Posted on 10/14/2006 8:03:57 AM PDT by Phsstpok
Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, 10-14-06 and 10-15-06
Week six of the "official mid-term election campaign coverage" (as if it campaign coverage ever stops) and the DBM is in panic mode. The plot to drive out the "evil Republicans" by using Iraq is in tatters since every time they forced the President to talk about Iraq and the War On Terror his polls and the Republican's polls go up, so they had to get off of that real quick. Then they went to the dugout for their "relief slander" and pulled out the Foley scandal 3 weeks early, because trends weren't looking good and "real reporters" in the DBM were beginning to ask questions about the total BS that Billy Jeff had been spouting off in his meltdown on Fox. Can't have that! A little problem with that strategy, though, since they don't have all of the "facts" nailed down in their favor and they also have to trash the gay community in the process. Harvey Fierstein and friends are really getting pissed about that. And they expected this tactic to gross out those Neanderthal Christians who would clearly run away from the Republicans because they tolerate (horrors) homos in their midst. Unfortunately the near universal reaction from the Christian conservative community is "they think we're Neanderthals?" And on top of that those same folks are now saying "you know, I was toying with the idea of staying home on election day... but NOW...." The other key comment in relation to the alleged Republicans who are "secretly gay" is along the lines of "hate the sin, love the sinner" and talking about wanting to protect and support these poor people who are being victimized by the real enemy. Not good from the Dhimmicrat point of view.
On top of that heavy handed and obviously phony push polls were being trumpeted all week by the DBM (the pubbie's are DOOOMED! and should give up now... stay home... stay home). But it didn't have the desired affect and there are signs of a growing backlash as proof comes out that la cage aux Foley was an orchestrated plot by high ranking Dhimmicrat operatives and Soros funded shadow groups who had the information and kept it secret in a clear criminal conspiracy. So, it's time to haul out the next "master strategy that is guaranteed to win back Congress for the rightful masters of the little people™." What plan, you ask? Simple, get more push polls and use their "conclusions" as the basis for claiming that the Dhimmicrats are really the party of a tough aggressive foreign policy!
No, really. Stop laughing. I mean it.
But how in the hell did Karl Rove convince Lil Kimmah in North Korea to set off a nuke just 4 weeks before the election? Damn that Rove!
On to the shows.
NBC Meet The Press continues their Senate debate series with the Minnesota race between Klobuchar (D) and Kennedy (R). The Red Star Tribune has already declared this race over, so why bother having the vote? And Lil Timmah will, of course, be asking the tough questions of the Democrat Socialist DFL candidate about whether she will support Harry Reid even if he is convicted of taking bribes and helping the Mafia. What? Lil Timmah isn't going to ask anything remotely like that? Well surprise, surprise, surprise!
CBS Face The Nation goes for the A team on foreign policy this week, but is it because Secretary Rice reportedly made sympathetic statements about the Palestinians having the right to live "without occupation" or because they think they can play "gotcha" over the latest dream sequence from Bob Woodward's book? Warner is clearly on the air on CBS to talk about how bad he thinks things are going in Iraq. After all, he hasn't been on the DBM screaming head shows in several weeks so he figures they have to book him after he says something critical that they can spin against Bush. Isn't that a rule? Sam Nunn has been working against nuclear proliferation ever since he left the Senate, concentrating on the problems with exactly the same countries that President Bush labeled the "Axis of Evil," but CBS hasn't thought it was important enough to talk to him (that might help Bush on his "axis of evil" stuff, dontcha know?). Now, of course, in the aftermath of Lil Kimmah setting off his "nuke" (it is NOT a fizzle! don't believe those lying scientists! believe the dear leader or you will be shot!) they can take what Nunn says and spin it to make GWB look bad. CBS booking department! Get that man scheduled ASAP!
Fox News Sunday isn't content with having given air time to Billy Jeff Clinton a few weeks ago (and allowed him to call life long card carrying Democrat Chris Wallace a right wing hit man), now they have decided to give equal time to... John Kerry! Oh the humanity! Bets are open on how long it will take Ketchup Boy to attack Vietnam vets per se this Sunday. Doesn't it dawn on him that by making the term "swift boating" into a negative verb he is trashing his own claim to fame as a "hero" from Vietnam? Nope - he's just not that bright. Kerry will be the lead Ho in the new Democrat Gung Ho campaign to prove to everyone how tough they are (he served in Vietnam, did you know that?). Secretary Rice is also on Fox but I don't expect much critical commentary on her reported "love fest" with Hamas, but I fully expect questions about Woodward's books. Bets, anyone? I'm almost willing to guarantee that no questions will be raised about Reid's little shell game with federal land swaps that netted him nearly a million dollars profit or recent calls for Sandy Burglar's pants stuffing habit to be investigated. That might make the Dhimmicrats angry and Chris wants to be invited back to the cocktail parties. He's ronery since Bill dissed him. Our only hope in that regard is Brit, but he's been noticeably reticent on that topic on his own show since it broke.
ABC This Week Gives us John Bolton in place of Secretary Rice, but still the A team in my estimation. I fully expect a "blame the current President and ignore the previous President" tag team match during not only this interview, undoubtedly with Georgie Steponallofus, but also during the "I hate the Bush family more than you do" roundtable in the last half hour of this show. The Ford vs. Corker segment on Tennessee's Senate race will probably be interesting, if only to expose the DBM's plan for how they intend to attack Corker between now and election day. But, OK, I admit, I'm going to watch the show this week because they've got Marg Helgenberger on in the voices segment. Forgive me. I am weak.
CNN Late Edition also offers us Ambassador Bolton this week. Do they have some secret evidence they plan to spring on him of how he or Bush or Rice or Rove really engineered 9/11 in order to support the JOOOOOOS and steal the oil from the innocent and peace loving MOOOSLIMS? I doubt it, but somehow that thought always occurs to me when anyone other than Fox books Ambassador Bolton (and I'm beginning to worry about Fox). Beyond the Ambassador and GOP chairman Mehlman the rest of CNN is a Bush hate fest this week. Are they truly that desperate, ? Will they start broadcasting "all Cindy Sheehan all the time?" Of course not. As Rush says, if they make it obvious who they are and what they want then they lose. They're counting on fooling us again. So go ahead, tell us again how Democrats are really the party that wants to fight and protect us from the Jihadis. What? Surrender is your best strategy? Bad move, Bozos.
I'm always tempted to drop the Saturday shows from my preview but Opinion Journal always argues against that and then we have weeks like this which offer faint hope for some of the other shows. The Beltway Boys are following way too predictable a scenario for me, which is getting really boring. I hope that maybe even once a decade they get outside of the beltway and realize that there is a "real world" out here (the quotes are for them, not me) that they just don't have a clue about. Unless, of course, they surprise me this week? Nah! Lil Timmah Russert's show with Bob Woodward is totally lame and I think even he knows it. Mark your calendars. This may be the last "semi" network appearance of Bob Woodward regarding his failed "number one best seller" which has been trounced four to one by O'Reilly, for God's sake, on the "best seller" lists. And now word starts to come out that he betrayed snakehead having spilled the beansto Darth Cheney about Kerry's "Ohio strategy" in 2004 which has gotten the DUmmies all pissed at him. Lil Timmah's email has probably been overflowing with nastygrams about Woodward.
Okay, so that leaves me with my bottom line for this week. It appears that the dims are in denial (the Polls are 150% accurate, trust them, they are planning our entire future based on those fantasies). The pollsters are desperately trying to deny their own complicity in the current fraud because they know it's their last desperate gasp of legitimacy before they get swept away by this nasty concept called REALITY! I'm betting that the strategy du jour of selling the dims as the party of tough foreign policy won't last out the day and that this upcoming week will be dominated by bad news for Reid and worse news for dims implicated in la cage aux Foley. That means... tada... that they'll role out yet another "master strategy that is guaranteed to win back Congress for the rightful masters of the little people™." Acme Political Consulting must sell them those things by the gross.
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.
First, thanks Phsstpok for the posting.
I have not listened to Mark Levin so I really don't know what he's been saying. But, if this is what he's putting out there he is absolutely right. I've never seen so many Republicans running around like Chicken Little proclaiming the sky is falling.
IF the Democrats win the House and Senate next month what would that mean? To me it would mean a party does not need a plan, a program, a position on issues that I believe are important in order to win. All they have to do is bash the other guy, make a lot of false accusiations and demonize the other side. If voters fall for that there's not much we can do about it.
In the mean time I'll keep the faith that voters will see through all this crap.
I fully expect to hear that Dingy Harry has checked into a rehab clinic.
Except, Reid would have to understand he did something wrong. I'm not convinced he understands that. To him, this is all just business as usual. If anything, this is only a GOP dirty trick against an honest politician.
I agree. I think I will be finishing some of those around the house projects over the next few weeks.
I am enjoying the run up to the dedication of the Air Force Memorial.
Nope, if this story gets legs, the democrats can't have him out in public dodging questions. Rehab or the hospital, mark my words.
I expected Dingy Harry to be on every Sunday Morning show explaining his land deal. </ sarcasm>
I have to work tomorrow, so I'll try to keep track of the Sunday show thread from work. No TV here, so I'll just have to make the best of FR posts.
I just did an analysis of all the DBM's (including FNC) political web sites. I wanted to see if there really is bias in the DBM. I wasn't surprised to find it, of course.
I used the Foley "Scandal" versus the newly brewing information about Harry Reid.
The Foley scandal broke the day he resigned, Friday, Sept 29th. The Harry Reid scandal first broke on Tuesday the 10th, with the Solomon story on AP. Four days after the Foley story, every major DBM outlet, print and television, had it as the top story. Four days after the Reid story broke, only a few of the DBM have highlighted it, and then none as their top story.
Foley resigned after being outed. Reid is still serving as the top national elected democrat in the world.
Foley's supposed sexual predation of House pages, several perhaps underage, has led to calls for Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives, to step down, from within his own party, by almost all the top democrats, and by most of the DBM. Harry Reid has been asked to step down by a only couple of media outlets (Philadelphia Inquirer).
The television political web sites as of 10:00 AM CDT, Saturday 14 Oct 2006. Only two have any information on the Harry Reid Land Deal Swindle (as of my posting--note that these pages will probably be updated as time goes on):
The DBM says that there really is no bias in their reporting, and that just as conservatives state there is bias towards the Left, Leftists state there is bias to the Right (as the DBM is owned by big corporations, who are Rightists). However, an objective analysis shows that when it comes to the Foley versus Reid scandals, the one damaging to the Republicans has been disseminated far and wide, while the one involving the Democrats has gotten virtually no coverage. The Foley scandal has worked its way into the national consciousness, hurting the Republican chances at keeping control of the government (indeed, a story the DBM is directly reporting and attributing to their coverage of the Foley scandal), while it appears that suppressing the Reid scandal is being done with the express desire to ensure it doesn't harm Democratic political chances in the coming election.
ROFLOL!
I am very glad that you did that. I worry often that they have no idea how deep and ferocious that support is. Maybe a good time to remind folks about americasupportsyou.mil. Not as goood as face to face, but a good thing to do now and then to visit and say thanks.
"but why don't the rest get it?"
I don't know. I think some of them (Laura I immediately calling for Hastert to resign and many of the screaming about the Dubai port deal come to mind)don't do the due diligence they should and/or don't think logically through a story. FReepers do more investigation than many of them - - and they have Staff to do it for them! They're like some in the DBM - want to be the first out of the box w an opinion/story. Or, perhaps some of them want to look like they're mavericks and don't always cater to the conservative/Pubbie point of view. All they'd have to do is look at the history of polling in the past couple of elections and the demographics and questions being asked in the polls to know something isn't 'right'. Guess it's easier for them to help the DBM spout their nonsense than to do a little work, formulate new and different talking points and expound on differences.
"It's never been more foolish than now to listen to the pap coming from the DBM."
You are so right!
"Also I am not holding my breath hoping that any of the Sunday shows will have dingy harry on defending how he made 1.1 million bucks off 400,000, ala hillary style, he stole it!!
That story is bound to be buried deep in the archives of the msm."
Quite frankly, I was shocked that AP broke the story and a few others included it. But, I don't expect it to get much traction and, agree with you, it will be buried. There was a female attorney being interviewed by Greg Kelley (I like Kelly Wright better). He pretty much let her go on about how Reid really didn't do anything wrong, just some technicalities, yada, yada, yada. It's always a 'technicality' if a Dim does it but if a Pubbie does something similar or less, they must be censured and/or kicked out of Congress. I hope the Senate Ethics Committee investigates it, but I'm not holding my breath.
Good point! I don't recall hearing about ol' Rocky in quite some time. Wonder how his back is doing. Wonder if anyone from the DOJ/CIA and/or FBI has spoken w him.
Then consider the media. If Democrats lose next month that would mean that old media wisdom has not only failed but has been wrong for four election cycles. What will they do in 2008? Can the media say "trust us again" when they have been so wrong for so long?
From this perspective I just don't believe it. I'll know one way or the other on November 8 but for now I refuse to allow either the Democrats or media dictate my enthusiasm or belief we'll win again in 24 days.
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