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.
Good post. I could not agree more. We realize the MSM is working to depress the vote but they have also managed to make conservatives defensive on some issues. All of us have to stop that and get positive about what we know to be true. We are winning the peace in Iraq, it's just taking longer than we'd like it to take. The economy is booming, unemployment is down, inflation is stable and virtually every indicator is in great shape.
Instead of lamenting our problems we should be touting our successes.
Republicans don't brag as well as we should.
One thing I thought was interesting...
Steve said he would have "cracked" in less than 20 minutes comibined of the three phases...BUT, less than 5 minutes after they quit...he felt fine.
To ME, torture is something that "leaves a mark" so to speak.
NO...I sure didn't.
Interrogations are OPTIONAL now??
Who decides??
I NEVER hear the Republicans brag well...and the few times I have, unfortunately, they have a host that interrupts them to ask about a scandal that happened a long time ago..LOL
That is a Reuters article...and it seems to be missing some more "context" or something.
I am sure that some detainees are more amenable to just being "talked" to than others...but, I can't say a blanket policy of no interrogations makes much sense either.
It kind of makes me think what will happen if a Dem gets into the White House, where N. Korea and Iran are concerned..----they would say that "miltary force" will not be used against them, because, like in Iraq, SOME countries just don't get beat by bombing them.....arrrrrrrrgh...
Giving those countries too much of a comfort zone..
Actually, I would like them to have less of a comfort zone than they have right now...
Thanks for the link. I especially like it when Cheney said that what the press thinks doesn't matter. Steffie looked like he'd been hit up the side of the head with a two-by-four.
An aacronym older than SNAFU but perhaps not as old as RSVP is POSH...which originally stood for "port out, starboard home."
Ugh...I just watched the Journal Report on Fox...and I may be wrong...but, I thought I heard them say, right at the end, that JD Hayworth is going to LOSE...
Is that right???
Just dropping this link in here ( Condi's remarks ):
Web site’s demise revives dispute ~Hussein’s nuclear program files ...shows... threat from Iraq.
That is exactly the way any of the Bush Admin...AND the GOP should answer any questions about this..
I saw a thread earlier that said that Levin, Rockefeller, Reid and one other DEM Senator are asking the White House to explain....contending that they risked national security ..
I wonder then, if they will be in favor of an investigation into the NY Times, WaPo...the CIA, State Dept and Congress... to find out who leaked all of those security measures that we and the terrorists have all read about??
Should be interesting....shutting down here for the night!
Good night...come visit on the Sunday Talk show thread tomorrow!!
At the Colorado GOP Assembly this past summer, Governor Owens speech to the Republican delegates was fantastic. He covered both his and the Republican accomplishments, leadership and all the things we have done to help Colorado in the past few years. Was this put out to the masses? Nope. Was it reported in depth by the media? Of course not. Was it put on the website? Nope. It’s as though it never happened.
The lack of sophistication and effective communication has been disappointing because the party faithful need these things to help us defend our side in this political philosophy war with the left.
I notice Perlosi is no where to be seen. I guess the Democrats want to keep her out of sight and out of mind.
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The tactic worked for Hillary in 2000, so the entire Dem party, which includes big media, has incorporated the tactic this election. It helps keep those generic poll numbers up when nothing negative about Dems is reported to potential voters.
Nancy started promising that she would reveal positions of her party last winter - always giving a date about 60 days ahead. Well, here we are 2 days ahead of the election, and where is their "plan" for the country? Besides "getting Bush", I mean.
"I always believed as a speechwriter that if you could persuade the president to commit himself to certain words, he would feel himself committed to the ideas that underlay those words. And the big shock to me has been that although the president said the words, he just did not absorb the ideas. And that is the root of, maybe, everything."
Frum states that this is a quote of his words. Now he is trying to nuance it. I hope he shrivels up like a slug.
My very smart and politically aware mother has said for years that President Bush does the best when his speechwriters use HIS words in their composition. W does not trip or falter when the language is natural to him. I bet Frum's speeches were some of the ones that gave him an unnatural delivery. Especially if Frum thought that he was going to put thoughts into the President's head. WOW!!
Really makes me mad on a lto of levels because I like JD and I have Lupus and with the right diet and lifestyle it is far from a death sentence and I don't need stem cells to save me... but, most people have no clue and it seems to be working because they keep running it... another ad keeps saying he is a crook and AZ needs a change.
I am so sorry to hear you have Lupus!!
You are so correct about the exploitation of the people with diseases to try to win an election ...it is horrible.
My 7 year old granddaughter has diabetes..and as much as I want her "healthy"...I would never condone killing fetuses to experiment...especially since they have found NO evidence that they work...
RE: Hayworth...I know they are trying to tie him to Abramhoff...I just never even considered that his contest would even be close...
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