Weekend Show *Preview* for 10/14 - 10/15/06 (not the live thread)

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!

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!

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.

Yeah, I heard what Barnes said too.

What fun it will be if they are all wrong, again. More, it would not be the first time! Let's see.... The Democrats, pollsters, media and press were wrong when?

Oh yeah... 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2004. That sure does not seem like a stellar record of accuracy to me. The only prediction the media got right was Bill Clinton winning in 1996. They missed the rest. (I'm sure Mister's Gore and Kerry can remind them if they have forgotten.)

The only hope is the trend, and I think the trend is our friend.

I say that because most of these observers agree that up through the end of September, things were looking up for the Republicans. The Foley scandal brought that to a screeching halt, and the democrats are now up.

The trend is, though, that the Foley scandal has run its fill. There is no more to spill, and now the Republicans can get back on message. Will they? Will they allow the DBM to invent something new to beat them with? Will they allow the DBM to bury the Reid land deal? Will we? Is this why Barone is glum, or is it because of these last two weeks?

Lets see what happens over the next three weeks. Everyone is looking backwards. What is ahead of us?

You must be kidding....

Chris is a DEM...it is only because Clinton decided to make a scene and get a LOT of attention..that Chris even came close to giving a "tough" interview to Clinton.

I WOULD like Chris to ask Kerry why he has decided to make the phrase "swift boated" a perjorative...since he WAS a Swift Boat vet..(or is, techinically, although he has denounced his duty as war crimes)....

I want him to repeat what I think I heard that he said a week or two ago...how he was gonna kick a$$ all across America if the Swifties come after him again.

I ordered the new Mark Steyn book the other night...off of the thread posted here on FR..

I got my autographed copy in today's mail!! I am excited, I have never had an autographed book before.

The name of the book is , "AMERICA ALONE, The End of the World as We Know It"...

It is about how Europe has succumbed to the multiculturalism...and changes from it...with Sharia Law in places...

AND, how America is the last best hope to NOT let it take over the world...especially the West.

JUST a scary reminder of what will happen if the Dems get back in power..IMHO>

Good for you! Let me know what you think of it when you're done reading it.

For me, I am trying not to buy hard cover books anymore. I do buy E-books but I'm out of room for more real books. We have to get rid of a bunch of the ones we have so this is no time to get more. E-books I can store on disk.

I have 2-3 boxes of hard backed books I am going to take to the library..

I have been a member of book clubs...and used to split the cost with my mother, because she and I liked the same books..

But, since she died a couple of years ago...I haven't wanted to spend the money..and it isn't quite the same...

PLUS, I became a FREEPER....no time for reading.

Oh no, I read more now than ever before. I get tons of books off Gutenberg, for free, and buy others. I think I'm reading more now because TV is so horrible these days. Add in, I am not as tolerant of the propaganda the left keeps spewing so I am very selective on what I'll read by the left. Then add in FR and vast resources we get here and I have more to read today than I have ever had.

I spend a LOT of time on FR, when I don't have the kiddos here...I really only have the TV on for something to look at between postings...LOL

Tonight...sports!

I will probably start my new book..it is only 214 pages...so it shouldn't take me long.

I was going to watch the special on Fox about North Korea, even though it was being hosted by Sheppy...until one of the first "experts" he had on was Richard Holbrooke..GAG ME!

I turned the TV channel just in time to see the Detroit Tigers win the pennant...

Looks like Bahbah and I will be on opposite sides for probably the only time I can remember...she is a St. Louis fan...and there are several ex-Texas Rangers on the Tiger team...so I am going to root for them.

This is about the only time I watch baseball...I am more of a football fan...but I don't even watch that so much anymore.

My grandson got my copy first. He has read it - said it really opened his eyes on some things.

I am reading Vince Flynn's new novel - WOW!

I agree. What is the matter with guys like Barnes, et al?? You don't help your turnout by declaring everything is lost three weeks out. And belief in polls in midterms is foolish. I am not a pollyanna. But how many election cycles do we need to teach us that polls cannot be trusted, even on election day itself (2004). Seems that most conservative journalists like Bill Crystal, the NRO gang, Barnes, etc. are hysterics about everything. As soon as things seem difficult they bail. Pathetic group.

Maybe Hillary wanted to get Harry Reid out of the way for some reason. The Clintons still have the FBI Files.
Terry McCauliffe made a similar deal to make money. Was he every investigated propertly?

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