Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 31 December 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 31 December 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; former Gov. Tom Vilsack, D-Iowa, presidential candidate.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw; journalist Bob Woodward.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Alexander Haig, former Ford White House chief of staff; journalists Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post and Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News; Gerald Ford biographer James Cannon.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., presidential candidate; wife, Elizabeth Edwards.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Feisal al-Istrabadi, Iraq's deputy ambassador to the United Nations; Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.

[Bahbah]

E. J. Dionne hopes that the hit job they did on Romney over gay marriage is going to be sufficient to knock him out.

[rodguy911]

Agreed, but when great picks like Monica Crowley and others come up and they seemingly pass, it's underwhelming.

[SMM48]

Body was flown by US to the village where he was born.

I hope the DoD bills his retched family for the flight.

Did the plane actually land or did they just drop the casket out the door during a fly over?

[rodguy911]

True but Krauthammers main occupation except for FNC is columnist at WashPost if I am not mistaken.That always makes him suspect IMHO.

[Mo1]

E. J. Dionne hopes that the hit job they did on Romney over gay marriage is going to be sufficient to knock him out.

Gee .. how nice of E. J. to admit the media did a hit job on Romney

[Bahbah]

how nice of E. J. to admit the media did a hit job on Romney

Actually, that was my "astute" interpretation of his remarks :)

[BusterBear]

I also don't get why some are so upset with this Why they need a trial to be reminded of all the horrible things Saddam did is beyond me.

It's amazing how some of the loudest voices expressing outrage over Saddam's execution.were not only silent when Saddam was perpetrating his atrocities but concluding extremely profitable business deals with him. Where was the outrage then?

[rodguy911]

Did the plane actually land of did they just drop the casket out the door during a fly over?

I just did a mental picture of your post, could be post of the week,ROTFLMAO!! I really needed a good laugh today.!!

[snugs]

Can he not read his various briefing papers or whatever they are called, can he not read official statements that the White House puts out or is he just peeved he has not had this on a one to one basis.

Spoilt brat comes to mind.

[Right_in_Virginia]

True but Krauthammers main occupation except for FNC is columnist at WashPost

He doesn't work for TWP. The newspaper carries his syndication.

[rodguy911]

O.K. sorry about that. I always thought he had been introduced as having worked for them.

[saveliberty]

:-) Aw, I think that you thought of it, and just didn't remember that you did.

[Mo1]

Chrissy Matthew as Dan RatherNot on his panel again

[Bahbah]

Where was the outrage then?

Excellent point. There was a story by John Burns who talked of how his minders in Iraq trembled at the very thought of Hussein and one even broke down in tears. Eason Jordan and CNN were very well aware of how awful he was and just how much of that did we hear. Since CNN spent lots of time worrying over whether Saddam would "suffer", I have to think that their sympathies really were and are with the dictator.

[snugs]

Sorry to hear about your family relationship situation somehow Christmas seems to make these situations worse and many people experience a breakup just prior, during or immediately after Christmas.

Sounds though from what you are saying they are well rid of the fellows though I guess that your grand daughter is the child of one of them so that is sad for her as well.

[snugs]

What was that?

[Phsstpok]

the elections were a collective stamping of their feet by the voters.

Well, at least that's intellectually consistent with Peter Jennings 1994 comment about the voters 'having a temper tantrum' when the Dhimmicrats got trounced (and trounced almost 2 to 1 worse than the turnover this time).

I actually found the quote on MRC's Notable Quotables for 1994:

Sore Losers Award
(for Midterm Election Reporting)

First Place

"Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming. It's clear that the anger controls the child and not the other way around. It's the job of the parent to teach the child to control the anger and channel it in a positive way. Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week....Parenting and governing don't have to be dirty words: the nation can't be run by an angry two-year-old."

-- ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings in his daily ABC Radio commentary, November 14.

 

Note that he even used the phrase "stomping feet."  I doubt Robinson is conscious enough to recognize the irony, but it is delicious. Does this make Robinson and friends sore winners? They certainly can be described as acting like "angry two year olds."

[snugs]

[johnny7]

Charles' misses are few... but they always leave me with the feeling that there's a little Jekyll & Hyde in him.

[Bahbah]

Lordy, Lugar is just doddering. "Who is being trained?" I would assume they are Iraqis. "Where are the battle lines?" Well, Lugar, they are wherever the "insurgents" pop up. My goodness, do none of them read anything??? He wants the President to describe to him who we are fighting and how do our people go about finding them. Apparently Lugar cannot find any information by himself and has to have the President feed it to him.