Posted on 07/01/2007 5:11:00 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; Michael Gallagher, conservative talk radio host; Mark Green of Air America Radio.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Chertoff; Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Chertoff; House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.; Lanny Davis, former Clinton special counsel; Ben Ginsberg, former counsel to the Republican National Committee; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
It would not matter to dims. If they can’t find an excuse, they will make one up.
http://victordavidhanson.pajamasmedia.com this darn link won't work but it's easy to find.
Your fixation on attacking those with whom you disagree
has left you inaccurate.
Post 219 was a differential list to explain why the Senate
did what it did to SCREW the American people.
I left out ‘treason’. Sorry for the error.
[those listed on both posts were included in the ping ]
Thanks for the mention.
Anita's Media Nuggets for July 1, 2007
Excellent stuff, as usual. I'm pleased to provide a home that highlights your work.
You do know the TownHall blogs are free, don't you? (hint, hint)
The picture of Bush that FoxNews puts up in the corner is a terrible washed-out weak-looking likeness. I have always wondered why the White House didn't find a way to get it changed. Perception is reality for so many.
Was Lugar formerly a supporter of the War in Iraq? He certainly has not been a big supporter of President Bush. Several years ago, I recall Laura Ingraham used a funny combination name for McCain,Lugar,Hagel and Lindsey Graham, all four of whom were continuously being a thorn in the GWB's side.
Hair Amerika did a lot more than go bankrupt. When they folded, the proved that U.S. citizens don’t want to hear that feel good lib/rat talk and even more important that sponsors will “not” pay to keep them on the air either.
Both key things in their demise.
Their failure in a free market should kill the fairness act forever, since anyone who doesn’t want to hear conservative talk radio can always turn the dial to anyone of the many lib tv stations or picky up most any newspaper.
The rats are just pissed they don’t have a 100% monopoly anymore.
They have to share on the internet and talk radio—too bad.
Mark Green tipped the hand of the Stalinist left (remember, Stalin was fascist Hitler's ally in the 1930s and they started WW2 in cooperation) on Fox News Sunday today by repeatedly stating that he didn't support the fairness doctrine (even though he had told the producers that he did). Instead he kept coming back to the need for radio stations to get license renewals and urging leftists to lodge protests the next time stations that carry conservative talk shows licenses come up for renewal. Add to this a move by the Dhimmicrats to shorten the license renewal time to three years and you have a clear threat to the only arm of the old media that isn't 99% dominated by extremist leftists. Look up Michael Copps, the Dhimmicrats butt boy on the FCC, and you'll find this is an official proposal from them.
Well, two can play at that game. If they push this crap through we can mount license challenges to all of the stations that carry the NBC, CBS and ABC left wing propoganda news shows (and "entertainment" too). In addition we should be able to easily demonstrate that every PBS station in the country is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Dhimmicrat party and shut them right down.
They forget they don't own the only megaphone anymore.
Turkeys.
How would conservatives combat the millions of dollars in free advertising that liberals and one-time darlings of the MSM like McCain (who they would have destroyed the minute he got the nomination)get from favorable front page articles in the NYT, WaPost, Time, Newsweek, NPR, ABC, etc?
IMHO It would be better to allow any amount of personal giving, so long as the donor and his related government contracts,etc. were posted on the Internet immediately. Multimillionaires can already spend all they want of their own money, and they do not always win. Of course, here in Maryland, our new Gov got a loan of a half a million in the week before the election. How does that fit in with campaign finance laws?
No, but they can tax it. The bill that exempts the internet from taxation is coming up for renewal soon. Dems are talking about letting it expire, so that states and localities can tax ISP's; and etailers and other internet sites can be forced to apply state taxes.
That appears to be the plan. Challenge each local station license that carries Rush, Hannity or any of the other conservative talk show hosts and demand that they give "equal time" to "opposing views."
That's the tactic we must be prepared to meet, with local grass roots challenges to the licenses of all of the TV stations that carry Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson, Brian Williams, Tim Russert, George Steponallofus, Bob Schieffer, etc., give equal time to the American (conservative) point of view to counter their anti-American point of view.
I want an 90 minutes on each of the networks, in main "network" time (equivelant to when they show the evening news and their talk shows) for Rush Limbaugh to schedule who and what he sees fit to answer them.
We can tie them up in court over this issue and completely frustrate them.
Of course Rush and the rest on the Radio is balance for Katie/Timmah/curious George/Ol Bob, et al on the DBM shows. That's the entire point right now and the courts will eventually accept that (so long as we don't lose in '08).
“Judy Woodruff: according to the polls, most people support most parts of the immi bill. It failed because the President is weak.”
It was only biased ‘polloganda’ that put maximum ‘shine’ on the bogus idea of amnesty that got the poll results they want. Meanwhile she ignores the 2 to 1 against polling on the bill.
Liberals ignore conservative views as much as possible.
When they have to acknowledge conservative views, they do everything they can to get it wrong.
It’s possible, if not probably that the Democrat-media-complex will try to sell a liberal amnesty bill to the people in the future.
The liberal media again failed us, and so did almost every Democrat, and our President.
Only a few real conservatives in the senate and the people themselves stop this.
hi, rodguy
try your link with victordavishanson instead of david
I knew I remembered correctly about the Soros/Malloch-Brown connection. NRO confirms it.
The other Brown [Mark Steyn]
For those who didn’t click through to Kathryn’s link yesterday, it’s worth doing so. Gordon Brown’s elevation of Mark Malloch Brown to the House of Lords and thence to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office is one of the most revolting public appointments in modern British history.
Malloch Brown was Kofi Annan’s deputy at the UN and widely promoted (and self-promoted) as an agent of reform, or rather “reform”. He’s best known to Americans for his Trent Lott-esque attack on talk radio. As I wrote in NR exactly a year ago:
The bit in the speech that got everyone’s attention was when he argued that the reason the U.N. was so unpopular in America was that the moronic hayseeds in flyover country had fallen for the right-wing blowhards — or, as he put it, “much of the public discourse that reaches the U.S. heartland has been largely abandoned to its loudest detractors such as Rush Limbaugh and Fox News.” He didn’t, in fact, say “Limbaugh” but “Lim-bow,” as in “Daddy Wouldn’t Buy Me a Bow-Wow.” A chap as important as Mr. Malloch Brown can’t be expected to tune in a radio and actually listen to Rush in order to get his name correct: After all, he’s a lot busier than those dimwit yokels in the “heartland”...
The deputy secretary general’s fellow speakers at this meeting included George Soros, who happens to be Mr. Malloch Brown’s next-door neighbor and landlord. Mr. Malloch Brown earns $125,000 a year, $120,000 of which he gives to Mr. Soros as rent for his home, next to the gazillionaire’s own in Westchester County. When they entered into this relationship, Mr. Malloch Brown was head of the U.N. Development Program, which works with Mr. Soros on many multimillion-dollar projects. The deputy secretary general insists there’s nothing “improper” in his mixing of his professional and personal lives, and, indeed, by the ethical standards of the U.N. — which is to say, the Oil-for-Fraud program, the Child-Sex-for-Food program, etc. — there isn’t.
George Soros has been Malloch Brown’s patron for decades. Upon his retirement from the UN, the deputy secretary-general became vice-chair of Soros’ hedge fund company and “Open Society Institute”. With respect to Andrew Stuttaford, anyone inclined to join the good-riddance-to-Blair chorus of the last week might now appreciate the difference he made: a huge chunk of the foreign policy of America’s closest ally has just been outsourced to a man who is the living embodiment of the worst kind of sleazy careerist transnationalism, and an all but wholly owned subsidiary of George Soros. Amazing.
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGZjYzBjNTJmMDg0NmRjYWVlNDQwYjRjMWRlOGY5NDc=
Yes, the campaigns are absurdly long.
Yes, for many campaigns it is vanity/publicity matter not about getting elected.
The one thing that is *not* obscene however is the amout of money. We spend more money on pet cemeteries and mascara than on national political campaigns, so I don’t think it is unwarranted.
Note also this ... “Surely it could be spent on much better causes than funding politicians to gallivant around the country” ... funded by voluntary contributions. the one exception is public funding for presidential candidates, which is breaking down because the spending limits are too tight.
That would be "McHagar"...I'm not sure about Lindsey, but I think that "Grahamnesty" deserves to stand on its own (I think Rush started that one).
The link I tried before and didn’t work, about the illegal fiasco. (Thanks maica)
He is so brilliant you just want to read everything he writes and of course he is right. It’s the Iranians that can’t produce gas for their countrymen even though they sell their oil for billions and then fritter away the money.Brilliant guy. Great link maica, thanks.
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