Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 28 July 2002

Various big media television networks ^ | 28 Jul 02 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, July 21, 2002

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network):Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill and former Vanguard Mutual Funds chief executive John C. Bogle

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) and Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.) and Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and Treasury Secretary Paul H. O'Neill.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), National Economic Council Director Lawrence B. Lindsey, Pfizer Inc. chief executive Henry A. McKinnell and Blackstone Group Chairman Peter G. Peterson.

LATE EDITION (CNN): King Abdullah of Jordan, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and Don Nickles (R-Okla.), AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney, economic analyst John J. Castellani, Orange County, Calif., District Attorney Tony Rackauckas and National Economic Council Director Lawrence B. Lindsey.

[Republic]

To see an historian critcising the the energy our President put into his address, to see her comparing it to the speech he made in front of congress on terrorism, is disingenuous and obnoxious and fairly embarrassing for a so called presidential historian to be making. Especially this early on.

If Doris is the best liberal guest Tim and others can get, to feed the masses the liberal prompts or talking points, I feel for um. You have to wonder if Doris spends her evenings on the phone to the DNC liars and spewers like Carville and company.

Poor Doris-she cannot cover her pathetic liberal leanings, such a creepy trait for a so called historian. Especially a disgraced historian.

Of course, all of the klinton knee padders are a pretty disgraced bunch. And Tim is begining to drown in his own disgraceful partisan screeching. Poor baby. For some-I guess- shallowness actually has no depth.

[cyncooper]

I think O'Neill's patient cool when he disagrees with Tim's every premise, is exposing Russert's partisanship.

Right on, YaYa.

When Meet the Press started this morning with the questions to O'Neill if he should step down my first thought was "does Meet the Press do reruns?" because Russert did this to O'Neill before! LOL

[PISANO]

If I had to choose between the two houses.......I would definitely pick the Senate, for ONE reason. Judges.

[cyncooper]

Now on CNN Wolf Blitzer is asking Lawrence Lindsey if Harvey Pitt should step down.

First he played a clip of little Tommy D. stating how "disappointed" he was in the administration blah blah blah...

[olliemb]

Russert never allowed him to speak. Russert never followed thru with the questions re: the economy trip in Asia or the facts about the economy. Never asked his opinion of Rubin.

O'Neill has a clue but he can't get it out if the press won't let him.

[NativeNewYorker]

I want to thank everyone who made the sacrifice of actually watching the Sunday Stalinists, and then reporting in to FR.

It seems like our Leading Leninists are so spastically simple-minded that all they are capable of is head hunting, looking for resignations. There is no evidence of actual *thought* or *policy* involved. Just head hunting.

And, of course, since 100% of these "financial crimes" took place during the Clinton administration, that fact must go scrupulously unmentioned.

[olliemb]

I am with you and I think O'Neill is just the favorite whipping boy. I think he is doing well-what do they want him to do--go out and buy up all the stock to help the market? My oh my no one recalls that the CEOs and corporate corruption began in 1997--under the renown Rubin.I was so hoping Timmy would have asked about Rubin--start a discussion, Timmy, not just sheepling the democrats talking points.;

[olliemb]

I wrote and complained to NBC about Doris the plagiarist and Timmy the pumpkin.

[Laverne]

I sent little Timmy and email also about his rudeness this morning. I also recommended that next time he has Doris on, to make sure he introduces her as the plagerist she is! :-)

[Laverne]

I was lucky today Republic, I only had to dial once and got right through! I asked CNN to post the question of the day on their web site: Should Lieberman and Levin call Rubin to testify! HA, we know they won't but it was fun. She did not respond to my suggestion for question of the day and stated that she didn't work for the NYTimes so wasn't prepared to, or couldn't speak to their position (aka Bias).

[Mo1]

"So you're not going to resign?"

are you serious .. geez

I wish someone would ask Tim that question

[linn37]

I thought O'Neil did just fine on Russerts show.Enjoyed O'Neils comments about spectators and commentators in reference to Al Bores comments.

[NativeNewYorker]

I will reproduce below the full text of the response I got from Russert the last time I emailed him about bias on NBC:

[olliemb]

well lets see,,who is more odious? Gephart as speaker or Daschl as Majority leader. This is like choosing between Charley Manson or Ted Bundy for a date for the prom.

How funny--it is truly amazing--just finished watching the pope and all the love out there in Toronto and then these scumbags of MTP with Doris, the plagiarist, are holding themselves up to being such moral characters. And now imagine these democrats running the country. What a laugh!

Let's start on get out the vote and pray that the economy and the market skyrocket and all the CEOs that are corrupt are taken in handcuffs before the election.

[Inkie]

I totally agree with you two on ONeill. Below is a post I post on the "Russert" thread.

I saw ONeill with Brit Hume today and I thought he made perfect sense, particularly with his views on expensing the stock options. Some other guy on Sunday Morning said they should be expensed, but he was predicating that on the basis of the company buying back shares to then offer them to the execs. If the company buys back shares, that's one thing. But a lot of them just issue more shares. Then it is a matter of diluting the shares of the other shareholders, and that is a totally different issue. That's why ONeill's views on exhaustive disclosure on how it's being done, and all the long-term implications for shareholders are sound.

Another point: sometimes exercise of the options can be many years after the options were offered and if the price has fallen instead of appreciated, then the cost of exercising the options is higher than just buying the shares on the open market, so the exec would be mad to exercise them. If he doesn't exercise them, then there is no cost to the company. Yet, if the Congress had mandated options be expensed, then those would have appeared as expenses five years earlier when the company had no idea whether they would become an expense or not.

So there would have to be strict conditions under which they were expensed, that is, only when they were exercised, and only if the company had to buy back shares on the open market to give them to executives.

This is a long-winded way of saying that almost no interviewers understand any of this and they only treat the subject with the ignorant broad brush of which they are capable.

[Republic]

Ohhhh --- oooops. So it was CNN and NOT CSPAN.

That is terrific....CNN reaches a broader audience! So she was reduced, in essence, to really NOT REPLYING! LOL GOOD FOR YOU LAVERNE! It is just terrific that you leveled some truth across this nation this morning. We need all we can get. You FReeped today with great excellence! Eagles way up, many times over!

[Digger]

Hey, don't talk about Timmy. You know he's one of RUSHs favorites along with Jim Kallstrom.

[olliemb]

Congrats on your call. We need more people like you. I will need to watch the reruns this evening.

[Laverne]

My call was to CSPAN, but the question was posed to their guest, who was from CNN! I hope that clarifies it; sorry if I was confusing in my response above!

[Inkie]

Alfalfa Gore

Too funny!