Posted on 11/04/2012 5:03:56 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
November 4th, 2012
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rich Beeson, political director for Romney's campaign; David Axelrod, adviser to Obama's re-election campaign.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): David Plouffe, adviser to President Barack Obama; Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Political analysts.
Schieffer posted this on his blog Saturday: We're not talking to either side this Sunday. Instead, I'm going to go to some very smart people on two different panels. I want to see what they think, see if together we can find any trends. My guess is they probably don't have any more answers than I do, but we'll find out for sure on Sunday. Harvard's David Gergen, National Review's Rich Lowry, Vanity Fair's Dee Dee Myers, The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan and our own John Dickerson will start us off. Then, we'll breakdown the numbers behind a 2012 victory with Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg, Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez, Rothenberg Political Report's Stu Rothenberg, University of Virginia's Larry Sabato and CBS News Elections Director Anthony Salvanto.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Plouffe; Ed Gillespie, adviser to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel; Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.
Did you all enjoy the extra hour of sleep or are you wondering where the hell the thread is?
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM NBC's "Meet the Press"
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ABC's "This Week"
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM "Fox News Sunday"
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM CNN's "Late Edition"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"
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“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
But I see another law at Work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at Work within my members. Romans 7:23
We now have credible sources saying PravdABDNC is hiding two emails showing the current President ordered the military to Stand Down on rescuing Ambassador Stevens and the Seals. These e-mails are being withheld from the American public for fear they would destroy the President’s dwindling chances of re-election. This is simply another example of the complete lack of credibility from our Establishmedia which has become nothing more than a wing of the corrupt DNC, excuse the redundancy. After we sweep this coward out of office perhaps we can find a way to fire Pravda too.
How can America tolerate a group of reporters who refuse to report a story simply because they are Marxist ideologues? We have to get to the bottom of how and why an Ambassador was assassinated and what happened. Was it a simple terrorist attack or was something else going on which was even more sinister to explain the stand down order? We need answers to these questions or is the District of Corruption going to whitewash this like they have every other scandal that has been an arm’s length from Obama.
There is a rumor floating around which says there was a kidnap and exchange being carried out between Stevens and the Blind Sheik Omar who plotted and executed the first Twin Towers attack. If this was true then it would explain why they did not want any interference from the rescue squad and would also explain why they had the lame excuse in their pocket in case anything went bad. If this was the case then they believed their kidnap was going fine until the Ambassador ended up at the Hospital dead. This would explain all of the stopping the rescue missions to let the terrorists capture the compound and then negotiate the release with the Blind Sheik. The first rule in negotiation, know who your opponents are and make sure you can trust them, a step horribly missed by the regime.
The other theory is Stevens and the Seals were meeting with some Libyan groups who they had given weapons to overthrow Ghadafi and were getting our weapons back. We apparently sent a ship of weapons including Surface to Air missiles which are now in the hands of Al Queda and he was attempting to buy them back for millions of dollars to these terrorists. This one is the more frightening to imagine our government would be willing to give those types of weapons to terrorists with a chance they could be used against us. This again would explain not sending in aircraft knowing they could be shot down by our own missiles causing a scandal he would have a hard time explaining to every American who does not work for the media.
If either of these theories are true he needs to come clean to the American people and let the cards fall where they may. They are both equally damaging from trying to affect an election by placing an Ambassador’s life at risk to giving weapons away to affect another leader in the Middle East so he could avoid going to war with that country. Which is worse, arming a militia to overthrow a dictator who was no longer a threat America or threatening to go to war with a dictator who was a threat to America and his neighbors and actually going to war? You would have to say Bush was more honest than Obama.
Can anybody imagine the media being in anyway complicit to a Romney administration with a dead Ambassador story? The duplicity of the Stone Age Press has passed being a joke to becoming a threat to our country. This president if he cared in the slightest about the truth would go before the American people and explain what happened and why. He would have to explain what the Ambassador was doing there and why he was not given the proper protection at the Benghazi compound. If he cared an ounce about transparency he would have to explain if the rumors are true and why he would allow such things to happen. Finally he would have to explain his Stand Down order and why he would abandon our fellow Americans to die horrible deaths.
America will not survive if we cannot trust our leaders. Democracy only survives when the truth is sanctified rather than something to be hidden. Transparency is required from every level of our gummit and what is severely lacking in this one. The answers to these questions are difficult answers and ones that will likely destroy his campaign even though it is already over. His problem is the truth no longer can be hidden and he is too much a coward to admit it so he is trying to be the Dutch boy stopping the leaks in the dike, there are just are too many of them to stop.
In the end we have the internet and it will become even more powerful as the Marxist Mathews Media continues to abuse their power. They have become an afterthought as they become more and more obvious while the alternative media becomes the source of the truth from Rush to Drudge exposing the corruption unfiltered. Without these sources we would still be persecuting some poor schlep in jail who made a video who was the regime’s designated fall guy if this plan failed.
In a couple days we will have a new President and the media will be one step closer to actual bankruptcy not just morally. The new media which will take its place has to be one that provides for its own financing and is not subsidized by other parts of a corporation so that the news will have to have value. It will need to reflect the value of its one commodity which is reporting the information and letting that information rise or fall of its own volition. This is why the public values so many of the internet sources while discounting PravdABDNC to nearly worthless. As a news source the internet is diamonds while MSDNC is coal as is being proven by Benghazigate. When your news organization has sold itself out to one side completely there is no value to their information.
We have a President who is costing Americans their lives needlessly and then lying to us and a media which is covering up his scandal to promote his Marxism. In a truly transparent world he would have reporters hounding him everywhere he went and demanding answers to very serious questions. There is no free press outside the internet so those who are in speaking distance of the President are happy to be the filters to maintain his façade. Perhaps after Tuesday one of the mediots will find the courage to break from the pack and decide the deaths of Americans is a story and begin to find the answers to it. Meanwhile, we will surf the net to find the truth as it leaks from the massive dike as it collapses from the weight of its own corruption. What replaces it will be a phoenix that resembles Lady Liberty with her Torch of Truth held high.
Pray for America
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
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Good Morning All from beautiful sunny and chilly Wisconsin. A state with cold beer, brats and cheese. Let us hope this is the weekend before our deliverance from a four year nightmare and assault on the greatest country in history. An exceptional country. Thanks AB for the thread.
1) Nah, I just lurked around a bit to make sure you/yours didn't get involved in Sandy....
2) I'm usually up and running by Oh-Dark-Thirty anyway. (It's been 40 years, but Flight Ops always started then and the Crash Crew right next to my barracks fired up everything in the barn if we had any flights scheduled or not. Sailors and their firetrucks.....sheesh.)
3) Even if I'm not having those flashbacks, every animal in the place figures that as time I fed 'em, anyway.
(BTW, my compliments on your page.)
So, once again we are treated to David Axelrod on Fox News.
The fact that the President of the United States has refused for four years to appear on the number one news channel is telling. What does this say about Barack Obama?
Axelrod’s willingness to appear seems to say that it is not the fear of espousing the liberal viewpoint on a conservative-leaning station that bothers them, but that Axelrod believes that Obama is not up to the task.
Fox is number one by far in attracting viewers. Fox has more viewers than the rest combined. It would stand to reason then, that if you want to get your message out more efficiently, then maybe you’d accept, at some point, the four-year long standing invitation that Fox News has extended to our president.
But they won’t.
They know he’d blow it. They know Obama cannot talk to regular Americans, private sector Americans, in a manner that in the end won’t become a problem for them.
This is so instructive, so revealing of the weakness of this president, and puts the lie to his promise to “bring Americans together”, or that his style is one of “reaching across the aisle”.
Morning Folks!
Thanks for the thread and ping AB.
The scuzzballs in DC and Chicago and their media sycophants have succeeded and mostly managed to keep the lid on this Benghazi outrage until after the election. After Tuesday, they won't care. One can only hope enough has been dribbling out to sway some crucial voters.
Another detail which has been lost in the reporting is although four men were lost because of this Administration, it could easily have been over thirty, including many other crucial CIA people. By the grace of God (with a little help from a hastily thrown together rescue from Tripoli) they managed to barely escape with their lives. The ultimate loss could have been much, much worse.
It is no wonder our exposed military and civilians all over the world are sitting up and nervously taking notice of their feckless and dangerous masters who are managing their lives back in DC.
As was noted by a high State Department official in the lone Benghazi Congressional hearing, "The Taliban is in the building..."!
Why? I cite the following reasons:
1) Americans--especially in suburban and rural areas--are rapidly tiring of Obama's domestic and foreign policies. The huge loss of jobs, the persistently high U-6 unemployment/underemployment rate and high energy prices have effectively stunted what should have been a robust recovery from the 2008 stock market crash.
2) Obama pushed through Obamacare, which will result in higher medical insurance premiums, smaller selection of health care providers, and more taxes to pay for it.
3) Obama has effectively stopped the expansion of exploitation of American energy resources, especially our huge reserves of coal and newly-discovered huge reserves of oil and natural gas found by new production methods.
4) Enthusiasm for Romney is huge, as noted by the gigantic turnout at every political rally Romney has attended (so much so that there are huge numbers of people having to be turned away!). Meanwhile, the 2012 rallies for Obama has been reduced to very small fraction of the size of the 2008 rallies for Obama.
5) Voters in suburban and rural areas are overwhelmingly in support of Romney. This will effectively erase the advantage of support of Obama in urban areas in almost every "battleground state."
6) The GOP voter base is hugely energized this time around to vote out Obama, since the GOP get out the vote effort is much more effective in 2012 than in 2008.
The other theory is Stevens and the Seals were meeting with some Libyan groups who they had given weapons to overthrow Ghadafi and were getting our weapons back. We apparently sent a ship of weapons including Surface to Air missiles which are now in the hands of Al Queda and he was attempting to buy them back for millions of dollars to these terrorists. This one is the more frightening to imagine our government would be willing to give those types of weapons to terrorists with a chance they could be used against us. This again would explain not sending in aircraft knowing they could be shot down by our own missiles causing a scandal he would have a hard time explaining to every American who does not work for the media.
Plus, the tradition of the US arming jihadi freedom fighters dates back to the 1980s in Afghanistan, the 1990s in Kosovo, etc. No biggie.
And, also, consider that it was the ATTACK on the diplo mission that brought the weapons cache to everyone’s attention. If you wanted to cover up the weapons, and you were Obama, you would RUSH the CIA assets and others in there to put down the attack before the evidence was uncovered, not let it all happen.
I don’t think the weapons are relevant at all where the “stand down” and coverup are concerned. Makes no sense.
Not that much does these days, mind you.
Big whoops.
Plus, the tradition of the US arming jihadi freedom fighters dates back to the 1980s in Afghanistan, the 1990s in Kosovo, etc. No biggie.
And, also, consider that it was the ATTACK on the diplo mission that brought the weapons cache to everyone’s attention. If you wanted to cover up the weapons, and you were Obama, you would RUSH the CIA assets and others in there to put down the attack before the evidence was uncovered, not let it all happen.
I don’t think the weapons are relevant at all where the “stand down” and coverup are concerned. Makes no sense.
Not that much does these days, mind you.
Thanks for thread A.B. Your Tide finally rolled over the Cats.
Of course they will not talk to the smartest of the bunch Michael Barone since he is not saying what they want to hear.
Anyone have the break down of the new MI poll its tied at 47-47...whats the D/R/I split?
This tells me that Obama is going to have his lawyers out, even if it's a blowout.
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