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Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 1 March 2009
Various driveby media television networks ^ | 1 March 2009 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

Posted on 03/01/2009 5:15:05 AM PST by Alas Babylon!

The Talk Shows



Sunday, March 1st, 2009

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen; Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag; House Republican Whip Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN) : Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhobudget; bhodod; ericcantor; guests; lineup; news; sunday; talkshows
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To: Alas Babylon!
Ultimately, this is the conundrum conservatives must resolve (but, obviously, haven't yet).

Either:

A. Use “moderates” to regain an electoral majority, then move them to the back of the tent...

B. Purge the RINOs and sweep to victory behind pure conservative candidates...

C. Become the “motivated minority” which has often steered the course of history.

161 posted on 03/01/2009 9:02:25 AM PST by Cedric
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To: Laverne

I turned on Meet the Depressed for a few minutes and Gregory did seem quite fair. I might even watch next week.


162 posted on 03/01/2009 9:06:28 AM PST by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Cedric
-- I think a chairman like Steele is about all we conservatives can expect or deserve, given our decided lack of electoral clout in the GOP currently. --

That might be just another way of saying that the GOP is not a party that conservatives should support. Put in a different name and party to see what I mean. "I think a chairman like Dean is about all we conservatives can expect or deserve, given our decided lack of electoral clout in the DNC currently."

Not to say that the GOP is as liberal as the DNC, it obviously isn't. Each voter gets to decide if the party is worthy of support, and the party has the chore of adopting positions that maximize support.

I'm sure there are GOP-inclined voters who agree with Steele's candid comments about Limbaugh's speech. The challenge is to pick up more than one voter, to make up for each voter that is driven away.

163 posted on 03/01/2009 9:09:54 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Cedric
In certain parts of the country moderates are all that can get elected. For example, much as I dislike them, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins are as conservative as you are going to get in New England.

When we have a majority, they don't mater so much. When we have a minority, they don't matter much, either. BUT, when there is a close vote (like the stimulus) they are able to undermine the actions of the GOP with their defection.

It's hard to know what is the best course for dealing with people like that. If they get beaten in the primary, it's quite likely that the winning GOP candidate would be defeated in November. I don't know the answer to this, but it definitely is a conundrum.

164 posted on 03/01/2009 9:20:44 AM PST by Miss Marple
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To: csmusaret

I agree with you but the AL GOP is not interested in closing them.


165 posted on 03/01/2009 9:22:01 AM PST by mtnwmn (Liberalism leads to Socialism)
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To: FreedBird

Here goes John King doing the same thing with Mullen - Paraphrase: “Do you agree with Obama or Cheney on closing Gitmo?”

“Well, John, Pres. Obama has made it very clear what his polcies are, and we are working diligently to execute those policies.”

Dear God, now it’s “How do Bush and Obama differ in their styles as commander-in-chief?”

Barn-burning, John.

In fact, we are now trying terrorists — picked up in foreign countries — in U.S. courts. How’s that going to go? “I move to dismiss my interrogation statement because I didn’t receive Miranda warnings prior to making it.” Are the guys from CSI going to crawl around the next Tora Bora picking up evidence?

I never hear these anti-GITMO ego-maniacs acknowledge that Clinton & Gore just dispensed with all this by engaging in rendition.

John is being sloppy - he’s pointing out that the dangers from Iran & North Korea are significantly escalating. Even the average cud-chewing CNN viewer might be led to wonder whether that couldn’t be attributed to the differences in “style” between the most recent & current commander-in-chief?


166 posted on 03/01/2009 9:23:27 AM PST by Belle22
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To: advertising guy

Which tells me they do not want conservatives.


167 posted on 03/01/2009 9:23:38 AM PST by mtnwmn (Liberalism leads to Socialism)
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To: Belle22

Should say, “I move to exclude...”


168 posted on 03/01/2009 9:24:49 AM PST by Belle22
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To: Miss Marple
Ironically, as our electoral potency has diminished conservatives seem to have ratcheted-up Reagan's 80-20 Rule to about 99-1.
169 posted on 03/01/2009 9:36:35 AM PST by Cedric
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To: Big_Monkey

Couldn’t agree more!


170 posted on 03/01/2009 9:37:36 AM PST by mtnwmn (Liberalism leads to Socialism)
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To: maica

Ken Blackwell, former Ohio secretary of state and governor candidate would have been much, much better as RNC chair. He’s also Af-Am


171 posted on 03/01/2009 9:38:42 AM PST by shalom aleichem
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To: shalom aleichem

Here is the video of Cantor getting sucked in to a repudiation of Rush.

http://www.thehopeforamerica.com/play.php?id=402

He was doing okay until then.


172 posted on 03/01/2009 9:44:38 AM PST by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Cboldt

We need to start a Rebel Republican movement to drag the GOP our way. Or perhaps its time for the Turd Party? What have we got to lose?

Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Failure


173 posted on 03/01/2009 9:55:15 AM PST by bray (Welcome to the USSA!)
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To: Alas Babylon!

So many weekend trolls on this thread it’s hard to keep up.

Silver lining time. What Steele said will force many thousands of people who didn’t see Rush yesterday to watch the video. THAT is a very good thing.


174 posted on 03/01/2009 10:11:54 AM PST by HelloooClareece ("We make war that we may live in peace". Aristotle)
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To: TomGuy
GOP Chairman Michael Steele Calls Limbaugh Comments "Incendiary and Ugly" - Video 2/28/09

Did Michael Steele read a "synopsis" of Rush's speech om "Media Matters" or on the DU website?

175 posted on 03/01/2009 10:50:57 AM PST by CDB
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To: CDB

If someone is reading this for Chairrman Steele, please tell Michael to sit down and view the Video of Rush and digest it before offering any more dumb and ill-informed comments! May GOD BLESS RUSH! Our New Commander in Chief:-)


176 posted on 03/01/2009 11:01:22 AM PST by True Republican Patriot (GOD BLESS AMERICA and Our Great President George W. Bush)
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To: True Republican Patriot

I’m going to crawl out on a limb here and opine that nobody is reading this thread for Chairman Steele.

I’m sure he’s reading it for himself.


177 posted on 03/01/2009 11:27:04 AM PST by Cedric
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To: Alas Babylon!
Thanks for the thread buddy.

Morning AB,got out of there just in time.

N.Fla., S.Ala. are God's country but have their share of "tough to deal with" weather.

Rush's speech was awesome, one of the most awesome deliveries of a political speech ever!.

There is no way to say enough about it.

If there was any problem with it at all it's that it puts tremendous pressure on our potus candidates to live up to anywhere near what he did yesterday.

Limbaugh is and remains the true leader of conservative America and we are lucky to have him!

178 posted on 03/01/2009 11:54:43 AM PST by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Bernard; All
I heard RHambo (Tinkerbell would be a better name for him) on my drive home from I-10. What a fairy tales he spun!!.

These rat/clowns have it all figured out and it's the same ol BS. There mantra is we talked about it so that's all we have to do. Whether it's Bush's budget deficit, Bush's crazy spending or anything and everything else they can possibly blame on GW for who knows how long.

These clowns will suck the country dry, run us into bankruptcy and then blame it on the rich if there is no one to stop them.

Thank God for Rush exposing every dirty trick they try.It must get frustrating for Obozo's handlers!

179 posted on 03/01/2009 12:00:38 PM PST by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: Cedric
Could it mean that Chairman Steel was upset that Rush apparently criticized Newt? Is Steele thinking Newt has more support than he really does? Hard to know.

I am trying not to get too emotional. It doesn't do any good to go off on a tirade, but it seems like every time we get a positive experience from our side, someone pops out to tell us why it was wrong. It reminds me of when President Bush said "Wanted, dead or alive" and then we had to be told that that was the wrong thing to say. And after 8 years they even got President Bush to regret what he had said.

Most of what Rush said I agree with. We shouldn't apologize for who we are, nor should we be on the defensive. We DO need to stress how much we like people and want them to succeed.

And I think we should ask Newt what part of Reaganism does he think is dead. Lower taxes? Pride in the country? Strong national defense? Trust but verify? Trying to have a smaller government, even if it seems hopeless? I would like to hear his answer on that.

180 posted on 03/01/2009 12:01:59 PM PST by Miss Marple
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