Weekend Show *Preview* for 3/18 - 3/19 (not the live thread)

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[Phsstpok]

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page

• Meme:
  • Fissures in the GOP - immigration
• Topics:
  • "Are Republicans headed for a political meltdown over immigration?" (as per Opinion Journal web site)
  • "Immigration reform controversy: We'll examine policies under consideration" (as per FNC show page)
  • "Plus, what a hard line on immigration means for this year's midterm elections" (as per FNC show page)
• Guests
  • Colorado Governor Bill Owens
    • I have a plan, just like the plan that's failing the President
  • Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review
    • illegal immigration isn't really a problem, really
  • Stephen Moore, Walls Street Journal
  • Jason Riley, Walls Street Journal
  • Paul Gigot, Walls Street Journal
• Journal Editorial Report (at Fox News) contact information - jer@foxnews.com
• Note: this week the program airs on FNC Saturday at 4 p.m. ET and again at 11 p.m. Saturday night and Sunday at 6 a.m.

CNBCs Tim Russert Show (Tim Russert)

• Meme:
  • "Who gave George Bush the duty to free people around the world?" (actual quote from Wallace)
• Topics:
  • Tim talks to Mike Wallace about his life and career and his book “Between You And Me.”
• Guests
  • Mike Wallace
    • now that I'm retired I won't have to hold back and I can really tell you what evil idiots the Bushbots are
• CNBC's Time Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm & 10pm ET

Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

• Meme:
  • Fissures in the GOP - Bush's failures
    • Iraq and the WOT
    • the failure of the Medicare drug benefits plan
• Topics:
  • Censure President Bush over NSA surveillance program?
  • Latest on Operation Swarmer
  • Controversy over Medicare's new prescription drug benefit
• Guests
  • Sen. Richard Durbin
    • The Republicans are being mean to me and they called me a traitor, really, they did, and that's mean
    • Bush is a traitor and a war criminal and must be impeached and executed immediately
• Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com

NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

• Meme:
  • Fissures in the GOP - Iraq and the WOT
• Topics:
  • none listed
• Guests
  • Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.
    • See, I told you we were defeated in Iraq!
• What would you like to ask this week's guests? (web page for submitting questions for this weeks show)
• Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments)

CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

• Meme:
  • Fissures in the GOP - the Bush administration in full retreat
• Topics:
  • An Exclusive Live Interview With Vice President Dick Cheney
• Guests
  • Vice President Dick Cheney
    • Bob, let me explain this to you slowly, in simple words even you will understand...
• Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

• Meme:
  • Fissures in the GOP - Iraq and the WOT
• Topics:
  • On the third anniversary of the war in Iraq, military veterans Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., discuss how they rate success in Iraq and when U.S. troops may head home.
  • Voices: Olympic speed skater Joey Cheek explains how he went from the gold medal platform at Torino to podiums around the nation, advocating for relief efforts in Darfur, Sudan.
• Guests
  • Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb.
    • I support President Bush... except on that... and that... oh, and that too.
  • Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I.
    • I got the mean Republicans to give even more money to my poor voters so that they'll vote for more Democrats
  • George Will (roundtable)
    • I really, really don't like the Bush family
    • Barry Bonds cannot be allowed to besmirch baseball further
  • Cokie Roberts (roundtable)
    • The Bush administration is such a failure and I am not a partisan Democrat
    • My whole family of Democrats and leftist lobbyists just went down to New Orleans to prove how much we care and how much Republicans like Bush don't
  • Sam Donaldson (roundtable)
    • David Gregory is a wimp compared to me!
• ABC This Week comment web page
• Behind the Scenes in 'This Week's' Green Room web site will provide a continuation of the discussions from the show roundtable (new, 3/19)

CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

• Meme:
  • Fissures in the GOP - Bush's failures
    • Iraq, Afghanistan and the WOT
    • the collapse of Bush's entire foreign policy (and those who could have done it better)
• Topics:
  • U.S. and Iraqi troops go on the offensive together. Three years after the start of the war, where do things really stand?
• Guests
  • Ahmed Chalabi: Iraqi deputy prime minister
    • I'm a good guy (and American ally)
    • I'm a bad guy (and Iranian ally)
    • I'm whatever the media needs this week to bash Bush
    • convenient, isn't it?
  • Sen. Richard Lugar: R-Indiana, Foreign Relations Committee chairman
    • I'm an ally of Bush
    • I'm an opponent of Bush
    • I'm against the India treaty
    • I just introduced the legislation to approve the India treaty
    • confusing, isn't it?
  • Sen. Joseph Biden: D-Delaware Foreign Relations Committee
    • did you know that I can talk forever and never say anything meaningful?
  • Abdullah Abdullah: Afghanistan minister of foreign affairs
    • things in Afghanistan are better than they seem
    • things in Afghanistan are worse than they seem
    • nobody in the world is helping us
    • there are lots of countries helping us
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski: former national security adviser
    • I could have told them their policies wouldn't work!  They should listen to me.
  • Henry Kissinger: former secretary of state
    • I could have told them their policies wouldn't work!  They should listen to me.
• CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)

This is NOT intended to be the live Sunday Morning Talk Show thread. I trust AB will do that as usual. This is strictly a preview of who will be on the main shows. The idea is to give folks a chance to muster their resources for that thread.

I would particularly ask that anyone with specific knowledge or resources about the topics / guests announced for these shows post them here so that the rest of us can go into the shows with a heads up on what to look for.

[Phsstpok]

technically my eyes are doing fine, it's my brain that's having problems coping. Not really much they can do for me there ;^>

It's like when you get a new pair of glasses, things are changed and you take time to get used to it. My relative change was just a bit more extensive than most. I go back to my doctor on the 8th and he actually thinks that he'll be able correct me to 20/20 in the left eye with glasses. I haven't been able to wear glasses to get correction for 35 years! The prospect is really exciting. It's just getting from here to there that takes a bit of getting used to.

One of the things I'm most grateful for is that I've got a very understanding boss who is letting me work from home, in a slightly more controlled environment, about half of each day. Of course, he does end up getting me to work about an extra 3 or 4 hours that way, so it works out ;^>

Thank you all for your concern and well wishes (and patience with my soap opera)

[Txsleuth]

Although not nearly to the extent of your eye problem..

I think I sort of know what you are going through. I wear contact lenses...but went to the optometrist to get some emergency glasses.

Well they thought it would be a good idea to give my bifocals...and so, of course, I went along with it. I told them I wanted the "lineless" so you can't tell by looking at them that they are bifocals....

I got them and tried to wear them that day...and I was SO nauseous, and had such vertigo...I couldn't wear them AT ALL. They told me I would get used to them, just to keep wearing them...but I just couldn't deal with the vertigo, which triggered the nausea.

I took them back..and said that since I wear my contacts 100% of the time, and the glasses are only for emergency, that I want just single vision, NO bifocals.

The new ones are better...but I plan on not having to use them unless I have an eye infection, because I keep a stock of boxes and boxes of new contacts at home.

[Phsstpok]

The Journal Editorial Report is starting on Fox News Channel

Also, a few extra Fox weekend shows have posted info:

The Beltway Boys (Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke)

• Topics
  • Public anxiety rises to new levels over the war as U.S. and Iraqi forces launch a new offensive
  • And the White House staff under fire — with the loudest shot coming from a Republican
• Airs Saturday at 6 and 11:30 p.m. ET on FNC

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

• Topics
  • The media and the war in Iraq: three years later
  • What's the attraction between the media and the mob?
  • At age 87 Mike Wallace says he'll retire
• Airs Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. ET and Sundays at 2:30 a.m. ET

And one just for history buffs

War Stories (Oliver North)

• Topic: The Life and Times of Dwight Eisenhower
  • Find out how this small-town American went from the poorhouse to the White House, becoming a fierce soldier and brilliant diplomat along the way
• Airs Sunday at 8 p.m. ET

[Txsleuth]

Thank you...I was just going to ping you and the rest to the show...

I like Paul's show more and more everytime I see it...

[eeevil conservative]

ugh...

kids watching princess mononoke...?

OY!

[eeevil conservative]

have you ever had the feeling you were wondering the halls of the GREAT FREE REPUBLIC and felt lost.. abandoned...alone..

{sniff}

[Phsstpok]

have you ever had the feeling you were wondering the halls of the GREAT FREE REPUBLIC and felt lost.. abandoned...alone..

Two words:

March Madness 

followed by 

Go Tigers! 

[eeevil conservative]

ROFLLLL!!!

well THAT explains it!

[Txsleuth]

Yes....I felt that way last night...for some reason Friday nights are my nights to have a lot of time to freep...but I can't find anyone that wants to "come out and play"..LOL

I have been on a thread about the riots in France...I should have pinged you...sorry.

If you get a chance to watch the replay of this show tonight, you should watch it....it is a great show.

Today's topic is immigration reform...and there are a lot of thoughtful opinions...no flame wars and shouting.

[Txsleuth]

I sure wish I had a DVD player that records...but I don't...maybe if you asked on the DOSE thread tonight?

[Txsleuth]

I hope you are talking about the MEMPHIS TIGERS...not the LSU Tigers...

Because I am really rooting hard for the Cinderella Aggies!!

[Bahbah]

Hello, Phsstpok, I was so delighted to see Gigot's program on at this time. Unfortunately, I was on my way out of the door this time.

[Phsstpok]

Darn straight the Memphis Tigers! (is LSU blue as well?).  Living in Germantown, TN, in the Memphis suburbs I'd be beat silly if I went any other way.  My wife's a travel agent in town and has been finding "miracle packages" for diehard fans for both Dalls and the next stop, which I gather is Oakland.  Folks are booking non-refundable trips based on assuming that Memphis is going to at least the Sweet 16, if not all the way!

And you've got my other team as well.  Though he's left school before graduating my son is an Aggie (once and Aggie, always an Aggie), so I pull for them too.

Gig 'Em

(that's as close to maroon as I could find) 

If Memphis and A&M meet by some chance I'll be torn, but will end up happy whichever goes on (is that even possible?) 

[Txsleuth]

LOL...my sister graduated from A & M....

I will root for Memphis, I have always kind of liked them, unlike Kentucky, who I have been known to root against..LOL

[Txsleuth]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1598779/posts?page=1

Don't know if you saw this thread...but a good article from Fred Barnes...and very necessary read for those of us interested in helping in the 2006 elections..instead of just griping about things..

[Bahbah]

Dave Sackett of the Tarrance Group said, in a memo to Mehlman, that distancing oneself from the president is a "flawed strategy"

Mr. Sackett is obviously a very astute observer since he agrees with me :)

[Txsleuth]

Yes...I thought that article was really good...and I too, agree that distancing from President Bush is dumb (LOL).

BTW...I noticed that both Mort and Fred Barnes, on Beltway Boys made the comment that though "the talk around town" may be that Bush needs new blood...it was not a good thing for him to go public with his "suggestion"..

I agree with that as well...it was a dumb move by Coleman, and I lost some respect for him as an opportunist.

I am mentally making a roster for the new "opportunist party"..that I see forming.

[Bahbah]

Coleman appears to be getting too big for his britches. JMO

[Txsleuth]

I guess he doesn't remember that he barely won his seat...and probably wouldn't even BE a senator if Wellstone's plane hadn't crashed...

[Txsleuth]

Well....you won't have to worry about your Memphis Tigers having to play the Aggies...sigh

A & M came really close to beating LSU though..

I will root for your Tigers...