First Post-Election Meet the Press Features Exclusively Pro-War Politicians
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First Post-Election Meet the Press Features Exclusively Pro-War Politicians
The 2006 election was defined by a) a repudiation of the war in Iraq and the current Iraq strategy, and b) widespread national victories for Democratic House, Senate, and gubernatorial candidates.
Yet, according to a press aide, this Sunday’s edition of NBC’s Meet the Press will include two interviews: one with Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), an Iraq war supporter who defeated Ned Lamont (D-CT), and one with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), who recently called for 20,000 additional U.S. troops to be sent to Iraq, and who was not up for reelection in 2006.
In other words, the first post-election edition of Meet the Press will exclusively feature politicians who support the war in Iraq, neither of whom ran as a Democrat.
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It’s called the Loser edition of MTP!
November 9th, 2006 at 6:13 pmWell, there’s a freakin’ waste of interview time!
November 9th, 2006 at 6:16 pmGuess the media didn’t get the message on Tuesday that this crowd LOST.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:19 pmWhen Mediamatters.org showed data proving that MTP had many more republicans on than dems, MTP responded by pointing out that Repubs were in the majority. I look forward to seeing lots of Democrats on MTP.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:19 pmThe programm will have a new name
November 9th, 2006 at 6:19 pm#2 Hi Jane….Haven’t had a chance to congratulate you personally on Tuesday’s big win….Congrats. As for me, first the Mets go down and then this! It’s been a bad couple of weeks for me!
November 9th, 2006 at 6:19 pmAnd who is sitting between the McCain Rumsfeld circle jerk, but none other than Joe Lieberman. Who woulda thunk it?
November 9th, 2006 at 6:21 pmIf it makes you feel better Exley, while I am not a Detroit native, coming from an AL town, Seattle, I was bummed at the Tigers loss in the world series.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:23 pma pithy little cover from across the pond says it all…
November 9th, 2006 at 6:27 pmCaption contest:
November 9th, 2006 at 6:30 pmMy mom brought me to the prom.
Good time to arrest the traitors
When all these pro-terrorism Christian butchers are gathered together, that’s time the to hang them.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:32 pmIt’s been a bad couple of weeks for me!
Comment by Exley
Wait until FBI releases videos of the plane hitting the Pentagon.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:32 pmHey Juan…I thought you DIDN’T believe that a plane hit the Pentagon?
November 9th, 2006 at 6:34 pmExley, while I can’t say that I’m sorry for your second loss, I can certainly empathize with you. Thanks for your congratulations. The congressional candidate that I volunteered for (NY-19, John Hall) ended up squeaking through and beating the 12-year incumbent. And he sang the Star-Spangled Banner with Stephen Colbert last night! Colbert did a suprisingly good harmony–I’d like to see the two of them perform it at Shea next Opening Day! I’m looking forward to next January, then next April!
Krazny, you know that we Mets fans were rooting for Detroit, too. Actually, the first World Series that I remember really paying attention to was 1968, Tigers vs Cards, the Denny McLain era. (Showing my age, yuch!) Seattle always fields a good team, too.
Gotta run, Wayne went home not feeling well. See you all tomorrow.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:37 pmI prefer Stephanopolous anyway, catching MTP at the nighttime rerun; now I will check TP comments/videos on line and maybe skip the show altogether.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:37 pmLittle Timmy all too often has conservative guests and one independent who leans right and believes he is being equal with time. He skewers Dems at every opportunity and too frequently lets the conservatives skate with their outrageous and often not factual comments.
#4 Bluedog49
November 9th, 2006 at 6:40 pmI had not heard that MTP defense before :)
Let’s see if little Timmy changes his guest list after January. Apparently a lot of us will be checking.
Dear Exley - I understand why MTP would want to put “PRO-WAR” guests on their show. The “Pro-Peace at ANY Cost” group (Cindy Sheehan, Dennis Kucinich, John Murtha, Russ Feingold, et al) would just be TOO telling of the lapse of security judgement by the American people. Hopefully Repubs will get back to Reagan basics promoting national security and a robust economy….
November 9th, 2006 at 6:43 pmWhy do you watch? Why do we care? This is dead media.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:43 pmMore like Meet the Dispossessed.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:44 pmim kind of looking forward to see how far cokie’s eyes are popped out this week.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:44 pmI thought you DIDN’T believe that a plane hit the Pentagon?
Comment by Exley
I was messing with you. :)
November 9th, 2006 at 6:44 pmNico - Since when have you or anyone at TP been concerned with “Fair and Balanced” media coverage? I must have missed the big Ned Lamont loses “BIG TIME” and “Senator Bill Nelson’s drunk son arrested” stories….
November 9th, 2006 at 6:46 pmhey, pumpkin head has to give those who are completely out of step with Americans their chance to spin first before the truth can be discussed - its the only fair and balanced thing to do. Besides, timmeh wanted to be the first to showcase the republican presidential team for ‘08
November 9th, 2006 at 6:47 pm.
a pithy little cover from across the pond says it all…
holy crap, that’s some scary picture.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:50 pm.
Do you get the impression they’re obsolete?
It’s great watching these mainstream media outlets continue to lose readers anbd viewers, retaining only the lower of the less educated as their consumer base while better educated people go more and more to the Internet.
I would expect that there are still newspapers making a profit; can’t imagine television shows like this one having enough viewers to pay the rent.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:53 pma bit off-topic, but, it may interest some…
i was just reading an editorial in the washington times entitled ‘iraq exit strategies’ discussing leaked portions of baker’s iraq study group and their intuition that the road to peace in the middle east must start in palestine and then into iraq…
November 9th, 2006 at 6:54 pmAre they only allowed to have anti war democrats on Meet the Press? That must be in their by-laws I guess.
“Senator Bill Nelson’s drunk son arrested†stories….
Have liberals become teetotalers now.? If that’s true that’s one damn good reason not to become a liberal.
November 9th, 2006 at 6:57 pmwhat will happen if the baker iraq study group actually suggests that the best way out of iraq for bush is to return palestine to the palestinians and have israel stop their occupation???
i also read about another leaked portion suggesting that the biden break-up into three idea is also featured. this would essentially mean giving the shiite region to iran…perhaps as a buffer to the sunnis?
should be interesting reading….
November 9th, 2006 at 7:07 pmWatching the political pundits from the DLC being interviewed on shows like Hardball, (Lisa Scaputo-DLC’er especially), it is clear that the elitists at the DLC are trying to hijack credit for this Democratic victory. They are doing so by giving ALL of the credit to Rahm Emanuel and dis respecting (by not even mentioning) Howard Dean. The time is ripe, dems are now in control, for REAL Democratic liberals and populists to break away from the Republican-lite DLC’ers. So, in response to a Howard Dean email i wrote this response:
Dear Governor Doctor Dean,
I feel that you should break away from the treachery and arrogance of the DLC because the DLC is being divisive in its efforts to give all the credit for victories to Rahm Emanuel and DLC’ers. Before I donate any more money, I need to know that Howard Dean is using the template of grass roots donors in cyberspace to attempt to garner a majority of support from true Democratic populists and liberals who want to break away from the yoke of the elitist in the DLC- who are at this most crucial juncture disrespecting the architect (Howard Dean) and groups like MoveOn.org and the blogosphere responsible for the Democrat’s takeover of the House and Senate.
Perhaps if more of us liberals present a united front we can get CHANGE within our own party, and purge it of the Republican-lite traitors and elitists.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:12 pmIs rummy the third man in? I cringe when I see the likes of these creeps huddling together.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:19 pmThe reason the dems were sucessful is that the “real democrats” won the day.
DLC democrats just rode the wave.
DNC Democrats pushed the cart. Howard Dean? He’s the reason for our victory.
Bil and Hil love your patronizing.
The real America is a little more left but most of us don’t know how to be free thinking Americans we desprately need to be.
Is rummy the third man in? I cringe when I see the likes of these creeps huddling together.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:19 pmThe reason the dems were sucessful is that the “real democrats” won the day.
DLC democrats just rode the wave.
DNC Democrats pushed the cart. Howard Dean? He’s the reason for our victory.
Bil and Hil love your patronizing.
The real America is a little more left but most of us don’t know how to be free thinking Americans we desprately need to be.
“Hopefully Repubs will get back to Reagan basics…” -
Comment by mighty aphrodite — November 9, 2006 @ 6:43 pm
Reagan basics: high deficits, Iran-Contra, union-busting, destroying the environment, sleeping on the job.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:20 pm“Senator Bill Nelson’s drunk son arrested†stories….
Comment by mighty aphrodite
I read that stuff on Foxnews.com, I know all about it, and….
November 9th, 2006 at 7:20 pmGo to the MTP website and letthem know what a bunch of crap this is. But be decent about it.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872152/
November 9th, 2006 at 7:29 pmTypical. We need to create a media that isn’t beholden to the GOP.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:29 pmGo to MTP website and send them a message.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6872152/
November 9th, 2006 at 7:30 pmgo to http://www.bradblog.com for the latest skinny on Gates shady connections….he’s beginning to look like the wrong guy for the job!
November 9th, 2006 at 7:32 pmLet’s see is that the 3 blind mice of the fairy tale or is it the 3 monkey’s, hear evil, see evil and speak evil…LOL….Blessings
November 9th, 2006 at 7:34 pmOh and Mighty Afrodite (I know, you spell it with a ph, but I always picture you with an Afro when I see the name), how about that Lamont number?
November 9th, 2006 at 7:36 pmWhy do you suppose the exact same number of votes he lost by is the exact same number the Republican candidate lost by in that state in 2000? Hmmm…
Diebolded again.
However! One loss out of so many gains is no biggie! We got the House, the Senate, major victories over idiotic measures all over the country, many new Democratic governors - I can’t be too upset about one millionaire not making the grade.
Too bad that’s all you have to taunt us with — I guess it sucks to be a Republican today!
What? Like that Actor Faker Michael J Fox?
/sarc on
caption contest; “Did you see them boobys on Kat tonite!”
November 9th, 2006 at 7:39 pmWhen her best dig is to remind us that an entrenched Democrat beat a new-comer Democrat, let’s face it. She’s not having a good day.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:40 pmI think it was
November 9th, 2006 at 7:41 pmRub a Dub Dub
3 GrOPes in a tub
Funny…since a rumor going around is that McCain and Lieberman are going to run together in 08….What a way to kick things off, no?
November 9th, 2006 at 7:45 pmUnfortunately, this is not surprising. In the months leading up to the war, only 1 per cent of those voices who were heard on the corporate airwaves were anti-war. Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.
November 9th, 2006 at 7:53 pmNBC is owned by GE - the third biggest WAR contractor in this Iraq debacle. Look at it this way, you think they’re gonna allow credible anti-war pols on TV criticizing a major stream of revenue?
Russert and GE should take heed from Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War”:
“You fasten the triggers
November 9th, 2006 at 7:55 pmFor the others to fire
Then you set back and watch
When the death count gets higher
You hide in your mansion
As young people’s blood
Flows out of their bodies
And is buried in the mud”
really - what is it with comb-overs?…
November 9th, 2006 at 7:57 pmThe voters have kicked the neocons out of the Congress. It remains to be seen whether the voters can kick the neocon whores out of the press. I am hopeful that we will see the end of the day when Russert and the rest of the GOP apologists on the cocktail-weenie circuit can garner revenue-positive ratings for their wingnuttery.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:03 pmMaybe russert just wants to rub the war in thier faces.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:04 pmOr get the last of the gop talking points and smoozing out before the dems take over
last minute ass kissing.
francais and mighty aphrodite, as I recall Jeb Bush’s daughter had a bit of a drug problem, and Bill Frist’s son was involved in an alcohol related arrest. Like most Republicans it seems the two of you either suffer from amnesia or are blatent hypocrites.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:08 pmHas anyone seen Mighty Assrodite lately??? Or is she busy with O’Reilly falafel, trying to pretend it ain’t so???
November 9th, 2006 at 8:13 pm…guess it’ll just be football and beer for me then on Sunday, while I continue to enjoy the massive popular repudiation of everything republi-cons stand for….what a week!!
November 9th, 2006 at 8:13 pmNow that’s what I call clever casting.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:13 pm(sarcasm off)
#51 Jon Creeley,
November 9th, 2006 at 8:17 pmAls a matter of fact, all of Jeb and George Bush’s children have been apprehended either for underage drinking or substance abuse. And Jeb’s wife was fined at an airport for trying to sneak in undeclared luxury goods, purchased in France (a country which good Republicans are supposed to disdain).
Don’t let us forget the Bush twins.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:18 pmreally - what is it with comb-overs?
Chicks dig one-hair turbans
Don’t they?
November 9th, 2006 at 8:27 pmStop watching the show; I have. It sends the best message.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:37 pm150,000 dead civilians in Iraq. Billions of dollars gone, unaccounted for. Endless murder, theft, and deception. Thousands of US soldiers dead and maimed. We must DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY. Hearings and investigations. Or this victory means nothing.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:46 pmTim Russert is a big fat idiot. He is Rush lite. If his ethical barometer wasn’t broken, he never would have got that job.
November 9th, 2006 at 8:52 pm“Circle up them wagons real nice tight like, boys. Those heathen Dems are on the warpath, I reckon!”
November 9th, 2006 at 9:10 pmSteal the douche bag’s (pumpkinhead) books and send back to him all marked up. Write on front cover of book (not jacket) “STICK UP YOUR FAT ASS”
What we need to do is vote this pig out to a 1 Watt station in the Aleutian Islands
November 9th, 2006 at 9:13 pmI guess it’s This Week or Face the Nation again this Sunday.
Better yet, I’ll probably go to church and thank Jesus for answering my prayers.
November 9th, 2006 at 9:20 pmListen up - there must be reform of our media. We know the neo-cons will be attacking the Dems at every turn.
November 9th, 2006 at 9:42 pmLet’s not let them get away with anything.
I think the plan is for McCain and Russert to double-dog Lieberman who likes to take it from Republicans in all orifices. Lieberman is hoping McCain will slap him around a little too.
November 9th, 2006 at 10:03 pmCaption contest:
Meet the Stupids.
November 9th, 2006 at 10:04 pmDoes anyone else think that the Repugs are backing down a little too quickly? I wonder what’s being planned in the next six months.
November 9th, 2006 at 10:09 pmGates and Negroponte all we need now are for Ollie and Poindexter to wash
November 9th, 2006 at 10:54 pmthe money and its just like old times. Death Squads and dope runs. What kind of Iran-Whatever deal can they cook up for 2008. With all of 41’s Wet
Workers coming aboard anythings in play. The old ways are the best ways.
I hate to say this, but Lieberman is probably the most powerful man in congress right now. I can’t imagine the buy-off offers both sides are offering him now. Don’t play his game and your side loses the vote. Who’d of frickin’ thought?
November 9th, 2006 at 10:57 pmWell who knows, maybe it will be a version of kick them while there down. Russert could go on a tact ….”Well, what do you have to say now that the votes are in. It could be interesting.
November 9th, 2006 at 11:07 pmLieberman is caught between real power and the false power of the turn coat that hears what he wants to hear but builds no trust. He has been shown to have no honor when asked to support the candidate of his party.
November 9th, 2006 at 11:26 pmDoes the new bipartizen happiness include reciepts for the Republican slush funds $20million. Lieberman has made his bed and he wont get much rest
without keeping one eye open.
Rumsfeld is finally acknowledging what we have known all along -well, at least those of us who use our brains:
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld acknowledged Thursday progress in the Iraq war has not been going “well enough or fast enough” in his first extended remarks since announcing his resignation under political pressure.
November 9th, 2006 at 11:40 pmRumsfeld Acknowledges Rocky Turn in Iraq
Did anyone see them picking hair lice off each other?
November 10th, 2006 at 12:22 amWhaddya know! The 2008 GOP Presidential ticket!
November 10th, 2006 at 12:25 amI see that MA did a “cut and run” nothing new for a big fat sweaty bald freak. MA enjoy the next two years.
November 10th, 2006 at 12:35 amthis only confirms how meaningless the show is now. it is the indicator that the NOOZ is really marginal. it is the national enquirer now, the tattler
they clearly have no future, so perhaps we should consider leaving them alone so that they can go away
November 10th, 2006 at 9:06 amI’ve been wondering about this. The Sunday shows have typically included at least one Conservative guest every week for four years. Their defense has been that it’s because there were more Conservatives in charge.
Now that Democrats are in charge, will we start to see more Democrats on the Sunday shows or will they still have on more R’s than D’s?
November 10th, 2006 at 10:25 amYou guys better not let Liebermann back in with the Dems. You would just look like a party eager for power. After the ripping you did to him, you would be hypocrits if you caucas with him.
November 10th, 2006 at 10:48 amRR, “You would just look like a party eager for power.” So you’re telling Dems not to look like power-hungry, greedy Republicans? That’s pretty funny. And it’s up to Lieberman whether he caucuses with us, not the other way around.
November 10th, 2006 at 11:52 amRoger_Roger, plees lern how to spel.
November 10th, 2006 at 12:02 pmObviously, men just LOVE war. Apparently nothing can trump conflict. Just ask Julius Ceasar.
November 10th, 2006 at 2:09 pm[…] Timmah! edition The 2006 election was defined by a) a repudiation of the war in Iraq and the current Iraq strategy, and b) widespread national victories for Democratic House, Senate, and gubernatorial candidates. […]
November 10th, 2006 at 2:18 pmAll this is quite entertaining, BUT
November 13th, 2006 at 1:31 pmlooking at the three Stooges here one thing is clear:
Instead of criminal charges against Dumbsfeld he get’s airtime. Lieberman sucks as big time as all the other hipocrites in the political landscape and don’t get me started with MacPain. Question: Why would George Rove Bush give himself more power than any other President before, to hand it to a Democratic President later on (2008 - 2200)? Dream on, and learn to call the White House ‘Fuehrer Hauptquartier’
[…] Last week, in its first broadcast since Democrats took control of Congress and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld resigned, NBC’s Meet the Press exclusively featured non-Democratic Iraq war supporters, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and John McCain (R-AZ). […]
November 17th, 2006 at 5:31 pmwell personally you people dont value the opinion you value your own gluttony so when you decide to get off your butts and do something then you will appreciate what these men have done.
January 4th, 2007 at 5:59 pm