Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 7 May 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 7 May 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich.; Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Washington Nationals co-owner Mark Lerner.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.; Bush impersonator Steve Bridges.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.; Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas; Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; outgoing White House press secretary Scott McClellan.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt; Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.; Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie; former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin.

[AliVeritas]

From henceforth... Teddy will be known as Ghetto Dad... or Baby Daddy. So it shall be typed... so it shall be done.
s/

[OldFriend]

I just saw kristol talking about Goss. I wanted to reach thru the screen and smack kristol's smarmy face.

[Dave S]

I think that is the most ignorant post I have seen today. Medicare is a bigger disaster than Social Security and its impact will be felt much sooner. Do some research - look at how Medicare is funded - look at the costs, both direct and indirect.

Apparently you cant read. The poster was talking about the fact that the Medicare Drug program was becoming a "political" success for the Republicans and Bush among senior citizens, not the disaster that was repored early on. So you dont like the expenditure, well it sure beats wasting money on bridges to nowhere and hindsight being 20-20, the occupation of Iraq for that matter.

[kabar]

I dont know. He gave the previous occupant of the CIA leadership, Tenant, the highest medal awarded to civilians in this country and that was after 911 and the faulty intelligence on WMD.

Tenet named the CIA Headquarters after Bush 41.

[defconw]

My guess is Kristol and Goss were friends and this drys up a source for Bill. If you smack him, I recommend wearing a glove.

[sanjacjake]

Good assessment of the ....wacky one...Jake

[AliVeritas]

[OldFriend]

And it would seem to me that the No Child Left Behind initiative is making a difference in the lives of poor children all across the United States.

Maybe people who can easily afford private schooling for their own children see it as a waste of money. I see it as our blood oath obligation.

[Bahbah]

My favorite panel of the day was Steffie's, with Will, Radditz and VandenHuevel, not for anything intelligent that was said, nothing was, but for the looks on all of their faces everytime VandenHuevel started to talk. They looked alternately amused and terrified about what in the he** she was going to say next.

[OldFriend]

If you bothered to understand the public opinion polls, ALL of them. You would know that they democrats are oversampled.

The polls are designed to give the results the media desires.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

"Probably one of the few times anyone had behave in a fatherly fashion towards her."

I'll edit that to: Probably one of the few times anyone had BEEN GENUINE AND behave in a fatherly fashion towards her.

[OldFriend]

Since I take no medication I was not going to bother with signing up. My son insisted I check out Humana. Their website has a phone number prominently displayed.

When I called a real live person answered immediately.

Asked a few questions and within ten minutes at the most I was signed up. They took care of the paperwork. $4.43 comes out of my social security check. It was $250 deductible and if I needed any meds I would pay 25% of the cost.

Could not have been easier and the person at Humana could not have been nicer.

[p23185]

cannot fathom the reason Kerry wants to constantly remind people of how traitorous he was when he came back from Viet Nam. Because in HIS MIND he thinks he did our country a favor

Must be the same thought process that made him say he supports McCarthy for spilling national secrets to the NYT - she was doing the "country a favor". How utterly disgusting and treasonous.

[angkor]

I defnitely don't agree with the characterization that this is a "Republican only" issue.

Really? That's rich. "Republicans only" dominate the House and the Senate.

If they wanted an amnesty-free immigration bill, they could draft one and pass one. And since it would conform to GWB's proposal of March 2004, he'd sign it.

[OldFriend]

By encouraging poor seniors to get medical attention before they need hospitalization this RX plan will save money in the long run.

It's wiser to get blood pressure meds before you have a stroke or heart attack, wouldn't you say?

That goes for detecting diabetes and other ailments that affect seniors.

Do we simply tell them to go to hell or do enable a healthier lifestyle.

It's in our own best interest ultimately, and it's the right thing to do.

I have nothing but praise for this president.

And yes, spending on bridges to no where and subsidizing Sam Donaldson's sheep farm, come to mind.

[AliVeritas]

Seriously... the economy, enlighten me.

If troops came home tomorrow, what would the polls do?

If a fence was built tomorrow, what would that do?

They quoted on a poll on a Sunday show that 75% of troops in Iraq want to come home now... I talk to many troops. Do you take that poll at face value? Or do you ROIA the poll questions and see who they asked and how they framed it?

[AliVeritas]

Ahhh, Little Billy... the perfect masochist who aspires to sadist.

[AliVeritas]

I do reviews at schools and you are correct.

[AliVeritas]

Well, off to Mass. Bye all.

[Dave S]

If you bothered to understand the public opinion polls, ALL of them. You would know that they democrats are oversampled. The polls are designed to give the results the media desires.

Sure and if we had 10% more conservatives in the polls, Bush's numbers would be back up over 60%...heck lets say back up 80%? If we had ten percent more conservatives in the sample we wouldnt have the biggest differential on the generic house ballot since the week before the 94 election? Oh yeah, ten percent more conservatives and fighting terrorism would climb from 7% to our top priority and immigration would be right up there too.

I hope some of you dont wait until mid November to figure out that the number of Americans that lean Republican has declined since 2004. Besides the ones in the squishy middle that voted for Bush, we have the crazy Buchannites, Periostas, Constitutional Nuts, and Libertarians all screaming over one betray or another and how they are NOT going to support the Republicans this fall. When do you get worried? After the election?