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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

Posted on 06/25/2006 4:45:02 AM PDT by 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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facethenation; foxnewssunday; guests; johnwarner; lateedition; lineup; meetthepress; sunday; talkshows; thisweek
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To: anita; Alas Babylon!; Morgan in Denver; Fishtalk; rodguy911; TexasPatriot8; Peach; MNJohnnie; ...
Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread Awards notable posts ping list for 6/25/06

It is very important to me that I first explain what it is I think I'm doing when I participate in this weekly exercise.  As the one doing the "awards" this week I first and foremost must emphasize that I don't think that my opinions of what is "worthy" have any more value than anyone else's opinions (well, there are a few posters I think I'm better than, but that's another story... and you know who you are!!!!! <g>). 

I lurked on FR and particularly on this thread for quite some time before I ever signed up.  I still lurked on this thread without posting even after signing up in 2003.  I began participating here not that long ago and have truly found a place that satisfies my need for stimulating and informative discussion of the political events of importance each week.  I want to thank everyone here for providing me that opportunity.

I must make the point here that Alas Babylon! has done a great service to all of us and to the entire world (literally) by setting the tone of this particular corner of FreeRepublic.  It is such a special place for informative discussion of the issues being put forward by the media as well as those that they refuse to cover.  We all owe him our thanks.  Also, having had the pleasure of meeting him recently, I can confidently add that the man is such a mensch!

When RodGuy911 asked if I could fill in one week for the excellent work he had been doing posting a "Top 10" at the end of the weekly Sunday morning talk show thread I was a little overwhelmed.  Not only was I in awe of the thread and the participants, I had come to count on his top 10 posts as a guide to searching out those posts that I might have missed.  They may have been either too long or too short for careful scrutiny at the time and, I don't know about anyone else, but I am usually frantic to keep up with what is being posted and tend to scroll through the volume of posts more quickly than I should.  I often miss lots of great posts in my attempt to keep up.  RodGuy's work gave me a heads up for things that I might have missed, but should spend the time to go back and find.  That proved very valuable to me on more than one occasion.  I doubted very seriously that I was up to filling in, but what the hell?

I hope that I have acquitted myself adequately these few times that I have done this.  I know that the others who have joined in what appears now to be a solid rotation have done remarkable work along the same lines as what I admired about RodGuy's posts.  I always look to the awards as a "highlights," a ping list, if you will, to the posts on this thread that deserve our special attention each week.  I do not view this as a contest, with winners and losers.  The hardest part about this process for me, the times I have done it, is not including everything, for truly every post on this thread deserves attention (except for those rare few posters... and you know who you are... <g>).  So, why am I subjecting you to this introspective codswollop? 

A few weeks ago I included a particular regular participant in this thread in the awards for that week.  They then expressed to me that they were concerned that this "honor" would offend others on the thread.  They didn't want to participate in awards as they might offend others who were not included.  I hope that I adequately explained to them then, in direct posts, that what I was trying to do was not pick out "better" posts for some sort of prize, but to identify for all of us posts that added a particular insight to the arguments that week, and I emphasized that this was only IMHO.  I think I convinced them of the sincerity of my effort, but... and you knew there was a but... I am going to include that same individual in the so called awards this week and that presented me an ethical dilemma.  I'm hoping that my explanation will assuage this persons' concerns and let them know that I am not doing this as some sort of contest. 

I'm not providing "prizes" to "winners."  I hope that I'm providing signposts to those interested in finding the most valuable posts this week (admittedly only my opinion).  I state up front that my selections are personal and flawed, so no one should be concerned about any particular choices being viewed as better than any others, except as they choose to disagree with me directly, an exercise which I invite.  The more people offering up pointers to valuable posts the better.  This is merely my two cents worth on what was posted this week.  My greatest hope is that I will single out one post that someone might have missed, for whatever reason, that will provide that special insight and make the difference in shaping these arguments we are so involved with.

Now, here is the first part of the "honorable mention" ping list for this weeks posts.  These are no less valuable than the posts in the "top ten," which will follow.   I just had to make some choices in order to provide some order.  However, I have singled out the top ten because of issues, insights or links which I found particularly valuable to me.  I hope that everyone will take the time to read all of the posts on this thread, but if I can be of assistance in pointing anyone to a post they may have missed then I have done what I set out to do (oh, if that isn't overly self important, I don't know what is!  Please forgive me.. ;^>)

One final point, before I proceed.  I'm going to shamelessly steal from a post by Alas Babylon! and appropriate the reference to his phrase the "Jedi Council of FreeRepublic."  I trust that our hosts will be tolerant of my hubris, but I want to bestow this label on all of the participants on this regular thread, starting with Alas Babylon! and including all who participate or lurk here.  I truly feel that this thread represents the best of what FreeRepublic is and can be.

These posts are in alphabetical order by the posters screen name

AliVeritas

Barset

beyond the sea

BonnieJ

bray

Bulldaddy

Carolinamom

Chuck54

dalight

dmw

edpc

F.J. Mitchell

generationfixit

greyfoxx39

Laverne

maica

mainepatsfan

Mo1

norwaypinesavage

RAldrich

rmgatto

SE Mom

Seattle Conservative

STARWISE

tarheelswamprat

68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub

Txsleuth


761 posted on 06/28/2006 1:08:15 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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Top 10 for Sunday, June 25th, 2006

See disclaimer in previous post - this is a ping list of posts that are worthy of extra study, IMHO.

10th Place - Miss Marple

9th Place - OldFriend

8th Place - MNJohnnie

7th Place - Peach

6th Place - TexasPatriot8

5th Place - rodguy911

4th place - Fishtalk

What a wonderful post!  Truly one of the best posts I've seen in quite some time.  A "gem."

Third Place - Morgan in Denver

Great posts again this week, including the priceless observation in #57 that the more these shows are dominated by the Democrat "spokesmen" the more they make our points for us, just by being themselves.

Second Place - Alas Babylon!

AB! doesn't usually participate as much in the thread as he did this week, and these highlights of his posts should give you an idea of how on fire he was.  Plus, he coined the phrase "the Jedi Council of FreeRepublic!"  That's a keeper!

First Place - anita

Always insightful and valuable posts, but this week anita added two potentially explosive bits of information.  The first might link Democrat (Kerry) members of Republican Senator Chuck Hagel's staff to the treasonous leaks to the New York Times about the NSA and SWIFT programs.  These leaks are designed to thwart President Bush's attempts to protect the American people and they appear to have been made for purely political purposes.  Will Hagel's ambitions endanger our country, in fact all of human civilization?  This is important, folks.  Also, this weeks "media nuggets" post, which is always one of the Sunday thread highlights, has a very significant tidbit about Matt Cooper, the main accuser of "Scooter" Libby.  It concerns the apparent collapse of his credibility, which not only appears to have lead to the dismissal of any possible charges against Karl Rove but should also lead to the dismissal of charges against Libby.  This is an important week for anita, FR and the Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread.  Remember these posts, folks.  This may be a "Buckhead" moment.


762 posted on 06/28/2006 1:10:01 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Phsstpok

Many thanks, Phsstpok, for the massive amount of work you've done....you're a jewel.


763 posted on 06/28/2006 1:15:11 PM PDT by Carolinamom
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To: Phsstpok
You are the greatest. FR is the greatest.

Danke!

764 posted on 06/28/2006 1:16:22 PM PDT by beyond the sea (Scientists Are Itching to Blame Poison Ivy's Effect on Global Warming)
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To: Phsstpok

Wow! Thanks for all the compiling and sorting...this is a terrific reference.

Great job:)


765 posted on 06/28/2006 2:15:04 PM PDT by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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To: Phsstpok
Great job phsstpok, lots of really hard work there.
Thanks you so much for # 5, really could not post too much last Sunday had to work. It's a pleasure to be in such company as fishtalk, morgan, anita and AB, a brilliant crowd for sure.

Congrats to all who participated in yet another stellar thread.
766 posted on 06/28/2006 3:19:07 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support new Media, ticket drive-bys--America--Land of the Free because of the Brave)
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To: Phsstpok
I thoroughly enjoyed and appreciated your explanation of how you judge the posts.From my standpoint, the "contest portion" of the thread(if you look at it that way) has always had one huge overriding purpose,at least for me. That purpose is to encourage the level of the entire thread to reach for the stratosphere.

That we have done.And continue to do.
This thread has a level,content, breaking news aspect, we can all be proud of.It's a group effort and continues to excel to new levels every week IMHO.
As far as who is # 1 or who is # 10 or any of the rest it's purely opinion and IMHO the more opinions we can get in judging the thread the better.
The idea is to have fun and to provide a possible mechanism for others within the New Media to view and quite possible get ideas from. If we accomplish any of that(and I think we do) it's been time well spent IMHO.
767 posted on 06/28/2006 3:33:30 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support new Media, ticket drive-bys--America--Land of the Free because of the Brave)
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To: MNJohnnie

Will do MNJ, great idea.


768 posted on 06/28/2006 3:33:56 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support new Media, ticket drive-bys--America--Land of the Free because of the Brave)
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To: Phsstpok
Phsstpok,

First, congratulations to anita. Great Sunday posts!

Phsstpok, thank you for all the work you did on this. It truly is above and beyond what I believe the exercise was all about. And, thank you for third place. I'm not sure I deserve it because of all the great posts this past week, but thank you.

As for your efforts, or who "wins" the week.

I don't look at it as a contest as much as who made the best points related to the topics from the Sunday programs and who provided all of us with information we will be able to use in the future in discussion with friends and foes.

Most people on FR are activists, if not directly, certainly on-line and with the people they know.  Every poster has experiences and insight that others don't have and can be shared to benefit all of us.  As I've told others I've conversed with, there isn't a week that goes by that I don't learn something that serves me well in the future.  Past lurking shows me the people who are active on the Sunday thread are more so. There's no way to mention all the names because I'm sure I would miss someone but I believe one reason many of us lurk or post on the Sunday thread is because we want to contribute and Alas Babylon! has been kind enough and conscientious enough to post it every week.

Choosing a winning post is subjective on the part of the person who is following them.  The winner is not a buddy system or based on anything totally objective. As a result, different readers will come to different conclusions.  It's not that important, and just meant to be in fun for all of us. 

My comments are only meant to say Thank You, to you and Rodguy911 as well as MNJohnnie and the others who have been doing the judging and following the thread so closely. And, to support you if anyone questions what is going on or how it's being done.

 Morgan

769 posted on 06/28/2006 3:51:24 PM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: Morgan in Denver
Thanks Morgan, much appreciated! Bottom line, we are all card-carrying members of the New Media and proud of it.
770 posted on 06/28/2006 5:06:18 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support new Media, ticket drive-bys--America--Land of the Free because of the Brave)
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To: Phsstpok

Great work will post top 3 certs tomorrow


771 posted on 06/28/2006 8:06:31 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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Apologies for delay in posting


772 posted on 07/01/2006 5:04:27 PM PDT by snugs ((An English Cheney Chick - BIG TIME))
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To: snugs

Thanks snugs. I thought AB was on fire last week and posted great posts. Anita, as usual, did great.


773 posted on 07/01/2006 5:25:00 PM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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