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Weekend Show *Preview* for 10/7 - 10/8/06 (not the live thread)
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Posted on 10/06/2006 5:32:15 PM PDT by Phsstpok

Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, 10-1-06 and 10-8-06

It's week five of the drive by media campaign to win back power in Washington for those who truly deserve it (in their minds), the Dhimmicrats.  This week the attention shifts away from President Bush, because their lame but continuous attacks were beginning to work for him.  Instead they are starting to point out to the ignorant boobs out there that the Republicans are really the party of homo values, kiddie porn, dirty talk and probably worse things, like drugs or even (horrors) rock and roll!  They fully expect all right thinking conservatives (particularly those really stupid ones, you know, the Christians) to run away screaming and never support a Republican again.  I think this scandal was set off about two weeks early and, if I'm right, it shows a high degree of desperation on the part of the party of Michael Moore.  Not only weren't their attacks on Bush having the desired affect of "sealing the deal" for the dims, they were actually beginning to lose ground.  The counter attacks by Bush and company on Iraq and the war on terror were a big part of it, but the biggest effect was coming from the drumbeat about who would be in charge if the Republicans get thrown out.  The thought of a Speaker Pelosi or a Chairman Rangel just was too much for most Americans to take.  Therefore, they needed to change the subject and fast.  Unfortunately they did this clumsily and way too soon.  The effect, if any, will have worn off long before election day and, in fact, the blowback might end up damaging the Soros/Clinton war machine most of all.

NBC Meet The Press has the fourth installment in their Senate debate series.  This time it's Talent versus McCaskill for the seat Talent currently holds from Missouri.  This is being touted as the "bell weather" race to watch on election night.  If the Republicans can't hold this seat then they'll lose control of the Senate, "they" say.  Talent has maintained a slight lead in all but the most tortured and tilted polls, but they keep plugging away and dumping millions of campaign dollars gathered from their billionaire sugar daddies via 527s.  Reportedly they are even crossing the line and illegally using Democrat party resources in prohibited ways to support the McCaskill campaign (damn that CFR!).  McCaskill seems to be an ineffective candidate, so watch for lil Timmah to carry more of the Dhimmicrat water against Talent in this weeks "debate."  Following the Timmah/McCaskill tag team assault on Talent they'll try to resurrect the flagging fortunes of Bob Woodward's new book (which is losing big time to... OMG... O'Reilly!).  Woodward was supposed to have at least a week where he "dominated the news cycle" to build up his book sales, provide fodder for the drive by media (DBM) and been given an opportunity to restore his reputation for bashing Republicans.  Unfortunately the premature launch of La Cage aux Foley (hat tip for the phrase of the week to JER) has ruined that plan and Woodward clearly sees a future in the remainder bin for his latest tome.  The usual suspects will try to revive this turkey.  I give them little or no chance.  "OK, so ten out of ten for style, but minus several million for good thinking, yeah?"  (apologies to Zaphod Beeblebrox).

CBS Face The Nation offers us a B team of minor leaguers from the House with Davis (R, VA) and LaHood (D, IL) squaring off over le affair Foley.  The inclusion of LaHood will give them the chance to question the fate of Speaker Hastert, also of Illinois.  Schieffer is joined by the Washington Post's political band director to try to get a little oompah out of the old dinosaur media tuba section.  Watch for a lot of declarative statements and not much in the way of enlightenment or information.

Fox News Sunday provides a "panel of experts" to discuss the Foley scandal which is made up of a spectrum of "good" to "bad" conservatives.  Representative Jack Kingston (R, GA) is the sole member of Congress listed and he has come out forcefully in support of Speaker Hastert.  He has also called for Pelosi, Emanuel, Dean and other Democrats to testify under oath about what they knew and when they knew it regarding the potential crimes involved in Foley's nasty behavior.  They then bring on the "bad conservative" Tony Perkins (Family Research Council).  Perkins has committed the ultimate sin of being a Christian who actually dares to think that Foley's

sexuality and proclivity for preying on boys is relevant to the discussion.  Not real informative, but helpful for the DBM sound bite brigade, I'm sure (unless Perkins gets really, really smart and messes with them).  David Bossie (Citzens United) is trotted out as a conservative voice calling for Hastert's head (he will be celebrated in song and story by the drive by media) and Laura Ingraham, who may or may not be out for Republican blood.  That makes it a panel of four conservatives, 2 to 1 against the Republicans, with one "easily dismissed religious fanatic."  Chris Wallace's Coming Up on 'FOX News Sunday' piece speaks about there being discussions "with key congressional leaders," but no names are listed, other than Kingston.  We'll have to see.  Could it be a surprise list of guests not revealed to give the opposition a chance to counter program?

ABC This Week brings on the A team partisan pairing for the Foley scandal with the heads of the Republican  and Democrat House campaign committees, Tom Reynolds (R, NY) and Rahm Emanuel (D, IL).  If the Republicans were going to go with the aggressive strategy of calling out the Soros/Clinton war room over the Foley scandal this would be the place to do it, but ABC has made sure that Reynolds is damaged goods in this regard and he may well be checkmated from pursuing this tack with Emanuel.  This is because one of the most likely sources (according to "leaks" from ABC (Brian Ross, no doubt) and assorted Dhimmicrat sources) of the incriminating emails and instant messages is Reynolds' gay chief of staff, who is Foley's former chief of staff, Kirk Fordham (Blackmail target of Mike Rogers, but ABC won't mention that).  Also, Reynolds is said to have "convinced" Foley not to retire and therefore "keep this seat Republican," which is now being portrayed as the ultimate act of political cynicism.  Fordham will be the "guest who speaks but is not on the shows" this week, as quotes from him will shower down like a bad thunderstorm, particularly on this show.  Reynolds is a clear target of ABC's plan in this whole thing.  If they can't get Hastert they'll be happy to settle for Reynolds.  And to complete the trifecta for ABC their next guest, James Baker, has a new book and a "bipartisan report" that bashes the Bush policy in Iraq.  He will probably be kept away from the Foley controversy as he has come out strongly against "sacrificing" Speaker Hastert this week (good imagery about throwing someone off the sled to keep the wolves at bay).  My great hope is that they've once again misunderstimated the Bush strategery because Bush is the one who appointed Baker to the Bipartisan Iraq Study Group which issued the "critical report" on Iraq.  Some on the left are beginning to smell a Rovian plot and warn of Bush's own October surprise and many tie it to the recommendations coming out of this group (see show links for some of the silliness).  Right now Baker is being feted by the drive by media and the left because he's criticizing Bush's policy, but what if Bush takes the Study Group's advice?  Bada Bing, Bada Boom!  This Sunday might tell the tale on that.  I will look at Baker's appearance on This Week with a magnifying glass.  George Will, Cokie Roberts and Fareed Zakaria will be called on by Steponallofus to "explain" the true significance (read "doom for the evil Republicans") of all of this in the roundtable segment.  ABC is working hard to pay back their Clintonian Overlords for daring to show that awful "Path to 9/11" thingy, dontcha know?

CNN Late Edition trots out the Iraqi foreign minister, no doubt to ask him to confess that our Iraq policy is a disaster and that we've actually made things worse since toppling Saddam, who was truly harmless, after all.  I think that is a minor, almost pro-forma part of the show this week.  Cornyn (R, TX) is set to face off with Biden (D, DE) over all things to do with foreign policy, including the border fence and middle east policy.  Biden is pushing the old Europe like "let's divide Iraq" plan and I think Cornyn will gut him like a fish over this issue, if given a chance.  Cornyn's cynical statements about funding for the border fence will be used as a starting point for the discussion of that issue, which puts him on the defensive and lets Biden pontificate about how evil and racist Republican immigration policy is while also claming that Dhimmicrats have a real plan to protect our borders (no doubt he wants to eliminate our borders, then they can't be threatened, of course).  The co-authors of the new political book "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008" will work to position themselves as good members of the DBM, since they are being criticized by the MoveOn left over whatever conclusions they draw in their book.  My guess is that they argue that to win you have to support America against those who want to destroy America, which Dean, Pelosi and Moore would of course find objectionable.  Watch for fierce anti-Bush spinning with very little reference to what's really in the book.  CNN's Dana Bash has also been criticized from the left for her recent reporting, primarily that it wasn't sufficiently slanted against Bush (she bothered to include facts, which messed up the narrative they wanted to achieve).   Wolfe will give her the opportunity to correct those "errors."  And then they offer up Ted Turner's idea of a "real" conservative, Pat Buchanan, in all his wild eyed, racist and jingoistic glory.  Wolfe will give him a free field of fire to attack Bush while still spouting off offensive comments that they will then try to tie to all conservatives, especially Bush.  It's a win-win for the MoveOn crowd, and good ol' Pat has filled this role faithfully for years.

With the exception of the Journal Editorial Report I am singularly uninterested in the Saturday shows this week.  Mort and Fred are really getting tiresome with their inside the beltway conventional wisdom.  I long ago decided that this isn't a "conventional wisdom" election, good or bad for us, and they just keep on keeping on with the same old tired analysis.  Russert's Danforth hagiography will likely be truly offensive.  I wonder if Timmah will ask him about his uber liberal US church leaders rejecting the Bible, at least as far as the leaders of his church in the rest of the world are concerned (except dhimmi England, of course)?  Nah!  Fox News Watch is simply boring, as their "defend journalists at all cost regardless of any fraud" approach is way too predictable at this point and totally uninteresting.  When Neal Gabler is the only voice remotely interesting on this show you know they're in trouble.  I keep saying that Fox should turn this into an hour, give half to the guys from Media Research Center and half to the Soros moonbats from Media Matters and let them have at it, with a panel of adults to hose down the rhetoric between segments.  Now that would draw an audience!  But JER may redeem Saturday for reasoning hominids.  They deal with the Foley mess, but it appears to be a throwaway for them.  They're real focus is American demographics, like Social Security a controversial topic that everyone simply wants to ignore but one which will clearly affect all of our lives far more than almost anything else on the world stage today.  Bravo, folks.  Let's hope it starts a meaningful dialogue on this complex and important topic.  Wait, what am I thinking.  This is dinosaur media TV (even if it is cable).  They will be a lonely voice, crying in the wilderness.  Noble effort, but will anyone notice?

So, what's the bottom line this week?  This is a week of frantic spin where the DBM and the Dhimmicrats try to frame yet another new "winning argument" to replace their latest "losing argument" (number 974).  Watch for lots of declarations of victory for the forces of Soros that ring increasingly hollow.  The question at this point is how desperate will they be to shut down the investigation if it dares to look at "what the Dhimmicrats knew and when they knew it."  Several senior members of the moonbat left may be seriously at risk over this whole Foley affair.  I'll be interested to see how the gay community ends up reacting to being used as a stalking horse and sacrificial lamb in this way.  I've talked before about a potential sea change in racial politics coming out of this election.  Could there be a sea change in the politics of sexual orientation?  Will the Log Cabin Republican types (R and D?) realize and communicate that Republicans may not approve of their lifestyle or agenda, but they don't want to set them up for lynching, while Nancy Pelosi isn't averse to that as a tactic, so long as it buys her power?  The ultimate denouement of this part of "la cage aux Foley" may be whether Mike Rogers is investigated (dare I say indicted?) for having blackmailed a gay Republican Senator (reportedly over the Alito vote, which would probably make the target Lincoln Chaffee).  If he faces serious jail time for that little bit of political theater (which he has trumpeted publicly) what doors might he kick open?  I wonder if he knows where Fort Marcy Park is?

This has been cross posted to my blog at Wizards.townhall.com. This post exists primarily as a heads up for who is on the weekend talks shows, what they've been invited on to push (based on their recent pronouncements) and the spin (meme) the DBM is likely trying to push based on that information. All of this is prep work for the weekly Sunday Morning Talk Show thread posted by Alas Babylon!. That thread provides a live commentary and analysis of the Sunday talking head shows, with rare insight and exceptional fact checking. we are the Jedi Council of FreeRepublic, at least in regards to these DBM gabfests. You wanna know what was said and what it meant, as well as where they messed up? Read that thread!

I'll post a link to Mark Kilmer's excellent preview of the Sunday shows over at RedState.COM when it is up.

I'll also post a link to this Sunday's live thread here when it is up.


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Saturday Shows for 10-7-06

Below are the topics and guests announced for these programs, along with my take on the "memes" that the shows are trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondracke, Fred Barnes)

CNBC's Tim Russert Show (Tim Russert)

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page


1 posted on 10/06/2006 5:32:18 PM PDT by Phsstpok
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NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.


2 posted on 10/06/2006 5:33:25 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.


3 posted on 10/06/2006 5:34:34 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.


4 posted on 10/06/2006 5:35:27 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.


5 posted on 10/06/2006 5:36:19 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.


6 posted on 10/06/2006 5:36:59 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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Thanks Phsstpok, I'll try to muddle through this tonight. Or tomorrow. LOL


7 posted on 10/06/2006 5:40:55 PM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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To: Morgan in Denver

Well, some of the Foley e-mails discussed things such as penis measurements.


So we should conclude that Republicans are closeted gays or perverts who measure male organs. Whereas Democrats would never measure the male parts.


And all of this should influence how we vote because????????/


8 posted on 10/06/2006 5:46:01 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: A.Hun; Bahbah; Txsleuth; MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative; Alas Babylon!; Seattle Conservative; ...
Ping

The Weekend Talk Show Preview Thread is up

If you would like on or off my ping list please Freepmail me

See the initial post for my "usual witty commentary"

It's week five of the drive by media campaign to win back power in Washington for those who truly deserve it (in their minds), the Dhimmicrats.  This week the attention shifts away from President Bush, because their lame but continuous attacks were beginning to work for him.  Instead they are starting to point out to the ignorant boobs out there that the Republicans are really the party of homo values, kiddie porn, dirty talk and probably worse things, like drugs or even (horrors) rock and roll!  They fully expect all right thinking conservatives (particularly those really stupid ones, you know, the Christians) to run away screaming and never support a Republican again. 

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So, what's the bottom line this week?  This is a week of frantic spin where the DBM and the Dhimmicrats try to frame yet another new "winning argument" to replace their latest "losing argument" (number 974).  Watch for lots of declarations of victory for the forces of Soros that ring increasingly hollow.  The question at this point is how desperate will they be to shut down the investigation if it dares to look at "what the Dhimmicrats knew and when they knew it."  Several senior members of the moonbat left may be seriously at risk over this whole Foley affair.

Woo hoo!  All I have to do to get my post up on Friday night is to take the day off on Friday!  Wait a minute, that's not a viable solution...! 

Anyway, have at it and sleep well in the knowledge that the terror that is Phsstpok isn't responsible for the Sunday awards until sometime in December!!!!!! 


9 posted on 10/06/2006 5:49:11 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Get a grip.

As repugnant as it is, Foley wrote those emails to an adult, by law. There's a difference between IM and e-mail that seems to get lost on all this too.

Beyond that, wait for the facts to come out instead of jumping to conclusions. We hate it when Democrats do it and it's no better when Republicans do it.


10 posted on 10/06/2006 5:52:28 PM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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I'll probably watch FNS and none of the others, no surprise. I am hoping this will be the end of the Foley surprise and we can address important issues. Maybe not, but I hope so.

I fully expect Brit Hume to be the only person this weekend to understand and comment about Foley and what's going on. Foley is gone, Democrats need to get used to that. The Democrats who had knowledge of what really happened are still there and need to be held accountable.

All of the above could be somewhat moot IF the North Koreans launch a missile tomorrow.
11 posted on 10/06/2006 5:57:28 PM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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I will check in on Fox News Sunday in order to see how much of a turncoat each of those pseudo-Republicans are. Feh.


12 posted on 10/06/2006 6:34:22 PM PDT by Miss Marple (Lord, please look over Mozart Lover's and Jemian's sons and keep them strong.)
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To: Morgan in Denver

Good point about the N. Korean missile...but, the dems would just say that Bush told them to...to get the Foley thing out of the news....LOL


13 posted on 10/06/2006 7:35:24 PM PDT by Txsleuth (FREEPATHON TIME----You need FR, you know you do, so how about donating??)
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Hey...I like it when you do the awards...you always are really sweet and manage to find ONE decent post by me..LOL


BTW..I saw on a Fox show tonight...they are advertising Jack Kingston and Marty Meehan on Sunday.

Marty Meehan...the last time he was on Fox...it was BOR, I believe, and I can't remember the topic...but, I remember that Meehan didn't answer even one of Bill's questions...LOL


14 posted on 10/06/2006 7:37:18 PM PDT by Txsleuth (FREEPATHON TIME----You need FR, you know you do, so how about donating??)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

And all of this should influence how we vote because????????/

A good question. It seems the Democrat Noise Machine, having decided that references to female homosexuality (aka Mary Cheney in 2004) did not drive us nasty right wing Christian Fundemnatlists running screaming from the Republican Party maybe a story on male homosexuality with a phony child molestation charge worked in would.


15 posted on 10/07/2006 7:30:03 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Say Leftists. How many Nazis did killing Nazis in WW2 create? or Samurai? or Fascists?)
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To: Miss Marple
will check in on Fox News Sunday in order to see how much of a turncoat each of those pseudo-Republicans

Is kind of a defining moment for our side. Intresting to note once again the DC-Real world divide. The "Conservatives" most in angst and looking for Hastert's head are mostly inside the Beltway people. The ones outside the belt way have seemed better able to resist getting sucked into the Democrat Noise Machine

16 posted on 10/07/2006 7:35:20 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (Say Leftists. How many Nazis did killing Nazis in WW2 create? or Samurai? or Fascists?)
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TXSleuth informed me that Marty Meehan has been added to the Fox News Sunday lineup, so here's his info

Still no change on the FNS web site and the news outlets haven't posted their show listings yet, nor has Mark Kilmer.  More if anything comes along.

Thanks, sleuth.

17 posted on 10/07/2006 7:57:28 AM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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Wallace admitted Friday they were still working on the lineup so this isn't a surprise, but thanks for the heads up on who it would be.

One guess is more than a few Democrats want to keep a low profile for tomorrow in light of more truth on Foley coming out.


18 posted on 10/07/2006 8:02:21 AM PDT by Morgan in Denver
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Agreed that the Beltway Boys has gotten so predictable it isn't worth the time, and FNW lacks any smidgen of courage. A real examination of BIG media would be worthwhile, but would end party invitations. When the only interesting comments come from Gabler (a liar and a moonbat), it's over.

But there is the JER:They're real focus is American demographics, like Social Security a controversial topic that everyone simply wants to ignore but one which will clearly affect all of our lives far more than almost anything else on the world stage today.

Every thinking person (unfortunately, there are not enough of them) knows Social Security is doomed unless something is done. The President, wisely, wanted to give people the right to keep a small part of the confiscated funds and see how it would work out in the free market. The dems knew that people would like having ownership of some of their money and watching it grow so they couldn't let that happen. If dems ever take charge (please don't let that happen), you will have a reprise of the Clinton's "I had no idea how bad the situation was, and I have no choice but to raise taxes" refrain. And the clobbering of the citizens' pocketbook will be massive.

19 posted on 10/07/2006 9:07:12 AM PDT by Bahbah (Shalit, Goldwasser and Regev, we are praying for you)
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To: Phsstpok
I think you hit the nail on the head!

Political purists disturb me, because they have to put political thought into little cubicles of activity and substance, despite the fact that in reality, everyone is different, and can't be so easily categorized.

This is how we can get a Harry Bellafonte calling Colin Powell a "house Negro", Clarance Thomas an "Uncle Tom" or Condi Rice "Bush's sex Negress". You see, in the purist's mind, all blacks MUST think alike. They could never, ever be Republican, unless there was something mentally wrong with them, they hated themselves for being born black, or they hate their race. REAL black people are left-wing democrats just like them, with left-wing biases and demands. Tow the line!

The same line of thought applies to many homosexual activists. To wit, you cannot be a homosexual Republican. Republicans hate fags, and therefore want to murder them like Scot Shepard in Wyoming, or go back to the days when Greasers got their kicks beating up queers. So any outing of gay Republicans is perfectly alright, because they're hypocrites who deserve it.

Republicans, in the purist's minds, since they hate fags, but allow some in the party to secretly be fags, must be using homosexuals to get votes they do not deserve. So dirty tricks against them, lies, half-truths, etc, don't matter; all are perfectly allowable in the war against the RepubliNazis.

If smearing some homosexuals as child molesters, and the Republican leadership as secret supporters/enablers of child molesters gets those evil Republicans out of government then that is obviously a good thing. And sticking it to those homosexuals who have the gall to be Republicans or support the ideals of Republicanism is a wonderful thing, akin to St George slaying the dragon.

This is the attitude that many so-called journalists have, and why they report certain stories the way they do. My thought is that these "journalists" are far more dangerous than the purists, as they act as gatekeeprs to what the rest of us learn (however wrongly) or remain in ignorance thereof, because we're never told.

People like you, and the rest of the "Jedi Council", are absolutely essential in showing the truth, especially to those so-called journalists. That you can do so with humor and laughter makes it all the better. The free press is dying because of these reporters, and it is up to us to kick them off their high horses so that they (or others willing to step up to the task) may become once again what a free press is supposed to be--a free, fair, balanced accounter of what is happening in the world.

20 posted on 10/07/2006 9:37:03 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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