The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: a preview
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For Sunday, December 2, 2007
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace will speak once again to 2008 GOP Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee. He was also speak to 2008 GOP Presidential hopeful John McCain.
Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert talks to 2008 GOP Presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos interviews 2008 GOP Dem Presidential hopeful Joe Biden and Newt Gingrich,
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer talks about the destroyed CIA interrogation tapes and the Iran NIE with Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller and Chuck Hagel.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer chats it up with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, U.S. Democratic Senator Diane Feinstein, and House GOP Leader John Boehner.
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We see Schieffer (FTN) plans to wallow in negativity and defeatism, but Hagel's become irrelevant and Rockefeller cannot form proper sentences. Other than that, we'd expect to see Huckabee (FNS), the sudden subject of talk. Rudy (MTP) probably wants to stop the hemorrhaging, but this meeting with Russert was probably planned months in advance. It's part of that "Meet the Candidates" thing he does.
McCain's also on FNS, and perhaps he's trying to find the radar to be certain the old Navy pilot is still flying under it. Joe Biden's got TW, so we've both of the historically favorite Sunday AM guests showing up this week.
Newt (TW) probably wants to further discuss that project of his, and Steph ought to ask him if he might want to be a "savior" at the GOP convention in the Twin Cities next September. The question would be a polite ego thing with Newt, of course, but the possibility of a "savior" is one to keep in mind. (I'm thinking more Jeb Bush or Fred Thompson, but I'm getting ahead of myself.)
I know I'm not considering the gravity of Wolf's Musharraf interview (LE) with the gravity it deserves, but now that Pervez has stepped wholly into civvies, I wonder if he still wears his medals on his button-down. Di Fi's a throwaway, and I hope Boehner sticks to the positive strides his caucus had made against the House Dems and stays away from endorsing any more folks in the wrong caucus.
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This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos interviews 2008 GOP Presidential hopeful Joe Biden and Newt Gingrich.
So is the Senate 50-50 now? ;-)
Will Sen Chuck Hagel(RINO-Nb) be asked to revise and extend his comment/prediction of this January, when he declared the surge "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder carried out since Vietnam."?? Of course not!
I see that Gen Batiste, formerly a critic of the war,surge, Bush, etc, now supports the surge. He has quit the anti-war Vets and joined the Vets supporting victory. Too bad, general, you won't be asked on any more Sunday shows!
He claimed as his own the famous quote from another former NYC mayor: "I don't make many mistakes but when I do they are BIG". Too true.
Vouching Bernie Kerik for Homeland Security, after he knew(or should have known) of Kerik's probable mob ties, counts as BIG. His only explanation of why he might not have known seemed to be because he's a really busy man.
His explanation of security details for then girlfriend Judith Nathan raise a question that Russert missed, but one that I'll bet gets asked. He said that there had been those who had threatened his life and the lives of those near and dear to him. He says Judith was an obvious target. Fair enough. But did he also hire security for his own children during those times of threat? If so, no problem. If not, there goes any chance he had.
Six months ago I was certain that Giuliani could and should be the next prez. Now, I see him as a good man who attracts the wrong people into his life.
Another Sunday goes by with no sign of Hillary on the talk shows. How long will the MSM let her get away with it? Until next November, I guess.