Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 1 June 2003

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, June 1st, 2003

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Orrin G. Hatch (R-UT) and Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), and former special Middle East envoy Dennis Ross.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-DE), Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) and former White House chief of staff Leon E. Panetta.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former Senate majority leader George J. Mitchell (D-ME) and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Jeane Kirkpatrick.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) and Christopher J. Dodd (D-CT), and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael K. Powell.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Bob Graham (D-FL), John W. Warner (R-VA) and Evan Bayh (D-IN); Reps. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) and Jane Harman (D-CA); former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger; former defense secretary William S. Cohen; former FBI deputy director Danny Coulson; former FBI deputy assistant director of counter-intelligence Skip Brandon; and lawyers Gloria Allred, Roy Black and Wendy Murphy.

Note: Times of shows vary depending on location.

[Pegita]

I keep looking, SkyPilot, but I can't see the washlines that BS wanted all of us to use ... and her with all that sea breeze and stuff ...

[mathluv]

I think the main reason for the anti-Bush crowd to hate W, is that he says what he means,m and means what he says. They don't know what to think of someone really saying NO - like to a child.

[marajade]

I saw Novak... But I still a better argument would have been why didn't the Dems file an amendment on the bill to include them? We all know why they didn't... because the tax cut would have been even bigger...

[mathluv]

I also think we need to keep repeating how large Iraq is. What could be found in California in just 2 months with the people available? Some of the WMD can be put into such small packages. Could you find a 10 lb sack of sugar hidden in LA, much less CA?

[mathluv]

Didn't he say (or someone else did) that those taxs breaks/cuts were cut to stay under the $359 bil?

[McGavin999]

Meet the depressed is accusing the administration of politicising the CIA reports about WMD in order to go to the UN.David Broder is really going after it.

And this is precisely why the media is held in such low esteem. When the people who read/watch are smarter and better informed then the media, you can't help but lose credibility.

[marajade]

yes...

[KC_Conspirator]

I see CBS has their usual bi-partisan line-up.

I watched "Slay the Nation" today and the topic was basically the same as the recent piece in ; How can the democrats win elections? The first observation I had was that I wondered if Bob Schieffer and CBS would ever do this with Republicans? The answer is an obvious "no". The second observation was that the conversation that all these liberals had is obviously talked about at their dinner parties, showing that so called journalists like EJ Dionne and Schieffer are in fact in cahoots with the democrats. So the show went along the typical liberal lines of "We are losing elections because of..."

*Rush Limbaugh
*FOX News
*Not getting their message out
*Other types of "echo chambers" (quote by Schieffer) like talk radio
*Stupid Americans who voted Republican

It wasn'nt because the democrats ideas stink or that the they are out of step with the country. Oh no, its that evil FOX News channel and all its its Republicans. They avoided the fact that virtually every show on Sunday is hosted by a democrat. Only one person (Mark Warner) addressed the fact that democrats need to get serious about national security and defense. They completely ignored the fact that democrats have been losing for over 20 years and had their biggest losses during the Klinton years.

There are so many simple reasons that democrats are not winning and once again these liberals failed to touch on any of them.

[votelife]

the fact that the had such devastating loses during Clinton's 8 years is almost impossible for them to come to terms with. your average common non-political dem is probably clueless about this. The elite Dems don't want to talk about this or come to terms with it because it really is a statement about William Jefferson.

[KC_Conspirator]

The elite Dems don't want to talk about this or come to terms with it because it really is a statement about William Jefferson.

I think that is correct. It also is a statement about the democrat party. They have been losing elections all the way down to the state houses for many years now. The real problem is that the party is no longer a grass roots party but is as you mention, a party run by elites who are out of step with the average citizen.

[SkyPilot]

I think the main reason for the anti-Bush crowd to hate W

I agree with your reasoning as well. I also think the left hates GW because:

a. He is a Christian man (unlike Bill who carried a 12 lb bible for show)

b. He measures issues in a God-centered moral framework (see a.) and therefore is a threat to their worldview

[SkyPilot]

I'd love to see Registered alter that aerial photo of Bab's mansion--with arrows pointing to parts of the compound that she does not want the public to see, like:

- Shakespeare Library
- James Brolin doghouse

[dozer7]

"Even a bad book is better than the lineup of Hatch and Schumer"

Good point. Whenever I see or hear Orrin I can't help but think -- Never count your Hatchs before they chicken.

regards

the dozer

[Maynerd]

You would actually turn on a program that offered Hatch and Schumer? Don't you have an interest in life? Children, a hobby, gardening, perhaps? I've got it. Read a book. Even a bad book is better than the lineup of Hatch and Schumer, or McCain and Dodd, or anyof the scores of humpty-dumptys that people our Senate.

All Freepers must remember the Impeachment lesson: Don't count your Hatch's before they chicken.

[maica]

>>>...showing that so called journalists like EJ Dionne and Schieffer are in fact in cahoots with the democrats. So the show went along the typical liberal lines of "We are losing elections because of..."<<<

One of their major faulty premises is that Democrats are smart and Republicans are stupid. Hence, we just have not 'gotten' their message yet.

They have NO insight that more and more voters are 'getting' the Dem message every day - and a fair percentage are shifting to the conservative point of view as a result of 'getting' the Dem message.

[KC_Conspirator]

One of their major faulty premises is that Democrats are smart and Republicans are stupid. Hence, we just have not 'gotten' their message yet.

I have heard that nonsense from the excuse making democrats as well. They argue that they are so smart that their answers seem too complicated to the voter and that simplistic messages, from the "unsmart" Republicans, are easier to get out and easier to understand. This, of course, is pure caca.

[maica]

100% caca!

I will always remember seeing Chris Matthews dis' the entire population of our country who live below the Mason-Dixon Line during the 2000 campaign. With impunity he uttered slurs that he must have considered accepted wisdom; he showed no hint of shame or insensitivy that he was insulting a group of people that he must really consider inferior. He did not quite use Al Gore's words - 'extra chromosome' crowd, but he implied that only the bicoastal elites could 'really' understand what a candidate was saying.

[KC_Conspirator]

Or Paul Begala say that the "red" areas for Bush were in states that had hate crimes like the Matthew Sheppard murder and the James Bird dragging death. So basically knuckledragging racists voted for Bush, according to the leftist media.

For the record, Republicans on the whole are higher educated than democrats and are more likely to have gone to college. So who is the "smart" party now?

[maica]

It will be fun to watch the Republican majorities grow in the Senate and House next year as the Dims continue to live in denial.

[demkicker]

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-DE), Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) and former White House chief of staff Leon E. Panetta."

Will these pompous networks ever quit rubbing our noses in their bias reporting? There is absolutely no attempt at pretending to be fair and balanced. CBS needs a 'big time' FReep!