Posted on 07/19/2015 4:47:25 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
July 19th, 2015
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State John F’n Kerry; Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz; Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Ben Cardin, D-Md.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Kerry; British Prime Minister David Cameron; Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry; Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.; Reps. Joaquin Castro, D-Texas, and Raul Labrador, R-Idaho.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Kerry, Moniz; Netanyahu; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Kerry; Moniz; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Kerry, Moniz; Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Scott Walker.
On ABC, Trump did not repeat what Attkisson wrote. Trump asked everyone to go read what Attkisson wrote.
I hope a lot of progressive cellar dwellers go read Attkissons piece
Speaking of Diane Feiinstein....my friend Pat, who I often said looks exactly like Diane Feinstein, was here the other day. I called up pictues of Diane F. and showed her.
She said she thought Diane Feinstein was pretty and she thanked me for thinking she was pretty too.
Or something.
So I went to a county GOP event, hosted by the former Chair of the Sussex GOP and former Sussex county campaign manager for Christine O’Donnell.
Guy has eleven kids and his wife was Delaware’s mother of the year last year.
So I went by myself because....well who else I got to go with? And THIS is part of the problem, more on this later.
So since I envision myself as the people’s scribe or some sort, as I drove I prayed that I be quiet and LISTEN to people, that I work the room, that I pre-think everything I say.
So I’m in the kitchen of this event, meeting the mother of the year, who I only knew vaguely. Sweetest woman on the planet, home-schooled her kids....man I felt blessed to be with these people. Her children were all about, preparing food and stuff.
I am inquiring about who is this and whose grandchildren are these? Man there were kids and babies all about and don’t forget this woman had 11 kids and there were sons-in-law. I am terrible at names but I did my best.
Over at the sink is another daughter, mother of two adorable little girls and one baby languishing in the baby chair. She LOOKED to me like she was pregnant but the voice in my head told me NOT to mention this possible pregnancy because it wasn’t all that obvious.
Because the WORST thing a woman can do to another....besides taking her man which I did not do....is mention her pregnancy if she’s NOT pregnant.
Yeah, the voice in my head said keep quiet.
So another daughter...remember this woman has like 8 of them....comes over to say Hi. I was sitting down, had just gotten new glasses the day before. As the young woman walked over to me, I could swear her belly was sticking out like she was 7 or 8 months along.
Yes I did, I asked her when she was due.
SHE WAS NOT PREGNANT!
I wanted to die, right there.....just die.
Her sisters, all 99 of them, gasped at my comment and I’m sure her mother heard. Man, she really looked pregnant to m.
But my apology was worse than the gaffe.
So the young woman goes outside and I’m burning inside, wondering how to get out of this mess. I glance outside at the young woman and she looks like a most ordinary un-PREGNANT woman....all I can think is I was seated, with brand=new bifocal glasses and my sight was altered with the newness of it all.
Or something.
So I went outside, located the young woman, took her aside, and told her that she was a perfectly slim young woman, that my position was seated and misleading....yada, yada.
She, of course, told me it was perfectly fine. Well she had to say that, didn’t she?
I looked at her sadly, knowing I FAILED....and I said softly “No it’s not.”
And I left. I went home. I am finished. I will not go to any events like this any more by myself.
Because of all this with my daughter I am trying desperately to find my life again, going to a Therapist, attending events that I not be constantly lonely and isolated.
But I failed.
Anybody got any ideas how I can possibly make it up to this young lady?
Cause I feel awful.
WOW! That ABC hag was hostile!
Martha?
Mr. Trump didn’t give an inch, but she was butt-rude!
I skipped right past Jim Webb.
I have the show TIVO’d.
I think I’ll skip ahead to watch their pathetic round table.
You did step in it, but don’t worry, it will be forgotten. We have all said that but then we never say it again.
Donald Trump stuck it to Martha radish give her no no respect at all he said people like you take things out of context it was quite a response. He is kicking drive by ass
Don’t start I always win silly arguments
PLEASE don’t worry about it!
Did you tell her about your new glasses, the bi-focals?
Dearest, sweet you. I know it’s causing you grief and worry, but this lady has likely already forgotten! We often feel guilty and tend to enlarge a small incident into something huge, when in fact, you didn’t harm her at all.
Had I been that woman, I would have laughed it off and likely given you a hug!
By now we should all realize that Donald Trump is not politically correct and will shoot himself in the foot over and over again
It is interesting that whatever little prominence on the right the otherwise obscure governor of NJ has is because of his occasional truculence with the press. People hate the media and respond reflexively to anyone who gives them a punch in the face. I wish every candidate for GOP office would learn this and stop acting like whipped curs at the slightest frown from a reporter (Romney, I'm looking at you).
Absent McCain’s time as a p.o.w he has been a disaster for the Republican Party
AMEN!
You are absolutely correct ab gw not fighting back for 8 years was a disaster for the party
Well, I’ll try my .02 worth:
First, we’ve all done things like this. Second, the lady was either way overweight or she wasn’t. If the former, who knows, you may have caused her to change her lifestyle and avoid a later heart attack or diabeeetus.
This is one of those events that don’t seem too bad to those who are not in the story. I am happily typing away, wondering in the back of my head “what’s the big deal?” while you are devastated. But here is the good part: WE HAVE A GOD WHO UNDERSTANDS THIS! I suggest you go and re-read about the wedding in Cana in John 2. Here was a guy whose problems were his own fault, and may not have seemed that bad to anyone but himself, and yet Jesus used this for His first miracle! He knows that we make mistakes, and He also knows how hurt we can be by things which may seem small to others. Rejoice in this, and may you find peace!
Aw Onyx.....you’re being nice.
I didn’t mention the glasses though I swear that was the issue.
Where I failed was not following my own inner voice. NEVER mention a woman’s pregnancy until SHE does.
Let me get that in my head.
It’s just not working for me, going to these things without a husband/date/significant other. Now I don’t have a husband and come on, I’m 65 years old. I don’t have a boyfriend and don’t want one.
But I don’t do going alone to this sort of thing very well. Meetings and the like I’m okay with....but everybody there was with a date and I just don’t have what it takes.
I used to be a Women’s Libber of the highest order but I was wrong.
So this widow woman is just going to keep a low profile and I dunno, maybe find a guy or something to go to these things with me.
Jane Harman is an expert at lying her way out of anything
“To be a politician is but to:
· feign ignorance of what you know well,
· pretend knowledge of what you are totally ignorant,
· decline to listen to what you hear,
· attempt what is beyond your capacity,
· hide what ought to be exposed,
· appear profound when you are dull-witted, and
· justify ignoble means by claiming admirable ends.”
- Pierre de Beaumarchais
Great post why respect people who r out to do u 8n
Well thank you for your two cents.
She was like a size 7 or something. To add to my dismay, with my by-then twisted tongue I am trying to make conversation. So I ask how long she’s been married. She tells me six years. So I ask if she has any kids. She says no.
so who knows the story? Maybe she and husband are trying to have kids and I, big galoot, hit a sore spot. This is a family with babies all around....it’s like they love to reproduce and they’re not even Catholic!
Come on guys....WHY DID I DO THAT?
Seriously, I left. I just up and left, went home, after paying my fifty bucks and not eating one spoonful or talking to no one.
Yes I am devastated. I will get over it.
But I will not do this again.
And someway I am going to make up for it.
DONALD TRUMP HAS NOTHING ON ME WHEN IT COMES TO GAFFES!
Go on, laff with me. Laughter means you’re healing.
You’re younger than me and I’m a widow, too!
If you want to, call her and tell her about your new bi-focals, but I’m all but certain, she has already forgotten about it!
God bless and keep you.
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