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.
Hmmm... Not sure which Christian religious wars in the 17th c he was referring to, but I would think that the French and American Revolutions (neither of which had much of a religious component) in the "18th c" were far more seminal in the development of liberal democracy in the West.
That whole "religious wars" seems to be something of a canard. Which wars since, say, 1700 have had a strong religious component? Not many, IMHO.
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PADDOCK LAKE -- A man wearing women's clothing and sitting in a parked pickup truck was apprehended Friday on the route for President Bush's motorcade, authorities said.
Police said a spectator hoping to catch a glimpse of the president tipped them off after noticing the man.
Officers found the 57-year-old man was wearing women's clothes and had a loaded gun and knife in his vehicle.
http://www.wisinfo.com/postcrescent/news/archive/local_17966339.shtml
The showed "the look" last night on Fox and I cracked up all over again....I just knew after that sterling moment Gore was a goner! And you've got to admit, the sighing was pure slapstick comedy! What doofus he was! W 2004
I happened to see this segment and didn't get that impression. He said GWB is likable and stays on message and the only fault (from his perspective) he cited was that GWB won't display "intellectual curiosity" about anything his opponent will raise.
I thought he was pretty nice about GWB in light of that article we read yesterday which certainly did seem to mischaracterize that race. Chris Wallace pointed out GWB led Mauro by 40 points going into that debate (which casts a different light, too, on setting up the whens and wheres) and Mauro chuckled and said "it was actually 35".
He didn't happen to mention that is what Allawi said and then Rumsfeld was asked about it, did he??
I guess the media/dem tactic is to completely dismiss Allawi's statements.
Oh, you just reminded me about something else discussed on Chrissy's show. He wondered if GWB made a mistake in not getting a riser so he'd be equal in height to Kerry.
My husband and I laughed. Can you imagine the riser jokes that would result?! We both agreed that is not GWB's way. He is who he is and isn't going to stand on a riser.
"Former Secretary of State James Baker, the Bush campaign's debate negotiator, agreed to three instead of two debates to get what the White House wanted most: the first debate in Coral Gables, Fla., next Thursday discussing foreign affairs, not domestic affairs as originally scheduled.
Bush aides had hinted they would insist on no more than two debates, but in fact they never felt it was important. Based on their belief that the first debate exerts an inordinate influence on public opinion, they wanted it to deal with the war on terror where George W. Bush is presumed to have an advantage over John Kerry.
Had Bush insisted on canceling the second, town hall-format debate, it might have hurt politically. It is scheduled at Washington University in St. Louis, and Missouri is an important battleground state."
Wonkette's site is kind of fun in a gossipy way, IMO.
I happened to see this segment and didn't get that impression.
Maybe your impression is more accurate than mine. I think when I saw his name, I was biased because of that Atlantic Monthly piece that used the debate with Mauro to paint Bush as pretty manipulative.
Also, wasn't Mauro part of that confrontation debacle at Crawford with Cleland/Rassman? Or am I remembering incorrectly?
But I do have a prediction, only slightly based on wishful thinking. Kerry won't be able to help himself. He'll over gesture, lick his lips, insult the president, make snide, nasty comments, and attempt to look far superior in every way. Kerry's biggest problem won't be his long, run on sentences. His biggest negative will be people seeing him as phoney and arrogant.
President Bush is so comfortable in his own skin, his camera eye contact so solid, he connects to people, people might not like him, but they see him as an honest man, and so steadfast, so loyal, and totally determined to protect America, regardless of polls and focus groups.
I think President Bush will blow Kerry away, and after watching the Gore/Bush debate last night on C-Span, I think Kerry will be very Gore-like...by that I mean a different Kerry at each debate. Bush will be Bush in all 3.
That is exactly what I said to my husband when we saw this clip. I said they cut off where Bush exposed McCain as putting out a Bush bash and denying it was his campaign so GWB says "Well, it says here 'McCain for President'".
I only read the excerpts posted on FR but Broder completely disgraced himself with that "piece" today.
I read an article somewhere yesterday about the rules for the debates and the candidates are not allowed to bring in notes but can take them. The pencils and pens must be submitted for inspection to the commission beforehand (I don't know what that's all about).
However, your point that GWB will review Kerry's history is well taken.
Wow, thank you. I had no idea anyone read my posts.
Maybe I over-reacted and you are certainly correct. Hitchens calmly said, "Christopher."
Nothing at all rude, there.
However, it annoyed me. I think it all goes back to this woman in my Bible Class who DOES have a hissy fit if anyone calls her by anything other than her full name. She also wears feminist t-shirts to class.
We are all products of our previous existence. Sorry, Mr. Hitchens (I mean Christopher)
Did I hear correctly. We were in the car and heard a soundbite from Biden (which the ABC announcer referred to as Daschle) that Kerry has given Biden permission to speak for him, Kerry. That Kerry wants Allawi to know that he is totally supported by Kerry. Biden gets permission to make that statement??????????????????
Didn't Scarborough get caught shilling for one of his clients without divulging that fact during that segment of his show?
It was great when Stephanopoulous said that President Bush has Kerry's votes "down cold," and Cokie said, "That's hard!"
Personally, I like the President when he shows his impatience with rule breakers - that's one of my pet peeves, too.
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