Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 18 March 2007

Various big media television networks ^ | 18 March 2007 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, March 18th, 2007

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former U.S. Attorneys Bud Cummins of Arkansas and David Iglesias of New Mexico; Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and John Kerry, D-Mass.; Alyssa Mastromonaco, campaign aide to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa.; former Rep. Tom Andrews, D-Maine, and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas; Richard Perle, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and John Cornyn, R-Texas; national security adviser Stephen Hadley; actor Sam Waterston.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : national security adviser Stephen Hadley; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; retired Army Gen. George Joulwan; Michael Gordon, chief military correspondent for The New York Times; retired Army Col. Patrick Lang.

[Phsstpok]

Also, just an aside, I really resented Rush Limbaugh going on and on about how this woman is such a "BABE". Maybe it's small of me, I'll admit it. But here we are watching this bitch who cost this country so much money and caused all this angst and we got to hear the one and only person we can count on to take our side talking WITH HIS TESTICLES!

I heard that not as praise for her "beauty" but as a satirical comment on the fawning attitude of her supporters, particularly in the press.  With Rush you have to think a level or two beyond what he actually says.  He assumes (not always correctly) that his audience is up to the task. Sometimes what is obvious to him doesn't quite make it to the microphone in a way that many can understand. 

Sometimes it's funny, as when he had a caller on to declare how shocked he was by the political ad he'd just heard on Rush's show (one of the parody ads he runs sometimes "paid for by George Soros and Friends of Nazi Pelosi").  The guy thought it was real and Rush just let him go on thinking it was.  Sometimes it's sad, as when people didn't catch on that he was being sarcastic when he declared and maintained for two days that he was switching sides and supporting President Clinton. 

He can be sophmoric at times, but there's generally a reason he's being sophmoric.

[rodguy911]

So she's "standing upright" for freedom of speech?

[irish guard]

Well then someone is lying....

One of the most stunning revelations contained in the Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA is that virtually everything Joseph Wilson has said about his trip to Niger, and the report that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger, is a lie. First, contrary to what Wilson has said publicly, his wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, did recommend him for the Niger investigation: The report states that a CIA official told the Senate committee that Plame "offered up" Wilson's name for the Niger trip, then on Feb. 12, 2002, sent a memo to a deputy chief in the CIA's Directorate of Operations saying her husband "has good relations with both the PM [prime minister] and the former Minister of Mines (not to mention lots of French contacts), both of whom could possibly shed light on this sort of activity." The next day, the operations official cabled an overseas officer seeking concurrence with the idea of sending Wilson, the report said. Confronted yesterday with the Senate report, Wilson could only offer a non sequitur and a lame denial: Wilson stood by his assertion in an interview yesterday, saying Plame was not the person who made the decision to send him. Of her memo, he said: "I don't see it as a recommendation to send me.

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/007135.php

[txradioguy]

And if to prove my point about the constant drum beat for resignations...now there are people according to FNC calling for Gen. Pace to resign...FOR SPEAKING THE TRUTH!

[rodguy911]

Nahhhh I don't want to hear about Morgan robbing banks again.

[samantha]

Sometimes I think that Freepers are not remembering what happened in the hearings that Fred Thompson chaired, versus Minority counterpart John Glenn. No matter how good someone looks at this moment, especially since the rest of the field is not exciting we have to remember that Thompson was rolled and rolled really bad by John Glenn in those hearings about the Chinese money and the Clintons. There was no other way of putting it except he was inept. Glenn was out to protect the Clinton Crime Family and he ran circles around Thompson, and he got his "quid pro quo", he went back into Space. Glenn sold his entire array of past good deeds and credibility for his Geezer trip back to space, and Thompson aided and abetted. I remember how unsettling and totally embarrassing his performance was, and we need to look at that past performance to guide us in predicting future performance. Thompson has been out of the Senate for a few Years now, and all we know now is Law and Order and him substituting for Paul Harvey. I was not offended by what Rush said about Plame, I thought all along that she was a Bimbo that never learned to keep her Mouth(outed herself) or Legs closed around Wilson, and she is not respected. She is ogled and laughed at, and I do not think anyone can really imagine her in any credible Intelligence matter.

[rodguy911]

O.K. we need accompanying photos to get sufficiently chummed up.

[rodguy911]

Many of us do,we do what we can.

[snugs]

Well at the moment it is raw slab of meat but later when browned and cooked will do.

[txradioguy]

To the "activists" and other Libtards demanding either a resignation or an apology from Gen. pace...two words fer ya..."POUND SAND"!!!

[MHGinTN]

[Morgan in Denver]

Yeah, but it's true. Phsstpok sees better with one eye than Juan Williams can with two or four.

Just finished watching FNS. Williams needs to accept the reality that nothing President Bush can do will satisfy either him or the Democrats.

[rodguy911]

THanks GF39.

[txradioguy]

Well folks here and other places have done so much for me and other soldiers whom they don't even know and I feel a conastant need to repay their kindness...I was hoping yesterday would be one of those chances...but forces outside my control interfered...but I'll show up...just when everyone least expects it.

[patj]

put up the email from the Schmuckster about him asking all the questions on the Plame case...

This is the second time today that I have seen a reference to that. Could you please enlighten me? I must have missed something important.

[samantha]

I thought it was funny also, because he was saying in "Rush" fashion that she was a "Bimbo" babe and not anyone of Substance like a real CIA operatives. She was only around for the higher ups to ogle and be eye Candy, not for actually doing her job well. He was smashing her credibility in the CIA by saying what a lot of us already know that "bimbos" do nothing but look good to draw their pay.

[rodguy911]

This entire Rush discussion just proves my point that we all need to stop keying in on every word our talk show hosts utter.

With 15 hours a week to kill(and over 20 in the case of Boortz) they all have ample time to say the wrong things at the wrong times. It's always a mistake to jump on every word as the gospel!! It just doesn't work that way.(believe me I have said plenty of things I wish I hadn't on the air)

[txradioguy]

Ding Ding Ding...we have teh winnah!!!

[rodguy911]

Brilliant catch here and valerie is even worse.

[txradioguy]

In case no one heard...cause I know it wasn't reported...McCain blew off another "Iraqi resolution" vote in the Senate this week.