Posted on 02/21/2016 4:58:28 AM PST by Alas Babylon!
The Talk Shows
February 21st, 2016
Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:
FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): GOP Presidential Candidate Donald Trump; Tad Devine, adviser to Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
FACE THE NATION (CBS): Trump; Sanders; Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and John Kasich;Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J.
THIS WEEK (ABC): Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.
STATE OF THE UNION (CNN): Trump, Sanders, Rubio; Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz; Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Sharyl Attkisson's Full Measure A sobering investigation into the cost of medical services, where the difference can be THOUSANDS for the EXACT SAME PROCEDURE! How can they vary so widely, even within the same city?
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 "State of the Union"
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM CBS's "Face The Nation"
Listen at the link above WHILE you FReep!
Also, Sharyl Attkinson's Full Measure: Watch live at 9:30 EST.
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The more Donald the better,
Thanks for the thread AB.
“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
This is the best election evah. Donald Trump has changed the entire landscape of America and exposed all of the hidden institutions turning them on their heads. This has never happened before and the movers and shakers of this country do not know how to react.
Old Media of course is lining up to protect Bernie for the upcoming General election, but they have a tough time going after another one of their own. Here is a capitalist of the highest level who dealt Real Estate in the hundreds of billions to become one of the top celebrities in New York. Some say he built Wall Street and then followed it up with the number one TV show and now they have to destroy him.
Of course the bimbos in Hollywierd have to make their snarky remarks, but the usual suspects pull their punches for now out of fear and respect. They have been put in a box where only the most strident leftists will go after him like the normal hatred for Repubs, but the SNL, ABCNNBS crowd know he will come on their show and battle them into defeat. They also know he is a ratings plus so they are hard pressed to savage him like they do most Repubs. He is showing how to fight these bullies who are the number one defense of their Marxist agenda.
The more interesting fight is between Trump and the Conservative media. From the day he declared his candidacy and said he was going to build a wall with Mexico paying for it, the commentators and Fox decided he was a Rodeo Clown and needed to be eliminated from the race. The stodgy old ruminators on Fox declared him unworthy of running for their presidency. His added statements about the need to stop sanctuary cities and deporting Mexicans lit their toups on fire and the war was on.
Meanwhile on the conservative talk radio squad he was being cheered for finally saying things that needed to be said about immigration. He was adored as he made statements about Mooselimbs need to be kept over in Europe and Africa and not brought here until we had a way to find out which ones were Islamic terrorists and which were not. All of them except Beck were applauding him for his candor and freshness with a megaphone nobody has seen before.
Then came the famous debate with Meg Kelly and her promoting The War on Women and his spat with Rosie O’Donnell. The spat started when Rosie bullied someone and Donald stood up for the guy and then made a comment which denigrated into Donald calling her a fat pig, which Meg said was proof he hated women. He figured it out during the question, mentioned Rosie with his perfect timing which had the entire crowd laughing at the question setting off the war between him and Fox.
As an observer of politics this is such a unique phenomenon and is actually cowards hiding in fear behind their bluster. You have the people who usually fight liberalism are running from Conservatism and the liberals are fascinated in this person who is larger than life spouting things they hate but are drawn to it like moths to a flame. This is when Talk Radio turned on him.
Talk Radio has decided Ted Cruz is their guy and has passed their purity test which Donald failed. Since Trump has not been a lifelong Conservative and Cruz has, then he does not pass Talk Radio purity. Never mind he is Anti-Abortion now. Never mind he has had a recent conversion to most all of the standards of Conservatism now. Never mind Talk Radio claims to want to convert people from Marxism to Conservatism or that Trump may have been a closet Conservative most of his life, he cannot prove beyond a shadow of a doubt he is and always has been one so he is not one now. They then declared him impure and needed to be destroyed.
They are actually cowards, they do not want to fight and would rather debate. To actually win the so called debate means you have to get ugly and call people names you are not comfortable with. They would rather support someone like Cruz or Rubio who will debate the Constitution or Budget and wonkish fiscal theory to really get their juices flowing, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Trump has it figured out and he brings up a black man who had his beautiful son who had a Stanford football scholarship gunned down in front of his house and talk about real life. Trump would rather talk about the girl in San Francisco who got shot in the back or the woman beaten by a hammer than the Constitution. He would rather talk about building a wall rather than some budget item nobody cares about, that is ugly and not where talk radio wants to go, so he fails the purity test and they can ignore those issues to wow people on their intellect.
Trump talks off the cuff like everyone who sits in their group at the job or bar tawk. Sure he has a high IQ but he is not a DC wonk who talks about how bills go through congress and that makes him ignorant to the pundiots.
They love wonk talk and this takes them out of their comfort zone so they talk about fellow wonks like Cruz and Rubio staying safe and away from those thin branches. They have become the echo chamber they made fun of their entire lives and are the Conservative Establishmedia and Trump is their Anti-Establishment. The entire world has been turned upside down.
Whether Trump wins or loses is not as important as what he has already done to expose the entire media. He has forced every voice to take a side whether they wanted to or not. The biggest irony may be the Conservative media and their denying him into their club. Whether it was from lack of purity or fear, you would think they would have a curiosity of why so many of their followers are supporting Trump. You would expect them to not want to insult and lose their listeners, but they believe they are the gatekeepers of Conservatism which is far more important than their careers. They are doing the very thing that destroyed the NYT and liberal media which is amazing to watch their blindness.
This is the most amazing election we have ever seen. Love him or hate we have never seen anything like this in our lives. My take is it is not so much a moral or purity test is it is easier to say no than to get in there and fight. The only other potential fighter is Cruz, but he will debate rather than roll in the mud like the Dems.
Trump fights until the other guy backs down and that is not where the conservative Punditocracy wants or knows how to go. In the end they are the snooty Conservative Country Club and he is the Billionaire hardhat and the hardhat is winning. The best election evah!
Pray America wakes
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
A lot of Sanders. Who wants to listen to that braying idiot? Only one slot for Ted Cruz. Hmm....
not even a smidgen Divine
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Seriously, do not understand what you mean.
Morning AB, All…
Thank you AB for doing this thread each Sunday so reliably.
Thanking Bray in advance for his weekly wisdom.
Thanking yon commenters for input that makes me think and ruminate.
So Trump won last night….hey I’m okay with that.
I watched Scalia’s funeral and heard that Pope of mine who I can’t stand.
I will be going to mass at 10 am with Diane Feinstein. We are not singing in the choir so we get to sit downstairs with the common people.
And so for a few weeks I decided to maybe try out the “dating” scene, as it were, perhaps make a few male friends.
Do you want to hear about the boat-seller who had one chance and he blew it?
Do you want to hear about the lawyer who showed up to my house (it was a business meeting, y’all got to hear that story) looking like Rambo….Lord he was handsome.
As for the priest, well for that you’re going to have to wait for the book (there is so much more to this drama than yon readers know, heh).
The boat-seller is a fellow I’ve known for three years now, met him at the Sussex county council when I complained about the constable and my fence. Through the last couple of years he calls me once a week, we discuss politics, he offered, long time ago to take me out to dinner.
So in my decision to perhaps test the waters of romance I invited the boat-seller to MY house for dinner, offering to discuss local politics which we are both into.
HE didn’t answer me right away, said he had a boat show coming up on date I selected. I thought he was lying about that but turns out they do have boat shows in February, did you know that?
But I offered him an out, told him if he wasn’t comfortable perhaps another time. And he took me up on it…maybe spring.
WELL HE HAD ONE CHANCE!
That’s my rule, and has always been my rule, with the opposite sex.
So the boat-seller calls me up a week ago, leaves me a message to call him back. I think to myself….”don’t hold your damn breath”.
Next week he calls me, “Hiya, Pat, how you doing?” I tell him he had one chance, it’s okay he didn’t want to take me up on my offer but don’t call me acting like it’s okay.
YOU HAD ONE CHANCE…..I told him not to call me again.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
So the lawyer, hand to God people, this lawyer I also have known for three years, did a review of his book “Growing Up Country”, he is the Sussex county lawyer, his daughter was my granddaughter’s teacher, he’s very handsome. And he now represents me on this property line issue, indeed he does.
So he shows up to my house (one day I’ll flesh out this incredible story….heh) to determine the property lines with the other people’s lawyer….y’all will see this on Dateline soon.
I gasped. The man was wearing a pair of tight jeans, a leather jacket that was smooth and obviously expensive, a nice sweater and a pair of cowboy boots!
Well I had to act right so I didn’t say how nice he looked but dear Lord, he obviously keeps himself fit, I always knew that.
So they have their meeting in my backyard, where, to my embarrassment, he must walk around dog poop….I didn’t know my dogs were pooping over there.
At some point I offer him a cup of coffee and he says No, he has to get back to the office. I’m thinking dear Lord he goes to his law office dressed like that?
But hey, he didn’t take me up on it so TWO STRIKES AGAINST PAT!
Then there’s the priest but of course he’s my priest and you will have to read the book, like I said. Don’t worry, it will be fiction, insert wink here.
But don’t cry for me Argentina. Cause I have decided to give it up…..obviously I am not ready for all this.
Hope y’all had a good week and as a political junkee I am in love with all the action going on in this country’s political scene.
I’ll be around for a while, got to tell you how mad I am at the Pope. Such anger which I shared with Father Flowers…..indeed I did. Who is Pastor of a church on Tulip drive, you got to smile.
Trump on 4 shows today...amazing someone invited Cruz...
Well done, Bray. Nailed it! Although now I have that image of Rodney Dangerfield (Al Czervik) confronting Ted Knight (Judge Smails) floating in my mind.
Al: [tees off] Fore!
[his ball hits Judge Smails in the crotch]
Al: I should have yelled, “Two!”
Ted Cruz, my friends is a seriously flawed and failed candidate...period!!! I correctly predicted that Cruz would be beaten in the South Carolina GOP POTUS Primary by Marco Rubio , who finished second to Donald Trump....with Cruz coming in third!!! Cruz a serial lie teller, a major cheat and an idiot that accepts an endorsement from certified nutcase Glenn Beck, is now in the sunset of his failed campaign!!! How any voter with common sense, fariness & objectivity could ever support and vote for this con man & shyster, is well beyond me!!!
Congratulations to Donald J. Trump & Marco Rubio. Rubio play your hand deftly and, do not blow the opportunity to become the VP running mate with DJT!!!
GO DONALD J. TRUMP!!! Onward to victory in November!!!
Cruz is generally invited to all the shows. It is his choice that determines the extent of his exposure in those venues.
I’m going to guess that it is a reference to Cruz, based on overlooking that Cruz is scheduled to appear on at least one of the programs. Not a smidgen divine (Cruz)
Evidently Trump remembers what really happened on 5/8/70 (not the wikiversion) and is building a similar coalition.
In the end they are the snooty Conservative Country Club and he is the Billionaire hardhat and the hardhat is winning. .
A Caddyshack reference. Ted Knight / Ted Baxter plays the snooty judge who is lord of the country club and Rodney Dangerfield plays the rich developer who is the bane of Judge Smail's existence.
Trump is completely unpalatable to HUGE chunks of the electorate. EVen Hillary or Bernie—terrible candidates for some obvious reasons—have a good shot at winning 40 states against him. The weakest Republican candidate since Goldwater. And completely avoidable train wreck. Stop voting for him!
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