The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: The Review
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Leading off FOX News Sunday, Senator Jack Reed declared that we had to get out of Iraq, and Senator Lindsey Graham noted that this battle with Mookie al Sadr’s militias were part of an Iranian battle: “Iranians are killing Americans in Iraq.”
Tennessee’s Dem Governor Phil Bredesen was up next on FNS, discussing his superdelegate convention. He wants this over before August, “then whoever wins can say their mea culpas.” (”It’s my fault for being so nasty in winning this thing, don’t you know, but politics is like this, you buffoonish loser.”)
Over on ABC’s This Week, Obama surrogate John Kerry praised Barry for his unilateral military strike into Pakistan, as he promised at a debate last year, which killed al Qaeda leader Abu Laith al-Libi in January. Stumping for Hillary, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell boasted that Okinawa Jack Murtha had supported Hillary.
Next on TW, Joe Lieberman said that this was not the same Dem Party as nominated him to be veep in 2000; it had, he said, been hijacked by “hyper-partisans” and “isolationists.”
On NBC’s Meet the Press, host Tim Russert chastised CIA Director Michael Hayden for some “miscalculation” by Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki in throwing the Sadr-ites out of Basra; he quoted part of a Bob Woodward article from a June, 2007 Washington Post to prove that Hayden thought that the Maliki government could not govern Iraq. Hayden had said “in the short term,” as Hayden pointed out and as Woodward had continued in his article. He accused the CIA of torture but let Hayden explain why the Army Field Manual could not be arbitrarily applied against the CIA and its agents in “different circumstances” than members of the Army.
On CBS’ Face the Nation, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson opined that Barry had confronted the issue of Jeremiah Wright. Richardson said that he would not stoop to the gutter with James Carville.
Next on FTN, Philadelphia Mayor Mike Nutter, and Hillary supporter, said that the superdelegates ought to consider which candidate would be best for the party and for the country. Schieffer asked him what African Americans would do if Hillary were perceived as having stolen the election from Barry, but Nutter said that this was about more than race.
On CNN’s Late Edition, James Carville (Hillary surrogate) kept repeating that she has not been nasty, and besides, the Republicans will be worse in the general election. Jamal Simmons (Obama surrogate) was rational throughout, allowing even that Obama could “fall apart.”
Check out the complete, Show-by-Show review over at RedState.com.
April 5th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
James:
It’s heartening to hear your program address the real issues, though I’d like to hear more about the global economics hassle the Europeans and some yuppies have been combating for years, now-
the IMF and the US led companies that now have to be accountable for hurting their own national currency(China is playing follow the leader or leaders-the US companies that are divesting their lower 48 state holdings which support middle and lower class jobs and social programs that should be paid for with money that now goes to Canada, China, Indonesia etc). I’ve heard some of the local investors for these kamakazee
companies complaining about how little they can spend of their deflated US currency abroad on their vacations. Isn’t it time to bring our tax dollars home? Let the troops that are defending or homeland do their jobs and just bring our tax dollars home for now. Tell this election year congress we expect the biggest contributors to this damned recession that they’re required to invest a healthier percentage of their growth in new facililties in the lower 48. The issue isn’t whether Obama is Black or Muslim. The issue is the Kerries, the Rockefellers, the Bloombergs etc. Why would Bloomberg endorse the Rev. Wright church? He’s Jewish. But, he’ll endorse an unofficially extended NAFTA treaty with Canada. He’ll endorse lack of health coverage to keep some underpaying companies in NYC happy. Is this good for most blacks in the US? Why does it matter that Obama is Black? I couldn’t agree more with him. He’d be a fake as white or black. Tell this shamming congress to help themselves as well as us- invest here and bring our tax dollars back so we can get this business-stupid recession over with. If the rich want their homes and vacation spending money worth more, let’s help them get there. Some children need their hands held to get them to do things.
PL