Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 13 July 2008

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[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, July 13th, 2008

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Tribute to Tony Snow with guests including Vice President Dick Cheney and commentator Rush Limbaugh.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Carly Fiorina, adviser to John McCain; Sen. Claire Mccaskill, D-Mo.; Republican strategist Mike Murphy; Harold Ford Jr., chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Israeli Ambassador Sallai Meridor; Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Richard Lugar, R-Ind.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; Govs. Mark Sanford, R-S.C., and Janet Napolitano, D-Ariz.; Nancy Pfotenhauer, adviser to McCain; Jason Furman, adviser to Barack Obama; Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie.

[snugs]

And a very fitting tribute it was to - I have just watched it and recorded it.

[rodguy911]

Busted!! Sorry about that Shalom! Make that trans- Pacific! Leave it to Freepers, that is why we are respected, no one gets away with anything, as it should be!!

[rodguy911]

Sometimes I think it's not a bad idea to also mention the stuff that the DBM "leaves out" as well.

It strays from the "hard" mission of the thread but as you say no one gave any better analysis of what was going on than Phsstpok.

Sure would be nice to hear from him again.

[snugs]

Congratulations - post of day courtesy of rodguy911

[rodguy911]

Great idea snugs, I miss doing all that stuff as well, it was lots of fun.

[Alas Babylon!]

So...?

Why does it have to end? Who will take the ball and run with it?

[snugs]

I used to enjoy it greatly and I think it created interest and that in turn created some great posts.

Unfortunately with you getting so busy and phsstpok illness it all seemed to fall by the wayside it would be great if we could re-start it.

[PerConPat]

Thanks for your consideration.

[rodguy911]

My business is a killer these days, I work 60-70 hrs. per week,barely any time for here and with P gone....
Anyone want to volunteer?
I spent as much as one to two days per week to do the thread right, it's smaller now but still takes hours and hours.

[rodguy911]

The gas spike has all but destroyed my business, I have had to lay off or severely cut much of my payroll and guess who gets to take up the slack.

[Alas Babylon!]

OK. Understand.

[daylilly]

Leadership through consensus is actually no leadership at all. It would be a repeat of the disastrous Carter administration.

[CedarDave]

Mark Levin will occasionally chime in on his daily thread, but not a often as Tony did, IIRC.

[CedarDave]

heheheheheh....... Chris Wallace thanks Rush for being on the show, and Rush says (paraphrase) I’m glad to be on your show FINALLY! LOLOL.........

I don't think its not because he hasn't been invited. I believe he refuses due to the hateful attitude towards him evidenced by the MSM hosts. Please correct me if I have it wrong.

[shalom aleichem]

AB - The Sunday morning talk show thread may not end, but just change within the parameters of those still contributing’s abilities to do so. I miss a lot of things on FR I don’t see anymore, like John Quaing’s 2 % (or cent?) solution, and Mia-T’s universal view of things. The biggest problem I see here is reluctance of FR footsoldiers to actually watch these terribly biased Sunday morning shows. It is easier to just read the summaries on here and make random comments on the distilled summaries (it is more fun to drink the moonshine than make it from scratch). Handing out awards was great, but running the thread takes works.

You putting this up every week is a real chore. You’re doing the Lord’s work. Thanks.

[rodguy911]

I used to split the thread up 100 posts at a time. It took me 1-2 hrs to analyze every 100 posts. Back then we were running 600-1,000 posts with as many as 20,000 page views.

It was impossible most weeks to bring it down to a top ten so I wound up with basically a top "20" with maybe 5 or 6 at number 10 and double up on some of the rest.

The top three alone were lots of work.

I loved doing it but after 14,16 or even 18 hours I found my self mentally and physically exhausted. It was really something worth while doing and as AB has said it really did bring the level of post up as we would see lots of knowledgeable Freepers coming in before the end of the thread with major league words of wisdom.

It was always possible to merely do a quick top ten without all the analysis but I never really considered doing that with this group,just too many heavy hitters here.

I do miss doing it but currently unless someone else wants to pick up the slack,I'm stuck with too much other work.

[Bahbah]

I loved doing it but after 14,16 or even 18 hours I found my self mentally and physically exhausted

That was my problem as well. If you are going to do it, you want to do it right. There are so many good comments that it really is almost impossible.

[They'reGone2000]

I’m sure if she says something stupid he’ll throw her under the bus too.

She's already practicing her under the bus routine.