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Preview and Analysis for Weekend of May 12th and 13th, 2007

Posted by Beowulf on Saturday, May 12, 2007 2:15:18 PM

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

NBC's "Meet the Press"
  • Sen. John McCain

CBS's "Face the Nation"

  • Sen. Chuck Hagel

Fox News Sunday

  • Rudy Giuliani
 CNN "Late Edition"
  • Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
  • Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham
  • Former Sen. Max Cleland

ABC's "This Week"

  • Barack Obama

With the exception of CNN LE this is the weekend of the "meet the candidates because you've never heard of these guys before" Sunday shows.  And, of course, they don't have any of the candidates on that no one really knows.  A thousand years from now, if anyone still cares about American politics, this presidential campaign will be known as the "phony election."  Everything is being run according to George Soros' script and so far no one is willing to state the obvious inside the old dinosaur media.  These clowns are whistling past the graveyard, they're screaming and shouting as loud as they can so that we won't notice that there's a big mass grave over there and they're herding us in that direction as quickly as they can.

NBC's Meet the Press introduces us to the totally unkown Senator from Arizona, John McCain.  Oh, you've heard of him before?  Well, that was the old John McCain, useful Bush Basher.  This is the new John McCain, Iraq war hawk and therefore he is a bashee, not a basher.  You have to keep up with the latest narrative.  You got the fax, didn't you?  Well, if you're not on the list just go to Truth central, or the wholly owned Truth subsidiary site and you can sign up.  While you're there don't forget to tithe pay tribute pay the danegeld make a tax deductible donation.

CBS Face The Nation offers up the new maverick hero of the DBM, Saint Senator Chuck Hagel, of Nebraska of all places.  I don't think they honestly believe that he has a snowball's chance of taking the GOP nomination, but I think they believe that if they can feed his ego enough he might just try a third party bid and pull a Ross Perot on whoever the GOP nominee eventually is.  I think Dean Barnett has it right on this scenario (Run, Chuck, Run!!! on Hugh Hewitt's site at Townhall) and it won't quite work out that way.  But, hey, the left is playing any card they can think of.  This is for all the marbles, folks.

Fox News Sunday brings us the wounded but still formidable Rudy Giuliani, "hero of 9/11."  The right and left have been ganging up on him for a couple of weeks now and a consensus has formed that "he's doomed, doomed I tell you!"  The Lew Rockwell / Perotista / Buchananite types, who are so far right they're now on the extreme left, seem to be the most incensed about his candidacy.  But do they have as much clout with the Republican electorate as the moonbat left has in the Dhimmicrat primaries?  They certainly are getting enough of their criticism of Rudy aired by the DBM, as if it were the only conservative point of view on the matter.  That instruction was in the fax to the DBM.

CNN Late Edition breaks the mold without one identified presidential candidate... unless there's something about Mitch McConnell they haven't sent out a fax on yet?  Anyway, McConnell, Graham, Boxer and Cleland have at each other over who has blood on whose hands and who is lying to the American people.  With Mitch present I have hopes that the good Lindsey Graham will show up.  I will say I think this whole thing is a set up, however.  Based on the number of "Max Cleland is a war hero/saint so don't you dare even question what he says or you are a fiend and a traitor" stories in the DBM I think they're setting the stage for a brand new professional victim's tour bashing any and all Republicans, particularly those who won't endorse surrender to Al Qaeda.

ABC This Week rounds out the main Sunday shows and returns to the "one show / one candidate" theme.  As little Georgie Steponallofus has turned his show into a PR arm of the Hillary campaign it will be interesting to watch this dance.  I think they want to put Barack (the LA Times' "magic negro") fimly into his place on the Dhimmicrat plantation, subservient to his rightful white Democrat masters, particularly the Dowager Empress.  At the same time I think they see him as a useful prop as vice president and chief blame taker for a Hillary administration.  They have to belittle him without damaging him.  A delicate balance.  Do you suppose they'll ask about his slight misstatement of the death toll from the Kansas tornado (just 9,988 off, 10,000 instead of 12... no biggee) as part of a political propaganda attack on Bush?  If they do I bet you they won't phrase in quite that way.

The Saturday shows follow their usual patter, three meaningless half hours in easily accessible time slots and one major half hour at a time Dracula might find convenient.  The Beltway Boys sticks directly to this weeks DNC press releases, with stories on Rudy's abortion problems, the DNC spin on Romney vs. Sharpton and the lack of patience, particularly among GOP "moderates," with the situation in Iraq.  All spin, all the time.  They've guaranteed their cocktail party invitations for another few months by towing the line.  CNBC's Tim Russet Show allows lil Timmah a second go around with Saint George Tenet, slayer of Bush.  After a relatively hostile appearance on MTP last week Tenet was savaged by both the left and the right.  The folks at Democrat Underground and Daily Kos  laid out the roadmap for Tenet's redemption and salvation.  Now Timmah is giving him the opportunity to get it right.  If he fails it's a minor enough show that no one will notice and the MTP appearance will stand.  If he adopts the Soros script every word will be viewed as holy writ and will dominate a redemptive news cycle.  I think it depends on what his publisher told him this week about his book sales.  It certainly won't be based on reality, integrity or honor, not with this clown.  Fox News Watch is in their usual DBM CYA mode.  I'd love to see Brit join the panel one week and smack down Neal and Jane, just once!  The Journal Editorial Report provides their usual litany of actual issues that matter that no one else in the media is actually treating seriously (it's too long, but that would be a great advertising slogan for them).  I can't wait till they start podcasting this show and abandon broadcast and cable altogether.

I bet that if we went back to 1964 and told David Brinkley that all of the network talk shows would devote their entire programs on this Sunday in 2007, all of 540 days before the election, to interviews with "leading" presidential candidates, one per show, that he'd have us arrested as lunatics. 

The phony election rolls on, strictly adhering to George Soros' script.  I wonder if he'll call this his blue revolution?  Watch the T-shirt makers for large orders of "this is a blue country" shirts with slogans straight out of Madison Avenue focus groups.  And the Moby Mobs continue to stir up trouble on the net, planting stories and spinning discussions about Republicans, primarily following the exact Moby tactic of painting each Republican candidate as not "one of us real conservatives" over one issue or another.  And there are enough true believers and passionate conservatives on each issue who run with whatever theme is being pushed by the Mobybots to build it into a truly disqualifying attribute of that candidate, regardless of any other issues.  It gains a life of it's own with legitimacy, but no real value to the problems that really face us, namely survival.

Single issue politics is being used against us as both a boost for our enemies (all Iraq doom, all the time) and as a weapon against us.  The drive by media has their talking points emphasizing what supposedly unifies the Dhimmicrats as well as what potentially divides.  So far the sheeple are blinding marching along to their tune.  This election is about Iraq and the survival of western civilization, but all we're talking about on our side is abortion or someone's church or their stand on regulating Mexican truck drivers!  Will the conservative movement survive?  Frankly, I don't know.  This election will go a long way towards telling us whether it will or whether we will be looking into the abyss of our civilization's demise.

Or this Sunday could be the usual non-event.  Whatever.  Have at it and hope to see you on Sunday.  I have the honors this week, but I'm traveling starting on Wednesday.  One way or the other the awards for the Sunday show will either be posted by Tuesday night or they probably won't be posted till the following Tuesday.  Hey, it's a free trip to Hawaii.  You turn it down! <g>

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!

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

Politico.COM has their Sunday Talk Show Tip Sheet

 

Saturday Shows for May 12th, 2007

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.

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

  • Meme:
    • Meet the new media, same as the old media - we don't report the news, we manufacture it and force feed it to you
    • Howard Dean faxed a press release to the folks at the cocktail party and that goes straight into the teleprompter for the pundits - works every time.
    • Did you hear?  Rudy's pro-choice?  I'm shocked, shocked I tell you!
    • Oh, boy.  Mitt's really screwed up now!  He's actually talking about God!  And arguing with Reverand Al, to boot.  He's doooooomed!
  • Topics:
    • Rudy Giuliani hopes the GOP will embrace a pro-choice candidate
    • Smackdown between Mitt Romney and Al Sharpton; we'll tell you why
    • Patience with Iraq runs thin in Washington
  • Beltway Boys contact information beltway@foxnews.com
  • The program airs on FOX News Channel Saturdays at 6 and 11:30 p.m. ET

CNBC's Tim Russert Show (Tim Russert)

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

  • Meme:
    • Meet the new media, same as the old media - we don't report the news, we manufacture it and force feed it to you
    • Howard Dean faxed us a press release and that goes straight into the teleprompter for the news readers - works every time.
    • Pay no attention to the scandals, bigotry, bias and complete incopetence in the old media.  They're not in the fax, they  didn't happen.
  • Topics:
    • Ft. Dix Terror Plot Foiled: Are the media missing other possible terror threats?
    • Rev. Al vs. Mitt Romney over GOD and religion!
    • A disaster in Kansas leads to a media fight over Iraq
  • 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:
    • A convicted currency swindler (and current head of the world wide anti American left) is out to get the head of the World Bank.
    • The media and their masters in the Dhimmicrat party are on the side of the convicted crook... surprise, surprise.
    • Did you know that there is a huge shift of public opinion and political clout in favor of the US and George Bush?  I didn't think so... it's not in the fax.
  • Topics:
    • Opinion Journal web page: Bank Job
      • Who's behind the attempt to oust Paul Wolfowitz at the World Bank?
      • What Europe's new leaders mean for U.S. foreign policy
      • How Internet activists are changing the Democratic Party.
    • Fox News Channel web page
      • Dem's Dilemma: Why the 'Netroots' may pull the plug on their support for the party
      • George Soros, Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank
      • What Europe's new leaders mean for America
  • 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

NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is 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.

CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is 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.

Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is 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.

CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is 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.

ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is 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.

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