The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - lineup
Think: Biden-Webb '08! (We can dream of that target, anyway.)
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For Sunday, July 15, 2007
Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert hosts Senators Lindsey "Baker-Hamilton" Graham and Jim "Murtha-Pelosi" Webb. To his credit, last week, Graham blocked Webb's little political amendment congressionally mandating longer leaves for troops. Lindsey's reasoning? "It is a dangerous precedent to allow troop rotations to be governed by politicians who are looking for the next election." Indeed.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks to National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley about Iraq, then he has on Carl Levin to complain as old men sometimes do and Levin always does.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer hosts retired Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, U.S. Army, the President's Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East. Then he chats with Lamar Alexander, who says he is not going to take over the top job at Vanderbilt. (Although I'm a Nit, I am obliged to say: "Go Commodores!")
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Hadley, then a sort of coup when he talks to Senators Jack Warner and Dick Lugar. (I'm not sure if it's a coup for Steph and ABC or an attempted coup by Warner and Lugar.)
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks to Hadley. He speaks Senators Trent Lott and Jack Reed, then to Joe Biden and the rest of the usual cast of thousands.
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Do you think Russert is grooming Webb to be the Dems' pick for veep next year? I'm having happy thoughts, right now, of a Biden-Webb '08 ticket.
Steve Hadley's appearances might be part of the new 'splaining Iraq effort by the White House, an attempt to let the people know what is being done and why defeat is not an option for America. (Thus, of course, Warner-Lugar is not an option for the United States.)
General Kimmitt always gives a good presentation; Senator Levin does not.
I'll have the review here at RedState on Sunday afternoon.
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Graham has been one of the strongest supporters of the surge. He's also one of the few Republicans in the weak-kneed Senate that still talks about the need to win in Iraq. Many others are heading for the exits.
Gee, since he's "neutral" and his two main guests are Republicans, he'll need to include some "progressives" to "offset" that imbalance.
That's about par for the course for that show - they like to have panels where the most right-wing person is someone like Cokie Roberts.
Fairness Doctrine indeed! Aren't the TV airwaves public too?
"conservative" Republicans Warner and Lugar on the matter of surrender, he could get people like Joe Lieberman and Brad Ellsworth, and Indiana Democrat who voted against the latest Pelosi-Murtha surrender legislation.
(BTW, Marvin the Martian (Dennis Kucinich) also voted against it, but maybe he was hoping Hillary and Edwards would debate him about it. He needs the attention.
I just saw Graham and Webb go at it and say what you want about Graham's approach to Immigration, McCain, etc... not too many could have stood up to the mental breakdown that Jim Webb just had on Meet The Depressed. I loved Graham's line asking Webb...."Have you BEEN to Iraq? Have YOU been to Iraq?!!"
Webb, was quick to point out that the vast majority of U.S. troops in Iraq want us to surrender. Hmmm.
Webb argues that since we made mistakes the last three years that we must give up and let al Qaida have their way in Iraq. He is in major denial about al Qaida's goal of preventing a bastion of moderation and freedom from taking root in the Middle East. How far he has fallen since his Reagan years.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
www.race42008.com
www.hinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
Webb refused to address the consequences to America of a pull out from Iraq, instead, he spoke of past Bush mistakes, as if America must insist upon losing unless we fighht a perfect war. Webb's supreme value is that Bush policy be repudiated, not what's best for America.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
www.race42008.com
www.hinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
Webb has probably always been a bit of a redneck bully. When he was a conservative, that was OK, since he was advancing policies that strengthened America. Now that he is an appeasement lib, he needs to have his ass kicked. Obviously he was not spanked enough as child.
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
www.race42008.com
www.hinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
Almost 40 years later, and he needs another whuppin.
"We should scrap this “comprehensive” immigration bill and the whole debate until the government can show the American people that we have secured the borders -- or at least made great headway."
Fred Thompson
Mike Gamecock DeVine @ The Charlotte Observer
www.race42008.com
www.hinzsightreport.com
www.theminorityreportblog.com
"One man with courage makes a majority" - Andrew Jackson
IRAQ PM says his country can do without the U. S. Well, they better. Come September 15th, after the "surge" report comes out and tells us the Iraqis have been on "August recess" while we fought for them, we start drawing down our troops!
http://osi-speaks.blogspot.com/2007/07/iraqs-pm-says-his-country-can-do....
With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see right.