Posted on 02/18/2007 5:12:27 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, February 17th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): White House press secretary Tony Snow.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Joe Biden, D-Del., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann Romney; actor Michael Douglas.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : White House press secretary Tony Snow; Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; magician Penn Jillette; former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele; and Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League.
Thanks, the worse part is that Mrs. Clinton frequently appeared on Greta's show with Matthew Linder playing an important part. Looks like FNS want to get closer to Mrs.Clinton which is why Linder was picked up as senior producer. Well, making news & getting ratings are different things. Wallace & FNS wants the former than the latter.
Oh dear Lord, Kabar, you are just soooooooo right.
A perfect example of how Bush blew it.
Damn, to give the Dems credit for being patriotic in any damn sense of the word is totally wrong. Bush should have JUMPED all over that question, he should have pointed out, loudly and angrily, that even IF the House of Reps has problems with how he, as CIC, handles the war, they certainly shouldn't be passing a "non-binding" resolution that the rest of the world will surely see as binding and a slap in the face of the leader of our military. He should state loudly for the soccer moms to hear that congress shouldn't be broadcasting all this to world. I still think Americans would understand this.
He just, ladidah, ladidah, ladidah, let's it pass.
I'm not impressed people and nothing anybody can tell me will change my mind. I really believe BUSH can change the tide of this thing but he's too busy defending Pelosi's need for a big-assed jet and just two weeks ago Bush was right here in Delaware, Dupont....to encourage grain alcohol or some such. But Bush was here, right smack dab in Castle's territory with this big win, wooooooo, for little ole Delaware.
Yet Castle, a REPUBLICAN, this week spits in the man's face.
They know Bush is a wimp and if y'all were to be honest with your own selves, you know it too.
The opposition has no respect for Dubya, his own party has little respect, and the hopeful base such as you and I sat and hoped he would be a man and fight back.
I have very little respect for the man.
He has to say that. He's not some Senator or Congress Critter that can just go off on a Kennedy or Byrd style rant.
The President is supposed to appear above the fray.
The ones that NEED to be expressing the Presidents sentiment are those Congress Critters that call themselves "Republicans" in the House and Senate.
They are the ones that are supposed to say what a President with any kind of class can not.
"So unless you see what he says "live"...you will never truly know what the President said or didn't say thanks to the fifth colum in the DBM."
Absolutely true! And they carry precious few of his live statements . . . all the while talking over him telling us what he is 'saying'.
Amen
6 months and 11,000 deaths into the Korean War, Truman didn't cut and run.
Instead, Truman's administration
1. drafted thousands more young men and
2. imposed full wartime censorship.
Imagine if Bush tried to do either of those two things.
A Tribute to Draftees,By Dennis Byrne.
In the Korean War, 1.8 million were draftees, compared with 1.3 million volunteers.In the Vietnam War, draftees finally became a minority of those who served, about one-third.
This will surprise some: About 70 percent of those killed in Vietnam were volunteers.
"I have very little respect for the man."
Gee how would we have ever guessed that? *rolls eyes*
The folks at DU that lurk here are enjoying your agreement with them about the President right about now.
As I just poinnted out to someone else...how about instead of blaiming all of this on one man...you get just as pissed at the Republicans in the House and Senate that are supposed to act as the literal voice of the President in these matters and say the things he can't...and chastize them for remaing so damn silent.
It would appear that the only Republican left in Congress with his testicles intact is Mitch McConnell!!!!!
So unless you see what he says "live"...you will never truly know what the President said or didn't say thanks to the fifth colum in the DBM.
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Example: President Bush gave a powerhouse press conference this week. No reporter cought him in a gotcha soundbite. Ergo: no reporting on what he said, much less actually hearing his voice on the radio.
Ann Compton is the WH reporter for ABC news; I hear her voice every half hour when I listen to our station that carries Rush, Sean, Mark Levin and a solidly conservative morning program.
She played a 13 word clip of the President's voice ONCE in her reports the day after that conference. I'm sure it was so she could refute anyone who might say she never did it. I know this because I started listening early in the morning specifically to how ABCnews would cover the conference, and heard her tell us about the conference for a few hours before she actually included the soundbite in her report - exactly once - then reverted to just her voice in her report.
Just remember the 8 years of Clinton -- his voice was on the news every half hour!!!!
That is not the George W Bush I observe daily
For those who missed it:
Welcoming Heroes Home (Must see)
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/02/16/welcoming-heroes-home/
During the Whitewater/Lewinsky scandals, hundreds of dem spokesmouths went out to vigorously defend Clinton. Where are our Bush defenders? LOL, joining, in many cases, the Bush basheres!!!!
If Republicans and conservatives "pundits" spend 1/8 of the effort defending this Pres as the Clintonistas did theirs we wouldn't even be having this conversation.
Many a dem had written an op-ed as to why Clinton was being worngly attacked in my local rag, the Montgomery (Ala) Advertiser. Not one op-ed supporting Pres Bush, though, through his host of media generated "troubles". I continously hound my Congressional delegation as to why they never go to bat for the Pres. It's shameful.
Thanks for the update. It's not on here for another ten minutes. I'm looking forward to seeing it.
Fishtalk, he is right on with this post. And that's *if* the networks carry it and *if* cable news doesn't cut away to a car chase or new annanicholsmith development. Then they have a couple of democrats on to demonize the president's words. The evening news then carries a few lines of the POTUS speech and then the buzz words of the week from the demos. That is what the general public is subjected to.
The DBM learned well the lesson from the 8 years of Reagan. Ronaldus Magnus had a way of speaking past the cameras...past the talking heads...and speaking directly to the people. So his message came through loud and clear.
This time around...when this current plain spoken President came into office...the DBM was better equipped to distort deflect and twist what the people thought they were hearing the President say.
Never again will the DBM allow a President or Presidential Candidate reach out to the people and bypass their control of the news to get his/her message out.
All you have to do is look at how his approval numbers jump when he speaks directly to the people as opposed to staged and stilted press conferences where the reporters like that sleazeball David Gregory circle the man like hungry sharks.
Great comment
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