Posted on 09/17/2006 5:26:28 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 17th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; national security adviser Stephen Hadley.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. George Allen, R-Va.; former Navy Secretary James Webb, Allen's Democratic challenger.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Hadley.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz; Hadley; singer and songwriter Jewel.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Hadley; George Soros, Democratic financier; Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie; Ali Mohammed Jan Aurakzai, governor of Pakistan's Waziristan province; Sens. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., and John Cornyn, R-Texas.
Have to agree. I can't see it. I don't have reasoned objections to Allen but it's just not happening for me.
Mississippi got almost no coverage after Katrina where, over all, the destruction was more extensive than in New Orleans. But Republican Governor Haley Barbour activated the appropriate agencies and was hands-on in rescue and recovery and re-building. He is a no-nonsense conservative and someone who naturally inspires trust and respect. I think glamour boys like Allen have little appeal to Conservatives.
Aside from the Media's ceaseless game of "Get Bush," I wonder if their indifference to what was happening in Mississippi was to prevent us from comparing and contrasting Haley's strong, silent response to Katrina, with the hand-wringing and failure of the the Democrat Governor Blanco, Democrat Mayor Nagin, Democrat Senator Landrieu.
I think he could make whoever is the Dem candidate shrink next to him.
Speaking of the Geico commercials, Charo has to be the funniest one, and I think she'd be more intelligent and incisive than Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. The late columnist Lewis Grizzard once said that if Mike Wallace is a doberman pinscher in an interview, his son is a cocker spaniel.
With the liberal media we have in Austin, you'd think that was the ONLY event that happened all day. I can just read his brain "Photo op, photo op, photo op."
I haven't seen the Austin paper today yet, but I'd bet his mugshot is plastered on the front page "Above the fold". I just despise that jack@$$.
That's McCain's whole problem with his position on this issue. It makes no sense to any thinking person. That's why he was reduced, on Steffie's show, to saying he must be right because some generals agree with him. That was really all he had. We have to agree because they must have the interests of the military at heart. Hadley is doing a great job of describing what's going on here, btw.
It is going to be downright indicative of how in trouble our country is in if two of the most conservative, loyal to Bush senators, Santorum and Allen were to lose to anti-war, sissy wimps.
EXACTLY!!
great example too... and no I don't remember the name...ashamed to say......
I have another question for anyone who watched the Webb/Allen debate. WHO CAME ACROSS AS THE MOST LIKEABLE? I don't mean the most intelligent, or who "won" the debate. Who was the person the viewer would LIKE the most, as a person?
That is the most important thing to come out of the debate. In 2000, Mark Steyn wrote a column in which, after the Bush/Gore debate, he made random calls to different parts of the country. The phone conversations always went like this:
"Did you watch the debate?"
"Yes."
"Who won the debate?"
"Gore."
"Who are you voting for?"
"Bush."
Mauphin missing in this current Iraq war and Speicher missing from the first gulf war.
:-) I agree.
I am promoting yet another item from the Anchoress that she'd reposted on the President's birthday. It is great to read
http://theanchoressonline.com/2006/07/06/happy-birthday-mr-president/
Preach on!!!
Ain't it great when the President is considered a 'third rail' by the members of his own party in Congress?
I believe that McCain is using this Geneva Conventions kerfuffle to keep his POW past on the front burner. When you think about it, it's the only thing on his record that elicits admiration or sympathy. For the rest, we have graduation near the bottom of his class at Annapolis, the childhood nickname 'Nasty', a record of crashing airplanes, dumping his wife for a much younger woman, the Keating Five scandal, and his reckless assault on the first amendment via McCain-Feingold. And let's not forget his arrogance and violent temper.
If you recall his interview with a rather hostile Tim Russsert a few months back, he capped it off by saying something to the effect of 'haven't had this much fun since I was a POW'. He uses this as a bludgeon to anyone who questions his moral authority -- sort of like the Jersey girls use their deceased husbands.
It sure as hell is true today. To think any of our enemeies will play by the Queen's rules is foolish.
McCain's own words from last year, WHICH THE WHITE HOUSE INCORPORATED INTO THIS PROPOSAL, are now not good enough for McCain. McCain's lost the issue.
Eeek! Did I miss that you'd posted it? Sorry, rodguy!
LOL But I was laughing pretty hard.
Sheppy was congratulating Jane Skinner on her new show the other day...and said that Dayside was going to be moved to the Fox Networks...
The Swift Boat Vets have no more respect for McC than they did for Kerry.
A castrated (to use the politically incorrect form of "neutered") cocker spaniel at that, with bad "hair".
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