Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 16 July 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 16 July 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[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.

[SCHROLL]

You have to remember that Pelosi openly mentioned replacing her on the Intel Committee with Alcee Hastings to appease the Congressional Black Caucus over the Jefferson thing. Once word of that got out, Jane's been double dosing on the leftist's kool aid.

[Phsstpok]

it occurs to me that either everybody who pulls into the CIA employee parking lot every day is done as a secret agent, or certain people like Valerie Plame must have some kind of Maxwell Smart secret entrance a mile away from the front door.

My wife's uncle was CIA, a senior "crippy" who had served overseas in various embassies until Philip Agee published his name, along with several hundred others, and he was permanenetly barred from duty overseas.  From then he served in Langley until he took an early retirement, then went back doing the same job as an EDS contracter (they call it "double dipping").  He finally retired when the agency decided to switch over communications to Lotus Notes.  He refused to learn yet another new system <g>

While he was an agency employee he had to have a cover job, even after his ID had been "blown" by Agee.  His cover was that he was not a crippy for the CIA.  No, he was a crippy for the Pentagon.  Brilliant! 

 

He actually had an "office" at the Pentagon (it was really a broom closet).  He once had to lead some visiting friends past the Pentagon "on his way to work" to keep his cover intact, then explain to the Pentagon guard why he was pulling into the parking lot but really didn't want to stay.  Langley was the other direction from his home, but he had to maintain his oh so convincing and useful cover.

[defconw]

Yes insecurity and good politics don't mix.

[Bahbah]

David Lee Miller is going to get himself shot. Trace asks where the shots could be coming from. Miller says they could be coming from anyone with a gun. LOL. Well yeah!

[defconw]

Yes I do, but they are just so dumb, ya know?

[La Enchiladita]

UGH.

[tom paine 2]

The Syrian ambassador was a lying little assassin

[STARWISE]

That would make sense. Having an LOL ... are you hearing Joe Reeder on FNC? He's calling them "Hutzballah" ..

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" I see why Newt is on with Biden..."

When Biden said ( twice , so it wasn't a slip ) that the US should threaten to " An..ni...hi...late " North Korea - Newt helply added cover for Biden, saying he was sure that Biden had misspoken.
Wow- Biden wants to annihilate an entire country- innocents and all.
Biden was obviously talking nukes
as he had just finished saying that the US military was broken, over stretched, incapable of getting into another war, yada, yada- the usual Dem , anti military " we support the troops !" talking points.

[samantha]

#640, Tony Blankley is da man!!!!!!!!!!

[Timeout]

I heard the Syrian ambassador last night decrying attacks on "innocent civilians".

Duh. How do the interviewers keep a straight face when a suicide bomber says such a thing?

[Phsstpok]

I agree with almost everything you say in this post, and the differences are largely NOT on the points you have made, but about my not adequately explaining what I'm trying to say.

this has become a long enough post as each iteration goes around that it will take me some time to do a full response justice, but I'll take a crack at it later.

However, again, I don't disagree with the majority of what you state. I'm tyring to make a different point and obviously failing miserably (but that's not unusual).

[samantha]

#642, very interesting information. I worked at the Pentagon and that jerk Mcnamara used to sneak into his office in the Building because he was taking heat and we were getting lots of Bomb threats. That was 1967 and 1968, I was 12 at the time, or maybe I was 10 LOL!

[eeevil conservative]

glad I don't have to pick ton 10 this week
lol

[johnny7]

...they would have recognized right then that they'd been had by Wilson.

I don't believe they were HAD by Wilson... do you believe Mary Mapes was HAD by Bill Burkett?

[Chuck54]

The Syrian ambassador was a lying little assassin

:)

[samantha]

#654, I am glad I don't have to either. I off to Wally World.

[rodguy911]

Looking at all the attacks our country has suffered over the years and keeping in mind 911 and the fact that we know terror types are now crossing the Mexicon border, it just drives me nuts that the Senate would turn down a chance to build a fence/wall across the border with Mexico like they did last week.

I realize the bill was set up so to vote for the wall/fence would have meant killing off other vastly needed necessities for the war but still why we didn't vote for both really gets to me.

I see it as a legislative setback with Senators behaving badly. You'll find it here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1665588/posts

and originally here:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national /20060714-120633-1188r.htm

We should have a representative govt. Our elected reps should mirror what we the populace want done in Washington. I will give you a good example.

My representative in Washington recently voted against drilling in the Gulf within 50 miles. She opted for a much longer ride for drillers, over 200 miles. The bill wound up getting compromised at 125 miles but she and much of the Fla. delegation, dems and pubbies,voted almost in unison against drilling closer to shore, even if valuable oil deposits were there, due to tourism and rat demagoaguing considerations.

I disagreed of course with that vote but what I kept in mind was that my representative did fully mirror(whether right or wrong)the wishes of her constituents. In other words she did her job.

The senators however voting on the border funding did not do their jobs. It's well know that over 80% of the citizens in the country want border security. To defund that mission is not to listen to constituents.

If they get a chance to do it over again let's hope they do it right next time.

[CedarDave]

I lost all respect for him when he ran off with his secretary during Watergate.

I suspect bray is referring to the Whitewater investigation of Clinton's misdeeds.

[Txsleuth]

I saw him....I was laughing when he said that...what a putz!