Posted on 09/24/2006 3:15:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 24th, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Bill Clinton (D-FIRPOTUS); Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.); Dr. JoGayle Howard, National Zoo panda doctor.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Bill Clinton (D-Arkancide); Afghan President Hamid Karzai; John Danforth, former senator and U.N. ambassador.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. John McCain, (R-Ariz.)
THIS WEEK (ABC): Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, (R-Tenn.); New Jersey Senate candidates Sen. Bob Menendez, (D-N.J.), and Republican Tom Kean Jr.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Karzai; Sen. Arlen Specter, (R-Pa.); Rep. Jane Harman, (D-Calif.); Iraqi President Jalal Talibani; Alexander Haig, former secretary of state; Richard Holbrooke, former U.N. ambassador.
No wall huh?
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20040429-122228-6538r.htm
http://www.nationalreview.com/mccarthy/mccarthy200404190849.asp
http://www.nationalreview.com/levin/levin200404151634.asp
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/006465.php
Exactly! No intelligence analyst is ever going to give a guarantee. That's why there's a President, to make those tough calls. Clinton didn't have it in him to make tough calls unless he had someone he could blame if anything went wrong.
Thank goodness I am apparently wrong about wider "uses" for the kids and they DO use tiny little kids for camel jockeys and, I assume, somewhat bigger kids for the heavier work. See A.Hun's post #260 to me. Amazing!
I said that too. LOL
LOL..I like it
That is tradition and bylaws, not part of the charter. It can be changed, as I understand it, by a simple majority in the General Assembly and the Security Council can't stop it.
And then, in the name of the children, he'll ask all countries to surrender their sovereignty to the UN in order to insure peace in our time, starting with the dismantling of the evil United States.
Amazing that the DNC must constatntly "DEFINE" what Billy actually says, isn't it??
LOL!
"Rather, someone needs to counter the lies he is spewing."
They did. Just not in the way you would have liked them too.
ED Hill isn't being bumped from Fox and Friends. She's taking over for Bridget Quinn. Gretchen Carlson and ED Hill are just swapping places to cover for Bridget.
LOL, I thought the same thing.
Do you know this as fact, like from a source within FNC? I can't figure out why Fox would take a gamble with Carlson doing F&F full time when they are pretty much guaranteed respectable ratings with E.D. Also, it just seems strange that no one mentioned her swap on Friday's show. I also heard on today's show that "everything is going to look different on Monday", and I took that to mean that the set of the show will be changing as well. Lots of changes at FNC lately.
This is the Bubba we always wanted America to see.
Great post. The two highlights above are definitely keepers. I'm going to send off the "Tom Cruise moment" comment to a few interested parties.
Somebody up the thread from FNC.
That switch works out very well for E.D. Hill because she can get the kids off to school and not have to be out the door before them. Since she often takes a lot of time off, this gig will probably make her take less time off to deal with Family matters.
Its only temporary until Bridget Quinn comes back from "time off." Whatever that means.
Sunday, September 24, 2006
NR & Bin Laden 1998 [Jonah Goldberg]
Bill Clinton in his interview today seemed to be suggesting that conservatives uniformly opposed and denounced him when he launched his "wag the dog" strike in 1998. For the record, here's the NR editorial in response to the attacks, dated9/14/98:
COMEDY Central's The Daily Show called it "Operation Desert Shield Me from Impeachment." Funny, but too cynical. The U.S. missile strikes against terrorist facilities in Afghanistan and Sudan were a response to a real threat: They targeted the operations of Osama bin Laden, the terrorist mastermind who, according to U.S. intelligence, was responsible for the brutal bombing of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and was plotting further attacks on Americans.
Congressional leaders were therefore right to support President Clinton's action. The last thing Republicans should do is add to the inhibitions and hesitations of an Administration congenitally averse to the forthright use of American military power. The White House's blatant exploitation of the crisis for its own political purposes-dragging Mr. Clinton back from vacation for a portentous Oval Office address to the nation-should be a source of amusement only. Richard Nixon, too, tried to claim indispensability for his foreign-policy expertise-a much more valid claim in his case, and at the height of the Cold War to boot. It didn't help him.
Launching 75 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the training camp in Afghanistan and the chemical-weapons plant in Sudan was, by Clinton standards, a strong performance. In June 1993, responding to an Iraqi assassination attempt against ex-President George Bush, Mr. Clinton launched 23 cruise missiles at a military-intelligence headquarters in Baghdad-in the middle of the night, so that no one would get hurt! This time, the strike in Afghanistan was aimed at a gathering of terrorist leaders reported to be taking place on that day. Admirably cold-blooded, that.
Bin Laden, the terrorist kingpin, is a new phenomenon, but we should not exaggerate either his novelty or the difficulty of defeating him. (There is a canard that he is an American creation. There is no evidence that he is. He did win his spurs in the Arab world's equivalent of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade-the war against the Soviets in Afghanistan-but U.S. money and arms went to the Afghan freedom fighters through the Pakistani military.) While he is a freelancer, bin Laden is dependent on the support of renegade governments, such as Afghanistan's and Sudan's, against which we have leverage. We can target his physical assets by military or covert means and his financial assets through other controls (as Mr. Clinton has also done). His Islamist revolutionary ideology is increasingly discredited in the Muslim world, even in Iran. Defeating him will take time, but it will be done.
Clinton Unleashed
(With a tad of linky goodness)
http://www.macsmind.com/wordpress/2006/09/23/clinton-unleashed/
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