Posted on 09/14/2008 4:51:46 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former Gov. Tony Knowles, D-Alaska; Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell, R-Alaska; Jim Laychak, president of the Pentagon Memorial Fund.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, R-N.Y.; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Bob Woodward, associate editor for The Washington Post and author of a new book on the Bush administration.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.; Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.; former acting Gov. Jane Swift, R-Mass.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; Carly Fiorina, adviser to John McCain; former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : R. David Paulison, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency; Govs. Tim Pawlenty, R-Minn., and Bill Richardson, D-N.M.; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.; Linda Douglass, adviser to Barack Obama; Nancy Pfotenhauer, adviser to McCain.
Chuckie is so stuck on George Bush. It is the same old refrain, and it works with fewer and fewer people. GWB is not running, and the war in Iraq is going too well to whip up much Bush/Republican hatred over.
I think Chuck just wasted his appearance. I don’t see how it helped Obama.
A "standing up" debate gives The ONE the advantage.
;0)
She told me she might vote for, get this, BOB BARR!!!
She says she knows he won’t win.
Else she’s going to do “eeny-meeny-miney-mo”. I pleaded with her to skip the top of the ticket and vote for local races.
Oh...and get this. She LOVES Chris Matthews and adores Keith Olbermann! I pointed out to her that both Chris and Keith were fired and she clucked and said she knew, that it was too bad.
I also, heh, reminded her that once upon a time she was going to vote for John Edwards (true) and look what a creep he turned out to be. She said I was right...that was true.
More than anything I think, she is woefully under-informed. Although the woman DOES watch some political shows (she says Fox is the WORST) and reads. Most folks would consider her an “in touch” person.
I told her that “renouncing” your former nasty acquaintances is not enough, as in the case of Obama. I told her Tony Rezko already paid his bribe via a partial house for Obama. “The bribe’s already been paid,” I said. “He doesn’t get a pass simply by some lukewarm “renouncement.”
ROve on with the new polls and new Rove electroal map.
McCain leads 227 to Obam’s 215 electoral votes.
FL goes to McCain now, no longer a toss-up. NH moves to Obama though.
Wallace recognizes that Obama’s attempts to switch red states to blue is a failure. Rove admits overall the advantage is still with Obama but the National Polls are really swinging to McCain. Latest numbers are 49/47 McCain.
Rove talks about the volatility of the race but that McCain is really gaining the advantage. Rove says the Palin choice is a big motivator in the polls changing.
Wallace wonders if the Palin phenom will last another six weeks; Rove not sure.
Wallace asks Rove what he would tell Obama to do to turn it around. He says Obama needs to stop attacking Palin; the other is to stop attacking McCain, which is not working. Rove talks about how the public still doesn’t quite get Obama and Obama needs to get out the Obama message.
Obama got $66M in August — his biggest month evah!
They'll vote for whomever will "stick" someone else with end-of-life medical and other expenses.
And they get nasty when questioned about it because their consciences bother them.
I hadn’t watched Brokaw in years, but this morning I turned on MTP while the coffee was brewing in the other room.
I couldn’t believe how slanted Brokaw’s questions and comments were to Giuliani.
Obama couldn’t have bought a better infomercial.
Seems like a fair trade.
Giuliani is owning him though!
Rudy is so unbelievably prepared this morning, it is a thing of beauty to watch.
Outstanding, A.Hun!
ALL:
Thanks for the reports so far.
OT, but.... I just came in from outside in the garden. I planted 20 cabbage and about 40 broccoli plants and lettuce seeds; Getting the winter garden in. Here in Alabama, things that are frost hardy grow easily all winter, which is fairly mild. We get snow about once every ten years but it only accumulates an inch or so and usually melts in 24 hours. The ground doesn’t freeze at all. I love it. The winter garden does better at it coldest than the summer garden does due to the heat.
Anyway, I am going on to church. Today I start teaching Sunday school/Catechism so I won’t be back until noon or so.
Y’all take care, have fun and keep those reports coming!
Rudy definitely did well in that segement.
Wallace just promoed the next segmant: Sarah Palin just had her first ... interview and lived to tell the tale.
Am I being too sensitive, or were those words unnecessary and rude?
Thanks AB, take care!
There is no way that New Hampshire goes for Boma. Yes, I know what the polls say.
Yes, I think Bob Barr would be an excellent choice for your m-i-l.
That SNL skit had already started when I turned on the TV last evening.
I did a double-take several times during the early minutes. [I had watched several actual Palin speeches the last couple of weeks.] The look, the voice, the tone, the movements. Fey was good. And the skit was humorous.
GIBSON: The other issue is Troopergate, which is very much in the news today, the Associated Press is saying how there's going to be 13 subpoenas that come out, one of them to your husband, Todd. First of all, do you welcome the investigation…
PALIN: Absolutely, there's nothing to hide in this. The personnel board is the appropriate agency or overseeing board to inquire as to whether anybody did anything wrong or not, but here's the issue with Troopergate and I'm glad that you're asking. The trooper in question here did conduct dangerous and illegal activities and our personal security detail when I was first elected had asked us very appropriately, are there any threats against you and your family. And I said, well, you know, ironically, yeah, it's a state trooper who's threatened to kill my dad and bring down me and once I got elected, his threats were he was going to bring down the governor and the governor's family, so it was very appropriate that we brought the concerns to personal security detail -- they asked us to bring it to the commissioner, which I did.
GIBSON: And he was your brother-in-law at one point.
PALIN: Yeah, back in '05 -- yeah.
GIBSON: The -- you mentioned the personnel board, it's a bipartisan legislative group, that's working at it now, which you said was fine, until you got named as the vice presidential nominee, and then you said the personnel board ought to handle it.
PALIN: We've said all along that … the personnel board is the appropriate agency or board to inquire -- our state statute says if there is a question about actions of the governor, lt. governor, or attorney general, you go to the personnel board. So we've said all along that that's appropriate …
GIBSON: Even though they're all appointed by you.
PALIN: No, they're not. In fact, they were all appointed by the prior administration, I had one reappointment on that board, they weren't all appointed by me. But, the issue that people are asking about -- first, they got it wrong when they say did I fire a trooper, because there was an issue back in '05 about him, as he was divorcing my sister. No, nobody fired the trooper, he's still a trooper to this day, he's out there.
He had tasered his stepson, he had made those death threats, you know, there were a lot of concerns from not just my family, but from the public about this trooper's activities, and he's apologized for those since, I saw on the air the other day.
But, the issue is the commissioner, who was his boss, was he pressured to fire that trooper, that's the underlying issue here, right, Commissioner Monegan. Commissioner Monegan has said the governor never asked me to fire him, the governor's husband never asked me to fire him, and we never did. I never pressured him to hire or fire anybody. Why I replaced commissioner Monegan was after two years, of he working in my cabinet, as a political appointment, at will, exempt, recognizing after two years, he wasn't meeting the goals I wanted met in that area of public service, there were a lot of things that we were lacking, and a lot of goals weren't being met…
I wanted to bring somebody in with more vision and more energy to beef up public safety, hire more troopers, we increased the budget, yet still we had dozens and dozens of trooper positions vacant, we weren't reaching the goals on recruitment and retention of troopers, so that was one of the issues. I did recognize though that Commissioner Monegan could provide for the state some good public service in another area, so I did offer him another job, as the person in charge of the alcohol beverage control board, he chose not to transfer into that position, he chose then to leave state service, he didn't want that position, so the two issues have nothing to do with each other, the trooper's still a trooper today, Commissioner Monegan was offered another job, he turned that down, and now we're in the midst of a hiring practice for a new commissioner.
GIBSON: You think he should be a trooper? Given what he did?
PALIN: It amazes me still to think we cannot have very, very high standards for our troopers, for anybody in public service, certainly though, those who have a badge and carry a gun. But, I have always put in my commissioners hands their rights, their authority to hire, fire those that they need on their team to provide for better public service, I haven't micromanaged them. So, I didn't tell the guy to hire or fire anybody.
GIBSON: Didn't improperly intercede, not worried about the subpoenas, even to Todd.
PALIN: No, because I know that Todd, too, never pressured Commissioner Monegan. He did, very appropriately, though, bring up those concerns about a trooper who was making threats against the first family, and that is appropriate, in fact, you go to the department of law's web site, and it says right there in Q&A form on their Web site, it says, if you have an issue or a concern about an Alaskan state trooper, you bring that concern to the commissioner of the department of public safety. That's what Todd did, he appropriately did.
But another issue that I think has been lost through mainstream media reporting this, is that the trooper is still a trooper, Commissioner Monegan was replaced because he wasn't reaching the goals that our cabinet members were to reach, find efficiencies, put new vision, new energy into all of our departments. And, it's an issue that should be investigated by the personnel board, and they do -- it's been so politicized at this point, too, I think it's turned into quite the political issue.
bttt
Rudy makes me proud to be an American.
I believe he will get a position in the McCain-Palin administration.
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