Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 14 May 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 14 May 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, May 14th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Laura Bush; author Mary Cheney; columnist Art Buchwald.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former House speaker Newt Gingrich.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House national-security adviser Stephen Hadley; Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.

THIS WEEK (ABC): First lady Laura Bush; Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Joe Biden, D-Del.; actress Reese Witherspoon.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Hadley; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Abdul-Illah al-Khatib, Jordanian foreign minister.

[samantha]

John Kasich used to be a down to Earth,responsible,Midwesterner,deficit hawk. He has not been the same since the Gary Condit thing and then his Marriage, and the birth of his twins, coupled with his job in finance in NY, and substituting for BOR. He used to be Boyish and Smart and pragmatic, now he acts like a democrat, mean,nasty,interrupting,overbearing,caustic,insulting. I have no idea who he is anymore,but he is not the same john Kasich that we were familiar with in the House. He is so overly aggressive he acts like his testosterone is in double overdrive, and he has no outlet but the TV Camera and his opinion. Scarborough was also buddies with Condit, and has gone to the very dark side. Maybe he is not getting any sleep, he became a Dad very late in life and he was probably used to sleeping in. With twins one person cannot handle it so he was stuck I am sure. I cannot watch either one of them and with their attitudes now, I am glad they are not in the Congress now.

[Txsleuth]

GREAT POST...and of course you are very correct.

My husband's best friend is from Mexico...and he was in Vietnam, the same time as my husband was...he has two grown children...

He has never become a citizen...has his "green card"...but, he just says he never got around to it...his children are Americans...he speaks perfect English, talking to him on the phone, one wouldn't even know he was Mexican.

I am sure there are a LOT of immigrants just like him.

[cardinal4]

Worst of all is the The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRAIRA). Under this law, deportation can be suspended if the illegal alien can prove that they have been in the US 'for a considerable period of time' and has 'good moral character'. Illegal aliens who fall under this are given the opportunity to apply for whatever work visa or asylum they may work for.

A Clinton signed bill requiring good moral character. I could cry..

Excellent post, SC, as always..

[Arizona Carolyn]

I watched it this morning, I thought she did very well.

[A.Hun]

Stem the tide, report employers, and implementing a strict assimililation program, would be a good start. This program would require ENGLISH to be learned. No medical services except emergencies, for free, they pay like the rest of us, no voting, no holding office, any crime results in deportation, NO ANCHOR BABIES, photo id must be obtained, and no welfare benefits after 6 months..

You have earned my vote! Nothing but common sense here, and all of it attainable. Bravo!

[samantha]

Sadly it is all true, and the Media ignored it then and now.

[defconw]

First run for me, I was working. Mary Cheney up next. Chris Wallace is morphing into a person I actually kind of like. LOL

[defconw]

We MUST have the transcript of that for 2008.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Chris Wallace is either a very good newsperson or he isn't his father's son.

[defconw]

Mary's mannerisms are very much like her dad's. Wow.

[defconw]

LOL, he looks like his dad but takes after mother? LOL

[A.Hun]

I don't think name calling on either side is productive -- calling people Bushbots or Buchananites is equally insulting (IMO).

I try not to use Buchananite as an insult to anyone, but I believe it is appropriate used in a general term. It describes a lot of posters political orientation.

I wish Bushbot was the worst I have been called.... I understand your point though. FR has been divided badly since Meirs, and there is a portion on each side that goes too far.

I certainly don't want to turn this thread into an immigration one.

[sgtyork]

How do we get hundreds of millions to pay taxes and put license plates on their cars? With enforcement and with incentives.

How did Mexico export all of these people? With incentives - bad incentives.

There were incentives that brought the population that is now here. We have to change those incentives. It won't work overnight, but we organize our society with incentives this is one more area where we need to agree to modify the incentives to more appropriately meet the needs of (Primarily) our fellow American citizens (especially the poorly educated and low skilled who are losing jobs to illegal aliens and those who are victims of crimes by violent immigrants), (Secondarily) those who seek to immigrate to America but are held back by bad laws and bureaucratic indifference and hostility, and (Thirdly) the illegal immigrants themselves who are risking their lives in a desert crossing and being exploited here.

With the subtle actions of incentives, the will of the majority (not "the ACLU, La Raza, the Catholic church, the Dems, and the illegals who will demonstrate in even greater numbers") can be enacted.

[Arizona Carolyn]

It seems that no matter where you go these days it is the topic of coversation. I haven't seen anything divide the country like this since Nixon or the Vietnam war.

[cardinal4]

I certainly don't want to turn this thread into an immigration one.

Amen..

[A.Hun]

I am sure there are a LOT of immigrants just like him.

There are, millions of them in addition to the 12 million illegal. Many are no less an American than I am.

[Morgan in Denver]

Love the description. Great images to enjoy this evening.

The media is stuck on stupid. Yeah that's getting old, but true. The media still has the mindset from after Vietnam when Democrats ruled the earth. It's just taking a long time to convert or replace them. As new reporters are hired, and with Republicans holding the House and Senate, it will get easier every year. I believe this is why they are so unglued and crazy today. The media and the Democrats know each year Republicans control the agenda and government, they become more and more irrelevant.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Incentives. That is a great word. When you have to work for something you appreciate it when you finally earn it. When something is handed to you, do you really appreciate it's value as much as when you really had to work hard to attain whatever you wanted?

Somehow I think working to become a citizen -- like learning English, waiting your turn, etc. -- is much more valuable in the end than sneaking in the dead of night. If you or I wanted to move to Australia, wouldn't we have to prove we would be worthy of becoming a citizen of that country? Heck, if one of us wanted to move to Mexico, legally we have to prove we are self sustaining.

[cardinal4]

As new reporters are hired, and with Republicans holding the House and Senate, it will get easier every year.

That and the embedded reporters growing up to be anchors. They have seen how it really is, and will be more objective than a Gregory, Rather, or Couric..

[A.Hun]

I have seen a lot of reasonable people dig in....I have gotten angry and said things I really didn't mean.

The debate is so polarizing you find yourself defending things you really don't want to defend, just because of the heat of the argument.

Isn't Democracy grand!!