just saw a tim russert show that no one should miss. it will be repeated

tonight at 10:00 p.m., and 1:00 a.m. in the morning on msnbc tv.
you will be mesmerized by his two highly intelligent, insightful guests, i promise. wow, what a show!

:headbang:

Some of us don't like surprises.

i'll try. his two guests were brilliant, expert, and although i understood everything they were saying, i feel quite inadequate to expound on it. couldn't find a link, not even on cnbc tv website. one guest was the author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by the name of Steven Coll. the other was the author of The Future of Freedom by the name of by Fareed Zakaria. they explained EVERYTHING, in depth, in detail, and it was absolutely fantastic. that's the best i can do. i give it 5 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

edited: correction to The Future of Freedom by Fareed Zakaria.
i knew i was going to make a mistake.:crazy:

i get too excited, make mistakes. tried to look it up before posted but cnbc (msnbc was subconscious error) didn't give any info, and couldn't remember fareed zakaria's name, and book title. it was good, wasn't it, and i was flabbergasted that 'tim russert' seemed to be getting it. i kept saying "duh". :hi:

....I saw him on another show and saw them talking about his book The Future of Freedom, and thought about buying it. Thanks for reminding of him.

????

:-)

Russert has a Saturday night show on CNBC and MSNBC where he interviews people as well. Thst is presumedly what this person is talking about but the guests aren't listed on my cable's guide.

can i count on you in the future :) ? :hi:

can make the hard to understand seem understandable (much like in a lot of classes I took in the 50's and 60's - the only problem is once you leave the room you lose the A to B to C of the logic - so one must study!).
But I do like the feeling that I understand what they are talking about - if only for the hour!

the jig is up with IraqNam. They were calmly talking about exit strategies and you could tell for the first time that Timmy knows this thing is a major disaster and that its going to end very very badly

This could be a watershed moment for NBC News.

i kept thinking "he knows!", "he knows", in between the "duhs". :hi:

russert, what rock have you been hiding under, did you finally remove your blinders, your earplugs. :hi:

it's obvious that i'm no genius (lol), and i knew!!! :hi:

Some children (us, maybe) finally said that Smirky is naked, and he finally looked and said, oh crap.....

great analogy that i keep forgetting. :hi:

It is very interesting.

Russert being "surprised at how full-circle American foreign policy has come".

Karma, baby.

Mr. Zakaria at least seems to be an interesting fellow.
I would not drag the TV in from the garage to watch Russert
under any conditions that I can imagine.

and he is always excellent. He is not afraid to tell Geo. Will he doesn't know what he is talking about but he does it in a nice way.

It was not an accident that I singled him out.
I have not read him (yet), so will not comment further, for now.

of knowledge, and intelligence. :hi:

He wrote about exit strategy for Iraq last week...

cnbc not on msnbc

Russert may be changing his tune. The two guests were very intelligent, informed, and he let them talk.

I was pretty amazed it was Russert's show.

Why doesn't he yet have a job in the administration, advising them on mid-east policy??

Excellent, must-see show, and I wouldn't have known about it were it not for this thread. :-)

was so excited about this show that i rushed posting, then had to give some info, then made mistakes, then had to edit, then embarrassed, then apologized. i'm tired:silly:. :)

I saw this thread before going to bed last night and set the VCR to tape the 1:00a cdt show. It was fascinating to watch the discussion over a bowl of cheerios and bananas this morning. This is a must see show.

Thanks for the heads up Paradise.

Tape it. Give it to all your freeper relatives.

Sit back. Enjoy.

It doesn't get any better than this.

just thinking "who let these amateurs run this country?" meaning Bushco.

It's like letting a chimpanzee fly a state of the art jet or something.

My outrage knows no bounds.

I experience a sort-of detached madness when watching these political programs. Detached, in that I feel as though I'm watching a movie...

your assent may have exonerated me from my original post errors, and i'm grateful. :hi:

I don't know if this program is blocked by Cox or the the local station.
CNBC is showing "Kudlow & Cramer" 6:00 - 6:30 CST and at 6:30 to 7:00 CST Chris Mathew. "Topic A With Tina Brown" (Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.): actor Steve Martin at 7:00 CST

The PBS station here, KOCV, blocks anything from the left , especially much of Charlie Rose.

I'll have to get a friend to tape it for me. Thanks for the heads up Bozita.

Really an informative show--who knew Israel funded Hamas in the '70's? That was worth the ticket price alone :wow:

And considering the billions we US taxpayers pour down that hole, it may take a forensic accountant to tell whether US dollars funded Hamas.

The CIA has frequently worked as a venture capital investor in revolutionary organizations, domestic and foreign. For complicated reasons, I'm sure.

very little time left to correct the Iraq situation. And that if Bush stubbornly stays the course he is on, we will lose. Both men agreed that the only way to save Iraq is to meet with Sistani and the other clerics and turn Iraq governance over to trusted Iraqis. If we turn over Iraq to a puppet government, Iraq is lost.

And there is so much potential here if we did this right.

i get it; can't always express it. so politically desperate, actually get goosebumps when hearing guests like coll and zakaria.

you cannot get it? Thanks.

doesn't seem canadian at all. i'm in new york, have extended cable. perhaps, should mention that, as well, in the future.
thanks, LittleApple81, and sorry. :hi:

based out of Ft. Lee, NJ. I used to work in their Burbank bureau a few years ago.

They're confusing the heck out of me. Russert can be on NBC, and CNBC but can he also be on MSNBC. Are those three related, and I hope there aren't any more? :crazy:

MSNBC is the cooperative of MicroSoft and NBC, based in Ft. Lee, NJ, as is CNBC.

Glad I could help! :)

Sometimes I skip Timmy due to RW fatigue. I'll watch it this morning.

please see reply #19 on this thread.
for correct information on a repeat of the show i was referring to. sorry ilsa :hi: .

"CNBC" TIM RUSSERT SHOW.
VIEW SATURDAY'S SCHEDULE, THEN SCROLL DOWN TO TIM RUSSERT.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/cnbctv/tv_info/schedule.asp

...so he has Fareed Zakariah on, according to others here....this sounds good, as Ive liked what Ive seen of Fareed....

i needed that! you ain't too bad, yourself. :hi:

Glad I don't have to think about that.

...so, I guess its not CNBC...

as Bozita said in reply # 19, it was supposed to be on, but they must have changed their schedule. sorry whh. :(

the transcript is not listed yet. :( as soon as it is, i'll try to download, and get it on du.
both books sound like they're well worth reading. going broke buying books lately :crazy:.

If you would PM me, I'd appreciate it, Paradise!

the first time, I was blown away by Joseph Wilson... I saw it a second time to make sure I saw what I saw 3 hours earlier.

I was like "what an American!!!!" Right on, Mr. Wilson--you rock!

He nailed the perpetrators of this treasonous crime to the wall... yes, Dick Cheney is a SOB; Rove should be frog-marched out in handcuffs; Rice is a liar; Bush isn't in charge, he has a subordinate staff, is incompetant. Novak should be fired from CNN and sued within an inch of his life.

Wilson was right--dragging his wife out into the public square to beat her in front of everyone because they didn't like what he has said is beyond the pale.