For Sunday, November 30, 2008
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace, or someone, talks to Senator Lindsey Graham and Governor Claire McCaskill about Obama’s foreign policy team.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos, or someone, talks to Senators Jack Reed and Dick Lugar about the terror attacks in Mumbai.
Meet the Press (NBC): Moderator Tom Brokaw, or someone, talks to Laura Bush and Ted Turner. Not at the same time, I’m certain.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer, or someone, hosts one of those “A Look At An Historic Election: Annual Books and Authors Show”
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer, or someone, talks to a thousand people about the news.
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They’ve run out of things to say. I’m taking the day off from the review, but I will watch some of this if possible.
Steve Maley
Moe Lane
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
Maybe it's just me...
jonnot Saturday, November 29th at 10:01AM EST (link)but it sounds like a good Sunday to spend outdoors…away from the TV set!
A Suggested Topic for the Talking Heads
GENE_LALOR (Diary) Saturday, November 29th at 1:20PM EST (link)**I have a story they should discuss:
MATTHEW SHEPARD (GAY) VERSUS JASON SHEPHARD (STRAIGHT)
Back on October 12th, I posted an article commemorating the tenth anniversary of the brutal murder of Matthew Shepard, the 21 year old gay University of Wyoming student who was killed, not because he was gay but because he had a few bucks in his pocket that two reprobates wanted. (See http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=556.)
I felt it was a fair and even-handed account of the crime and I purposefully avoided any recriminations against Shepard and posited no suggestions as to whether he was in any way responsible for his murder, as in soliciting homosexual sex or in any other way inciting an alleged ”hate crime.”
As far as the record shows, however, Shepard was assaulted and left to die bound to a fence post on a freezing Wyoming night as a result of a robbery and not as a result of hatred against him because of his sexual proclivities.
“Hate crimes,” an invention of liberal thought police, (aren’t just about all violent crimes motivated by some degree of hatred?), are the result of a penchant Americans have toward overcompensating. We’re also suckers for rushing to judgement, a self-righteous need for quick fixes whether that need arises from fiscal fixes, such as bailouts, or perceived societal remedies, such as hate crime laws.
Just as some elements of our society, the mass media, principally, feel that since blacks in the past suffered from legal discrimination, blacks in the present and in the forseeable future should get a free pass when they break the law, so too should homosexuals.
Despite the fact that the prosecutor of the miscreants who beat and left Shepard to die and despite gay-friendly ABC’s expose’ of the truth that what they did was no more inspired by gay-hatred than any other robbery-murder, the case of Matthew Shepard still represents a hate crime landmark which inspired legislation against such heinous acts. (See http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=77654.)
I hold what seems to be a very simplistic belief that a crime is a crime, that hatred is hatred, and that murder is murder no matter who the assailant or assailants are and no matter whether the victim is homosexual or a proponent of mandatory consumption of hamburger as opposed to vegetarianism.
Apparently, I’m in the minority when it comes to those beliefs.
A man was murdered. He was a young man, just 23, a mere two years older than Matthew Shepard.
A Pennsylvanian businessman stands accused of drugging, raping, and murdering him, a young man from the same neck of the Mid West woods as Matthew Shepard. …
(Read the rest of this article at http://genelalor.com/.)
OBAMA XLV
June 22nd, 2008
Ok, we’ve been told Obama is the new JFK, brainy, handsome, eloquent, etc. etc. etc. Well, I don’t know about any of that, especially about his eloquence when he doesn’t have his script. Take a listen to a few examples o
It's not just you, jon.
Mark Kilmer (Diary) Saturday, November 29th at 2:22PM EST (link)It’s me, too. This was the perfect week for me to have them to report nothing with which we really concern ourselves.
Mark, how do you watch this parade of idiots?
peg_c (Diary) Saturday, November 29th at 7:54PM EST (link)I’m not kidding. My head would explode if I had to watch this collection of loons and liars. Hats off to you.
Government cannot be the solution when government is the problem.
Wow, this is compelling, must-watch TV.
itsonlywords (Diary) Saturday, November 29th at 8:50PM EST (link)Not.
Tu ne cede malis sed contra audientor ito. ~Virgil
Do not give in to evil, but proceed evermore boldly against it.
McCaskill is our Junior Senator
rblack198 (Diary) Saturday, November 29th at 10:02PM EST (link)Despite losing a race for gov, she did land a job as Senator. We in MO prefer to reward defeat with another gig, unless of course there is an R behind one’s name, then you don’t know when to quit.
Two items in Claire's favor
Bill S (Diary) Saturday, November 29th at 10:08PM EST (link)1) Incumbency and the ignorance of the electorate
2) The gradual move left of the key precincts in the state of MO. Even though the map is still overwhelmingly red, there was “county creep” this past election that will no doubt come into play when Claire comes up for re-election.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
Amazing isn't it bs
Brian Simpson (Diary) Saturday, November 29th at 10:45PM EST (link)While St. Charles County solidified its stance as a red county, just about every other county pulled a little further to the left.
That’s a bad trend if it continues.
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Important principles may and must be inflexible. ~ Abraham Lincoln
What I haven't been able to pin down...
Bill S (Diary) Saturday, November 29th at 11:18PM EST (link)…is: what caused the counties to the south and southwest of St. Louis to turn blue? I haven’t heard/seen any analysis of why this occurred. It’s easy to explain why Jackson, Boone, and St. Louis city (and Jefferson, to some extent) are blue. It’s not so easy to explain Iron, Washington and Ste. Genevieve (the latter of which was OVERWHELMINGLY for Obama). I’m assuming it’s “citizen creep” where some lower-income folks moved out away from the city but still retain left-leaning political ideology, but I have no idea if that’s accurate.
“It’s such a fine line between stupid, and clever.” – David St. Hubbins
It's only a guess
Brian Simpson (Diary) Saturday, November 29th at 11:52PM EST (link)but I would have to think that it would be the concentration of blue collar jobs in the area for places like the Chrysler plant. Even though McCain was correct in the primaries that the manufacturing jobs that go away probably won’t come back, people didn’t like that too much.
Again, just a guess.
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Important principles may and must be inflexible. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Could be just the wave this year...
cookcountyconservative (Diary) Sunday, November 30th at 7:35PM EST (link)That’s what DuPage County IL R’s are hoping what brought in this guy to the County Board (responsible for a $500M annual budget) – still lives at home with his parent’s, although rumor has it he may get his own place now.
*DuPage County Elects 23-Year-Old Board Member * Published 11/06/2008
Tony Michelassi, a grocery store photo clerk, was one of 10 Democratic candidates for the spot and, as the Daily Herald reported Thursday, he was “the longest of long shots.”
“Honestly, I hoped that I would perform admirably and pull a decent third place finish and get my name out there for a race in the future,” Michelassi said.
On Thursday morning, a Chicago reporter approached the young board member’s home in hopes of scoring an interview. The house was dark and it appeared that no one was home. Then the door opened and a sleepy-headed Michelassi appeared, apologizing for the delay and explaining that he was “sleeping in.”
Standing in the doorway in bare feet, jeans and a T-shirt, Michelassi said he considers himself a “candidate of the people.”
As a political science major in college, it occured to him that he might try running for office some day, but he never thought he’d be elected the first time out. The young board member said he plans on taking only a $36,000 salary, perhaps letting his constituents choose to which charities he’ll give the $20,000 balance of his county salary.
Michelassi is scheduled to work the photo counter at Jewel Thursday afternoon, but said he’s going to try to get the day off to attend his first budget meeting. The Daily Herald reported Thursday that, in fact, Michelassi intends to quit his Jewel job to focus on his new gig.