Sunday Morning Talking Head Thread
By Nicole Belle Saturday May 10, 2008 7:00am
Wonder, by Natalie Merchant.
Happy Mother's Day! I have disappointed my babies by not sleeping in and thwarting their effort to bring me breakfast in bed in order to bring you fine people the Sunday morning news schedule. So I hope you indulge me with a little tribute to my own babies. This song was on the radio constantly the summer I was pregnant with my eldest and it was actually the song I heard as we made our short trip to the hospital to have her. In a way, it was a reassuring confirmation of that amazing event, and even today, I believe that Fate smiled and Destiny laughed at the cradle of my wonder of a daughter.
Having waxed poetic on the best thing that ever happened to me, how anti-climactic our Sunday schedule is. Fox's favorite business person will be on This Week, no doubt saying the McCain will be as good a president as she was at HP. Axelrod vs. Wolfson will go round #4,302 since the campaign started on Fox News Sunday and John Edwards will play coy on his endorsement on Face the Nation.
ABC's "This Week" - Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.; Carly Fiorina, adviser to John McCain's campaign.
CBS' "Face the Nation" - Former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C.; Terry McAuliffe, campaign chairman for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
NBC's "Meet the Press" - Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.; McAuliffe.
CNN's "Late Edition" - Reps. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., and Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.; Retired Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq; Samir Sumaidaie, Iraqi ambassador to U.S.
"Fox News Sunday" - David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Barack Obama; Howard Wolfson, campaign adviser for Clinton; actor Ben Stein.
"The Chris Matthews Show" Panel: Ron Allen, Katty Kay, Michelle Cottle and John Heilemann. Topics:How will Barack Obama win over Hillary Clinton's supporters? What will Hillary's next career move be? Meter Questions: Will Obama pick Clinton as his running mate? YES: 3 NO: 9 Was Obama's rebuke of Wright enough to stop the GOP from using Wright this fall? YES: 0 No: 12
So grab that steaming cup of coffee with me (thanks, kids!) and tell me what's catching your eye this morning.
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Here's a preview of McAuliffe's latest 'Metric': The ‘Metric System’
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1809
HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, NICOLE!!!!
Happy Mother's Day to you Nicole! Thanks for all you do for your C&L family.
My first-born (of four) only daughter graduates from college today so there's some weeping in the wings, and Natalie's song was a good starting point. Have a great day.
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and if you ain't a mother, to the mothers you know.
Happy Mothers Day!!
Happy Mothers Day to all Moms out there! And nice try to Nicoles family...but I'm sure they know by know you have to get up pretty early in the AM to surprise Nicole Belle
With that line up, I think I'll leave th TV off and watch flies copulate instead.
Axelrod on FnS was extremely magnanimous regarding Clinton's "white voters" comment. A definite "here's how to treat your fellow Democrat" moment. Great.
Happy mother's day to those to whom it applies.
Tweety on Rev. Wright AGAIN ?! ZZZZZZzzzzz.... Can't wait for the bar to open...
Happy Mothers Day, Nicole!
I posted some thoughts on why the Republicans are in trouble in November; it might be a nice break from the usual SMTH nonsense.
Power To The People: How To Solve Poverty In Our Time
Ha! I had the same problem. My babies were determined to walk to a nearby coffee shop and bring me back a special breakfast when all I wanted as toast and honey in bed. My poor spouse--his dream breakfast is cereal with milk but they forced him to have a burned brioche with fermented jam (what they could scavenge in the refrigerator.)
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FnS's roundtable discussing "Obama VP picks" was a sight to behold.
An example: Kristol says Obama should pick Dick Gephardt.
Happy Mother's Day, all you lovely moms. (Great video, too.)
What's got my attention today? Not any of the knuckleheaded bobbleheads listed above. This house is on a full-weekend political TV blackout. It's sunny and warm here. Today is about yard work, reading a good book, and spending time with the mother of my children.
Priorities, folks.
OMG, Hume defends Obama's "bearings" remark:
Wallace: "Was Obama refering to McCain's age?"
Hume: ABSOLUTELY NOT! And even if he was, so what? It's a legitimate issue.
Okay, I've officially fallen into the Twilight Zone.
Mugsy @ 13:
Funny, I would have thought The Bloody would have recommended a bigger dick--Cheney.
I have had a crush on Natalie Merchant for a decade.
To bad she is not gay.
fastfeat @ 16:
Gephart is making money hand over fist with his lobbying firm in Washington.
BTW Kristol makes money hand over fist by being wrong.
McCaulliff on MtP says something "catastrophic" could still happen to the Obama campaign that could give Hillarythe nomination, and that's why she's staying in.
Problem with that is, if something "catastrophic" were to happen to the Obama campaign, she'd be the nominee anyway. She doesn't need to attack Obama for that to be any more true.
Just saw (9:15AM CST) on CNN on bottom bar, MEDIA DECLARE RACE OVER - FOCUS ON OBAMA MCCAIN. That about says it all.
ahhhh the sweet smell of puppy phoo in the morning ! its like a politician came to vist you in the night!
tyree @ 21:
I love the smell of puppy phoo in the morning, reminds me of............puppy phoo.........yep!
Happy Staying one step ahead of the Bill Collectors
Years ago, Don Holder, 48, who owns the place his parents opened nearly 30 years ago, rushed his asthmatic son to the hospital. His insurance company, he says, denied the $1,300 claim.
The hospital went to court to garnish Holder’s pay. Holder never complied.
Now Hartman is coming for cash. With interest and other fees, the bill has risen to $3,348.52.
He enters the diner. Four uniformed police officers follow.
“Mr. Holder?”
Hartman explains who he is and what he wants. It’s called a “cash register property levy” — the right to take from the place every dollar owed.
The restaurant is vacant but for Holder, his mother, Holder’s grandchildren and their young father.
Holder is boyishly short and thinly built. His thick, graying hair sweeps back from his forehead. He stands, hands on hips, among the empty tables, half shocked and half defiant. He calls his lawyer, but realizes it’s too late.
“I just paid $2,100 in taxes,” Holder tries to explain. “I got nothing left.”
Hartman listens as Holder tries to explain about the hospital and the insurance company and how he didn’t respond to the garnishment.
It doesn’t matter.
“What I’m going to have to do here is collect this money,” Hartman says. “How much money do you have on the premises?”
“Not a lot,” Holder says.
Holder opens the cash register and empties his wallet. Hartman counts the money, $155, and hands Holder a receipt.
If he can’t pay the rest soon, Hartman could seize the restaurant’s contents and auction them off to pay the bill.
Hartman leaves.
Holder’s eyes turn red and well with tears as he tells his story: raising two children mostly on his own, struggling to keep a dying business afloat, working another job to pay the bills and, worst of all, his 21-year-old daughter, Ashley.
On Feb. 6, she was killed in a car wreck off U.S. 71.
Now he says: “I think I’m going to have to close down.”
He sits near Callie, his deceased daughter’s 9-month-old baby, and weeps.
Back in the car, Hartman arranges the paperwork.
“There’s a situation that you got to have sympathy for,” he says.
A pile of evictions, foreclosures and levies sit at Hartman’s hip. He starts his car and moves on.
I honestly don't want to be maudlin, but please remeber to say a prayer for those mothers who have lost a child in the past year. The first Mothers Day is the worst. My wife and I know this first hand.
God bless all those who have been blessed with children.
Happy Mothers Day!
L.A. Confidential @ 23:
The Wonderful, compassionate, caring uNiTeD StAtEs of America.
Happy Mother's Day, Nicole!
I danced with my Cars-loving daughter to this song. She bounced all around the room. Thanks!
I take our esteemed webhead to task for slighting Terry McAuliff in the Talking Heads Schedule in my blog, this one titled, "Crooks, Liars, and Why the Dems May be in Trouble": http://doctordiatribe.blogspot.com/
If I were in McCain's shoes (thank God I'm not) I would go out
and find a young black business man, who could preach a good sermon,
had been elected to public office for three terms, and can actually
speak coherently about public policy and the effects it has on
the average American. I would pick someone who has always been proud
of this country and was not afraid to say so.
Perhaps someone like J. C. Watts.
Takes race off the table for McCain and the republicans, and out of the
Obama camp's quiver.
I know it will never happen but it sure would be fun to watch.
Fiorina also can't name a single economist supporting McCain's "gas tax holiday".
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_us/disabled_veterans
Fiorina's excuse for the double standard between the GOP demanding Terresa Kerry release her tax returns in '04 and Cindy McCain's refusal last week:
"I wasn't in the RNC back then."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080511/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_al_qaida;_ylt=At...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20080509/wl_mcclatchy/2934868;_ylt=ArV...
Fox News Sunday” - David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Barack Obama; Howard Wolfson, campaign adviser for Clinton; ,actor Ben Stein.
It should say "..Wealthy idiot and perpetual liar Ben Stein."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24556912/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/23981403#23981403
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7393577.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7341923.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7390499.stm .. This one is particularly interesting.
Mugsy @ 19:
He's talking about Tuesday night, I think. I'm gritting my teeth, waiting for the Clinton spin on "how WV goes, so goes the nation".
Sixteen blessings for this mom
"As with most mothers, Jeri McDonnell rightly can expect her fair share of attention today.
She is, after all, the mother of 16 children. None of them multiples. No stepchildren. No adoptions. All with her husband, Tim."
WV is 95% white, and even though Democrats make up a majority of state they are deeply conservative and favored Bush in 2004.
So, really, Hillary is going to win it as shes gonna get the redneck vote.
Ricardo Sanchez should be good, he's fairly outspoken about his criticism of the debacle in Iraq he was ordered to oversee.
Right now Wolfie is Q&A with Barack Obama.
Mugsy @ 30:
I still don't understand the "mindset" of the HP board of directors members whose twisted logic and lack of business sense put Carly in charge in the first place.
L.A. Confidential @ 37:
Imagine how may barrels of oil just this one family consumes per day.
Mugsy @ 19:
Yikes, I hope the secret service was watching that show
Let's remember the original reason for Mother's Day.
As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil
At the summons of war,
Let women now leave all that may be left of home
For a great and earnest day of counsel.
Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead.
Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means
Whereby the great human family can live in peace…
(From Julia Ward Howe’s 1870 Mother’s Day Proclamation)
OMG, you should listen to Mitt Romney.
But whats worse than listening to Mitt Romney, and its painful to listen to someone who should be working for FOX News like Romney speaking about anything, but then to hear Wolfie LET HIM GET AWAY WITH HIS COMMENTS without asking a FOLLOW UP is pathetic.
The media, at least the Sun. morning talk shows, are irreparably broken. The rot has taken hold everywhere
Joe H. @ 34:
>>>>Or, may, "Ferris Buehler...Ferris Buehler...Ferris Buehler?"
Not being a Clinton supporter, but what's with this race thing when she referred to white voters. If I were running, and the media claimed that a certain group i.e white males would not vote for me, and I found that to be wrng, I would certainly say that white males are voting for me. Just what is wrong with that? It's the media who categorizes voters.
Lieberman checked McCain's bearings? I bet he checked the roller bearings. He should have checked the ball bearings instead. Then he should do the same with Romney who was on Late Edition. I think his secret underwear is getting his ball bearings all in a tizzy.
ronhohn @ 46:
It's the all consuming political correctness of it all.
Mugsy @ 13:
Do I smell a "h/t Heather" coming?
Re: 24 What a sad story, one that will be played out over and over again as the economy crashes and burns. May God have mercy on us all.
Good song. Nice video.
Maybe this really isn't about Hillary being the problem.
Maybe it might be that the issue is now news that isn't about hard data any more.
Maybe its what Rove hath wrought in making news manipulation the New Media.
Maybe what this really means, just maybe, is that there is something wrong with the two party system that can come up with such inappropriate choices in the midst of the worst crises we are incrementally facing.
I don't care how young Obama is or how old McCain is.
An election is essentially a job search and neither of these candidates strikes me as credible or capable. So we have the extraordinary good luck to have a third person who is. But we should discard her because some pundit says it would do damage to the Democratic party.
Why not let it?
Do we sacrifice the best qualified so that a party that has shown us what it can't do for the past eight years can keep not doing it?
If all the Democratic Party is good for is what is what it has shown us it's been, why would anyone expect citizen loyalty to it?
How loyal has it been to us?
If anyone has the guts to go off and embody the idea and spirit of being an Independent , it's the Clintons.
There are just too many of us who believe in Hillary Clinton and find no credibility in what there is supposed be to subordinate herself to.
We are supposed to vote for Obama if we don't , very sensibly , want Mccain. But why would we want to vote for Obam?
There simply is nothing there other than displays of increasingly bad judgement. And yet another politician who has no relevance to the average American and no connection to us.
I am so disgusted with the hypocrisy if this election.
It's not supposed to be about race, but is it EVER. And in the oddest way. White racism is rightfully not tolerated. It's gone th eother way. if you are black you get a free pass to say the most vulgar ignorant things and be unchecked in continuing. Worse you use to get to use it as a justification when there is no justifying your behavior.
Of course what this will do is cause onlookers to go over to McCain. Who, unlike Bush, comes across as a kindly ,affable sort of warmonger who knows the power of schmooze to defuse....Just listen to him with Jon Stewart compared to Obama being interviewed. Millions will and Obama does not come out ahead.
It's not supposed to be about misogyny, but every time I post about Hillary Clinton I've been called---and this is just today's load-without anyone ever having laid eyes on me or my beliefs--an old wrinkled feminist.
As if any of those things were fates worse than dying young and stupid and under the thumb of whoever calls the party shots.
Some of us just know better than to get flocked.
It's a Twilight Zone scenario to see the Obamabots adopting the ad hominem nastiness of the right and taking to it so exceptionally easily.
We now have an alternate reality where Obamabots have taken over marketing the media and simply don't reflect anything about what really exists every time I converse with anyone I know. i have just not heard much interest in buying Brand Obama. He's being foisted on us. And we all know what we see around us as opposed to what we view on-screen.
As far as i am concerned, Obama is a marketed insipidity with no track record and no accomplishments.
But his followers are a credit to Karl Rove.
Probably the true legacy of Karl Rove is that he has pioneered the death of the two party system.
If anyone deserves that distinction, how fitting it should be Karl Rove.
He showed the world what it is to have America play dirty as a matter of course .
And now it seems we can't stop.
No one has asked these hysterical pundits what any American citizen gets from voting for another ambitious rhetoritician like Obama.
It's somehow like he is the first person to run on what we want to hear.
And like this inexperienced lambchop is going to be able to deliver when up against a Congress that will spend four years relentlessly chewing him up on tier way, as always, to cashing lobbyist's chits.
And no democratic party wonk sits there and looks at putting Obama up against a personable, intelligent war hero who is a longtime congressional veteran who just happens to be a warmonger and corporate shill and thinks about whether Obama has anything possible to show for the balance.
It's a Karl Rove wet dream, folks.
How can we have lost all our foresight.
Maybe the real problem with Democratic Party is that it is now so decrepit and useless and flat-out vestigial, there is no point in NOT creating a third party.
Because right now it is functioning as a Republican Party subsidiary in providing a candidate that will conveniently steer people to voting for McCain
gala1
Ben Stein was the "power player of the week" WTF?
If the Dems have any backbone at all they'll call out Carly Fiorina for the miserable failure she is. Her stint as CEO of Hewlett-Packard was not exactly a high point in the company's history. When HP's board finally decided to demote her, it came up with a four-page list of her shortcomings and tossed it at her. She refused the demotion, so they gave her a $21 million severance to send her ass packing. And they got off cheap: HP's stock jumped 7% as soon as the news hit. Investors know a loser when they see one.
Now that she's in charge of Fox
RepublicanBusinessPropagandaChannel I'm sure she'll be every bit the success there she was at HP.As for Natalie Merchant, she is the female version of that guy from Hootie and the Blowfish, only more boring and with less vocal range.
Nicole Belle,
"The best thing that ever happened to me."?? What about meeting your husband, who made it all possible? Just my guess, but as a father myself, I am sure he deserves a little credit.
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