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Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 4 June 2006
Various big media television networks ^ | 4 June 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

Posted on 06/04/2006 5:26:04 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

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To: OldFriend

Morning Old Friend, welcome to the fray.

I'm interested to learn what Mr. Blix has to say as well.


21 posted on 06/04/2006 5:45:47 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: Alas Babylon!
Russert comes into this sunday's Media Nuggets

###### Tim Russert gave a telephonic interview to Deborah Soloman for NYTimes Magazine on Mother's day - Saying nothing about his mother (inspite of pressing repeatedly), complaining about Fox on Air Force One & whining about Bushies dissing MTP - Russert's image didn't come up well. MTP boss was angry, ran to Wash.Post & whining that the interview was "misleading, callous and hurtful" to him.

###### Paper of Fiction - "Mr. Paulson and other executives expressed little interest in taking the post. ... They couldn't get someone from Wall Street because nobody wanted the job" -> per NYT-WH Reporter granting anonymity to secret sources inside WH. Within 2 days Mr. Paulson resigns as chairman of Goldman Sachs & stands with the Prez. accepting nomination as Treasury Sec. :-) The same reporter is still covers WH.

###### When unemployment is 6-year low(4.6%) with booming economy, Wash.Post is in doom and gloom -> 70 reporters, editors, photographers, newsroom employees & 100 employees outside the newsroom will be out of their jobs. Wash.Post acknowledges that Circulation has decreased in recent years. As misery loves company, Wash.Post points out they aren't alone & NYTimes, Tribune and other dailies face the same burden as them. Experts say that Wash.Post's biased reporting is the reason for it's sinking circulation & earnings.

###### Associated Press's chief political writer, Ron Fournier was famous for predicting the wrong results since Bush elected. He is not in AP anymore and quitting political reporting for good.

###### Ketchup Queen Heinz' 4Q Profit Fall, Plans to cut 2,700 jobs & exit 15 plants this year.

###### Da Vinci Code backlash? -> Films from MGM will no longer be distributed on video and DVD by Sony instead chose 20th Century Fox. Sony will lose $25 million to $30 million by this decision.

###### Profits are plummeting at Time Inc. Sports Illustrated and Fortune are suffering steep declines in advertising pages, while namesake title Time is seen as in danger of becoming obsolete.

###### New Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke WAS sympathetic to journos. Not anymore. After his private conversation with Maria Bartiromo was deliberately leaked, taking cue from his WH experience he CANCELLED the Fed Fourth of July party with Washington's A-list reporters permanently.

###### Fox News Business Channel could launch as soon as this month. [Who will take-over Cavuto's time now?].

###### Media shareholders alert! - Associated Press , NYTimes, LATimes, Wash.Post, and ABC News are paying $750,000 to Wen Ho Lee as settlement fees for not revealing the name of Clinton admn. official who slandered the scientist. NYTimes faces another big libel suit from Stephen Hatfill in anthrax slur.

22 posted on 06/04/2006 5:46:41 AM PDT by anita
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To: Morgan in Denver

We also need to pay attention to George Allen and see how he does against Wolf Blitzer.


23 posted on 06/04/2006 5:46:48 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Morgan in Denver
Blix has been out and around warning the US not to be threatening Iran.

Guess it will be more of the same from him.

Corrupt to his core.

Am about to start the book about the UN by the FNC reporter.

24 posted on 06/04/2006 5:47:20 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I predict the shows don't mention one word about Iran.

Hot Topic of choice: Haditha


25 posted on 06/04/2006 5:48:05 AM PDT by FreedomNeocon (Success is not final; Failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts -- Churchill)
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To: Miss Marple

Looks like the Marple household is in need of a second computer and a wireless network.


26 posted on 06/04/2006 5:48:09 AM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: Miss Marple

Agreed. I hope Allen does well this morning. He needs the positive image.


27 posted on 06/04/2006 5:49:41 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: anita

I would be happy if the business block on Saturday morning moves to another Fox channel. It has deteriorated into uninformed political commentary and has little to do with business as such.


28 posted on 06/04/2006 5:50:02 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: snugs

The Marple household needs other things, too. We are facing putting new windows in, and so a computer will have to wait until a bonus check arrives from Mr. Marple's boss.


29 posted on 06/04/2006 5:51:14 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Miss Marple

Here's a second vote on your theory.


30 posted on 06/04/2006 5:51:16 AM PDT by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: OldFriend

I admit it's hard to watch Blix, just as it is Kofi Annan. When he's on it all I can do to listen and not yell.


31 posted on 06/04/2006 5:52:27 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: freema

Well, if I am right an indictment or devastating article should be arriving in the next couple of weeks, at which point I will claim credit for my reading of the tea leaves. HA!


32 posted on 06/04/2006 5:52:43 AM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Laverne
MTP looks like must-miss tv today

Biden & Blix? Now THERES a balanced program.

33 posted on 06/04/2006 5:53:26 AM PDT by DoctorMichael (A wall first. A wall now.)
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To: snugs

Good morning.

When Hans Blix and others start talking about how the administration lied and there were no WMD in Iraq, remember this:


Last month Moshe Yaalon, who was Israel's top general at the time, said Iraq transported WMD to Syria six weeks before Operation Iraqi Freedom began.

Last March, John A. Shaw, a former U.S. deputy undersecretary of defense for international technology security, said Russian Spetsnaz units moved WMD to Syria and Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.

"While in Iraq I received information from several sources naming the exact Russian units, what they took and where they took both WMD materials and conventional explosives," Mr. Shaw told NewsMax reporter Charles Smith.

Retired Marine Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong was deputy commander of Central Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. In September 2004, he told WABC radio that "I do know for a fact that some of those weapons went into Syria, Lebanon and Iran."

In January 2004, David Kay, the first head of the Iraq Survey Group which conducted the search for Saddam's WMD, told a British newspaper there was evidence unspecified materials had been moved to Syria from Iraq shortly before the war.

"We know from some of the interrogations of former Iraqi officials that a lot of material went to Syria before the war, including some components of Saddam's WMD program," Mr. Kay told the Sunday Telegraph.

Also that month, Nizar Nayuf, a Syrian journalist who defected to an undisclosed European country, told a Dutch newspaper he knew of three sites where Iraq's WMD was being kept. They were the town of al Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria; the Syrian air force base near the village of Tal Snan, and the city of Sjinsar on the border with Lebanon.

In an addendum to his final report last April, Charles Duelfer, who succeeded David Kay as head of the Iraq Survey Group, said he couldn't rule out a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria.

"There was evidence of a discussion of possible WMD collaboration initiated by a Syrian security officer, and ISG received information about movement of material out of Iraq, including the possibility that WMD was involved. In the judgment of the working group, these reports were sufficiently credible to merit further investigation," Mr. Duelfer said.

In a briefing for reporters in October 2003, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper Jr., who was head of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency when the Iraq war began, said satellite imagery showed a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria just before the American invasion.

"I think the people below Saddam Hussein and his sons' level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse," Lt. Gen. Clapper said.

You haven't heard much about these reports, because they contradict the meme that Saddam either had no WMD, or destroyed it well before the Iraq war began.

A man who had been deputy chief of Saddam Hussein's air force claimed Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war began.

Special Republican Guard brigades loaded yellow barrels with the skull and crossbones sign on each barrel onto two airliners from which the seats had been removed, Georges Sada said. There were 56 flights in all.

The captured files of the Iraqi intelligence service, still mostly untranslated, could shed light on what did happen to Saddam's WMD.


34 posted on 06/04/2006 5:54:09 AM PDT by Peach (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: Miss Marple

Completely agree with you Miss Marple, it is nothing but a shouting match. Even more agravating, it's promotion with clueless wordings.


35 posted on 06/04/2006 5:54:37 AM PDT by anita
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To: FreedomNeocon
Looks like it will be both, at least on Timmy's show. Here's the topic summary from the Meet the Depressed website:

"How will allegations that U.S. Marines killed innocent Iraqis in the town of Haditha affect the American effort to win over Iraqis' "hearts and minds"? How soon can we expect a drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq? And looking toward Iran, can diplomatic incentives help curb the country's nuclear program? We will ask potential 2008 Democratic presidential candidate and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: Joe Biden (D-DE)."
36 posted on 06/04/2006 5:55:37 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (DemonRATs- the CULTURE OF TREASON!)
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To: Morgan in Denver
Since I had a visitor from Denver for five days, it was wonderful to keep the computer off for the most part.

Kept my blood pressure down too!

Am sick of all the bloviating from both sides.

37 posted on 06/04/2006 5:55:58 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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To: Miss Marple
As I am Miss Marple I often wonder when politicians have to address that body do they often feel the same but Political Correctness means they have to pretend otherwise.

By the way did you see the photos I put on the dose of Laura addressing the UN on Friday?

And talking to John Bolton

And of course for all the men out here a photo of Barbra

U.N. General Assembly during the High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS at the United Nations in New York June 2, 2006

38 posted on 06/04/2006 5:57:02 AM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: Morgan in Denver

Found this on FR this week on Katrina. Don't know what was going on at the time that it got so few posts but the information on Katrina is pretty good if anyone is interested.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1589978/posts


39 posted on 06/04/2006 5:57:28 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: Peach

Good morning Peach. Once again you are at the ready with inconvenient (to the media) facts about Iraq's WMD.


40 posted on 06/04/2006 5:58:34 AM PDT by OldFriend (I Pledge Allegiance to the Flag.....and My Heart to the Soldier Who Protects It.)
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