Posted on 06/18/2006 5:26:52 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, June 18th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): White House press secretary Tony Snow; New Democrat Network President Simon Rosenberg; former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; Shell Oil Co. President John Hofmeister, ConocoPhillips Corp. Chairman James Mulva, Chevron Corp. Chairman David O'Reilly.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Snow; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
THIS WEEK (ABC): L. Pre-empted for World Cup coverage.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Snow; Sens. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
I am wondering if Rocky is laying low...not just because he maybe in trouble for leaking...
But, remember when he went on TV a while back and admitted that he went to several Middle East countries..to warn them that Bush was going to attack Iraq, even before Bush announced it??
He may have gotten in trouble for letting THAT out, also...I don't remember seeing him on any show since that interview...
God only knows, but someone will. Heck, Dan Rather sat down with someone from the NYT one day last week, or so I've heard. No mention about whether or not they made an offer, but if someone from the Slimes is willing to discuss it over lunch, ...
In any other field besides the media or Dim politics, a person who had had as many spectacular, public failures and instances of flat-out lying as Connie Chung or Rather would be an industry joke, blackballed in HR departments everywhere. The only way they'd make a living would be in an entirely new field, and even then their reputation might follow them to some degree. Yet these losers just keep getting rehired again and again and again in the media and the Dim party. Rush is completely right on this point - the bigger a failure you are, the higher you'll go in those two "professions."
#554, I believe that Waxman was absent because he had an electrolysis appt for his nose hairs and she needed to borrow a weed eater because it was so long the only other thing to do would be to braid it.
I think thee shows have very small audiences and there is no reason to watch them. They never make news. Bt that I mean that none ever says something that is new enough to jump onto the wires and be reported separately.
#563, I read two or three days ago on FR that his two Purple Hearts were given to him after he asked for them, like John effin Kerry. Will have to research that also.
It is my strong observation and opinion of McCain that he will NOT run for president except as a Republican. The same comment has been made for the last couple election cycles by the adoring press, and the man stated many times he will NOT run as an independent. He knows that it would really throw the political world into a tizzy, and that he would have zero chance of winning.
I don't like him at all politically, but he certainly does not wish the death of the Republican candidate's chances in 2008 or any other year.
Wording and placement of questions do influence results. So also do sample composition and timing. Sometimes, as in the Teri Shiavo case, a push poll read a paragraph about it to people who had heard nothing yet and then the media used the results of that hypothetical to tell us what we should be thinking.
I just looked up and provided the military reference (Field Manual 27-10) that they are innocent until proven guilty. I do not understand the actual military prison operations. I would think that restraints would be related to their risk to the guards. I emailed the Commandant of the Corps asking the same question.
#591, Oh My do you realize that Cher did not bathe often or even shave her armpits when she and Sonny were Anthony and Cleo? Yikes.....
ROTFL
#612, Woo Woo! Thanks for that info...
If you have been following the LIbby case, you know that Jason Leopold over at truthout has been discussing a "sealed versus sealed" case and then stating it was about the indictment of Rove. Wouldn't it be a hoot if that "sealed versus sealed" case was regarding Rocky? I think he is in deep deep trouble, both for leaking NSA information, and for what you noted...when he let it slip that he had traveled abroad and let foreign leaders know about our Iraq plans. Recall his memo, the one that said that dems would leak intelligence information to undermine Bush and the WOT. That incident was forwarded to the ethics committee for review, and from there perhaps it went to the DOJ for investigation. Perhaps this is why he is being so quiet (at least publically), perhaps he is singing like a bird behind the scenes??? (Sheer speculation on my part, but hey, if they can do it at truthout and call is real news, I can do it here and call it fun!)
Don't forget, WHO you poll makes a huge difference. Right now they are manufacturing their data to get a predetermined outcome by signficantly over sampling Democrats and "Independents". They spin it as "well more people tell us they are Democrats" UMmm no, the sample mix should be based on previous election results NOT what people tell you. "More people tell us" just means you called more Democrats NOT that there ARE more Democrats. When a poll comes out 40 R/40 D/10 Leans D/ 10 Leans R/ LIKELY VOTERS I will take the polling data seriously. As long as they keep polling 35 Dem/27 Rep/38 Ind/ anyone who answers the phone over 18 are wasting our time.
"I am at a total loss about the entire MTP show today. It was a total rehash and basically a campaign commercial for murtha, very little new there"
Two conservative talk show hosts on 570 KVI in Seattle got strung up last election because they said their discussion of an initiative and encouraging folks to sign a petition should be counted towards the campaign funds the initiative's campaign was allowed to receive. Seems to me that if that holds up, the Dims appearing on Timmy's show need to count the cost of that showtime and Timmy's comments towards their campaign contributions, too (and vice versa) - - a "paid political announcement".
June 16, 2006, 9:25 a.m.
Free Kirby Wilbur
By The Editors
Free speech is under assault in the state of Washington. In the name of campaign-finance reform, government officials in the state have claimed the authority to clamp down on their citizens’ right to speak out on public issues. This case is a chilling illustration of the dangers posed by our ever-multiplying campaign regulations.
Last year, two Seattle radio hosts named Kirby Wilbur and John Carlson began arguing on the air against a gas-tax increase of 9.5 cents per gallon. They encouraged their listeners to collect signatures and donate money in behalf of Initiative 912, a ballot referendum seeking to repeal the new tax.
Before long, gas-tax proponents — a consortium of revenue-hungry municipalities throughout the state of Washington — filed a lawsuit demanding that the No New Gas Tax campaign disclose the value of the hosts’ radio advocacy as an in-kind campaign contribution. A lower court agreed, asserting that Wilbur and Carlson’s close ties to the anti-tax campaign made their advocacy cross the line between free speech and political advertising. And political advertising is, according to state law, subject to disclosure requirements.
Wilbur and Carlson were unhappy with the ruling, and they planned to appeal. In the meantime, however, they came up with a monetary value to assign to their radio advocacy, and began disclosing it to state authorities as a campaign contribution.
But they still faced an uglier prospect. Under Washington state law, initiative campaigns are not allowed to accept donations greater than $5,000 in the final 21 days leading up to an election. This posed a problem for Wilbur and Carlson, because their daily radio advocacy was listed as being worth more than $5,000 over a three-week period. If they continued to broadcast their arguments against the gas tax, they risked breaking the law. Outrageous as it seemed, the government would be able to prosecute them for publicly expressing themselves about a matter of public policy.
With the help of the Institute for Justice, Wilbur and Carlson have appealed to the state supreme court, which heard arguments in the case last Thursday. At issue are the state constitution’s guarantees of free speech, as well as the contours of the state’s campaign-finance law.
Washington’s campaign-finance regulations do make an exception for commentary published in outlets that are not controlled by a candidate or campaign committee. But the lawsuit against Wilbur and Carlson claims that the two of them became so closely connected to the anti-tax movement that they should be considered “principals” in the campaign. According to an attorney who filed the suit against the radio hosts, their efforts to collect money and signatures for Initiative 912 suggested “a level of control and involvement that would make them officers and/or agents of the campaign.” Thus, we are supposed to conclude, they ought to be muzzled.
It is depressing to see campaign-finance regulation descend to such disgrace. But it is also instructive. The persecution of Wilbur and Carlson is a case study in how campaign-finance laws, far from strengthening the democratic process, can undermine the rights of free speech and association on which any democracy worth the name depends.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDNjN2Y4NzhhZDQ1NjI1OTkyMmEyZTE1ZGY5ZmI4YWQ=
I agree, the Beltway Augean stables need to be flushed. First, however, you have get back the Congress in order to change the laws which shield those other "career employees" who actively sabotage the very branch of government they work for from being fired. It's a major problem, especially WRT the State Department. The President can't just fire these people.
Big sloppy wet kiss.
The unit he served in was MACS-6 (Marine Air Control Squadron 6). I was with that unit in 1967 prior to going to Viet Nam.
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