Posted on 11/27/2005 5:10:25 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
Sunday, November 27th, 2005
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; Whit Ayres and Doug Schoen, political pollsters.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sens. Joe Biden, D-Del., and John Warner, R-Va.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Authors James Reston Jr., Ellen Fitzpatrick, Joseph Ellis and Stephen Carter.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Mowaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq's national security adviser; Henry Kissinger, former secretary of state; Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser; Peggy Noonan, author; Nathaniel Fick, retired Marine captain and author; Evan Wright, Rolling Stone editor and author.
I was thinking about this after the disappointing performances by Lugar and, last week, Roberts. Miss Marple has indicated that guests must be invited, so naturally they invite the weakest Republicans in the bunch (although George Allen has made several appearances and, on the whole, aquitted himself pretty well). Could not the Republicans put out a list of some of the party with some backbone and ability and say that, if you want someone from our side you must choose from this list or go without. Would that be more dangerous than what we have seen if they chose to go without? I don't think they could refuse the offer and keep up the pretense of balance.
The lie told often enough... true.
One problem I've had with the Republicans for decades, is that the right does not counter the left's propaganda. The left devises talking points and hits on them relentlessly en mass, everyone on the same page.
The right seems to develop a plan in a room with five people in it, then keep it a secret. Then one or two of them will make substantial statements thinking that was enough. Wrong!!!
The right would do well to sit down and study what the left does, with regard to propaganda. Then they should develop the same tactics using truth instead of lies, and execute a broad based counter measure.
Since Nixon's time, they have never done so. You won't find many men like Reagan, who could counter the left all by himself.
So true... their political 'enthusuasms' are stabbing the nation in the back and turning American, against American.
Until conservatives realize that talk-radio & the Internet cannot compete with the 'high-suds' brainwashing the MSM employs 24/7, 365 days a year... we will always be on the defensive.
Russert does not appear to be very smart.
He also reminds me of a groundhog.
I just finished reading your post about how you "saw" the Vietnam War from your perspective and the perspective the MSM fed us back then...
I was the same way, except I wasn't old enough to marry, but as a young teenager, I was totally ignorant about everything...why we were there...and so on.
At least the younger people of today don't have the excuse of NOT finding out what is going on...
I am waiting for Kerry to say, "We are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Iraq? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?" It worked in 1971.
BIG MISTAKE. Now, John O'Neill Speaks up ...against "Kerrying" our soldiers.
Are the politicians like Mr. Kerry who led the campaign to send our kids to war (when it was popular) now to withdraw support while they are locked in combat and apparently succeeding because the task is difficult or unpopular? Will Mainstream Media "Kerry" our troops by portraying Abu Ghraib or isolated cases of prisoner mistreatment as the rule to demoralize our troops and nation, while ignoring the beheadings and butchery of those peacefully praying in Mosques or shopping in a Bazaar?
Will the press's selective glorification of isolated figures such as Cindy Sheehan, Mr. Kerry, or Mr. Murtha drown out the actual voices of the large majority of our servicemen? I hope not. We pay our troops little and subject them to considerable danger. We can at the very least support them with stability of mission and honesty of reporting.
For the most part, the GOP has always been asleep at the wheel when it comes to offering up a convincing defense of their political and policy agenda's. I think most Republicans are afraid of getting caught by the medias endless game of gotcha. Even though this is a holiday weekend, the Bush administration should have had someone other then John Warner out there to defend their Iraq military policy. Where was VP Cheney, Dr Rice, Sec Rumsfeld? The left continues winning the propaganda war at home.
According to an editorial in today's Boston Herald, the original WP article said "no more than six" senators read the intelligence report. Jay Rockefeller says that he read it, as did Pat Roberts. Feinstein said she read it. Lieberman couldn't remember. "Sen. Hillary Clinton declined to say."
Of the non-readers, Kerry didn't read the whole thing (just the summary?), but claims he got a "personal briefing" at the Pentagon. Dingy Harry "admits that he didn't read the whole thing either."
I will watch for that this afternoon...I didn't get a chance to watch any of the shows this morning..
BUT, why did Wallace wait a week, when Biden isn't there to say this....?
I wish these guys would be challenged to their faces!
You can tell that we are winning. That is when the Dems and the MSM are at their shrillest. They are desparate to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The upcoming election on December 15 will be a success. We can expect AQ, the Dems, and the MSM to do their best to portray it as a disaster. Hopefully, Bush will not deviate from the current course.
Thank you for the thread. Enjoyed!
He actually did challenge Biden to this face, but Lying Joe was adamant, so Wallace just stepped back, did his research, and came back with the knockout punch. I'm okay with that.
Who planned it -- Karl Rove? ;-)
Seriously, do you recall the details?
Which six senators actually took the time to read it? I guess only Tim knows and we never will!
Congress gave GWB approval for action in Iraq. That's their most solemn responsibility and now we learn that only six senators bothered to take the time to read the 92 page pre-war intelligence report before voting!
Congress finds time to preen before the cameras, to raise money, to threaten filibusters and gossip about each other....but this pre-war intelligence was deadly serious business! What could they possibly be doing back then that was more important than studying this report?
"Six who at least bothered to read the pre-war intelligence report".....should be a phrase hyped, trumpeted and repeated with the same attention that was given to the famous 16 words!
I know this is going to come a as big shock to the Stone Cold "Conservatives", but the WH has no control over US Senators nor do they have any control over who the Sunday Morning Talk Shows invite to be guests. The Senate is a co-equal branch of Govt who's Senators are insansely jealous of their "independence" and the Dinasour Media is, in case you missed it, coverned by a little thing called "The 1st Amendment". Sorry but when Warner decides to shove his face in front of the camera and play "me too" Rockefeller Republican games it has NOTHING to do with the White House.
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