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.

[Howlin]

She's completely detached from reality, isn't she?

[Coldwater Creek]

So! that young man Jabbar did not steal the bus, but had every right to put people on it and get them to safety. Someone should put him on national tv and some should give me a job, send him to school or make him homeland security for NO.

[Mo1]

The newsroom got a call from the LA State Police after JP's press conference stating that only they (the LSP) had the authority to manage an evacuation. Governor Blanco released a similar statement to us also.

Thanks for the link

[onyx]

I think I was a lot less angry when I was stuck with only NPR.

[CedarDave]

Advice to the President. First thing Tuesday morning send up the name of a great conservative candidate, which you have had ready to go for some time.

Agreed.

[Shqipo]

Blitzer has now fully become a programmed mannequin of the extreme left. His relentless accusatory questions to Chertoff was like watching a child yelping over why his Christmas gifts weren't up to his spoiled standards.
Chertoff handled it well, though I'd applaud if he had told Wolf to stuff it.

[Coldwater Creek]

I Nagin had just have done what he was supposed to, he would be a hero today, instead of a fool. If someone would attach his jaw to a generator, there would be enough power to run every building in NO.

[Howlin]

I skimmed through the names and the top and knew immediately where this was going.

CNN is going flat out after Bush and anybody in this administration.

I've been listening for almost an hour and haven't heard one thing detrimental said about anybody in LA.

It's almost like they don't how how FEMA works. Or they are deliberately ignorning it to bash Bush.

Unfortunately for them, the people I'm talking to out in the real world -- you know, people who live in NC and have actually BEEN through a hurricane -- are laughing at the press. They all know WE take care of ourselves and don't wait around for FEMA or the president to fix out state.

All that does is prove to people where the real problems lie.

[Mo1]

He's being VERY confrontational with Michael Chertoff.

Chertoff and others are trying very very hard not to point fingers

IMO .. the dems are scared to death of the Congressional Investigations that are gonna come from all this mess

They do not want anyone digging into NO and LA's books

[Seattle Conservative]

"One of my neighbors was the it/communications director for a similar sized city. Believe me this is the highest priority. Since when do high level police authorities not have updated commo facilities and have to communicate with higher level of government via Geraldo Rivera? This alone tells me that the incompetence of NO leaders is immeasurable."

I heard or read that NO didn't spend money on satellite phones. I thought after 9/11 that communications was a high priority, as you said. Didn't all states get $s for HS?? Curious as to what LA spent theirs on. The NOPD only had 3 boats, too and only 1 of them was operational.

[Coldwater Creek]

My problem with Shep/Trent is that they both are Ole Miss grads. Snobs

[Amelia]

That's the first I've heard of the grain barges.

[freeperfromnj]

Fox interviewed an elderly gentleman at one of the shelters yesterday. He said he lived very close to the levee and the grain barges crash through.

[Amelia]

I heard part of Trent Lott, but I don't recall a whole lot that was very controversial. Wolf asked him about his home that was destroyed, and Lott said it wasn't about HIM, that there were many people who had lost homes, but....

What was extraordinary about his house was that it was 150 years old, and so had withstood many previous natural disasters, AND it was 15 feet above the ground, AND it was (a certain distance I can't remember) inland, so what the destruction of his house pointed out was the incredible magnitude & strength of the storm.

[Coldwater Creek]

I missed to said that?????

[snugs]

Jeb Bush is a Republican and of course part of the Bush family different rules apply.

OReiley attacks him over child protection in Florida hopefully he will attack Blanco over lack of emergency plan in La.

[freeperfromnj]

oops: he lived close the levee and SAW the grain barges crash through. He was very emotional as he told the story and seemed very credible.

[Cboldt]

I have heard several comments from Citizens living near where the 200 ft section of the levee was destroyed. They clearly stated that they saw a grain barge smash through to the other side.

Just to add a relevant detail - it isn't "THE" levee. More than one was breached.

The levee that has a barge sitting outside of it is the Inner Harbor Navigational Canal. There was also a breach of the 17th Street levee.

[Coldwater Creek]

Alabama is getting no attention at all.

[Coldwater Creek]

What did Michael say?????