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.
"ps: you are cordially welcome to come to whidbey & hear the new growlers....they are awesome!"
Thank you! I may just do that early next year (after the rush and chores of getting ready for Christmas)
"Thanks I get it, does that include plastic palm trees?"
But of course dear,those plus flower arrangements add to the ambiance of the room. I went out and inventoried my curio for your education and enlightenment and have added the following to "what goes in a curio cabinet":
little favors from family weddings and showers
figurine from the top of wedding cake
ceramic something the first grandchild made
PLEASE don't ask what goes in the closed lower section of the cabinet....that would take a separate thread to catalogue.....suffice to say, when I die, the kids will have to live with the guilt of throwing away thousands od funeral cards, letters, old wall calendars full of their childhood activities.........
I know I blew it with that question. LOL!
You obviously did not read the entire thread and are merely lashing out because you came in at the very end of the thread and got your angst exposed as nonsense.
The event you mention was an attempt by a troll to come on here and pick fights with the regulars last Sunday. When I asked him to stop trolling, he became, as you are today, personally abusive. I shut him down rather then have him continue to abuse the thread regulars.
Rather them "Being shot down by the mods" as you claim, The troll was required to apologize and then left the thread. That is the reality Card. Here is his last post from last week
To: Admin Moderator; MNJohnnie I apologize if my intentions were misinterpreted based on my evil tagline. MJ, I'm sorry I lost it with you. I was merely making a point and didn't realize that I had jumped into an already contentious thread. 1,000 posted on 11/20/2005 4:03:16 PM PST by streetpreacher (If at the end of the day, 100% of both sides are not angry with me, I've failed.)
Sorry Card but that post from you is really disgraceful behavior from a thread regular who should know better. Just lashing out because you have nothing factual to counter the point made does NOT help you.
I repeat, we are in more danger now than then.
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I agree with you. I was not addressing the level of danger, but the differences between world politics in the 1970s and now. We went to Vietnam to help them avoid becoming absorbed into the Communist sphere. We went to Iraq to begin to cripple and halt the march of non-state radical Islamofascism.
If we had never gone to Vietnam, the world would most likely have changed less, than it would change now if we allowed Saddam to continue his ways.
You are right, getting it right even if your side is not always seen in the best light. Most of the time Our side is so it evens out in the end. TMFB! (tickles my funny bone)
"I am not a "guest commentator" I am the Announcer!"
okay, you are the announcer!
(there's a potato joke in there somewhere about being a common
tater!)
I'd love a show like that! We could be the libs worst nightmare:
The McLaughlin group on steroids!
Or Reliable Sources exorcist version!!
Oh...okay, I understand your point now...and I agree.
If the dems could get a clear picture from the polls what Americans wanted, they would do it...but, I think they know that the polls are not reliable enough to put out a "Murtha" every week...
Look at what happened when they did....thinking that the polls were "ripe" for a "pull out now" campaign...it bit them in the butt.
So...now they backtrack and say they didn't mean to leave NOW, but in the near future....and their rhetoric is taking on the exact "plan" that had been put out months ago by the Pentagon as far as drawing down the extra troops that were sent in for the elections...etc...
But, the dems will so how this goes for a week or two...and then, right before the Christmas recess....they will stick their fingers in the wind...and make some kind of dramatic statement or whatever, in order to get the "talking points" set for the month or so that the GOP won't be in Washington to dispute their probable bogus plan.
"Bush has the Bully Pulpit, don't let up!"
I believe the President is going to give a 'major' speech (on the war IIRC) on Tuesday. He's been doing that a bit more lately, which is great! It would be better if it were later in the day in the news hour or prime time, but what he and the VP have been doing is a start.
I'd personally like to see Senators Jeff Sessions and John Cornyn on the shows more - both very articulate (and easy on the eyes ;-)
I remember Chuckie Sue Schumer (star of LA Cage Au folles) being flown in by Meet the Depressed or This Week from a cannot miss shindig he was involved with on "Long Guyland" at the Hamptons or somehwere in that ilk. Is it any wonder he thinks that he is so important and struts like a banty rooster.
Truth is, I agree with everything you said. I also want more forceful responses.
The only reason I can think of for GOPers not being more forceful and authoritative is fear. I'm guessing, but I believe too many Republican congressmen and women, are afraid they will lose their next election IF they do not appeal to moderates. They believe they cannot take positions that might alienate their base and they are afraid of both Democrats and most major newspapers/media demonizing them for conservative positions and voting records.
When a conservative says he wants to reform education, the media claims he's trying to eliminate it and the people on the right insist he's keeping a failed institution alive when it really needs to be closed. Ether way, he can't win.
CO has offered moderate Republicans for years and lost elections. We have supported rich, well known and popular, so-called moderates and lost. Yet, our side keeps convincing itself that this is the path to victory.
Come on up!
"He also reminds me of a groundhog."
Nah, groundhogs are much cuter (and probably smarter) LOL
You are welcome.
I watched a Chrissy Matthews show last week...and he had on a dem and GOP congresscritter (sorry, my brain has frozen and I can't remember right now who they were)...
but, it was SO blatant in the amount of time that Chrissy have the dem to just talk and talk....and the GOP would say a sentence and Chrissy would interrupt and then throw it BACK to the dem...
by the end of the interview, the GOP guy was just shaking his head...because it was just not even close to a "fair" debate...
Just once, I would love to see a GOP guest just get abrupt and tell the host that he won't participate unless he gets his chance to speak...and throw in into Chrissy lap..see what happens.
Zell Miller did that and created a firestorm for the week. It was funny as heck. If I remember right, Zell challenged Matthews to a fistfight as well.
Plus our host could bee eeevil conservative. That way our show would start out" Today on Meet the Freepers Joe Biden gets gang wegeed by Reagan Man, Doughtyone and cardinal4, and now here is your host......eeeeeeevvvvvvvvviiiiiilllll conservative. ==============================================
Jim .. are we getting closer to FR-TV?? ;)
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