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.

[Morgan in Denver]

Thanks! I didn't have it on.

[samantha]

Sounds like you have the Gal nailed. She may just need an "everything is going to be alright" pep talk. You could lace her Tea with nice liquored up Honey, if all else fails. LOL!

[samantha]

It is, and I am going to check on the Grove in a few Minutes.

[greyfoxx39]

Comey and Fitzgerald were both at Justice in the 80s and 90s and worked on the original criminal case against Marc Rich. They were opposed to the pardon for Rich by Clinton. Libby was one of Rich's lawyer and they've made it plain that they hold a grudge against Libby for being instrumental in getting the pardon for his client

Yes, I was aware of the Fitzgerald animosity, don't think I knew of Comey being involved in that case. Doesn't it appear to you that these two supposedly adult men have acted just like jealous, vindictive junior-high little boys? Am waiting for the two of them to come out on TV saying "Nyah, Nyah, Nyah, we got you Scooter!" Makes one despair for the country.

[MNJohnnie]

some probably paid to be there,

That is a case of pure projection on the Leftist parts. Groups like Moveon, Answer et al routinely round up a bunch of homeless types to pump up their rally numbers. Remember these are the same people who have repeatedly been caught bribing people to vote for their selected slate of candidates with cigs and booze. Typically commie style propaganda. Try to discredit your foes by accusing them of doing what you do.

[samantha]

I think there is a little Jack Bauer in all of us. For sure.....

[STARWISE]

I think CFR was a lame but possibly well-intentioned attempt at curbing the soft money in elections; however, it wasn't long before the vultures and lawyers dissected and parsed the intricacies and loopholes. And .. loopholes are always there, for those who are paid to hunt for them and maximize opportunity.

I don't believe most in Congress .. even Pubbies ... at the time knew how it would eventually be masterfully utilized by the deviants. In '02, the reach and penetration of the internet, blogosphere and real $$ hadn't yet been as maximized, nor the vengeance and cunning backed by billions of Soros, et al.

I consider Thad Cochran and Pete Domenici to be pretty decent and solid Pubbies, and yet they voted for it. Former Dim senators Nelson (Nebraska) Hollings and John Breaux voted against it.

The vote

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00054

There was a lot of pressure at the time to do SOMEthing, and I don't believe its intent or goal was underhanded .. and I certainly DO NOT believe that Fred Thompson harbored any secret, malicious or devious agenda in that committee to result in what we have today.

Fred today on the subject:

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http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009798

"Many on the right remain angry he supported the campaign finance law sponsored by his friend John McCain. "There are problems with people giving politicians large sums of money and then asking them to pass legislation," Mr. Thompson says. Still, he notes he proposed the amendment to raise the $1,000 per person "hard money" federal contribution limit.

Conceding that McCain-Feingold hasn't worked as intended, and is being riddled with new loopholes, he throws his hands open in exasperation. "I'm not prepared to go there yet, but I wonder if we shouldn't just take off the limits and have full disclosure with harsh penalties for not reporting everything on the Internet immediately."

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John Glenn was going to push his agenda .. no matter what. The fact that his payoff actually happened was just another one of the Clinton Cabal manipulative deals to reach in and control and influence all areas .. every part of our government... quid pro quo should be his/her middle names.

No .. it's what the lawyers, who were hired by the PACs and special interest groups .. with their scalpels, Thesauruses, spit, glue and paste ... did AFTERward to dissect it and hunt down the loopholes.

I bet there were special interest group lawyers having loophole parties while it was still in process.

The one who was trumpeting it the most was McCain .. he was the voice and face of CFR .. why is no one blasting him now?

During the leadup to the voting, he still had a relatively halfway decent and sane reputation, and it was his mantra. It wasn't until the 2004 race that he started really dissembling and showing us the unpalatable side of him we now know is there.

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/9/17/151117.shtml

"Soft Money Hard to Find

The McCain-Feingold campaign finance "reforms" that Democrats howled for have dampened their advantage in to raising soft money.

Hence, in a desperate bid to defeat President Bush next year, Democratic Party operatives have been working overtime creating a "shadow party" to camouflage efforts to raise campaign cash banned by the very act they lobbied for.

America Votes is the party's new umbrella group, and has been described as a confederacy of leftist causes that is mobilizing to keep the banned soft money flowing.

"America Votes pulls together some 20 progressive interests in a kind of shadow party," the magazine reports. The organization's founders include AFL-CIO President John Sweeney and Gregory T. Moore, executive director of NAACP National Voter Fund.

Plans are in the works for America Votes to share polling data, research and mailing lists among member groups, including the Democratic National Committee's massive voter data bank known as "Demzilla."

Each member group is expected to contribute $50,000 to hire coordinators in as many as 17 key swing states.

The massive effort to pull an end run around McCain-Feingold is particularly ironic, say observers, because campaign finance "reform" was a cause celebre only last year among Democrats and vigorously opposed by most Republicans.

Behind closed doors, however, party heavyweights such as Sen. Hillary Clinton were privately warning that McCain-Feingold would doom the Dems' next presidential candidate.

According to press accounts in July 2002, Clinton "screamed" at the act's sponsor, Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., complaining that the legislation would force Democrats to choose between running underfunded campaigns or risk going to jail.

'America Votes' Negates McCain-Feingold

Now Sen. Feingold tells BusinessWeek that America Votes threatens to "render our efforts really meaningless," because candidates are still likely to know where the big money comes from and will look to reward their benefactors just as before.

But with President Bush raising hard money hand-over-fist in smaller dollar amounts that comply with the law, Democrats now realize they've trapped themselves.

Whereas Bush is so successful raising money that he's expected to waive federal matching funds as he did in 2000 for next year's campaign, the Democratic National Committee is scrambling to find ways to generate the kind of big bucks that used to come from fat cats such as TV mogul Haim Saban and billionairess party girl Denise Rich.

One longtime Clinton supporter has already answered the call.

According to BusinessWeek and Canada's National Post, Democrat Daddy Warbucks George Soros plans to kick in $10 million to the America Votes political action committee, Americans Coming Together (ACT).

ACT itself will have its own mega-budget separate from America Votes, with plans to spend an additional $75 million by Election Day 2004.

"The current set of reforms give an advantage to the Republicans," complains the politically active billionaire, who donated millions of dollars to Democrats in the era before McCain-Feingold.

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I will not hold CFR against Fred Thompson .. NO way.

[BusterBear]

...you don't like the term babe and chick. NEITHER DO I AND NEITHER DO MOST WOMEN!

If what Rush means by "babe" is someone whose figure is not very sexy, has rather poor bone-structure, and whose chief claim to "babe-dom" is very obviously bleached, long blond hair and a rather stupid, vacant look in her eyes, then I am not offended by the term. I was rather surprised when he said he'd be throwing his hat in the ring - but then there's no accounting for tastes.

[samantha]

I love the smell of Rats throwing Molotov Cocktails at one another in the huge push for Power. The rats have really stepped in it kowtowing to the anti War Nazis, and they are powerless to do anything about them, that is their base such as it is.

[txradioguy]

yeah about as peaceful as the Islamofascists they support.

[samantha]

How about Alice Cruella Deville? LOL!

[Miss Marple]

I have always made it a policy to only post things which I would not be embarrassed to have my grandchildren see.

Just a thought.

[Freee-dame]

Name two countries that touch the border of Iraq

How about name the continent which contains Iraq?

[sanjacjake]

Are you sure you spelled piece corrctly? JK

[maica]

I considered that but thought it might be too difficult!

[pillut48]

Was there *any* mention on any of the shows today of GOE? We don't watch Sunday morning anymore because of the biases, but I'm just curious since it was such a large turnout for the good guys, and such a low turnout for the bad guys...:-)

[samantha]

It happened and I had to put up with her and her Geezer Hubby also in the mix. She treated her employees so bad, and she would pit one against the other, getting them to squeal on one another. Because I knew what a crazy punishing witch she was, I would never report mistakes by others even if I had to eat dirt from her. I finally stopped being taken aback by her rants and just devised this unique way to handle her spinoffs from sanity. It worked the first time, and every time thereafter. I clued a few of her most browbeaten employees into doing the same thing, and they thanked me. I expect one day to hear that one of her employees has gone postal, and taken her out into the Everglades to play with the Snakes and Frogs, you heard it here first. You have to look in the mirror and make different faces until you find one that is "A SURE FIRE WINNER".

[snugs]

Do you turnovers as in cheese or apple etc. Our local bakers do a wonderful apple turnover with puff pastry.

I normally make cheese ones rather than sweet ones though.

[eeevil conservative]

sorry...

thanks for letting me know....

It is working on Mr T's computer- but not on Mrs. T's computer....

ugh!

I will be sure to try and figure it out once I get home....

thanks for letting me know....

;-)

[samantha]

More like the "Edmund Fitzgerald" LOL! They do have delusions of Grandeur, another illegitimate Couple created by the Rats in the DBM and DNC to serve their crooked,hateful purposes.