January 25, 2015
The Sunday morning talk shows are wasting my time.
I watched 4 of the shows. 4! I wrote down a few notes, things I wanted to blog, and I'd be blogging them now, but I don't have a transcript. "Meet the Press" hasn't put up today's transcript, and the "Face the Nation" transcript only covers the first half hour. There were a few things I wanted to say, but I'm not going to go find them on my DVR and transcribe them. So annoying! If I'd realized the networks weren't going to cough up the transcript in a timely fashion, I wouldn't have watched at all.
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The only one worth a damn is "Fox News Sunday". If you had watched that, you'd have seen Chris Wallace stick a fork into Denis McDonough over and over again.
I DVR Fox News Sunday, skip to the panel, and call it a day. Everything else is talking points.
I guess on one of the shows Denis Mcdonough gave away the name of a hostage who has been kept secret so far.
So they've got that going for them
You should wait to watch until they've posted the transcripts.
I decided they wasted my time about 20 years ago and stopped watching.
I watched and flipped between them. Less worth while than usual. The MSM always focuses on the less credible candidates in the GOP primaries. Huckaby and Santorum are most prominent.
Bob: I agree that Chris Wallace did not give up on McDonough and it was great to see him grilled like that. Watched him again on CBS and Bob Scheifer was weak compared to Wallace. It is why Obama staff don't want to go on FOX.
McDonough was on every single show!
I think Bob Schieffer is great. I'm amazed that the old guy keeps at it and does so well.
Ann Althouse said...
McDonough was on every single show!
The full Ginsburg?
So....you're going to close your Amazon portal??
Sarcasm aside, I really appreciate the highlights you bring to us.
I do try to remember to use your Amazon portal, but I'm not perfect.
"I'm amazed that the old guy keeps at it and does so well."
*blush* Thanks! Now tell us your thoughts about Bob Schieffer.
I much prefer our hostess' digesting the swill and exploring any pearls found.
@Fritz said, "The full Ginsburg?"
I was thinking Susan Rice, but your reference has an entry in the Urban Dictionary ("refers to a PR hack").
Well played.
"The Sunday morning talk shows are wasting my time."
A lot of us reached that conclusion years ago.
This Week was lame, er, this week. Several minutes given to "deflate-gate"; zero to Yemen.
I miss George Will, who I think defected to Fox many months back. The "powerhouse roundtable" is these days anything but.
I actually sat and thought for a minute about what the tag "bloggi" might mean, Then I clicked on it and realized it was probably a failed/cut off autocomplete.
There are Sunday morning talk shows?
And, it seems, the only thing worth blogging about is that there are talk shows?
It's interesting that the only newsworthy thing about talk shows is when someone says something politically incorrect, or silly.
Chris Wallace is a Manhattan penthouse Democrat, born and raised, but he does ask questions (some of the time, at least) and it is illuminating to watch someone like Stonewall Jack Lew or this guy McDonough on the hot seat. Gives you a feeling of the quality of this administration.
Things haven't been the same since Bob Novak passed.
Remember when he fell ill and had a car crash, as the result of his brain tumor (?). Immediately, his foes called him a drunk?
Nice place, Washington.
Most of the "personalities" on Fox News are fundamentally Democrats; they just are not followers.
Even O'Reilly - the big bugaboo for the left - is an Irish-American Catholic from darkest Long Island - Levittown - and could not possibly be any kind of a Republican. He just isn't their kind of Democrat - he has actually worked at all those menial jobs he brags about on the show. Some time ago, but that is where he is coming from. He is a Boomer, but his mindset is that of a Depression Baby.
But it is an article of belief with these people that Fox News is enemy territory, and they act accordingly.
Wah, Ann.
Bob Schieffer is old. That doesn't make him great.
Bob Schieffer loves Obama.
Bob Schieffer is a '60s idealist; he is overcome that the Messiah has actually arrived on earth in time for him to see it, and he is never going to admit that the radiance he sees actually is due to his senescent eye troubles.
About O'Reilly: I should have said Depression youngster; born in the '20s and remembering trying to survive in the '30s.
If I'd realized the networks weren't going to cough up the transcript in a timely fashion, I wouldn't have watched at all.
Could be worse--can you believe some people actually watch that BloggingHeads thing?
OT: Change federal law to require a weekly "question time" type appearance of the pres, and the house and senate leadership, similar to what UK parliament has where the membership can pose questions directly. The Dem members can question Boehner & McConnell, and both sides can question the pres. That would be info-tainment worth watching. Every week that Congress is in session. No journalists, flacks, pundits or spinmasters allowed. They made general election presidential debates a matter of law, so they could do this too I'm sure.
Why do you expect something/anything of note to come out of one of these shows?
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