The Sunday Morning Talks Shows - Sunday, June 10, 2007 - preview
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For Sunday, June 10, 2007

Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert talks to Colin Powell. (Then he talks to two men who wrote a book detailing Hillary's "Hopes and Ambitions." Of what use is that?)
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks to White House Press Secretary Tony Snow and well-known Nazi hunter Dick Durbin about: "The immigration bill falls apart." He wants to know if President Bush can united the Republican Party.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer talks immigration with Tony Snow then chats with Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut). Joe-mentum has returned from Iraq, where he sees momentum toward a positive outcome. John Roberts of CNN demanded to know how he could say this when May was the deadliest month of all time on record. McClatchy reported, I assume from their Ba'athist stringers, that some soldiers claimed to be afraid to speak to Lieberman about their "true feelings."
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos "goes on the campaign trail with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz." There's the bit about Gingrich pointing out that McCain has to campaign for the nomination despite McCain-Feingold and Bush-Kennedy. McCain said that Newt was right, he might not get the nomination. ABC's trying to make a big story out of a little honesty from two politicians. What would have been interesting is if McCain turned it around and speculated on Newt's chances of ever winning the nomination. I'm glad he didn't.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks immigration bill with Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez then Senators Evan Bayh and Jon Kyl, and isn't there a sense that Kyl should cut his losses and put the dead bill behind him?
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Why doesn't anyone want to talk to Ned about these things?
Never mind.
The President cannot now unite the Republican Party, but he knows that. Progress in Iraq is not measured by the number of casualties. John McCain's running as John McCain, and his chances are the same as John McCain no matter what Newt Gingrich says. I don't know why Wolf is still stuck on immigration.
I'll watch, and I'll report here tomorrow.
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... about which Jimmy Carville complained last weekend on MTP. I assume Russert will try to discredit them, but he'll hopefully spell their names right.
I've heard that the Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta, Jr., book, Her Way, is the superior book of the two. The authors say it isn't all anti-Hillary, however. And Media Matters has already started trashing it.
We've traded our National Sovereignty for cheap roofing and yardwork.
Isn't it more accurate to analyze the ideology of the specific writer in question, in this case Carl Bernstein, before labeling him a liberal because we brand the Newspaper as a whole with the same label?
Let's not forget that Judith Miller worked for the NY Times, and her work about WMD was a group of pro-war pieces that were later discredited.
Gerth, the author of the other Hillary book, spent a great deal of time trying to present Hillary as a Whitewater lawbreaker. This is not a liberal would do.
You commited the fallacy of division
The fallacy of Division is committed when a person infers that what is true of a whole must also be true of its constituents.
I made no claims about the book.
Judith Miller was a liberal reporter. You committed a fallacy by asserting that because she reported a certain way on an issue unrelated to ideology, she must not be a liberal. It is non sequitur.
If you were talking to Kyle, he said only that they were investigative reporters who worked for a liberal newspaper. He did not call the reporters themselves liberals. Kyle committed no fallacy.
You've apparently fallen for the fallacious liberal narrative about Judith Miller's work on Iraq and WMDs.
You are well aware that the New York Times published articles about Iraq's WMDs citing Clinton Administration officials that said virtually the same thing in 1998, 1999, 2000, right? Before Bush took the oath of office?
Clinton himself said, in 2003 on Larry King Live that when he left office there were weapons of mass destruction that still remained unaccounted for by the Hussein regime.
What I'm trying to say is that Judy Miller's reports were entirely consistent with almost a decade of reporting on the subject of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, terrorism and WMDs.
PS: Carl Bernstein is as liberal as the day is long. And considering that there are Kossacks who go into fits of rage at the mere mention of Hillary's name, the idea that a liberal would never try to torpedo Hillary Clinton's campaign is not quite so far fetched.
George W. Bush: He's A Folder ... Not A Fighter.
because the President is going to be talking to Republicans on Tuesday about reviving the bill. I knew we would need to get back to work on this travesty I just did not know it would be so soon. I will be calling my Senators Tuesday morning. The President feels about this bill the way he feels about the Iraq war and that is he is right and others are wrong and while I support that view on Iraq I do not on amnesty.
I have been saying for a while now, the very characteristics which make Bush a good leader in some things are the very things that make him terrible. Primarily his stubbornness. He will stick with bad people and failed plans until it becomes a disaster.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle
These people have two or three pro-immigration people talking about the bill's death, but never anyone who opposed it. Wouldn't it be good to have some people on who know why they killed the bill?
Gosh.
McClatchy makes AP and some of the rest of the mainstream media look conservative. They have bought up lots of papers in the South. I would rather hear what Joe-Mentum has to say!!!!!!!!!!!!
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"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
Interesting juxtaposition of two magnets charged in opposition - George ' Time to Hit the Silk on Bubba' Stephanolpous and John ' That All You Got Ho?' McCain - discussing the nature of commitment. I would rather have seen a pit-bull of steel backbone like Jim Carville make the trip.
As for Newt, he is still doing his 'Wilderness Years' like Winston Churchill. He knows that McCain is a steward for this country and can walk in his footsteps in time. That man never drew a stupid breath in his life - I would necessarily as him to count my change from the lint trap, but Newt is a smart hombre.
Pat Hickey


These guys are investigative reporters who worked for liberal newspapers. In the course of their investigation they uncover a lot of inconvenient facts about Senator Clinton.
The Clinton hate machine has been turning overtime to try and discredit them.
"Nothing works like freedom, Nothing succeeds like liberty"
Kyle