Comments on: Sunday Talking Head Thread http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/ Firedoglake weblog Fri, 17 Feb 2012 19:31:10 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Doug Wiken http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-170013 Doug Wiken Mon, 03 Jul 2006 02:49:38 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-170013 <p>Hate to say it, but I must have fallen asleep or found something else to do this morning. I can’t remember anything the twits said.</p> <p>What I am curious about is the actual viewership of the sabbath gasbags. My son worked for awhile trying to sell TV ad time. The demographics for Sunday morning talk shows were dreadful out in the boondocks. Anybody with real knowledge of this have a clue about how many people actually watch what usually fascinates a lot of us bloggers?</p> Hate to say it, but I must have fallen asleep or found something else to do this morning. I can’t remember anything the twits said.

What I am curious about is the actual viewership of the sabbath gasbags. My son worked for awhile trying to sell TV ad time. The demographics for Sunday morning talk shows were dreadful out in the boondocks. Anybody with real knowledge of this have a clue about how many people actually watch what usually fascinates a lot of us bloggers?

]]> By: Aanya http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169447 Aanya Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:49:31 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169447 <p>After all the years of hearing Bill Bennett sit in judgement of all of us, this morning’s MTP will go down as a “classic”! Dana Priest was magnificent! ” Some people would like to make Casino gambling illegal”, was brilliant! I nominate Dana Priest for an Emmy to sit next to her Pulitzer! Dana’s remark certainly made Bill Bennett squirm!</p> After all the years of hearing Bill Bennett sit in judgement of all of us, this morning’s MTP will go down as a “classic”! Dana Priest was magnificent! ” Some people would like to make Casino gambling illegal”, was brilliant! I nominate Dana Priest for an Emmy to sit next to her Pulitzer! Dana’s remark certainly made Bill Bennett squirm!

]]> By: GHenry http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169396 GHenry Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:08:26 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169396 <p>On MTP Bill Bennett was verbally thrashed by William Safire. Bill, jacket bursting at the seams, looked like he was heading for cardiac arrest.</p> On MTP Bill Bennett was verbally thrashed by William Safire. Bill, jacket bursting at the seams, looked like he was heading for cardiac arrest.

]]> By: Kathryn in MA http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169277 Kathryn in MA Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:05:56 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169277 <p>another Barney point - the AUMF was not permission to set up a Monarchy.</p> another Barney point – the AUMF was not permission to set up a Monarchy.

]]> By: Rayne http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169263 Rayne Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:45:40 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169263 <p>Mary — thanks for that timeline. I’m culling your comments from FDL on Hamdan, will try to use what you’ve posted so far for my missive to Levin.</p> <p>Didn’t catch him this morning on CBS; wonder if he said anything about DTA and Hamdan?</p> Mary — thanks for that timeline. I’m culling your comments from FDL on Hamdan, will try to use what you’ve posted so far for my missive to Levin.

Didn’t catch him this morning on CBS; wonder if he said anything about DTA and Hamdan?

]]> By: AirportCat http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169259 AirportCat Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:41:45 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169259 <p>Jay @103, thanks for the link to the Frank Rich piece … I just have one little quibble with it, his reference in the last paragraph “during our own wartime”. If he’s talking about Iraq, that’s not a war, it’s an <b>occupation</b> (one which reminds me of that wonderful line from Steinbeck’s <i>The Moon Is Down</i> “the flies have conquered the flypaper”). If he’s talking about the “GWOT”, that’s not a war either, no more than the “War on Drugs” was … and why is it that all these ersatz GOoPer “wars” are really more wars on civil liberties than anything else?</p> Jay @103, thanks for the link to the Frank Rich piece … I just have one little quibble with it, his reference in the last paragraph “during our own wartime”. If he’s talking about Iraq, that’s not a war, it’s an occupation (one which reminds me of that wonderful line from Steinbeck’s The Moon Is Down “the flies have conquered the flypaper”). If he’s talking about the “GWOT”, that’s not a war either, no more than the “War on Drugs” was … and why is it that all these ersatz GOoPer “wars” are really more wars on civil liberties than anything else?

]]> By: Robbie http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169253 Robbie Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:34:49 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169253 <p>I have to run before reading the comments; I am sorry if this was mentioned already. The promo for the evening news that ran on ABC after Stephanopolous was too funny to bear. The voice over said something like ” for nearly two decades he was in a coma, bearly consious. The doctors thought that he would never recover but then he came back to life. See his remarkable story tonight on the ABC Evening News (only an approxmate quote from memory). And then the screen flashes a picture of their new anchor fresh from Good Morning America, Charles Gibson! I hope C&L puts it on. Laugh or cry; or both.</p> I have to run before reading the comments; I am sorry if this was mentioned already. The promo for the evening news that ran on ABC after Stephanopolous was too funny to bear. The voice over said something like ” for nearly two decades he was in a coma, bearly consious. The doctors thought that he would never recover but then he came back to life. See his remarkable story tonight on the ABC Evening News (only an approxmate quote from memory). And then the screen flashes a picture of their new anchor fresh from Good Morning America, Charles Gibson! I hope C&L puts it on. Laugh or cry; or both.

]]> By: Daryl http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169251 Daryl Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:33:16 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169251 <p>Jay thanks for the Frank Rich link</p> <p>This paragraph jumped out: </p> <p><i>Far from Swift-boating the Swift reportage, he[Tony Snow] offered tentative praise. “It’s interesting,” he said, “because I think there’s a fair amount of balance in the story in that you do have concrete benefits and you do have the kind of abstract harms that were mentioned in there.” He noted that there had been “no allegation of illegality” in the Times article.</i></p> <p>The story came out June 23, Snow doesn’t see a problem. 3 days later, the president gets upset but not at the WSJ for publishing the same story?</p> Jay thanks for the Frank Rich link

This paragraph jumped out:

Far from Swift-boating the Swift reportage, he[Tony Snow] offered tentative praise. “It’s interesting,” he said, “because I think there’s a fair amount of balance in the story in that you do have concrete benefits and you do have the kind of abstract harms that were mentioned in there.” He noted that there had been “no allegation of illegality” in the Times article.

The story came out June 23, Snow doesn’t see a problem. 3 days later, the president gets upset but not at the WSJ for publishing the same story?

]]> By: Sharkbabe http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169244 Sharkbabe Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:26:45 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169244 <p>Ok scuse me while I fully read Mary</p> Ok scuse me while I fully read Mary

]]> By: Mommybrain http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169242 Mommybrain Sun, 02 Jul 2006 16:25:35 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2006/07/02/sunday-talking-head-thread-12/#comment-169242 <p>AOB 41 - This is indeed a tempest in a teapot. Wingnutia thinks that everyone is as provincial and uninformed as they are. </p> <p>REvDeb 44 - whoohoo, that was fun. Punaise will love it (and it’s him - he posted pictures shortly after YKos).</p> <p>TRex, just as I suspected, your Malkin rap is fantastic. Moi, je vote that you should be a contenduh!</p> <p>My poor Western orioles! Last week a freak wind storm blew their hanging nest to smithereens. No eggs yet that I can tell. So Papa O is out there now weaving a new one on the leaf next door. I do so love nature.</p> AOB 41 – This is indeed a tempest in a teapot. Wingnutia thinks that everyone is as provincial and uninformed as they are.

REvDeb 44 – whoohoo, that was fun. Punaise will love it (and it’s him – he posted pictures shortly after YKos).

TRex, just as I suspected, your Malkin rap is fantastic. Moi, je vote that you should be a contenduh!

My poor Western orioles! Last week a freak wind storm blew their hanging nest to smithereens. No eggs yet that I can tell. So Papa O is out there now weaving a new one on the leaf next door. I do so love nature.

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