have no one to actually discuss issues and report FACTS.

Which is why the lefties on the other stations rip at Brit every chance they get.

[Rokke]

"It is being led by Zinni, who is upset that his war plan wasn't followed."

And who was, by the way, deeply involved in our operations in Somalia.