Very late and abbreviated posting this week. I've had troubles (really mostly discomfort and annoyance) with the stitches for my corneal transplant this week, so my reading and writing time is restricted to short bursts. I'm sure that this just breaks your collective hearts!
Maybe this is a good thing?
Anyway, here's my 3 cents (my 2 cents is worth more than most people's so I'm adjusting for the inflation of my ego).
Ironically this weeks shows are much more interesting and serious than they have been since the elections. We've all complained about the repetitious booking of non-entity guests, but I think that's largely not a problem this week. We get dueling saints (McCcain and Obama) on CBS FTN, but I actually want to hear them go toe to toe on the topics we're wrestling with. I'm glad that CNN has finally acknowledged that Mitch McConnell exists and it will be nice if they recognize that he is the actual senior Republican in the Senate (I doubt it). Levin is a moron but Wolfie will probably treat him with kid gloves. I assume it's too much to ask for them to put him on at the same time as Mitch? Nah. They don't have the guts.
Hadley carries the administrations message this weekend on both ABC and NBC. We'll see if he can get past the leaked memo critical of Maliki, which seems to be the only thing that the DBM seems to be interested in. Murtha is the Dhimmicrat of choice on Steponallofus' show on ABC. Do you think he'll ask any inconvenient questions about ABSCAM or the PAID "charity" scandals? I'm taking bets and have no doubt I'll clean up.
Fox has Cheney, but the promo material is totally one sided and disgustingly partisan. I'm betting daddy Wallace has taken Lil' Chrissy to the wood shed and instructed him to toe the party line more closely. Or do you suppose uncle Ben (Bradley) did the scolding? At least Brit is back on the panel and can smack down Juan. Interesting that the DBM is launching a sex scandal whisper campaign against him just now. I guess he was getting to upppity for a non-leftist.
MTP has an interesting set up with (presidential candidate) Dodd and RINO Hagel versus Republican Kyl and that Jew independent Lieberman. I'm relatively pleased with Kyl but really like Lieberman best of these four on the WOT. Who'd a thunk it?
All in all an interesting week, certainly lots more potential than last weeks line up (ugh!). And we must all praise the bookers for leaving Biden and Graham out of the mix this week. Thank you, gentlemen!
Oh, and most of the Saturday shows have already happened as I post this (I didn't watch them, I was working on this) but I'm betting I didn't miss much (JER is still to come, so I'm looking forward to that).
This will (probably) be cross posted to my blog at Wizards.townhall.com (sometime Sunday). This post exists primarily as a heads up for who is on the weekend talks shows, what they've been invited on to push (based on their recent pronouncements) and the spin (meme) the DBM is likely trying to push based on that information. All of this is prep work for the weekly Sunday Morning Talk Show thread posted by Alas Babylon!. That thread provides a live commentary and analysis of the Sunday talking head shows, with rare insight and exceptional fact checking. we are the Jedi Council of FreeRepublic, at least in regards to these DBM gabfests. You wanna know what was said and what it meant, as well as where they messed up? Read that thread!
Mark Kilmer has posted his excellent Sunday preview over at RedState.COM.
We feel your pain.
Actually, we don't but ...
I really hope it heals up okay!
Sex scandal against who??? Or is that whom?
Oh, who cares, just dish the dirt.
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