I guess the media couldn't find any Democrats for their Sunday morning Talk shows
There was supposed to be one Democratic politician on, but Harry Reid got canceled because Face the Nation had to have John McCain back on one more time.
ABC's "This Week" - Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty
NBC's "Meet the Press" - Reps. John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Bobby Schilling, R-Ill.; Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed.
CBS' "Face the Nation" - Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.; Egyptian-American scholar and Nobel laureate Ahmed Zewail
"Fox News Sunday" - Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss.; Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
And with that in mind, I won't mention that the senator is making his 29th appearance in the last two years this morning, just like I also won't mention that McCain will be on "Face the Nation" for the second time in just four weeks.
I will mention, though, that McCain's wasn't scheduled to be on "Face the Nation," which had booked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to appear, but host Bob Schieffer explained Friday that the show bumped Reid to get McCain (again) as part of the show's coverage of developments in Egypt.
Faiz Shakir's take was spot-on.
It's sadly telling that Schieffer, a veteran Sunday morning host, feels the need to frequently turn to a Republican Senator to discuss a foreign policy issue, rather than hosting any number of qualified Democratic voices to opine on Egypt.
McCain has waffled on his views regarding the pro-democracy protests. Initially, he expressed fear about the movement, calling it a dangerous "virus" that could spread throughout the Middle East. But following President Hosni Mubarak's decision to step down, McCain issued a statement applauding the "Egyptian people" for "beginning ... their country's transition to democracy." Moreover, in late January, McCain told CNN it would not be wise for the Obama administration to "cut [Mubarak] loose." A few days later, he was demanding Obama call on Mubarak to resign immediately.
Right -- and this is partly why I started keeping track of McCain's appearances in the first place. The media in general, and Sunday show bookers in specific, consider the Arizona senator a knowledgeable, credible expert on foreign affairs and national security. If there's evidence to support this assumption, McCain's kept it well hidden -- on CNN's Sunday morning show two weeks ago, he urged President Obama to support "the right side of history" in Egypt, but couldn't quite explain which side that is.
at church?
Hasa Diga Eebowai
History?
The history of the CIA secret renditions and Egyptian torture protocols.
Let's hear that history.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
Total rw corporate domination over the nation's "news" teevee, corp owned psuedoliberals like Maddow and O'Donnel don't count except to the Kabuki political pundit class. Democracy in the u.s. has died with hardly a whimper.
That is just pathetic. There is no news media anymore. Just a three ring republican circus. A bunch of brain dead, lazy ass, ratings seeking hoes.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
America likes that.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Don't buy the product of the companies advertising on it. Write them and tell them why.
Thats a little narrow minded dont you think? Republicans would be saying the exact same thing about Democrats if they were crammed on the sunday morning schedual too.
...why don't you tell me the last time it happened that there were all Democrats and no Republicans on the Sunday morning talking head shows.
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
no part in the whole issue of Egypt..Bomb bomb bomb mccain, please!
I bitched and got back very curt responses from msnbc and abc! Should have saved them to post!
Took a walk and took a nap! Did look at Amanpour and Gingrich--she skewered him!
Wasn't but two years ago he had to enlist the aide of Joe Lieberman to answer questions for him during his trip to the Middle-East.
Sucking at flying Navy planes = foreign affairs expertise?
The M$M is lazy and stupid.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
In the 1950s, CIA propaganda chief Frank Wisner said that he could “play the media like a mighty By 1977, Watergate muckraking reporter Carl Bernstein wrote a seminal expose on the media. "Despite his earlier ’70s Watergate fame, only Rolling Stone magazine published this revealing article. A Senate Intelligence Committee forced CIA Director George Bush, Sr. to admit that “more than 400 journalists had lived double lives, maintaining covert relationships with the CIA,” Bernstein wrote. Others in the CIA told Bernstein that the number was far higher (Bernstein, 1977, pp.55-66.).
The Senate Committee found that virtually all of the leading media companies have top executives, editors and journalists who are paid by the CIA, for example, to reprint CIA written articles verbatim under their names (Bernstein, pp55-66). US Intelligence leaders could eventually boast about their almost complete control over the media. Former veteran CIA agent Ralph McGehee obtained a CIA memo in ’91 that contained such a boast. It claimed that the agency had representatives in every media outlet in the country; these representatives help to spin and censor the news (DiEugenio and Pease, 2003, p.311)."
Just imagine the mischief the CIA has been up to, especially with their billions in secret budgets, since 1977, in relation to the media.
Let's not be naive, shall we?
McCain's a tool. And so is Schieffer.
"The US has an army of 90,000 soldiers in Afghanistan and is spending $100bn a year, but has still been unable to defeat 20,000-25,000 Taliban who receive no pay at all." - Patrick Cockburn
You know lazy & stupid and under the control of the CIA are not mutually exclusive. 8()
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Americans are lazy and stupid.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
Qualified Democratic voices!
Qualified in what way? Voting yes on war appropriations? Voting yes on the Surveillance State?
Large D Democratic voices should be in the same hoosegow as the Republicans.
statusquObama, change you can only pretend in
The guy sounds more nuts as the weeks go by. If he made any sense before he sure doesn't know. At least before I could almost tolerate his crap because I knew he believed it but now its all BS just to get in the running. What he said at CPAC and now with this BS about Obama not performing well in reference to Egypt. What an idiot. Look up how Pawlenty handled the bus strike in MN. I keep referring to that but it was just poor behavior. No leadership skills what so ever. There is nothing there.
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Jeanne
of being a "modern" republican. They need the phony macho posturing the party provides. They have to try to out-do each other on the "manliness" front. Plus, anyone who looks like Pawlenty has to try very hard to overcome the stick figure frame and nerdy persona. So lately he's into hockey, especially the fights, NASCAR, etc, in order to buff up his he-man credentials. It's not working.
Pawlenty looks like the kid who keeps waving his hand around to be called on. And everybody keeps ignoring him.
Jeanne
Ooh...la...la...faux pas...
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Well they could have asked the head of the CIA...but he watches TV for insight and sense they only show republicans so why not have the real thing. They could asked the Sec of State but she's laying low on this one. Or they could have had the last guy in line at Starbucks and have as much insight as anyone else. It would be really nice to have some Egyptians and NO republicans or democrats. The party label is no longer important, it died half way through Bush's second term. It had been on life support sense the day after Carter took office. Keep filling space with non information and then wonder why no one pays you any attention or respect.
The game is rigged.
NOBODY 2012
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Maybe it's just as well they don't bring any Democrats on; they just do a pathetically weak impersonation of the RepubliCON schtick anyway.
If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're gonna get selfish, ignorant leaders.
George Carlin
McCain is just stupid. And what cred does he have as far as foreign affairs is concerned? He traveled to Iraq and declared it safe and a good place to shop? Oh, and he spent a few years in a closet in Viet Nam. The guy is a dick and a dufus.
he is a bitter old white guy who is still pissed that he lost the Presidency to "that one", who happens to be an African-American.
Every time these talk shows put McCain on the air, he's allowed to continue demonstrating how bitter he is that his best shot at the WH came when he was campaigning against GeeShrubya. The fact he couldn't beat a lesser qualified man (Bush) has to rub him raw, and losing to the Black Guy just frosted his cookies.
I remember Tim Russett was asked why he had so many Republicans on his show when Bush was President:
"They have the bully pulpit" Russett said....
Well Obama has the "bully pulpit"... but then he's not very good at being a bully....
(I thought David Gregory gave John Boehner a run for his money...Boehner looked stupid when he answered in "talking points" that didn't fit the question.)
"I guess the media couldn't find any Democrats for their Sunday morning Talk shows"
Awwwwwww, poor baby!
There IS an answer to this problem, and I am dumbfounded that nobody has the sense to grasp it. Every TV set -- and every TV remote -- has two or three( buttons -- channel up or down, and power. If one has the ability to discover these buttons and how to use them, he has found the solution to all of the Republican bilge that all of the networks vomit out.
I never watch any of the Sunday shows because I know in essence who's going to be on and what they are going to say. Instead I depend on Daily Kos and a few other blogs plus a few online newspapers to keep me informed. If a site has too much Republican balderdash to suit me, I simply punch the Back button in my browser.
Everyone knows that the Sunday shows are not going to give up their Republican idolatry any time soon, so the smart thing to do is to find alternate news sources like Daily Kos and large-city newspapers.
At least it works for me.
Maybe if the Dems attacked the media the way the GOP does, they would get invited on.
Vote GOP and move forward to the 18th Century.
a rightie blathers on about the "liberal media" and it is pointed out that the Sunday shows have many more republicans than Democrats as guests, there is usually no response followed by "the media is still liberal". Facts be damned.
I am sure Next Sunday they'll have all demcrats on.
That's right, now that republicans control ONE branch of goverment they run the whole thing. Didn't you know that. Judging by the way Obama bows and scrapes to them maybe they're right.
It's John Mcflappyjowels.....
What do you expect out of the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA , theu created the TEA PARTY, the REPUBLICANS are just a off shute of the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA, just wake the HE--up. the DEMOCRATS has to start fighting back or lose.
By obtaining the position of Republicans, they are also obtaining the position of Democrats. As Nader pointed out 11 years ago, "there isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two parties."
There is a difference between the two parties; There just isn't enough of a difference, especially on the economic issues. Both have to whore themselves out to the same corporate dirtbags. Until the way campaigns are funded is changed, this is what we can expect. But the worst Democrat is still better than just about ANY republican. As for Nader, I agree with him on a lot of issues, but the way he disappears between elections and has never built up a serious party structure leaves him as more of a gadfly than a serious candidate.
from George Wallace.
But of course effective politicans like Wallace and Nader still use it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXQ9Op8thmA&fe...
"Folks, this is not your father's Republican Party."
Joe Biden
Corporate determines who will appear on Sunday mornings and what stories will be featured on the morning and evening news. Anyone who thinks otherwise is naive in the extreme.
Gingrich, Barbour, Pawlenty et all are of no consequence and Boehner is a schmoozer.
How much time was spent during the last Presidential campaign fussing over Barack Obama's lapel pin compared to how much time was spent delving into policy positions? Is the media lazy? Are Americans too stupid to care and demand more? Do the suits in the corner office want to keep it that way? Is it all of the above?
Dem's don't even want to be anywhere near these FKN, ignorant Reslug fools that can't stop lying.
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