The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - preview
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For Sunday, July 29, 2007
Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert hosts a bunch of journalists: Dan Balz of the WashPost; Ron Brownstein, the LAT columnist; John Harwood of the WSJ and CNBC; NCB News' Andrea Mitchell, who resides in the asteroid 4 Vesta in the main belt; Eugene Robinson, a WashPost columnist; and Chuck Todd, the NBC News political director whom I assume might be related to President Lincoln's widow.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace interviews Newt about Newt.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer (D) chats with Pat Leahy (D) and Arlen Specter (R) probably about Week 347 of the "Firings-Gate Scandal" and about the proposed new Constitutional rules for the confirmation of Supreme Court nominees.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos (D) talks to Senator Schumer (D) and Hatch (R) about firings and Iraq.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks to UN Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, for whom Joe Biden expressed admiration on a number of occasions, Chuck Rangel (D) and Chris Shays (R), Roy Blunt (R) and Jane Harman (D), and his usual cast of thousands.
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MTP is a complete waste for our purposes this week. It will be interesting to see if Wallace can pin Newt down on this Presidential thing, as I'm starting to see a little Sybil.
Specter on FTN will get off a line or two in the President's defense, but he'll agree with Leahy in principle. TW promises to be lively, as Chuckie vs. Orrin are proving to be even better that Joe Biden vs. Orrin was two decades ago.
I suspect Rangel and Shays on LE will be another Leahy and Specter, and why do the producers of these shows book loosely-defined Republicans to debate unyielding Dems? I don't know which Jane Harman will show up against Roy Blunt – the pseudo-rational Jane or the Babs Boxer Jane – but the Whip is proving to be almost brilliant in these situations.
I'll watch them and have 'em live for you tomorrow afternoon, here at RedState.
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"It takes two people to lie Marge"
"One person to lie and one person to listen...."
This whole Maliki v Patraeus spat that was dragged out today was the first I've heard of it. I really don't believe that it is anything solid or serious as it seems it comes from a single AP article and even the Patraeus says its fabricated. This is something the MSM and the Left will take out of context, slant coverage and provide no real analysis or follow-up after it is proven false or overblown. I believe that this "story" will be beat to death over the next 2 weeks.
And why do the Left keep trying to say the "Surge" is a failure? Hasnt plenty of news on the ground about record cache seizures, better intel mainly from civilians, routing Al-Queda etc etc etc, proven this to be false?
Finally, does anyone on here really believe that the Maliki Patreaus deal have any real fallout for the good General?
If the MSM was serious about discussing these issues for the American people, they would actually have people on who hold the two sides of the debate.
I do not watch anything with Hagel and Feingold, for instance. What is the point? Both want to lose.
Get someone on who wants America to actually win vs. Feingold or Hagel.
It is like the pap of YouTube being promoted as some sort of breakthrough: WTF? ignorant stoners asking childish questions, many bordering on the level of 911 conspiracy wackjobs?
If that is was considered a good debate, then whoever thinks that has not seen a real debate.