Posted on 01/26/2014 5:29:36 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
January 26th, 2014
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Dan Pfeiffer, White House senior adviser
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.; Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas; Billie Jean King and Brian Boitano, U.S. Olympic delegates.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Jay Carney, White House press secretary; Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Pfeiffer; Paul; Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak, Russia's ambassador to the U.S., Reps. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., and Tom Cole, R-Okla.
I can’t imagine journalists getting together but the GOP need to get their act together by “plotting” on something other than getting rid of the Tea Party folks.
Good Morning All!
“stretch Gregory trying to bait Rand Paul on any hot button issue”
I didn’t hear all of it, but I liked when Paul talked about how a) he’s not sure there is a “War on Women”, b) how successful the women in his family are (his little sister is an OB/GYN w 6 kids), quoted statistics for the % of women in Law school, etc. (all over 50%), and that sometimes he worries about the men.
Rod -have fun fishing and get lots of fish! What type do you think you’ll catch?
ABC’s George Stephanopoulos Admits Daily Calls with Rahm Emanuel February 5, 2009
We’ve all heard the tiresome refrain innumerable times.
Namely, the liberal mantra that Fox News is somehow biased, unfair or a mere arm of the alleged “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.” Never mind, of course, the equally innumerable independent studies and viewer demographic surveys demonstrating that Fox actually possesses a more evenly-balanced audience and greater objectivity than its competitors.
Despite that objective data, the Kool Aid-guzzling liberal crowd repeats this Earth-is-flat assertion.
Now, along comes the disturbing news that ABC News’s Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos has been engaging in daily conference calls with new White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who is known as one of the most shrill and unrepentant partisans in Washington.
This news comes on the heels of Stephanopoulos’s wife’s admission last month that he dialed her on his cell phone during Barack Obama’s inaugural festivities to weep in celebration.
Media bias, anyone?
As reported by Politico reporter John F. Harris, four-party telephone calls occur every morning beginning at 6:00 a.m. between Stephanopoulos, Emanuel, former Clinton Administration hack James Carville, pollster Stan Greenberg and Paul Begala, who is perhaps the most shrill left-wing apologist in Beltway circles. The conferences, however, don’t end there. They continue during the day, discussing “what’s happening, what the implications are of what’s happening and what’s going on,” according to Emanuel.
These calls, according to the report, center not just on objective news-gathering by Stephanopoulos, but rather “policy, usually some program Democrats can use to score points in the daily partisan brawl with Republicans.”
Perhaps this news will jolt even the hysterical Fox-haters into sobriety. But for now, the real question is why Stephanopoulos remains gainfully employed as a supposedly “objective journalist” at ABC and host of its Sunday program “This Week.”
Far from expressing embarrassment at the revelation, Emanuel calls this his “17-year conference call,” which he can “tap into anytime you want.”
And lest one dismiss these conversations as mere banter between old friends, Harris notes their critical value to Emanuel by adding that, “according to Begala, the expectation of a daily call is so great that Emanuel will sometimes call him and shout impatiently, ‘I can’t talk right now!’ and then hang up.” And Carville, who presumably has sufficient other sources of political analysis and news available to him, says that “he has come to rely on the calls as his daily fixture,” according to the report.
The report proceeds to describe Stephanopoulos’s role as that of “analyst and skeptic” for the others. According to Begala, “George is really a big-systems thinker. As a journalist, he is half of a political scientist, and because he’s not in the partisan battles anymore, he sees things differently.”
Begala adds that Stephanopoulos is often the source of ideas for Emanuel, as he sometimes wonders, “was this George’s observation that Rahm tweaked?”
Noting the irony, Harris reports that this revelation “is a sensitive point for Stephanopoulos, who shot to fame as a Bill Clinton retainer, and has worked hard to fashion a reputation as an independent journalist.”
Poor, poor George. It must be such a heavy burden to concoct an image of himself as an “independent journalist” when he so obviously is not an… independent journalist.
I've always wanted to post this story on this thread, since it deals with one of the 5 Sunday show hosts and how, in the innocent ABC News' "This Week" viewer's mind, watching Georgie interview a Republican, wonder if Georgie is actually a little biased... Oh, YES he is! And the other thing I often shake my head at is how Republicans can let HIM of all people "Moderate" one of their major debates. They sure don't call them the Stupid Party for nothing!
You Go Girl!!! Great job! It’s about time someone tells these gov’t critters to quit passing extra laws (especially those that are 1000s of pages and that “you need to read it to find out what’s in it” (TM-Pelosi).
“stretch Gregory trying to bait Rand Paul on any hot button issue”
And did you notice those “issues” were about nothing that is really plaguing our country?
During Saturday's Republican presidential debate in New Hampshire, hosted by ABC, co-moderator George Stephanopoulos bizarrely pressed candidate Mitt Romney on whether the former Massachusetts governor believes the U.S. Supreme Court should overturn a 1965 ruling that a constitutional right to privacy bars states from banning contraception.
This whole line of attack, and the War on Women bull, was hatched during their continuing conference call--note that this entire SUCCESSFUL campaign was MADE UP by a Sunday Show host!
We need to ALWAYS be mindful of this, and watch This Week with that always in mind.
If the Republicans let him EVER interview them or moderate another party debate then they are not just stupid they are idiots!!!
“-The War on Women is of course a clever fraud put forth by the Donks and media to mask the reality of The War On All Of Us by - TaDa - them!=”
Just saw the Huckster’s comments about contraception on Fox. I must say SUPPORT the Huckster. Spit at the Democrats and their Tokyo Rose apparatchiks in the media.
Fight back, and do it often
Fish,
Run for Mayor and use my system, it will get you elected. All you need are about 400 signs say Fish for Mayor and you will win.
All the best,
bray
Go Seahawks!
This is shameful but that means nothing for people who have no shame. For them, it is about their side winning. I only wish we had a few more in the GOP who thought the same way and especially those in "leadership".
FNS
Panel
G Will discusses that it is too early to consider whether recent events have hurt Christie. Will continues that there are 30 Republican governors and ‘state level’ Republicans seem to know how to reach the public. Those governors represent some 315 Electoral Votes.
Then Will gives in a short list of potential probables: Pence, Scott, and one other name I don’t remember.
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If the Republicans intend to win, they definitely need to get away from the Beltway Mindset. They also need to get away from the retreads — a list which is already growing.
The shortened GOP primary season is going to make it nearly impossible for any late comers to raise money. It is going to be difficult enough for many wannabes to raise money, anyway. As Brit Hume commented, we won’t see a stage of a new frontrunner every few weeks from a half-a-dozen contenders. That would mean the GOP needs some solid contenders from the beginning. Is that even possible? I posted several times during the early 2012 primary debates: Is this the best the GOP can find to represent them?
If the GOP goes with Christie, he will get thuggishly trampled by the MSM and Dems. If the GOP goes with Jeb Bush as the go-to guy, they will face another round of Bush blaming, because the Bush name is still toxic. If it were not, the Dems would have have used it to win the last two presidential elections. If the GOP stays with the beltway mindset, they will probably face another major loss in 2016, regardless of whether the Dems go with Clinton or some youthful, more appealing lesser known — a repeat of 2012.
Thanks for your post Pat.
As I read it, I thought about the current amnesty mess. Seems there are parallels. We have lots of immigration laws on the book but they are not being enforced. It’s a circus.
If the powers that be would enforce what’s already there, we wouldn’t have the mess.
Yes! I also liked it when stretch said something about Ron Paul and Rand didn’t bite and said something to the effect of: don’t talk about my father, I love my dad and he had a lot of support of the people and folks on both sides of the aisle liked him and respected him (perhaps not a great paraphrase, but you get the idea).
Excellent point and parallel! Many of us on FR have been saying they need to enforce the immigration laws before passing more. Obummer decides which laws he wants to enforce and how and using his pen for a DREAM-like Act, etc. (he has a pen AND a phone, you know).
Check me if I’ve got this right:
- 90 million people out of work
- Stock market took a dump last week, and maybe more to come
- ObamaCare enrollment, website and outlook all FUBAR
- DOJ, IRS, NSA, TSA, EPA etc, etc ad nauseum all operating as criminal enterprises
...and all the MSM’s got is THIS line of continuing BS.
They’ve run out of excuses and the only Bright Shiny Things they’ve got left in the bag are yelling “Racist”, this dipsh** line or pitching all-out Class Warfare.
Somebody’s panicking.
A whole lot of ‘em....
Good morning everyone. For the first time in 4 years I’m posting from the U.S.!
The shortened GOP primary season is going to make it nearly impossible for any late comers to raise money.
No need to worry about potential GOPe machinations for conservatives. Cruz is the only candidate worth supporting.
The rest of the realistic GOP candidates have proven they have no interest in engaging and defeating the Dem agenda. That being the case, I won’t be voting for any of them.
Welcome home, Soldier! Good bless and thank you for your service!
Women voted for Obama 55% to 44%. White women voted 56% to 42% for Romney. Black women voted 96% to 3% for Obama. Latino women voted 76% to 23% for Obama. All other minority women voted 66% to 31% for Obama.
Married women voted 56% to 42% for Romney. Unmarried women voted 62% to 35% for Obama.
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