Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 3 September 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 3 September 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, September 3rd, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and his Democratic challenger, state treasurer Robert Casey.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., and his primary challenger, Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey; actress and animal rights activist Bo Derek.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Rep. Christopher Shays, R-Conn.; Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Salih; Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iranian representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency; Teamsters president James Hoffa and Labor Secretary Elaine Chao; former Clinton adviser Lanny Davis and former Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd.

[Morgan in Denver]

Great analysis and comments. I agree.

[generationfixit]

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Laverne]

Neither one is employed by the US Government anymore. Val quit (or retired, or was let go) by the CIA. Joe left a while back.

[rodguy911]

It's worth checking out, I have to work today so the only way i can hear the shows is on c-Spam.

[Mo1]

Video: Mark Steyn on C-SPAN (Video added)
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/01/video-mark-steyn-on-c-span/

[bray]

Conservative Bush Bashers feel that if they attack him they are somehow morally superior to the rest of us. Fact is they are cowards who are not team players and should be ignored rather than taken seriously. They would never vote for anyone serious anyway, if they are really who they say they are??

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters

[Txsleuth]

Your post begs the question, then, why so many Jewish Americans vote for democrats..

[Dave S]

Soooo, he is guilty until proven INNOCENT????

So was Clinton guilty? Bet you didnt have an opinion on that, heh?

Libby certainly has a lot of explaining to do, like why he didnt use the lawyerly, I dont recall, rather than fantasize about a conversation with Russert.

[Not gonna take it anymore]

"How about him coming on and explaining why he waited three years while people were being personally destroyed and bankrupted."

"Maybe after you appear before a grand jury and are told by the prosecutor not to talk about the case, we will see how brave you are. In Novak's defense he did say early on it was NOT someone in the White House and was not a gunslinger so that eliminated Rove and Libby as primary sources of the leak. I guessed Armitage right after I read Novak's second column. Most others in Washington probably did as well."

I was a member of a grand jury. You can request that witnesses not talk but you cannot demand it. You have a legal right to reveal your own testimony.

Armitage could have spoken up many times. He did not because he is not an honorable man. Neither is Colin Powell.

[MNJohnnie]

For the 2nd consecutive year, Fox News Channel Ratings was down 28%, while CNN ratings increases by 21 to 25%.

Any case of how selective use of statistics can be used to present a misleading picture. See raw data below. Fox News still has all most 2xs as many viewers as any of the Leftists. Fox owns 9 of the top 10 most watched shows. CNN best show is Larry King (not really a news show) that draws less then half the auidence Bill O'Reily draws. I suspect this is a one time bump because CNN did a FAR better job of covering the Israel-Leabanon war. This bump will probably will be gone in the Sept numbers.

I suspect another problem for Fox is is now that they have decided to be Jun Media Lite and pander to the same Leftist talking points a segment of their viewers see no reason to watch them over any of the other Trash Media shows. FOX - Aug 2005 -- 1,001,000 -- Aug 2006 -- 933,000 - 7% drop

CNN - Aug 2005 -- 433,000 -- Aug 2006 -- 584,000 - 35% increase

MSNBC - Aug 2005 -- 220,000 -- Aug 2006 -- 277,000 - 26% increase

[rodguy911]

I will catch it later but thanks for any mark Steyn link.

[samantha]

#299, I like that expression. A "collection of Political fraggers" fits Kean in NJ just today,and of course Snarlin Arlen,McCain,Graham,Hagel,etc. None of these light weights will achieve any higher office than they have now,but since they have delusions of grandeur it will not sink in for quite a while.

[anita]

SantorumBlog's Live Blogging Here.

[Morgan in Denver]

It should be available in about twenty minutes and I'll watch it after that. I understand Santorum has some conservatives mad at him but he has always come across as well informed, knowledgable and reasonable to me. I would be happy to trade our own Ken Salazar for him, any day.

[Morgan in Denver]

Thanks anita! I'll go enjoy it.

[MNJohnnie]

But the President was involved because he publically resolved to fire the leaker

Remember the context. The President made that statement in response to a Junk Media propagandist asking him a question. He was not "getting involved in the case" It would be seen as interference if DID try to get involved.

[rodguy911]

I thought he did a great job.Casey was a blubbering idiot near the end.

[LBKQ]

Thank you so much! Your summaries of the shows are fantastic!!!!

[Phsstpok]

... we cannot forget just how stupid, vapid, and socialist many of the DBM are. A lot of the hyperventilating over the Plame Affair was due to the unadulterated HOPE that yes, BUSH IS GUILTY!!!! Clinton was a grifting, corrupt politician and they loved him because he was politically one of them. They see all politicians thru this imperfect lens. They simply cannot fathom that George Bush just might be an honest man...

... Bottom line, lets not forget plain ole "Stuck on Stupid!"

You are basically invoking Hanlon's Razor

Hanlon's razor, a corollary of Finagle's law, is an adage which reads: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Also worded as: Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice.

I also like to invoke another phrase, this one a malapropism:

Time wounds all heels 

Or, to lift from Shakespeare 

Truth will out.

[Republican Red]

Maybe those are selective figures on FOX vrs CNN however, I find myself turning FOX off more and more. They seemed to have forgotten who brought them to the dance.

Just this morning I turned the tv off when the top story of the day is a reporting of a NYT article about GOP bloodbath in November. How is that the top news story of the day? In fact, how is a story that hasn't happened a story at all?

I can see why FOX has slipped in the ratings.