Posted on 11/04/2006 2:53:44 PM PST by Phsstpok
Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 4 and 5, 2006
It's the last weekend shows before we change over from campaign mode to litigation mode in this election cycle and the Dhimmicrats and the DBM are in full on hysterics. This is particularly true of the "experts" like Sabato and Cook, who both have been predicting huge wins for their political masters as part of the psyops campaign being waged by Soros and company. Cook is now as much as 10 points off of polls like Rasmussen in some races where the trend is clearly for the Republican but he doesn't want to let it go. But he's also reduced to making these increasingly bizarre claims on shows like Chris Matthews as old media types scramble to save what's left of their reputations. I've got a surprise for you fellas, it's too late. Even NPR's (and Fox News') Juan Williams admits the the old media types like CNN '(are) in the tank' for the Democrats.
With the exception of CNN the line ups this week are arguably reasonable, but that doesn't count the relentless propaganda campaign that has been waged against some of the Republican guests and the outrageous cover ups being perpetrated to protect all Dhims all the time. I don't think that Henry Waxman admitting that he was a serial killer in a speech on the floor of the House would make the DBM's top news right now. And all you need to do is search for stories on Libby Dole to find a constant stream of criticism and denigration. CNN's line up is simply obscene. There are only two Republicans (one of them questionable) and eleven folks with severe BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome), twelve if understand Lindsey's true nature. Hoekstra is undoubtedly on to answer why he put Saddam's nuclear weapons blueprints on the internet for all to see (a charge I think he ought to be able to knock out of the park, mind you) while Lindsey Graham was no doubt invited to comment on Dick Cheney's endorsement of water boarding.
Anyway, enough preliminaries, on to the shows.
NBC Meet The Press brings together the two traveling road shows of the respective chairs of the Senate and House campaign committees for both parties. Chucky and Liddy have been making the rounds of TV shows and college campuses for some time now. They're very "collegial," in the old fashioned way where the Dhim is vicious and nasty but still expects the Republican to be nice at all times. Unfortunately Liddy, like her husband, is that kind of Republican. She's taken a beating this entire electin cycle and is clearly set up as the "fall guy" (other than Bush) if the Republicans don't do well in the Senate. Chuck, on the other hand, is almost universally disliked in the Senate by members of both parties, but he is being set up as the "king maker" and power broker, ala Lyndon Johnson. On the House side Tom Reynolds is one of the DBM targets in the Foley cross hairs while Rahm Emanuel is being talked about as some sort of Zen master. With cooperation from their print allies in old media NBC has set this up as a pre-race victory lap for the Dhimmicrats and a pre-mortem for the Republicans. I will look closely for any hedging by lil' Timmah, along with what his body language is (hunch or no hunch when questioning Dole and Reynolds?) to give me a clue about what he really believes will happen on Tuesday.
CBS Face The Nation offers up Bill Frist as a symbol of the (soon to be) departing Republicans and Joe Biden as the emblem of the coming Dhimmicrat golden age of dominance. Bob Schieffer is joined by Stuart Rothenberg, another of the "political gurus" predicting massive losses for the Republicans. This is the left wing "preaching to the choir" and expecting all of us to sing along to their imaginary tune. I'm betting Shieffer's closing comment will be one of the most smarmy and insulting ever. Who knows? If my predictions are right it may just be old Bob's last such commentary.
Fox News Sunday Has Boehner, Steele and McCaskill as the guests, plus a "classic" Sunday panel. Boehner is being targeted as the Republican antidote to Kerry's Freudian slip. So far the attempts to make hay out of his comments about Rumsfeld and the generals on the ground just don't have the same ring nor does he have a history of treason as John F'n does. Steele is definitely on the move and, IMHO, likely to defeat Cardin. He may be destined for national office in the coming years. McCaskill, on the other hand, isn't ready for prime time. The more face time she has the worse she comes across. Chris Wallace is a reliable predictor of the inside the beltway "smart set" sentiment and is likely to be totally captured by the drum beat of "Republicans lose, Democrats win." If so he may completely embarrass himself this week.
ABC This Week repeats their stunt of a taped interview with an administration official, this time Dick Cheney, followed by "equal time," live, for the Democrats, this time represented by Howard "the scream" Dean. ABC World News already pulled out some "juicy" tidbits last night so it's evident that Howard and company will have ample time to work on their sound bites and attacks on "the second most hated man on Earth" (George Bush being the first in their minds). I find this tactic to be totally transparent and reprehensible. I find it worse that no one is commenting on it outside of FReepers and a few conservative blogs. The old media will have a lot to answer for over their increasingly destructive and dishonest tactics and outrageous bias. And once again the Bush Derangement Syndrome panel will be in full swing. I really want to see these people next week if things don't go as they're predicting. They are way too invested in this to survive anything less than total victory for the Dhims.
CNN Late Edition is, as stated earlier, an amazing example of CNN being "in the tank" for the Dhimmicrats. The amount of hate directed at George Bush from this one program would be dangerous for most normal people, but our President is made of stronger stuff. Thank goodness. I expect particularly insane rants from Maxine (millions for the Crips and Bloods but not a dime for defense) Waters and Max (blown up by his own dropped grenade while drinking beer with his buddies) Cleland. Lou Dobbs is reportedly thinking of running for President, so he could either play this as a statesman or be in full Jack Cafferty melt down mode. I'm betting on the latter. Boxer and Frank are undoubtedly on a charm offensive and will talk about mom and apple pie till we all want to barf. Hoekstra is in for a fierce attack over the Iraqi document dump, but he's got the perfect rebuttal in that the documents in question prove that Saddam had active WMD programs just as we said before the war. That could be a fiery and very interesting exchange. The media types have one last chance to sell their snake oil and sound wise before they have to begin back tracking and eating crow. When these drones get confronted with what they've done and said during this campaign (if ever) it won't be pretty.
The Saturday shows follow their usual pattern and are watch able to the same degree as they always are (definitely for JER, maybe, maybe not for the others). There is one addition to the mix this weekend, though. Fox is showing an edited version of the documentary "Obsession," about how the US is presented in the Arab media, schools and popular culture (Saturday at 7 PM CST, Sunday at 9 PM CST, Fox News Channel). This is perhaps the most significant program of the entire election cycle. I wish they'd shown it weeks ago and unedited.
Bottom line, all restraints are off and all logic or ethical guidelines are out the window. This is all or nothing for the DBM and Dhimmicrats and I think they see a very bleak future starting on Wednesday morning. Needless to say I'll be watching closely.
This will be 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. Of course, the fact that I was out of state the last two weeks, so I don't feel too bad, but I'll try to do better starting next weekend.
I'll also post a link to this Sunday's live thread here when it is up.
have at it.
Hello,
I'll be there, with bells on....
:)
Glad to be here, MOgirl
I got the link from Hot Air ( http://www.hotair.com ). I thought it was OK
Wasn't that unbelievable? I wanted to reach through the screen and smack Eric Burns. He, I think, I could convince of the idiocy of his position. The Neal Gabler wanna be and Jane, on the other hand, have already drunk the Kool Aid. If we can show them this performance in a month I think that they'll die of shame.
Ellis Hennican. One of two people Congressman BillyBob will not watch at all. There must be some directive that whatever liberal sits in that chair, they have to stab their arms and point at others in some kind of attack mode. I have nothing intelligent to say about him because he had nothing intelligent to say.
It definitely was OK. I was just commenting on the apparent motives (and total misunderstanding of reality) of the poster of the video. Not you.
Notice the sources I link to. Linking to a moonbat (if this is one, which is not proved) isn't a problem. Putting forward their arguments as your own is and you clearly didn't do that. You just let the VP speak for himself. They thought that was a bad thing. They are loons, but we knew that.
Thank you for this post. One of the main reasons I post this thread is to get people to post things like this. I put up links that I find but I don't even pretend that the things I find are definitive or even always informative. I'm desperate for information like what you have provided. Absolutely perfect!
Now, if you can complete the circle and send these links to ABC News and ask them to include the disclaimers from these people in their coverage tomorrow, we will collectively accomplished something.
Thank you!
LOL. The good old days. I think I recall a number of us kind of jumping on him for that. If he could still talk with us, we would still do it. We are Freepers, hear us roar. LOL.
They aren't right. I'm waiting on Wednesday morning. There will be 15 to 20 House seats "in contention" in the sense that the Dhimmicrats are filing lawsuits to overturn the results, but the obvious conclusion is that they failed to generate the wave that they've been promoting. Even if they pick up a few seats but fail to win the House they lose, but I am still convinced that they will actually lose seats in both the House and Senate, overall. Chafee is toast, but I think Kean (substitute RINO), Steele and others will pick up supposedly safe Dhimmicrat seats. I even hold out hope for Katherine Harris. Won't that frost the collective asses of the chattering class?
all the doom and gloom is based on the polls
Interesting comment and absolutely true. Problem is they offer nothing to take our place. Last I saw we are in deed in trouble only if significant numbers of the base stay home. Tomorrow I plan to post all I can to urge all our base not to stay home.
Perle:Vanity (un)Fair
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http://americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=6530
I've noticed that you do use a spelled out version the first time for which I, for one, am deeply grateful!!!
Trivia question: what's the first widely used acronym?
(I don't know the answer)
I would guess RSVP.
Of course, there is SNAFU from WWII which I was innocent enough for years to think meant, "situation normal, all fouled up."
The old man finally clued me into the awful truth!
Looks like CNN is trying to prove that they are more biased than BSMSNBC. Must be payback because of Lynn Cheney's slapdown of the Wolfman.
Have any of you seen the report by Steve Harrigan, with him getting waterboarded???
Yes. There was also a video on YouTube a week or so ago doing the same "experiment". Harrigan is a gutsy guy. When the VP said he didn't have a problem with a terrorist getting dunked in the water, that was not a description of this technique which, btw, I have no problem with.
I doubt most people even know what waterboarding is. I don't myself. But in the minds of the Dims, it is now equivalent with beheading or the chopping off of various body parts.
It's scary to think of what their minds must be like.
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