Sunday Morning Bobblehead Thread
By Nicole Belle Sunday May 24, 2009 4:00amOasis -- Don't Look Back In Anger
It's more of the Republican Legacy Tour this Sunday. The main event will be beleaguered former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Face The Nation. He's getting it from all sides: the left, unwilling to forgive him for his lies in getting us into war and now the R(ush) N(ewt) C(heney) Party, unhappy with his recent honesty regarding the health of his own party. And the man who puts the N(ewt) in RNC will be on Meet The Press, to continue to show that despite the fact that he was forced to leave Congress in disgrace for his own hypocrisy years ago, he's the best they have to be the "new" face of change for the Republican Party. And of course, the compliant media keeps their focus on the GOP for yet another week.
ABC's "This Week" - Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
CBS' "Face the Nation" - Former Secretary of State Colin Powell; author Alvin Poussaint.
NBC's "Meet the Press" - Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show" - Panel: Michael Duffy, Katty Kay, Jennifer Loven, David Ignatius. Topics: Will the right or the left be a bigger thorn for Obama on national security? Has Obama already begun his reelection campaign with travel to red states? Meter Questions: Is Obama winning the national security policy debate with Cheney? YES: 11 NO: 1; Can Obama keep Pakistan's government in power? YES: 2 No: 10.
CNN's "State of the Unionk/Reliable Sources" - Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge; Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala.
CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" - Fareed sits down with Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf in an exclusive interview. Musharraf is the guest for the hour and they discuss his years in power and resignation, Pakistan's deadly struggle against the Taliban, strained relations between India and Pakistan, and Benazir Bhutto's death.
"Fox News Sunday" - Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.
So, what's catching your eye this morning?
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FtN seems to be snagging the higher-profile guests the past few weeks.
Now if we can just improve their timeslot.
at Kennedy or in California on the NASA web site live over my wonderful Cox Business Internet broadband service.
Update at 7:36am The Shuttle has completed a de-orbit burn to land at Edwards Air Force Base around 8:30 PDT. The desert is beautiful today.
7:56am Touchdown will be at 8:40am
Atlantis is home!
The mother of all freudian slips.
Barack Obama - "We are out of money"
here
He doesn't completely come clean though. He does a two step about the car companies, food stamps, states going broke etc.
The REAL culprit is the Wall Street Mafia and he should know it, he should tell it like it is.
The Banksters have us for a ride.
Jesse's Café Américain here - some good links on why and how the US has gone broke.
Now that our pockets have been turned inside out, the 'cons will have the perfect excuse to rid the U.S. of those nasty welfare programs like Social Security and Medicare.
After decades of trying to do this, seems like obama and the dems will be the ones to get it done!
Newt Gingrich, John Kyl, Richard Shelby...? These are people that an informed, intelligent electorate would have, or should still, vote out of office at the first opportunity.
Knuckle-dragging, neanderthal reprobates, every one of them. I guess some good comes from the insistence ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN all share in having a majority of GOP idiots on their Sunday morning shows - I don't watch them anymore. There's a more peaceful me, no more large objects being hurled at the family TV. I don't upset the dogs as much, they used to watch with me.
NBC should give MTP an honorable funeral. Gregory has killed it. What the hell is he having that fat, steamy, pant load, Newt on his show for? Oh well, I haven't watched it since they put the RNC talking point boy in charge anyway. Gregory was taught journalism by the RNC in the past eight years. Worthless, dishonest, shallow.
Calling Newt a "pantload" is unfair to actual diapers.
Agree, they should fire that piece of shit Gregory. He's letting Gingrich ramble on with no pushback at all. What an asshole.
Rachel Maddow as the moderator on MTP, but I suspect a lot of republiscums would be too afraid to face her.
The inside of my eyelids.
Absolutely nothing compelling here with the exception of Colin Powell. But since they are only having him on, so they can continue the feud with that scumbag Cheney, I'll pass.
I'm going back to bed.
Kyl, out of the box, on FnS, says "Obama can't convince him" to support closing Gitmo because "it's illegal to release prisoners inside the United States."
PS: Later quotes "a Fox survey" to support "American's don't want these people released in the United States."
On the subject of "filibustering Obama's SC nominee", Wallace allows Kyl to filibuster the subject, speaking non-stop for several minutes while Ben Nelson waits in the wings.
PS: Nelson is finally brought in to declare "I can vote for a Liberal. I don't want an 'activist'."
The first time I heard this song I heard "Don't look back you wanker"....
No idea why I was compelled to share that.
after the big "blame Canada" BS from FauxSnooze, my satellite provider has terminated FauxSnooze from their lineup, unless requested by customer. Now THAT is poetic justice.
wicked! congrats!!!
Rove is on FnS saying President Obama "will probably perform fewer military tribunals than was done under the Bush Administration."
And we all remember how many Bush did.
If Obama does fewer "military tribunals", it will only be because he moves them into the civilian court system.
Rove: "I went and looked back". "FDR didn't blame his predecessor once" vs "Obama blaming the Bush Administration."
Wallace then asks the obvious, Bush blaming Clinton. Rove, naturally denies they did so to the same extent.
I don't think Obama is blaming, he's reminding! He knows how short of a memory Americans have when it comes to politics. Obama's constant reminders will ensure your ilk won't slip back into power without a struggle.
On this Memorial Day weekend, may Americans never forget the dark ages of George Bush, the theft, and the hundreds of thousands lives lost around the world because of the most incompetent and irresponsible administration in recent American history!
In the FnS "Power Panel", Nina Easton asks why "Obama doesn't give Bush more credit" instead of constantly "attacking" him "all the time".
Picks Limbaugh over Powell.
Irrelevant though because, "neither of these guys are running for public office"... you know, like Karl Rove.
NBC's "Meet the Press" - Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
Durbin could and should abandon all pretense of civility, walk across the set, and kick Newtie in the 'nads; then while the Georgia fuck is whining and gasping and wtithing on the studio floor, tie him to a waterboard and piss down his throat...
THAT'S Entertainment...
Okay...when are the Dems going to shoot this one down once at for all?
Forget the attack that occurred on Bush's watch, and forget the hundreds of terrorist attacks in all other parts of the Western world during those eight years.
I don't consider it "keeping us safe" when the policies implemented permitted exponential growth of future terrorists around the world. It's like saying that it's a good thing that you haven't been shot at, while you sit by and watch your enemy develop recruits and built an arsenal so that it will be even more deadly at a time of his choosing.
Finally, there are other ways terrorists can inflict harm on a country other than through arms. Sometimes, driving your enemy into moral and fiscal bankruptcy is just as effective.
What about the anthrax attacks?
How did those end up getting thrown down the memory hole?
Sen. Kyl on FnS said, "9/11 didn't happen because of Gitmo. They didn't do what they did because of Guantanamo Bay", he said attacking Obama's claim that "the very existence of Gitmo makes us less safe".
By taking 160,000+ military personnel and putting them in harms way as targets in the Middle East. They did that to keep "US" safe. Now, those other people (re: THEM) that they sent to the Mid East, where over 4200 died, apparently weren't American citizens, so y'know, they don't count. So screw them.
i thought now that the Dems were in power they would have the stronger voice on these talkies, a tally of the participants shows a Repulican advantage. Oh liberal media, when will you learn? you are so transparent in your bias.
fucking joke.
Why is he on EVERY single Sunday.
What office does he hold?
I seem to remember he disappeared in disgrace a few years back.
Why is it that he and Cheney, two disgraced losers who represent NO ONE legislatively and only a very small minority ideologically have now popped up to be omnipresent in the media?
May I point out that both these guys have been making contradictory statements recently and numerous statements that have been shown to be false or misleading.
Why is the U.S. media giving more time to unelected known liars than to elected representatives of the people?
Aw, c'mon. You think we should hear from more Democrats just because they won in a landslide two elections in a row and hold huge majorities in both the House & Senate?
He's able to articulate thoughts and ideas, and use words effectively, unlike a majority of college graduates today.
We may not like what he's articulating, and 99% of it may be total BS, but it's why the shows like to have him on. Never underestimate the value of rhetorical skills.
Rhetorical bullshit.
That's the point I was trying to make. As a matter of fact, it takes even greater rhetorical skill to deliver BS effectively.
As far as Newt, I despise the man and his politics, personally I think he is evil, but I have to give him kudos when it comes to delivery. The ability to deliver a message effectively has been a longstanding weakness of Democratic pols for decades, at least until Obama appeared on the scene.
Back to the original point...that's why Newt is on TV so much. I don't think it's a media conspiracy.
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Newt defends Cheney against Durbin's "Weapons of Mass Destruction" observation by saying, "Powell said it too."
Gregory: "How long should Gitmo stay open?"
Gingrich: "Until the war is over."
Gregory: "How long will that be?"
Newt points to the wannabees in NYC last week as evidence the war is ongoing and Gitmo is still needed.
The latest talking point seems to be that "attacks occured before Gitmo"... ignoring the question as to whether it could be making things worse.
IIRC, 9/11 was eight years ago, yet we're still at war? Why?
On the subject of "compromise", Gregory plays competing clips of Obama's speech mentioning our values, vs Cheney fear-mongering about "nuclear armed terrorists".
Gregory then asks Newt about "compromise", completely ignoring the obvious question: "Who has nukes?"
If there are terrorists out there "with nukes" now, that seems like a bigger story to me.
Newt: "Fear's probably appropriate", defending it as a reaction to terrorist events (and setting Government policy.)
Durbin: "America cowering in fear is not an option".
Newt attacks those who would "attack the CIA".
Durbin calls Gingrich on it:
Durbin: Do you want to apologize (for his 2007 criticism of the NIE).
Gingrich: I said it was intellectually dishonest. I never called them liars."
Haven't seem Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz lately. What a pile of dog mess.
Chuck Todd makes the case that, "If you take Dick Cheney's name off them, his policies are quite popular with the American people."
On FtN, Powell cites Mancow's waterboarding demonstration to point out how it's an inappropriate interrogation technique for us to be using.
"Six seconds. Six seconds and he was screaming to be let up."
On closing Gitmo, Adm Mullen says, "I've been saying it for years."
I find the Pakistani media blitz - ambassadors, former dictators, current leaders all making the rounds - quite interesting given the recent "offensive" in the Swat valley.
The one constant take away seems to be "Look, we're finally doing something, give us billions more money." Eff them. Sink the billions they want into alternative energy. The sooner we can break our dependence on oil the problems we have to endure dealing with these muslim DBs the sooner we will all be MUCH safer.
Does the Newt have a real job?
against over the top Newt Gingrich with his spin, hypocrisy, and fear-mongering. Durbin is very measured and clear in what he says and even with an undertone of emotion, whereas the mealy-mouthed and feeble Harry Reid just never comes across that way. Durbin would make a much better and more effective Majority Leader in the Senate. I hope Obama can push Reid outta the way somehow.
It looks like this was from last week; I don't know, I didn't watch. But the segments were posted on GPS's website last night. I looked for who would be on today and couldn't find other than the Musaref interview. I watched today and it was a round-table discussion on Iran & Israel, and then the former Israeli foreign minister(?) - a woman - and a couple of others.
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