Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 20 Oct 2002

Various big media television networks ^ | 20 Oct 02 | Various Self-Serving Politicians and Big Media Screaming Faces

[Alas Babylon!]

The Talk Shows

Sunday, October 20, 2002

Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:

FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Senate Maj. Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) and Secretary of State Colin Powell.

FACE THE NATION (CBS): NSA Condoleezza Rice, Sens. Bob Graham (D-FL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE), and Richard Lugar (R-IN).

MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sec of State Colin Powell, NRA's Wayne LaPierre, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY), "America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh, ex-FBI profiler Candice DeLong, and North Eastern Prof. James Fox.

THIS WEEK (ABC): Sec of State Colin Powell and ex-U.S. counterterrorism amb. Paul Bremmer.

LATE EDITION (CNN): NSA Condoleeza Rice, Senate Min. Leader Trent Lott, Dem strategist Bob Shrum, GOP strategist Ralph Reed, ex-Sec/State Henry Kissinger, and ex-NSA Zbigniew Brzezinski.

[kcvl]

Sen. Tom Daschle
Democrat
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510-4103
Email: tom_daschle@daschle.senate.gov

WWW Home Page:
http://www.senate.gov/~daschle/

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Sioux Falls, SD 57104.
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[kcvl]

Tuesday, 24 October, 2000, 13:22 GMT
Korean missile breakthrough



Mrs Albright is ending an historic visit to North Korea

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il has told US officials that he is prepared in principle to halt his country's controversial long-range missile testing programme.
The announcement was made by the US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright following a final round of talks with Mr Kim at the end of her groundbreaking two-day visit to the communist state.



The 1998 test launch set off alarm bells across the region

Speaking to reporters, Mrs Albright said the North Korean leader told her on Monday night that a test launch of the Taepodong 2 missile in 1998 would be his country's "first and last".

The surprise test over Japan dramatically raised tensions across East Asia, amid fears that North Korea had acquired the capability to strike targets far beyond its borders.

Pyongyang has always insisted that the test was to launch a domestic satellite.



The road to fully normal relations remains uphill

Madeleine Albright
"During the 23 October mass performance, an image of a Taepodong missile appeared and he [Mr Kim] immediately turned to me and quipped that this was the first satellite launch and would be the last," Mrs Albright said.

[mware]

they have learned the unilateral, dictatorial approach utilized for the first 18 months did not work, and I think they've accepted it.

Oh man, that comment must have really hit the fan. One of those weasles who works for the DNC as a political hack, just got on and said that Daschle went too far with that comment. Also said they should have made the comment on some small town station and not national television.

[alpowolf]

As stupid as the "ballistic fingerprint" discussion was, I think that George effectively proved (for anyone who hadn't already figured it out) that these people actually don't care if their little database would work.

It reminds me of an episode of Married With Children, when Peggy wanted to buy a PC: "I don't even know what one is good for. I just know I want one!!"

[kcvl]

[Irish Eyes]

George Will was good but I wish that he would have actually told the women to shut the h--- up in those exact words and not have been such a gentleman about it.

[kcvl]

Not wanting to miss out on the fun, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright felt the need to throw in her two cents. Now, Madeleine Albright thinking she has something to teach the Team Bush about foreign policy is like Mario Mendoza thinking he has something to teach Ty Cobb about hitting a baseball. (For those of you who aren't baseball fans, Mendoza had a career batting average of .215, hence the term "Mendoza Line", whereas Cobb hit .367 for his career - the highest in baseball history.) Her failed track record didn't stop her from blasting Bush for labeling Iran, Iraq, and North Korea an "axis of evil" predicting that he made a "big mistake." (If not evil, Ms. Albright, how would you describe a country where leaders murder thousands of their own people? Virtuous?)

But her criticism didn't stop there. She went on to tout the accomplishments (in her eyes anyway) of the Clinton foreign policy team. "When we left office, we left the potential of a verifiable agreement to stop the export of missile technology abroad on the table. I think it's a mistake to walk away from that. We know that North Korea is dangerous, but lumping those three countries together is dangerous." (In the mind of a liberal, peace is achieved through "verifiable agreements" with untrustworthy parties.)

When reading these comments it's important to keep in mind that this is the woman who, during her reign as Secretary of State, not only danced with North Korea's dictator but also said she felt guilty about America's position as the world's lone superpower and felt that we should do more to help build up other nations to become our equal. But the topper was her order that we no longer refer to nations that pose a threat to America as "rogue states." She ordered that they instead be referred to as "states of concern."

[kcvl]

Give Democrats Enough Rope...
And they hang themselves on foreign policy
by Heidi Parent
02/16/02

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:HedBeHZh3voC:commonconservative.com/parent/parent026.html+Madeleine+Albright,+US+to+no+longer+be+a+lone+superpower+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

[randita]

My husband just said this word (dictatorial) *HAS* to have been focus grouped, especially as many times as he repeated it.

You can be sure of that. This is another trial balloon designed to bring down Bush's approval ratings, and like all the others, it will blow up in Daschle's face. It's a wonder Daschle doesn't tire of looking like the coyote after a foray with the roadrunner.

Bush will have a few words to say about this in the next day or two and Little Tommy will be again sent to his room without his supper.

Little Tommy is indeed a boy among men.

[mware]

They are already backtracking. Some git was on Fox News a few minutes ago and tied to bring it up once or twice.Finally near the end of the segment, the hack said,that Daschle should not have said it, that is not the kind of thing you say on prime time without first trying it on a smaller audience.

[jwalsh07]

Senator,

I understand you sank to a new low today by implying that President Bush is a dictator. Even for you, this is beyond the pale. My fervent wish is that your mouth puts John Thune in the senate.

Regards, J Walsh

[maranatha]

I was really surprised at the lies of Daschle regarding Bush's foreign policy, but disgusted that Tony Snow just sat there and let him make such lying and extreme charges against Bush without confronting him with the facts. Bully, unilateral, etc. has been used by the Democrats during the past week or so and Snow should have expected it and been ready to state some facts about all of meetings and work by Bush and his team with foreign leaders before and after 9/11. It would not have been allowed to stand had Brit Hume been the one listening to his disgusting charges.

[linn37]

it never fails tommy the commie goes on TV and sticks his foot in his mouth....

[MHGinTN]

Thanks! I believe Halfbright made her comments , initially, as she was exiting the White House after a rare cabinet meeting which clintoon may or may not have attended due to other pressing (read Monica, as yet undiscovered) matters.

[John,Staten Island]

This Week-ABC has really become a lightweight,the 2 females trying to spout the liberal line were pathetic.I think George Will is patient because intellectually, it's a mismatch.He squashed their ridiculous,emotional,rants with cold, hard,facts.They had to be embarrassed,at least Sam&Cokie sounded knowledgeable.

[M. Thatcher]

please post the Halfbright quote where she said that it is time for the US to no longer be a lone super power

Here you go:

Albright says U.S. doesn't want to be sole superpower

4.46 p.m. ET (2047 GMT) April 14, 1998 By Barry Schweid, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Madeleine Albright told students at Howard University Tuesday that nuclear, chemical and biological weapons were the biggest dangers to the United States in the post-Cold War era.

"Those are weapons that know no boundaries,'' Albright said. "And they are a huge threat to us.''

The former Georgetown University professor stepped back a bit and mused over the role of the United States and the problems that beset the country going into the 21st century.

The Clinton administration, she said, is striving to expand the number of countries that are democratic and have free-market systems.

“We very much don't want to be out there by ourselves as the organizer and the only superpower,'' she said. "People don't believe that. They think we just want to be king of the hill, but we do not.''

Rather, she said, the administration strives to develop alliances and partnerships to encourage countries with similar views to share the burden of leadership.

At the same time, Albright said, the United States must protect its territory and people from a range of problems, beginning with weapons of mass destruction.

"It's nuclear weapons, it's poison gas, it's biological weapons. Those are weapons that know no boundaries. Refugees know no boundaries. El Nino knows no boundaries. And disease knows no boundaries,'' she said.

After the speech, a student challenged Albright's reference to refugees, asking her how they threatened the United States.

Herself a refugee from Czechoslovakia, Albright said she meant illegal immigrants, not political refugees.

"We have the most generous immigration policy,'' she said. "But what is a concern is when illegal immigrants come and undermine a variety of the systems that work in order to make our society function.''

[Wild Irish Rogue]

On the Late Edition Roundtable, with Wolf-Ryan Lizza of the New Republic, said basically that it is disgraceful that President Bush is not staying in DC and dealing with the sniper situation ( because that's what " all of us", care about now ) instead of going around the country,fund raising. The Dems last gasp, as they cling to the Tomtanic, is to scream about fund raising.

[SkyPilot]

Someone, somewhere out there in Freeper Land must have that photo of Mad Madaline "The Cleaning Lady" Halfbright doing her little dance in North Korea! She looked like she was Sweatin' to the Oldies with her plump little arms out, her 3 chins all dimpled, and her expression like that of the kid from Different Strokes.

Someone please post that picture!

It was the most laughable thing I ever saw. Wes Pruden's description of her: "she looks like she should be changing sheets at the Red Roof Inn", was never more appropriate.

[OldFriend]

Frankly my dear, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice can 'dictatorial' all they want.......NOTHING MAKES ME HAPPIER!!!

[OldFriend]

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