Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 26 September 2004

Various big media television networks ^ | 26 September 2004 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[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.

[okimhere]

Anybody else see this?

Yes! Just surfing and ran across it. Really a surprise to find intelligent conversations and your comments are as I saw it, too. Did you notice that several times Sullivan giggled or chuckled loudly in the middle of a Hitchens comment? Hitchens totally ignored it and kept speaking. This seems to be becoming a debate tactic but it doesn't work...as Gore's similar sighing, etc., didn't.

[anita]

>That was fantastic, wasn't it - Hitchens comes across as very thoughtful and articulate even
> though I don't agree that elections should have/could have been held immediately.

Yeah, he looks to me like Ed Koch liberal, even stronger than Koch.

[TheGrimReaper]

Wallace let Biden filibuster that entire interview.
Chris' comment about the "decaf" at the end was cute, but no substitute for maintaining control of the interview.
Sorta pitiful for a "professional" host....

[MEG33]

I admit I switched to watching wind blown palms for the Biden segment..
Shamelessly promoting my favorite author on the MSM and Rathergate.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1225723/posts

The Fall
National Review Online ^ | September 24, 2004 | Victor Davis Hanson

[rodguy911]

I saw a few minutes of it it was interesting I usually value Hitchens opinion, he seems like a straight shooter.

[Carolinamom]

Powell said he thought every Iraqi should have "the opportunity" to vote. If they won't stop their warring to vote, then TOUGH.

Every American has the "opportunity" to vote, but millions do not. Yet we DO elect our President et al.

[primatreat]

Biden just said "kerry will listen to the troops". He said it! What a piece of rat scrotom

[zook]

We must have heard two different interviews. I thought Wallace slammed Biden.

[maica]

OK, I can do that without changing from my pajamas!

[BunnySlippers]

I watched it. I was alerted by another Freeper just minutes before it began. Good show. I felt though that Russert was a good moderator and did not interject comments at all during the hour. It was worth watching.

[Calvin Locke]

Russert's just trying to give credibility to Kerry's quotes.

[anita]

Anybody else see this?

Yes! Just surfing and ran across it. Really a surprise to find intelligent conversations
and your comments are as I saw it, too. Did you notice that several times Sullivan
giggled or chuckled loudly in the middle of a Hitchens comment? Hitchens totally
ignored it and kept speaking. This seems to be becoming a debate tactic but it
doesn't work...as Gore's similar sighing, etc., didn't.

Yes, after Rush's interview this one stands out on top.

[Dutchgirl]

Keep the play by play coming. We only have hurricane coverage here in Jax and I NEED to think about something else...

[TheGrimReaper]

Wallace tried to slap him around...I'll admit, but Biden was in hyper-spin mode. How the hell Biden got away with saying that JFnKerry's Dec. 2003 remarks and his anti-war comments from yesterday are "completely consistent" is astounding.

[freeperfromnj]

think Russert did try a little to steer the conversation into Bush bashing

Yes he definitely did. He seemed disappointed that they were defending the war in Iraq as strongly as they were. Hitchens thought Saddam needed to be taken out a long time ago and genuinely praised GWB for having the courage to do it.

[P.O.E.]

That was a great show - Russert hardly had to ask Hutchins or Sullivan any questions. As much as it pained them, they both had to admit that intellectual honesty would require them to vote for Bush rather than Kerry.