Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 4 September 2005

Various big media television networks ^ | 4 September 2005 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, September 4th, 2005

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Chertoff; Scientific American editor Mark Fischetti; former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial; author Mike Tidwell.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): pre-empted by U.S. Open (Tennis).

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.; Chertoff; author and journalist Rick Bragg.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Chertoff; Sen. Trett Lott, R-Miss.; Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Julie Gerberding; Reps. William Jefferson, D-La., Richard Baker, R-La., Charles Melancon, D-La., and Bobby Jindal, R-La.; former Sen. John Breaux, D-La.; American Red Cross President Marty Evans; former Surgeon General David Satcher; the Rev. Al Sharpton.

[MNJohnnie]

Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday. The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.

Can you belive the UTTER stupidty of this? The place is a disaster, the Locals are screaming at the Feds for "not doing enough" but the STATE refuse to get out of the way because they might be at fault why it's "too little too late!!!!

[mystery-ak]

Good Lord, wait til all the rats take to the Senate and House Floor...it's going to be sickening!

[snugs]

The problem in NO is that many of the poorest people who are black have never had to think for themselves (apart from the criminal element) they have have had State hand outs from cradle to grave including their housing and more likely their parents before them.

When the framework that told them what to do and when and provided the means to do it was no longer there they just crumbled it took many of them days to realise that they had to actually help themselves something they had never done before.

I am not being socially or racially prejudice here but simply making observations which would be true for most deprived areas in most developed countries in the world.

[kristinn]

Projection is a trick of the left. No doubt you are correct.

[Right_in_Virginia]

I'd love to see Fox become a "No-Shep Zone".

Add Geraldo to this list, and we've got a plan I can live with.

[COBOL2Java]

Wallace to Chertoff: "Do you feel that you've turned the corner now?"

Chertoff: "We are very much in the middle of the crisis."

[anita]

Well, well. Shep Smith reporting on FNS. Looks like he's out of mascara...

You mean RoboShep?

[Darnright]

I used to halfway respect Tim Russert. Not any more. What an absolute press whore.

[OldFriend]

Wilson proved himself to be an opportunist by exploiting his relationship with Rehnquist's daughter.

Very unseemly, IMO

[COBOL2Java]

Chertoff seems to be holding his own against Chris Wallace on FNS.

[rodguy911]

Actually the point that Russert is showing his bias is a good thing. Now everyone knows without much doubt which journalists are totally biased and which ones only a little.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Wallace is pulling a "Russert" with Chertoff....showing clips of his previous "positive" statements.

[repinwi]

Can you say TOTAL meltdown on TV? The guy just lost it!

[Right_in_Virginia]

Who lost it?

[TomGuy]

MTP

Tim is now worried that the MS Governor will allow casinos to be rebuilt in their same locations.


lol

[OldFriend]

LOL...did Chertoff say that if he had the power he'd be firing Landrieu, Blanco, and Nagin (I'm not a drug addict)

[A Citizen Reporter]

And then they go to a totally rational Haley Barbor.

[hocndoc]

No problem - both are obscene. The first is at least very, very brief. The second may never end.

[nairBResal]

What did you expect from the "Son of Mike Wallace"?

[Coldwater Creek]

If you are on the ball you can out walk a hurricane. All intercities should be educating their people about distaster problems.