Who's on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows
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For Sunday, March 5, 2006
Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert had better listen to Joint Chiefs Chairman General Pete Pace, USMC. Then he'll chat it up with Jack Kemp and John Edwards about their new report on Russia. (Doesn't this strike you as so Russert? Two has-been politicos -- sorry, Jack, but... -- discussing a once-was country.)
FOX News Sunday: Host Chris Wallace will also talk to General Pace. Then, brace yourselves for a conversation with Brownie!
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer will talk to Dick Lugar and Jack Murtha, and gawd I hope they're on the show simultaneously
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos's show looks like it will be a stand against them A-rabs. His guests, to discuss the "port contoversy," will be Susie Collins and Duncan Hunter. Yikes! He'll also have Wes Clark on to chat.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer will talk to NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, General James Jones, USMC, and Iraqi Member of Parliament Adnan Pachachi:, who once was foreign minister and UN ambassador before Saddam took over in '68. In his eighties, he resembles a U.S. Senator. Not any in particular; he's got the look.
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No Biden. No McCain. We love Pete Pace! The highlight will be if Murtha and Lugar appear on the same stage at the same time, but I seriously doubt if Murtha dares. Collins and Hunter on TW will be ugly, and I'm beginnng to forget who Wes Clark was.
I'll watch the show and put my notes live here at RedState.com at some point before or after 2p ET.
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I trust you are being sarcastic, but just in case
During the initial reaction to Katrina George W Bush made a point of saying what a good job Michael Brown, then FEMA Director, was doing. As Bush likes to do he used a nick name, "Brownie." I believe the exact quote was "you're doing a great job, Brownie."
you always watch and report. I turned off my TV service 2 years ago. 185 channels of Satellite and there was never anything on to watch.
The now infamous line was: "Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job."
A line for the ages.
If this isn't a scary sight, I don't know what is.
James Jones? Pete Pace? What is with the USMC and alliteration?
Neat USMC splash page here.
Wow - John Edwards sounded something very vlose to reasonable on MTP. Maybe I need to adjust my meds.
where's Lindsay? It doesnt feel like sunday morning without lindsay graham pontificating on the MTS.
Depend on Schiefer to set the tome by lying about when Murtha went anti-war and to go downhill from there. The lazy host asked not one challenging question of Murtha, and allowed him to call a real Marine a liar. He let Murtha use discredited or out of date stats without challenge. And then, just to show that CBS will never reform, he glossed over the AP false reports about Katrina by saying we should just all move on and 'go live'...and of course the heroic and historically large rescue and relief effort that was the fact ofter Katrina, and all the men and women who worked so many hours to help, the old liberal just ginored. From Schieffer's point of view, the Feds did nothing. That rescue sortes were flown during the strm itself, that nearly everyone in the city was evacuated after only 4 days, is not newsworthy for these slimeballs posing as journalists.
From his official bio:
Senator Lugar volunteered for the U.S. Navy in 1956 and served as an officer from 1957 until 1960, ultimately being assigned as the intelligence briefer for Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations. Upon leaving the Navy, he returned to Indianapolis where he ran, with his brother Tom, the family's food machinery manufacturing business.
Yep. Never saw battle. Chickenhawk.
If it's that Murtha has been in combat, you're right. He served honorably in Vietnam, unlike a particular US Senator from MA.
My problem with Murtha is that he is a doddering old fool. He is promoted by the media as "pro-military" but he's never seen a military conflict worth supporting.
The positions Murtha has consistently held, with respect to the use of military force, are cowardly. He has allowed himself to become a tool of Pelosi, Reid and Dean. My guess is that if he shows up at the annual USMC Birthday Ball he better bring Secret Service to keep the vets away from him.
I've got to learn to knock that off. Irony may work in longer webposts, but as quick comments in a thread, it often fails for lack of context or non-verbal signals.
My thought process was:
Huh, why would a Lugar-Murtha joint appearance be particularly enlightening or interesting?
- Lugar, a serious, thoughtful lawmaker, would eat Murtha alive with serious, thoughtful rejoinders.
- Yeah, yeah, but Murtha is a decorated veteran! So, he trumps Lugar.
Which led me to wonder what Lugar's military background was. Turns out he served during a period without any hot wars -- after Korea, before Vietnam -- but fought the Cold War as an intelligence officer.
3. Yeah, yeah, but he didn't see battle, did he? Therefore he can't talk.
So, my comment was intended as repudiation of that anticipated argument through reductio ad absurdum.
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Well, now, what else is there around here I can beat into the ground?
Honest. The first time I read your comment I was sure it was irony. Or sarcasm. The problem is mine not yours. I have such a strong dislike for Murtha, second only to the Jr. Senator from MA, that I couldn't let opportunity pass.
The most interesting thing about Murtha is that he never, NEVER appears with anyone else who will nail him to the floor. And KrapMeisters™ like the CBS folks let him get away with it.
Murtha and General Pace. Or Murtha and General Jones. Or Murtha and about any LCpl who's seen combat.