Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 25 June 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 25 June 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, June 25th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and John Warner, R-Va.; Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.; Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; presidential speechwriter Michael Gerson.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Richard Durbin, D-Ill.; outgoing Harvard President Lawrence Summers (TW may be preempted in some locations due to coverage of the World Cup.).

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Iraqi Oil Minister Hussein Shahristani; former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and Henry Kissinger.

[RAldrich]

Congressman Peter King has just announced (on WABC radio's Religion on the Line Program) that when he comes on the FOX News Program with Chris Wallace he will call on the Attorney General to institute a criminal prosecution of the New York Times, under the Espionage Act and the Comint Act.

Peter King is the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

[mathluv]

I had written it down because it was so different. I learned the hard way how important it is to get it corect when I went to the wrong whitehouse.

[mathluv]

Holland is trying to tie the NSA 'wiretapping' to Nixon days - which many young WH staffers do not remember.

[Mo1]

he will call on the Attorney General to institute a criminal prosecution of the New York Times, under the Espionage Act and the Comint Act.
Peter King is the Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.

What .. no hearings from Crongress to invesigate these leaks

Gee .. I wonder why

[Dog]

RUT Roh......scooby

[mware]

A heads up to you folks who are going to watch Fox News Sunday.

I just listened to Peter King on WABC RADIO (Religion On The Line) and he was discussing the NYT's. He will be calling on the AG to begin an investigation and prosecution of the NYT's for reporting on the top secret, and legal operation of tracking funding of the terrorists.

[mainepatsfan]

Good. More light needs to be shown on what those bastards did.

[mware]

You heard it too???

About time someone did.

[Mo1]

Holland is trying to tie the NSA 'wiretapping' to Nixon days - which many young WH staffers do not remember.

I went to school in the 70/80's and was taught Nixon was basically the next anti-christ ..

I can only imagine what's being taught to the next generation

[Miss Marple]

Sultzberger: "I would have gotten away with it but for those darn kids!"

[Reo]

Same old-same old. Biden & Hagel, Hid'n & Bagel; interchangeable & boring. Looks like today's highlight will be watching the NASCAR guys try to make right turns.

[mware]

I suspect some Congressgritter will be interviewed by the FBI on this one.

[Dog]

Sultzberger: "I would have gotten away with it but for those darn kids people in their pajamas!"

Fixed it....:-)

[Miss Marple]

Julian is now completely anti-war. Read a letter from his cousin who is serving.

[SE Mom]

This is very good news- even when I disagree with him I admire King, he's got brass.

Speaking of which- have you guys seen this letter to the NYT'S? It's on Hugh's site- written by a soldier to the NYT's..though we ought not hold our breath waiting for it's publication there:
http://hughhewitt.com/archives/2006/06/18-week/index.php#a002568

[Miss Marple]

And a fine fix it is! Good morning, Dog! Are you here for the whole thread?

[mathluv]

Considering so many of our teachers don't seem to have the needed education - probably not much.

[Alas Babylon!]

Good point, Mainepatsfan! Let's also consider who is on these shows, and what it says about their agenda, both the guest and the show host/producer.

Assume that the show decides who to invite. That doesn't mean if a big name makes themselves available the host won't jump on it (say Dick Cheney, Hillary, the Presdient), but by and large the shows give us whoever they want us to see.

So last week Murtha, IMHO, came on and made a fool of himself. I didn't expect to see him back this Sunday, and he's not. Don't expect to see him for awhile, unless it's a carefully coached exchange.

John Kerry is surprisingly absent, what with his amendment (failing miserably) last week. You'd think Russert would have him on to talk about it. So either Kerry's sulking, or more likely, he'd make such a shamble out of explaining his "nuanced" position that Russert chose the more articulate liar Feingold. Feingold's just a big as moonbat as Kerry, but doesn't come off as a flip-flopping panderer, something even the liberals expect to hear whenever Kerry's talking.

Lugar is on because frankly, the man is a senile, dottering old fool who consistently forgets the Republicans are now the MAJORITY in the Senate. The hosts can get him to rail against the administration as easily as against the democrats, with the right questions. Boxer is a moonbat who Shieffer will use to bounce off new attacks against the administration.

Very interesting that ABC has Mitch McConnel who can handle himself well and hopefully, if they're on together, handle Dick Durbin.

Fox News has the idiot Levin, who loves to show his superior intellect with his prop glasses perched on the end of his nose. I hope folks see thru this nonsense but many will fall for it. The "republicans" on the show are a bunch of self-serving RINOs. I don't know if their self-promoting egos are bigger than their love for the gooey middle, but Fox chose them and that concerns me. Expect Specter to challenge the president much more than the democrats. Warner is as dense as Lugar. Peter King is a RINO, IMHO, because he has to be or he would never get elected in NY. He can be almost a traitor to the party sometimes and other times the Republican shines through.

Wolf has Biden and Hagel! LOL! They're just such perennial guests I think they're fill ins when a bigger guest can't make it. Shows you the power of Blitzer! He does snag the "Cleaning Lady" who will tell us how bad things are in our foreign policy since she left. CNN loves it's Clintoniods. Kissinger? Is he still lucid? How old is he, for goodness sakes?

Finally, where is Algore? The man is selling his movie, don't these producers care about his agenda (they do)? But he'd remind everyone why it was good that Bush won in 2000. The show producers know this, of course!

[anita]

Thanks AB, Good Morning to EveryOne!

Nowadays, the requirement to be a guest on MTP is to have an anti-war position. Feingold meets that ofcourse, but Political Pundit Larry Sabato said that

Feingold can't win dem.primary.

Will Russert ask him about that?

[beyond the sea]

Carl Levin, Arlen Sphincter, Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer, Richard Durbin, Joseph Biden, and Mad Maddie Albright .............

Well darn, no breakfast again this fine Sunday morning without a large Barf Bag nearby.

;-)