Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 15 October 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 15 October 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton; Republican Rep. Mark Kennedy and Democrat Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota candidates for U.S. Senate.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; former Sen. Sam Nunn, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.

THIS WEEK (ABC): U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton; Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. and Republican Bob Corker, Tennessee candidates for U.S. Senate; actress and voting activist Marg Helgenberger.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton; Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean and Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman; Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.

[Mo1]

Good Grief

But, boy, am I feeling vulnerable these days to ugly surprises. The last few weeks, helicopters and small planes have been buzzing heavily over my neighborhood in northwest Washington. What's that about?

He really needs to seek help .. LOL

[penelopesire]

OMG..that's hysterical!

[rodguy911]

Thanks snugs.

[Phsstpok]

there are underneath racial tones in the TN senate race.

there are, but it's less about whites not voting for or supporting Ford, though there is and will always be some of that, everywhere (worse in places like Massachusetts than Tennessee or Mississippi, believe it or not) but there is major racism in the overly positive coverage and spin being given to Harold Ford.  If a white politician was part of as corrupt a machine as Harold is that would be the entire story of the election.  Instead the Ford family and political corruption machine is out of bounds.  It's distorting the perceptions of the race.

A Ford will never get elected to state wide office, IMHO.  It's also very unlikely that a prominent Memphian gets elected.  Middle and Eastern Tennessee consider Western Tennessee, particularly Memphis, to really be part of Arkansas.
 

[Arrowhead1952]

I don't know how LibTards like him can lie with such a straight [long] face.

That comes natural to the libs. Just look at the Foley non-sex scandal vs the Studds forced sex after getting a page drunk. The libs adored Studds, and Foley resigned.

The same with the swimmer. The libs adore both of them, reelected them many times and served or continue to serve in Congress. Also, X-42 and his BJs in the oral orifice.

Now we hear about the Dingy Harry Reid money scandal from the land sale he hasn't owned in several years. Had he been a Republican, the left would demand his resignation from elected office.

[eeevil conservative]

Well- Tom is a humor columnist...

He keeps things very light-hearted and usually makes fun of himself as much as the Libs......

He is a nice break from the tension for me.....

[Rheo]

Well done Mo1!

[penelopesire]

lol..I liked this comment:

"When I heard the news flash that a plane had crashed into a Manhattan apartment tower, I didn't think, how horrible. I said to myself: those rotten bastards in the White House."

Certifiable!! LOL

[kabar]

This year, Weldon has drawn a serious challenge from retired Navy Admiral Joe Sestak, who thus far has demonstrated a gift for fundraising.

Gift my eye. The Dems have targeted Weldon for a number of reasons. Most of Sestak's contributions come from outside the state. He was recruited by the DNC to get Weldon.

[Mo1]

thank you

[Seattle Conservative]

"I would give anything if our candidates were allowed to run segments of the path to 911 as commercials for our side, but I guess that's too much to ask."

Hitlery is already having a fit over John McCain basically calling her a liar about what she said about Bubba and NK.
It got really ugly - -I don't think she would've apologized by the outcry made her. It's definitely going to get uglier and uglier before Nov 7 and the '08 elections will be reallly bad.

Hillary Aide Mocks McCain POW Past, Dowd: George 'n Jong - Couple Of 'Immature' Guys,
NY Times-Maureen Dowd/NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 10/14/2006 6:40:01 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

For Maureen Dowd, politics are mainly personal. This morning she managed to reduce the current Korean conflict to an image of two boys behaving badly. Also, is mocking John McCain's POW past a smart move for the Hillary camp? Dowd offered a stunning insight into the Hillary campaign that suggests it might not be the ready-for-presidential-primetime operation some might imagine.

The main topic of Maureen Dowd's subscription-required column of this morning, Is Chivalry Shivved?, is the war of words between Hillary and John McCain, as the two top presidential contenders recently fired some early shots over the other's bow on the topic of responsibility for the N. Korean nuclear mess.

Dowd managed to work in the DNC talking point of the week: the need for direct talks between the Bush administration and N. Korea. [Former Clinton UN Ambassador Bill Richardson was all over the morning shows today pushing the idea, by the way.] In any case, viewing the N. Korean nuke situation through her politics-of-the-personal lens, Dowd saw things thusly:

"It’s clear, after all, that the North Koreans are acting immaturely in response to W. acting immaturely. They want attention because the Bush administration inexplicably refuses to talk to them. And they know, in the pre-emptive world ordained by nutty Dick Cheney, that the best way to protect themselves from the fate of Saddam Hussein is to actually go nuclear, rather than merely fantasizing and boasting about it."

Just a couple of wild 'n immature guys, that George and Jong. Nice moral equivalence, Maureen. As for the pro-pre-emption Dick Cheney ["nutty" - this is what passes for serious criticism at the Times nowadays?], wouldn't Dowd agree that the world would be a much better place if Bill Clinton had permanently pre-empted OBL when he was handed the chance?

Aside: I was fascinated by this nugget Dowd reports from inside Hillary Central:

Privately, Hillary’s camp was not overly upset by the McCain swipe because it suspected he was doing the bidding of the White House and that he ended up, as one adviser put it, “looking similar to the way he did on those captive tapes from Hanoi, where he recited the names of his crew mates.”

If Hillary and her advisers think it's smart to attack McCain by making snide comments that invoke his five years as a POW, then she's not the smartest-woman-in-the-world political juggernaut some make her out to be.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719306/posts

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Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Democrats, McCain & North Korea

Many Americans probably view Sen. McCain's statement that the Clinton administration's 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea was a “failure” as an obvious point. McCain’s comment came after Sen. Hillary Clinton and other senior Democrats were all over the media touting the ’94 agreement as a model for how to deal with the North Korean dictatorship. McCain’s point is a simple one: if we are going to effectively deal with the North’s nuclear weapons program, we have to acknowledge how we got to this point and not make the same mistakes again.

But senior Democrats -- Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson, Madeleine Albright, and John Kerry, etc. – won’t admit the ’94 deal was a mistake. Quite the contrary, as Bill Richardson argued last night on CNN: “The reality is, had we not had the agreed framework with North Korea on nuclear weapons, they would maybe have 50 nuclear weapons today. For eight years they didn't enrich uranium.” Richardson is arguing as if the administration had no other policy options. But that isn’t true. The Clinton administration chose the path of meeting the North’s hostile behavior and violations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with further concessions – a path McCain and others vigorously argued against at the time.

In May 1994, McCain catalogued all the North Korean threats and treaty violations, along with the US concessions, that led to the Agreed Framework -- an agreement advertised as freezing Pyongyang’s nuclear program. It didn’t. The North began a secret uranium enrichment program after 1995 and never gave up working on nuclear weapons. Democrats now argue that at least the deal put the fuel rods under the eye of international inspectors before they were kicked out in 2002 on Bush’s watch. Of course, they fail to note that this happened just after the North confirmed U.S. intelligence reports that it had a clandestine enrichment program – one that violated the NPT (they later withdrew from the treaty) and the Agreed Framework. In any event, the failure to demand the speedy removal of the rods from the North was a major strategic flaw in the ’94 deal. Back then, McCain argued that leaving them in place would allow the dictatorship to kick the inspectors out and reprocess the rods at a time of its choosing. Here’s what he wrote in the Los Angeles Times in 1994:

Using sticks such as their threatened expulsion of IAEA inspectors, North Korea has consistently intimidated Administration diplomacy. To divert the United States from punishing his violations of the NPT, Kim Il Sung has raised, then withdrawn his stick, masking his forbearance in the disguise of a carrot….
In fact, North Korea has offered no real concession. The fuel rods that it would use to make weapons-grade plutonium cannot be used until they are less radioactive. The reactor cannot be refueled until the rods have cooled. North Korea's nuclear program is, of physical necessity, frozen….

Although the Administration may attempt to obscure a failure, we will reach a moment when it is apparent to all. That will be when North Korea begins reprocessing the fuel now in cooling ponds into weapons-grade plutonium.

And here we are today. Despite the apparent nuclear test, the missile launches, the proliferation, the secret enrichment program, and all the other history going back over a decade, many Democrats still embrace the '94 deal and still argue for more carrots.

Posted by Daniel McKivergan at 03:13 PM
http://www.theweeklystandard.com/Weblogs/TWSFP/TWSFPView.asp

[TomGuy]

Hillary's trunk junk from the Houston Chronicle:

http://blogs.chron.com/nickanderson/archives/2006/10/hillarys_baggag.html

[Mo1]

Certifiable!! LOL

I had a conversation with one of my brothers the other day .. I got tired of explaining the real facts

So with an evil laugh told him to quickly run and hide because the Evil Rove and King George were out to get him .. LOL

[Seattle Conservative]

"Curious timing on the Weldon investigation!! What poster was it that just said the Clinton machine is working behind the scenes big time. I totally agree."

I don't remember who said that, but I just saw this:

Weldon:'Clintonistas' Are After Me
The Evening Bulletin ^ | 10/11/2006

Posted on 10/11/2006 3:26:27 PM PDT by US Navy guy

Conservative Republican Curt Weldon, running for re-election to the U.S. House, says some of his former "political enemies" are stepping up to the plate in hopes of defeating him. Weldon, who represents Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, says "the Clintonistas" are going after him in full force. "From Sandy Berger to John Deutsch, John Kerry to Tony Lake, to Jamie Gorelick, Mary McCarthy. They're all involved in my opponent's campaign," says Weldon. Why? According to Weldon, it is because he is in line to chair the House Armed Services Committee - and plans to expose flaws in policies put in place during the Clinton years.

(Excerpt) Read more at theeveningbulletin.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1717748/posts

[LibLieSlayer]

Warner has "bubba baggage"? Who knew?!

LLS

[Bahbah]

And Guliani

Giuliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The Clintoons are powerful, but they didn't pull that off.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Wolf Blitzer doing a story on "Who's to blame for NK's nuclear test? Clinton or Bush?"

Wanna guess what Wolf thinks?

[benjaminjjones]

Where is Tereeeza?

Yo, you want I should go stake it out?

[TomGuy]

Giuliani was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The Clintoons are powerful, but they didn't pull that off.

A similar condition didn't seem to deter John Kerry from the presidential campaign in 04.

Giuliana was diagnoses in the spring and withdrew from the race, but didn't seem to seek treatment until the fall. hmmm.

[ripley]

"how come the beltway jackasses never mention that?"

because the beltway jackasses are as partisan as they come, more than willing to interpret things as they see fit, or completely ignore them so that they don't have to think outside of the talking points box.


(disgusting creatures all....every time one of them speaks i see worker's caps with red stars)