The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: The Review
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 25th at 02:57 PM |
January 25 PREFACE: On FNS, John McCain actually criticized Obama’s”close Gitmo in a year “policy” by suggesting John Boehner’s you got to know the logistics first” angle. On TW. Nancy whispered sweet nothings in George Stephanopoulos’s Gregory’s ears. For his part, Steph was taken aback by how important she is. On MTP, Larry Summers was almost clueless. On FTN, Bob Schieffer reacted to Larry Summer’s | Read More »
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: Preview
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 24th at 05:41 PM |
For Sunday, , 2009 FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks abut Obma’s start with Ombaphants John McCain and Chuckie Schumerl This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Nanch Pelosi. Meet the Press (NBC): Moderator David Gregory tatlks to somewhere who is incapable of fealking our econmy, Obama economic advisor Larry Summers. Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer tapos t0 the one | Read More »
A nation of men (Obama, Geithner), not laws
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 22nd at 03:25 PM |
The United States is a nation of laws, not men. The United States of America is a nation of laws, not men. In our Supreme Court’s first and foremost landmark case, Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch 137 (19803), Chief Justice John Marshall inveighed those words against Secretary of State James Madison. “The government of the United States has been emphatically termed a government of laws | Read More »
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: The Review
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 18th at 01:19 PM |
Sunday, January 18, 2009 PREFACE: On ABC’s This Week this morning, Obama strategist David Axelrod was still campaigning. On FNS, Nancy Pelosi screeched, cackled, and discussed bipartisanship done her way. Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs promised us that he’d never lie. If he was uncomfortable with the truth, he would move on to the next subject. On MTP, Rahmbo said a lot of stuff to moderator | Read More »
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: preview
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 17th at 09:58 AM |
For Sunday, January 18, 2009 FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace will talk to Nancy then to that strange Robert Gibbs fellow. This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos will talk to David Axelrod. Meet the Press (NBC): Moderator David Gregory will listen to Rahmbo. Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer will speak with Larry Summers, perhaps about the tax cheat whose Senate trial | Read More »
Senator Orrin Hatch supports Eric Holder, not Mitch McConnell
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 12th at 02:59 PM |
Hatch supports Holder because he likes Obama. On Friday, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell indicated that Obama’s Attorney General pick, Eric Holder, would be the most likely of the Obamakins to be blocked by the minority. “You know, beyond that, I don’t anticipate trouble for the new president’s nominees,” McConnell said on National Public Radio on Friday. “I think most of them are people that | Read More »
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: The Review
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 11th at 12:39 PM |
These are the talk shows for Sunday, January 11, 2009: PREFACE: Obama went on ABC’s This Week this morning, where he and host George Stephanopoulos demanded a sacrifice. From each and every American. For the common good, says he, The once we’ve appeased them, I suppose they’ll demand a second shrubbery, only slightly higher so you get a two-level effect with a little path running | Read More »
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: preview
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 10th at 10:32 AM |
For Sunday April 11 , 2009 FOX News Sunday (FNS): Brit Hum will be the host this week, interviewing the country’s two Presidents Bush. This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos interviews Obama then has his roundtable. Meet the Press (NBC): Moderator David Gregory offers us an entertaining lineup with Bill Cosby and Maxine Waters; he also takjs to DC Mayor Adrian Fenty and Dr. Alvin | Read More »
Will MSNBC’s Chris Matthews be the Senate Dems’ 60th vote after 2010?
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 7th at 01:09 PM |
There are several schools of thought on Chris Matthews’s mind, and given what we’ve seen of this mind, it’s reasonable to conclude that these schools of thought are public schools of the worst quality. To match the man. Chris Matthews’s brother Jim is boss of Pennsylvania’s Montgomery County Board of Commissioners. (He was also on the Lynn Swann ticket a few years ago when Governor | Read More »
On Meet the Press, Harry Reid remains a liar
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 4th at 01:59 PM |
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) is still a liar, and if he wanted to protect himself and his party from that shame, he ought to stay away from television cameras. Alas, Reid was the lone guest on NBC’s Meet the Press [transcript], and moderator David Gregory was not shy about the questions he asked. But I had to uncover the most brazen lie myself. | Read More »
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows – The Review
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 4th at 01:08 PM |
Sunday, January 4, 2009 PREFACE: Opening ABC’s This Week, Israeli President Shimon Peres asserted that Israel had no desire to crush Hamas or occupy Gaza; rather, they wanted to eliminate terror. Next up for host George Stephanopoulos was Dick Durbin, who appeared to indicate that he would be willing to seat Burris provisionally until the Senate could investigate and determine if Blago played by the | Read More »
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows – preview
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 3rd at 09:20 AM |
For Sunday, January 4, 2009 FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace will discuss the first 100 Days of Dem Congress, 2009, with Steny Hoyer. This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos will talk to Senators Roland Burris (D-Illinois), Dick Durbin (same), and Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky). Meet the Press (NBC): Moderator David Gregory talks to Harry Reid about his mounting woes. Face the Nation (CBS): Host | Read More »
Happy New Year! The Iraqis now run the Green Zone.
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | January 1st at 11:07 AM |
Happy New Year! It’s that in Iraq (quagmire, quagmire, Vietnam); in fact, Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki wishes for January 1st to be a national holiday in his sovereign country. Baghdad’s International Zone (Green Zone) has been turned over to the Iraqis as of midnight, 01/01/09. The Green Zone has long been a symbol, to the Iraqis, of the U.S. military presence, and now it | Read More »
The truth regarding Sarah Palin’s new grandson [PARODY]
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | December 30th at 11:14 AM |
Eighteen-year-old Bristol Palin, daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, has given birth to a 7 pound 7 ounce baby boy, Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston, the first child of Bristol and fiancé Levi Johnston. I can only guess with a fair degree of scientific certainty what is going through noted and confused blogger A. Sullivan’s mind: A-HA! Seven pounds! Seven ounces! Yea, though the number seven | Read More »
Replace the RNC (Gang of 168)
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | December 29th at 02:02 PM |
Apparantly this has never happened before, but a few members of the Republican National Committee have called a bizarre, special meeting of the RNC in order to hear the sundry candidates for their chairmanship debate something or other. This was at the behest of North Dakota Republican Party chairman Gary Emineth, who recently disclosed: “At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what the | Read More »
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: preview
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | December 27th at 09:41 AM |
For Sunday, December 28, 2008 FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace runs a taped interview with Laura Bush. This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to ex-WH chiefs of staff Ken Duberstein and Leon Panetta, then he talks to future White House Press Secretary Robinert Gibbs. Meet the Press (NBC): Moderator David Gregory talks with that nice Axelrod fellow. Of note, one of his | Read More »
Hillary’s power lust and Dollar Diplomacy
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | December 23rd at 04:10 PM |
Secretary of State James Madison was President Thomas Jefferson’s chief advisor and stategist; his biggest effort as secretary was, of course, overseeing the negotiations and ratification of the Lousiana Purchase from Emperor Napoleon’s France in 1803. The man’s memory will have nothing on Hillary. According to the partisan New York Times, Hillary is already setting herself up to be the most powerful State secretary in | Read More »
Another post-mortem and Obama’s first look at the national diaper
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | December 22nd at 02:46 PM |
Republicans are now evidently in their second month of moping, gnashing, and wringing about what went wrong with their Presidential ticket in November. Why – tell me! – WHY did McCain-Palin lose that race to Obama-Biden? McCain pollster Bill McInturff tells us. Well, he tells USA Today’s Paul Bedard, who, in turns, tells us: Topping McInturff’s list: Obama was the first black presidential nominee and | Read More »
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows: preview
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | December 20th at 09:14 AM |
For Sunday, December 21, 2008 FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace has a recently taped interview with Vice President Dick Cheney. This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos has a recently taped interview with Joe Biden. Meet the Press (NBC): Moderator David Gregory will talk to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, probably taped recently. Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer will talk to Kerry | Read More »
The Fingerprints of “Rahmbo”
By: Mark Kilmer (Diary) | December 18th at 09:38 AM |
Of course, “Rahmbo’s” fingerprints are all over this. President-elect Barack Obama is a product of Chicago politics, and despite being elevated to the highest political post in the nation, he cannot seem to crawl completely out of that particular gutter. His carefully selected chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, has been operating under the Chicago rules even as he helps Obama plan to bring Chicago’s politics | Read More »