Weekend Show *Preview* for 10/21 - 10/22/06 (not the live thread)

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[thepresidentsbestfriend]

The Beltway boys have reached a new low.They went with last weeks polls from Ras......You would think the # 1 cable network could manage to do a live show.

Fred Barnes is a great guy but kind of naive.My top man Brit Hume has even fallen for the phony polls.If you repeat the phony polls enough,they become reality.

It seems the MSM still has the upper hand ?

What about Fox News watch? You have to look hard for the conservative.About a year ago they asked the question,what paper is the most reliable overall? Cal Thomas said,the NY Times get it right sooner or later.He was not joking.Remember the book he put out a few years ago that attacked the Christian coalition?

Jim Pinkerton is the closest thing to a Conservative.Jim answered my email.

[Txsleuth]

No...I don't have an extra $500...and I certainly understand why you would like to have it scheduled then.

Also, after the elections until the NEW Congress in January, it SHOULD be relatively slow...unless our axis of evil decides to act up more than they already are.

BTW...as I type this, I am watching the replay of Hillary's debate last night...it is very hard to concentrate when listening to her "spin"....LOL

[Miss Marple]

I will post the answers in a few minutes.

[Miss Marple]

Laura Ingraham and Cal Thomas being doom and gloomers are no surprise. They have been in that position since Hurricane Katrina and Harriet Miers.

As far as I am concerned, we should bring out the hook and get replacements.

[Bahbah]

It seems the MSM still has the upper hand ?

They are still way too influential. I think that the internet and bloggers and sites like this (which is unique at this point) that present such a danger to their influence will come under increasing attack. I think it will be a heck of a battle and I hope we have the stomach for it.

Cal Thomas said that about the NYT! Good grief.

[Txsleuth]

Even Pinkerton is a wishy washy person most of the time, IMHO>

I would put Cal and Jim in the same catagory as Robert Novak, Pat Buchanan and George Will...

ALL of them are labeled at conservative, but none of them are..at least what I think of as conservative.

[Miss Marple]

Chelsea Clinton's cat was given to Clinton's secretary, Betty Currie.

Colin Powell owns a Volvo, which he spends his off-time tinkering with.

The rock star Bono toured with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.

Secretary O'Neill was the CEO of Alcoa.

Eleanor Mondale. daughter of Fritz Mondale, visited Clinton privately while Hillary was out of town. (As an aside, finding this out sent Monica Lewinsky into a tizzy.)

Lynn Cheney was a homecoming queen at her high school in Wyoming.

Elizabeth Dole was in the Junior Miss contest. So was Diane Sawyer.

[Miss Marple]

My post above should have been directed to you as well. Sorry!

[Txsleuth]

Thank you...that was a fun quiz, even if I did only know one answer.

I sure can see why Lynn Cheney would be Homecoming Queen...she is a beautiful woman.

I would love to have been bugging Monica's phone when she calls up BILL to blast him about Eleanor!! LOL

[Phsstpok]

Also, after the elections until the NEW Congress in January, it SHOULD be relatively slow...unless our axis of evil decides to act up more than they already are.

Now this is a rarity.  I think I've bumped into something that you have missed.  My view is that November 7 is day one of a 60 to 90 day disaster for our republic.  Think 2000 and 2004, but times 10.  The Dhimmicrats have thousands of lawyers in SWAT teams ready to deploy to districts where they think they can overturn their losses in the courts, whether through guile or willing Dhimmicrat judges.  They are telling us we won't know "who really won" till well into January, if not later."  And if you are in need of a lawyer for anything in the near future you are toast from now till March of 2007.  Count on it.  they are all tied up.

I'm afraid I'm going to be put into a position of hearing the minor bits and pieces from the DBM as I recuperate while missing the real story here on FR because I'm not really able to work on the computer, at least not for any great length of time.  that truly scares me.  Maybe even more than any other impact of my expected surgery.

Worse than that is the fear that I really have been providing something valuable to folks here (and elsewhere?) on the preview thread.  I now feel a responsibility to "my audience" and it scares me that I might let you all down, even for a few weeks.  That is incredibly egotistical of me (and I'm really not fishing for compliments with this) but it adds to my concerns.  My secret hope is that I can find someone to cover for me on this for a week or two surrounding the surgery.  I haven't been brave enough, or sure enough of what was happening, to raise that question.  I'm not specifically doing that now, but if anyone out there would be willing to volunteer, not necessarily to do the "I'm a pundit" pontificating that I have had the hubris to start doing, but to post the list of who is on and find some articles on who they are and what they've said, I would be incredibly grateful for that support.

After all, that's the best part of being in a community of like minded people.

[Miss Marple]

The reason I know about Monica being upset was that it was in the transcripts from the Special Prosecutor. LOL!

[Morgan in Denver]

If you remember, Monica was stopped by the White House guards and not allowed to enter. If I remember right, she even called people in the White House trying to get in and was really upset over not being able to enter.

[Seattle Conservative]

LOL! I'm with you Miss Marple, though you had me beat by a couple

[Miss Marple]

I think I am going to start posting a quiz every Sunday.

It seems to me that it would be fun, plus encouraging newbies to learn a little bit about recent history.

[Phsstpok]

I think I am going to start posting a quiz every Sunday.

She tasks me!

 

Now, the question is does this need to be a seperate thread or part of an existing one.  I volunteer to host it as part of the preview thread, at least as a "starter" exercise.  I've got my ping list and there are a fair number of people who drop by here who aren't on that list.  Better yet, for that purpose, would be getting hosted on ABs Sunday thread, in the fashion of Anita's weekly Nuggets post there.  I would imagine it would outgrow either thread quickly.   Check with AB about hosting it there.

I for one like this idea.  And I clearly think you are the best one to come up with this (though I trust you'll accept suggested questions from others?).  Of course, however, there must be prizes.  We have to come up with prizes.  What might be appropriate?

[Txsleuth]

Boy....I missed a lot....I was so busy trying to get my two kids through junior high, high school, and flight school (one of them), that I was just only paying cursory attention to the whole Clinton Administration.

[Txsleuth]

That sounds like a GREAT idea....I enjoyed the one you had tonight...and I didn't cheat to look up the one answer! LOL

Maybe you could fix it so if people answer, they could do it by freepmail so that the answer won't be given away...or something like that...

[Bernard]

It is appropriate that Barack Obama comes from Chicago. He is rapidly becoming the Democrat equivalent of Kerry Wood and Mark Pryor - future Hall of Famers as long as it's the off-season.

Wasn't Bill Clinton the great potential President? All that smarts, and all...

[Seattle Conservative]

Great idea!

[malia]

Juan Williams book: Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America--and What We Can Do About It.

-- the last part of the title made me think of a question Larry King asked Jesse Jackson....

"--Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America-"

King asked Jackson if he felt responsible for the upcoming blacks in politics today and mentioned Barack Obama ...
JJ answered .... yes he had spread some seeds out there and was proud ...

I changed channels at that point.