THIS WEEK This Week – 5/2/2010

Matthew did nail it for the reasons why the public does not trust the government at 8:23.
Too bad it fell on deaf ears; as it always does.

Did “This Week” suddenly become a MSNBC show? Al Sharpton, Bill Mahar and Katrina Vandenhooval on the same panel??? You can’t be serious! As a consumer of serious news, I’ve always considered “This Week” a place for serious discussion and education. When you invite folks like Mahar, you get comments like “all Republicans are racists …” To make things worse, he (Mahar) give false information about Brazil and oil. I had to check my TV to make sure I wasn’t watching MSNBC. “This Week,” please don’t go down this road of joke news. I really thought this show was better than that. I realize ABC is a left-leaning network, but I’m hoping this isn’t a sign of things to come.

Rev. Al and Bill Maher made a mockery out of a usually very informative news program. Rev. Al? Come on. Bill Maher? News? Only on HBO.
I will keep my fingers crossed for next week….

Kudos for ABC corporate-run media to have the courage to bring in some strong liberal (progressive) representation such as Maher. Vandenhouvel,etc.to counter the bizarre conservative thought processes of George Will. He stated that death & environmental disaster are just part & parcel of extracting our fossil fuels. Or as he termed it: “the risks.” I’d like to make a date with him to visit the families of dead mine and oil workers to explain his position. Would be fun.

bill maher said Brazil is off of oil, yet it consumes far more oil than ethanol. More outrages was his comment that if your a racist in America, your in the Republican party, I think what he was really saying is that if your a racist in America your white, there are no black or hispanic racists in the Democratic party.
I can see having Bill on for comic value, but he wasn’t even funny. What are his credentials?

Today was our last day of watching ThisWeek….you reached the lowest low with your ‘guests’ Katrina, Al and Bill’….We are looking for balanced, stimulating …thought provoking discussion, which you no longer offer. Shame on you!!!

I find it funny how so many people are complaining just because This Week had Al Sharpton, who I admit is crazy, as one of their guests and delivered a brilliant smack down to George Will. Apparently all you “conservatives” want is Fox “News” on every channel all the time.

George Will justifiably appeared to be in physical pain to be forced to debate with such uninformed dimwits.
Offering Maher a guest seat on a show that purports to be a genuine discussion of the issues is a travesty. Sharpton’s nothing but a ranting petty demagogue. Vanderhoven is so one dimensional she gives me a headache.
George, please jump ship so I can follow you to a different show on Sundays.

Jake
For the love of God please tell us that Maher was on the show so George could make clear what an idiot Maher is! Please don’t let anyone think Maher was on the show because ABC seriously considers Maher a legitimate commentator.

Topic : THIS WEEK 5-2-2010
Just had to check in this A.M. to see if I was the only
person watching Sunday’s NEW VERSION of
“THIS WEEK” , I would like to be able to read all of
comments received.
ABC THIS WEEK has quite an Audience of Conservatives or Closet Conservatives
from all I read so far.
Please take the comments as CONSTRUCTIVE and
return to the drawing board.
At one time it was a pleasure to view the discussion on this week over a cup of whatever
but no more.
Please Review your staff !!!
a viewer of ABC since ‘the Univac “try at predicting
Election Outcomes.
PLEASE get your act together !!
urias hughes
of the issues of THIS WEEK

Matthew Dowd can’t have it both ways. Conservatives (like him) complain of too much government (and under fund it at every opportunity) until there is a disaster and then complain because government didn’t do more.

Funny how the vintage licensed network media like to complain about the far right message of talk radio and Fox news cable shows, and the attempt to portray a Sunday News program with Al Sharpton, Bill Maher, & aptly named “Katrina”, as anything but a cartoon. Who knew, I guess Code Pink was busy, huh?

“then we all would like to see them do what they are being paid to do”
As Wayne already alluded to government agencies are much more likely to actually do their jobs when controlled by Democrats instead of sitting on their hands or looking the other way when run by Republicans. Should anybody be surprised when people who don’t like government claim government doesn’t work?

“Should anybody be surprised when people who don’t like government claim government doesn’t work?” – Skip
Ah, no.
Why would anyone be surprised with the truth?
Government continues to show how inept it is regardless of who is in the Whitehouse or Congress.
What is surprising is that there are people who still like government even after it proves itself time and time again to be incompetent.

, the Nerve of You to Ask Maher, What he Would say to the People of Arizona?
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Good lord, this entire post cracked me up.
Is it a parody? I was trying to figure out if the oddly and randomly capitalized letters were supposed to signify a right winger righting verse or something — and the Knowledge Gentleman was a very nice touch.
Thanks for the morning chuckle.

“Government continues to show how inept it is regardless of who is in the Whitehouse or Congress”
Typically the rationalization of somebody who in actuality voted for George Bush twice….Y/N?
“What is surprising is that there are people who still like government even after it proves itself time and time again to be incompetent”
Perhaps it’s only a matter of taste then. I believe government is no more incompetent than corporations are ruthless in exploiting people for monetary gain…their only real motivation.

Wow, Mr. Ahmadinejad sure underscored the regime’s ineptness at foreign policy this morning in his speech to the UN.
All previous administrations Democrat and Republican, have chosen to keep our nuclear war policy ambiguous. Mr. Obama, considering himself smarter, chose to speak on the subject, and in doing so threatened to use them on Iran. What did he hope to accomplish?
Iran is now spanking him like a naughty school boy.
Stand by for more clarification from the regime…

“I don’t agree with the Reverend Al Sharpton, why was he a part of the roundtable? Does he understand the separation of Church & State and does the new host understand this as well?”
Why would Al Sharpton appearing on ABC be a violation of the separation of Church and State?
” I prefer a round table of unbiased Americans involved in Politics. I have heard enough about the poor rights of these criminals, and they are criminals, I want to worry about those who come here legally, they paid, they waited until they were invited”
The cognitive disconnect by duped right wingers is amazing sometimes.

Posted by: Skip | May 3, 2010 1:16:49 PM
I don’t know if it’s typical but I bet a lot of people did vote for Bush to keep the level of Incompetence lower. That didn’t work out too well but the damage could easily been worse with the right Democrat in charge.
Regarding the race of incompetence between government and corporations, the government is laps ahead. I don’t think the motivation is a major factor, it’s just hard to find competent people to do any job. Just look at how hard it is for us to get a competent president. We are in a decades old drought with no relief in sight.

“The Republicans should just give him an honorary position in the party and be done with it. ”
Nice attempt to deflect the poor diplomacy of the Obama Administration. I may not agree with all of what Quo Warranto wrote, but that it no way allows you to cast the Republicans as the bad guys here while not condemning Obama’s abject failure in this area.

The motivation of government should be to protect our citizens. In order for that to work we have to elect people who sincerely are capable of and want to do that….which means not electing people who don’t want government to work because they believe it categorically impinges on their checkbooks. What more convenient evidence is there that government doesn’t work than pointing out the failures of government after re-electing the worst President in at least 100 years. Sure…you can’t have a safer bet than that!

Your fellow right wingers just praised a lunatic to take a shot at our President.
Posted by: Ryan C | May 3, 2010 2:05:25 PM
I never praised Mr. Ahmadinejad. He is a dangerous lunatic. I just pointed out that Mr. Obama is so inept in the foreign policy area, while thinking he is so smart, he allowed himself and the Nation to be outfoxed by Mr. Ahmadinejad.
In addition, by reserving the right to attack Iran with nuclear weapons, he gave Iran the perfect excuse to continue with nuclear arms development. After all, under threat from the “Great Satan”, who could argue with their right to self-defense.
All this with only 1.5 years in office. More excitement to come…

. I just pointed out that Mr. Obama is so inept in the foreign policy area
Posted by: Quo Warranto | May 3, 2010 2:22:33 PM
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Sure, we’d prefer the Republicans . . .
Like Bush who watched the North Koreans test their first nuclear weapon on his shift.
Like the Republican Bush – Iran developed its secret nuclear facility on his watch.
Like the Republican Bush who let Bin Laden and the al Qaeda escape in Afghanistan.
Like the Republican administration who let the Taliban and al Qaeda regroup in Afghanistan with serious repercussions for the troops and the people of the country.
Seems its not as easy a task as you imagine from the lofty heights of your diplomatic expertise.

Maybe he should call Mr. Bush and ask for a little help getting out of this…
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Mr. Bush’s record – is not that good.
Bush watched the North Koreans test their first nuclear weapon on his shift.
Iran developed its secret nuclear facility on Bush’s watch.
The Republican Bush let Bin Laden and the al Qaeda escape in Afghanistan.
The Republican administration let the Taliban and al Qaeda regroup in Afghanistan with serious repercussions for the troops and the people of the country.
Perhaps its you who should be a little more fair in your harsh assessment of the current President – I see no failures of that magnitude on his record.

Perhaps its you who should be a little more fair in your harsh assessment of the current President – I see no failures of that magnitude on his record.
Posted by: tierra |
You see no failures of ANY magnitude on his record.

Mr. Ahmadinejad complaint about Mr. Obama threatening Iran with nuclear attack points out the wisdom of previous administrations and the foolishness of Mr. Obama’s regime.
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What wisdom in the previous Bush regime?
The North Koreans test their first nuclear weapon on the Republican Bush’s watch.
Iran developed its secret nuclear facility on Bush’s watch.
The Republican Bush let Bin Laden and the al Qaeda escape in Afghanistan.
The Republican administration let the Taliban and al Qaeda regroup in Afghanistan with serious repercussions for the troops and the people of the country.
You have an interesting definition of wisdom.

I’ve been watching this Sunday news show for years, but I’ll stop if Bill Maher appears again. He’s a second rate comedian and very caustic. If I want to watch him, I’ll tune into HBO.

What wisdom in the previous Bush regime? Posted by: tierra | May 3, 2010 8:35:36 PM
No, all previous administrations have seen the wisdom in not commenting publicly on our nuclear use policy….
Truman – Democrat: No comment just used them.
Eisenhower – Republican: No Comment
Kennedy – Democrat: No Comment
Johnson – Democrat: No Comment
Nixon – Republican: No Comment
Ford – Republican: No Comment
Carter – Democrat: No Comment
Reagan – Republican: No Comment
Bush – Republican: No Comment
Clinton – Democrat: No Comment
Bush – Republican: No Comment
Obama – Democrat: (So much smarter than all who went before) We will not use nuclear weapons, even if you attack us with other weapons of mass destruction, including chemical and biological.
I think Ms. Palin had it right – he is like a playground bully saying “C’mon, C’mon, hit me, just hit me…”
The only problem is, somebody just might hit America…
An now, for whatever reason, they decide to publish our nuclear order of battle…
I would like to vote “No Confidence” in the regime…

Arizona’s new immigration law is simply just reinforcing earlier attempts to try and reform our laws on immigration for the better, but it seems that the current federal government and current federal laws are slacking in efficiency in states where immigration is becoming an increasingly huge and controversial problem. Earlier reforms, such as the one proposed bye Reagan in 1986, tried to target controlling our borders, giving legal rights to illegal aliens, and also tried to cut down on employers who knowingly hire illegal aliens. Now what that is doing is leaving it up to employers to give up their very needed profits that they save and make to now pay and hire new workers except now instead of only paying below minimum wage and giving no benefits, the employer must now pay for health insurance and file taxes, and also have to pay for other things they didn’t need to worry about with the illegals. Wal mart is one of these big companies,which had a 4 year criminal investigation and ended with wal mart paying 11 million dollars and there was 245 arrests of undocumented workers. The reform bye Reagan required employers to get proof of citizenship before hiring them but clearly employers aren’t trustworthy to do so, considering that even major companies let illegal immigrants in to their stores to do work with out asking for legal documents.According to the Washington Post Illegal immigrants are more likely than American citizens to hold jobs but less likely to have high school diplomas. They tend to be younger, and many have children who were born in the U.S., making the kids citizens which now lets them collect welfare checks. State welfare officials estimate that cutting off payments to illegal immigrants for their US-born children could save about $640 million annually.This Wal mart happened to be in Pennsylvania and really shows that that the problem of illegal immigrants stealing jobs is even hitting the small towns and rural areas not just urban areas where unemployment is a growing problem.
If we can’t trust employers to ask for documents then who can we trust to do it? People who oppose the Arizona bill are saying we shouldn’t give this right to the cops because when they ask for the documents it will be racial profiling. But what about when employers ask for documents? Are they only going to question the dark skinned workers? That’s a potentially great chance for racial profiling but the bill was passed and now we should at least give this right to the officials who have training and definetly better judgement and that is just one goal of this Arizona bill.
In 1994 the gov. of California made a ballot that was to put a ban on illegal immigrants from most public services, including education. The voters approved but was thrown out bye the courts. State analysts estimate there are 300,000 illegal students out of 6.3 million public school students. There’s an annual cost of $7,626 per student that’s nearly 2.3 billion dollars to school kids that have not earned the right to be in the country. The estimated state tab for health care given to illegal immigrants for 2009-2010 is also estimated to be $703 million for as many 780,000 illegal immigrants. According to the Washington Post Illegal immigrants are more likely than American citizens to hold jobs but less likely to have high school diplomas. They tend to be younger, and many have children who were born in the U.S., making the kids citizens which now lets them collect welfare checks. State welfare officials estimate that cutting off payments to illegal immigrants for their US-born children could save about $640 million annually. It is said on CNN that there is a 64 billion dollar deficit in California. The people that live in these areas where illegal aliens are a problem are the ones that understand that the federal government is not doing good enough and when they try to fix the plan is shot down and left with no alternative choice and an increasing problem. Arizona is the first of many states that needs to take steps towards a better way of handling immigration since the feds. Clearly are not.

Posted by: tierra | May 3, 2010 8:35:36 PM
tierra, the “well you don’t like my guy Bush was worse” talking point is very old and tired and doesn’t have any impact anymore. Please go to your bosses and ask them politely if you could have a different fresher more effective strategy and talking points to post.
Thank you in advance.

“Sorry, the sad record of the Republicans is very effective in pointing out that the criticism of Obama is lame on a comparative basis.” – tierra
Wow!
You are so off base and out there I’m speechless.
I don’t know how anyone gets to where you are.
Should we blame it on the Public School System or was it your home life?