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Weekend Show *Preview* for 3/25 - 3/26 (not the live thread)
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| 3/23/06
| Network and Cable News Networks
Posted on 03/24/2006 5:11:37 PM PST by 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:
- 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:
- 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.
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Phsstpok
I saw that neanderthal, Chrissy Matthews attempt to interview them...and he had a very accusatory tone and words, basically accusing them of wanting the MSM to only tell good stories..
even if the have to scour all of Iraq to find one or two. He was very rude to those poor people.
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posted on
03/25/2006 8:04:58 PM PST
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Txsleuth
(Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
To: Phsstpok
Well, it looks like neither one of us will be interested the the rest of the Final Four, will we? sigh
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03/25/2006 9:27:44 PM PST
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Txsleuth
(Bush-Bot;WaterBucket Brigader;and fan of defconw;Cboldt is my mentor!)
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