This Week with George Stephanopoulos Nicholas Burns, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, on the status of diplomatic efforts to end the violence in the Middle East Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., on the growing battle against Hezbollah. ROUNDTABLE: Fareed Zakaria, Jay Carney, Claire Shipman, and George Will. Meet the Press Israel’s […]
Is it any wonder why each of these people face criticisms from their own parties? Two summers ago, on a Congressional trip to Estonia, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton astonished her traveling companions by suggesting that the group do what one does in the Baltics: hold a vodka-drinking contest. Delighted, the leader of the delegation, Senator […]
Prior to the invasion of Iraq, Saddam made a vow to give us a “war like no other”. When he made those claims, many in the U.S. laughed at him. After our quick storm to Baghdad, those laughs got louder. Now we find out Saddam may have been speaking the truth: The Iraqi government’s list […]
This morning on Meet the Press, Tim Russert interviewed Shell Oil’s President John Hofmeister; ConocoPhillips Chrmn. & CEO James Mulva; & Chevron’s Chrmn. & CEO David O’Reilly. Throughout the interview I could not help but feel these three stooges had the impression America is full of a bunch of dumb shits. The first is when […]
After two straight weeks of Russert pandering to the right, we finally get a week with a Democrat on Meet the Press: Joe Biden Hans Blix Round Table: John Harwood & Gwen Ifill Then on Stephanopoulos we get a special treat when Al Gore joins him for his first sit-down in over three years. Then […]
This morning I right after Meet the Press ended on our local NBC affiliate – WLWT Channel 5, an interesting commercial ran. The commercial was for Jean Schmidt where it was proclaimed that her Republican primary opponent, Bob McEwen was not an Ohio Resident. What is interesting about this is that the Ohio Elections Commission […]
John Kerry appeared on Meet the Press this morning to defend his call for a troop pull out in Iraq. I must say he did really well even with Russert trying to nail him as flip-flopping on the issue. Kerry brought up one very interesting point that merits repeating. The following is a rough transcript […]
The former head of US Central Command had some great things to tell Tim Russert this morning. Now if anyone will listen it will be a first: (Video and transcript available at Think Progress) Zinni, who headed the US Central Command from 1997 to 2000, was asked if anyone should lose their job over how […]
McCain is doing what he can to whore himself to the Christian right in order to gain votes in 2008: Potential presidential candidate John McCain says he longer considers evangelist Jerry Falwell to be one of the “agents of intolerance” that he criticized during a previous White House run. The Republican senator from Arizona will […]
Three years ago tomorrow night was when our news channels filled with images of bombs exploding in Baghdad. 9:34pm est. time will mark the anniversary of the actual start of the invasion. So where have we gone since then? Well we did make it to Baghdad with little effort. We did find Saddam Hussein. That’s about it […]