Posted on 07/29/2012 5:08:23 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
July 29th, 2012
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Pre-empted by the Olympics.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor; Penn State President Rodney Erickson; Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney; Robert Gibbs, adviser to President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign; Kevin Madden, adviser to Romney’s presidential campaign.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H.
Morning AB, All.
Thank you AB for doing this thread.
I was going to start out with a story about Catholics, politics and my recent participation in a march on Rt. 1 no less, about that awful Obamacare and how it would force Catholics to provide abortions, et al, against the church’s doctrine.
Which I still will, but let me begin by, shocker, something having to do with Sunday talk shows.
First thing on Fox Sunday....”Romney’s gaffe at the Olympics.”
First, I might not especially like Romney but he did not say anything offensive when asked about the state of the Olympic surround (London). I thought Romney’s answer was calm, measured, well thought-out and the biggest bugaboo of all, the thing that has the world keening on end about what he had the nerve to do....IT WAS THE TRUTH!
Romney didn’t say anything bad. He expressed the same concerns expressed the entire week prior....issues of London security, possibilities of strikes....that sort of thing.
The rule is, evidently, that politicians should never tell the truth or they will be villified for same.
And they wonder why the politicos always lie.
It’s because WE expect it of them.
Ok on FNS. We need ABC’s ‘This Week” reported on!
Do I have any volunteers? A reporter’s badge awaits you!
I hope we all get the numbers on how bad things are the day of the election so Democrats cannot use the upward spike once Romney wins on November 6th.
What I mean is, Romney wins and the win alone will help the stock market and employment. That spike will be used by future Democrats to claim 0zero was doing everything right. Just as Democrats claim bubba Clinton had such a great economy when he left office. That ignores all the success of the Republican congress in forcing Clinton to follow the Republican’s lead.
Truth is its all timed to try and counter the huge ozero Roanoke,you didn't create that business fopaw which may well sink ozeros candidacy.
Making things worse we learned recently,don't have the link handy yet,that 4 of 5 small businesses are in the 250 k "rich" status that the regime wants to keep from getting tax breaks. This is huge since 80% of the new jobs are created by this same group.
Killing off tax breaks for the supposed rich who actually create most of the possible job creation is so blatantly anti capitalist its unsupportable by the regime. Yet another sure deathnell for the regime should the truth get out.
Arrrrgggghhh...I’m going to miss Scalia this morning.
ABC, Matthew Dowd interviews Gibbs bs. Romney spokesperson... talking about candidates’s gaffes. Gibbs - Romney’s gaffes show he just might not be ready to be commander in chief. lol.
On Israel - obAMA has had the strongest sanctions against Iran.
Dowd asks if there is any substantive difference between the two candidates w/re to Israel. Romney dude - words do matter. Gibbs brings up walking the streets of Israel. During that trip started the Iron Dome. obama is one of the strongest supporters of Israel. Wow, Gibbs is actually a very good liar.
Here is part of the equation showing that 60-80% of all new jobs come from small business.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203914304576630973840478808.html
ABC brings up the “you didn’t build that” (obama) vs. comments Romney made about the olympics in London essentially equating the two “gaffes”.
WOW. I seriously doubt most business owners/voters would agree with that analysis. Nice try ABC.
This is must see TV. Wallace tried to give him crap....Scalia stalwart, strong, conservative individual. I hope to find a transcript of this interview.
From misreading the title of Judge Scalia’s book
to misspeaking English, Chris Wallace
was SO outclassed by Judge Scalia that it was
like an ant interviewing a real scholar.
After misspeaking words, and not looking very smart,
to feign intellect, Wallace brings in leftist positions.
“Is Justice Breyer wrong?” says the Romney Anchor-Wife?
Judge Scalia was so crisp and smart both in this answer,
and what he said thereafter, that it should be heard
and not reviewed.
Then, Wallace appears to try to mock the Judges’ book.
The number of issues is the same as Heinz products,
Wallace leaks due to his brain-mouth problem from
trying to bring in everything to Romney and the DNC.
As it continues, Judge Scalia shows irritation as he corrects
Wallace who misreads about mandates and
then the Judge’s Opinion. Smackdown.
Gun control. Wallace brings up quashing the 2nd Amendment
probably because Romney supports gun control.
The Judge points out this will be decided in future
cases. Wallace tries to get him to decide now.
Assault rifles? 100 round weapons?
The Judge repeats that this will be decided in
the future. Smackdown.
Privacy. Wallace tries to purport what the Constitution
says about privacy, and the Judge corrects him
and sets him straight. Smackdown.
Wallace tries twice to get the Judge to talk about
internal Court proceedings, but Judge Scalia correctly
refuses. Smackdown.
Wallace queries about the politics of the Judges.
J. Scalia points out they are not political but
accurately notes that judges
are “selected because of their judicial philosophy”.
J. Scalia comments on Obama’s attack on SCOTUS
at the State of the Union was so good that it too
should be heard, and not reviewed.
On and on it went with the AnchorWife trying
to make Judge Scalia “admit” he is cantankerous
when all it showed is that Judge Scalia is honest
and appreciates the TEXT of the law.
So here’s the story.
Catholic churches across the fruited plains are sparking rallies and such to fight back against Obamacare and its attack on private religions.
My church sponsored a huge rally on the matter and, of course, I attended. So many things happened to me that night that I’m still overwhelmed.
Let us begin by saying we were to meet at the church at 6pm. At that time we would stand at the periphy of Route 1, right through the mighty beach traffic and the tourists. I suspect that many of the tourists didn’t know what the hey our issues were but they beeped and waved and stuck entire torsos out passing auto windows. Hell I loved it.
We had about 300 show up for this thing and, heh, of course, and totally unbeknownst to me, every politician running for something showed up. Well every conservative politico but that’s mostly what we have in mighty Sussex county Delaware, paradise on earth.
I had no idea and I am campaign treasurer for TWO of those same candidates.
First thing, one of my guys walks up to me just as I am exiting my car and says Hi. I jump and get all confused as I live two lives here in Sussex county, my political life and affiliation with the Republican county, and my church life, in which I am very active.
So I shake my head and determine I am in the right place.
Every person I knew in the local Republican party was there and a few of them were ALSO parishioners in my church. Some I knew about, many I didn’t.
The politicians, seeing that I was somewhat known by the church folks (I’m in the choir, on the Finance council, on the Fundraiser committee and now am on some committee or another to do voter registration ), asked me to introduce them around.
Yon ladies and gems I got so disoriented because it was like my two worlds collided. Adding to this somewhat enjoyable state of confusion, a few of my choir members came up to me and....heh....ASKED ME TO INTRODUCE THEM TO THE POLITICIANS!
It got so I totally forgot who was who but I did it, indeed, I introduced everyone I could.
Including my church’s managing priest.....more, shocking more, on this later.
I didn’t miss him ! Can’t believe he’s 76 - so quick. I believe he’d do himself (and us) well to be out more often educating folk.
Cnn’s Candy Crowley is getting her money’s worth out of the bogus WSJ poll (D+11) by claiming that Obama has a 15 point edge in foreign policy. Kelly Ayote had a tough time countering the lib spin.
I MUST find a transcript. I love listening to Scalia.
Me too.
Meanwhile, Diogenesis did a pretty good summary (above).
So a priest very involved in this sort of activism gave a talk at the church’s Parish Life Center and once again, to add to my confusion, HE’S MARRIED!
I noted the ring on his finger and wondered why a priest would be wearing a wedding band. At some point he informs us that he was once a Lutheran minister and that he is married. As if, to my confused mind, being a Lutheran minister once allows priests to get married.
Right out the door is that old bromide that no Catholic can receive all 7 sacriments as nobody can receive Holy Orders and Matrimony except....well this guy.
My church is sponsoring another rally on 8/13 and guess who our speaker will be then? Michael Novak!
When they said that I sat up straight as a rail. Yes, the National Review’s Michael Novak!
Anyway, at one point I introduced my priest to some politician or another and that’s when my personal story begins.
Now I know there are some on this thread who know this priest, who know me. But I’ll risk it. For my priest never should have done what he did and I’m not sure I will forgive him.
Well I’ll probably forgive him because he did apologize profusely. I want him to stop apologizing and stop treating me bad, that’s what I want.
More, maybe, later.
I think the dust up over a Chik-Fil-A business license in Chicago, and other Chicago news stories, truly unveiled the "true" Chicago Values.
The First Amendment is not welcome in Chicago. Free speech is only welcome if you believe the same things as the Mayor. The CEO of Chik-Fil-A did NOT come out AGAINST gay marriage, he simply stated his belief in one-man-one-woman definition of marriage. Ironically, Rahm - as Barry's Chief of Staff - agreed with his former boss opposing gay marriage, but that was before the election-cycle "evolution" of that position to shore up the base.
The Second Amendment is not welcome in Chicago. This issue is not about hunting, it is about protection from an oppressive government. Those in office are no longer afraid of - nor do they respect - those they are supposed to serve.
The Fifth Amendment is not welcome in Chicago - but that may be changing. Based on the Burge trial, Chicago is now north of $7M in payouts for wrongful arrests and convictions from the cops beating a false confession out of suspects.
Religious positions are imposed on Chicagoans with a schizophrenic fervor. You can't openly talk about support of traditional marriage, but a self-described Jew who is the mayor has invited the openly antisemitic Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam to "patrol" Chicago's streets. Maybe the Chicago Cops are secretly in favor of traditional marriage and can't be trusted to do their job to stem the flow of blood in the streets.
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