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.

[Carolinamom]

All I ever eat is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!

I'll send you some recipes from my new cook book, rodguy. It's entitled "White Trash Cooking" and if you NEVER use the recipes, it's hilarious to read....the laughter alone is good for you. I'm having a laugh fest just reading it. (Example title: Tutti's Fruited Pork Chops)

[CedarDave]

The problem with Islamic terrorists is that is is not one country it is an ideology and therefore may destroy you from within.

You have seen this post, I'm sure:

Beheading Nations: The Islamization of Europe`s Cities

[MNJohnnie]

but the relatively primative Russians defeated them (with big help from nature

Russian Tanks were technologically superior to their German equivalents in 1941 to 1943. Aircraft and Arty equivalent. The German army of WW2 had a shallow armored technical edge backed up by a large, relatively primitive bulk army. The Russian and German armys, technologically speaking, were roughly equivalent technologically. The fact of the matter is the Russians beat the Germans eating American food, brought to them on American trucks from American supplied rail lines pulled by American made locomotives using American logistical supplies to repair their weapons and vehicles while marching to Berlin on American made boots. In 1945 the Russians, like the French, promptly forgot all the sacrifices everyone else made out desire to forget their humiliations.

[Phsstpok]

Sounds like many Brits talking about Churchill prior to WWII in England in the 30s.

That is clearly what I have been reminded of throughout the last few years.  Did you ever read the two completed volumes of William Manchester's biography of Winston Churchill, The Last Lion?  He only completed two of the three volumes, but the second one, titled Alone 1932 - 1940, covers this period in his life.  Absolutely spectacular. 

The same period was covered well in the 1981 BBC mini-series Winston Churchill: the Wilderness Years and the 2002 HBO movie, The Gathering Storm (though I think Albert Finney's portrayal of Churchill's relationship with his wife, played by Vanessa Redgrave, reduced the effectiveness of that film).

It is perhaps the greatest story of individual heroism off the field of battle of the 20th Century.  He stood against a government and all the intellectuals of the age in the face of ridicule and official obstructionism.  And it wasn't just Brits who spoke of Winston with disdain.  All of the power players of the day treated him that way.  Much the way George Bush is treated now by the same types of people. 

Newt may have the intellect of Churchill, but George W. Bush has the clarity of purpose.

[PerConPat]

....Tony Blankely... that is one brilliant guy, who also worked for Reagan.

Agreed. Blankley is the only redeeming feature of the McLaughlin Group, which I just listened to. It was good to hear him remind the rabid Clift and that champion sore loser Buchanan that recent concessions by Israelis have done nothing but threaten that country's security.

[gov_bean_ counter]

IHMO, GW is the modern day political (and perhaps personal) version of Christian in Pilgrim's Progress. The path is truly narrow and President Bush, though taken off course early in life, now refuses to be distracted by the evils that lay in wait off the path.

[MNJohnnie]

Posted by eeevil conservative to rodguy911 On News/Activism 07/16/2006 11:31:15 AM CDT · 482 of 664 LOL! Earlier- the HezzBULL leader is on saying that they are ready for battle- that Israel will be surprised, blah blah blah...they will defeat the "Zionists".... Now- Lebanon is claiming they face Annihilation...... If Lebanon was smart- they would be sending MAPS of all the Hezzie targets to Israel and openly state they do NOT support Hezzie actions a

Exactly!

One of the most interesting things I learned this week is the Government of Lebanon recognizes HellBULLa as a legitimate political group NOT as a terrorist organization.

Seems to me the Bush Doctrine applies. "Either you are with us or you are with the terrorists".

Let what is happening in Lebanon serve as a clear example to all rouge nations. There is no more fence sitting. You pick a side or we will pick for you.

[CedarDave]

Has anyone on this thread asked you about one of your nuggets on a previous Sunday thread???
On the Middle East Thread the other night..we were discussing Col. Hunt..and it was reported what you had posted here...that Hunt has signed on to become a military advisor to Sen. Hillary Clinton.
There was quite a few freepers questioning that bit of information...and those of us that read it here, from your nuggets, were at a loss as to YOUR source.
Is there anyway to provide that...or at least reassure us that it was accurate??
We are concerned..because we fear that Col. Hunt's comments MAY be colored by that association, and we would like to know.

Gosh, I recall that being discussed here on FR as long as several months ago that he signed on as an advisor to Hillary. It's not new news, but I don't have a thread, though I have searched both FR and Google for a joint reference.

[PerConPat]

The first one hundred or so pages of The Gathering Storm remain to this day the most insightful discourse on the crucial topic of what and, more importantly, what not to do when confronting a widespread, committed, and organized evil such as radical Islam.

[Txsleuth]

I don't know how many of you are watching Fox today...but, I have noticed and LAUGHED as at least 4 TIMES...the different Fox hosts have had on Mike Norman, one of the guys that is on the Saturday business shows...

And every single one of them has gone on and on about how this fighting in Lebanon is going to make things SO much worse for the Stock Market...AND, most of all, is going to FORCE our gas prices to go up to 5.00 a gallon.

Then they go on a "woe is me" jag about gas prices...

Norman just shakes his head every time..and said that we are NOT in at supply/demand situation...that we are getting all of the gas we need...AND that we are using it..that people aren't letting the gas prices affect them..

and, he said that no one wants to hear this, but that "considering the cost of living...we are paying LESS for our gas now, than years ago"...

He said that the oil/per barrel price is going up because of SPECULATORS...and that they have made it worse..and that if you have any friends that speculate on the oil futures...to blame THEM..and tell them to stop it.


LOL...I have to laugh...it is so funny.

[OldFriend]

President Bush is operating in the real world. Newt is operating in his own construct of reality. Quite a difference, IMO

[OldFriend]

Don't you just love how the left is ignoring the Intifada unleashed by Arafat.

And ignoring the missile fired by NK across Japan and into the sea during X42 regime.

[Phsstpok]

I did not realize until looking up your reference to a book by this title that The Gathering Storm was Churchill's title of volume 1 of his history of World War 2 (The Finest Hour being volume 2). IMDB does not credit him or this book as a source for the HBO movie which I saw, so I gather they did not use his work, at least not directly.

I have read a few of his works and intend to pursue more. This is definitely one I will search out. He is, in my mind, the most important single "good guy" in the first half of the 20th Century.

[snugs]

Mangetout in the States is known as Snow Peas

http://www.freesearch.co.uk/dictionary/mangetout

http://www.fothergills.co.uk/en/mangetout-pea-reuzenzuiker-1864.aspx

http://www.arcadian-archives.com/mangetout.htm

[CedarDave]

Is this the reporter in Gaza? If so he almost got himself shot Friday or yesterday -- he was the only one on an otherwise deserted street so of course he was the target.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Maybe he thought the shooter didn't like the cans.

[OldFriend]

Chris Matthews stated with absolute certainty that the only reason this is happening in the middle east is because we are in Iraq and Afghanistan.