Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 13 July 2008

Various driveby media television networks ^ | 13 July 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Tribute to Tony Snow with guests including Vice President Dick Cheney and commentator Rush Limbaugh.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Carly Fiorina, adviser to John McCain; Sen. Claire Mccaskill, D-Mo.; Republican strategist Mike Murphy; Harold Ford Jr., chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor; Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Govs. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., and Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.; Nancy Pfotenhauer, adviser to McCain; Jason Furman, adviser to Barack Obama; Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie.

[mathluv]

The mute button is used frequently by me, too. With some, I use the 'off' button instead.

I did listen to part of bor's show last night about Tony. When it got to be more about bor, I turned it off.

[maica]

I mute both as soon as they open their mouth.

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So do I. I have decided that the pain of listening will never compensate for any “information” they may impart. I have had my lifetime quota of their remarks.

[ConservativeMan55]

I agree. It was insulting and the writers needed to be called out.

[rodguy911]

It was a little cooler this morning,high 70's finally got out on the water until a storm chased us in.

It was a short trip but invigorating.

On the way home we hit the edge of a thunder storm(my buddy decided to come in after almost getting hit by a water spout a few days ago) and were pelted with some rain which hit like pin pricks at 62 MPH but hey, it's better than anywhere else IMHO.

[Laverne]

Apparently Chris came back off vacation to do the show today; originally Brit was scheduled to host today. I’m hoping Brit will be on the panel this morning.

[maica]

<< Rush didn’t bring it up for political debate but to defend his friend. >>

I agree.

[snugs]

I like her personal interviews with people she is very good at that I have especially enjoyed some of her ones with 41 and also Barbra Bush. I think she is well respected across the political spectrum that yes it is obvious she has more liberal views that others on FNC but she never lets that really show through to any great extent on her show.

In fact sometimes I can find her better on some subjects that Sean Hannity who can sometimes be blinded by his extreme partisan views and not see a broader picture.

[Miss Didi]

I posted last night that I feel so dumb...I only glanced a few lines and thought it was positive.

[rodguy911]

Those of us who got posts from him will always cherish them and the time we got to spend listening to his wisdom.

[ConservativeMan55]

They’re saying on Fox and Friends that Berie Mac did a fundraiser for Obama.

Apparently Bernie made some off color jokes and was using foul language lol.

Obama threw him under the bus too!

“That’s not the Bernie Mac I knew”

hahahaha

[mathluv]

Greta comes on too late for me. That is when my tv goes off. It does seem too much of her shows cover legal issues, especially murders.

[snugs]

That was great and today this IMHO was great because he did not completey separate from the tribute to Tony.

[Christian4Bush]

She cut Rush short, didn’t she? He sounded kind of shocked—OK, bye Greta.

Actually, he had said that he knew it would be a short segment, so he wanted to make sure he got in a certain point...I can't recall what it was...I didn't see her cutting him off...and I would have mentioned it had I thought that was what it was.

[snugs]

With his money then why does he not get them fixed

[Bernard]

“women in business do not cry”.

There's also no crying in baseball. Maybe if women in business started acting like women they could concentrate on success and not on conformity to somebody else's standards.

[ConservativeMan55]

That’s ok.

I don’t blame you for only reading a few lines from the AP.

That’s more than I would read from that shameless propaganda against anything good in America.

[Laverne]

I agree snugs; I like Greta a lot. I don’t watch her show that much because she does focus on the legal issues more and not so much the political. BUT, when she does march into the political, she is very balanced and very polite. She is not into the gotcha stuff. Last night President George HW Bush called into her show and said how much he liked Greta. I think she is largely respected for her intelligence. She does a great interview when she does walk into the political world. I think her move to FNC from CNN really changed her; she is a better person after leaving CNN because I think she has more freedom on FNC to be herself.

[rodguy911]

Thanks Morgan,and good morning to ya.

Tony's passing has really made me think about just how lucky we all are. I plan to take nothing for granted.

[ConservativeMan55]

Because he’s going to use them to listen in on terrorists!

LOL

[snugs]

How much though of Beckel and Colmes is done for media affect. Colmes in particular I often think disagrees with Hannity just for the sake of it because then a couple of days later he will make some other remark that makes you think if you think that why did you disagree the other evening and get into a “fight”. Me thinks often the producer wants it. The same goes I think for Juan on the Sunday show, listen to him on other shows during the week and it is much more a balanced personality than you get on Sunday. The producer IMHO knows that many of us enjoy the Brit slap downs and probably insists on one every couple of weeks.