The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: a lineup
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For Sunday, March 13, 2008
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks to surrogates: Obama mouthpiece Tom Daschle and Hillary surrogate (and Philadelphia Mayor) Michael Nutter. Then he talks to National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and 2006 Olympic Sprint gold medalist Joey Cheek, who defeated the Russian.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Hadley and... Jimmy Carter, the official Carter Center envoy to bloodthirsty terrorists.
Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert does another roundtable with Matalin, Carville, Mike Murphy, and Bob Shrum. I am not making it up.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer interviews Defense Secretary Bob Gates and... Nancy.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks to Joe Biden and Dick Lugar, both of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Junior Casey, Obama's Pennsylvania supporter; Joe Lieberman; and his usual cast of thousands.
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I will not watch MTP; you can discuss it in the thread after the show notes if you want to tune in, but Russert has done this about four times already and it's not worth the time or the effort.
This surrogate stuff is getting old, but maybe one of them will say something. Daschle is a lot let civilized than is Mayor Nutter, so we might get something good out of the Tomster on FNS. Jimmy Carter (TW) is always good for a few boneheaded quotes, but I'm starting almost to feel bad about it because of the former President's infirmities. Hey, I'm only doing my job.
Nancy will be on to make all sorts of daft and daffy pronouncements (FTN), and I assume Gates will followup on Petraeus. There is surprisingly little of that from a defense angle this week, but Biden will give the Dem foreign policy line, making sorts of defeatist remarks on LE. Dick Lugar will "respectfully disagree" in part.
Any Junior Casey appearance anywhere is embarrassing, but he supports Obama because his aides wanted him to separate himself from his governor and he's trying his best. I'd like for Blitzer to ask the Senator if he agrees with Barry's "religion and guns as opiates for the bitter" remarks, but I don't see it happening.
I'll have the report here early Sunday afternoon.
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The other day in the gym I watched Russert talk to Christoper Hitchens and Andrew Sullivan for an hour. My brain still hurts.
I don't agree with Sullivan and Hitchens on many things, perhaps on most things, and on some issues I find their views absolutely vile. But both of them are very, very smart observers of American politics, and they bring a certain detached analysis that most insiders are unable to muster. I don't know what it is about the Brit educational system, perhaps it is the emphasis on classical education and philosophy, but they can produce notably clear headed thinkers. Both Sullivan and Hitchens are very impressive intellects. Put them together and the resulting give-and-take is exceptional by any standard.
Don't know what that has to do with this thread, I suppose it's a threadjack, sorry about that. Just hoping that we might see this pair dueling more often, perhaps on MTP?
"If all men were just, there would be no need of valor."
- Agesilaus
Mike DeVine’s Charlotte Observer columns
http://thehinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
www.race42008.com
"One man with courage makes a majority." - Andrew Jackson
Those cheering for America to be defeated around the world are ecstatic that Joe Biden supposedly "proved" that the war in Iraq was never justified by Biden's questioning of Admiral Crocker in Senate hearings with Crocker and Petraeus this week.
Actually, Crocker's testimony showed exactly the opposite.
For a summary, look at the following pages:
http://www.thebidenquiz.com/Page18.html
THROUGH
http://www.thebidenquiz.com/Page22.html
Get ready for Biden on the Sunday shows this week to continuing this (false) theme that Biden "proved" the war in Iraq is wrong. Look at the above website to be ready to refute Biden's B.S.
I think at this point that Russert is aiming for a consulting job after this election. I give even odds that he's going to ditch the MTP gig, and hit the lecture circuit while starting his own political consulting firm in 2009.
You heard it here, first.