Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 28 June 2026

As always, soliciting FReeper comments, observations, and opinions.

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From my AI discussion:

BUTCHER'S THUMB — June 28th, 2026

This week’s butcher’s thumb shows a heavy emphasis on Supreme Court fallout, domestic governance, and bipartisan Senate voices. But the deeper pattern is in who the networks choose: Republicans who are openly critical of Trump (Cassidy, Tillis), giving producers a “GOP” label without GOP alignment. Foreign-policy tensions — especially Iran’s recent Gulf activity — are absent across the networks. Tulsi Gabbard’s reporting on early-pandemic federal communications is also missing.

FACE THE NATION (CBS)
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.); Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.); Jan Crawford, CBS News chief legal and political correspondent.
Structural read: CBS presents this as a “bipartisan Senate + legal framing” hour, but Cassidy’s booking is more telling. He voted to convict Trump, has been openly critical of him, and recently lost a primary after Trump backed his challenger. CBS often selects anti‑Trump Republicans as their “GOP voice,” creating balance in appearance, not substance.
What to watch: How Crawford frames the SCOTUS asylum/TPS rulings.

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network)
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.); Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.); Monica Crowley, Chief of Protocol of the United States. Panel: Francesca Chambers, Juan Williams and Roger Zakheim.
Structural read: Fox is running an “economic policy + bipartisan Congress + diplomatic framing” hour. Scott anchors the GOP message, Auchincloss provides the Democratic counterweight, and Crowley adds institutional foreign-policy context.
What to watch: Whether Bream ties Crowley’s segment to SCOTUS fallout.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC)
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.); Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.); Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Panel: Leigh Ann Caldwell, Ashley Etienne and Marc Short.
Structural read: NBC is running a “Democratic leadership + GOP counterpoint + media analysis” hour. Murphy anchors the Democratic message, Marshall provides the Republican contrast, and Haberman/Swan add institutional media framing.
What to watch: Whether Welker uses Murphy to broaden the SCOTUS narrative.

THIS WEEK (ABC)
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani; Interior Secretary Doug Burgum; Rye Barcott; Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.); Sen. Todd Young (R-Ind.). Panel: Sarah Isgur, Ramesh Ponnuru and Neera Tanden.
Structural read: ABC is running a “domestic governance + interior policy + bipartisan Senate” hour. Burgum anchors the administration’s interior agenda, Kelly and Young provide cross‑aisle framing, and Barcott adds a philanthropic angle.
What to watch: Whether ABC avoids foreign-policy tensions entirely.

STATE OF THE UNION (CNN)
Gov. Wes Moore; Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.); Rye Barcott; Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.); Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.); Gov. Mike DeWine; DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin. Panel: None listed.
Structural read: CNN is running a “governors + bipartisan Congress + DHS framing” hour. Tillis’s presence is notable: he has been openly critical of Trump for years and often serves as a “Republican” voice who reinforces the host’s framing. Democratic guests typically agree with him rather than debate him.
What to watch: Whether Mullin is used to discuss asylum enforcement without touching Iran.

SUNDAY MORNING FUTURES (FNC)
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.); Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.); Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.).
Structural read: Futures is running a “GOP leadership + congressional oversight” hour. Johnson anchors the legislative agenda, McClain reinforces House messaging, and Paul provides a libertarian-leaning policy frame.
What to watch: Whether Bartiromo centers the hour on SCOTUS authority.

Ecosystem Summary
This week’s lineups emphasize Supreme Court reactions and domestic governance. The deeper pattern is the networks’ reliance on Republicans who are openly critical of Trump (Cassidy, Tillis) to create the appearance of balance while maintaining narrative alignment. Foreign-policy tensions — especially Iran’s recent Gulf activity — are absent across all networks. Futures remains the only program aligned with the GOP’s current leadership.

WHAT’S NOT BEING COVERED:

The recent Iran–Gulf tensions and maritime confrontations — a major foreign-policy development ignored across all networks.
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s strongly worded criticism of the SCOTUS TPS ruling. Some media and critics portrayed his comments as defiant, but his official statements stop short of claiming authority to ignore the decision. None of the Sunday shows addressed the controversy.
Tulsi Gabbard’s reporting on early-pandemic federal communications — a politically sensitive topic none of the networks are touching.
Any broader discussion of SCOTUS decisions beyond asylum/TPS — the networks are tightly focused on a narrow slice of the rulings.

The selective silence remains a defining feature of the Sunday ecosystem.

“The greatest power we have is the power to ignore.” — attributed to Eric Hoffer

C-SPAN Radio, available on the net also, click here, broadcasts all five Sunday talk shows starting at 12:00 noon Eastern, as follows:

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"

1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "State of the Union"

4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"

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Next, here are the email addresses and Twitter/X pages--for commenting to the weekend talk shows:

Email: Meet the Press Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments) Twitter/X: @MeetThePress @kwelkernbc

Email: Face the Nation facethenation@cbsnews.com Twitter/X: @FaceTheNation

Email: Fox News Sunday FNS@foxnews.com Twitter/X: @foxnewssunday

Email: ABC This Week thisweek@abc.com Twitter/X: @ThisWeekABC @GStephanopoulos

Email: CNN State of the Union CNN State of the Union (web page for comments) Twitter/X: @CNNSotu @JakeTapper

Email: Sunday Morning Futures Maria@FoxBusiness.com Twitter/X: @MariaBartiromo

“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!

Isaiah 40:31 (King James Version)
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Old Media is doing everything they can to protect themselves and Anthony Fauxi from being found out by the people he poisoned. The Three Pillars (Academia, Media, DNC) were the prime Gas Lighters over taking the Fauci shot which perhaps millions of people died from. Everyone knows a handful who died within a month of the shot.

You would think the seekers of truth would have some interest in the latest releases from Tulsi Gabbard from Fauxi and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which showed he authorized grants for funding Wuhan research on Corona viruses. He then went to the Senate oversite committee and claimed he did not and the disease likely came from an outdoor market which served bat soup.

He then helped promote the story of cities in China stacking dead bodies like chords of wood and needing mobile morgues from the outbreak. Fear is a powerful motivator and the Pillars use it better than anyone. This was pure fiction which was most likely China killing their own people perhaps with the Covid shot while they sent videos around the world of people dropping dead.

This of course led to the pushing of the Covid shot which received the nickname of the clot shot as healthy young men and women were dropping over with heart attacks and seizures. There was the famous Buffalo Bills safety who dropped over dead and was revived after twenty minutes and the Dinosaur Press pushed as a hit to the chest stopped his heart. Never mind players are hit harder a hundred times a game in the same place with no dropping dead, but they had to hide the truth no matter what.

This was critical to the fraud to make Vote-by-Mail the law of the land so the Communist Party could steal the election and did. They had to keep the fraud going after the election and mandated everyone get a shot whether they wanted on or not. If you refused you lost your job and then installed imaginary rules to stop the spread of Covid such as useless masks and distancing for a virus which floated in the air and was not at all fatal.

The only fatalities from the disease were from the protocols which made people weakened before being admitted to the hospital. Then when you were admitted they hit you with a potential lethal dose of Remdesivir which shuts down your kidneys and put you on a respirator which 20% die trying to get off of when their lungs do not go back to normal breathing. They needed a high death count to make people fear the disease and follow their commands like shutting down the country for two years for no reason.

These are the same people who treated those who refused the shot as Science Deniers and would treat them like lepers to the point of wanting to build camps to separate them from society and protect the vaccinated. They tried to pass laws saying unvaccinated could not have surgeries for fear of infecting the vaccinated in the hospital and especially the doctors and nurses.

This is who liberals are, extremely tolerant of everyone they agree with and extremely intolerant of everyone they do not. If they had their way they would have exterminated the Deniers as a way to protect themselves. You had mothers waiting in line to give their infant babies a shot when they had zero chance of dying from Covid not that anyone really did.

If you were a science or vote denier you had a very small chance of making it out of a liberal dominated hospital since they would give you a double dose of Remdesivir and sometimes overdose you with morphine to control the pain.

There were people begging for the Covid shot and it became popular taking a selfie and blasting it to all your friends showing you got the shot before they did. There are very credible studies showing an increase in cancers, stokes and heart attacks this far after the shot which was likely the biggest crime against humanity since Germany.

Perhaps Fauxi will get what he deserves as well as all those involved in the Centers for Disease Control and Big Pharma. With all the big items on Trump’s plate and the need to hide this by the Dumocrats, it will take someone to push these crimes in front of the American people. America needs to expose Fauci and his cronies about Covid from top to bottom.

Pray for the truth about Covid

Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.

Great stuff bud!

Great catch OF one of the biggest cons by doctors,hospitals,drug mfg.s and the rest down to drug stores Still pushing the bio-weapons as preventatives. in REALITY they are bio-weapons full of snake venom and other crap all designed to do anything and everything from making your blood clot to death.

Millions have died already and millions more will. As we got into it we found that the goal was to harm humanity by shots,food,aerosol or water. About as deadly as you can get. Bigger question:'

WHATS NEXT?

As the Iran debacle,hard to call it a war,continues it's apparent, as many of us suspected, that there is no agreement anywhere that criminal muslim terrorists will agree to even if they do sign on.

They simply consider us infidels and it's OK to lie to us over and over.They raise hell at will fully expecting us to respond.We do and the cycle continues. Kinda reminds me of the new breed of Demonrats which threaten to take over whats left of the demonrat party.

Everyone wants a solution to the Iran debacle but few line up to do anything about it.

What has to happen is we need boots on the ground. Just not our boots. We need locals and the Iranian kurds to get armed and get with the program. They of course need help from us which they will get along with every neighbor in the region. that means the Saudis,UAE,Oman,Kuwait and all the other "neighbors" all need to weigh in send money, troops, and arms to the fight and get real about taking out islamic whackjobs.

Long term the US and Israel can provide logistics and other help including all 6 straight CIA ops and some Mossad spys. That's what it will take to get rid of the irgc clowns who will fight to the last brainwashed clone.

Us bombing Iran's nuclear facilities

As the Iran debacle,hard to call it a war,continues it's apparent, as many of us suspected, that there is no agreement anywhere that criminal muslim terrorists will agree to even if they do sign on.

They simply consider us infidels and it's OK to lie to us over and over.They raise hell at will fully expecting us to respond.We do and the cycle continues. Kinda reminds me of the new breed of Demonrats which threaten to take over whats left of the demonrat party.

Everyone wants a solution to the Iran debacle but few line up to do anything about it.

What has to happen is we need boots on the ground. Just not our boots. We need locals and the Iranian kurds to get armed and get with the program. They of course need help from us which they will get along with every neighbor in the region. that means the Saudis,UAE,Oman,Kuwait and all the other "neighbors" all need to weigh in send money, troops, and arms to the fight and get real about taking out islamic whackjobs.

Long term the US and Israel can provide logistics and other help including all 6 straight CIA ops and some Mossad spys. That's what it will take to get rid of the irgc clowns who will fight to the last brainwashed clone.

Us bombing Iran's nuclear facilities

I missed something! My AI went wobbly on me with the Mamdani quote:

AI: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s strongly worded criticism of the SCOTUS TPS ruling. Some media and critics portrayed his comments as defiant, but his official statements stop short of claiming authority to ignore the decision. None of the Sunday shows addressed the controversy.

Mamdani quote: “To have people who frankly taught the world about freedom have their own freedom put into jeopardy by the actions of a Supreme Court and federal administration — it is not only cruel, it’s not something we will ever accept,” Hizzoner said in a video statement after Thursday’s bombshell 6-3 ruling.

Sounds like he's not going to... What's the word.... Accept it.

I dont know whether to demand Zorro be sent back to where he came from or thank him for destroying the dem/rat party!! He’s either the best thing that ever happened to us for November or the worst! I can’t figure it out.

I got in another battle with the AI i use on my computer her at the house.They used NYT as a source and i blasted them for using far left sources.They didnt like it and a few post later told me I had used my "limit" for today to come back tomorrow.

First time they pulled that.

I have a good AI,grok, on my phone but i hate using the phone.Gotta admit Grok can really slam the data out and fast as well.Sourcing is not all that bad either.

It is expensive however,they slid one in on me and hit me for some bigger

what causes double posting,happened twice.?

Did Muddummy tell NYers what 5 million uneducated criminals add to the city and why they should pay for their care?

How does Grok work?

Once the tankers are out of the gulf the world can kiss the Cardboard Tola goodbye. Stop buying their oil and purchase it from America or Venezuela rather than risking getting shot at by some ME terrorists.

Grok means you have all the facts and have complete understanding

That is Robert Heinlen’s definition of the term Grok in his Work “Stranger In A Strange Land”.

Properly used in a sentence, one can say “I Grok that”

They create demand for union social workers and teachers....

Read somewhere else.
Companies using AI are hitting their token ceiling (kinda like pre pay for chunks of AI resource/time) and then trying to figure out the missing Return on Investment.

Mebe they should ask Grok how and why the benefits justify the cost