Sunday, September 28, 2014

This Week with George Stephanopoulos – September 28, 2014

Correspondents:
Jon Karl
Martha Raddatz
Pierre Thomas
Terry Moran
Guests:
Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)
Lt. Col. Steve Ganyard (Ret.)
Vice Adm. John Miller
(Cmdr. Naval Forces CENTCOM)
John Cohen
Ali Soufan
Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)
Laura Ingraham
Matthew Dowd
Bill O'Reilly

Raddatz: omg I'm in Bahrain
and I don't know why!

Raddatz: holy shit the U.S.
is still bombing ISIS!

Moran: Martha I have a front row seat
to the war on ISIS – I can hear the 

crack of the rifles and see the 
red glare of the rockets

Raddatz: ISIS is getting pounded
at the camps and their bases and
even their vacation homes

Moran: shit is getting real

Raddatz: the US is sending guns
and grenades to moderate Syrians
as soon as we can find some

Dempsey: we have to do
it right – not fast

Audience: but we want it now!

Ganyard: we're also bombing
Khorasan which is a new enemy
which has nothing to do with ISIS

Raddatz: oh that's scary

Ganyard: also we're bombing ISIS's
startup businesses which were 

making them $2 million per day

Raddatz: sweet money – what's the gig?

Ganyward:  mobile oil refineries –
they're like food trucks but with less oil

Raddatz: oh my

Ganyard: first we're trying to drive
ISIS out of Iraq and then we will
smash their safe havens in Syria

Raddatz: OMG I got to tour the 

U.S.S. George H.W. Bush!

Bush: not prudent

Raddatz: this amazingly cool aircraft
carrier is bigger than the empire state
building and is bristling with 

bombs and missiles

Audience: badass

Raddatz: they were bombing Afghanistan
but was then were ordered to turn
around and bomb ISIS

Captain: Martha we can bomb anyone
anywhere anyplace at anytime

Raddatz: you don't get a day 

off on an aircraft carrier!

Navy: our seamen are always 

ready for action

Raddatz: they serve 18,000 meals per day

Audience: almost at much 

as a Carnival Cruise

Raddatz: these young people
handle 500 lb bombs capable
of destroying a building

Raddatz: a jet lands every 55 seconds
and planes are catapulted to top speed
– it's fucking crazy

Rear Admiral: We're going to
be bombing for a long time

Raddatz: just like Meet The Press

Admiral: that's low Martha

Raddatz: after you've finished
destroying ISIS what's next
for the Navy?


[ break ]

Rear Admiral: there's a small but
promising terror group we're thinking
bombing into oblivion

Raddatz: welcome Vice Admiral Miller

Miller: hi Martha

Raddatz: Admiral so how 

is the bombing going?

Vice Admiral Miller: we retook the
Mosul dam, saved Baghdad, rescued
the Yazidis and racked up
one million frequent flyer miles

Raddatz: yes but the problem hasn't
been totally solved since ISIS still exists

Vice Admiral Miller: hey Martha
we just started the killing

Raddatz: are you running out
of things to bomb?

Vice Admiral Miller: no Martha
we will never run of places and
people to bomb

Raddatz: but you don't have
US troops on the ground there

Vice Admiral Miller: but we have
Iraqi troops on the ground

Raddatz: but those troops suck

Vice Admiral Miller: well then
we'll bomb some more

Raddatz: what do see in
the coming year?

Vice Admiral Miller: more bombs!

Raddatz: thanks Admiral

[ break ]

Raddatz: omg America is about
to be attacked by terrorists!

Lt. Gen: it's frightening!

Thomas: the plots have not
been stopped by the bombing

Eric Holder: it's terrifying!

Thomas: bombing ISIS could make
attacks on Americans more likely!

Audience: eek

Thomas: some guy in Oklahoma
beheaded a co-worker!

Audience: if he put fish in the
company microwave he gets a pass

Thomas: it's a witch's brew
of threats and we're all going to die!!

[ break ]

Raddatz: how soon are we
all going to be killed by Khorasan?

Cohen: Syria is like the
Club Med of terrorists

Soufan: since 9/11 we've killed
terrorists but we never dealt
with the ideology of terrorism

Raddatz: how soon are we all
going to be killed by Khorasan?

Soufan: the threat is not all the
different groups it's with extremism
and terrorist ideology

Cohen: exactly why do young men
find beheading and crazy 

terrorism so appealing?

Raddatz: look Americans just
terrified and want ISIS destroyed

Cohen: ok martha but it's not that simple

Soufan: martha before I address
your fears I must say this –
you must know our enemy
and then know ourselves

Raddatz: are you a Jedi

Soufan: understand the causes of
terrorism we must or keep fighting
these wars forever we will

Raddatz: great then I can keep
reporting from the decks of
more aircraft carriers!

[ break ]

Karl: Eric Cantor lost so could
John Boehner be forced out too?

[ break ]

Stephanopoulos: what's up John?

Boehner: we're gonna pick up
seats campaigning on tort reform

Stephanopoulos: how about
the war on ISIS?

Boehner: Obama's plan is inadequate

Stephanopoulos: oh?

Boehner: we must have troops on the ground!

Stephanopoulos: Americans?

Boehner: we have no choice –
these are barbarians!

Stephanopoulos: why not have
a vote on the war on ISIS?

Boehner: Obama won't let
us vote on the war!

Stephanopoulos: does he have
the authority to bomb ISIS?

Boehner: yes but I wouldn't mind a vote

Stephanopoulos: so would you bring
Congress back from their second
vacation this month to vote on
whether to go to war?

Boehner: yes I would in theory

Stephanopoulos: what is at the
top of your agenda for the
next Congressional session?

Boehner: repeal the tax on medical devices!

Stephanopoulos: you said an
immigration reform bill would pass

Boehner: yes but children were
caught at the border proving the
border isn't secure and therefore
we can't pass immigration reform

Stephanopoulos: what is your
message to the President?

Boehner: the President and I both
love America so let's be really
bold and pass a highway bill

[ panel discussion ]

Karl: if Congress voted on a
war on ISIS would it pass?

Ellison: probably if it had
some kind of a time limit

Karl: Obama is relying on the 9/11
resolution for his legal authority
to attack ISIS

Ingraham: that doesn't fly

Karl: aha!

Ingraham: only Congress can declare war!

Karl: I knew it!

Ingraham: Congress is a bunch of cowards

Dowd: Congress not declaring war
goes back to Ronald Reagan and
Bosnia but it's Obama's
responsibility to fix this
decades-old problem now

Karl: I see

Dowd: we must return authority to
declare war back to Congress now
that a black guy is President

Karl: Obama is just like George Bush!

Bai: Obama has finally supported
the war on terror which he denied
should even exist

Karl: that is a very good point
although it is also an absolute lie

O'Reilly: General George Patton was in the Olympic games in the Pentathlon!

Audience: the whatathon

Karl: Bobby Jindal visited New 

Hampshire and Jeb Bush crashed 
a children's birthday party!

Nate Silver: the GOP will re-take the Senate!

Karl: omg Eric Holder is leaving
and the President may have a lame-duck
session approve a new Attorney General!

Dowd: the GOP rhetoric
against Holder was insane
– Ed Meese was a real criminal

Ingraham: don't you mean 

'American hero Ed Meese'?

Dowd: he resigned to avoid criminal charges!

Ingraham: but Holder said we
are a nation of cowards on race

Dowd: we are

Ingraham: we don't need another
NAACP LaRaza community organizer
as Attorney General

Ellison: what is she babbling about?

Ingraham: he's black blackity McBlack Black

Ellison: Holder has a great
record especially civil rights

Karl: we have fewer people
in prison – is that good?

Bai: with all due respect to Laura
– Republicans are completely insane

Karl: he's got a point there Laura

Bai: Obama should find a non-political
consensus pick to be Attorney General
which would please the Beltway

Ingraham: the AG does not work
for the President he works for the people

Dowd: Like RFK or Ed Meese

or John Mitchell ?

Ingraham: Holder is worse than
them all because he said we
are a nation of cowards

Karl: can Jeb Bush be President?

Ingraham: I love all the Bushes
but Jeb is soft on hating brown people

Karl: the Clintons have a grandbaby!

Bai: ha ha the Democrats will
fundraise off this because they
are so bad and shameless


[ break ]

Karl: OMG did the Soviets murder
General Patton?!?

Stephanopoulos: Bill do you really
believe OMG General Patton was murdered?

Bill O'Reilly: yes Josef Stalin killed
Patton because he was going to
tell the truth about the Soviet Union

Stephanopoulos: that if we wait long
enough the USSR would collapse on its own?

O'Reilly: don't be a smart aleck George

Stephanopoulos: but the car accident
that killed Patton was a spur of the
moment thing – how could Stalin
know about it in advance?

O'Reilly: they're Russians – 

they have malicious
swarthy-person superpowers 

like the arab terrorists do!

Stephanopoulos: Patton had bodyguards
round-the-clock!

O'Reilly: there was no autopsy!

Stephanopoulos: his wife didn't want one

O'Reilly: he was the only one with
the guts to want to start a war with
the USSR while we were about
to invade Japan!

Stephanopoulos: what surprised
you most about Patton?

O'Reilly: how fucking crazy he was

Stephanopoulos: so then would
Patton support your idea of having
a mercenary army fight ISIS?

O'Reilly: oh no he would say to Obama
'give the troops and I will wipe out ISIS
and possibly France'

Stephanopoulos: so your hero Patton
would think Bill O'Reilly was nuts

O'Reilly: Henry Kissinger agrees
with me – America must to turn
to bounty hunters and paid killers

Stephanopoulos: I'm still not convinced

O'Reilly: let's win the damn war!

[ break ]

Karl: we talked to the woman
was a little baby tossed from a
helicopter fleeing the last days of Vietnam
and who is a doctor now

Karl: you were the little baby in this
documentary thrown by her father
onto an aircraft carrier

Doctor: my parents did not
make it seem so dramatic

Karl: how do you feel watching this movie?

Doctor: I feel grateful we got out
of Vietnam but but guilt also for
all those who did not

Raddatz: the troops on these
magnificent aircraft carrier sacrifice
a lot but they form their own family

Raddatz: how did you find out 

you would be bombing ISIS?

Sailor: it came over the loudspeaker
– Commander in Chief says it's go time

Sailor: we're touching lives
and we're a part of history!

Raddatz: that's all for today



Sunday, September 21, 2014

Meet The Press – September 21, 2014


Guests:

Samantha Power – U.S. Amb. to U.N.
Adm. Mike Mullen (Frm. Chair JCS)
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)
Kevin Tibbles
Thomas Frank
Grover Norquist
John Stanton
Neera Tanden
Amy Walter
Ramesh Ponnuru

Todd: oh wow we're going to war again!

Audience: woo

Todd: but Gen. Dempsey said he 
would recommend U.S. ground 
troops if things changed!

Brian Williams: OMFG!!!

Lindsay Graham: we're all gonna die!!!

John Kerry: we're not going invade!

Gates: but we might have to!!

[ break ]

Todd: welcome Samantha –
how many countries have agreed
to invade Syria?

Power: the Saudis have offered 
to put troops up in many of their 
palatial barracks seriously 
they're literally palaces

Todd: why won't you just admit we
need to invade Syria because it's
what we all want

Power: not so Chucky

Todd: are we training the moderates
to fight ISIS – because a year ago
we wanted them to fight Assad

Power: well that was a year ago Todd

Todd: good point

Todd: do the moderates in Syria
want to fight Assad or ISIS?

Power: both – but they really hate ISIS!

Todd: okay

Power: this problem is easily solved –
we will be giving them guns labeled
TO BE USED TO FIGHT ISIS ONLY”

Todd: that should do it

Power: darn right

Todd: what do you
want from the UN?

Power: it's a great privilege for me
to be pushed aside when Obama
chairs a meeting of the UN
Security Council by himself

Todd: I'm sure

Todd: we left a vacuum in Libya
and created chaos – how do we
prevent the same thing in Syria?

Power: oh it's totally different –
we will be investing in these totally
trustworthy Syrian moderates

Todd: which is more dysfunctional
the UN or the US Congress?

Power: the Sunday talk shows

Todd: snap

[ break ]

Todd: Chris you voted against
the President's plan

Murphy: I support fighting ISIS
but only in Iraq

Todd: we spent billions of dollars
and years training Iraqi troops and it failed

Johnson: the Surge worked and
Iraq was fine which is why we
had to leave U.S. troops in Iraq
to prevent the country from falling apart

Todd: yes the Surge was finest moment
in history since Reagan saved that
Caribbean medical school being
overrun by zombies

Johnson: I just want to the 
President to do more!

Todd: so you would support a
full-scale U.S. invasion of Syria?

Johnson: look I'm no military expert
I'm a simple country lawyer –
I just know that ISIS is coming to
kill people in Wisconsin and we're all terrified 
Murphy: cripes – we've got to have 
a plan to getting the Sunnis and 
Shia to get along

Johnson: you get right on that Chris

Todd: why does America care more
about peace in the middle east than
people in the middle east do?

Johnson: you cannot negotiate
with ISIS – they rape and 
decapitate and crucify!

Todd: you had me at crucifixion

Murphy: oh my god

Todd: Chris clearly diplomacy 
won't work we need war 
to save the middle east from war

Murphy: well then where the 
fuck is Saudi Arabia?

Todd: Senators should the NFL
lose their tax-exempt status?

Johnson: who the hell cares –
we're mortgaging our children's future!


Todd: look at what we found

in the Meet the Press archives!

Sen. Charles Goodell: 
only Congress can declare war!

[ break ]

Todd: Admiral don't we need
ground troops in Syria?! Say it!

Mullen: well maybe

Todd: aha!

Mullen: calm down Todd

Todd: but we can't build a coalition
if we don't promise to use our whole
military including nuclear weapons

Mullen: look General Dempsey gave
the only answer he could give when
he said if it were necessary he might
recommend some ground troops

Todd: but the disagreement with Obama!

Mullen: the media is blowing this
whole thing way out of proportion

Todd: in our defense the Beltway pundits
aren't demanding 100,000 troops just
like ten or fifteen thousand

Mullen: oh okay then

Todd: why did the Iraqi army flee from ISIS?

Mullen: Maliki put in a bunch of
weak generals and they fled so
naturally the troops did too

Todd: sweet jesus

Mullen: but I'm cautiously optimistic
if we bomb ISIS enough the Iraqi army will fight

Todd: who will join our coalition?

Mullen: the Saudis have a 
big powerful air force

Todd: but will they use it?

Mullen: they damn well should

Todd: does public opinion influence
the military advice you give the President

Mullen: of course not – are you an idiot?

Todd: but what if your best
military plan is opposed by 
the people don't you have to 
factor that in to a military plan?

Mullen: I have no idea what the
fuck you are talking about Todd

[ break ]

Todd: Neera what are you
hearing from progressives?

Tanden: they're worried we're 
going to have another fucking 
disastrous middle east war

Todd: Iraq fatigue is the new Vietnam fatigue

Stanton: Congress doesn't want to
have anything to do with this clusterfuck

Todd: I have decided that the
military strategy won't work

Walter: Obama's economic success
is getting lost because everyone in
America is terrified they will be
killed by terrorists

Todd: Congress are running re-election
ads warning about terrorists –
it's 2004 all over again!

Ponnuru: Republicans are backing the
President and Democrats are backing
their leader but if the war goes south
they will turn on him viciously –
you can count on it

[ break ]

Todd: Republicans are always
in favor of tax cuts – or are they...??

Todd: we sent Kevin Tibbles out into
the wild in search of the most elusive
creature on earth after the giant squid
the Republican in his natural habitat
against tax cuts

Tibbles: Chuck I am here in Kansas
where I found Republican mad 
at a Republican Governor for 
cutting taxes too much

Todd: wow

Tibbles: social services have slashed
and the schools suck and the deficit
is through the roof

Tibbles: Colorado also slashed
taxes and it was also a disaster

Republican voter: I'm a Republican but
these tax cuts have gone too far –
I'm voting for the Democrat this year

Republican voter: it's driving us into bankruptcy!

Republican voter: I still support
tax cuts – you have to give the
free market time to work!

Todd: Grover are you worried that
tax cuts are becoming unpopular?

Norquist: tax cuts work and they are popular!

Todd: taxes cuts don't cause
economic growth and raising taxes
doesn't hurt growth

Frank: in the golden age of the
1950's taxes were very high

Todd: like 90%!

Frank: but Gov. Brownback really cut
taxes a lot and it's hurt public schools

Todd: no one saw that coming

Frank: people in Kansas are
very proud of their public schools –
they even teach evolution as something
that might have happened

Norquist: liberals are very angry at
Kansas because it's been so successful

Todd: I see

Norquist: also Democrats
are sex-crazed perverts

Todd: but the tax cuts didn't work

Norquist: maybe – but many small
business in Kansas are paying no taxes
at all – you can't argue with that

Todd: but they didn't work

Norquist: nevertheless they are great

Stanton: Grover do you ever
feel guilty for ruining America?

Norquist: no because Reagan was
a saint and communism is bad

Todd: a Democrat was in a strip club
when he was 26 so all the 
public schools must close

Frank: back in the 1990s when he was single!

Todd: sorry there was nakedness involved

Frank: this country is sliding into
oligarchy and we're talking about strip clubs!

[ break ]

Todd: OMG the election is really
Starbucks Nation vs. Chick-fil-a Country

Audience: oh god

Todd: 4 out of 5 voters in election 2014
live on farms, love guns, hates gays,
despise coffee and eat at chick-fil-a

Todd: in Colorado the Democrats
are all in Boulder or are pot-smoking hippies
while the Republican voters live in the
woods and subsist on squirrels and roadkill

Todd: likewise Democrats in Iowa all
have PhDs and eat caviar and live in
rich fancy towns like Des Moines while
the Republicans are ignorant hicks who
sign their names with an X and spend
all day castrating pigs

Audience: hmmm tough choices

Todd: the elections are only six weeks
away and Democrats are running
away from Obama and his terrible
available health care and 6% unemployment

Panel: ha ha

Todd: a parade of Democrats up for election
are saying they will take on Obama and
are firing guns randomly for some reason

Audience: who doesn't love
a politician with a gun

Todd: when Republicans ran away
from the President they lost –
is this a bad strategy?

Ponnuru: it never works

Tanden: in polls voters always saying
they want Washing to get things done
and compromise and then
they elect extremists

Todd: Mark Pryor is running away
from Obama but he needs black voters

Ponnuru: Obama won Colordao
and they hate Obama now –
although to be fair they are
probably high on the pot

Tanden: I predict Democrats will win Colorado!

Todd: voters can detect phony bullshit

Tanden: Republicans are unpopular
too – people are anti-Washington
not anti-Obama

Todd: why does the media keep
pretending Joe Biden is running?

Tanden: because he might

Todd: no he won't

Stanton: Biden is media crack

Todd: are we all phonies?

Tanden: undoubtedly

Ponnuru: it's either talk about Biden
and his gaffes or only talk about
Hillary for two years

Todd: Joe Biden is like Dubya –
no one is offended by his constant gaffes

Audience: it's good to be an old white man

Todd: hey audience next time
we're gonna have a brand new set!

Audience: yay

Todd: and that's another
episode of Meet the Press



This Week with George Stephanopoulos – September 21, 2014

Guests:
Jon Karl
Bob Woodruff
Martha Raddatz
Samantha Power – U.S. Amb. to U.N.
Bob Gates
Mike Tiricio
Ryan Smith
Christine Brennan

Stephanopoulos: omg we're at war
again which is awesome but don't
we need to invade Syria?

Karl: even the French are
bombing ISIS

Stephanopoulos: holy crap

Karl: Obama has pitched war
against ISIS five times in the last
month but he doesn't want to
invade Syria which is so sad

Stephanopoulos: but we need to invade
Syria or it won't be a fun war to cover

Karl: Obama's generals disagree with
him and we know this because Dempsey
said he might recommend ground troops
if necessary because of course he did

Stephanopoulos: so are these
moderate Syrian rebels anyway

Obama: they are dentists and blacksmiths

Audience: I hope those are separate jobs

Moderate Syrian Rebel: this makes
me proud – was not Paul Revere of
your American revolution a blacksmith?

Woodruff: will weapons we give you
end up in the hands of terrorists?

Moderate Syrian Rebel: oh no we
will be very careful to make 
sure this will not happen

Woodruff: are you asking for US troops?

Moderate Syrian Rebel: no we are not
asking for anyone else to fight our war for us

Woodruff: well maybe just a little

Vice Reporter: we went to Syria and 
found ordinary Syrians determined 
to save their country

[ break ]

Stephanopoulos: welcome Ambassador Power

Power: good morning George

Stephanopoulos: will the U.S. get 
UN Security Council authorization 
to start a war with Syria?

Power: maybe

Stephanopoulos: but Russia might veto

Power: or they might not

Stephanopoulos: you don't sound optimistic

Power: it doesn't matter – we have a
legal basis to bomb anyway

Stephanopoulos: even without
Security Council authorization?

Power: don't look so shocked George –
we bomb who we want to bomb when
and where we want to bomb them

Stephanopoulos: has any country
agreed to join us in a war with Syria?

Power: well France is bombing now

Stephanopoulos: but only in Iraq
they're not bombing Syria

Power: well we're not bombing Syria either

Stephanopoulos: and I can't tell you 
how disappointed I am by that

Power: sorry George

Stephanopoulos: even Britain won't
commit to bombing Syria – it's so unfair

Power: trust me Stephy – we won't
be bombing Syria alone

Stephanopoulos: what about Iran?

Power: did you know you can't trust Assad?

Stephanopoulos: I've heard that

Power: we need to Iran to get that message

Stephanopoulos: some say we need troops
on the ground if we are going to defeat ISIS

Power: there are troops on the ground
Syrian troops and Iraqi troops

Stephanopoulos: oh what a relief
how long will this take anyway?

Power: oh just two to twenty years

Stephanopoulos: yikes

[ break ]

Stephanopoulos: General Dempsey 
said he would recommend ground 
troops if necessary!

Raddatz: it's a rift between Obama
and his generals! OMG!

Stephanopoulos: ha ha! I love it!

Raddatz: to be fair Obama is really
saying he won't send a massive
American invading army

Stephanopoulos: what's the use of having
a massive Army if we're not going to use it
to invade another country every few years?

Raddatz: good point George

[ break ]

Stephanopoulos: welcome General Gates

Gates: nice to see you George

Stephanopoulos: is Obama's plan
doomed or is he lying?

Gates: oh don't be ridiculous George

Stephanopoulos: I can't help it

Gates: Martha was right – the President
is just trying to avoid a big useless
counter-productive invasion

Stephanopoulos: so would you approve 
the President's plan if you were 
still defense secretary?

Gates: yes I would

Stephanopoulos: well you are no fun at all

Gates: I eat people like you for breakfast Stephers

Stephanopoulos: if we invade are we
just giving ISIS what they want which 
is the U.S. bogged do in another 
middle east war?

Gates: we need to step back from this
cauldron of violence and and saucepan
of dysfunction and chafing dish of hate

Stephanopoulos: so you don't think
we should destroy ISIS?

Gates: well I do think we should
drive them out of Iraq and into
Syria so they can never attack America

Stephanopoulos: is that the way it works?

Gates: look we've been at war with
al-Qaeda for over a decade and
we haven't destroyed them yet

Stephanopoulos: practice makes perfect

Reporter: OMG Ray Rice punched his
girlfriend and knocked her unconscious and
Roger Goodell got really mad and
suspended him for two games

Expert: this is a lesson on 
how not to handle a crisis

Reporter: we just now we learned that
the Ravens and probably everyone knew
all about the second video where Ray Rice
punches her so hard she flies against
the back wall of the elevator

Stephanopoulos: shocking news indeed

Reporter: two days ago Roger Goodell
held a terrible press conference where
said from now on the NFL will pretend
to care about domestic violence

Stephanopoulos: problem solved then

Stephanopoulos: Mike will fans stop
watching the NFL and if they don't
why should the NFL ever change?

Tirico: well George you can't expect
fans can't stop watching now –
they all have fantasy football teams
which are terribly important even
though they don't actually exist

Stephanopoulos: Christine how bad
was that press conference?

Brennan: awful – Goodell could have
projected empathy or humanity or
at least a non-robot corporate persona

Stephanopoulos: he did apologize

Brennan: he a lot to apologize for

Stephanopoulos: snap

Stephanopoulos: does Goodell lose his job?

Smith: that depends on if Robert
Mueller finds out he lied

Stephanopoulos: is it time for the
team owners to step up and not be
assholes or is that asking too much
from out-of-touch megalomaniac billionaires?

Tirico: they have to find a balance
between finding talented football players
who are not also violently abusive criminals

Stephanopoulos: what about the 
other leagues?

Brennan: we haven't heard from
other major sports and they probably
have terrible abusers also

Stephanopoulos: quite likely

Smith: everyone wants swift and decisive
action but the athletes do have contracts
and collective bargaining

Brennan: I'm not defending the NFL
but at least they funding an abuse hotline
where is major league baseball?

Stephanopoulos: I believe they a building
shrine of gold made from melted down
Canadian Word Series trophies over the
place where Derek Jeter ascended in heaven