Posted on 10/22/2006 3:36:41 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., John Warner, R-Va., Joe Biden, D-Del., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.; business mogul Richard Branson.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C.
THIS WEEK (ABC): President George W. Bush; Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.; professional bowler Kelly Kulick.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Sens. Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; former Secretary of State Alexander Haig; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski.
YES_ and all the real MEN I know - live out of state! LOL! (FReepers)
You're there so you should have a better handle on what's happening in WV. FWIW here's what the Election Projection 2006 says. That said, so far, the only somewhat current polls I can find are for Byrd:
Competitive House Races
No competitive races in 2006
Other House Races
Projected winner listed first
District 1: Alan Mollohan (D)-inc vs. Chris Wakim (R) - possible competitive race
District 2: Shelley Capito (R)-inc vs. Mike Callaghan (D)
District 3: Nick Joe Rahall, II (D)-inc vs. Kim Wolfe (R)
National Delegation
Senators 2 DEM
Representatives 1 GOP, 2 DEM
State Government
Governor DEM
State Senate - DEM control 14 GOP, 20 DEM
State House - DEM control 33 GOP, 67 DEM
Conservative Ranking
West Virginia is the 20th most conservative state, voting 10.4% more Republican in the 2004 presidential elections than the national average.
Partisan Trend
Based on voting patterns since 1992, West Virginia is trending REPUBLICAN.
GOP Trend Ranking
West Virginia ranks 2nd among the 50 states.
http://www.electionprojection.com/states06/westvirginia06.html
I don't have Cable I only get one channle and thats NBC
I wish they would choose some really intelligent person to host FNS. There is ton of shows targetting liberal viewers. Why not have some nonest conservative who would give assured ratings?
:) very much
CNN Reliable Sources:
I flip in as they play Rush interview Cheney, and Kurtz saying Bush is courting talk radio. Michael Medved said it wasn't a private meeting, he says he's amazed NYT covered the White House meeting with talkers, one month after it happened.
Rachel Maddow, lefty, isn't surprised at the meeting, it was about how to malign the MSN, she says, .it's what they do. She says the country is anti-Republican right now. She calls talk shows "right wing". She calls flaming left wingnut radio talk shows, "progressive"
John Dickerson says the president is revving the base with this meeting.
Kurtz calls it "the Bush Blitz" courting conservatives.
Medved BLESS HIM points out CNN's Broken Government series is one October Surprise.
Evidently Bush is having a "right wing" talk show summit this week? I hadn't heard.
Kurtz does show a snippet of Stephanopolis interviewing Bush.
(I didn't know John Dickerson, formerly of ABC, now of SLATE, was Nancy Dickerson's son. He's written a book about her... a reporter I remember from years ago.
Kurtz asked Rachel about Air America's bankruptcy. "its just a question if the business model can keep up with the talent", she says. (I think that was supposed to be funny.)
Kurtz asks all if CNN should have showed the Sniper video:
Medved says it's propaganda film prepared by the enemy, and points how NYT Friedman predicted insurgents would use MSM for propaganda. He points out the BIG lie of it, how the snipers are heard to say, "don't hit Iraqis", when we know they hit Iraqis all the time.
Dickerson says it's ok since CNN made clear the video came from the insurgents themselves.
Rachel says not doing terrorists insurgents any favor by showing this, it just helps us better understand insurgents. .
LMAO "Head On HEAD ON, HEAD ON is a sponsor!!
I listened to CBS News Roundup on the radio this morning for half an hour before I had to turn it off. Absolute steady stream of doom-and-gloom, pro-DNC propaganda.
They interviewed Hans Blix, who advocated a "carrot and stick" approach to N. Korea. He said that before we "wave the stick" at them, we should "dangle the carrot" by sending, I kid you not, Jimmy Carter, over there to negotiate with them. What's Jimmuh gonna do, give them more $ Billions, uranium, and reactors? What idiots.
It doesn't matter how many times their policies fail, they want to repeat them, over and over.
Medved pwn3d CNN and they're too stupid to realize it.
Remember folks...they claim they are giving the "unvarnished truth"...but it's the same CNN that knew about and purposely didn't report on Saddam's atrocities so they could keep their precious Baghdad office.
"treason the reason?"
Tis the season of treason.
LLS
Her claim rests on the point NK may have produced uranium, but not platonium. Then she can blame Bush on their using platonium, if they did. Her premise is where her stretching the truth lies.
A la Lugar? EXACTLY!
I will say a special prayer for you.
(grin)
It is a most EXCELLENT thread. I can't believe how much work he puts into it every week - - and, if that weren't enough, this week he added pictures! Phsstpok's threads and posts are always insightful and thoughtful and ones that everyone should read.
Same here. I hardly ever miss FNS but could not force myself to listen to Warner and Levin.
I would venture that this mornings numbers for FNS watchers is very, very close to the lowest ever. If I miss it due to prior committments I try to catch the 6PM EST replay if the comments on this thread are interesting. Just rapidly looking at the thread I see very little that would warrant viewing the replay.
Good Luck. Someone had to do the hard work.
Exactly Timeout! Worse than that we are also fighting an asymmetrical war in which we have to selective take out the bad guys a few at a time with as little collateral damage as possible.
If all we had to do was blow up all the bad guys and not worry about the consequences of collateral damage this war would be over real quick.
Ever wonder how Saddam kept the peace all the time, he did not care about any consequences and everyone knew it. He would do whatever was necessary to keep his power, from mass killings to poisonous gas!! We don't fight like that, and no on is advocating that we do.
But,the idiots that want the war to be over "tomorrow" should realize that it takes time to selectively kill all the terrorists.Can't be done over night. That little detail is seldom mentioned in the msm/DBM and for good reason. It changes everything.
Have you ever actually listened to what this clown says? It's gunk; word salad. It's completely devoid of any substance at all. Every time I see Obama on television, he reminds me of Peter Sellers in "Being There."
Just want to point out the black and white cookie is about to go the way of the dodo bird. Bloomberg has outlawed tranformative fats...a key ingredient in the cookie (and other NYC favorites).
Now, if only he'd outlaw liberals, what a world it would be!
It's the 'black & white cookie' that makes you puke...
"Polls don't vote", and they never will.
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