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Preview and Analysis for Weekend of August 4th and 5th, 2007

Posted by Beowulf on Sunday, August 05, 2007 11:04:10 AM


Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

NBC's "Meet the Press"
  • Defense Secretary Robert Gates

CBS's "Face the Nation"

  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
  • Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill.

Fox News Sunday

  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
  • Michael E. O'Hanlon
  • Kenneth M. Pollack
 CNN "Late Edition"
  • Defense Secretary Robert Gates
  • Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.
  • Afghan President Hamid Karzai
  • Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto

ABC's "This Week"

  • Republican presidential candidates debate
    • Sam Brownback
    • Rudy Giuliani
    • Mike Huckabee
    • Duncan Hunter
    • John McCain
    • Ron Paul
    • Mitt Romney
    • Tom Tancredo
    • Tommy Thompsonn

Here we go.  The DBM must try to shore up their "the war is already lost" narrative.  they will grill Gates and Rice mercilessly, particularly Gates based on his comments on his return flight from the gulf this week.  This is his big test whether he can handle the pressure and whether he's really on our side in all of this, or just another bureaucrat filling a seat.  I believe he's one of the good guys (gig 'em), but you can never tell.

And Fox is the only network who booked O'Hanlon and Pollack, those errant liberal Clintonistas who dared to pen that traitorous New York Times op-ed A War We Just Might Win.  How could they, the libs ask.  Thus this weekends battle lines are drawn.  The rest of the DBM will ignore (as much as they can) the O'Hanlon/Pollack piece that dares to suggest that we might be able to win in Iraq.  They will concentrate on pushing the "it's a failure" narrative, while simultaneously trying to undermine anyone who dares to questions that meme.  The big question this weekend is will O'Hanlon and Pollack stick to the current spin on their piece or will they take the opportunity afforded by Chris Wallace to "correct and extend" their comments?  I think that depends on how much pressure has been applied to them this week and what their ultimate motive for this piece may be.  Rush suggested that they did this to help bolster Hillary's position on the Iraq war.  We'll have to wait and see.

So, where does this leave us?  With a Congress in total collapse under the control of the insane clown posse of Pelosi, Hoyer, Murtha,  Reid, Byrd, Durbin and Schumer.  As expected, by those of us who are both self aware and not totally in thrall to the DBM mind control team.

Meet The Press begins the all out assault on all things Bush with an attack on Gates.  The meat of this week's show, however, is defined by the "roundtable" panel of (Hillary sycophant) Bernstein, (plaragist) Doris Kearns Goodwin, (Obama sycophant) David Mendell and that "Christian bigot" David Brody for "balance."  Oh, Timmah, Timmah, Timmah.  Do you have some penance to do, laddie.

Face The Nation trains their partisan DBM guns on Condoleeza Rice as their target of opportunity.  They will likely try to attack the administration's attempts to kick start the mid-east peace process.  for people so devoted to "peace" and "negotiation" they seem singularly intent on attacking any negotiating or moves intended to promote peace.  No matter how misguided, Rice is doing what they want her to do, yet they're never satisfied.  Talk about cognitive dissonance!  Rahm Emanuel is on for no discernible reason, but I'm willing to guarantee you that he won't be pressed on vote stealing in Nazi Pelosi's gulag.  If the subject even gets raised it will be interesting to see how it's framed and how much tap dancing Ol' Bob and young Rahm do to try to avoid calling it what it is, namely fascism (or Stalinism, depending on your point of view).

Fox News Sunday provides what I hope will be a bit more reasonable venue for Secretary Rice than Ol' partisan Bob's half hour Bush admin hate fest on CBS.  Of course, Chris Wallace has proved himself to be thoroughly in the pocket of daddy's freakish anti-American theology, so no guarantees, particularly since Brit is once again not to be found.  Are they intentionally trying to force him out?  The most interesting guests of the week are O'Hanlon and Pollack, or New York Times "we might win this one" fame.  There are three possibilities here, first that they will confirm their heretical position, second that they will spin it to try to reverse the effect and third that they have laid a trap and will spring it this weekend, attacking on some new tangent (e.g. military victory won't fix the corrupt and incompetent Iraq government, therefore we must leave).  Machiavelli would have loved this set up.  As stated there's no Brit this weekend, so the heavy lifting is up to Bill Kristol.  He's proven himself to be quite capable of pissing off the intelligentsia with his own "we might win this one" rhetoric, so he's not a bad fall back position, but he's no Brit.  And Charles will contribute a few pearls of wisdom, so we're probably in for a good panel, even without Brit.

On CNN Late Edition Wolfie provides Secretary Gates a second platform for the weekend.  No doubt he'll be pressed heavily on the AP spin of his comments on his return flight from the Middle East.  He may have even phrased his comments as he did to guarantee his invites to the Sunday shows.  We'll have to wait and see if he's staying on the reservation and delivering the Bush administration's message or if he's striking out on his own as Colin Powell so often did.  He's an Aggie, so I trust he won't disgrace the institution.  Ol' owlish Carl Levin is on to continue his "we've lost we must surrender" tantrum.  The Senator from Al Qaeda must get his "we've lost" talking points out or he may displease his masters.  Hamid Karzai and Benazir Bhutto provide the broader perspective that is the redeeming value of this program.  It will be instructive to see how each is treated in their respective interviews and, particularly, what comments each may make about the other's situation.

ABC This Week has a 90 minute special with the announced Republican candidates in a "debate" setting.  I doubt that curious George will actually allow a debate to break out, preferring to editorialize in his questions, but it's probably worth watching.  I wouldn't be a bit surprised to see Fred Thompson make himself available to Fox News later in the day to put in his two cents.

The Saturday shows (mostly all done as I type) are becoming less worth paying attention to each week.  Fred and Mort on The Beltway Boys are increasingly unwatchable for anyone who is actually following what's going on.  Their relentless regurgitation of the "conventional wisdom" in Washington is infuriating.  I've dropped CNBC's Tim Russert Show this week as they appear to have stopped posting any info about it on their web site.  Plus, it's just not worth following anymore.  Fox News Watch isn't much better as they consistently refuse to even admit to the fraud and deceit in their so called profession, while obsessing on tabloid trash topics.  This week they're concentrating on the "controversy" surrounding Rupert Murdoch's purchase of the Wall Street Journal (only a controversy to the brain dead leftists in the media) and the Michal Vick "scandal."  What a waste.  The Journal Editorial Report redeems Saturday's brain dead programs, a bit, with an examination of the partisan mud wrestling that the Dhimmicrats have made of our nation's capitol.  They also delve into the tabloid world of sports scandal a bit, but I can forgive them as they will make it meaningful and not just sensational.

So, there's the line up for this week.  As is my habit the last few months I'm way late in posting this, sorry about that, but I can only do what I can do when I can do it. 

The networks are bent on their "the war is lost" trajectory and no amount of reality will divert them.  This weekend seems to be a tussle between real reality and the "reality based community" over just what the meaning of "reality" is.  It's like arguing over what the meaning of "is" is, which is something they are apparently comfortable with.  The dinosaur media is still intent on defining what is really real, and denying the real reality of what they don't want us to know.  Is that Orwellian enough for you?  Winston Smith would feel right at home in the media world of 2007.

Seriously, there needs to be a "reality check" show each week to review what the DBM is spewing forth on their broadcasts.  In any given week there are ten and a half hours of old network nightly news shows to dissect, plus the 24/7 filth spewed by CNN/MSNBC/Fox.  How hard would it be (and how profitable) for someone to do a week in review on those shows and point out the most egregious examples of misinformation and agenda journalism?  but, of course, that would mean the offending journalist doing the review would no longer be part of "the club" and wouldn't be invited to the right parties.  Well, I hereby volunteer to host such a show.   I have no bridges to burn nor relationships to sacrifice.  It will take an outsider to truly check their madness.  And like most such positions it will be necessary to impose term limits on such a gadfly as they will inevitably be co-opted by the powers that be.  This is a job for a true outsider.

So, the first weekend in August of 2007 is now unfolding.  Are we in the midst of the worst straits of the Dhimmicrat/DBM pessimist fantasies or are we on the cusp of critical decisions and actions that will determine our future for a thousand years?  That is up to us to determine, despite what Timmah, Georgie, Wolfie, Ol' Bob or Daddy's boy Chris wants to push on us.

In this context, we are the deciders.  We need to examine their shtick with a critical eye.

This should be cross posted to my blog at Wizards.townhall.com later today. I have finally caught up over their and I hope to keep up to date from now on. In fact I'm going to change the format just a bit when posting this in light of the success of the technique I used to get caught up. This analysis will still be first but then I'm going to try putting all of the show by show posts into one big Post number 1. If I end up falling back to separate posts you'll know that I found an upper limit to the length of FR posts.

This thread exists primarily as a heads up for who is on the weekend talks shows, what they've been invited on to push (based on their recent pronouncements) and the spin (meme) the DBM is likely trying to push based on that information. All of this is prep work for the weekly Sunday Morning Talk Show thread posted by Alas Babylon!. That thread provides a live commentary and analysis of the Sunday talking head shows, with valuable insight and exceptional fact checking. we are the Jedi Council of FreeRepublic, at least in regards to these DBM gabfests. You wanna know what was said and what it meant, as well as where they messed up? Read that thread!

Sunday Morning Talk Show Thread 5 August 2007 (includes "This Week" GOP Debate)

Mark Kilmer has posted his excellent preview of the Sunday shows over at Redstate.COM.

Politico.COM has their Sunday Talk Show Tip Sheet

Show by Show Preview

Below are the topics and guests announced for these programs, along with my take on the "memes" that the shows are trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.

Saturday Shows For August 4th, 2007

Note: CNBCs Tim Russert Show has been dropped from this list, they've not posted for several weeks and it's boring anyway

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

  • Meme:
    • Washington's view of everything, regurgitated ad nauseum by those captured by the system
  • Topics:
    • This week's bridge collapse in Minnesota sparks a bitter round of finger pointing here in Washington--and new questions about the country's infrastructure
    • Barack Obama talks tough on terror. We'll tell you how he did
  • Beltway Boys contact information beltway@foxnews.com
  • The program airs on FOX News Channel Saturdays at 6 and 11:30 p.m. ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

  • Meme:
  • Topics:
    • Big Deal: The media have a lot to say about Rupert Murdoch's purchase of Dow Jones and The Wall Street Journal!
    • Michael Vick Saga: Have the media been too quick to convict Michael Vick?
  • The program airs on FOX News Channel Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. ET and Sundays at 2:30 a.m. ET
  • Fox News Watch contact information Newswatch@foxnews.com

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page

  • Meme:
    • Partisan politics in Washington?  After Nazi Pelosi and Dingy Harry have taken over?  Perish the thought!
    • You don't suppose this was filmed after the little vote fraud session that Pelosi Galore cooked up on Thursday night, do you?  This could get interesting
  • Topics:
    • Opinion Journal web page: Is Anybody Listening?
      • Congress fiddles while the U.S. program to wiretap al Qaeda dwindles to a third of its former effectiveness. What's the problem?
      • Plus, the scandal outbreak in sports.
    • Fox News Channel web page
      • Has partisan politics gutted one of our best tools in the War on Terror?
      • What ever happened to ethics in sports?
  • Guests
  • Journal Editorial Report (at Fox News) contact information - jer@foxnews.com
  • The program is from The Wall Street Journal and airs on FNC Saturday at 11 p.m. and again Sunday at 6 a.m. ET

The Sunday Shows for August 5th, 2007

The main event

NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

  • Meme:
    • These are Republicans, you can expect only disdain and ridicule from Curious Georgie Steponallofus
  • Topics:
    • A live 90-minute debate from Iowa with the Republican candidates.
  • Guests
    • Senator Sam Brownback, Republican - Kansas
    • Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Republican - New York
    • Former Governor Mike Huckabee, Republican - Arkansas
    • Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican - California
    • Senator John McCain, Republican - Arizona
    • Representative Ron Paul, Republican - Texas
    • Former Governor Mitt Romney, Republican - Massachusetts
    • Representative Tom Tancredo, Republican - Colorado
    • Former Governor Tommy Thompson, Republican - Wisconsin
  • ABC This Week comment web page
  • Note: scheduled to start at normal time in Memphis, with added time for debate format

 

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