Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 26 November 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 26 November 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, November 26th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reps. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., Barney Frank, D-Mass., and John Dingell, D-Mich.; Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss.; Joseph E. Robert Jr., chairman of Fight for Children.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger; Reps. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and Ike Skelton, D-Mo., retired Gens. Wayne Downing and Barry McCaffrey.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens.-elect Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Jordan's King Abdullah II; Sens. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; supermodel Maggie Rizer.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : I Sens. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Jack Reed, D-R.I.; Iraqi National Security Adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie; former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; Maryland Republican Lt. Gov. Michael Steele; Democratic strategist Donna Brazile.

[rodguy911]

Sorry, I will watch it from now on!LOLOLOL

[snugs]

How much more can the President keep people up to date than giving press conferences, speeches etc etc if the media chooses not to show them or marginalizes them or shows the part they want the President can do very little about it.

There is only so many times he can request a nationwide showing of a speech and then I suspect it is still up to the individual networks to show it or not.

The White House do the next best thing publish info on their website again no one can force you or anyone to read it.

As for Rumsfeld I very much doubt that he was not told in advance I am sure this had been in the workings for some time. What is said publicly and privately are not always the same or the emphasis is not always the same.

[rodguy911]

You could be right, but I see the unfriendly tone to dear Nancy by the dbm'ers as simply a way to get something, anything, on tape for future reference so they can claim how fair and balanced they are to all.I see it as a slick ploy for future use.
Remember what they are complaining about does not amount to a hill of beans. Let me know when they are supporting her impeachment or want to throw any dem out of congress.

[txradioguy]

With the anti-Wal Mart sentiment greater here on the upper east coast than the rest of America...it's quite possible these kids will be lauded by their parents and neighbors.

THAT is disgusting.

[MNJohnnie]

No surprise another day another non stop shooting our own in the back from the 100%er Choir.

Gee these people almost cost us 2004, these people did cost us 2006 and they will cost us 2008 if they cannot learn to stop mindlessly regugitating Democrat Campaign Contributor Mike Savage's screaming nonsense and actual start fighting the Democrats on SOMETHING. Spending ALL their time shooting our own in the back is NOT IN THE LEAST helpful. They spends so much time screaming hysteria and nonsense they simply dorwned out any news that does NOT valiate their emotion based hysterics.

HERE are the facts on Iraq. They have been made readily available to the Always Angry Freepers over and over and over. Maybe instead of spending ALL their time as Terrorists propaganda echo chambers they MIGHT acutally reading the BASIC facts about Iraq and talk about THOSE?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Security_Forces

http://icasualties.org/oif/

http://icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspx
For example, why are the Always Angry, along with the Junk media, continually having daily mental melt downs about 20-30,000 Militants in Iraq and completely ignoring the other 24,970,000 Iraqis?

Maybe the BEST thing would be for the Always Whining wing of the Conservative movement to sit down, shut up and actually FINALLY learn some things about Iraq.

[Fishtalk]

Snugs,

I can read on just one FreeRepublic thread so many things that Dubya NEVER mentions in his speeches. Sure he gives the same old rhetoric but I read things that hell, I think the PRESIDENT should be saying.

Giving a speech is one thing. Really saying something is quite another.

[cardinal4]

They were talking about the increase at work the other day. When I pointed out that most employers cant afford to absorb an increase of .90 an employee and that there would be layoffs, I got the "Rich people will have to give up their Escalades for the poor people" speech. Fat part of the bell curve is exactly right..

[txradioguy]

Maybe if the 100% ers talked to more people like me who have had boots on the ground and took less of their info from the DBM...they'd have a better perspective on what we are doing over there.

[snugs]

More than probable from what I have read on FR about some of the attitudes towards Walmart.

[rodguy911]

You nailed it the msm's penchant for instant wars can ruin the day.

[Gritty]

Ah well, warm up the Tridents, fellas. We're gonna have some business for you in awhile.

I'm afraid you're probably right.

The Mongol hordes have become the Muslim hordes.

[Fishtalk]

For example, why are the Always Angry, along with the Junk media, continually having daily mental melt downs about 20-30,000 Militants in Iraq and completely ignoring the other 24,970,000 Iraqis?

Okay, above is a perfect example. I have NEVER heard President Bush say this. We're not stupid out here in la-la land. Talk to us average Americans like we have some brains.

Or, how about some poignant interviews with some Iraqis? Hey, this is stuff the Dems are great at.

OR, how about some heart-to-heart talks by our military, given from the presidential bully pulpit?

Give me some time and I'll come up with a good PR campaign to change the public sentiment.

It's like that "no weapons of mass destruction" thing. The President, and the pubbies, let this mantra go on until now it's accepted wisdom. Hey, say something enough and it becomes the truth.

As it is, I wonder if the President isn't tired of the fight and ready to leave office. All I see is him kissing the Dems' butt lately, frankly, and firing Rumsfeld when he did was the ultimate slap in the face.

Your mileage may vary.

[rodguy911]

Great post, ignoring important issues can temporarily make one popular but long term destroys the cause of democracy.

[johnny7]

Socialism and Marxism...

[txradioguy]

And they are attitudes that I have never understood.

[snugs]

I beg to differ and I probably follow as close if not more closely what he actually says seeing as I am involved in the Day in the Life thread. Whether it is reported acturately or reported at all is another thing.

I also agree with your comments MNJohnnie in post #246 and would add this link

http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/

[Pukin Dog]

So, you want the President to come out and reassure you, when you don't have your facts straight and are adopting Liberal talking points?

Why should he bother? Maybe YOU let HIM down?

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to discover that Rummy QUIT, and was NOT fired, but hey, if thats what the MSM says and you repeat it ad-nauseum, why the hell should Bush speak to YOU?

At what point do each of us have a responsibility to seek out the FACTS of a situation before running our mouths in protest? It is not enough to have HALF the facts, like which areas of Iraq are safe and which are not, you need the whole picture.

Most of you have given up the idea of searching for facts, and gone back to listening to the MSM, and using their crap on which to base your reasoning.

Based on many of the comments on this and other Conservative forums, who believe it was Bush's job to lead you from the wilderness, I would not be surprised if Bush is right now thinking "the hell with the lot of you".

Don't expect to hear from him soon.

[snugs]

Wise words

[rodguy911]

Brilliant post here, you get right to the core of what is needed. Until the West(and the rest of the world) understands what islamofacscism is all about, we will get no where.

[Fishtalk]

It doesn't take a brain surgeon to discover that Rummy QUIT

Whether he quit or was fired doesn't matter. The timing of the announcement was BAD and I'll never change my thought on this.

Come on, when something like this happens the day AFTER an election when the opposition party took over the House and Senate, it LOOKS like defeat. It LOOKS like the President acknowledged that raging and incomprehensable mantra that Rummy needed to go. It LOOKS like he threw in the towel.

Bush could have waited a few weeks. Rumsfeld could have come up with some family obligation nonsense. There's a million ways it could have been handled.

That act alone caused me to be disillusioned. I thought, and still think, Rumsfeld is a great man and a good leader. Don't tell me about me doing the research, yada, yada, when the President didn't have enough sense to handle this little thing a whole lot better.

That was a major mistake and I felt like I was slapped right in the face.