Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 1 October 2006

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf; Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, and his Democratic opponent, Rep. Sherrod Brown.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Presidential counselor Dan Bartlett; Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Bartlett; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; poet laureate Donald Hall.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Bartlett; U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad; Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

[MNJohnnie]

Card thinks he is helping himself. Big mistake. It seems Card was bigger part of the problem then many of us knew.

[Barset]

"where there..." Correction: "where their"

Preview is my friend, must remember that.

[Morgan in Denver]

My gut reaction is to agree with you but I only remember this coming up under Reagan and now Bush 43. I do not remember outspoken opponents coming from either the Carter or Clinton administrations. There may have been some but I don't remember them. Clinton, for sure, wanted yes-man types around him from what I've read. He did not handle criticism or confrontation very well, as Dick Morris can testify.

[Phsstpok]

The timing of this release will lead back to leftist IMHO.

We will never see it in the MSM, because regardless of the motive, it will have brought down a Republican.

I understand the logic, but was he really "a Republican" or was he a gay activist who had carefully infiltrated "the enemy camp" with designs on destroying us from the inside?  It's like the Catholic priests who systematically molest children (disproportionally male children).  I don't think that they are Catholics called to the priesthood by God and then they went astray.  I think they are disturbed people, tortured by what they think is their "sexual calling" and that they decided the best place to prey on little children would be to masquerade as a priest.

It's like lamenting that Gary Aldrich got caught because he was CIA.  He wasn't CIA.  He was KGB (intellectually) and had worked his way into CIA.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I'll admit I didn't shed tears when I heard he was leaving. I thought he should have left in 2004. For the record, I was happy to see Powell leave as well and more so now we know his second in command Armitage allowed the WH to dangle like a participle over the Valerie Blame Game.

[MNJohnnie]

That was Card's fundamental problem. He listened to the Junk Media. He seems to think if he appeased them with Rummy's head that would help the President. He never quite grasped then reality that Washington Politics is a blood sport. You conquer or die. There is no peaceful coexistence with the DC Establishment. Card was way more RINO then I think many people, including the President, realized.

[A.Hun]

I'm sorry that happened to you and your district samantha. It just seems that when men get in the position of power, heterosexuals tend to go after the young and tender females, the gays go after young and tender males.

They are both wrong, the latter is just more disgusting. Good luck replacing him with another Republican. The talking heads have already conceded that seat to the Dems, and I would love to see them refuted.

[snugs]

Unfortunately the media is more interested in gossip than real news.

Sad state of affairs when that sells more newspapers or gets more viewers than real news.

It is exactly the same in Britain, real news is no longer considered "popular".

[onyx]

LOL -- I have always called him that and you're right, he is one ugly dude. Poor thing.

[snugs]

Unfortunately I fear you are correct.

[A.Hun]

Great post Johnnie...it quantifies what we all know to be true. Great progress has been made in Iraq, and it continues.

I still believe that GWB is on course to have the majority of our troops home before he leaves office, with a functional Iraq left behind.

All Sherrod could offer this morning as his answer was to accelerate the training of Iraqis to take over. That was totally bogus, yet Timmuh nor DeWine jumped him on it.

[Bernard]

Just before they try to "blame Bush" the ad mentions the UN peacekeeping force that has not been invited in. Apparently, the source of the ad is confused about the sovereignty of the UN forces and thinks the US President can force the UN do do something.

I think Kofi Annan, in the meantime, is trying to get rid of the smell of sulpur in the UN building. Maybe he should cut back on the boiled eggs.

[tobyhill]

From all the Sunday talk shows it confirms the Democrats have bet their very existence all on the failure of Iraq and will do their best to assure this failure but it won't work regardless the amount of help from the MSM. Just because Woodward says it doesn't make it so.

[MNJohnnie]

I believe that George W. Bush's policies have been directed at avoiding that true, all out war, at almost any cost, particularly to himself. It truly has been a noble effort, but I think that he's failed. Time is running out. We will not go gentle into that good night. A civilization must not only rage against the dying of the light, it must fight and succeed in preserving that light. We've done it before, all too many times. We will do it again.

I am not going to refight this battle. I will simply make this post to point out that this "Total War" dogma was how Napoleon in Spain, the Nazis in Eastern Europe and the Russians in Afghanistan tried to deal with an Asymmetrical threat.

It was a complete failure. The ONLY time in History this dogma has worked is when the Mongols completely exterminated everyone. NO one in a position of political power the US is going to support a War of Genocide. No one.

Right now the bulk of the forces doing the fighting, and the dying, on our side in the war are Muslims. This Total War dogma would turn all of them into foes. Counter Insurgency is not Total War. Failure to grasp the significant difference inr esponding to the two different threats has cause the Great Power involved to fail EVERY time.

[Chi-townChief]

Got one of Ol' Slick with that finger up his nose?

[A.Hun]

but was he really "a Republican" or was he a gay activist who had carefully infiltrated "the enemy camp"

It is certainly a possibility, but apparently he fooled a lot of good conservatives in his district. Personally, I think he was drunk on power and did not believe he would be caught.

[A.Hun]

We have debated this before, and I, like you, do not believe total war is justified for many of the reasons you mention.

However, that could change in an instant with the correct attack by the Muslims, regardless of who supports it.

[Chuck54]

BTTT

[LibLieSlayer]

"How could he think he'd get away with it."

Ten years ago he could have. Rush says this is why they think they are invincible... because for decades they have been... but no more.

LLS

[benjaminjjones]

Handicapped is handicapped. Homosexuality is a handicap. They should be allowed to live thriving happy lives just as any other American. But they should not be allowed to marry or raise children.

Well put, you get a "Dr. Laura Tip of My Hat" for that.

(I've never watched Dr. Laura, but I sent her the money for a hat and coffee cup, to reward her for her great "biological error" & "deviant" statements about homosexuals)

And while I'm at it, snugs gets a "Bush-Chenney Tip of My Hat" for her tagline, and for...well, just being snugs (and because I already had the hat).

I love this thread, make a beeline for it when I logon Sunday mornings. May it live long and prosper. It's a great way to catch up on all the major political events of the past week without being a total FR shut-in.