Posted on 01/20/2008 5:10:49 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.; David Axelrod, strategist for Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign; Howard Wolfson, communications director for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Edwards; Mike Huckabee; Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.; Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C.; Gov. Tim Kaine, D-Va.
OMG TX thank you so much, great job as usual.
Congratulation to the January 6th winners and thanks to Bahbah for the Judging and Snugs for the Award Graphics!
Good morning everyone!!!
I believe the delegate count for Romney is 72.
Romney is really very good talking about economics and the economy.
Wallace seems upset that his plan does not include cash handouts.
So do i!
I am watching Reliable Sources, which opened with a montage of clips by all the commentators who are claiming McClain is now the front runner.
What is Romney? Invisible! Every state he has won has a asterisk for whatever reason that it ‘doesn’t count.’
When your whole ideology hinges on the ability to take any side of any position depending on the people you are talking to...truth NEVER enters the equation.
Hence...Liberalism doesn’t care a whit about honesty or truth.
If it did...no one would ever fall for their BS.
MR comes across as extremely intelligent and in command of his thoughts and beliefs. He surely must be the most intelligent of the candidates. Note, that he does not hem and haw, say "eh" or have any other verbalisms designed to give him time to think. He is a very fast thinker.
That said, MR has a problem in that his staccato like speech more than covers the ground but in a rapid fire, machine gun like approach.
Admittedly, he was pressed for time so this might be part of the problem but I have seen this before. Someone has to grab him by the scruff of his neck and tell him that the average listener needs more time between words and above all he doesn't want to be labeled as a "fast talker" aka a person seen by the ordinary as a characteristic of psychopathy.
FWIW if I were MR Romney's handler I would suggest he master the first word he ever learned--CAT. An acronym for contact, awareness and finally therapeutic or political strategy.
He needs to focus on making contact his first priority. Then he can bring whatever he chooses from background to foreground. This is usually all that is required for success--including in political discourse. The idea is communicate your message after making genuine contact with the audience. Finally, what ever therapeutic strategy he works on it must be brief and effective.
One strategy he has not discovered is how to make criticism take a U turn. The trick is to say, "I am sorry you are critical about me and _____________." Then he could launch into an alternative view without being defensive. The idea is to make the questioner or critic own or accept his own criticism. This may not be easy, especially when dealing with journalists who like to cloak their questions by allegeing they belong to someone else.
In any case handling blunt assertions of a critical nature is something he has to master in the political arena. Other answers are sometime, "Oh, really" (as if this is so implausible it does not merit discussion) or "I hear your criticism but...."
No question on Hillary’s lawyers. We watched previews on how Obama has been treated and demonized by Hillary & Co.
Wallace started off with the claim that BOTH Romney and McCain are the frontrunners. *chuckle*
There are 2 things in play here as far as I see it. I too doubt that McCain can win the nomination both from the point of view of the feeling and actions of the conservatives. The second and personally IMHO as important some Republicans who may support him may decide not to vote for him because they feel he would not be electable at the general election. I cannot see how someone of 71 nearly 72 would be electable. I feel this is one of the reasons that independents are voting for him not because they support but in the hope he maybe the Republican nomination knowing that there are so many negatives against him he could not possibly be elected President.
Oblama is to be anointed because he is black and Hillary is to be revered because bill cheated on her while she watched and she is the first woman to be president! Wow what credentials!!
I am sure I want either one of these bozos with their fingers on the nuke button! NOOOOTTTTT!!!
Congratulations to our January 13th winners and thanks to Txradioguy for Judging and Snugs for the Award Graphics!
Reliable Sources absolutely giddy about McCain and sHillary.
Every year...bit by bit...the media sheds more of it’s so called “neutrality”.
The fact their Liberal/Socialist brethren were out of power for so long in D.C. only made them speed up the process.
Now they’ve gotten to the point where they are brazenly manipulating opinion where in the past they tried to be more subtle.
And it allows us to see how much like sheep they regard the American people.
Novak last night: “The clinton machine is a MEAN MACHINE.”
Who knew?
Where’s Johnnie?
“I thought the whole interview by Wallace was an attempt to diminish Romney - bringing up obcure facts about Massachusetts..”
Yes, I thought the same. Who the hell is Chris Wallace in the tank for?
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