Posted on 08/19/2007 4:59:26 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, August 19th, 2007
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Karl Rove, White House deputy chief of staff.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Karl Rove, White House deputy chief of staff.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Karl Rove, White House deputy chief of staff; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
THIS WEEK (ABC): A debate featuring Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo.; Stephen Moore, former president of Club for Growth; Mahmoud Othman, a Kurdish Iraqi parliament member.
Yeah by then no problem.
Wow good looking stuff there snugs.
I also love that, and repeat it often. We have surely been blessed by that angel many many times in the last 6 years. May it be ever thus.
Rove will continue being "that magnificent bastard we have come to know and love".(as the general would have said)
He will continue to create nightmares for the Dems and will always be one of our top strategists simply because he does it so well.
Todays appearances were teaching examples for other candidates/office holders to learn from. Rove doesn't need to tell Pubbie Senators or Reps how to do things he leads by example so the world can see.He is fearless yet brilliant and seldom puts his foot in his mouth.
I have always seen him as the other half of GW's adm. along with Condi and Laura.
That looks great! Here, we’re stuck with good old fashioned hamburgers I’ll cook out on the grill.
This confirms my suspicion that the whole "New Tone" was W's idea.
Don't be surprised if Rove disappears from the news magazine shows. The Drive-By Media will attempt to bury him in obscurity.
I've always thought that as well.
But I don't blame him for it, in the long run. The Clintons and their truly evil brain trust, led by Sid "Grassy Knoll" Blumenthal, introduced the idea of the "permanent campaign" as the way to govern. Blumenthal even wrote a book by that title in the late 80s. Constantly playing the harsh, partisan games that had been previously largely confined to a relatively short period before an election. From 1992 on our government was run as a partisan operation manipulated for partisan advantage from the top.
Bush came to Washington promising to do the job of governing, not to play partisan games the way the Clintonistas did. As frustrating as that can be for us at times, particularly when he doesn't respond the way we'd like to the over the top moonbat rhetoric coming from Pelosi Galore and Dingy Harry, we have to remember that he's got a job to do and we elected him after he told us straight up how he planned to do it. I can't fault him for being honest and actually doing what he said he would do.
We even knew what his thinking was on immigration and other issues that we've disagreed with him so heavily on. From my POV he has done what he promised us he would do. That's a pretty rare thing in a politician.
Don't be surprised if Rove disappears from the news magazine shows. The Drive-By Media will attempt to bury him in obscurity.
Who cares if he disappears from the magazine shows? My bet is that this will represent the last Presidential election cycle where they exist as we know them today. There are too many other outlets now in new media for them to survive. Rove may join the Northern Alliance Radio Network or just set up a web site and start making video podcasts available.
Heck, I hereby volunteer to host them on my blog!
http://www.abledangerblog.com Starting Monday WND will do a four part series on what happened.
This weak, there have been a zillion references to how "dangerous" Karl Rove is. The 'rats are behaving just like the Romans did a couple thousand years ago. "Hey, this Jesus guy is very "dangerous." Let's get him"
Thanks for posting the words today.
They are beautiful, and I get all warm and fuzzy feeling when I muse about who had to sit on that stage and listen to the words as they were spoken.
Hint: he only said a few memorable things in his 8 years in office, none of them about the destiny of our country.
In the course of your excellent show prep, is there a way that you can learn what is the progression of the actual tapings of the Sunday shows? Since this is the master thread for discussion, it would really help if we knew how the A-list guests traversed the studios.
Yes, but oddly enough Brazile is not one of those who are going nuclear on Rove. Yes, she sees him as a "dangerous" political adversary. Any sane Democrat operative should. But she's also gone out of her way to stay above the personal attacks of others. She made a point of telling multiple reporters that Rove called her after her comments about him were circulated. This is explicitely referenced in this Washington Times article Brazile on Rove.
The key comment from her is:
It was important for people to know she and Mr. Rove talked, Ms. Brazile said, because "you can disagree with people, but you have to respect them."
As it happens one of my co-workers son's is an aide to a conservative NJ Republican congressman (yes, they do exist). He moved to that postion from a similar staff position for a VERY conservative Texas Republican. When he was in that job he and some other junior Hill staffers shared an apartment in Washington (Georgetown?) and Donna Brazile's Washington digs were right across the hall. Donna Brazile "adopted" them, even though they were all staffers for conservative Republicans. She taught them about Washington, introduced them to people they needed to know and just generally acted like a real human being. A mensch, if you will. I may disagree with her politically, but she's someone I'd like to meet and, probably, someone I'd enjoy arguing politics with.
I put her in the same category as the late Daniel Patirck Moynihan and that is high praise, indeed. Our nation would be a lot better off if he were still the Senator from New York other than Chuck Schumer, partisan Democrat or not.
He could be. He was awesome today.
I heard the Rove-Schieffer interview on cspam radio and it was a tutorial for Republican activists. I can’t find the transcript on the cbs website, but I did find this quote in their article. (It is a very abbreviated version of what Karl actually said about winning elections):
Rove defended his political tactics, which opponents have labeled as divisive.
“You cannot be a candidate like President Bush was in 2004 and get 60 million votes for president, more than any other candidate for president in history,” he said. “I know the opposition talks about playing to the base, and I want them to keep thinking that’s the right strategy. But you win elections like this president won in 2000 and 2002 and 2004 by broadening the coalition, by getting more people to register and to vote and by persuading people who might have been inclined to the other side to come across for you.”
Thanks, Phsstpok, for all of the nice info re Donna Brazile. A Democrat who can actually disagree with someone politically, but can still comport herself intelligently, politely, and professionally. A rare combination, indeed—much like a conservative Republican congressman from New Jersey.
something like the GWB-belittling reporters who need to READ a three-sentence question while W is answering them for an hour without any notes?
What a love font to go with a wonderful speech. Georgia?
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