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.

[Txsleuth]

I know....I hate living this far away from "the action" in the northeast...

I would love to be able to go to Walter Reed on Fridays..and attend the protests and rallys that you get to go to.

You guys that live there really do a great job representing yourselves...as well as the rest of us...I am very proud and appreciative of all that you all do.

[Seattle Conservative]

I didn't hear Anne - too bad. I agree with you. And with Republicans holding the moral high ground, they ususally get right on it and censure or kick the person out of congress (or ask them to resign). With the Dims, they don't do anything until proven guilty and then still sometimes do nothing. William Jefferson (congressman fr LA - not Clinton) has some serious issues w having a large amt of cash in his freezer, but he still walks around in congress tall and 'proud'.

[OldFriend]

One thing that troubles me the most about homosexuals serving in the military is soldier to soldier battlefield transfusions.

Don't know if this still occuring but I would not want my soldier's life jeopardized by AIDS contaminated blood.

[Morgan in Denver]

I guess I'm as guilty as anyone in accepting things as happening without realizing just how devious the Democrats can be. Nor do I know whether or not this is totally true. But, it seems to buttress the viewpoint of wait and see before jumping to conclusions.

[benjaminjjones]

Don't know what happened to my TinyPic images, they previewed great, but they disappeared a minute or so later. Too controversial for TinyPic? If so, political correctness has completely run amok.

Anyway, here's an attempt using photobucket, as the post is meaningless without the pictures.

If these pix work, maybe the Admin Mod can fix the snafu.

[OldFriend]

Doesn't change the underlying disgusting behaviour by Foley but it does show just what the dems are all about.

They may find themselves with more than they've bargained for.

[Seattle Conservative]

"Well, it's gonna be hell week for Repub's....the rats and their little toadies, the MSM, have Foley and Woodward's book to slam the Repubs and the Administration...."

Probably true. The Dims and LSM are probably wetting themselves over their 'good fortune', especially since Bubba looked like even more of an idiot last week and people were talking about that; AND, Pres Bush's poll #s have been going up the last few weeks as he uses the bullypulpit more and addresses the WOT, economy, etc. Hopefully, he'll just keep doing that. As more of Woodward's lies are shown hopefully that will take some wind out of their sails, too (though, I'm not sure we can count on that since they don't seem to mind saying and spreading untruths). The book should be classified as a fiction, rather than non-fiction.

[Seattle Conservative]

"He was very excellent at campaigning,animated,funny,perceptive,enthusiastic and has a great Family and great campaign staff. I believed that he truly cared about his district.and the Republican Party,past tense."

Hi Sam,
Whenever I saw him on TV, that was always the impression I got about him - I rather liked him. He really stood up for kids (and now this arggggh).

"We have already moved on,and are ready to Elect Joe Negron to replace Mark."

God speed to all of you - I think it would be great if Joe got elected, and, even greater because all if this will have backfired in the Dims faces. I'll keep an eye out to see if anything comes out about the Predator Rats, and, if it does how the Dims handle it!

[Jeff Chandler]

There are also different levels of middle class. Here is what I consider to be middle class:

There is lower middle class, which includes two paycheck working class families whose combined earnings might total $60 thousand.

There is upper middle class, which would include professionals and successful small businesses whose combined income is six figures.

Between those extremes there is just plain middle class.

Being "rich" really implies accumulated (and usually inherited) wealth such as the Kennedys'. A family earning $200 thousand a year is not going to be buying yachts or Lear jets.

[Morgan in Denver]

Listening to FNC, a Democrat woman was calling for Republican leadership investigations because they sat on knowledge of the Foley incident. Then she had the gall to suggest the GOP was to blame.

That got me to thinking. If this is the Democrat position on something like this, it's a new revelation. Certainly they did not have similar attitudes when Bill Clinton was accused of sexual harassment or rape.

Is this what is meant when Democrats say they have values now?

[A.Hun]

Thanks Morgan, unfortunately, I am not surprised at all. The timing of the release is too advantageous to have not been a set up.

[Seattle Conservative]

Hi Johnni!
Hope all is well w you! I've missed being here

[A.Hun]

Thanks SC...Phsstpok's post is thought provoking to say the least.

[OldFriend]

I suspect that this revelation was a bit premature as far as political gain for the dems. Reading that ABC was going with the story so the dems had no chance to hold back a little longer.

I pray all this backfires on the dems and I pray too that Foley rots in jail.

[Jeff Chandler]

Excellent analysis and spot on.

I fear we are heading for an all out war with Islam. There will be much carnage.

I don't believe that an assassinated Pope or WMD's on troops would be enough for the politicians to act, though. When the Moslems strike an American city with a WMD, then they will see the light.

[chiller]

What a nice pic. Who is that with Mr. Cheney?

[Seattle Conservative]

I felt that the timing of this thing was very suspicious. Thanks for posting this! All I can say is I sure hope people continue to investigate this, especially CREW and others involvement!

[Phsstpok]

Mark Kilmer has posted his review of the Sunday Shows on Redstate.COM

Posted at 12:11pm on Oct. 1, 2006

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - Review

Hawking Woodward's novel for him and plugging the interviews.

By Mark Kilmer

Sunday, October 1, 2006

This week, we learned that the omniscient Bob Woodward has penned another novel. Dan Bartlett says that he wrote the conclusion before he conducted the interviews, but Steph on TW seemed not to think so. Bob Schieffer ran his Face the Nation show as a plug for the Woodward novel and for Mike Wallace's 60 Minutes interview with Woodward. (He also plugged a new Any Rooney book.) On LE, Wolf Blitzer excerpted the Woodward tome with authority, as if it detailed accounts of what actually happened, written by an all-seeing entity.

Jack Murtha on TW agreed with Bob Woodward that General John Abizaid had told him that the two of them were "this close" on when to withdraw from Iraq, then he admitted that it might not have been about that – he didn't remember – but he did remember Abizaid saying that they were "this close" about something.

Pervez Musharraf was hawking his book on MTP when he told Russert that Hamid Karzai knows nothing but talks about everything.

I won't score the DeWine-Brown debate, but I can say that DeWine appears more credible and speaks with more authority. I wasn't sure what Sherrod was trying to accomplish, and he and Senator DeWine ended up in a shouting match about Sherrod's failure to vote ten times to increase funding for intelligence gathering and his vote against the Patriot Act. (Kowalski has liveblogged the debate for us.)

Schieffer plugged Woodward's book and Wallace's interview, and Joe Biden insisted that he told the President and the Vice President that Cheney and Rumsfeld should resign, but that he wasn't serious because they can't be taken seriously. Schieffer thought Biden had told the President to resign.

Chris Wallace wanted to know who was better on terror, Clinton or Bush? He talked to Newt Gingrich and Jane Harman about it, and Jane Harman told us that she's a grandmother who thinks the House Dem leadership should have been told of Mark Foley's perversion. Newt talked of wars between those who think one thing and those who think another. (Terrorism as a war or a police action, for example.)

Chris Wallace then had a panel discussion of was better on terror, Clinton or Bush?

On LE, Blitzer pushed Woodward's novel hard in an interview with Zalmay Khalilzad. He accused Hank Kissinger to his face, as did Woodward behind his word processor, of setting Bush policy on Iraq. Kissinger called this absurd, claiming that he meets with the President for an hour every six weeks or so.

I was surprised that there was so little talk of Foley and so much hawking of Woodward's novel.

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[Seattle Conservative]

"A family earning $200 thousand a year is not going to be buying yachts or Lear jets."

So true, Jeff - especially if they live in some of the larger cities!

[Morgan in Denver]

I agree. It will be interesting to listen to Rush and Hannity tomorrow to see if they have gotten this information. If so, and if they expose this as being true, assuming it is, it could cause yet another blowback on the Democrats.