Posted on 04/06/2014 4:49:06 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
April 6th, 2014
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas; Sen. Tim Kaine, R-Va.; Michael Hayden, a former director of the CIA and the National Security Agency.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Shaun McCutcheon, whose campaign finance case was decided last week by the Supreme Court; Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group; Michael Mullen, a former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
FACE THE NATION (CBS): White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer; Rep. McCaul
THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.; Rep. John Carter, R-Texas.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Reps. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., Mike Rogers, R-Mich., C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger, D-Md., Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, and Tim Murphy, R-Pa.
FNS
Topic: Benghazi testimony
Political edit of talkingpoints.
Haden claims it was not political.
On-the-ground personnel were overruled by Washington.
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I have noticed during several ‘live’ tragedies [Boston Marathon bombing, Fort Hood shooting, Murrah bombing, Sandy Hook shooting, etc.] that initially ‘news’ comes from on-the-ground persons/witnesses.
Then, usually within an hour or so, the ‘reporting’ sources switch from local eye-witness personnel to ‘Washington’ or ‘the FBI’ or ‘the White House’.
Politics may not always be ahead of a tragedy, but it rapidly takes over. It takes a while to get the filtering apparatus in place.
During the early hours of the most recent Ft. Hood shooting, ‘officials’ apparently told local media that they were not allowed to talk to ‘eyewitnesses’ any more.
But Wahn....you are a crazy liberal.
Why am i not surprised~!Great catch Rock—I had no idea.
[All Wallace needed to do was recall the arguments from the previous Hasan shooting. Wallace could probably use the same videos and talking points.]
To wit: the ethnic/racial/social/religious make-up of today’s US military has underscored at least four of these killing sprees that I can think of off the top of my head, two at Fort Hood, two in Afghanistan.
But instead of the possible influence of a military that increasingly operates as a whacko social experiment, we hear that “post-traumatic stress disorder” (PTSD) is what it’s all about.
But PTSD is just a euphemism for battle fatigue, and that was just as common in the WWII era as it is today. Yet how many members of the majority white male US fighting force of long-ago come home shell shocked and go on killing sprees of fellow soldiers?
The point being—
We’ve always had PTSD (no matter what it is called) but only of late have we turned the military into a multi-culti incubator.
Eric Holder asks that America have “a frank conversation on race.”
O.K.
Here you go, Eric.
Why is it that a dominant white male military of the WWII era, just as rife with men suffering battle fatigue or PTSD, did not produce homicidal maniacs? Whereas, today’s military (reflecting all your precious multi-culti imperatives) seems to spit out lunatic killers on a regular basis. Why is that?
Come on, homie. Let’s have a “conversation on race.”
Heh, Liz made Wahn’s head explode.
FNS
Re: torturing terrorists
Juan says the government should be more open and transparent. Then, he critizes Snowden for releasing ‘secrets’ [because they damage the current administration].
[Do these pundits and consultants and commentators ever hear the words coming out of their mouths?]
Exactly, how hard should it be to get people signed up when you spend over a billion to get them to do it? There should be 70 million if it was a worthwhile idea.
Who was General Hayden saying he understood Benghazi was a feud between State and the CIA?
Whacko scocial experiment? It's the elephant in the room...
"Cringe" was more like it! :-)
Thanks.
Claims make up about 80% of premium...by law, which differs by state. That explains the doubling or tripling of premiums and simultaneous degrading of benefits.
Brit! They have to repeal the “guaranteed issue” aspect which otherwise kill the insurance concept.
If you ever wonder how the advancement of the queer agenda affects you....see ObamaCare.
Rock, that sounds true. Do you have a cite to do some more research?
Yep, IRS muscle sticking fines on citizens who refuse to buy 'dog shit by mail' would be very effective...
Yeah. How would those emotional "eye witnesses" know any thing about what is going on anyhow? The lawyers, bureaucrats, and politicians up in Washington always know better and besides it is easier to manage the spin they need.
We had a spirited discussion over at AT yesterday regarding the capitulation of Brendan Eich over at Mozilla.
He committed some imaginary crime against some gays years ago—daring to oppose gay marriage— and it was dredged up by the drivebys and as they say the rest is commie style history.
Seems he employed the Trent Lott/Paula Deen apologize all the time defense of lying in the road and getting run over by a semi loaded with driveby media.
I guess it remains to be see whether or not Eich will sue Mozilla’s ass off and have the last laugh or fade into obscurity as did Lott and Deen.
Deen, who after losing her tv gig is now closing up restaurants as well. Some never learn. The only defense against liberalism is a howitzer as opposed to a hanky.
Anyway its below if you want to check it out.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/04/does_brendan_eich_have_a_case_against_mozilla.html
“Dog shit by Mail” could be sold to 7 million Americans IF IRS muscle was behind the venture.
Some conservative in Congress needs to assert that less than 1 million people paid the full price and challenge the administration to prove otherwise. This is the game that Reid played with Romney’s taxes.
Repubs—repeat after me:
Less than 1 million actually bought government health insurance. Less than 1 million actually bought government health insurance.
This could be made a “fact” in days.
The research is multi-faceted, but the best source is the states that had High Risk Pools.
If you live in a HRP association state, just ask a health insurance agent or broker the total number of private individual policies that WERE in effect vs the number of patients in the HRP. Unfortunately, he may not be real busy now, and happy to discuss the issue.
Another source for that same information would be the Superintendent or Commissioner of Insurance in your state (or the chosen HRP state)
Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Dakota, were all in pretty good shape.
Well, as far as the military goes, I distinctly remembering that it was pretty much a blanket order to not talk directly to the press about anything but to refer them to the Public Relations officer (PRO).
There were issues about OPSEC, classified matters, etc., that a troop might inadvertently spill to the press if they didn’t know better. And really, the PRO was well trained in obfuscation and lying :-).
But seriously, the press can be real bastards. I remember back in the late 80’s, when we had several people made hostages of Lebanese terrorists, there was a Marine Lt. Col that was captured. His wife was a Major at the Pentagon. When the terrorists released photos of the Lt. Col’s body swinging on a rope, all the press gathered on the steps of the Mall Entrance to harangue her when she came in. I was there. One reporter shouted, “How do you feel, now knowing your husband is dead?!”
Despicable. I had to restrain an Army buddy of mine who wanted to desperately kick the reporter’s ass.
So I still wouldn’t put it past a reporter at Ft Hood to start making similar “demands”.
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