The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)
CNBC's Tim Russert Show (Tim Russert)
Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)
Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page
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The forces of the Old Empire are desperately trying to cover for their god, Bill Clinton, and are trying to make sure that no one remembers that he made lil Kim's nuclear missile's possible via mad Maddy Albright and Jimmy Carter giving us yet another "peace in our time" agreement. Will they never learn? Well, no. It's obvious Jimmah is totally lost in fantasy land, but Maddy and her myrmidons still seem to have this depressed and increasingly desperate grasp of reality and boy, does it appear that it scares the hell out of them!
The most interesting guest for me this week will be Nicholas Burns. He's a new face and voice for the administration on foreign policy, at least as far as these shows go, and he's doing the grand rounds. It looks like he could be being prepped to become a major public player for the Bush administration. Is this more of Tony Snow's influence over communications policy? Richardson, Ashton Carter, Gallucci, and particularly Wendy Sherman of the "blame Bush not Clinton" crowd are really getting embarrassing. Brzezinski and Haig are has been wanna be's who really "never were" in international relations. They either demonstrably screwed things up or just had no meaningful effect whatsoever, except from our enemies perspectives. Truly sad. I bet Bergen and Beinart are going to emerge as the new "wunderkinds" of the left with "all the answers" for what's wrong with Bush's policies. McCain, Graham, Boxer, Dodd and Lugar are the "also ran" or "never were" candidates that the media keep pushing like the proverbial dead horses they are. And I'm willing to bet that they don't let Hoekstra get too vocal about the WMD found in Iraq, even on Fox. Even if he does it will be ignored.
The dominant meme appears to be that, no matter what anyone says it's not Clinton's fault. They appear to be pulling out all the stops to make that case. Now THAT is truly interesting. This may mark the turning point from offense to defense for the drive by media. Up till now I've been predicting a Republican pick up of 8 plus seats in the House and 3 plus seats in the Senate, mostly out of pure cussidness over the hysteric predictions of a Democrat sweep. I'm now beginning to ponder a Republican landslide. Dare we consider a Republican super majority in both the House and Senate?
Oooooooo. Tingly!
The Sunday Shows - preview
By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics
For Sunday, July 9, 2006Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert will start at 8a in some regions (read: mine) because of Wimbledon. Russert talks first to Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns about the problem with the fellow with the hairdo we all seek to emulate: North Korea's Dear Leader and despot, Kim Jong Il. And because he never trusts a Bushie, he'll talk about North Korea with the MSM's expert on all and sundry, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson ('08).
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace will ask how the United States should respond. He'll ask Burns, Pete Hoekstra (R-Michigan), former Clinton DCI James Woolsey, and Ambassador Wendy Sherman, a Bill Clinton/Madeline Albright type.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer will talk North Korea with John McCain ('08) and Chris Dodd ('08), two folks who'd very much like to be POTUS.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to North Korea with Dick Lugar. Then Steph reports from Virginia on Allen ('08) vs. Webb.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer speaks to Burns, Lindsey Graham and Babs Boxer, Iraqi ambassador to the United States Samir Sumaidaie, and the man I support for the '08 GOP nomination, Al Haig.
-----It seems the Administration has given up on Steph, or maybe Nick Burns is too busy and the WH realizes that the only people who watch Steph would likely call him a Lieberman-worshipping neocon. I'm interested in what Chairman Hoekstra has to offer.
A quick count shows, including the hosts, ten Bushies and seven Lieberman-worshipping neocons.
Comments >> Jul 8th, 2006: 11:33:34