Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 1 August 2004

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, August 1st, 2004

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. John Kerry, Democratic presidential nominee, and Sen. John Edwards, Democratic vice presidential nominee; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; Matthew Dowd, Bush campaign strategist.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Zell Miller, D-Ga., and Joseph Biden, D-Del.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. John Kerry, Democratic presidential nominee, and Sen. John Edwards, Democratic vice presidential nominee.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John Kerry, Democratic presidential nominee, and Sen. John Edwards, Democratic vice presidential nominee.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn., Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.; former Democratic presidential candidates Howard Dean and Al Sharpton.

[Cincinatus]

Newt WAS GREAT

He usually is. He did some stand-ups during the morning "Fox and Friends" show last week that, if the RNC had an ounce of sense, would grab up those tapes and make campaign commercials out of all of them.

[Carolinamom]

In keeping w/his habitual stance...flip-flop mode, the news today is that Kerry eats at BOTH Wendy's and Gourmet restaurants.........for the same meal!

[maica]

I thought that was Brit's plan when he took off several weeks before the convention. I am disappointed that he is not on the show today.

Bill Kristol makes me sick!!!

He is supposed to be a conservative voice on this panel, and he constantly damns Bush with his faint praise. I really would like to smack him, and hitting people is not my natural inclination.

[rodguy911]

Not me, I already know too much Spanish, if need be I will be the last one walking out with the flag flying proudly over my shoulder. The rats are just looking for small holes in the sidewalk to pop up from. GW has a great cement mixer and he is getting ready to use it.

[anita]

Russert always gets his points from DU, John Pdesta, David Brock types and spread them throughout NBC, MSNBC as wash.mg.editor of NBC. He always gets points thro' Blackberry.

[Whataday]

Coordinating with the enemy: Vietnam Veterans Against the War in Paris and Hanoi

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A major theme of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in 1971 involved sending representatives to Paris and to Hanoi to meet with communist leaders.

John Kerry has admitted to meeting in 1970 in Paris with Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Foreign Minister of the Provisional Revolutionary Government, the "waiting-in-the-wings government" ready to take over South Vietnam once the Communists won. The Viet Cong operated as the military arm of the PRG. Kerry also met with representatives of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, the official name of the North Vietnamese communist government in Hanoi. North Vietnam's lead delegate at that time was Le Duc Tho, who along with Ho Chi Minh was one of the original founders of the Communist Party of Indochina and one of North Vietnam's chief strategists.

On June 16, 1971, the communist Daily World newspaper quoted Kerry as planning a month-long trip to South Vietnam in July to report on "what is really happening" to the American soldiers over there. Newly released FBI files on the VVAW also report that John Kerry made a second trip to Paris in the summer of 1971 to meet again with the Vietnamese communist peace delegations and try to arrange a prisoner release.

The national VVAW leadership gathered in Kansas City from Friday, November 12, through Sunday, November 14 for a raucous meeting. Sparks started flying a couple of hours into the meeting when Steering Committee member Al Hubbard arrived from the airport by taxicab. Hubbard, a former Black Panther and the man who had appointed John Kerry to the VVAW leadership in the summer of 1970, had just returned from Paris where he had met with the Vietnamese communist delegations to the Paris Peace Talks. Hubbard reported that he had just concluded negotiations with the Vietnamese Communists and they were ready to release a group of American POWs to the VVAW, provided that the VVAW would send a delegation to Hanoi around Christmas. Hubbard told the group that the Communist Party USA had paid for his trip.

John Kerry, also a member of the 5-man Steering Committee, had long had a contentious relationship with Hubbard. After sharing an appearance on the NBC television show, "Meet the Press," on April 18, 1971 Kerry learned that Hubbard had not been an Air Force captain as he claimed, but only a sergeant. Later investigations showed that despite his stories of being wounded flying in combat, Hubbard had never been a pilot, and in fact had never been assigned to Vietnam.

Now, according to the FBI files, Kerry made a motion to remove Hubbard from the Steering Committee -- a motion that was voted down. Kerry then stated that he intended to resign from the VVAW Steering Committee for "personal reasons," but agreed to remain on the Steering Committee until a replacement had been selected.

VVAW national staff member Joe Urgo was up next. According to an FBI report filed on November 24, 1971, Urgo reported that he had traveled to Hanoi in August 1971 to work directly with North Vietnamese leaders. Urgo brought home proposals for the VVAW to: (1) create tapes to be sent to North Vietnam for broadcast over Radio Hanoi urging US servicemen to stop fighting in Vietnam, and (2) send a delegation to Hanoi to negotiate the release of American POWs, a proposal that echoed Hubbard's report from Paris.

The now public FBI record clearly indicates that the VVAW of November 1971 had come under communist influence and was acting directly with the enemy to work against US military objectives in the war. Not only was the VVAW continuing to undermine support for the war in the United States through its false claims of war crimes and atrocities, but now the VVAW was negotiating with America's enemies to effect the release of POWs to enhance their credibility as an organization, and actively encouraging soldiers in the field to refuse orders to engage the enemy in combat.

This appears to violate US Code 18 USC 953, which directly forbids US citizens from negotiating with foreign powers, as well as Article III, Section 3 of the US Constitution, which defines treason as giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war. The record reflects John Kerry's decision to tender his resignation from the VVAW Steering Committee, but that resignation was not to be effective immediately, nor did John Kerry stop acting as the group's public spokesperson.

It is clear that the VVAW leaders understood the seditious nature of their activities -- they relocated twice to avoid surveillance by government authorities. That turned out to be a vain hope, since the FBI had multiple informers inside the meeting. They then debated and voted down a proposal to assassinate several pro-war US Senators. John Kerry, who until recently claimed to have resigned from the VVAW the previous June, was also present for this session according to the FBI files and a number of eyewitnesses. Senator Kerry now says he remembers nothing of the Kansas City meeting.

John Kerry would continue to serve as the VVAW's primary spokesman for several more months. Newspaper reports indicate that he represented the VVAW in public appearances at least as late as April 1972.

The FBI files on the VVAW raise many questions, but one thing is clear: John Kerry and his VVAW comrades were welcome guests of the Vietnamese communists in both Paris and Hanoi, guests who could be counted on to actively support the leadership of America's wartime enemy. For more info CLICK HERE ----------

[evad]

My husband believes Bush will win in a landslide..

If Bush wins in a landslide it will be because somehow we managed to get ther female voter back on our side. I'm not sure W can overcome another 11% deficit like with Gore in 2000.

[Barset]

Thank you for getting this out.

[Cincinatus]

Bill Kristol makes me sick!!!

He can be incredibly annoying. Fundamentally, he always wants to say something provocative, to show how "deep" he is. Unfortunately, it's usually something quite stupid -- today it was that John Kerry is more qualified to be President than W. was in 2000. Absurd! Bush was the governor of the 3rd most populous state in the union; Kerry is just another left-wing back-bencher, who otherwise would go through his entire political career anonymously.

[TomGuy]

MTP: Brokaw interview Kerry-Edwards, asks hard hitting question--'Has the campaign taken a toll on your marriage?'

[The lib media are still trying to keep the real Kerry out of public view by tossing Nerf balls as questions.]

[rodguy911]

Rack my brain as I try, the only equal opportunity host I can think of right off is David Brinkley.

[CasearianDaoist]

Kristol is the archetypal Girlie-man, and I am not making a reference to Saturday Night Live either.

[moondoggie]

I don't think Russert will have to solicit bad news about the Dems from Zell Miller.

He's more than willing these days to tell anybody who will listen how disappointed he is in the Democrats.

[Cincinatus]

Brinkley was a class act, a true gentleman, and I for one sorely miss him. Nobody on any of the Sunday shows even comes remotely close to him.

[evad]

Biden says Kerry has steel in his backbone. LOL

Maybe..but it bent sofar LEFT that it is unusable.

Better to be returned to the scrap heap.

[rodguy911]

I'm not disputing what you say about Russert but why does Rush support him so often and so strongly?

[Carolinamom]

Kristol is still miffed because the BushI administration didn't trust him. (BTW Didn't Kristol also room w/Alan Keyes during college....and Keyes took potshots at Bush2 right up to his election as I remember.)

[jackbill]

First the French and Germans don't have the military assets to spare. They can't even meet their troop commitments in Afghanistan. Both countries are spending less each year as a percentage of GDP on defense because they have to fund their social welfare system and an aging population. Moreobver, I don't think the French and Germans want to put their people in harms way in Iraq. It just wouldn't work domestically.

Exactly. In the year 2000, France had a total military of 294,000 and Germany had a military of 212,000. We had 1,366,000.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph-T/mil_arm_for_per

We spend more money on benefits for our retired military that either France or Germany spends on their active military.

[rodguy911]

Wait til' the convention, I can almost promise you we will get a bounce even though the pollsters will do their best to disavow any such change in the numbers. I like the Mason Dixon poll.

[tirednvirginia]

Kristol was a bigtime McCain supporter. He wouldn't mind seeing Bush lose.