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.

[Morgan in Denver]

Jedi? Well, people and beings in that period move about in ships. Ships are like boats. Rodguy911 has a boat. So I nominate Rodguy911.

(Who knows, maybe there's fishing in outerspace!)

[generationfixit]

Living in Minnesota I had the opportunity to watch Mr. Wellstone in action. They have made a mockery of the man. As much as I disagreed with him at least I respected him as a person. Bygiving awards to these halfwitted opportunistic morons just shows that the Democratic party will dance on your grave if it gives them political clout.

They have no soul...thus why they want to abort Iraq.

[Phsstpok]

Warner certainly has the credentials, but he's totally ineffective. He may be very good running the committee, but he's not the one who should be out there on point on this. They don't have to have the chairman on and there have to be Republicans who both get it and are articulate.

Other than Warner, the Republicans on the committee are:

John McCain (Arizona)
James M. Inhofe (Oklahoma)
Pat Roberts (Kansas)
Jeff Sessions (Alabama)
Susan M. Collins (Maine)
John Ensign (Nevada)
James M. Talent (Missouri)
Saxby Chambliss (Georgia)
Lindsey O. Graham (South Carolina)
Elizabeth Dole (North Carolina)
John Cornyn (Texas)
John Thune (South Dakota)

I can think of at least seven of them I'd rather have make our point other than Warner.  Now, guess which seven and in which order <g>

[Morgan in Denver]

It would be hard to choose since I support Republicans as a whole. Having said that, I'm pretty sure you have McCain, Snow and Graham at the bottom of your list, with John Cornyn, Saxby Chambliss, Jeff Sessions or James Inhoff near the top.

ROFLOL

[mware]

Can't NJ come up with better candidates?

Oh yes they could come up with a better candidate like Bret Schundler, but the NJ Republican Party would not support him.

[STARWISE]

Another former local media giant morphs into a speck of its former self.

Herald parent fades away, leaves mark on S. Florida Knight Ridder's once-formidable influence in South Florida faded with the fortunes of the company, which will cease to exist when its sale to The McClatchy Co. is completed Tuesday.

Hey rod, amazing .. isn't it? When I lived in SFla for 25 yrs, the Herald and its execs were the top of the heap of political and social influence. Stunning to see its ultimate demise ..gone the way of Eastern, Southeast Bank, Burdines, Jordan Marsh, National Airlines .. to just another dead end or amalgamation. Shows ya just how much things have changed in American business and in the SFla landscape in 20 years, and .. in the case of the Herald .. the power the internet has given the people.

[tarheelswamprat]

Jedi? Well, people and beings in that period move about in ships. Ships are like boats. Rodguy911 has a boat. So I nominate Rodguy911.

(Who knows, maybe there's fishing in outerspace!)

There's certainly plenty of trolling in cyberspace...

[mware]

The first time I saw Duvell in a movie was as the character Boo Riley in To KIll A Mockingbird.

[gusopol3]

sorry, this source looks a little suspect, but the account seems accurate. The time file is now "premium content" and this seems to have the whole story:http://www.moonofalabama.org/2005/12/calendar_proble.html

[CDB]

Of course I'm a Duval fan and remember his first "starring" role in "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Me too. I was watching a DVD of the early-1960s TV show, "Combat." which I used to watch when I was much younger, and Duval guest-starred in one episode as a German medic. In the DVD's "bonus/commentary" section, one of the series regulars said that Duval used a prosthetic device over his real teeth to make his "TV" teeth look real--chipped and crooked, not perfect and white, like most Hollywood stars. This fellow also said that Duval was joy to work with. Absolutely NO pretensions.

[rodguy911]

wow what a post. I will try and catch it later, still at work.

[rodguy911]

Rodguy wants a boat, maybe some day he will have a boat but for now he is a rider in the storm.(there was song....)

[rodguy911]

We did some serious trolling on Wed. 25 dolphin and three sworfish.

[Phsstpok]

Thanks for posting the link.  The "mobile weapons labs that weren't mobile weapons labs" (BDS version) is another story that gets trotted out regularly. It's being recycled now as a way to try to discredit the 500 chemical weapons shells story.

Within the last month or so I remember seeing a rather convincing article that discredits the discrediting, at least the "fact" that has been pushed as the "real" reason for the trailers. Supposedly the inspectors accepted the Iraqi explanation that the trailers were for generating hydrogen gas for weather balloons.  This article tore that one apart rather effectively, pointing out that Iraq already had enough hydrogen, supposedly specifically for weather balloons, to fill several hundred thousand, so the mobile ones were more than redundent.  There was more and I'm going to continue to try to find it so that I can provide the details.

I do not believe the "conventional wisdom" that has been shoved down our throats so vigorously by the DBM and their masters at the DNC.

I hope goes well at St. Pats.  I love that building, inside and out.  One of my regrets from when I lived in the NYC suburbs during John Cardinal O'Connor's tenure was that I never heard him preach there.

[Morgan in Denver]

You need to talk to Old Friend. She is trying to get rid of one and would probably let you have it if you'd go get it.

[Mo1]

Have ya seen this??

HOW ABOUT A NICE BIG GLASS OF...
http://michellemalkin.com/archives/005434.htm

[Txsleuth]

I have to bow out of any nominations for the Jedi Council of Free Republic...

because I have never seen any of the Star Wars movies...so would NOT know any characters names....sigh

I would nominate YOU, phsstpok, as head "POOH-BAH"...is there a character by that name?????

LOL

[Barset]

Oh, wow! I knew you could do it.

"The Soldier's Burden."

I don't think this is what President John F. Kennedy meant in his inaugural speech when he said, "America will bear any burden..."

Thank you, Peach.

[debg]

A VP with The Miami Herald contracted me and my students over 3 years ago to critique and redesign their website. They (the VP plus the President) gave us quite a presentation on how the old medium was dying and they needed to establish a more effective web presence. They also specifically wanted to know how to make money off the web site. It was a great learning experience/project for the kids.

[Irish Eyes]

Thanks for the link