The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: The Review
Sunday, July 6, 2008
PREFACE:
On ABC’s This Week, Senator Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island) asserted that the Iraqis were passing laws to make it seem like they were doing something but not enforcing them. (Actually, on oil revenue sharing, they’ve not passed a law but are enforcing the sharing anyway.) Senator Joe Lieberman (I-Connecticut) noted that there has been a significant change in Obama’s position over the past week, with Obama now expressing concern for the “stability of Iraq” when discussing troop withdrawal. That, Lieberman argued, is the McCain position.
Next on TW, Libertarian Bob Barr spouted a few agreeable platitudes regarding the Nanny State then posited that George Bush was worse for our civil liberties than was Bill Clinton.
On FOX News Sunday, Brit Hume hosted an entertaining panel discussion.
On NBC, Meet the Press was preempted by a tennis match.
On CBS’ Face the Nation John Kerry (”reporting for duty”) posited that John McCain has flip-flopped more often than he has, and that we should try to partner with the People’s Republic of China. Gitmo should never have been opened, Kerry offered, maintaining that we should have tried the enemy combatants right there on the battlefield.
For his part, Lindsey Graham said that the biggest loser now in Iraq is al Qaeda, and the biggest loser longer will be Iran. He said that the only way we could lose this war is to do an Obama retreat.
On CNN’s Late Edition, Wolf Blitzer did a 10th anniversary best-of show.
Read the show-by-show review at RedState.com.
