Posted on 12/04/2005 5:01:12 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
p>The Talk Shows
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Stephen Hadley, President Bush's national security adviser; Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.; Douglas Owsley, division head for physical anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Thomas Kean, chairman, and Lee Hamilton, vice chairman, of the Sept. 11 investigative commission.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; Hadley; New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.
LATE EDITION (CNN) : Hadley; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
It's just further proof the media has an agenda, which is NOT reporting news.
I hope everyone saw the Fox special on all the good things happening in Iraq last night. I am sure it will run again, if anyone did not see it. Greg Palkot did a great job.
I hope someone goes into what Ramsey Clark is doing over in Baghdad. And why Clark is so keen to get Saddamn removed from Coalition security.
Naw, Juan gets that one all to himself. Besides, Julian is not in the same catagory as Juan. Jullian is too ignorant and still learning. Just give him time.....
Ah, the usual media whores....Biden, McCain, Kerry et al. I'm going to mow the lawn. And, the grass has stopped growing.
Oh yeah... Sorry. Good morning!
LOL. You are on your game this morning. That went right past me.
WALTER JAJKO, a retired Air Force brigadier general - on the so-called propaganda
CRITICS OF THE Iraq war are outraged over the revelation that the U.S. military has been paying millions of dollars to plant pro-American, Pentagon-written propaganda articles in Iraqi newspapers and to buy off Iraqi journalists with monthly stipends.
But in my opinion, it's about time. Information is a critical part of any war, and the U.S. has for too long — to its own detriment — ignored this powerful and essential tool, a tool especially well-suited to the globalized Information Age.
Even third-rate countries routinely use information and disinformation as an instrument of foreign policy, often against the United States. The U.S., in turn, cannot win the war of ideas by speaking softly or keeping its mouth shut.
We need to be using all the means available in the war of ideas: public diplomacy, psychological operations, influence agents, disinformation and computer information warfare — from open and overt to clandestine and covert, from public explanation of policy to secret subversion of enemies. All of these must be well-orchestrated.
Some influence operations are cheap, such as distribution of opinion pieces to newspapers; some are expensive, such as setting up a satellite television station; some are technically sophisticated, such as spreading disinformation into government computer networks; many are simple, such as immediate, vigorous, undiplomatic rebuttals by U.S. ambassadors to false accusations. But all require commitment by the national leadership.
America's failure to use the indispensable instrument of information to protect its own national interests is inexcusable, especially as it wages a protracted war to the death against Islamic terrorists to preserve democratic governance, a free society and Western civilization.
LOL!!! I had never looked at it from that point of view, but that may be true. Although there have been times when Julian has made a few true statements. I don't know that I have heard that from Juan.
The Mapes/Bozell interview just might be very good. I am surprised she agreed to this.
We just posted the 10th Quarter in a ROW of better then 3% GDP. Best sustained growth since the 1980s. Think anyone on Has Been Sunday will be talking about this? President Bush gives a stellar speech and the National Security Council releases a highly detailed, worthwhile "National Plan for Victory in Iraq" that completely nukes the Dems talking point. Will Hadely even get to bring the plan up or is he just going to have to field wacko accusation after accusation from the Surrender Now Democrats?
I am short handed at work today so I will be back in about 8 hours, probably will not get the Top 10 List out until tomorrow. Sorry but I got 2 on vacation and 1 out sick on the worst work load day of the week. That is if anyone is still awake in 8 hours with this load of crap for a guest list.
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Wonderful to see you too.
Merry Christmas!!
I will be surprised if we crack 400 today with this waste of DNA line up. You lucked out.
Oh dear. Well, the President and First Lady are there so there is some good company :) Will we see you with the FReepers at Walter Reed? Good bunch, that.
Did Face the Nation also book a translator to tell us what John Kerry is actually saying?
"Besides it's hard to get it right when your i.q. approaches your age."
LOL! I resemble that remark! LOL!
And you are right...the leftwing weekend programming on FNC does make me appreciate the weekday staff.
Use a fingernail clipper, that will be more int resting then this crap lineup of "guests".
The only loyalty I see out of McCain is to himself, first and foremost. McCain appears to have a take no prisoners attitude about things.
I am not sure he could make it through a month without having his face on a television somewhere around this globe.
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