Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 26 August 2007

Various big media television networks ^ | 26 August 2007 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Jack Reed, D-R.I.; former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; cyclist Lance Armstrong.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and his wife, Elizabeth.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Jim Webb, D-Va., and John Cornyn, R-Texas; former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.; Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno, the No. 2 U.S. military commander in Iraq; former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga.

[doug from upland]

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DFU SONG: I'll Never Find Another You (Bill Moyers job to out Goldwater staff homosexual)
DFU SONGS | 7-2005 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland

Posted on 07/22/2005 9:04:28 AM PDT by doug from upland

This is just too good. Years ago, the compassionate lib Bill Moyers was given an assignment to out a homosexual on the Goldwater staff after Walter Jenkins was outed. Hey, Bill, sing along with us.

Bill and Walter.

MIDI - search site for NEVER FIND ANOTHER YOU

From the White House they called...with words from LBJ
They said, "Billy Moyers, get over here today
There's a Walter Jenkins problem, so your assignment's clear
In the Goldwater campaign, go find a queer"

You can check out rest stops or fly off to San Fran
'Cause in their bath houses, you'll find them man on man
"There's a Walter Jenkins problem, so your assignment's clear
In the Goldwater campaign, go find a queer"

A few weeks till election...Bill's carrying the ball
He must do it or this thing could blow it all

This compassionate liberal would do the dirty deed
They were hoping he'd come through with the homo that they need
"There's a Walter Jenkins problem, so your assignment's clear
In the Goldwater campaign, go find a queer"

(musical break)

"There's a Walter Jenkins problem, so your assignment's clear
In the Goldwater campaign, go find a queer"

[BIGLOOK]

It does bring a smile hearing that......but remember Chris’ interview with Slick Willie?

[doug from upland]

Godspeed, our friend. We’ll keep telling the truth.

[Bahbah]

gbc, just tell them we love them.

[snugs]

God bless you and the troops tell them we are thinking of them.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Chris Wallace totally eviscerated Bill Moyers.

The attack was particularly brutal in its precision. Bill Moyers prides himself most for being such a "great" journalist. Chris's comments were focused like a laser in pointing out how objectively sloppy Bill Moyers' journalistic practices were in this case. I'm sure that right now in some mansion in a some gated community in some liberal city, Bill Moyers is still fuming.

[rodguy911]

Thanks for your service to our country and for giving us a little of your time.

[Phsstpok]

that is an excellent take, including Glenn Reynolds' (the Instapundit himself) additional comments.  I read his blog daily but had missed this particular post.

For those who haven't seen it, here is the full blog post on Gleen's site, including the link to Peters' original NY Post article where these excerpts came from:

RALPH PETERS ON JOHN WARNER: Peters, writing from Fallujah, isn't impressed:

Although this trend has been reported, our battlefield leaders here agree that the magnitude of the shift hasn't registered back home: Al Qaeda is on the verge of a humiliating, devastating strategic defeat - rejected by their fellow Sunni Muslims.

If we don't quit, this will not only be a huge practical win - it'll be the information victory we've been aching for.

No matter what the Middle Eastern media might say, everyone in the Arab and greater Sunni Muslim world will know that al Qaeda was driven out of Iraq by a combination of Muslims and Americans.

Think that would help al Qaeda's recruitment efforts? Even now, the terrorists have to resort to lies about their prospective missions to gain recruits.

With the sixth anniversary of 9/11 approaching, how dare we throw away so great a potential victory over those who attacked our country?

Forget the anti-war nonsense you hear. The truth is that our troops want to continue this struggle. I know. I'm here. And I'm listening to what they have to say. They're confident as never before that we're on the right path.

Should we rob them of their victory now and enhance al Qaeda by giving them a free win? How can we even contemplate quitting now?

I've been sitting down with Iraqis, too - including former enemies. They don't want us to leave. They finally cracked the code. They need us. And although they've got a range of their own goals (not all of them tending toward Jeffersonian democracy), they're unified in their hatred of al Qaeda.

I'm not either, but for a different , or at least additional, reason. First, Warner's been saying similar stuff for quite a while, and it's funny that the press is making a big deal of it -- perhaps to overshadow the more significant about-face by Democratic Rep. Brian Baird. And Petraeus has talked about a troop pulldown already too. This looks like Warner trying to take credit for something that will probably happen anyway. In other words, Washington as usual. Warner, it's true, doesn't come off that well.

Meanwhile, notice that pretty much all the reporting from Iraq is more positive than the talk in Washington? As Damien Cave of the New York Times observed:

I talked to a commander the other day who said that the political debate at home is bizarro-land and something that he doesn't connect with at all. . . . it's funny, one of the things that comes up a lot here among commanders and among the press corps is the way that the debate at home seems to be mainly focused on the impact on Washington or among constituents.

Well, that's how they look at everything, I suppose. But you expect better when a war is involved.

posted at 03:10 PM by Glenn Reynolds

Glenn has a similar take to what I see, with Warner trying to take credit for something that was already going to happen.

[MNJohnnie]

Warner needed to go after he sold out Ollie North when North was running for Senate and played kissy face with the Dem running against North.. He is another one of the darling toady Old Boy Republican of the DC Media machine. He is an unprincipled opportunist. Another example of the dead weight in the Republican Senate leadership.

[saveliberty]

Thanks Bahbah! I would think that Lance would understand that more research comes when the private sector finds a way to make money. More cancer treatments would seem to be a ready market.

[saveliberty]

:) I think so too.

[Gritty]

The suspect is described as a man in his 50’s, smoking a cigar and driving a white van...

"Don't worry, Teddy. I'll get Janet on it right away and we'll find the perp!"

[Bernard]

Richardson knows where all the bodies are buried.

I wonder if that means that he knows which burial spot would have his name on it, or if they are spontaneous and let the FOB's fall where they may?

[Bernard]

If we repeat history

One thing this country needs to do is stop allowing the media to portray the killings and other atrocities as if they were acts of Allah, like a rain storm.

Bad people are killing innocents, and as long as the media reports on the carnage without attributing the source of the violence, the media gets away with another lie.

[Chuck54]

A better report on the current Iraq situation would be very hard to find and is so enlightening. Titled: "New Glass".

New Glass from BadgersForward Blog

Hat tip Instapundit

[rodguy911]

Bottom line is Warner is an idiot for siding with those so wholly invested in defeat.

Not to support the troops now while the surge is working would be insanity!

True we may have to make small personnel shifts come the first of the year or slightly beyond but not enough to slow the momentum of the surge. Only political hacks can successfully do that, if GW lets them. And I don't think he will.

[rodguy911]

He (Warner) is an unprincipled opportunist.Another example of the dead weight in the Republican Senate leadership.

Just too good had to be repeated!

[AliVeritas]

Well great. If Hillary thinks removing Saddam was a mistake, that puts her (and her ‘years on the job’ in the white house), in the same ‘do nothing about terror’ camp as her husband.

[bray]

Wasn’t there about 40 FOBs that died while the co-clintons were in office?? How many Friends of President Bush have died?? Nearly zero?

Pray for W and Our Troops

[maica]

I thought I heard Chris Wallace say “our newest panel member got the last word” referring to Gloria. Byron York is such a cipher that I didn’t even realize he was present. I was just listening half-heartedly to the totally boring ‘discussion’ of the news.