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.

[Seattle Conservative]

Not sure if this is what you were looking for, but it has some info in it:

what President Bush could have said to the NAACP
Back to Basics for the Republican Party ^ | July 25, 2006 | Michael Zak

Posted on 07/25/2006 6:34:20 AM PDT by since 1854

Addressing the NAACP’s annual meeting, President Bush made good progress in reaching out to African- American voters. The warm reception from the audience must have worried Democrats who consider themselves owners of the African-American vote. Even more important, however, than how the NAACP views the Republican Party is how the Republican Party views itself.

As Republicans embrace their heritage as “the party of Lincoln,” they will understand the true heritage of the Democrats to be “the party of slavery” and “the party of the Confederacy” and the party of the Ku Klux Klan.”

Laudable as his remarks were, President Bush talked about “the Civil Rights movement” as if there had only been one. In fact, the achievements of heroes such as Martin Luther King and Thurgood Marshall constituted our nation’s second civil rights movement. The first was a century before, when the Republican Party, smashing past obstacles thrown up by the Democrats, enacted a series of civil rights laws. What made a second civil rights movement necessary in the 1950s and 1960s was that Democrats had defeated the first civil rights movement back in the 1860’s and 1870s. Tragically, Democrats succeeded in postponing Lincoln’s “new birth of freedom.”

Once most Democrats in Congress walked out to join the Confederacy, Republicans were able to enact their civil rights agenda. With not one congressional Democrat voting in favor, in 1862 Republicans banned slavery in the territories and in the District of Columbia. With not one Democrat voting in favor, in 1865 the Republicans passed the 13th Amendment banning slavery. They then had to override Democrat President Andrew Johnson’s veto to enact the 1866 Civil Rights Act, which declared African- Americans to be citizens and with equal rights. Again, not one Democrat in Congress voted for it. To prevent the Democrats from ever repealing the 1866 Civil Rights Act, Republicans codified its principles into the Constitution, as the 14th Amendment. Once again, not a single Democrat in Congress voted for it.

Today, even most Republicans do not know that the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Act were revised versions of Republican initiatives during the first civil rights movement. The Republicans’ 1875 Civil Rights Act banned racial discrimination in private as well as public accommodations for eight years before being struck down by the Supreme Court. To get around that 1883 decision is why the 1964 law was based on the interstate commerce clause rather than the 14th Amendment. The 1965 Voting Rights Act is not the law which guaranteed African- Americans the right to vote. The Republican Party had already accomplished that with the 15th Amendment, which unscrupulous Democrats throughout the South had learned to evade with literacy tests, poll taxes, and other schemes.

President Bush listed many horrors that African- Americans had to overcome, but left unstated who the villains were. The Jim Crow laws mentioned by President Bush? They were enacted by Democrat-controlled state legislatures. And the men who held the leashes of those police dogs and the nooses of those lynch mobs? Democrats, all of them.

The Republican Party should stop throwing away political capital, because the more we Republicans know about the history of our Party, the more the Democrats will worry about the future of theirs.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1671815/posts

[Alas Babylon!]

The last few weeks, helicopters and small planes have been buzzing heavily over my neighborhood in northwest Washington. What's that about?

Maybe they've found bigfoot?!

Oh wait, Janet Reno's from Florida.....

[Seattle Conservative]

This isn't what you were looking for, but it's too bad this doesn't come out in the press more (but then Bubba was our '1st black President). I've heard the President mention it from time to time along w the fact that more black and minority citizens now own their own homes than ever before. I remember him talking about wanting to make that happen in his campaign speeches (2000 IIRC).

Black business owners on rise
post-gazette.com ^ | 4/18/2006 | Elwin Green

Posted on 04/18/2006 11:37:02 AM PDT by CAWats

"It's encouraging to see not just the number but the sales and receipts of black-owned businesses are growing at such a robust rate, confirming that these firms are among the fastest growing segments of our economy," said Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon.

Slated for release today, the report also shows a significant if not quite as dramatic increase in local black business ownership. It found 4,363 black-owned firms in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area as of 2002, up 38.8 percent from 3,142 in 1997. Revenue figures for the metro area, which includes Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Washington and Westmoreland counties, were not available.

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1617198/posts

[Alas Babylon!]

Good Morning J! Or should I say Good Afternoon?

[eeevil conservative]

Thanks so much!!

I am finding plenty- not what I was originally looking for-- but some GREAT stuff!

[Alas Babylon!]

Oh, joy. Another election with Al Gore, this time blown up to Orson Welles like physical proportions, with the ego to match but, sadly for him, lacking even the slightest hint of Welles' talent.

LOL! Algore as Fat Bastard: "Vote fer me....or I'll eat cha!!!!!"

[Phsstpok]

Somebody's got to ask Tommy Thompson if he said that. I'm willing to bet, if they even talked, that he said something more like "you paint them as having some sort of bunker mentality and that's just plain nuts, you lying swine."  Woodward just did some judicious editing.  Quite possibly as it was being said.  It doesn't matter what the source actually said, or if they even said anything.  What matters is what Woodward thinks he heard.

Yeah.  That's the ticket.

I mean, seriously, who is more appropriate to cast if they make a movie about Woodward's latest book?

Come to think of it, who would you cast as the various other players if this movie got made?

Timothy Bottoms did a pretty good job as Bush in DC 9/11: Time of Crisis, the fairly positive portrayel of how the Bush administration handled that day.  And Bottoms has proved that he can either play Bush straight or comedically.  I don't think the guy who played Cheney in that, Lawrence Pressman, was very well cast, though he did a decent job getting across the actions and emotions for how I believe the VP would have acted.

So, who would everyone cast for the major players if Woodwards three books on the Bush administration were made into movies or a mini-series? 

[JerseyDvl]

Nikki sounds like a real Sweetheart!

[Crim]

October isnt over yet...

[maica]

This is one of the candidates the Dims put forth that had military service (they were searching specifically for those types of candidates last year):

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I wonder how many of these ex-military recruits won their primaries? Based on the silence of the DBM, I suspect that there has been a lot of attrition already.

[Phsstpok]

Afternoon to ya. How did Sunday school go and how is your health? Did you get to teach your regular class this week?

I'm being fairly light today. I'm posting between campaign calls for Corker. I can only take about 10 minutes, max, of placing calls. I've taken a little break to let people have lunchtime so I hopefully won't be interrupting them, but I'm about to get back to it.

Today is mostly looking at things from the lighter side for me on FR. It just gets to a point sometimes that the only thing you can do in the face of the insanity going on around us is laugh.

[maica]

AMEN! sad....and yet as they cling to this mind-set they continue to blame the white man for any of their problems or failures? I just cannot be responsible for someone's failure when they see success as a threat to their racial identity....

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This is the prime message that children of African heritage need to be taught, and will not be taught in today's "minority majority" schools.

Instead children are taught that
a) talking 'white' is succumbing to 'whitey'
and
b) 'whitey' is responsible for 'persons of color' lack of economic success.

Children caught in this ever-decreasing concentric whirl will be sucked into the black hole of drugs and crime. And the dems, DO NOT CARE.

[Mo1]

Ooops .. sorry about that

[Phsstpok]

I may hurt the t.v. if he interrupts GW.

Did you ever see the episode of Cheers where Cliff Clavin was going through aversion therapy to stop him spouting off with his factoids?  He secretly wore a shock belt and his therapist followed him around, including to the bar, and he had a remote control so that he could sit across the room but still trigger a shock if Cliff started pontificating.

My thought, triggered when I read your post, was wouldn't it be great if we had remotes that triggered shock belts for the talking heads?  Every time they said or did something offensive we could trigger a shock.  Of course, if we had the controls folks like Chrissy Matthews would be either a quivering mass of twitching flesh or a burned out pile of ash, depending on the amps.

[beyond the sea]

Thanks...... I have the book.

And if you want to try to figure something out read pages 167 to 170 and tell me why those two sickos (Livingstone and Kennedy) took only one car away from the Fairfax County morgue...... when they arrived in two cars.

;-)

[snugs]

You have given me the best laugh of the day so far and it is 7.20pm

[Phsstpok]

That was what my face must have looked like will listening to Kerry

Me too. I just sat here staring at the tv slackjawed.

I'll look for the Kerry transcript and post it here when I find it.

Then we can have fun. 

[snugs]

I have been meaning to ask you but how are your eyes at present.

[eeevil conservative]

HA!

Found a LOT of good stuff....the info I was looking for...audio of an ad, etc....

The TRUTH About Racism and the Democrats

[samantha]

#406, he is doing well,and is making the rounds of Senior Citizens 24-7 residences. He comes across to everyone as very nice. One important thing that I am stressing is that Mark's staff is the best,and well liked in the entire 16 CD,and nobody wants to see Lefty dems in their place. This race is about so much more than Mark Foley.