Posted on 03/25/2007 5:15:31 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Trent Lott, R-Miss.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Fired U.S. attorneys David Inglesias and John McKay; Sens. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; former U.S. Attorney H.E. "Bud" Cummins.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.; breast cancer specialist Dr. Eric Winer; breast-cancer survivors.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Samir Sumaidaie, Iraqi ambassador to U.S.; John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N.; Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah; Lanny Davis, former Clinton special counsel; Donna Brazile, Democratic strategist; Ed Gillespie, former RNC chairman.
Thank you. You're very kind.
From you keyboard to Roger Ailes' ears!
I am not sure I can go along with Lizard as Schumer's nickname. That has to be reserved for Carville. I'll never forget the night I heard a very scholarly radio host in Chicago - Milton Rosenberg professor at U of Chicago describe Carville as "reptilian".
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Great catch sleuth that won't go over well.
If McCain goes third party it's a whole new race,I don't even want to think about that.
Thanks sleuth that's sweet, 3,000 hard miles but gotta go.
Yep.
And they get paid six figure salaries because they spout this crap and look pretty at the same time. Oh, and they have friends and spouses in positions of power that the folks who employ them want to suck up to.
And it has always been thus.
Why do you think Joseph was able to have such an impact on the court of Pharaoh when he was basically just pronouncing common sense notions in the midst of the same type of sycophantic babble?
When what is necessary is common sense you'll find that it's not so common, after all.
McCain could help Hillary like Perot helped Billary. McCain should not run if he doesn't win the primary.
He shouldn't run anyway, he is another Bob Dole!
Don't forget jon f'n carry's lizard tongue when he talks...ICK!
Oh..yeah...that Jane girl is a piece of work...she spouts the DNC line very well.
Unfortunately, you try to divert her from her talking points..and she just starts shouting them by rote. LOL
I have a hard time with those kinds of debates..the shouting over each other makes me nervous...seriously.
Thanks for coming aboard glad to have you.
23 1/2 HOURS UNTIL JACK ON 24--BE THERE!!
you mean like Haliburton .. LOL!
Posted at 12:39pm on Mar. 25, 2007
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - The Review
By Mark Kilmer
Sunday, March 25, 2007
We start the morning with NBC's Meet the Pres, on which host Tim Russert spoke to fired U.S. attorneys David Iglesias and John McKay. Russert, Iglesias, and McKay – seemingly in that ordered – are angry with the Bush Administration. Russert drew an outline for a case that they were illegally fired for political reasons and added little numbers to show which color of paint went where. McKay and Iglesias finished the paint-by-numbers. And there was the matter of Iglesias quoting the Old Testament book of Proverbs which Russert wanted to settle. Iglesias explained that he had used the wrong verse, and they dropped the matter.
On FNS, Diane Feinstein said that they needed to hold the hearings to determine if anything illegal had been done. Host Chris Wallace asked her if it was right to hold hearings when there's "no there there," and Feinstein shot back that the "there there, is why were they removed?" Senator Trent Lott held throughout that the President could remove these people for any reason.
We return to the Russert Zone, MTP, where Tim talked to Snarlin' Arlen Specter and famed Nazi hunter Dick Durbin. Durbin says that Gonzales has no "credibility. Specter argued that the President can "discharge a U.S. attorney for no reason, but they cannot be discharged for a bad reason." That's a contradiction, but Specter also thinks an accommodation can be reached between the Senate and the White House. He's working on that, and maybe it's why Schumer hasn't yet gotten the subpoenas.
On TW, Chuck Hagel said the usual Chuck Hagel things – it's in the show-by-show review – and announced that he will co-sponsor with Jim Webb amendments next week to the supplemental war spending bill. Asked what was contained in the bill, Hagel said that he didn't know because Webb hadn't written it yet.
On FTN, fired US attorney Bud Cummins stood by his assertion that he served at the pleasure of the President, but he takes major issue with the assertion that they were fired for performance reasons. He's also concerned that though they serve at the pleasure of the President but that the decisions had been delegated down to a "room of 35-year-old kids." Unlike the others, Cummins' gripe does not seem to be a part of the Democrats' political agenda; rather, he is angry that they tried to smear his professional reputation.
Next on FTN, host Bob Schieffer made the case that the White House was duplicitous; the host feels that because Rove talks about it in public speeches, he should testify before the Senate about it under oath. Pat Leahy agreed with Schieffer. Graham put up a defense, but Leahy declared that the White House was trying to hide behind the Constitution now when it suits them after having "ignored the Constitution for six years!"
On LE, Senator Orrin Hatch accused the Democrats of trying to micromanage the war and handcuff our troops. Senator Bill Nelson, smiling like an idiot, mumbled about the ISG, getting their timeline wrong if I heard correctly. On the matter of the U.S. attorneys, Nelson held that the Executive Privilege is "mumbo jumbo" which "shouldn't stand in the way of the truth."
Also on LE, John Bolton said that we were right to take out Saddam because his regime was the danger, and no one had said that the danger was imminent. He thinks the deal with North Korea "rewards bad behavior."
The Show-by-Show review is beneath the fold. ...
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More good stuff in the show by show review, as usual.
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