The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - preview
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For Sunday, August 26, 2007
Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert chats with Lance Armstrong and interviews Senator Jack Warner.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks to Senators Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, and Jack Reed, a miserable man who happens to be a Democrat, then he interviews Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer will talk to John and Elizabeth Edwards.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos will talk with Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) vs. the doltish Jim Webb, the Dem Senator from Texas Virginia. Then Steph willl talk about the mortgage crisis withformer Treasury Secretary Larry Summers.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer chats with former Iraqi interim PM Iyad Allawi, who wants to be appointed again; ill-humored Democrat Max Cleland; candidate Bill Richardson; Lt. General Ray Odierno, the commander of the multi-national corps in Iraq. And he chats with his usual cast of skillions.
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Warner's fresh off his weird and arbitrary declaration about 5,000 troops home by Christmas, and the man has seemingly lost his ability to form complete thoughts. Jack Reed is a miserable person, but Mitch is more upbeat about life. Wallace will press him to repeat his old remark about changing course after the Petraeus report.
Jim Webb, now a media darling, has become something of an oaf with his new media status, which clashes with his continued doltish demeanor. Cornyn will handle him, but I suspect it won't matter.
Poor Max Cleland needs to find something else to do.
How many Americas are there this time, anyway?
Whatever this is, I'll have the coverage here at RedState early tomorrow afternoon.
NOTE: Tomorrow is a down day for the Review, but it will return next week when perhaps something of import will take place.
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"Jim Webb, the Dem Senator from Texas"
He is Virginia's Senator.
Imagine my shock that Brian Baird (D), the prominent defector from Surrender Now Democrats who now supports the surge is not being featured and touted on all the political talk shows the way Murtha was when he started spouting antiwar rhetoric.
One of these days I would like to see a host asked that question.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
...something of greater import than whatever Senator Warner will be prattling about. I received the following email from Armstrong's foundation:
"Four years ago cancer was not mentioned during the presidential election campaign. Today, the LIVESTRONG Army has made fighting cancer part of the national dialogue. For the next five days leading media, presidential candidates and citizens across the country will discuss how to stop the number one killer of all Americans under the age of 85.
"Next Monday, August 27, and Tuesday, August 28, I will walk onto the stage at the U.S. Cellular Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to ask the presidential hopefuls to share their ideas and strategies on how to fight cancer in the first-ever LIVESTRONG Presidential Cancer Forum. This historic event will be discussed on NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert..."
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"We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged." - Colonel Henry Knox
and constantly. Is there something about cancer that makes you politically sagacious? Has her illness caused her to be any less nasty, or has it made her nastier?
There seems to be more accessibility for Democratic husband/wife teams than for Republicans, allowing for snideness the Republican wives don't get the same coverage or dual interviews. I doubt they would get the same opportunity for cheap and dumb shots that Mrs. Edwards shows as her trademark, while being treated as an adult with something of significance to say.
The domestic tranquility act appears reserved for the Democrats and aimed at saps of both sexes. If the media flacks could pull it off for two people who despise each other, the Clinton's of Sunnydale Farm, then we are faced with a future of insipid interviews and answers that go beyond altruistic mush. Except when they're encouraged to show their fangs.
"Mrs X, why do you want to help the poor"?
Teeth grinding time !
"a man's admiration for absolute government is proportinate to the contempt he feels for those around him". Tocqueville
and controversy sells. Everybody is clamoring to be the venue for her next outburst. It's the same reason Howard Dean and Al Sharpton are so popular with these people. You know going in that they don't have much of a filter between their brain and their mouth. Between a nutcase and a politician who skillfully reads from a script, I'd choose the nutcase every time.
A quick reminder
"Is there something about cancer...". Yep, there are a few liberals who are trying to use this as a talking point to immunize Elizabeth Edwards.
For the immediate counter, recall that Fred Thompson has cancer as well (lymphoma). Sad for both of them, but obviously not a pass from answering the hard questions for a politically active figure.
week after week, month after month?
I hate to admit it, our government sanctions torture- every seventh day.