Weekend Show *Preview* for 3/25 - 3/26 (not the live thread)

Network and Cable News | 3/23/06 | Network and Cable News Networks

[Phsstpok]

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page

• Meme:
  • The Bush administration policies are a failure and Bush has bad poll numbers
  • Bush's bad poll numbers are sinking the Republicans
  • Bush must clean house and replace those the MSM hates (because they're not listening to us!)
  • The paleocons and country club Republicans have turned their back on Bush (the Nixon wing of the party tries to rise again)
• Topics:
  • 'Civil War'? - Tune in this weekend for a discussion of Iraq and Harvard professors' campaign against Israel. (Opinion Journal web site promo)
  • Is Iraq really headed toward civil war? An interview with Reuel Marc Gerecht, an expert on the Shiites in Iraq. (Opinion Journal web site promo)
  • Plus, the politics of Iraq in the U.S., and professors at Harvard and Chicago claim the "Israel Lobby" dictates U.S. foreign policy (Opinion Journal web site promo)
  • Is sectarian violence in Iraq approaching all-out civil war? (FNC web site promo)
  • Plus, is negative media coverage making defeat in Iraq more likely? (FNC web site promo)
• Guests
  • Reuel Marc Gerecht
    • yet another ex-CIA type who used to support the war but now thinks the Bush administration is incompetent
• Journal Editorial Report (at Fox News) contact information - jer@foxnews.com
• The program is from The Wall Street Journal and airs on FOX News Channel Saturday at 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET and again Sunday at 6 a.m.

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondracke, Fred Barnes)

• Meme:
  • Bush's bad poll numbers are sinking the Republicans
  • Bush must clean house and replace those the MSM hates (because they're not listening to us!)
  • But those folks in Hollywood really are nuts
• Topics:
  • President Bush pressures Iraqis to form a permanent government as support for war begins to fade
  • And, Congress gets ready to act on immigration reform
  • Plus, actor Charlie Sheen joins chorus who think 9/11 was hoax
• Beltway Boys contact information beltway@foxnews.com
• The program airs on FOX News Channel Saturdays at 6 and 11:30 p.m. ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

• Meme:
  • Right wing extremists are attacking the messenger and trying to blame the real news media for the bad news, but it won't work!
• Topics:
  • The pres. vs. the press: Is there any objectivity left in the White House briefing room?
  • Did media coverage keep sex-pot teacher Debra LaFave out of jail?
  • Hillary's hubby's headlines
• The program airs on FOX News Channel Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. ET and Sundays at 2:30 a.m. ET
• Fox News Watch contact information Newswatch@foxnews.com

Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

• Meme:
  • It's not all over in Iraq, but it's close
  • Bush must force the Iraqi's to take over, this Tuesday, if not sooner
• Topics:
  • Iraq progress report
• Guests
  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
    • did you know that she has hit 12 gazillion countries in the last 48 hours and no one in the MSM mentioned it?
  • Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.
    • Carl is greatly saddened that the Bush administration is so incompetent
    • he went over to Iraq and he told the Iraqis that they must form a government now, no foolin - Bush hasn't done that, you know
• Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com

CNBC'S TIM RUSSERT SHOW (Tim Russert)

• Meme:
  • "A review in Sunday's New York Times said the book may be 'the most alarming analysis of where we are and where we may be going to have appeared in many years.'"
  • The paleocons and country club Republicans have turned their back on Bush (the Nixon wing of the party tries to rise again)
• Topics:
  • Kevin Phillips on his new book, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century.
• Guests
  • Kevin Phillips
    • OK, Mike Wallace was a bust last week and the guys the week before were so bad we had to drop that show down the memory hole, but THIS guy is gold!

NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

• Meme:
  • Bush has lost in Iraq, it's all over
  • The Bush administration policies are a failure and Bush has bad poll numbers
  • Bush's bad poll numbers are sinking the Republicans
  • Bush must clean house and replace those the MSM hates (because they're not listening to us!)
  • Right wing extremists are attacking the messenger and trying to blame the real news media for the bad news, but it won't work!
• Topics:
  • Iraq, Iran, and U.S. foreign policy.
  • Extended comments at MTP web site, including:
    • the future of the U.S. role in Iraq
    • continuing tensions over a nuclear ambitious Iran
    • will Bush's low poll numbers spell trouble for Republicans in November?
    • What is the outlook for the remainder of the President's term in office?
• Guests
  • U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
    • did you know that she has hit 12 gazillion countries in the last 48 hours and no one in the MSM mentioned it?
  • David Broder (roundtable)
    • thinks he's the smartest man in Washington
    • knows he's smarter than anyone in the Bush administration
  • Elisabeth Bumiller (roundtable)
    • thinks Broder is right about being the smartest MAN in Washington
    • knows she's smarter than Broder, therefore she's lots smarter than anyone in the Bush administration
    • plans on taking a year off from the NY Times to write a hit piece book about Condoleezza Rice prior to the 2008 campaign, but it's not to help Hillary, nooooooooo.....
  • Charlie Cook (roundtable)
    • a "non-partisan" political analyst who the Democrats love
  • John Harwood (roundtable)
    • hopes to live up to David Gregory's high expectations now that he works for CNBC
    • Has been one of the "good liberal" reporters at the Wall Street Journal, not one of the "bad conservative" editorialists
• 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)
• Meet the Press links (background and related stories for this weeks show from show web site)

CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

• Meme:
  • The White House is racist because they want to demonize all immigrants
  • Teddy and his friends need illegal immigrants as servants because they don't want to have to pay the minimum wage, taxes or benefits and definitely not health care costs, those are for the little people
• Topics:
  • Iraq War, Iran, Immigration
• Guests
  • Sen. Edward Kennedy D-Massachusetts
    • Teddy floats onto the stage
    • they must be desperate if they let him go out to the Sunday shows
  • Stephen Hadley White House National Security Adviser
    • Hadley is one of the prime targets of the "they must resign" campaign, right behind Rumsfeld

• Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

• Meme:
  • The White House is racist because they want to demonize all immigrants
  • There are good Republicans (Specter) and bad Republicans (Tancredo)
  • Global warming is too real and we're all doomed, even Western governors know it (pay no attention to the fact that he's a Democrat)
  • Bush has lost in Iraq, it's all over
  • The Bush administration policies are a failure and Bush has bad poll numbers
  • Bush's bad poll numbers are sinking the Republicans
  • Bush must clean house and replace those the MSM hates (because they're not listening to us!)
  • Right wing extremists are attacking the messenger and trying to blame the real news media for the bad news, but it won't work!
• Topics:
  • In a Sunday exclusive, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., square off on immigration reform just days before the issue explodes on Capitol Hill.
  • George travels to Montana's Glacier National Park with the state's Democratic governor, Brian Schweitzer, to see firsthand how warmer temperatures have melted the glaciers and to learn how Schweitzer confronts global warming.
• Guests
  • Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.
    • we must make illegal immigration a felony... wait, you're talking about the Irish now?  Well, that's different
    • George Bush broke Scottish law by not getting Arlen's every senators permission before listening in on the terrorist's phone calls
    • when listening legally to a terrorists phone calls overseas, if the NSA realizes that the terrorist has called somebody in the US, they must stop listening immediately, even if they did hear the words "nuclear" and/or "bomb"
  • Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo.
    • they will be looking carefully for his horns and tail
  • Fareed Zakaria  (roundtable)
    • The war is not lost, but he could have run the war better than anybody in this White House, in fact...
  • Katrina vanden Heuvel (roundtable)
    • Katrina hates the Bush family
  • George Will. (roundtable)
    • George really hates the Bush family

• ABC This Week comment web page

CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

• Meme:
  • Bush has lost in Iraq, it's all over
  • The Bush administration policies are a failure and Bush has bad poll numbers
  • Bush's bad poll numbers are sinking the Republicans
  • Bush must clean house and replace those the MSM hates (because they're not listening to us!)
  • Right wing extremists are attacking the messenger and trying to blame the real news media for the bad news, but it won't work!

• Topics:
  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gives us perspective on Iraq. How will the government control the violent insurgency?
• Guests
  • Condoleezza Rice: U.S. secretary of state
    • did you know that she has hit 12 gazillion countries in the last 48 5 hours and no one in the MSM will edit the hell out of what she said mentioned it?
  • Retired Gen. Bernard Trainor: U.S. Marine Corps, author: "COBRA II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq"
    • two weeks ago he didn't give Timmy the expected answers bashing the Bush administration, Wolf will give him a second chance
  • Retired Gen. George Joulwan: U.S. Army, former NATO supreme allied commander
    • just in case Trainor hasn't learned his lesson they have a second retired general and this one has been reliably critical in the past, hasn't he?
    • He's an Ayrab, you know, they must hate George Bush, and if not we can make his scary
  • Sen. Pat Roberts: R-Kansas, Select Intelligence Committee chairman, Armed Services Committee
    • Pat Roberts said all of those crazy things about assassinating Hugo Chavez... what... oh... never mind
    • Senator Pat Roberts has been covering up for the Bush administration, that's why CNN trusts Senator Specter to investigate the NSA (which he's not cleared to know about)
  • Sen. Jack Reed: D-Rhode Island, Armed Services Committee
    • Senator Reed didn't do so good on ABC This Week last Sunday, this is his do over opportunity to revise and extend his remarks
  • Qubad Talabany: representative of the Iraqi Kurdistan regional government to the United States
    • Who?  Haven't got a clue, but the name sounds like "Taliban" so let's have him on and scare people about all of them Ayrabs... what... oh... never mind
• 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]

These are links to recent articles by or about this weeks guests that I think might give a clue as to why they have been invited on this week's shows

• David Broder (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
  • David Broder: General's warnings ring true (The Spokesman Review, WA)
  • Broder: Three years later, Bush is still trying to make a case (Salt Lake Tribune)
  • Skepticism over Iraq lingers, deepens (Centre Daily Times, PA)
  • DAVID BRODER: Republicans gain cheer from high court (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
  • Post Colleague Tags Leibovich "Traitor" (New York Observer)
  • Keeping the smart folks out (Cincinnati Post, OH)
• Elisabeth Bumiller (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
  • Bush squeezed on immigration reform (Los Angeles Daily News)
  • NYT: Bush in "Fantasy Land?" (NewsBusters)
  • Signs of Change (Washington Post)
  • NYT: Make A Call To The Bullpen, Bush! (NewsBusters)
  • NYT's Bumiller: Americans Tuning Out Bush’s Ineffectual “Cheerleading” on Iraq (NewsBusters)
  • President gets punchy with the press corps (News & Observer, NC)
  • Bush shines light on gains in Tall Afar (Denver Post)
  • NEWS ANALYSIS Bush Concedes Iraq War Erodes Political Status (Spiegel Online, Germany)
  • Cheney's travel demands: He's no Rolling Stone (Houston Chronicle)
• Charlie Cook (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
  • Battling combat fatigue (Australian)
  • Plethora of senators testing presidential waters (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN)
• Reuel Marc Gerecht (Journal Editorial Report)
  • Chasing the wind in Iraq (Arizona Republic)
  • Bill Buckley’s Crocodile Tears (uruknet.info, Italy)
  • Iran threatens US with `harm and pain' (San Jose Mercury News)
  • Strong Words From Iran (Hartford Courant)
  • Inside the US's regime-change school (Asia Times Online, Hong Kong)
  • Violence Strains US Strategy and Imperils Pullout Plans (New York Times)
  • IT DIDN'T WORK (Yahoo! News)
• Stephen Hadley White House National Security Adviser (CBS Face The Nation)
  • Remarks by National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley to the United States Institute of Peace on President Bush's National Security Strategy (PR Newswire press release)
  • Bush should fire his top advisers on the Iraq war (Newsday)
  • CP meets Hadley (Bahrain News Agency)
  • Are the neocons losing it? (WorldNetDaily)
  • US retains controversial first strike policy (ABC Online, Australia)
  • Libby's new filing: Hadley and Armitage named, press ignores Hadley (Raw Story, MA)
• John Harwood (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
  • For Second Night, NBC Focuses on Bush's Bad Polls Yet Ignores Popular Bush Policies (NewsBusters)
  • Growing Anxiety About Iraq Threatens Republicans (Wall Street Journal)
  • Zeal for Reform Faces Senate Test (Wall Street Journal)
  • Left Plans Continued Assault on American Jobs (Human Events)
  • Harwood CNBC's New Chief Washington Correspondent (Television Week)
• Katrina vanden Heuvel (ABC This Week roundtable)
  • Money Where Their Mouths Ain't (Human Events)
  • Three Years Too Many (Yahoo! News)
  • Pelosi Punts -- For Now -- on Impeachment (Human Events)
  • Sweet Victory: The Resolutions Roll In (Yahoo! News)
  • Bush And Dubai (CBS News)
  • The Costs of War (uruknet.info, Italy)
• Retired Gen. George Joulwan: U.S. Army (CNN Late Edition)
  • former NATO supreme allied commander
  • Tillman Probe May Put Questions to Rest (Pierceland Herald, Canada)
  • CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER - November 7, 2004 (CNN.com - Transcripts)
• Sen. Edward Kennedy D-Massachusetts (CBS Face The Nation)
  • Immigration to take center stage at trilateral summit (Biloxi Sun Herald)
  • Newspaper plays elitist tunes and seduces pols (Salem Statesman Journal, OR)
  • Immigration reform (Winfield Daily Courier, KS)
  • Senate to Address Immigration Next Week, Ready-or-Not (About - News & Issues, NY)
  • Bush says Iraqi leaders need to 'get a government in place' (Houston Chronicle)
  • Cheney vs. Kennedy (Boston Globe)
  • Senator Ted Kennedy speaks at Miller Center (University of Virginia The Cavalier Daily, VA)
• Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. (Fox News Sunday)
  • Sacrificing Saad on the Altar of Political Cowardice (Human Events)
  • Senator Levin says U.S. military backing for Iraq tied to formation of government (KPHO Phoenix, AZ)
  • An Election in Wartime (American Enterprise Institute)
  • More of the same failed strategy (Berkshire Eagle, MA)
  • US senators talk tough with Iraqi PM over new govt (Herald News Daily, ND)
• Kevin Phillips (CNBC'S TIM RUSSERT SHOW)
  • Author of American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century.
  • Fmr. GOP Strategist Kevin Phillips on American Theocracy (Democracy Now)
  • Book Review: American Theocracy by Kevin Phillips (Monsters and Critics.com, UK)
  • A New Departure (TPMCafe)
  • Author Phillips Warns of Religious Fanatics (Truthdig, United States)
  • Adumbrating About 'Theocracy' (New York Sun)
• Sen. Jack Reed: D-Rhode Island (CNN Late Edition)
  • Armed Services Committee
  • Senators press Iraqis to stop 'dawdling' on government (CNN)
  • US Lawmakers Vow To Keep Fighting For Liberians Immigration Plight (TheLiberianTimes.com, New York)
  • Civil war in Iraq? White House says no (Seattle Times)
• Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (Fox News Sunday, NBC Meet The Press, CNN Late Edition)
  • US certain to hold talks with Iran on Iraq: Rice (Reuters)
  • Can't be any stalling on Iran: Rice (Times of India)
  • Rice asks Afghan prez for "favourable resolution" of trial (Hindu, India)
  • Condoleezza Rice in Australia to discuss global security (ABC Online, Australia)
  • Condoleezza Rice today praises Australia's support (Pravda)
  • US AND BULGARIA SIGN FOREIGN BASES AGREEMENT DURING RICE'S VISIT (Sofia Echo, Bulgaria)
  • Rice and Rumsfeld Comment on Int'l Issues (CRI, China)
  • US secretary of state to meet Germany's Merkel (Pravda)
  • Condoleezza Rice says US worried about China's military build-up (Monsters and Critics.com, UK)
  • Condoleezza Rice warns against ring of fire (Melbourne Herald Sun, Australia)
• Sen. Pat Roberts: R-Kansas (CNN Late Edition)
  • Select Intelligence Committee chairman, Armed Services Committee
  • REPORT: Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) - Chairman of the Senate Cover-up Committee (Think Progress)
  • Specter to Shepherd Bills Through Senate (Houston Chronicle)
  • Bad News For Good Journalism (North Country Gazette, NY)
  • THE FIX IS IN FOR BUSH (Philadelphia Daily News)
  • Roberts faces vote on "warrantless wiretapping" (Lawrence Journal World, KS)
  • Kansas' Roberts puts politics first (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
• Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. (ABC This Week)
  • Specter to Shepherd Bills Through Senate (Houston Chronicle)
  • Specter Pessimistic Over Wiretap Law Compromise (FOX News)
  • Specter rebukes White House on warrantless domestic surveillance (JURIST)
  • Hunger strikers protest fascist Specter bill (San Francisco Bay View)
  • Specter buys time, keeping hope alive (Irish Echo, NY)
  • The H-1B Visa Race Starts Soon; Will Congress Raise The Cap? (InformationWeek)
  • Our View: Stop Arlen Specter's Amnesty (Human Events)
  • An Update on President Bush's NSA Program: The Historical Context, Specter's Recent Bill, and Feingold's Censure Motion (John Dean - FindLaw)
• Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. (ABC This Week)
  • Tom Tancredo: Sam Brownback 'Miserable' on Illegal Immigration (NewsMax)
  • Tancredo to address new citizens (Rocky Mountain News, CO)
  • Immigration Debate Hits Center Stage (Rocky Mountain News, CO)
  • Thank God For The Mexicans (ILW.com, NY)
  • Immigration debate gets nasty (AZ Central.com)
  • Diverse group pushes Bush to support comprehensive immigration law (Catholic News Service)
  • California election sheds light on border (Washington Times)
  • THE JOURNAL EDITORIAL REPORT (Opinion Journal)
  • Republicanizing the Race Card (The Nation)
  • Enrique Morones on the New Movement to Defend Immigrants (Dissident Voice, CA)
  • Lawmakers at odds on immigration (Boston Globe)
• Qubad Talabany (CNN Late Edition)
  • representative of the Iraqi Kurdistan regional government to the United States
  • Qubad Talabany | Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria (Foreign Exchange TV web site)
  • Congressional Human Rights Caucus - Testimony of Qubad Talabany (lantos.house.gov)
  • AMERICAN MORNING, Aug 15, 2005 (CNN.com - Transcripts)
• George Will (ABC This Week roundtable)
  • Bleakness In Baghdad (Washinton Post)
  • Facing the facts (TownHall.COM)
  • The next war resolution may be a long one (TownHall.COM)
• Retired Gen. Bernard Trainor: U.S. Marine Corps (CNN Late Edition)
  • author: "COBRA II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq"
  • Michael Gordon and General Bernard Trainor on the Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq (Democracy Now!)
  • Knives out for Rumsfeld (Sydney Morning Herald, Australia)
  • Iraq Three Years On (Antiwar.com)
  • A LOOK AT PRE-WAR INTELLIGENCE (PBS)
  • US Iran policy, in a word: Iraq (Ocala.com, FL)
  • General Franks: Deal with Those Opposing Northern Front in Turkey (KurdishMedia, UK)
• Fareed Zakaria (ABC This Week roundtable)
  • Fareed Zakaria on the coming decade of empowered petrostates (The Brown Journal of World Affairs, RI)
  • Bush visit could alter political landscape: Fareed Zakaria (Webindia123, India)
  • Not giving up hope on Iraq (The Wichita Eagle, KS)
  • Not a lost cause (Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates)

[Phsstpok]

Ping

The Weekend Preview Thread is up

If you would like on or off my ping list please Freepmail me

The most interesting guest to me is Condi Rice.  How badly will they edit the interviews when they show the clips on the news?

The dominant meme appears to be that Bush has failed in Iraq, the GOP is running away from him, but Bush is so unpopular that the Republicans are doomed in November anyway.  And the Bush administration/conservatives/fascists/blogs are trying to blame the messenger for the bad news out of Iraq, but they're just doing their jobs and they never get anything wrong.

I will probably still be light on this and the Sunday thread.  I'm still having trouble with my eyes.  I've moved up my appointment with my surgeon to this Saturday, the 25th, instead of waiting for the 8th.  I'm hoping that he can help me so that I can function with just the right eye till it's time to try to fit some correction to the left eye.  I'm really hoping that he's not going to tell me that the keratoconus is advancing rapidly and that's why I can't focus and read with that eye.  AND THE SOAP OPERA CONTINUES

You think you're tired of this?  Imagine how my boss feels?  Imagine how I feel?  I really don't want to have to offer lame excuses anymore.

I count on others to carry the load again this week.  I shall return... I hope...!

on a separate note, may I recommend this thread to anyone who hasn't seen it:

This is just a drill: Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for
Free Republic ^
Posted on 03/23/2006 10:03:45 PM CST by Jim Robinson

Now hear this:

Thanks to John McCain, Free Republic will shut down tomorrow at high noon for 30 days. No non government approved electioneering messages may be transmitted over the internet for the 30 days immediately preceding a primary election.

That is all.

---

The above exercise was just a drill. But if John McCain has his way with his proposed rules for regulating political free speech on the internet, this is how we will be forced to operate in the coming election cycle and all election cycles in the future until we can get the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold act repealed.

Carthago delenda est

 

[Morgan in Denver]

One, don't you Ever sleep?  (Thinking of which, how are you?  Hope your eyesight is healing and that may be so judging from your post.)

 Two.  How DO you DO this?  Thanks for the information but I remain amazed with your ability to put all of this together so well, so quickly.

 Three.  Thank you for the heads up.  I missed it last weekend and appreciate the ping this evening.

 Morgan

 

[Morgan in Denver]

Who knows what the Republicans in DC are thinking.  For the most part, those guys are too out to lunch for most Republicans in Red State America.

From a sales standpoint, it's a valid tactic to get the buyer to commit to a position.  For example, when a buyer says the price is too high the salesman will ask if this is the only objection preventing him from buying?  In other words, if the price were lower would you buy then, or is there another reason to not buy?  Once the prospect buys into the one single objection, the salesman has the opportunity to overcome it and close the sale.  If the buyer fails to buy once the bought-into objection is resolved, the buyer is exposed to the lie of his original objection.

The same way, Democrats  make claims and we have to hold them accountable for their positions or the current Bush Lied De Jur.  Republicans have not held Harry Reid and other Democrats accountable for their past accusiatons, and they now believe they can make claims without responsibility.  IF this is a procedure to make Democrats accountable, great.  If not, it will further alienate Republicans from our DC leadership.

 

 

 

 

[Txsleuth]

Yeah, what Morgan said...

Please take care of yourself...

[Txsleuth]

I heard Chris Wallace on with Mike Gallagher this morning, and he said one thing he would tackle with Condi is the Muslim in Afghanistan, Mr. Rahman, that is supposed to be given the death penalty for being a Christian..

So....that subject could be hit by all of the Sunday Hosts...

Also...like you pointed out, the immigration reform will be hugh.

But, Levin just got back from Iraq, so we know he will talk about how AWFUL it is over there.

I wish this internet campaign bill that is supposed to be voted on...Jeb Hensarling in the House has the GOOD one...would come up as a subject, because it really affects we freepers..

PLUS, I am tired of hearing how "Bush lied, people died"...unless they want to give equal time to the documents that have shown just how much interaction there was between Saddam and Bin Ladin..

[Phsstpok]

I wish this internet campaign bill that is supposed to be voted on...Jeb Hensarling in the House has the GOOD one...would come up as a subject, because it really affects we freepers..

have you seen this?

FEC- RULES AND EXPLANATION AND JUSTIFICATION FOR INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS
FEC pdf ^ | 3/24/06 | FEC

Posted on 03/24/2006 6:41:12 PM CST by armymarinemom
The FEC has published the final rules and explanation and justification for internet communications in pdf format. This is a 96 page document that needs to be read.

 looks like we're clear... for now.  A seperate post by Petronski

To: armymarinemom

This non-redirected link can be right-clicked and saved locally:

http://www.fec.gov/agenda/2006/mtgdoc06-20.pdf

[Cboldt]

I see immigration being a WH v. Congress issue more than a DEM v. GOP issue, where the WH wants some form of guest worker program, but (a majority of) Congress seems to not. The DEMs in Congress are more likely to take the President's side on immigration.

The Afghani Christian may be a point of discussion, as a Bush "failure" in that "we" installed the government that isn't up in arms about the prospect of executing a person due to his conversion from Islam to Christianity. Note that the WH will be asking Congress for $$$ for Afghanistan activities, later this week.

The Senate Judiciary Committee will be hitting on the NSA Terrorist Surveillance Program in hearings again this coming week (Tuesday), and Feingold's censure resolution on Friday. In that vein, I expect a meme on the order of "Bush is a lawbreaker."

As you point out, Iraq and predictions of impending doom there is nearly a certainty, these days.

[rockrr]

An amazing assemblage of documentation, Phsstpok. I am in awe!

[Txsleuth]

I sure don't know what Fox News Sunday is thinking lately...last week they had Durbin and no Rep. Senator to balance him...

This week, they have Levin, with no Republican Senator to balance him...

I am gonna complain now...looks like a trend that I don't like...

It would be different if every other week they had a single Rep.

[malia]

I want the wife of the soldier who just returned from Iraq - Cavuto had her on Thursday (?) ---- her husband can be there also (just kidding). That was a great interview and FoxNews owes it to us for sticking by them, to have a full program interview with them, - even tho FoxNews have really let us down!!

Other than that - it will just be the same o same o junk.

Fire Rumsfeld - they now realize they can't fire Cheney!
Bush has failed! Civil war! When will we withdraw! on and on!!!

I will watch, however, because keeping up with their crap is important to me.

President Bush says --- If you are not with us you are against us! Well, I know where the media and the Democrats stand. They want failure and it does not matter how many lives are lost.

[MNJohnnie]

Wow early start!

[MNJohnnie]

Notice ZERO coverage of the FEC rules restricting Free Speech. Notice no coverage of the creeping regulation of the 'net

[Morgan in Denver]

Good morning Txsleuth.  No response last evening because I got off.  My nighttime hours on FR are limited.  Sorry.

 

I'm tired of all the Bush Lied crowd as well.  I guess it gets old after six years of constant harping.  The Democrats are saying "give us a chance and we'll do better with Iraq" but they have no plan and everything they say they would do is being done.

 

Finegold, Senator Soupy Sales, is at least consistant.  He's been against the war from the start.

 

[Phsstpok]

Here is Mark Kilmer's brief preview from RedState.COM

Who is on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows

By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics

For Sunday, March 26, 2006

Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert spends his time with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace spends his time with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. (We also Carl Levin as a bonus.)

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer will chat with... oh, gawd... Ted Kennedy. He'll also have on National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley, so Ted won't have time to contribue too many greenhouse gases, melting the polar shelf or whatever.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos has Tom Tancredo and Alren Specter on to swap immigration plans.

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer will talk to Rice, plus he'll have Pat Roberts square off against Jack Reed.
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Secretary Rice. This is part of the White House offensive on Iraq, as is Hadley. Why Levin (FNS) and Ted (FTN)? Perhaps the Dems' A-squad of articulation was busy This would explain Reed, as well.

Steph, in search of a viewer or two, is going a different route this weekend, and immigration is a big deal at the moment. I doubt Snarlin' Arlen will buy into a proposal to build a giant dungeon under Colorado's Elbert County to House the illegal aliens who aren't shot, but the discussion might be interesting. I will post the review of these shows by 2p ET Sunday afternoon.

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Mar 25th, 2006: 15:57:07

I find it bizarre that even someone like Kilmer from a conservative blog finds it necessary to imply that Tancredo wants to either shoot or throw all immigrants into some sort of dungeon. This could be a defining moment for him with a chance to break past the caricatures... or not.

RedState has been very low volume today because of the WaPo conservative blog scandal involving one of their founders apparent acts of plagerism.  They happened when he was 17 to 21, but he's only in his mid 20s now, so it's pretty damaging.  He's resigned from the WaPo blog and will probably have to start all over again to build a whole new career.

[Txsleuth]

Sorry I havn't been around much...staying with my daughter this weekend...but appreciate the updates.

[Txsleuth]

Oh my goodness...I just realized that Memphis is playing right now...

I have to root for them now....since Texas lost.

[Phsstpok]

Well, since the Memphis Tigers don't seem to be able to find the net for love or money in the first quarter I'm really not too happy to watch this.

Did you know Bulletproof Monk is on FX?

[Phsstpok]

I didn't see this specific story on any of the Saturday shows, but I bet a little bit of this makes it onto the Sunday shows, despite the MSMs best efforts:

The Taylors Explain Negative Iraq War Media Bias To CNN’s Anderson Cooper
newsbusters ^ | March 23, 2006 - 17:36

Posted on 03/25/2006 12:07:33 AM CST by april15Bendovr

Great transcript and great story about the woman who spoke up at Bush's town hall meeting and her husband just back from Iraq.  Maybe we're breaking through?

 

[BlueAngel]

Excellent!! Thanks for all your hard work. Believe me, it is greatly appreciated.