The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - lineup
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For Sunday, April 22, 2007
Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert talks school safety with HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt and Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, then he chats with two of Virginia Governor Tom Kaine's panelists: retired Virginia State Police Superintendent Col. Gerald Massengill and Former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. It will be the perfect opportunity for Tim to push some of his more interesting gun control notions.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks massacre with Virginia Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling; George Washington University president Steve Trachtenberg; and Senator Specter (Snarlin' Arlen) and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chuckie Schumer.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer talks to the coming-close-to-clownishness Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy; former FBI profiler Gregg McCrary; and, ladies and gentleman, the return of... Sarah and Jim Brady. Hide your guns.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Newt Gingrich about the massacre and do doubt the imminent dangers brought about by anthrogenic global warming. He'll then go campaigning with Chris Dodd.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks massacre with Senators Sam Brownback and... well, Ron Wyden. More relevant than Wyden will be Virginia's Republican Attorney General Bob McDonnell.
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The foci this week, it seems, will be an adult (Cho) who modeled himself after teenagers (Harris, Klebold) and Senators (Schumer/Leahy) who play games (cooties, boogers, etc.) played by gradeschoolers.
We've two Bush cabinet officials (Leavitt, Spellings) on Russert's show, and someone will no doubt call for them to resign, thus admitting all sorts of nasty things about their employer.
I can't figure out Wyden, though. He was doing so well when he kept to himself.
I'll have the show-by-show review here at RedState.com on Sunday afternoon.
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I'm not excusing Cho in any way, shape, or form, but when violent dramas (on TV) so capture the country's interest that fictional criminals inspire light-hearted impersonation and episode-watching parties (e.g. The Sopranos) it may just send America's nuts the wrong message--especially nuts with a penchant for violence. People like Cho have forgotten what is socially acceptable, and what is not. That's why they're so dangerous. And "The Sopranos" is just the tip of the iceberg. If, let's say, Cho was trying to surpass Tony Soprano's crew, in callous disregard for life, then he made it. But not by much. And thanks to NBC, he made it onto the TV psychiatrist's couch too, just like Tony.
I think that's a little far fetched. I blame Hollywood for a lot, but not this. Anyway, Sopranos is quality television and one of the reason it's popular is its realism. The mobsters in the Sopranos are a bunch of lonely suburban fat slobs who, more often than not, end up dead. It is not a romantacized depiction.
That being said, I'd be interested to learn in Cho was a video game guy. I'm not into blaming entertainment, but this new video game culture is the the 800 pound gorilla in the room. Most poeople have no idea how violent the vidoe game culture is and many kids who play turn into zombies. Literally living 8-10 hours a day in some fantasy kill zone.
they interviewed someone who knew him from high school and he played violent video games endlessly. He rehearsed his murder spree endlessly, until he had it down.
Is anybody could talk about poor Hillary Clinton getting stood up my the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team on Friday when she went to Rutgers to meet with them? The team said they had to get back to class and had IMUS fatigue. I guess Hillary jumped on that story a little too late, should have gone to VT instead.