Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 9 November 2008

Various driveby media television networks ^ | 9 November 2008 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Obama transition chief transition chief John Podesta; Reps. Mike Pence, R-Ind., and Eric Cantor, R-Va.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Valerie Jarrett, adviser in Obama's transition team; Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla.; Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.; Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., chief of staff to President-elect Obama.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., chief of staff to President-elect Obama.

LATE EDITION (CNN) : Obama transition chief transition chief John Podesta; Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif.; Tony Blair, Middle East envoy.

[malia]

Bamby? sorry, I need help

[Bahbah]

OMG, I’m listening to Schwarzenegger. Can we drive him out of the party. He says that the way to drive on the road is to drive in the center because the left and the right are the gutter.

Try driving on the center line when you next take the car out and see how that goes.

[BusterBear]

At the end he says “It’s nice to know he’s welcome back in the bedroom.”

Am I the only one who finds such a comment on an alleged “news” program disgusting?

No, you're not the only one. It's vulgar.

[romanesq]

“What should we do with the 12 to 20 million illegals already here or more importantly, what will Obama do with them? “

Do you really need an answer? Why give them drivers licenses, citizenship, social security, health care and all other benefits of being good citizens.

Is there any doubt?

[BusterBear]

What should we do with the 12 to 20 million illegals already here or more importantly, what will Obama do with them?

Good fodder for the Obama korps.

[kabar]

I anticipate that this is going to be the battle fought within the GOP on the future of the party. The non-conservative, country club Reps will want us to embrace an “adapt or die” strategy that will essentially erase any substantive differences between the two parties. However, you never hear that from the Dems even when the Reps were in charge. How many overt pro-life Dems are on the national scene? Bob Casey is the only one I know and he only did that to get elected.

[AliVeritas]

Oh yes, there will be vetting...

Snip:

Here’s just a bit of what 10-year-old Malia and 7-year-old Sasha Obama can expect from life in the White House:

All their little friends will be vetted by the Secret Service, as will their friends’ families.

An agent will be in their classroom, most likely at a Washington private school, at all times, and all their teachers, coaches, classmates and their families will also be vetted.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/11092008/news/politics/kid_stuff_gets_complicated_137859.htm

Need I say it? (shakes head)

[kabar]

Not in my mind.

[FreeReign]

Barack Obama is now our president-elect and I respect this. I believe, despite the allegations of fraud, that he won fair and square. He not only won; the man creamed his opponent, let’s face the truth. I will stand aside graciously and let him lead. Hey, maybe he’ll do a good job. I will also criticize loudly and hope, sarcasm here, that I don’t end up in jail. However, the pubbies have a lot of ‘splaining to do, beginning with our own candidate who we all supported, many of us against our better judgement. Let’s begin with this hatchet job on Sarah Palin eminating from the McCain campaign. Where the hell is John McCain out and about and defending her?

McCain left for his secluded compound in Sedona for a few days of rest, on Wednesday morning. After what he's been through over the last two years, it's really not too hard to imagine that he not be taking any phone calls; he probably isn't turning on the TV and he might not know what's going on with the Sarah sliming.

Look, McCain was my next to last choice and there is certainly a lot that I don't like about him, but truth does matter. I can't for the life of me understand how you can be so indulgent toward Obama becoming our next president and yet you are so quick to judge McCain, assuming the worst about him, on this sliming-Sarah matter.

[Morgan in Denver]

I didn’t realize Arnold was a girly-man.

Sorry to be flippant. I really don’t have an answer to such drivel. If he does not understand the difference, I doubt anyone would be able to explain it to him.

[kabar]

And for a permanent Dem majority.

[ThreePuttinDude]

I thought by mentioning Austin, TX. that would have been
a dead give away.... ie. Lib caller

[Bahbah]

Arnold thinks he’s doing a great job in California.

[Cedric]

Thanks, ThreePuttin.

[kabar]

Agree, there should be no honeymoon with a hardcore Marxist who used ACORN and foreign money to steamroll an election. He and his campaign should be in jail for the credit card fraud they used to get illegal contributions totalling hundreds of millions of dollars.

[BusterBear]

[Schwarzeneger] says that the way to drive on the road is to drive in the center because the left and the right are the gutter.

Well, he goes along with the fashion, and it's the fashion in certain Republican circles to refer to the conservatives as "the gutter." I've been hearing this quite a bit (David Brooks "Sarah Palin is a cancer on the Republican party," Mel Martinez, Peter King, Peggy Noonan, George Will...) So now the fashion is "bipartisanship," "non-divisiveness" and so on.

His term as governor is almost up. Wonder how much Republican support he'll get if he decides to run for something else?

[Bahbah]

CNN panel: Cheering section for the O.

[Snoopers-868th]

You all hear about this:

“Fox News boss Roger Ailes doesn’t want to spoil Barack Obama’s political honeymoon, we hear. A source says Ailes has told prime-time hosts Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren to lay off the President-elect - at least for a while. “We’re not going to have any personal attacks on Obama,” a network insider says. “The public has spoken - we must treat him with respect.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/other/2008/11/07/2008-11-07_side_dish_the_boss_keeps_em_laughing.html

[Fishtalk]

I truly believe the leaking of this garbage to Carl Cameron of Fox was entirely intentional.

Somebody wanted this information to get out to Conservatives, and/or the Republican base. Which better venue than Fox News?

I still believe McCain was behind this for no other reason because why the hell hasn’t he been heard from defending the woman? Come on here! There’s no justification whatsoever for the man not to give a short statement, something innocuous and to the effect...”I sincerely regret that formerly loyal members of my campaign staff chose to disparage my running mate, Governor Palin, so quickly after the close of an exhaustive campaign. A campaign in which she performed superbly and often under great duress.”

Why haven’t we heard from McCain? Damn the time that radio guy used Obama’s middle name McCain was out and about THAT NIGHT chastising this terrible, terrible sin, imagine that using a middle name.

McCain called Obama a fine man, worthy of the presidency. He refused to engage in such dastardly campaign tactics as using the Rev. Wright against Obama and with all this...

...you don’t wonder why he’s not defending Sarah Palin?

I gotta bridge to sell, cheap.

[9YearLurker]

I think we’ve got to hope the unfortunate rise in unemployment makes amnesty unpopular enough for it somehow not to be enacted in the next two years, then win the House back and perhaps make that a defining issue. Otherwise our majority vote may be gone forever.