Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 31 December 2006

Various big media television networks ^ | 31 December 2006 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.; former Gov. Tom Vilsack, D-Iowa, presidential candidate.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw; journalist Bob Woodward.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Alexander Haig, former Ford White House chief of staff; journalists Ben Bradlee of the Washington Post and Tom DeFrank of the New York Daily News; Gerald Ford biographer James Cannon.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., presidential candidate; wife, Elizabeth Edwards.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Feisal al-Istrabadi, Iraq's deputy ambassador to the United Nations; Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn.

[samantha]

#33, I am glad I missed that by getting up late, I would have not been able to eat my Breakfast. There is something really disgusting about the Camera showing Timmah in an act that should be very private, and equally disgusting is he does not see what we see, or does not care how he looks and sounds in those waaay over exited moments. I wonder if he had a cigarette after the Show to top it off? YUKKKKKKKK!

[Mo1]

You have got to see this interview .. LOL

[Bahbah]

I wonder if he had a cigarette after the Show to top it off?

LOL. It would not surprise me in the least.

[Phsstpok]

Wow. Vilsack really *is* a RINO, ain't he? 

Actually, if he comes across as a RINO, that's a good thing...

• Governor Tom Vilsack, Democrat - Iowa

• Governor's web site | Bio
• Presidential Hopeful Tom Vilsack Ponders Letter Offering Help in Tracking Birth Mother (FOX News - Dec 22, 2006)
• Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack: Digital audio of his exit interview with the Quad-City Times Editorial Board (Quad City Times, IA - Dec 23, 2006) Note: links to MP3 files
• EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: I’m Tom Vilsack! Who the Hell are You? (Rolling Stone - Dec 21, 2006)
• Enough 'frontrunner' talk - meet Tom Vilsack (Concord Monitor, NH - Dec 16, 2006)
• Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack deserves a closer look (Kansas City Star, MO - Dec 18, 2006)
• Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack is seeking the Democratic nod in his own way (U.S. News & World Report, DC - Dec 17, 2006)
• Why Tom Vilsack is Starting So Early (TIME - Nov 30, 2006)

[Mo1]

If he hasn't decided what his answer is to that issue, what does that say about him?

That he was trying to play both sides of the fence and that Stephie just pushed him off of it *L*

[Chuck54]

I think it's not the lack of complaining about the hanging so much as the "wishing they would have waited until 'all the trials' were over. Also the lack of appeals.

I think the Democrats by and large saw what our justice system was at one time and hope it never reverts back to.

The appeals process is sometimes not about insuring justice but "billable hours".

I have a nephew who is a trial lawyer. I know.

[Bahbah]

The appeals process is sometimes not about insuring justice but "billable hours". I have a nephew who is a trial lawyer. I know.

I can confirm that. The luckiest among us will never have any dealings with the so-called justice system.

[samantha]

#40, you are right, Schumer knows that Pubbies like Lugar are not tough Guys, and they never will be as long as they keep getting elected with their Casper Milquetoast persona. They need a dose of angry faxes,letter,emails,and Phone calls to their offices to tell them that with their attitude we are very afraid for our Country, and AlQaeda,Pootie poot,and all the Isalmofascists are watching their chicken $hit behavior.

[kabar]

I am watching Krauthammer on Fox News Sunday. He is complaining that the trial was botched, Krauthammer felt "queasy" about the hanging and so forth.

I wonder how Krauthammer feels about the Nuremberg trials. Or the swift justice meted out to Ceauºescu and his wife. Or Mussolini. I think Krauthammer confuses justice with process. Everyone knew that Saddam was guilty of mass murder. We have the graves of 300,000 to prove it.

The US and the West forced the Iraqis to through the Kabuki dance of a trial, which resulted in giving Saddam and his supporters a platform for years. A number of lawyers and judges connected to the case were assassinated. Iraq would have been far better if Saddam had been summarily dispatched a few days after he was captured.

[rodguy911]

Interesting take! Just watched a few moments of the five person panel on MTP.(those of us in radio squirm a little with more than one guest,five is three more that are manageable,and gives "no one person any time at all to develop any kind of relevant thought" maybe that's why the panels on many shows are so pathetic)

Any way I was just wondering if E.J. Dionne is gay or is it just his Barney rubble demeanor or the pink shirt he is wearing!

Meanwhile Kate O' Bierne answers fat Tim's nebulous question of which pubbie will be in the lead by the end of 07 by saying "McCain".

Then she says she "doesn't think he will be the nominee."

A bit PC there Katie, she know how much we hate McCain but does not quite have the moxie to come out and tell it like it is.

[Bahbah]

Krauthammer confuses justice with process

Precisely. He also thinks that trials should have a purpose other than determining guilt. In that I think he is very wrong.

[Chuck54]

Late Edition with Blitz coming on here.

I'll watch a bit and see how "unelectable" P. Bush will be in '08.

[ColdSpringGirl]

bump

[Chuck54]

Specter (ugh) and Lieberman on Late Edition discussing Saddam's demise.

[Bahbah]

I see Edwards has had that thing removed from his lip. Lizzie is stumbling all over the place today.

[Chuck54]

Wolfie ask Lieberman if this trial meets the standards you would have liked.

Lieberman answers, "YES, it does". Thank you Senator.

Same question to Specter and he answers, "I think it does".

[Bahbah]

Yikes, Edwards wants us to run all over the world taking care of all the humanitarian problems.

[Carolinamom]

I was surprised...no, astounded...to hear Bill Sammon praise John Edwards the other night on the FNC panel.

[texicali]

thx snugs...can't wait to partake!

[kabar]

Precisely. He also thinks that trials should have a purpose other than determining guilt. In that I think he is very wrong.

Yeah, I bet he believes that the trial should have been used to educate the Iraqi people about Saddam's crimes and to serve as a catharsis for the victims. Just psyco-babble from the dear Dr. The Iraqis lived under Saddam's oppression for 25 years. They knew him better than us and were quite capable of giving him the justice he deserved. We should not have influenced the process.