Posted on 10/28/2006 12:53:14 PM PDT by Phsstpok
Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, October 28th and 29th, 2006
It's the last two weekends of campaign '06 and all pretense (and restraint) has been abandoned. The reliable hard left old media is pulling out every stop and ignoring even the simplest of ethical consideration in their all out commitment to defeat Republicans and elect Democrats. CNN is leading the pack with expensively produced specials attacking the Republicans (their Broken Government series, for example) as well as their usual cast of Dhimmicrat attack dogs, Cafferty being the bleeding edge of their moonbat pack. Even Wolf Blitzer has taken the plunge with a bizarre ambush of Lynne Cheney about James Webbs pornographic novels when they had booked her to talk about her patriotic (and non-partisan) children's book (see The Latest October Surprise: Lynne Cheney thread for details). The oldest of the classic old media from their post war (WW2) glory days, the three broadcast networks, have totally given over their news operations to DNC talking points for the remainder of the campaign. And the older still print media "power houses," The New York Times, Washington Post, Time and Newsweek, declared war on America long ago.
This week they're no longer touting the polls because even their own stilted polls are trending the "wrong way" from their point of view. They're instead concentrating on three main themes: it's a done deal, why fight; if the Democrats don't win it's because the Republicans cheated / are racists; Republicans are evil, by definition. The "it's over, why fight?" argument (directed at conservatives) is being carried, with less and less conviction but more and more stridency, by the moonbat wing of the punditocracy, primarily based at MSNBC and CNN, but filtering out to all of the DBM. Think particularly of Chris Matthews, Keith Olberman and Jack Cafferty. The increasing number of stories about supposed voter suppression, "unfair" Republican get out the vote efforts and the growing number of race based attacks on the Republicans are intended to both energize the Democrat/moonbat base as well as provide excuses for losing along with a basis for litigation after the fact. Pay particular attention to the new spin about black voters not turning out because they are convinced that their votes don't count anyway (for example, Democrats Fear Disillusionment In Black Voters). Talk about a twofer. It "explains" that any lack of black Democrat turn out is because of evil Republicans, not abandonment of the Democrats, and it reinforces the notion that Republicans are trying to suppress the black vote. The DBM feeding frenzy over the Michael J. Fox controversy and the Harold Ford Playboy ad ("call me") were preordained, only the particular ads and issues were unknown until they broke. It's likely that the Fox / stem cell controversy was pre-planned, though the inclusion of Rush Limbaugh couldn't have been completely guaranteed, while the Harold Ford Jr. "race card" was a cocked gun from day one of that campaign. The bottom line for both is that Republicans are evil and must be defeated at all costs and "by any means necessary."
On to the shows.
NBC Meet The Press has what should be a barn burner debate. Tim Russert and Ben Cardin versus Michael Steele. I expect Steele to wipe up the floor with both of them. I wouldn't even be surprised if lil Timmah suddenly called in sick and let someone else take the debate. How about that well mannered and always temperate David Gregory? In the run up to this debate the DBM appears to have been concentrating on the Michael J. Fox / stem cell controversy as their main line of attack. Following the Steele campaign's highly effective rebuttal ad I think this will be minimized. The fall back position for a Democrat in that type of situation would be to play the race card (he's a Republican, therefore he's racist), except that Steele is black and Cardin is white. To top it off Cardin angrily stiffed a county NAACP group where he had agreed to debate Steele and went to a majority white county event elsewhere instead. It appears he did this when the country NAACP refused to attack Steele as Cardin wanted in the run up to the debate. This has clearly hurt Cardin in the critical black vote in Maryland. His counter argument is to agree to a state NAACP sponsored debate, but the state organization is recognized as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party, so that's just not going to play. I expect fireworks from a clearly desperate Cardin, DNC and their lackeys at NBC News. Steele strikes me as someone able to handle the hysteria. This could be a bellwether (I got it right this time, AB!) for how the rest of the national campaign will go. Steele might totally redefine the Republican party for the black community with this performance. Wouldn't that be interesting?
CBS Face The Nation offers us St. Murtha (no Abscam questions, please) and evil Duncan Hunter (are you now or have you ever been a capitalist?) along with Howard Dean and Ken Mehlman (not at the same time, of course, since Howard won't allow that, and he's the boss). Murtha and Hunt will no doubt square off over Iraq, with Murtha getting softball questions allowing him to pontificate profoundly on the failures of the Bush administration and Hunt being peppered with questions about "blaming the messenger" for daring to question CNN's showing a terrorist propaganda snuff film. Dean and Mehlman will be asked different questions by Old Bob (not at the same time), who no doubt wants Howard's take on the coming Democrat takeover of the House and Senate while he'll be most interested in getting Mehlman to address accusations of racism, dirty tricks and inevitable defeat surrounding the Republicans. No bias there. Move along. Move along.
Fox News Sunday repeats last weeks Schumer/Dole appearance from CBS and I expect much the same result: unchallenged over the top rhetoric from Schumer and lots of questions for Dole about how she bungled this campaign. Moving on to the Senate races they offer up Santorum, the presumed Republican loser in Pennsylvania and Ford, the presumed Democrat winner in Tennessee. With Ford they also have the opportunity to examine the evil Republican's playing the race card. I think the set up for this presumes a desperate Santorum and a confident Ford. I fully expect them to be very disappointed with the outcome, with Santorum exhibiting confidence, competence, poise and optimism, while I think Ford will be in full melt down mode. But I don't expect that the rest of the DBM will pay any attention if that is the case. Brit is missing from the panel (wonder where he is?) but Michael Barone will fill in. Barone is no Brit and won't even come close to smacking down Juan or Mara, but he is always interesting to listen to. I also expect Juan to go way over the top on the "Harold Ford vs. the racist Republican ad" issue. He's taking lots of heat over his book and he has to get back in the good graces of the boss man and overseer of the Democrat party's plantation, Howie Dean. I plan to compare what Dean says on the topic and what Juan says. I'm betting we'll find some verbatim comments (unless they actually read this... nah). And the fact that Mort isn't included can only mean that they don't plan on diving deep on embryonic stem cell research, which is one of his obsessions (he's in favor, screw any ethical questions).
ABC This Week continues this weeks DBM theme and takes it a step further up the obvious meter. John Boehner will serve as the poster boy for evil Republicans, with relentless questions about Foley and failure, while St. Michael (J. Fox) will be lavished with praise for his bravery and willingness to tell truth to power (Rush Limbaugh, the most evil man on the planet). What's truly incredible is that they'll believe every ridiculous word that they say as they try to pull this off. ABC is quickly becoming the home of the "true believers" of the American Democrat left. They have to do someothing to make up for that "Path to 9/11" sin that they committed against their heinouses, Bill and Hill. The ABC panel is locked into increasingly more strident Bush Derangement Syndrome support groups (it's OK to believe these things, since Bush really is Satan) and will no doubt rail against all things Bush. And to top it off they roll out Sarah Jessica Parker to talk about UNICEF and extol the virtues of that perfect government's efforts to "save the children." We must all surrender to the wisdom of the UN (and their friends in the Dhimmicrat party).
CNN Late Edition presents the DBM roadmap for the last part of campaign 2006 regarding Iraq. A panel heavily weighted with Bush critics is presented as "representative" and, in truth, it is. It's representative of the left's views of Iraq. Pay attention to what they say on this show and you'll get a complete preview, IMHO, of how the left will play out the Iraq issue in the closing days of the campaign. Wolf went all in with his ambush of Lynne Cheney on Friday and if his side loses on Novmber 7th the consequences for him and his profession are catastrophic. We may be witnessing the practical effects of a situation where one side has no way out. The apocryphal advice from Sun Tzu about always leaving your enemy an avenue of escape comes out of a practical understanding of what really happens when desperate people are cornered. So far they've only abandoned ethical constraints, but if pressed they may abandon the last shreds of reason.
The Saturday shows follow their recent pattern of dreck, dreck and more dreck, followed by The Journal Editorial Report addressing the issues all of the news shows should be addressing, regardless of their point of view. Ah well, it is the minor leagues, after all. I wonder how Newton Meadow would view today's 500 channel cable landscape, particularly the "news" programs?
So, the gloves are off and the agenda is clear. The Dhimmicrats and their allies in the DBM will do anything, say anything, tell any lie, ignore any ethical boundaries, so long as it gets power back for the "right party (the leftist one)." I repeat my prediction that the Dims won't take both chambers, not even the House by itself, and that they may just lose some seats. All of their calculations presume that they hold all of their seats and that clearly ain't gonna happen. I'm now betting that they lose some big seats this time around, ones they fully expected to hold, such as Harold's old House seat in Tennessee (thanks to brother Jake running as an independent). One note of concern has been raised in the last 24 hours that might spell disaster for us. It is being reported that Hugo Chavez has managed to take control of one of the major e-voting companies (not Diebold) through complicated dummy corporations to cover his involvement. If true I think it would mean that the Dhimmicrats have decided to make real for themselves the fantasies they've been spouting about Republicans rigging the vote and they turned to a Stalinist billionaire dictator to make it happen. Since their accusations of this type of fraud have been dismissed so consistently (because it didn't happen) how can Republicans dare to challenge even the most outlandish results if they skew to the Dhimmicrats?
Well, it's only about ten days till the opening law suit of the post election day election process. I wonder who it will be and when it will be decided?
This will 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!
Here's a link to Mark Kilmer's excellent preview of the Sunday shows over at RedState.COM. He beat me again this week. Third week in a row. Of course, the fact that I was out of state most of the week must be taken into consideration, but I'll try to do better (not next weekend, I'm traveling again this week and may even be later in posting next weekend).
I'll also post a link to this Sunday's live thread here when it is up.
have at it.
Below are the topics and guests announced for these programs, along with my take on the "memes" that the shows are trying to push. With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.
The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)
CNBC's Tim Russert Show (Tim Russert)
Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)
Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page
Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push. With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.
Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push. With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.
Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push. With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.
Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push. With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.
Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push. With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.
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See the initial post for my "usual witty commentary." Some excerpts:
It's the last two weekends of campaign '06 and all pretense (and restraint) has been abandoned. The reliable hard left old media is pulling out every stop and ignoring even the simplest of ethical consideration in their all out commitment to defeat Republicans and elect Democrats....
This week they're no longer touting the polls because even their own stilted polls are trending the "wrong way" from their point of view. They're instead concentrating on three main themes: it's a done deal, why fight; if the Democrats don't win it's because the Republicans cheated / are racists; Republicans are evil, by definition....
So, the gloves are off and the agenda is clear. The Dhimmicrats and their allies in the DBM will do anything, say anything, tell any lie, ignore any ethical boundaries, so long as it gets power back for the "right party (the leftist one)." ...
Well, it's only about ten days till the opening law suit of the post election day election process. I wonder who it will be and when it will be decided? ...
Thanks for the p;ost, as usual. Hope you sight is holding up too.
By the way, I anticipate the Lynn Cheney on CNN stint will get some play on all the FNC programs along with O'Reilly on Letterman. FOX News has hyped them both quite a bit.
LOL. I'm laughing already and I've only gotten this far.
I don't know if you saw the interview by Russert of Mehlman over the Ford ad, but it was a mind boggling thing. Russert keeps insisting that the ad is racist and Mehlman (like me)keeps saying he doesn't see anything racist about it. But Russert has his action line, so he just keeps hammering.
Imus and his guests have been opining for weeks that Ford is such a wonderful candidate that the only reason he will lose is because of those redneck Tennessee racists. It certainly can't be because the whole family is a crime syndicate.
Too bad they're not having Rush on w Fox. But, of course, Steffy wants to make sure the DNC talking points get out appropriately. I won't be watching this - will try to catch Rush's take on it on Mon.
Dang, I wish the Pubbies would put someone on these shows besides Lugar. That said, Wolfie probably wouldn't let them on. It's a sure thing he's not going to have Lynne Cheney on anytime soon! She was FABULOUS and I sent an email to the VP telling him just that!
Phsstpok - thank you so much for all of your hard work in putting this incredible thread together week after week!
Bless you
I suspose they'll be harping the 'racist' line (that's what they do when they don't have anything else to say), but, from what I've read, the only thing they could consider racist is that it was a white woman who partied w him at the Playboy party and said call me. Of course, they would have yelled racist had it been a black woman.
If that's in fact what they were thinking, then, his previous dating history debuncts that:
Harold Ford's Old Flames Website (she's white, gasp!)
juliaallison.com ^ | 10/26/2006 | milwguy
Posted on 10/27/2006 11:10:09 AM PDT by milwguy
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1727093/posts
"I repeat my prediction that the Dims won't take both chambers, not even the House by itself, and that they may just lose some seats."
I have been with you on this since the beginning. I think the only way the dims can pull off a takeover of either chamber is by fraud and, in addition to the concerns about the Venazuelan lunatic having an interest in the voting machine company, here in Missouri we have ACORN.
ACORN Accused of More Bogus Election Forms:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725676/posts
Voter Registration Fraud by Liberal Advocacy Group Goes Virtually Unreported
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725653/posts
More bogus election forms found
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725552/posts
We have a hugh and series problem here. If the dems can't win, they are going to toss overboard the notion of an orderly transition of power regardless of what it will do to this country.
Agree Bah. Some have already started chanting the voter fraud (by the Pubbies) since they see the 'hugh wave to vote Dims' starting to crash down upon them.
BTW everyone - another potentially good show this weekend:
Hannity on America - FNC 9 ET, 6 PT. Mark Levin said he had decided to come back to TV and will be on, too (debating some leftwingers). Could prove to be good.
Also, there is a Corker/Ford debate on C-Span 1 at 7 this evening. Need to leave soon, so will record it!
This insurgent video showing sniper attacks on U.S. soldiers in Iraq was given to CNN by insurgents calling themselves the Islamic Army after CNN sent e-mail questions to the group.
This makes one wonder if CNN isn't actually soliciting things like this video.
Thanks for the reminder on the debate...
BTW...watching Newswatch right now...and this is the WORST ever...there is absolutely NO ONE talking FOR the conservative side..
Cal Thomas even laughed about being able to have lunch and meetings with Condi, Rummy and Cheney....while Neal said "it is out of desperation"....and no one disputed that.
Jane HALL is WAY over to Neal Gablerland these days.
BTW..I was listening to Hugh Hewitt last night..and he played the whole interview between Wolf and Lynne Cheney...and then, later played TWO sentences that Wolf said during the interview..back to back...
When talking about the sniper video...he said, "We SAID it was a propaganda piece.."..."this was NOT a propaganda piece"...LOL Hugh kept playing those two sentences back to back, over and over.
They did play part of that Wolf/Lynne Cheney interview on Fox this afternoon....on Fox News.
Please see post #19 for more comments about that interview...I forgot to put your name on the TO: header...SORRY!
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