Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 6 May 2007

Various big media television networks ^ | 6 May 2007 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, May 6th, 2007

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; the Rev. Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's public policy arm.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former CIA Director George Tenet.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.; Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; former Gov. Jim Gilmore, R-Va.; Syrian Ambassador Imad Moustapha; Iraqi Ambassador Samir Sumaidaie; Egyptian Ambassador Nabil Fahmy.

[longtermmemmory]

In case anyone missed it, C-Span is rerunning the Republican “debates” right now.

[Bahbah]

Interesting take by Edwards on the potential for genocide in Iraq. He says we should “plan for it” but he isn’t sure at this time whether he would send troops in to do something about it.

[bray]

BJ started as a commie idealist and after the reality of corruption soured him he only persued women for his fringe benefit. HilaryCare never let the corruption and graft bother her since she believes in communism and the inner circle.

Once inside the circle she believes she can change America and Americans into that communist utiopia. If she skims a $B off the side, so much the better.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Bahbah]

Oh, Edwards will leave troops in Iraq to guard our embassy.

[advertising guy]

if there ever was an opportunity to see lies in full color, the starting of Fox with Dodd and Wallace is classic.
Someone obviously shook Chris Wallace around (w/o killing him) and opened his eyes to Al Queida in Iraq. As a result, Wallace is hammering Dodd on the FACT AlQueida is killing in Iraq. Dodd just lies and stammers .

[Bahbah]

LOL. Edwards did not know when he was working for the hedge fund that they used off-shore tax shelters. He learned that later.

[Bahbah]

Someone who is much smarter than I am is going to have to explain what Edwards’ economic and tax plan.

As an aside, Stephie has been told to go after him and make him look like the hypocritical fool he is. (Hillary will be pleased.)

[NewsBee]

The shadow government.

I adjusted my tin-foil hat when I read that statement of yours.......I had a flash-back of Vice-President Cheney sitting in front of a Senator committee answering questions when Senator Clinton ask the Vice-President about a report, I believe the report was from the CIA. The Vice-President got a funny look on his face and replied "I haven't seen that report, it hasn't crossed my desk yet!".

I swear got chills when I heard our Vice-President say that. Does anyone else remember when this happened?

[STARWISE]

Thanks for your updates, bah. Now that I know Timmy's demented spin today, I've decided nausea on a Sunday morning is NOT a good thing... and Tenet protesteth too much."

Another reason I have such high admiration for Fred Thompson is his resolute support of Scooter Libby, as noted in this recent interview, and a true Beltway grasp of the whole shameful debacle:

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"Thompson has backed another well-known supporter of the Iraq War at what some think might come at a political cost to his prospective presidential bid. Thompson says he doesn't care. Scooter Libby "is getting the shaft," he says, "and I'll help him if I can." Thompson speaks with a slow drawl, characteristic of his upbringing in southern Tennessee, and his demeanor is similarly laid back. He gestures infrequently and deliberately, only when he is particularly determined to underscore a point he is making.

The closest he came to being animated during our discussion came as he discussed the chain of events that led to the prosecution of Libby. His comments are worth quoting at length:

"I know what he's undergoing now. I know what it costs him. I know what's happening to him and his family, I've seen it before. And he's suffering from the fact that he is in Washington, D.C., as an employee of the Bush administration and especially as someone who is working for Dick Cheney.

It was obvious to me that no crime had been committed, that Valerie Plame was not a covered person under the statute.

I don't care what she calls herself or what [CIA Director] General Hayden calls her she is not a covered person under the statute. And yet a prosecutor willing to put reporters in jail after knowing that and after knowing who really leaked the information, [had] to come up with a scalp on the wall.

That's the very reason why Joe Lieberman and I killed the independent counsel law. Both parties have been guilty of using it. Both parties have been victims of it. And we came away with the idea--it gets back again to human nature.

When you pick a guy out and set him out with all the plaudits of the news media and he ought to be after the president of the United States or whoever, and give him all that power, and all that attention so that if he looks at it and says, 'Well, it's not that big a problem.' He's considered to be a failure. On the hand, if continues along and he's able to do anything and even nick the dragon a little bit, he's going to be a hero--he's going to stay on.

"And you don't set people up like that, unaccountable to nobody, in the United States of America, and focus all their attention on one person or one little group of people.

In the average U.S. attorney's office you have to balance out the priorities of what you're about here. You know, you could probably come up with some theoretical violation of every citizen in America if you devoted a few resources to him and stayed on him about two or three years.

So, here you go, the CIA, you know, kept sending over this complaint. Which--they started the whole problem! You know, it makes me mad as the devil just to think about it.

They picked this guy out to send to Niger, which is bound to go and let him come back and start making political attacks when his wife works over there!

Did it ever occur to anybody that her name was going to be and he was put in play in this town? The amazing thing is that it stayed out of the papers as long as it did! So they set the whole thing up and then they said: 'Oh my goodness somebody's got to prosecute this.' And they send it over to the attorney general, leak the information, puts the heat on the attorney general.

Then for some reason, Ashcroft recuses himself. This guy [James] Comey [former Deputy Attorney General] appoints his old buddy [Patrick] Fitzgerald [Thompson pronounces it FITZ gerald] and gives him authority. Now, we did away with the independent counsel law, but the attorney general's still got special counsel authority--must always have. When there's a genuine conflict of interest, you've got to have somebody come in and look at it. Hypothetical example: attorney general's brother gets it trouble, can't have the attorney general looking at it. It's common sense . . .

"This guy [Fitzgerald] has no restrictions, this guy has no supervision, this guy can do anything he wants to do. This guy, in my opinion, has more authority and power than the attorney general of the United States, for this purpose.

So he's off to the races. So it's a breakdown of the CIA. It's a breakdown of the Justice Dept. And now this independent counsel, knowing there's been no violation of the law keeps digging and digging and digging--selecting some journalists that he's going to protect and make witnesses out of. Going after other people. You have a trial up there where nobody can remember their name, and there are as many inconsistent statements among the prosecution witnesses as there were by Libby.

Nowhere else in America would this have occurred. And it's just not right. And so, you know, not only did I help [Scooter Libby]. I will continue to help him."

And if that assistance damages his presidential prospects? Too bad. He's helping anyway.

[txradioguy]

That can never be said often enough or loud enough!

[Phsstpok]

You notice that none of the positive news out of Baghdad is being reported now and only being shown as bad news. No matter how much progress is made in the future the Stone Age Press will report it as losses. Same formula as Nam.

The DBM are also making a big deal out of the new Newsweak poll that shows Bush at 28% approval but haven't reported the Rasmussen poll that has him hovering right around 40%.  Note, by the way, that the link to the Newsweak poll is the Iranian state news agency trumpeting the story, right along with their allies and stooges in the DBM.

Rasmussen has an interesting piece on poll methodology that goes some way towards explaining the differences between polls, by the way.

I stick with my comment from last week, and with comments Rush made this week, the current use of polls by the media is to make news, not report it, and they'll pick and choose the polls and slant the questions and the samples to get the results they want.  The same thing they do with all of their reporting.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Indeed

[rodguy911]

Good points Bray. I just watched a few minutes of stuffy stephie and my guess is that for those few dems with half a brain, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that Fred Thompson could be big trouble for the rats.

I think that may be why both Donna Brazille and Stuffy had good things to say bout McCains's appearance at the debates.

IF they can get us to think McCain is really the "one" we should nominate they know he will explode or implode at some point and will lose. Could be a slicko strategy by the dems, who knows.

[Bahbah]

I just love Fred Thompson for that.

[Reo]

"Former CIA Director George Tenet...

Just plain NUTS!!!"

Just finished watching the Timmie-Tenet Hour and couldn't help thinking of the huge gulf between the guest and the great CIA Directors of the past. What a sniveling dwarf Georgie is by comparison. Can anyone imagine Dulles, Helms, or Casey indulging in such media-pandering self-justification? Can anyone imagine them saying anything? They were real spooks who led a real spook outfit. Today we just plug in bureaucrats like Turner, Deutsch, and Tenet. No wonder the intelligence is weak and Langley is a political cesspool.

[Bahbah]

the current use of polls by the media is to make news

Precisely.

[jackv]

“Dodd says we should get out of Iraq and go to where al-Qaida is really a threat,...”

This reallly is the bottem line. These fool liberals refuse to admit, refuse to say it...AL-QUEDA IS FLOODING INTO IRAQ...That is why we are there and why it would be a disaster to leave. The sectarian violence is all they talk about, misleading most Americans to believe it is all about a “civil war”.
National security in the hands of democrats would be a nightmare.
God Bless America.

[STARWISE]

Here, here !!

[Bahbah]

Tom Tancredo after listening to Edwards: “Who are these people, what do they really think, what do they really believe?”

Same here, Congressman.

Tancredo did a good job, by the way. Stephy is not concerned about him as a candidate and so did not try to mess with him as he did with Edwards who, as Tancredo points out, came off as a nebbish.

[Bahbah]

Stephy continues on the Chris Matthews track of making the Republicans all about abortion.