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Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 11 March 2007
Various big media television networks ^ | 11 March 2007 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

Posted on 03/11/2007 5:25:34 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!

The Talk Shows



Sunday, March 11th, 2007

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.; Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.; former Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan.; singer Loretta Lynn.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Dole; former Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala; Shibley Telhami, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution; Michael Oren, a senior fellow at the Shalem Center.


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To: Jeff Chandler

I saw today that Petraeus is even asking for more troops.

I know Pres. Bush said yesterday that he was sending about 3500 more to Iraq...but, today, I saw a report that Petraeus is asking for more.

I don't know if that is along with the ones Pres. Bush mentioned or not.

That tells me that Gen. Petraeus has been given the green light to ask for what he needs...and I have read that the ROE have changed under his command also...good news.


721 posted on 03/11/2007 4:04:24 PM PDT by Txsleuth (I don't know who I am voting for yet...just window shopping.)
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To: Txsleuth
some good stuff RE: the Clintons

That's a nicely written summary. It would be a great introduction to Clintonian behavior in a future history book for high school students.

722 posted on 03/11/2007 4:05:41 PM PDT by syriacus (We have a pro-life president. I would not have bet on that 15 years ago. Thank you, GWB.)
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To: cgk

I was wondering that myself.


723 posted on 03/11/2007 4:07:11 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: Phsstpok

....(darned mind reader)...,mumble, mumble


724 posted on 03/11/2007 4:08:43 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: Phsstpok; rodguy911

Somebody posted a thread this afternoon that had a poll from somewhere asking people to vote for who they want to be the GOP candidate.

THAT poll had Colin Powell #1!!!!!!

Blech, ptoooooey!!!


725 posted on 03/11/2007 4:10:37 PM PDT by Txsleuth (I don't know who I am voting for yet...just window shopping.)
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To: cgk

Here's a partial transcript of the Thompson interview.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,258222,00.html


726 posted on 03/11/2007 4:11:09 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee
Thank you so much for the transcript,Thompson was terrific,got a 100% from where I stand.
727 posted on 03/11/2007 4:19:41 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: txradioguy
When I first heard thta Sen. Dole was going to be on this comission...I thought he was the perfect choice.

He's a combat wounded veteran who has seen the best..and worst that the military and VA hospitals have to offer.

He also has several other things going for him.  He has lots of experience fighting the legislative battles and knows how to fram arguments in that context (if not in the context of a presidential campaign).  He also has lots of folks on the Hill who still remember him positively from both sides of the aisle.  They know how he acts when he's actually able to lay down positions that have the likelyhood of being agreed to and, more importantly, stuck to.  Finally he has literally nothing to lose and this offers him a fantastic opportunity to build a lasting legacy, perhaps one more significant than if he had won the Presidency, and certainly a better one than his being the loser to Bill Clinton in 1996.

As you say, he has a stake in the outcome, if not for his own treatment but for the treatment of his brothers (and sisters) in arms.

Shalala, on the other hand, will be at the table representing AFSCME and the bureaucracy.  She'll also be all about protecting the Clintonistas from any hint that this might have been a problem prior to 2000 or, perish the thought, could be the result of the slash and burn policies of the Clinton administration in treating the US Defense budget as their private piggy bank.

728 posted on 03/11/2007 4:34:49 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: wagglebee

Thank you for posting that Fred Thompson transcript from today...I missed the interview.


729 posted on 03/11/2007 4:38:08 PM PDT by Txsleuth (I don't know who I am voting for yet...just window shopping.)
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To: Txsleuth

You're welcome. As some have mentioned, he might not be ideal on abortion, but then again neither was Reagan. On EVERYTHING else he is very strong and he has name recognition.


730 posted on 03/11/2007 4:39:56 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee

At this point I think it would almost be a miracle to get someone that not only could most Republicans/conservatives could get behind...but that could also beat Hillary/Obama.


731 posted on 03/11/2007 4:46:42 PM PDT by Txsleuth (I don't know who I am voting for yet...just window shopping.)
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To: Phsstpok
I think this is the element about Giuliani that is allowing conservatives to still consider supporting him even if they disagree with him on many social issues.

Exactly right, I believe. While there are certainly a contingent of close-minded conservatives, I think (hope?) the bulk are relentlessly open-minded and constantly exploring and reviewing facts and opinion on lots of issues. At least that is how I became a conservative. So I like people who tell the truth. I can deal with that. That is the attraction of Giuliani, in addition to his strength as a leader.

732 posted on 03/11/2007 4:49:50 PM PDT by Bahbah (.Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: Txsleuth

I think that ultimately the GOP nominee will have the necessary support and it won't be Rudy because he will not survive the nomination process. And I am becoming more convinced every day that either Algore or Edwards will be the 'Rat nominee and the running mate will either be Edwards (if Algore is the nominee) or Richardson. The 'Rats are terrified of Hillary being the nominee and Obama is plummeting as fast as he rose.


733 posted on 03/11/2007 4:50:42 PM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: Txsleuth
Exactly what I said in an earlier post. Great minds, my freind :)
734 posted on 03/11/2007 4:51:08 PM PDT by Bahbah (.Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: Phsstpok
Shalala, on the other hand, will be at the table representing AFSCME and the bureaucracy. She'll also be all about protecting the Clintonistas from any hint that this might have been a problem prior to 2000 or, perish the thought, could be the result of the slash and burn policies of the Clinton administration in treating the US Defense budget as their private piggy bank.

All true, but she'll also be there to make sure that, one way or another, this commission will be perverted into a weapon to be used against the Republicans in the upcoming elections, like the 9/11 "Commission" was. If she can't steamroll Dole and the Iraq veterans on the panel into making the commission report a political hatchet job against the Bush Administration, she'll walk away from it and claim the panel is trying to "whitewash" Bush and Rumsfeld, thereby discrediting it.

735 posted on 03/11/2007 4:51:29 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC (Go Gators! NCAA Football and Basketball Champions!)
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To: Txsleuth

..I didn't watch Fox News Sunday because I was going to watch tonight...


&&&&

So was I going to watch Fred Thompson. When I surfed away from FNS I landed on a local baseball channel which was replaying the night that Cal Ripken broke Lou Gehrig's record. What a thrilling night. The O's fans gave him a 22 minute standing ovation!

Watching Cal reminded me of the president's T-ball games on the South Lawn, and how he had Cal Ripken as "Commissioner" of the White House "league."

That memory made me sad and angry all over again at our despicable media - the only people who saw Cal at the White House were the people on the lawn, the photographers who were there and the freepers who look at the Dose!

Everyone in America should have been made aware of the T-ball at the White House ... and they would have been informed if the president to host it was a democrat!


736 posted on 03/11/2007 4:54:00 PM PDT by maica (America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
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To: MNJohnnie; KarlInOhio
KarlInOhio wrote

My problem with what he said is that the War on Terrorism has been going on for the past 24 years since Hezzbollah

and MNJohnnie replied

Back in the late 1960s or early 1970s the PLO, at Yassar's direct orders, murdered a US diplomate. May have even been the Ambassador. This war has been going on now for almost 40 years.

We certainly also have to add Bobby Kennedy's assassination in 1968 by a Palestinian protesting America's support for Israel, so there's a firm anchor for a date at least 39 years ago.  But that's only the most recent manifestation.  You both know as well as I do that this war has been going on for 1300 years. 

The clash of civilizations started when Mohamed declared that the purpose of Islam was to covert, enslave or kill everyone else in the world.  They have never altered that goal as the central tenet of their civilization.  We choose to ignore it from time to time and pay a heavy price for that willful act of delusion.

We cannot coexist with them so long as their purpose on this planet is to wipe us out.

 

737 posted on 03/11/2007 4:55:48 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: kabar; rodguy911
what are the political advantages of giving Libby a pardon now?

The reason to do it now has nothing to do with political advantage (except in a negative sense, as you state, probably).  The reason to pardon him now is because it's the right thing to do.

There are times when you do the right thing despite the political consequences.

I admit that the President may have more information than I do about what the real cost of suffering those consequences now may be and I still trust him to make that judgement.  He and Libby both would put off doing the right thing by Libby if it were to be at too high a price to the country.

I harbor the same fond hope as RodGuy911 that a pardon, now, would be the opening salvo in an aggressive campaign to stomp the traitorous bastards on the other side into the ground (my characterization, not his).  And I certainly agree with him that it would fire up the base.

738 posted on 03/11/2007 5:05:21 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: syriacus

From a quick google: Of course the top link goes to a New York Times article. Basically John Glenn played defense for the Clintons, not agreeing to subpoenas and witnesses, using the tried and true "move along, nothing to see here" attitude. As I recall, he played Thompson for a sucker almost in a Lucy and the football pattern. The hearings were live on cspan and were infuriating to watch.

Chairman Offers Defense of Senate Hearings

July 14, 1997, Monday
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ (NYT); National Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section B, Page 8, Column 1, 1154 words
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Sen Fred Thompson, head of committee holding hearings on campaign finance abuses, stands by his opening statement that China had tried to influence last year's elections; Ty Cobb, lawyer for Democratic fund-raiser John Huang, says his client may have violated some 'complicated' campaign finance laws; Sen John Glenn says he has access to same classified documents as Thompson, but has come to less certain conclusion about China


739 posted on 03/11/2007 5:06:24 PM PDT by maica (America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
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To: maica

Thanks for the background.


740 posted on 03/11/2007 5:21:50 PM PDT by syriacus (We have a pro-life president. I would not have bet on that 15 years ago. Thank you, GWB.)
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