The Sunday Show Lineup
By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics
For Sunday, June 4, 2006Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert talks to (EXCLUSIVE!)... Joe Biden. Then he chats with Hans Blix about his UN WMD Commission.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, then to Lindsey Graham and Jack Reed about Haditha.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer ask questions of Secretary Rice with the help of time mag's Mike Duffy.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Al Gore about that weird movie. I hear it's a cross between a drunk professor's lecture vid and John Waters's Pink Flamingoes.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks to Secretary Rice, Senators George Allen and Carl Levin, Hans Blix, and his cast of thousands.
~~~~~It's Condi Rice week, which adds some sanity and enjoyment. Hans Blix? I thought he had died. Carl Levin and Jack Reed are generally miserable in disposition, but Lindsey Graham and George Allen will have things to say: Allen because he's running for President, Graham because... well, he always has something to say.
If I can sit through Gore -- half-maniac/half-dullard -- we can call it a bonus, but the review of the shows will be here at RedState early Sunday afternoon.
(14 comments, 14 new) Comments >> Jun 3rd, 2006: 14:49:07
He has two comments I love:
Hans Blix? I thought he had died
Gore -- half-maniac/half-dullard
Those are keepers. And his review of AlGore's "movie" is a riot.
Don't forget; half man, half bear, half pig! Manbearpig!
The Sunday Show Review
By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics
Sunday, June 4, 2006On Meet the Press, Tim Russert asked Joe Biden the questions he must have wanted to be asked, phrased in the way that Biden wanted them phrased. Not all of the questions even had valid predicates, and this resembled an early Biden '08 commercial. Joe Biden needs the boost.
On FNS, Secretary of State Rice spoke highly of British Foreign Minister Margaret Beckett and her explanation of the "two tracks" for Iran. She also said that she expects Iraq to settle on a Defense Minister and an Interior Minister "in the next few days."
Also on FNS, Lindsey Graham called the incident at Haditha, if proven, the "kind of thing that happens in every war." Jack Reed said that it was indicative of a larger problem, implying that our troops were plundering in the manner of JEN-jiss Khan™.
Call Naomi Wolf! On TW, after reverting to his pedantic monotone, abandoning his recent psychotic rants, Al Gore said he would make no "Shermanesque statement."
I missed CBS' Face the Nation this week, as it was pre-empted locally by a Children's Miracle Network Celebration telethon. Schieffer and Mike Duffy interviewed Condoleezza Rice.
On LE, Wolf Blitzer asked Secretary Rice why she had offered direct talks with Iran if they would abandon their nuclear enrichment program. He wondered why she didn't demand that they stop supporting terrorism, and she explained that the overture was in the context of the enrichment program only. It wasn't a restoration of relations.
On LE, George Allen indicated that terrorists strike where they have in the past, while Karl Levin charged that the U.S. had made payments to the families of the Haditha victims.
Read on for the show-by-show review.
(2 comments, 2 new, 3242 words in story) Read Story & Discuss Jun 4th, 2006: 11:33:17
Well, this is a pretty damning comment:
On Meet the Press, Tim Russert asked Joe Biden the questions he must have wanted to be asked, phrased in the way that Biden wanted them phrased. Not all of the questions even had valid predicates
And this seems to be an emerging attack point that the administration is already trying to hit back on:
Secretary of State Rice... also said that she expects Iraq to settle on a Defense Minister and an Interior Minister "in the next few days."