Posted on 07/16/2006 4:32:19 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, July 16th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sens. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., and George Allen, R-Va.; Philippe Cousteau, president of Earth Echo International.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; columnist Robert Novak.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rice; Richard Haass, Council on Foreign Relations president; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Rice; Madeleine Albright, former secretary of state; Kerri Strug, Olympic gold medalist in gymnastics.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : White House counselor Dan Bartlett; Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres; Imad Moustapha, Syrian ambassador to the U.S.; Sens. Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Mouwafak al-Rubaie, Iraqi national security adviser; Pakistani Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri; space shuttle astronauts.
Did you hear that BOR and Hannity, and Greta will be on FNC tonight? Special programming.
LOL, you probably already know but that photo was NOT doctored. It happen live on Thursday nights show.
I have a friend who "dated" Reed.....
I'm sticking with CAGLE! LOL! and so is she....
My grandfather told my dad that was exactly the situation.
#134, I think they see the writing on the wall and are worried that those radical Muslims are all involved, joined at the hip in the all out quest for Dominance in the World and all Religions. They (France/Russia may see this as a chance to save their own Countries from the inevitable destruction if they do act now with USA and Israel. They have let this mess happen, and have been too scared to do anything about the radicals in their country or even Criticize their behavior. They then try to do a little cracking down after the fact and their Countries are bedlam/chaos. They want Israel and USA to save their bacon as usual.
Absolutely.
I didn't hear that
Thanks for the heads up
I wonder how many blogs pick your stuff up? Not too surprised to see them on Kaitlyn Mae at all,she has a great blog,IMHO. Great job again. Too bad Gloria steinem and Jane Fonda were unhappy with our conservative gals and talk radio in general. They will get over it or they can listen to Rat radio on Hair Amerika.
Me too. Reed would turn out to be a lightweight in Georgia politics.
Abramhoff connections was not my deciding factor, but then they don't exactly burnish his creds either.
Was he too short? :)
Now that is funny, I am going to be laughing at odd moments all day as this image keeps popping into my head.
Thanks Gritty.
You scared me, I thought you meant Jack Reed of RI!
Good move, it's necessary nowadays.
Reed's people called me one night at 8:55pm with a recording. They woke me up. Grrr. I'm still debating who we'll vote for.
Jane, I didn't pick up on the fact that Harlow is now an advisor to NBC. I'll have to remember that in the future.
Good points about the timing of Novak's column on Powell.
Here's my guess:
I still think it's Powell who Novak is protecting. To a lot of leftists, Powell is not a political gunslinger, and I can easily see Novak describing Novak that way.
Also, Novak had previously twice said that the primary source told him Plame's name. Now he says he misspoke and should have said that his source said "Wilson's wife".
That's a pretty big mistake to make. Twice. And I don't see Novak changing his story and looking rather foolish for Armitage. But since Powell is so highly regarded by so many people (I know, I know), I can see Novak protecting Powell.
Newt really needs to reign his instinct to be a media whore. He is a professional Historian for god sake. This is the stupidest nonsense for any Historian to be uttering. This sort of Chicken Little Bombast really, really, really undercuts the intellectually and political credibility of the various Conservatives who are saying it. When this all settles out in a month or so with no where near any of the doom and glooms hysteric predictions being any where near accurate, these Conservatives are going to take a massive PR hit.
Newt is a professional historian and I've read several of his books. His analytical skills, particularly about global geopolitical issues like this, are truly impressive. That doesn't mean he can't be wrong, particularly about a currently unfolding situation, and especially at the beginning of such a crisis. Anybody can misdiagnose a rapidly changing situation. But he's got more ability to diagnose this sort of situation than anyone I can think of.
Also, you have not presented any evidence that this will all "settle down in a month or so." Many folks were poo-pooing the threat of conflict before both World War 1 and World War 2 in very much the same type of language. That doesn't mean your wrong, but a bald assertion doesn't establish you as being right. Newt offered background and facts, or as much as he could in the short time allowed, and he's developed this position over several months of analysis of the entire global situation, not just the current flare up.
The odds are this is being overhyped, particularly by the media for their own business (ratings) reasons. But at the beginning of 9/11 this same type of thinking led many to report that a "light plane" had hit the towers. Newt used a phrase I first heard from Frank Borman after he headed up the Apollo 1 fire investigation, there is sometimes a "failure of imagination" in situations like this. "It just all seems so unlikely." Yep, but the unlikely does happen and then everyone screams "why didn't they know?"
This is NOT WW3. OK everyone? This is vermin control or international gang warfare. Nazi German could conquerer whole countries and threatened the very structure of the International Political system. Even combining all the various 3 world thugs involved here none of them come any where near Nazi Germany's weight militarily, politically or economically.
Korea and Iran each have military capabilities that make Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan combined look like Haiti today in comparison. North Korea has 5,800,000 military personnel, one million of them on active duty, mostly at the border with South Korea. They have 1,600 tanks and 6,500 aircraft, along with 21,000 artillery tubes. Iran has 18,000,000 military personnel, with 300,000 on active duty. They have 1,000 aircraft, 2,300 tanks and 4,500 artillery tubes. Those tanks and planes are so much more capable of wrecking destruction on a broad scale than the World War 2 equivalents that even a brief conflict can be devastating. No, they can't get to us here, but they can get at countries and facilities that are critical to our continued existence, at least as we live now. And they both almost certainly have access to nukes, something neither Nazi Germany nor Imperial Japan ever achieved.
And think about Iran's ability to destroy our economy by denying us access to oil. They can plant crude nuke "mines" in the straight's of Hormuz and shut off that oil completely. Korea is in a position to strangle our trade with the far east with similar devices. And before you say that that's crazy and would cut their own throats, France was Germany's largest trading partner before Germany invaded.
Perhaps more importantly the leadership of both Iran and Northa Korea are irrational. Ahmaddinejad believes that his mission is to start the war of Armageddon and he has the capability to do just that. Lil Kim just thinks he's god.
Then there is the Military disparity between the US and all the various rouge states and terrorist groups. If push comes to shove we can annihilate their whole society in a very brief span of time. They can sucker punch, kill some of our people but NOT threaten our national survival. This sort of "World War 3" talk comes across and hysteric and bombastic. Conservatives should stop it.
I never assume that irrational people will take a rational look at balance of forces and "do the right thing." And a nuke will ruin your whole day. More importantly a nuke detonated above the atmosphere will result in an EMP that will destroy virtually all electronic and most electrical systems anywhere in direct line of sight. That would ruin our whole society for quite some time to come.
How do you take down a lion if you're only a hyena? Get a lot of hyena's together and keep nipping at the lion's private parts. Eventually the lion will either run away or be destroyed. We can defeat any one of those hyena's lining up against us in short order. We can defeat two or three of them with some effort and at a serious cost. But if enough hyena's take enough shots at us continuously we will be damaged beyond our ability to recover within our lifetimes.
EXACTLY!...not ot mention so much more...
he is running a very haphazard, ugly campaign....
ROFLLL!!!
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