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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!

The Talk Shows



Sunday, June 4th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.; former U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Vice President Al Gore; author John Updike.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Rice; Blix; Sens. George Allen, R-Va., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
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To: MNJohnnie

Congratulations to all the wonderful winners, and thank you, Johnnie, for all that hard work.


821 posted on 06/07/2006 12:38:38 PM PDT by Bahbah (The Dream Act...the latest nightmare to be brought to you by the US Senate)
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To: MNJohnnie
Damn....... just damn.

;-)

Just kidding.....

822 posted on 06/07/2006 1:00:36 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Scientists Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
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To: beyond the sea

So Sorry. Many of you deserved recognition but the competition was so tough this week. I swear the thread gets better and better and better.


823 posted on 06/07/2006 1:11:52 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (I would rather be an Iraqi in a Hidatha guarded by Marines, then a subject of Al-Qeda anywhere.)
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To: MNJohnnie; rodguy911; Alas Babylon!; Phsstpok
FIRST - Phsttpok

He put in some long thoughtful posts this Sunday. Read them. Share them. They are worthy of your time.

#222 MNJ, I've been "studying on" your post #14 in the preview thread since you posted it and I wanted to put my response over here, on the Sunday thread, partly because I think your post and link are worthy of the attention they'll get here and partly because I think you may have hit on a new meme that has exploded on the web in the last 24 hours. I'm taking the liberty of quoting your entire post from the preview thread, but I would suggest that anyone who finds the points made as interesting as I did click on the link above and go read them as a contiguous post, without my interruptions below.

I'm also asking that a special merit award be given for your original post in the awards for today's thread. First, the link and video was great: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/05/31/haditha/index.html Video on lower right hand side of the screen. Called "Haditha Uncovered. Go watch it. Perhaps someone can explain to me the logical and factual flaws in the "Iraqi Civilian Right Groups" "story. How can these facts be logically reconciled with what the Iraqis, and some supposed Freepers, are accusing the Marines of doing? I think your analysis is spot on about this video: To Quote Time: "According to published reports, a number of Marines from the storied 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division are accused killing more than 20 Iraqi civilians in retaliation for the death of one of their comrades by a roadside bomb in November, 2005." Okie, 20 Dead Civilians. Which we are told were all shot thus supposedly proving "the Marines falsified the original report". So what could just be an honest mistake between a Marine's assumption on the spot of cause of death in his After Action Report (We didn't fire up the building, they were dead, must of been the bomb shrapnel) with a medical examiners report filed after a autopsies is NOW claimed by the accusers as"proof" that the "Marines Lied". Ok so the accusation is they were all shot to death at short range in a building that had not been penetrated by any rounds from outside. No bullet holes in the building, must mean it was not Collateral Damage but a deliberate act is the accusers claims. In other words the accusers claim the Marines shot to death the Iraqis inside the building as a deliberate act not an accident of war. In fact, Some are running around claiming a shrapnel wound is so obviously different that a Combat Infantry Marine would know the difference between the two. Leave aside the obviously question why would Infantry Marine would be examining the wounds of dead Civilians, lets assume, that is correct. Or to extend your comment, perhaps the particular people shot to death at close range weren't dead when the Marines filed their report, only later, when other "parties" showed up, such as insurgents an "Iraqi Civilian Right Groups" looking to stage an incident Ok, then how come the "survivors" as interviewed for CNN by the "Iraqi Civil Rights group" are making such obviously absurd claims on the video? "They burned the room with my father in it then threw a bomb"? Neat trick that. How they "Burn the room"? We don't use flame throwers. "Threw a bomb" but the accusers are telling us it all gun shot wounds. "a Bomb" inflict shrapnel wounds. Yeah, that bothered me a lot, too. Notice also the mannerism of the "children survivors". Having come thru what would of been the most terrifying event of their lives and being forced to talk about it again, yet the kids show no hesitation or emotion. Just a dull recital of supposed "Facts" as if they were reciting a story as an memorization assignment in School. Very strange that. Absolutely no real emotion, just a breathless recital of "Facts" Then when done speaking look over to the person standing to the right of the camera (You can see his shadow behind the kids). Sure looks like kids looking at a teacher to see how they did in reciting their "lesson" I'm not sure whether they've changed the video between the time you watched it and when I did, but narrator/reporter does pick up on this a little, including pointing out a discrepancy where the little girl, on the 3rd time through her story, says that she knew the explosion was going to happen so she covered her ears. He doesn't outright say that the people in the house (assuming she was anywhere near that particular house that morning) were involved in the bombing, but he clearly leaves that as one possibility. Perhaps they saw your post and are trying to clean up their presentation to avoid accusations of bias? Then there is the part where the "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" filming the kids told the Iraqi boy to "show his wounds". It must not of occurred to the "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" making the video to consider the Iraqi boy's supposed "wound". Apparently no one bothered to think about where he was "shot". The supposed "wound" supposedly inflicted by US Marines at point blank range, (as claimed by the "Iraqi Civil Rights Group)" is directly over his spine. Yet when told he got up and turned around for the camera to "Show his wounds"? If he HAD been shot there, he would be crippled for life, his spine severed just below the neck. So all this is being based on the claims of an "Iraqi Civil Rights Group" which are demonstrated to be lying. Since they lied about this, what ELSE might they have lied about? So maybe some one can explain these inconsistencies in the "witnesses" testimony? Some "Americans", especially in the Junk Media, maybe want to rethink their rush to judgment on these Marines The "bullet wound" directly over the upper part of the spine would almost certainly have left him a quadriplegic, if it really were a bullet wound. I have a very dear friend who has been in a wheel chair for over 30 years following an accidental shooting while he was an MP in Germany. His wound was about 3 vertebrae higher than this kids and the kid certainly wouldn't have been able to move his legs, if not all of his extremities, even if he survived such a wound. This is so obviously faked that I'm shocked that it hasn't made the front page of every paper in the world. But maybe that's changing. Not long after you posted on the preview thread a firestorm broke on Michelle Malkin's blog over a UK Times article and photo about Haditha: UK TIMES SMEARS OUR MARINES (UPDATED WITH RESPONSE). The Times had used a photo of dead bodies lined up against a wall, hands tied and obviously executed to illustrate their story on Haditha, titled "Massacre Marines blinded by hate." The small problem is that the photo was of local Shiite workers and police massacred by "insurgents" a few months before Marines are supposed to have commited the supposed "atrocity." This was first pointed out by Joe G. on his blog. Malkin gave it much wider exposure and a bit of a blogstorm started. Michelle even got a response to an email she sent the US editor for the UK Times and the offending photo and caption was removed, but no apology was forthcoming and it is being passed off as a "mistake." Mistake my ass! This is an all out assault on the US, the US military and the hated US Marines in particular. The psychotic left, who are so well represented in the drive by media, the so called "peace movement" and the modern Democrat party are trying to destroy this country's ability to defend itself because they view any such defense, regardless of cause, as illegitimate. And the more effective a person or institution is the more they hate it. Not hate as in dislike. Hate as in "they must not only die, they must be wiped from the face of the Earth and erased from history." We've all been talking about Bush Derangement Syndrome (BDS). Now we can add to that Military Derangement Syndrome and the far more virulent and specialized psychosis Marine Derangement Syndrome. And, as they usually do, they've allowed their psychosis to blind them to obvious flaws in these stories. And a bit at a time they're being exposed at it. Take Jason Smith's catch on the NRO Media Blog: BBC: Taking the Insurgents' Word For It (discussed on this FR thread). They've lost the "culture of corruption" attack angle with the William Jefferson and other dim scandals (despite the absolutely atrocious performance of Hastert and Boehner). They've fallen back on their supposed "great victory" of the Vietnam days and they're trying to recreate what they think they did back then. First, what they think they did that "worked" isn't what actually happened. Second, they were dealing with a conscript military who didn't have any idea of what they were doing or why they were there. This time they have to look long and hard to find such malcontents and they are usually exposed as either outright frauds, such as the lies told by the fake Ranger, Jesse MacBeth (several threads on FR, plus lots of blog comments blowing this one out of the water) or careerists who trained to fight tank battles in the Fulda Gap and lash out because they can't adapt to fighting a new enemy. And remember the New York Times "exclusive interview" with the Abu Ghraib "hooded man" who turned out to be a liar? Or the gift that keeps on giving, the Gitmo flushed Koran story from Newsweek? They're out of their minds, out of control and very rapidly descending to Air America levels of credibility. I'm beginning to think that, within a month or so, this whole thing is going to blow up in their faces completely. Something will happen, some incident that exposes without possibility of obfuscation their completely insanity, treason and agenda of hate. What frightens me is that, if that happens, we don't know what they might do. We've established pretty effectively that they literally are losing their hold on reason. They still have the ability to cause damage on a massive scale. Desperate people, particularly desperate insane people, are truly dangerous.<

#670 I have sent the following to MTP via their web page comment form: According to quick transcripts I've seen of your interview with Hans Blix you asked him "Did the WMDs go to surrounding countries." You then (according to these transcripts) accepted his comment "They were destroyed in 1991, that is what Saddams son-in-law has said, and I believe that is the truth." My question to you is are you aware of the following allegations from credible sources? 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. These accounts may be "dismissable," but you don't have the right to dismiss them without examining them in the open and presenting your evidence that they are not correct. I give you credit for raising the question to Hans Blix. I question your impartiatiality and, in fact, your honesty, in that you didn't present any of this evidence when you allowed Blix to dismiss all of these claims so casually. That is not journalism, sir, that is propoganda. Please prove me wrong. I'd really (really) enjoy it if you proved me wrong No inclusion of your screen name (though the link provides that). We'll see if we get a response (I doubt it). And my invitation to "prove me wrong" is intended to get him to show me that he is not a left wing propogandist, not to discredit this post. I realized after sending the comment that it could be taken that way. Sorry

#706. great link, thank you, and delacoert's about page is impressive, but I'm completely overwhelmed!!!!!!!! This is gonna take some time.... Also; #248, 271, 337, 351, 362, 371, 380, 393, 432, 474, 480, 483, 496, 504, 524, 545, 551, 564, 570, 579, 592, 600, 616, 627, 631, 646, 647, 650, 681, 692, 700, 706, 739, 790, 792


824 posted on 06/07/2006 1:21:16 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: MNJohnnie
I'm kidding. I made little to no contribution last Sunday.

You do a wonderful job!

825 posted on 06/07/2006 1:38:02 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Scientists Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
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To: Phsstpok; MNJohnnie; rodguy911; Alas Babylon!

826 posted on 06/07/2006 1:38:19 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: snugs

Hi, snugs. Peggy Noonan was just on Cavuto's show doing her "sense that something's bubbling" routine and yammering about a third party. Pfft. I am quite tired of her dramatics.


827 posted on 06/07/2006 1:38:22 PM 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

I saw a trailer yesterday of the program and made a mental note that I would not record that show today.


828 posted on 06/07/2006 3:29:38 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: MNJohnnie

I agree that the thread gets better and better each week and it is so hard to get through all these posts because so many have so many profound statements and great insight. I find that you have to re-read and then read again so many of the posts to fully appreciate the content and intelligence of the post. Next Sunday will again be a huge thread and many lurkers will become great top 10 posters. Intelligent insight begets more intelligent insight. Thanks for wading through all the posts, it is a yeoman's job, and will only get harder because of the quality of people that have been drawn to the Thread.


829 posted on 06/07/2006 3:43:14 PM PDT by samantha (cheer up, the Adults are in charge,but need Reserves really fast)
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To: MNJohnnie

Thanks for saving that transcript between Russert and Biden. I plan to refer to it often. Thanks for the honor of being in such great company as the Top 10! Such a great idea to collate so many great comments together at the end of each thread.

It would be interesting to see how many of the issues that pushed our buttons also became the talking points on each Monday's talk shows.


830 posted on 06/07/2006 5:46:08 PM PDT by maica (Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle --Abraham Lincoln)
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To: snugs; MNJohnnie; rodguy911; Alas Babylon!
Hoo boy.

Thank you very much.  I'm overwhelmed, but I'm also smart enough to understand that this isn't about me.

I've gotta say that I'm very proud of the work we all did this past week, and really pleased that a couple of my posts on this thread may have contributed a small part, as well. We haven't had the kind of blogstorm that happened with Rathergate (so far) but I think we've definitely seen a change in the dialog about Haditha, even in the MSM. We (FR, the blogs, etc.) have done a lot to call attention to the discrepancies and outright lies being perpetrated in the name of the political elite about Haditha and the other (apparently bogus) accusations against our troops.

We are not just a "peanut gallery" offering up our individual critiques.  Singly that might be true, but collectively, particularly with the community that we've built up here on FR and the "more specialized" team that has grown up around this Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread, we are a force for the good.  The post I am most proud of this week is 222, which is a direct outgrowth of MNJ's post #14 from the Weekend Preview Thread.  That's what we do.  We "revise and extend" each others work.  When necessary we correct each other, when we've missed something or when we've gotten bad data (as I have, frequently), but we also use each others posts as jumping off points for other information, tying together important data points, until we form a coherent picture with incredible strength.

Perhaps our greatest function, collectively, is as the "truth detectors" for the drive by media.  I've got to emphasize again the work done by MNJ, in dissecting the CNN (propaganda) video provided by the so called "human rights group" about Haditha.  I've never seen a more blatant example of outright bogus reporting in my life.  We're still working on the research on who and what they are and that work has truly astounding implications.  That original post by MNJ crystallized my thinking on the Haditha issue and really kicked me into a different place on not only that issue but many others.  I'm beginning to think we may now be in an "end game scenario" on a LOT of issues, whether we think so or not.  I think those who would oppose us see things this way and are pulling out all the stops, throwing all caution (and principles) to the wind. 

My sister and her husband (uber liberal Democrats in SF) announced proudly that they were going to a benefit event the other night with Al Gore's new film as the feature.  I realized when they told me that, in an astonishing revelation, that they thought I would see that as a significant event for them.  I have incredible respect for my sister, an award winning graduate of Harvard, and her husband, perhaps the top trusts and estates attorney in the US.  But they view these issues several sigma removed from reality and would be astonished if I questioned their orthodoxy.

That is our task.  We must question the irrational orthodoxy of the doctrinaire left.  They are descending into fantasy as more and more power slips away from them.  Their loss in Cunningham's old district is a "great victory."  They understand the pulse of the American people and therefore we must open our borders and kow tow to Al Qaeda.  If we only listen to their wisdom all will be well with the world.  These and many other fantasies are being pushed by the increasingly desperate left.  Our task is to observe and provide the rational critique of their ever increasing lunacy.

I'm honored to be a small part of that.

Again, thank you very much.

831 posted on 06/07/2006 7:02:07 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Phsstpok

Congratulations, Phsstpok...

Betcha I know what one of the memes will be on Sunday...


832 posted on 06/08/2006 12:35:19 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: Txsleuth
Thank you kindly.

I bet you're wrong on the memes if you think it's any of the following:

  1. The great success of the death of Zarqawi
  2. The rapidly growing pile of evidence that the "Haditha massacre" is a fabrication
  3. The complete defeat for the Democrat's "culture of corruption" campaign in the only district where it probably should have worked
  4. The obvious rejection of the amnesty bid by the voters in that same race

Other than those I think the field is wide open

;^> 

P.S. I'm going on yet another business trip starting Saturday (Boston for the Microsoft Tech Ed conference) and won't be back till next Friday.  I feel pretty confident that I'll be able to post the preview thread Friday night this week but I may be late posting it next week.  I think the odds are good that I'll be able to participate, at least some, from my hotel room on Sunday as the only thing I have to do all day is register for the conference I'm attending, but I'll probably be light (I'm on an expense account and I really hope I'll be able to make up for being sick in SF!!!!)

833 posted on 06/08/2006 2:21:31 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Phsstpok

If it is going to be too much to do the preview thread before you go...as much as we all HATED not having it a couple weeks ago...I think we could survive.

However, now that you have knocked all of MY ideas for the meme this week out of the park...I am very curious to see what you WILL put as the meme(s)....LOL

I betcha Meet the Depressed gets Kerry or Murtha, both of whom have come out today, and said that NOW we really need to set a date certain date to leave Iraq, asap!!!

I guess they figure that if we had left 6 months ago...like Murtha first proposed it...that Zarqawi would have dropped over dead on his own....pffffft

Have a nice trip...I will probably be on very little this week...I have to go "babysit" my 30 year old daughter again..her husband is going to Singapore or Thailand..I forget which...BUT, her computer sucks, and she doesn't have an "extra" TV for me to watch the Sunday shows..and my gr-daughter has HER shows that take precedence..


834 posted on 06/08/2006 2:39:56 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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