Posted on 09/26/2004 5:21:57 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, September 26th, 2004
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Colin Powell; former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld and former Texas Democratic gubernatorial candidate Garry Mauro, previous debate opponents of Sen. John Kerry and President Bush.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Gen. John Abizaid, head of the U.S. Central Command.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-MA), and Lindsey Graham (R-SC).
THIS WEEK (ABC): Secretary of State Colin Powell; former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL); Stuart Stevens, Bush-Cheney media consultant.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Secretary of State Colin Powell; Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Joseph Biden (D-DE); former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger; Albright; Mahdi Obeidi, scientist and creator of Iraq's centrifuge; David Kay, former chief U.S. weapons inspector; Robert Gallucci, former U.N. weapons inspector.
The Chris Matthews Show (Various Channels): Norah O'Donnell, NBC News; Clarence Page, Chicago Tribune; Maria Bartiromo, Wall Street Journal Report, CNBC; and Cokie Roberts, ABC News.
CSPAN: Women Voters in the 2004 Election, featuring Ann Lewis, Chair, Democratic National Committee, Women's Vote Center and Christine Iverson, Press Secretary, Republican National Committee.
Fallows says of Kerry, he doesn't know how to give short, effective sentences. What Kerry excels at is sort of courtroom responses. (HA! I guess Fallows means "more nuanced".
On Bush's weak point:Fallows says Kerry should try to make Bush angry, that Bush gets rattled, looks testy when he's mad. (They show the clip of Bush v McCain in S.C. with Bush saying to McCain, "let me finish, let me finish)
On Kerry's weak point: Fallows says for Kerry to win, his team will have to come up with fresh, crisp answers on how Kerry will fight terrorism, and the war in IRaq, what he will do differently than what Bush is doing. And if Kerry can't do that, there's no reason to even have the debate.
the roundtable: Cokie Roberts says polls are tight, people are waiting to get to know Kerry, debate important. She points out how security moms are going for Bush.
Rahm Emanual says the debates have no presidential seal, no Hail To The Chief played , it's an immediate advantage for Kerry. A level playing field.
George Will says this week when Kerry found his voice, Kerry says the war is a great delusion. Will makes fun of Kerry saying "the world will come in to save us in Iraq".
LOL!!! George Will says Bush/Cheney wanted only one thing...they wanted this first debate to be about foreign policy. Will says, Kerry's message has been so mudddled, changed so many times, that George Bush should go out there and say, "give all my time to Kerry, he'll need it to explain what his Iraq posistion is.. IN other words, the more people see of Kerry, they less they trust him.
Thanks again yaya, we are still plagued with hurricane talk.
It is getting to the point that President Bush needs to put out a widely-circulated commercial dispelling this draft ploy of the DemRATS!!!
Notice that they cut the video off at that point. None of MSM wants to show the next minute or so when Bush picked up a piece of paper that had some scurrilous charge against him. McCain said that he had nothing to do with it and Bush said "Right here at the bottom is says "Paid for by the McCain campaign"".
MSM are rotten trash.
I don't think he read the book either, he's just parroting the party line of leftie media types. They seem to think if they write and say the swifties have been discredited, we are dumb enough to believe them.
Arrogance to the max!
(I emailed Broder last night..you get back an auto response)
It must be in the new DNC talking points memo, because I heard on the radio The Philadelphia Inquire did the same thing on the front page last week
I thought we had a thread about it on FR, but I could not find it - possible tie-in to some guy who had disappeared - had threatened the President.
An excellent point!
They'll be watching something like "Friends" or working out at the gym. Debates are not the most relaxing or entertaining form of diversion for single women seeking to decompress at the end of the day.
that was my first thought too, that this was the nutzie that the FBI were looking for.. but they didnt mention that on the little blurb I heard on Fox....I wish we could find something on it, and why we've not heard more... A LOADED GUN....it makes me shiver to think about our President and the Liberals hatred of him...
A friend emailed me this post from another site, and I thought this would be a great place to share it. It is worthy of Steyn:
Nope... No Terrorists Here
The Great Pretender once again proves his ignorance of foreign affairs, the origins and the impact of terrorism and of course, the history of Iraq. It makes me wonder where The Great Pretender was during the years 1980 through March 2003.
"Iraq is now what it was not before the war, a haven for terrorists." John F. Kerry, September 24, 2004
Iraq and terrorism go back decades. Baghdad trained Palestine Liberation Front members in small arms and explosives. Saddam used the Arab Liberation Front to funnel money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers in order to prolong the Intifada. And it's no secret that Saddam's own intelligence service was involved in dozens of attacks or attempted assassinations in the 1990s.
"Iraq is now what it was not before the war, a haven for terrorists." John F. Kerry, September 24, 2004
Iraq was a haven for palestinian international terrorist Abu Abbas, who was captured in Baghdad in April of 2003. Palestinian terrorists under Abbas' command hijacked the Achille Lauro in October 1985. During the hijacking, Leon Klinghoffer -- a 69-year-old wheelchair-bound American Jew who was with his wife of 36 years on the cruise -- was killed and dumped into the sea. "He created troubles. He was handicapped but he was inciting and provoking the other passengers. So, the decision was made to kill him," Abbas told the Boston Globe in 1998.
Abu Abbas had been living in Baghdad since 1994, under the protection of Saddam Hussein.
"Iraq is now what it was not before the war, a haven for terrorists." John F. Kerry, September 24, 2004
Iraq was a haven for palestinian international terrorist Abu Nidal, and The Abu Nidal Organization ("ANO"), in fact, Saddam participated in forming the ANO, sheltered the ANO, and sponsored ANO. The ANO is responsible for terrorist attacks in 20 different countries, which killed more than 300 people, as well as wounding hundreds more. In the mid-1980s, the group was seen as the world’s most dangerous terrorist organization. Experts say that Abu Nidal worked with Iraqi intelligence while representing Fatah in Baghdad. Although Saddam Hussein expelled Abu Nidal and the ANO in an attempt to win American military support for Iraq’s 1980s war with Iran, once the war ended, Iraq resumed its support of Abu Nidal. The ANO now believed to be based in Iraq, with cells in Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
"Iraq is now what it was not before the war, a haven for terrorists." John F. Kerry, September 24, 2004
Iraq was a haven for the radical Kurdish Islamic terrorist group Ansar al-Islam. This terrorist group has ties with both the Taliban and with al-Qaeda. It is the most radical group operating in the Iraqi Kurdistan region. Ansar al-Islam activities include: razing of beauty salons, burning a school for girls, and the murder of women for refusing to wear the burqa. It has seized a Taliban-style enclave of 4,000 civilians and several villages near the Iranian border. It is also responsible for ambushing and killing of 42 Kurdish soldiers. Ansar al-Islam is in a state of war with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). It was responsible for the assassination in 2001 of a senior official of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), Franso Hariri, and for the attempted killing of Burhan Salih, head of the PUK-led Iraqi Kurdistan regional government.
"Iraq is now what it was not before the war, a haven for terrorists." John F. Kerry, September 24, 2004
Iraq was a haven for the deadly terrorist network headed by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, an associate and collaborator of Usama bin Laden and his al-Qaida lieutenants. In 2002, Zarqawi was in Baghdad for medical treatment, staying in the capital of Iraq for two months. Also in 2002, an al-Qaida associate bragged that the situation in Iraq was "good," that Baghdad could be transited quickly. Also in 2002, two suspected al-Qaida operatives were arrested crossing from Iraq into Saudi Arabia. They were linked to Zarqawi's Baghdad cell and one of them received training in Afghanistan on how to use cyanide.
Zarqawi's terrorism is not confined to the Middle East. Zarqawi and his network have plotted terrorist actions against countries including France, Britain, Spain, Italy, Germany and Russia.
"Iraq is now what it was not before the war, a haven for terrorists." John F. Kerry, September 24, 2004
Jeepers. I guess The Great Pretender was out windsurfing during those intelligence briefings. Or maybe he just shredded those memos too.
How can The Great Pretender keep America safe from terrorism when he is completely ignorant of who the terrorists are, and where they are? If I know, why doesn't the man who aspires to be President of the United States of America and Commander in Chief of our Military know?
Originally posted at Something... and Half of Something, Cross-posted at IsraPundit
Same for us. War Eagle indeed!
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Andrew Sullivan is welcome always, even when he wobbles on personal hobby-horses.
Wow, thanks for the intelligent analysis and articulate presentation.
I am actually watching Chris Matthews right now and the lineup is completely different.
David Gregory, Andrea Mitchell, Fallows and I forget who else (it's at commericial right now)--oh, that blond British babe.
Before the break Chris played a couple clips of a McCain/Bush debate exchange and Andrea says just look at how George Bush "who didn't serve" pretentiously acknowledges McCain's service. John McCain! A POW.
Well, I guess one person's bias like Andrea sees pretentious dismissiveness. My bias saw a sincere expression from GWB.
Also David Gregory said GWB can get mad, he knows it from personal experience. LOL
Brit has a great special at 9:00 EDT tonight.
It is certain that the President will have notes at the debate detailing with dates every Kerry opinion he's had on Sadaam, Iraq and WMD and every time Kerry pipes up on those topics he'll contradict himself.
Or -- play upon this as the dems goal. The dems have been throwing this out there for the last 3 wks. It must be in the dems planning, must be what the dems are proposing .
We do not need a draft - the quality of men and women volunteering for service is superior.
Except for the few, the handful, involved in the prison scandal that Mary Mapes miraculously found in her investigating!!! Makes you think she teamed up with Michael Moore.
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