What happened on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows
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By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics
Super Bowl Sunday, February 5, 2006
This weekend was more about amusement than anything else, although John Boehner seems ready to chart something new. He defends lobbyist-funded travel and wants to add transparency to the earmarking process. On MTP, he said that he does not know Jack Abramoff and that he would like to ban political conventions. (He has a 10p bedtime.) On FNS, he said that the GOP must fashion a Vision, and from that Vision should be fashioned an Agenda. (Let there be Light!)
On FNS, General Michael Hayden pointed out that the Washington Post lied in their NSA story of this morning, wherein the paper alleged that the NSA was listening to huge numbers of phone calls and flagging for certain words as a tipoff demanding closer analysis. "THIS IS NOT TRUE."
Arlen Specter, after some serious goading by Tim Russert, relented on MTP and said that he would consider subpoenaing Jimmy Carter about the FISA Act.
Pat Leahy charged on FTN that the President knew about the 9-11 hijackers before the attack and did nothing. Earlier, Jeff Sessions argued, quotably, that "incident to war is the power to surveil."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai told Wolf Blitzer on LE that the cartoonists were evil and should be punished. He said nothing about those trashing embassies and elsewhere, except that they are as angry as he is.
Of the Cartoon Rioters, Duncan Hunter said later on LE that we are "dealing with a nutty neighbor, who, if you look at him the wrong way, comes out of the house with a shotgun." Babs Boxer declared on the same show that we would be victorious in Iraq if we left now because it would mean that we trusted them to handle things themselves. I'm not certain how this woman reasons, twisted multi-planar reality from the mind of Cthulhu, dead but dreaming.
On his show, TW, George Stephanopoulos confronted Ken Mehlman with his notion that Hegel, McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Arlen Specter were the meters by which the world must judge the body of Republican thought.
And to get on with what's on our minds, General Michael Hayden, once coached by Steelers owner Dan Rooney, predicted that the Pittsburgh Steelers would defeat the Seattle Seahawks. No point spread from the general, "not a betting man," but he'd settle for victory by a single point. Some among us would sooner see a definitive victory and a team of the 21st century.
The show-by-show review is beneath the fold.
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