Posted on 07/02/2006 5:05:34 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, July 2nd, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; NASA Administrator Michael Griffin; Lt. Col. Michael Colburn, director of the President's Own U.S. Marine Band.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller; Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; actress and United Nations goodwill ambassador Mia Farrow.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Reps. Peter King, R-N.Y., and Barney Frank, D-Mass.; Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres; chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat; NASA Administrator Michael Griffin; singer Tony Orlando.
Of course we have all known that they monitor money in some way. How they did it was what shouldn't have been printed.
I gotta tell you I feel really weird having to talk about a congressman defending the troops!
Why would that ever be necessary! What has happened to the country? --That question can only be answered by thinking back to all the lies and spin of the drive-bys.
They have really tried to do a job on the country, it almost worked, but we are stemming the tide more and more every day.
How could a politician pi$$ off so many people in such a short time. What a loser!
That must have been The-He-Oughtta-Know-Department.
Nothing you said is wrong. The problem is in addition to knowing it as to what you said. Methods and specifics were released. Brit Hume, earlier here, made this same point. Knowing we are looking for ties to finances is vastly different from telling them who is doing what specifically. Furthermore, this news alienates those who would work with us by making them fearful of being exposed.
Not only is the media our enemy but they're the enemy of civilized society across the world.
People desperately trying to survive in the face of barbarians trying to murder them.
The media has chosen to be part of the terrorist organizations.
Way to go starwise really great stuff here.Excellent post.
Forgot to say. Juan had this Pollyanna grin on his face and the camera turned away just as Brit started shaking his head in disgust.
You'll find that one of the Al Qaeda mucky mucks was caught via Swift monitoring in 2003, 2 years after W warned them about how we planned to track and stop their financing.
They clearly were NOT aware of the specifics of the program. When did anyone of us learn about the 'SWIFT' program? Last week.
It didn't prevent them from defending their actions. It seems to me today's talk shows was all about the press and their "rights". They sure were up in arms, poor things, they are being picked on (sarcasm!)
OMG I had forgotten about that thread. That was the absolutely funniest thread I have ever seen.
Thanks for rekindling the memory.
It depends on an actual breakdown of the ratings. To do so, you'd really have to study them in 15-minute blocks and compare them to what is being broadcast on the channel in that time frame.
For example, are the stories repeated so frequently with no new information, that people get the gist of the story and tune out rather than watch like zombies at the same thing re-hashed over & over?
A more important question is where has the audience gone?
We know it's not to CNN or HaMASNBC.
My own personal view is that the core audience for Fox News Channel are ardent listners of conservative talk radio. And, after hearing the essential topics during their favorite show (Bennett, Ingraham, Hewitt, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Bruce, Levin, Medved, Prager, or whomever (and I'm sorry if I left someone's favorite out)) they simply are tired and don't want to watch anymore, especially since the FNC format isn't as interesting or diverse as radio with it's callers.
If Hannity & Colmes or O'Reilly opened up phone lines, you might have, for a time, a bump upwards in the ratings.
Dang...I might just have to tune in for some of these replays. Sounds like some good exchanges from Bennett and Hewitt in particular. Plus, I must admit I rather enjoy watching the libs squirm and wriggle!!
Scandalous [Jonah Goldberg]
Today's "Meet the Press" roundtable, still going, is a scandal of media egocentrism. With the exception of Bill Bennett, the groupthink on display is staggering. Criticizing the media is inherently silly according to this papal conclave of journalists. Any criticism is either an example of know-nothing populism or cynical electioneering, according to Dana Priest, Bill Safire, John Harwood et al. Journalists are always heroes and leakers should never be prosecuted. We're always right, no matter what.Posted at 11:17 AMIt's just an outrageous display of self-importance.
Your links are truly great work, Priest is far more left wing than I ever realized.
He also shut down the Race Tracks and depending on a court hearing the casinos will be closed...
So other than state sales tax, Corzine shut down the biggest per diem tax-earners for the state of New Jersey?
Shrewd.
Sorry Fishtalk but I am not buying the average ordinary hausfrau line, you are lot smarter than that. You are light years ahead of some of the gals at the coffee clatches.
He covers this stuff for three hours a day on his talk show and you really get to know your topic doing that. He displayed it today.It was a stellar performance.
John McCain is going nowhere. Not sure what they predicted in 2000 and if that was the case - he was wrong on both sides.
The media and the pundits can fawn over John McCain all they want, it just isn't going to happen no matter how much and how hard they try to make it happen.
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