Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread
By Nicole Belle Sunday May 10, 2009 4:00amAcoustic version of Won't Get Fooled Again by Pete Townsend
I'm going to share with you fine people something that apparently has escaped the notice of the producers and bookers of the Sunday news shows: The Democratic Party won last election day. Not just a little--but decisively. Democrats now hold the White House and a (theoretically) filibuster-proof majority in the Senate and House. A whopping percentage of Americans not only support our (say it with me now, Democratic) president, but think the country is going in the right direction.
Pretty decisive, wouldn't you say? I'd call that a mandate...some actual political capital, if you will. So who would be the natural choices for Sunday's shows? Why, Newt Gingrich, John McCain and Dick Cheney! That's right, the old faces that have been thoroughly rejected by citizens will be on to talk about the new face of the GOP.
Stunning. Here we sit, with crisis after crisis: economy, banking, auto industry, health care, climate change, Iraq, Afghanistan, (need I continue?) and what the bobbleheads think we should care about is the health of the GOP? There's a big WTF for you.
ABC's "This Week" — Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Jones, the president's national security adviser; Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
CBS'"Face the Nation" — Former Vice President Dick Cheney.
NBC's "Meet the Press" — Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai; Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.
NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show" - Panel: Bob Woodward, Katty Kay, Andrea Mitchell and Rick Stengel; Topics: Will Afghanistan and Pakistan become a death trap for President Obama? Should sex, race and sexual orientation matter for the Supreme Court pick? Meter Questions: Can Obama keep Pakistan's government in power? YES: 2 NO: 10; Will Republicans genuinely reevaluate? YES: 4 NO: 8
CNN's "State of the Union" — Gen. David Petraeus, head of the U.S. Central Command; Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Bob Casey, D-Pa.
CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" - Fareed sits down with the Dalai Lama. His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso speaks out about his struggle with China for the freedom of the Tibetan people. He talks to Fareed about oppression in the region and maintains that brutality is not engrained in humanity. The Dalai Lama also discusses his own succession and whether or not this spiritual institution will continue after his death.
"Fox News Sunday" — Petraeus; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
Okay, while I run back into bed, so my kids can serve me breakfast, tell us what's catching your eye this morning.
Oh yeah, and Happy Mother's Day to all my fellow mommies. Hope you are getting your fill of sticky pancake kisses and crayoned and glittered cards. I know I am.
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Traitor dick, Mr. Torture / Murder /Treason has got some 'plaining to do.
He in fact ,to the world ,is the sordid face of our nation of torture .
BS loves dick. he'll let chainey spew a mouthful of lies.
Me thinks they are having all these Conservatives on today because they're a bunch of mothers. :)
Lodge a complaint and let CBS know how you feel, I did. CBS Feedback form.
Done!
I think Cheney is doing his best to get us attacked again so he can say "I was right" or "I told you Obama is making us less safe". Our lame ass media keeps bringing him on to brag about torture and how "glad" (his word) he is that we did it. Again the media and Cheney will be responsible for getting more Americans killed.
where David Gregory asks Cheney:
In the past we have condemned countries that have used "inhanced interrogation" techniques like water boarding against their captives through war. We have prosecuted and convicted individuals who used this barbaric method aginst others. Clearly, waterboarding violates both the letter and the spirit of the Torture Act, the War Crimes Act, and the Prohibition against Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment. Also, American courts have ruled that when prisoners in the United States are subjected to waterboarding, it is a violation of the Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments, and therefore it would be a violation of 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000dd and 2000dd-0 prohibiting cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. When it is practiced in other countries, the State Department characterizes waterboarding as “torture.” So I ask you this: 1]By engaging in this practice ourselves, don't we invite our enemies to treat our captured soldiers likewise and 2] should there be any consequences for those officials here who clearly violated the law by authorizing its use?
Yep...in my dreams....
I think Areosmith said it best. :)
Is it just me? How many weeks in a row has Johnny been appearing on these Sunday shows since losing the election? It seems like every week. And Lord only knows why they keep giving him a platform.
that they made the wrong decision. the msm has only one job - to keep america distracted, off balance, confused and angry.
should continue to bring up how willingly the MSM sold the war against terrorism and, with the embedded retired officers, how it actually engaged in psychological operations against Americans, as part of Cheney and companies tactics to engage in the invasion.
You know, keep repeating the truth until it is believed, akin to the way republicans keep repeating lies until they believe them themselves.
does that include how 9/11 was their first step in scaring the American public into supporting the imperialistic invasion of the ME?
accountable?
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Wallace asked Gen Patreus "Is al Qaeda back in business" (suggesting it's a recent/Obama thing).
Patreus slaps that down with "al Qaeda has been back in business for years."
Stephen Colbert WHCD - 2006
I caught some one liners from Wanda Sykes, which made me watch Colbert's appearance one more time just yesterday.
Great, great stuff.
When asked if he was getting enough troops from the White House, Patreus responded "Every troop request I've given to the White House has been approved."
Pessimism TV cannot rest on Sunday ..Fareed Zakaria exudes that Obama-esque logic of global peace. Coffee and blues is Sunday AM.
Patreus, when asked, announced that those in the "Sunni Awakening" have been shifted from U.S. to Pakistan's payroll.
Interesting to even hear the subject discussed. The Dirty Little Secret the Right hates to talk about.
Are you serious!?!?!?!? That has got to be the more stupidest thing I've ever heard. Gee, can anybody guess how that's going to turn out when Pakistan goes radical? Christ on a cracker, we are so, so very scrod.
No surprise.
Rather than have Pelosi on to ask her about the latest torture memo revelation (claiming she knew), FnS has Gingrich on to ask HIM to explain Pelosi's comments. (Wallace and Gingrich make it "a given" that the report is 100% accurate and truthful, instead of questionable based upon hearsay.)
"There is a lot of things Congress can do. But they haven't passed a law making waterboarding illegal..."
Maybe that's because IT'S ALREADY ILLEGAL!
Wallace and Gingrich go on to discuss the fantasy that Gitmo detainees will be brought to the U.S. and set loose.
who authored the memos arguments. It's based on the ethical proscriptions against all attorneys that they cannot counsel on the evasion of law. Those proscriptions are delineated in statute in most states. They knew waterboarding was illegal and they had to knew they were working for someone (Cheney) who was intent on breaking the law!
"...the new face of the GOP"
I've been seeing headlines after headlines saying the party's over, the g*** obsolete party, going the way of the Whigs, Endangered Species, etc. Americans should focus on what will replace the gop, I suggest Democrats do that, since most are center-right already, and let there be a true left wing of Progressives, Social Dems, etc.
One has to wonder, how mnay years will it take these Orwellean freaks to see the writing on the wall?
Everytime I skim the cable channels, I ALWAYS see Pat Buchanan. Doesn't matter what time of day, the guy is always on some show, talking right wingnut bullshit. This guy has absolutely nothing to say to 75% of America, yet you would think he was FDR delivering a fireside chat.
If the MSM was not controlled completely by wingnut corporations that spew their GOP propaganda 24/7, I doubt their would be 100 Repukes in congress, and 30 in the senate.
has been a great tool for keeping our society in disarray.
Have you considered removing the tools?
despite Pete's bravado at the beginning of this video, he was in full vocal support of the invasion of Iraq and the U.K.'s participation in it. perhaps the pressure was on him due to his legal difficulties at the time, but I was still aghast of his outspoken support for the invasion. So, this is a very apt choice.
FnS ended with a great recap of Obama's hilarious speech at the Correspondents Dinner last night.
Clip-worthy.
Full Video: Obama's White House Correspondents Dinner Speech
Bob Shuffler
George Stuffasockinit
David Gurgler
Say anything for a buck
I woke up to "Happy Mother's Day (sans apostrophe)spelled out in Fruit Loops - loved it.
I would watch the Dalai Lama and Meet the Press, turning off the sound while Gregory is speaking. Honestly, what you laid out above is the reason I don't watch television. Grand waste of my precious time. There is nothing that any of those criminals and miscreants could say that would interest me at this point unless it was to let us know that they would never be appearing on a television news show again.
Gregory asks Pakistan's president if he thinks bin Laden is still alive.
"I think he's dead because... I haven't heard from him in seven years."
Apparently, he missed the Oct 2004 video of bin Laden discussing the Kerry election.
I wonder what they discussed ?
Chavez seizes assets of foreign oil companies.
"I thought he was already a Democrat."
Cheney also said he would go with Rush rather than Powell. Radio shock jock over US General. You stay classy, Dick.
When cheney was asked if he would appear before the senate under oath, he hedged. Tells me all I need to know.
Nicole, Thanks for the warning. This morning we're keeping the TV off and enjoying our blueberry scones and coffee with our C&L reading.
In addition I'd like to call attention to this which caught my eye on Friday;
Posted by Jackpine Radical on Democratic Undergound May 8, 2009
Something strange is happening in America - something no virtually no living American has seen as an adult.
People just aren't drinking the Kool Ade any more. The cat's out of the bottle. The genie's out of the bag. There ain't no goin' back now. We have the power, we have the popular will on our side. There's a new game in town, and the politicians had better learn it.
A new poll says 52% want to legalize pot despite a decades-long, intensive propaganda campaign to keep it illegal.
65 or 70% support Obama and/or his supposedly liberal policies, despite a concentrated effort by the M$M media to sink him.
Harry and Louise be damned--57% of Americans would be willing to pay higher taxes in exchange for universal health care.
A large majority would gleefully see the rich start carrying their share of the tax burden.
Everybody, from both parties, is Goddamn sick of seeing bailouts of the corporate criminals who caused the current economic mess with their greed.
Hell, even the teabaggers, if they could figure out exactly what it is they're mad about, would discover that they too are just damned sick of being exploited by the corporate ruling class.
The Republicans and DINOs (who, combined, sadly constitute majorities in both houses of Congress) ignore these signs at their peril. If they manage to thwart the public will on these and a few other hot-button issues, I suspect they are going to find themselves confronting some unwelcome and unexpected turns of events in 2010.
The fact is, the rules of the game seem to be changing. All that corporate lucre will only guarantee your re-election if the public is willing to buy your propaganda message. The poll data I mentioned above indicates to me that this is not necessarily the case any more. People are finding new sources of information, largely online, but elsewhere too. Just as the establishment forces managed to capture public radio and turn it into a corporate mouthpiece, Amy Goodman appears on a thousand little low-power FM stations across the land. Internet radio, satellite radio--new voices appear everywhere, singing songs the corporations don't want you to hear.
Since the beginning of the Republic, with a few slips (such as in the period between 1932 and the end of the War), the rich have controlled public opinion. "America is a center-right country," they screeched.
Well, despite the best efforts of the propagandists, the public doesn't seem to be falling for it any more. The majority is discovering itself. That is to say, we are becoming aware of the fact that we are indeed the majority. There is perhaps nothing more powerful on the political scene that a populism that has suddenly discovered its own popularity.
http://jackpineneedles.blogspot.com
It all still boils down to Dem vs Rep for a majority of the public. Very few liberal or progressive policies are taking place, or are going to take place. Every leader needs public pressure. Praising the President 24/7 and gushing over every little thing his wife does, will not force any liberal or progressive policies. Obama has continued many of Bushies scams, with barely a murmur from the so called liberals of the US. Why?
Pete hasn't exactly recanted, but has changed his POV somewhat...
"At first, personally knowing one of his torture victims, I wanted Sadam Hussein removed at any price. I also wanted to send a message to the Islamic world (again, a place full of many of my friends) that the West was run by dangerous men with powerful weapons and our going into Iraq to ‘tidy up’ was a better option for sending that message than dropping nuclear warheads on Afghanistan or Pakistan which has such deep and tenuous links with Britain. It is too easy to sanction war when you don’t know what is actually happening to the soldiers and civilians in the conflict, and pretty much all British newspapers have kept everyone abreast of the true horrors. The Independent through Robert Fisk has been a leader in speaking of the reality of the conflict in Iraq, and the real ‘price’ of removing Sadam. I won’t go back on my initial support for the invasion, but I feel blooded and humbled, deeply, deeply ashamed at the way things have turned out."
The ever revolving door of the same old,washed up,prune faces bobbleheads appearing on the Sunday morning butt-kissing contests, remind me of the vegtable manager in a large grocery store!
Early every morning they're out there soaking and washing all the old and dried out vegtables and fruits, hoping that maybe this will be the magic day that some customer will buy it!
Is even nicer than my own, and he sure plays the hell out of those strings at about the midway point. I love that guitar. Feel ashamed I let it sit so much...
little dick: the 911 attack
Bob: something happened on 911
Little difference / Big difference
Anyone who still doesn't think American mainstream media are shameless propaganda is a moron.
Tell you something interesting. My high school hometown radio station was "Hit-Kickin' Country" for about a quarter century. That county was one of the proud that voted Obama in North Dakota. A couple months after the election, that radio station went 24/7 conservative talk. You think that's a coincidence, you're a moron.
Decisive victory in Congress, but had to bribe/borrow Republiscums in Senate to get that overwhelming majority. Unless some Dems refuse to vote party lines. Oh wait, that seems to happen all the time.
Unemployment ranks swelling, bailouts by the billions, killing 'em softly in the MidEast with little media attention, massive debts, stimulus not even trickling down, states bankrupt, and NOTHING will be done about the torture that broke various international laws. This is going in the right direction??? Do Americans ever pay attention to anything in the real world, or just what their party does/says?
And Americans still think the country is going in the right direction what with cutting taxes, increasing bombings, and bailing out corporations. This isn't Bush anymore. Sigh. But I'm sure the Dem party faithful will use Republican tactics for the next 4 years and blame him, rather than the guy that is continuing many of his policies.
until there is enough uproar from the Congress critters home districts. Seen as everyone went back to sleep after the election and thanks to the media, nothing will happen
Newt Gingrich is insane.
I don't understand how you can see anything through such a forest of lies and deception.
Integrity is completely replaced by blatant propaganda. I'm afraid unless you fix your media, your country is completely lost. It's just a matter of time before you cannot counter fast enough.
They own the media and you own your mouth and fingers.
If you had a video of a kitten getting hit with a hammer over and over again, the news has stunned you into thinking that right is wrong and morals is murder...
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