Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 4 February 2007

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[Alas Babylon!]

p>The Talk Shows

Sunday, February 4th, 2007

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Jim Webb, D-Va., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; Sarah Ferguson, the duchess of York.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : White House budget director Rob Portman; former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack; former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel; Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; consumer advocate Ralph Nader.

[upchuck]

I'm really, really late in posting this. But I was wondering where thesmartestwomanintheworld/democraticfrontrunner was this fine Sunday morning?

Probably at church.

[Phsstpok]

Just when you thought the Sunday panels couldn't have someone more annoying and nauseating than Juan Williams, Stephie invites Donna Brazile to his show....

I have mixed feelings about Donna Brazile.   I despise her politics and public personae, but I found out through a friend that she's also a very nice person.  She lived next door to a co-workers son when he first went to Washington as an aid to a conservative elected official.  He roomed with two other very conservative white Republican 20 somethings.  She took them under her wing and showed them the ropes in the town, never trying to sway them or get into their politics, just being a mentor and good neighbor to some kids right out of college.

I think I'd like her one on one.  There are a whole bunch of the Dhimmicrats that that wouldn't be true about.  Heck, I know I wouldn't want to be in the same room as a whole bunch of Republicans.  Hagel comes to mind.

[Phsstpok]

Mark Kilmer has posted his excellent summary and review of the Sunday morning shows over at RedState.  Here's the opening 

Posted at 1:51pm on Feb. 4, 2007

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review

By Mark Kilmer

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Talking to FOX's Chris Wallace, Jim Webb made the case for negotiating the future of Iraq with Tehran; after all, he argued, Iran had backed off after the President gave his Axis of Evil speech.

Lindsey Graham made the case for the surge and added that some of those Republicans who were pushing for the sense of the Senate resolutions were "worried about how this will play out in '08." Chuck Hagel came to mind, and perhaps Hagel needs to turn again to Joe Biden. (I'll leave this "fluffernutter" nonsense aside.)

John Edwards on MTP blamed his vote for the ouster of Saddam in part on the former Clinton Administration officials to whom he spoke, who had told him that Saddam had WMD and was an imminent danger. He said his real mistake, though, was what seemed to be getting it wrong on a parental conundrum: should the President have been trusted with the authority to invade Iraq?

On TW, John McCain was interviewed first. He called those who support the Warner-Levin resolution (S.Con.Res. 7) "intellectually dishonest," because they express disapproval of the troops and their mission but refuse to do anything about it. Hagel, interviewed next, said that McCain was intellectually dishonest for trying to set benchmarks with no consequences if they are not met.

Without missing a beat, Hagel has switched his support to the Warner-Levin resolution and argued as if that one were the resolution he'd always supported. It calls for pulling the troops out of the cities. Hagel said that he agrees with David Brooks, who evidently wrote that the next generation won't care about ideology. (I want to meet these naïve and idealistic waifs!)

On FTN, host Bob Schieffer discussed with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell that the Super Bowl was the most valuable sporting event in the world. Phil Simms later boasted of how great it was to win a Super Bowl, and Dan Marino countered that he wouldn't trade his spot in the Hall of Fame and long career in Miami for a lousy ring.

On LE, Diane Feinstein said that the Senate should remove the President's "authority to authorize the use of force." She was outraged that the Republicans would block debate on the sense of the Senate resolutions. Dick Lugar said that the resolutions were meaningless, none would pass, and there were more important things that the Senate could be doing.

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[mathluv]

Thanks for that info. I like ED, and miss her of the morning. I knew she had the 8 children - 2 really young ones. I don't care for her replacement. I did not think Gretchen could READ the news, much less interact with Steve and Brian.

[Norman Bates]

What was McCain saying?

[eeevil conservative]

once again...

ignore substance..

just GOP rhetoric...

explain what it is you have against the MSM and talking point from the DNC?

you have their tactics down pat...

[samantha]

You are probably right. Fop is my word to describe Christopher Dodd, and in some ways Jon Cary, but that could also be useful to pinpoint Breck Girl's behavior and mannerisms. I got it, when you look at most of the Male Democrats "fop" may be the operative word. Yikes! The Democrat "Fop" party. Party of "fops". LOL!

[samantha]

I heard something to that effect also. Something in that Beltway Geritol that could be lethal to the brain.

[MNJohnnie]

Umm this response has nothing at all to do with my post.

Here is a question for you to chew on. Newt is currently taking a lot of heat for the times he has been nice to Hillary Clinton. Is Newt "merely repeating GOP retoric" and "compromising his principals" when he does that


once again...

ignore substance..

just GOP rhetoric...

explain what it is you have against the MSM and talking point from the DNC?

you have their tactics down pat...

[Phsstpok]

The only thing I disagree with in your post about Lil Timmah is your assumption that he was ever a journalist. I believe that he's been a Dhimmicrat operative his entire career, going back to when he worked for Mario Cuomo and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. 

Between him and Moynihan Russert was the more blatant partisan.  I think Timmah got foisted off on Moynihan because Moynihan had been too willing to work with Republicans at times, straying off of the reservation on welfare and being willing to serve in the Nixon and Ford administrations (and serve well).  I think Russert was Moynihan's "minder," charged with making sure he didn't stray too far from party orthodoxy.  Don't get me wrong, Moynihan was as partisan and liberal as the day is long.  The difference is that he was also an honest person.  Lil Timmah doesn't suffer from that particular weakness.

Russert is and always has been a partisan hack. He just doesn't care if anyone knows it anymore. That's what happens in the last stages of a death spiral. He was in denial for years, then got angry and started lashing out at critics. That was followed by bargaining, trying to make out that he was bipartisan as a sop to his critics and then, towards the end of the Clinton presidency and the first few years of Bush's, he seemed to get very depressed. Now he's in the acceptance phase, where he just doesn't give a damn anymore.

[eeevil conservative]

Johnnie

why can you not discuss the substance and the principles of the issues and conservatism?

what are you so afraid of?

[samantha]

I don't know, I think it is that DC Geritol. It is effecting their minds. I was not sure where Fred dragged those stats from, could have been Fox News opinion Dynamics. I was still reeling from his almost happy and excited encouraging voice about the idiot Blowhard Franken running to recall where that state came from.

[txrangerette]

What? Alabama?

I thought Trent was from Mississippi. Did he really come from AL??

I know this isn't relative to your post, but in a former post you longed for someone passionate, positive, etc like President Bush to "pop up" to run in 'o8. I think Mo1 agreed with you, didn't she?

Anyhow, the closest person to that description that I know of is Jeb.

And you already know how his last name of Bush has caused him to be hated at the mere whiff in the wind that he might run for President.

Sometimes the nut house enviroment we're trying to pick a President in just gets to me...

[txrangerette]

Enviro(N)ment

[Txsleuth]

Oh...dear, I DID get the state wrong, didn't I.

I am so sorry to all Alabama residents that might NOT appreciate me giving Trent to you...LOL

I know that I surely wouldn't want him replacing Jeff Sessions...LOL

I know what you mean...I saw a poster posit the other day that if Jeb Bush moved to a different state, and changed his name....he might have a better chance. LOL

BUT, if you think about it, and obviously you have....why doesn't the same thinking pertain to Hillary???

I also think, though, that Jeb Bush probably doesn't want the hassle of a campaign fraught with arrows flung HIS way, that would be meant for his brother.

[samantha]

To answer that question I probably would have to have been a lifelong Pubbie. I think it may be that Pubbies are not good street fighters, with the exception of Rudy G. They are not by nature mean, nasty, immature. Rats do not care how they look or what they do in the process of getting and keeping power. It may be how they were raised, or who they were friends with when they went to School. Union Thuggery is built into their every Campaign. Even as a Pubbie, you know that the Rats are going to behave very badly, and you just cannot bring yourself to squash them like a cockroach,

[txrangerette]

Jeb has no choice. Whether now or the next time in 2012, he has been hatefully, irrationally rejected by too many people because of the family he's in. So if he wanted to do it, he wouldn't do it. And it turns out he's the closest to what you are longing for, in my not too humble opinion (lol).

[greyfoxx39]

And you already know how his last name of Bush has caused him to be hated at the mere whiff in the wind that he might run for President.

Just a passing thought at the above remark....I just wonder how much of the bashing, mud-slinging and downright trash-talking lies that have been aimed at W were part of a plan by clintonista dominated media to take Jeb out of the running EVER to be prez? Couldn't hurt to tarnish Bush the Elder's name too...just think, payback for impeachment. I don't put anything past the clinton crime cabal.

[txrangerette]

That thinking doesn't apply to Hillary because the people who would vote for her aren't the same kind of people who have hatefully rejected Jeb.

They are Democrats and love power and legacy and right of succession and all the rest. Think the Kennedy dynasty. Since they're determined to pretend that Bill C was so successful, they would vote for Hillary and Chelsea too for that matter, and Chelsea's kid if she had one.

As for independents, the liberal ones tend to think like Democrats, the conservative ones have too many "hate Bush and anyone named Bush" types among them.

[Txsleuth]

Yes...you are right.

It sends shivers down my spine though...a Clinton Dynasty?? ((((((((shudder)))))))))))