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Saturday Shows Template

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

• Meme:
  • The GOP Washington is so doomed
• Topics:
  • Forget Tom DeLay, Dems now confront their own ethics issues
  • Immigration, gas prices and runaway spending expose deep divisions within GOP
  • Sen. Joe Biden's Iraq plan bashed by both parties
• Beltway Boys contact information beltway@foxnews.com
• The program airs on FOX News Channel Saturdays at 6 and 11:30 p.m. ET

CNBC's Tim Russert Show (Tim Russert)

• Meme:
  • Must destroy formerly reliable liberal writer.... send in the Timinator!
• Topics:
  • Tim talks to Joe Klein on his book, “Politics Lost: How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You’re Stupid”
• Guests
  • Joe Klein
• CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

• Meme:
  • It's not our fault!  Whatever it is!
• Topics:
  • The media and the 'Day Without Immigrants'. Did the coverage match the hype?
  • Six months till the midterm elections. Has the press already gone to the polls?
  • Was Rush Limbaugh 'arrested'?
• 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

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page

• Meme:
  • Wow, reality.  What a concept!
• Topics:
  • Is a clash of between Islam and the West inevitable? (FNC show page)
  • Did the Moussaoui verdict expose the limits of the U.S. court system as a tool of war? (FNC show page)
  • An interview with Middle East scholar and Journal contributor Fouad Ajami on
    • Bernard Lewis
    • the civil war within Islam
    • the new government in Iraq
  • Plus, what the Moussaoui verdict and "United 93" say about who is winning the war on terror.
• Guests
  • Fouad Ajami
• Journal Editorial Report (at Fox News) contact information - jer@foxnews.com
• The program is from The Wall Street Journal and airs on FNC Saturday at 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. and again Sunday at 6 a.m. ET

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Weekend Talk Show Guests

• Fouad Ajami (Journal Editorial Report)
  • Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami of SAIS to receive Bradley Prize (Johns Hopkins Gazette, MD)
  • A Sage in Christendom (Opinion Journal)
  • Fouad Ajami pays tribute to famed Orientalist Bernard Lewis on 90th birthday (Judeoscope.ca, Canada)
  • Is There a Clash of Civilizations? (Slate)
  • Iraq, Whose Model? (Reason Online)
• Dan Balz, Washington Post (NBC Meet The Press Roundtable)
  • Buyout Could Cost Washington Post Lots of Big-Name Bylines (Washingtonian.com)
  • Message: We're Where? (TPM Cafe)
  • WaPo is Harsh on Scott McClellan (Human Events)
  • We are great at complaining (Dickson Herald, TN)
  • Staff shake-up a bad sign for Bush (The State, SC)
• Steve Bridges (NBC Meet The Press)
  • political impressionist
  • He's not the prez, but he plays him on TV (USA Today)
  • A Good Laugh (AgWeb)
  • Surprising double vision (Washington Times)
  • Wiseguy Bush sends in the clones (Daily Times, Pakistan)
• Howard Dean (ABC This Week)
  • chair, Democratic National Committee
  • Howard Dean: Karl Rove Guiltier than Osama Bin Laden (NewsMax.com)
  • Letter shows AP fired Graff over Leahy column, Dean book (arre Montpelier Times Argus, VT)
  • Howard Dean: 'Culture of corruption' (MSNBC)
  • Dean to fight voter ID statute (Indianapolis Star)
  • Howard Dean: Katrina Will Put GOP Out of Business (ABC News)
  • Howard Dean Politicizes Hurricane Katrina (National Ledger, AZ)
  • Howard Dean to Churches: Give up Religion or Stay out of Politics (Lifesite, NY)
  • Howard Dean Threatens Churches (Family News In Focus, CO)
  • Howard Dean "1st we need tough border control" (Questions and Observations)
• Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Tx. (ABC This Week)
  • Tom DeLay Replacement Candidates Bump Up Against The Perry Factor (FortBendNow, TX)
  • Even without DeLay, all eyes on Dist. 22 race (Houston Chronicle)
  • Tom DeLay Conspiracy Charge Tossed Out (NewsMax.com)
  • Selling space exploration in uncertain times (The Space Review, MD)
  • NH Democrats see chance for win (Boston Globe)
  • Fjetland: Fairness An Alien Concept To GOP Under DeLay (FortBendNow, TX)
  • An Impeachment By the People (OpEdNews)
• Jim Gilchrist (Fox News Sunday)
  • founder of The Minuteman Project
  • Founder of Minutemen targets run for president (WorldNetDaily)
  • Immigration reforms' might favor Asians over Latinos (Ukiah Daily Journal, CA)
  • Minutemen take to the road (OCRegister, CA)
  • Minuteman Project prepares a post-boycott counter-punch (San Jose Mercury News)
  • Hate groups target undocumented workers? (MSNBC)
• Rep. Jane Harman, D-California (CNN Late Edition)
  • House Select Intelligence Committee member
  • Goss departure raises questions about CIA health (Reuters)
  • Goss in the Cold: A Scandal Skedaddle? (Yahoo! News)
  • Jane Harman: No Difference Between Bush and CIA Leaker (NewsMax.com)
  • House OKs seaports radiation detectors (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, CA)
• Rep. Pete Hoekstra (Fox News Sunday)
  • Hoekstra not surprised by prostitution allegations in Cunningham case (WLNS, MI)
  • Michigan House members approve intelligence spending (Detroit Free Press)
  • Hoekstra: Plan for uncertainty in coming years (Cadillac News)
  • Iran: Nuclear program is 'irreversible' (CNN)
  • Some See Less Menacing Bin Laden (ABC News)
  • Critics: National intelligence office not doing much (USA Today)
• Katrina vanden Heuvel (ABC This Week Roundtable)
  • Katrina vanden Heuvel: John Kenneth Galbraith: 1908-2006 (Yahoo! News)
  • Tomgram: Katrina vanden Heuvel, the Media on Speed (Working for Change)
  • A World at 36/7 Speed (ZNet, MA)
  • The Wealth of Nations (New Haven Advocate, CT)
  • Media Whores: Nation Magazine Sponsored by CIA? (Conspiracy Planet)
• John Kasich (ABC This Week Roundtable)
  • Fox News Asleep at the Switch On Porter Goss (News Hounds)
• Joe Klein (CNBC Tim Russert Show)
  • Author Politics Lost:  How American Democracy Was Trivialized by People Who Think You’re Stupid
  • Thomas Frank: Joe Klein's Turnip Day (Yahoo! News)
  • Joe Klein Laments Loss of Peccadilloes, Turnip Days in Politics (Bloomberg)
  • Book Review: Politics Lost by Joe Klein (Monsters and Critics.com)
  • Why does Joe Klein hate liberals? (Arkansas Times)
  • Joe Klein: Partisan Hack? (The Moderate Voice)
• Mike Leavitt (CNN Late Edition)
  • Health and Human Services secretary
  • Feds Gently Prod Food Marketers to Help Fight Childhood Obesity (Consumer Affairs)
  • Baxter joins $1 billion deal in search of bird flu vaccine (Chicago Daily Herald (subscription))
  • Medicare drug enrollment event in Canton (Akron Beacon Journal, OH)
  • Government Hands out $1 Billion for Bird Flu Vaccine Development (ABC News)
• Mark Lerner (Fox News Sunday power player)
  • new Washington Nationals owner
  • For Nats, it's something old, something new (The Free Lance-Star, VA)
  • Nats Fall In Front of New Owner (W*USA 9, DC)
• Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. (CBS Face The Nation)
  • US political climate divisive -- Woodruff (Flint Journal, MI)
  • John McCain and the Catch-22 of US presidential politics (Daily Star - Lebanon)
  • Insights into John McCain's Soul (Human Events)
  • John McCain v. America (The Conservative Voice)
  • Did John McCain Take an Oath to Defend the Constitution? (RedState)
  • F-35 fighter flies into trouble in Congress (Reuters)
• Scott McClellan (ABC This Week Voices segment)
  • Scott McClellan Bids Adieu to the White House Press Corps (NewsBusters)
  • The Final Briefing: McClellan's Farewell (Human Events)
  • McClellan holds last White House briefing (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
• Nancy Pelosi, D-CA (NBC Meet The Press)
  • House Democratic Leader
  • Pelosi seeks review of briefed Congressmen (Belleville News-Democrat, IL)
  • Rising Gas Prices? - Five Questions For Nancy Pelosi (PipeLineNews.org)
  • Nancy Pelosi's Ridiculous Rant (Wizbang)
  • Nancy Pelosi Fuming Over Cynthia McKinney Debacle (NewsMax.com)
• Todd Purdum, Vanity Fair (NBC Meet The Press Roundtable)
  • Veep dodges on daughter (New York Daily New)
  • Bush's Lord Voldemort just wants to be liked for a spell (Times Online)
  • Cheney: Afghanistan and Iraq 'not easy' (Raw Story)
  • Vanity Fair releases advance excerpts of Mary Cheney article (Raw Story)
• Martha Raddatz (ABC This Week Roundtable)
  • Despite Lack of Proof & Contrary Evidence, Nets Insist “Bush Knew” WMD Not Found (NewsBusters)
  • Reporters Cheer New Voice of the West Wing (The Ledger, FL)
  • Nets Hype Charge Bush Leaked “Secrets,” ABC Compares to Revealing Secret Prisons (NewsBusters)
  • No Media Apologies for Bush-Lied Mistake (Media Research Center)
• Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas (CNN Late Edition)
  • Senate Select Intelligence Committee chairman
  • Though Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) (Think Progress)
  • CIA Director Goss Resigns (New York Times)
  • I Leak, You Leak, We All Leak At The Senate Intelligence Committee (TomPaine.com)
  • $4 billion for farmers and ranchers passes Senate (Belleville News-Democrat, IL)
• Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie (CNN Late Edition)
  • Iraq's national security adviser
  • Iraqi adviser sees US troops gone in 2008 (Reuters)
  • Estimates increase of displaced Iraqis (Rutland Herald, VT)
• Sen. Arlen Specter (Fox News Sunday)
  • Specter: Congress must make check on the presidency (Beaver County Times)
  • SPECTER LONE REPUBLICAN OPPOSING WIRETAPPING (Free Market News Network, FL)
  • Senator Arlen Specter Pushes Tax On Oil Profits (All Headline News)
  • Specter Sells Out on Judicial Nominee (Human Events)
  • Goss Resigns from CIA (CNSNews.com)
  • The Business Of Immigration Reform (Forbes)
  • Toward A Comprehensive Immigration Policy (ILW.com)
  • Specter: Immigration bill possible this year despite disagreements (WALB-TV, GA)
• George Will (ABC This Week Roundtable)
  • George Will: This Marine just won’t back down (The Union Leader, NH)
  • George Will: Tony Snow ‘Won’t Make a Particle of Difference’ (Think Progress)

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The most interesting guests to me will be the possible confrontations between Specter and Gilchrist (FNS) and DeLay and Dean (ABCTW).  I have a feeling one or both shows will wimp out and let the Dem/RINO appear separately and have the last word.  I also find it interesting that CBSFTN feels it necessary to start the rehabilitation of John McCain already.

The dominant meme appears to be that the preliminaries are over and the battle between the GOP and dims is well and truly joined.  Bush may not be over, thanks to his finally listening to the talking heads and shaking up his administration, but it's probably too little too late since he didn't fire Rumsfeld and Cheney shaking up his administration only proves that he's doomed.  And since Iraq seems to be going better let's totally ignore what goes on there (unless it hurts Bush).

[Chuck54]

Thanks as always for the ping. Your efforts are most appreciated.

Chuck

Now if I can just pull a Braves victory out of this game with the Mets my night is complete.

Going to the 12th tied.

[mathluv]

Thanks for this each week.

Why is John K on abc? Is he going to lose his gig on Fox?

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Mark Kilmer has posted his preview on RedState.COM

Who's on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows (lineup)

By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics

For Sunday, May 7, 2006

Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert has an EXCLUSIVE! Call the kids! Call gramps! (IF you are either a kid or a gramps, alert another kid or gramps!) Russert's guest will be House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California)!

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace will talk to Pete Hoekstra (R-Michigan) on Porter Goss' resignation. Then he'll talk to Arlen Specter and Joe Biden.

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer to yacks it up with John McCain.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Tom DeLay and Howard Stern Dean, the magic man of the DNC.

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer will talk to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts of Kansas and House Intelligence ranking Dem Jane Harman of California about Porter Goss. He'll also talk to HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt, perhaps about bird flu, and his usual cast of thousands.
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Well, we've got McCain (FTN) and Joe Biden (FNS) this week, with Snarlin' Arlen also making an appearance on the air (FNS, with Joe Biden).

MTP will be interesting to monitor because Pelosi will struggle to stick to the script. She tends to freelance, saying some of the funkiest things in politics.

It'll be interesting to see if Harman (LE) is still nuts. I wonder what the Hammer has to say (TW), and Howard Dean isn't funny anymore. The joke is too old.

Comments >>

May 6th, 2006: 14:30:44

The FNS web site still list Specter and Gilchrist and does not mention Biden.  Are they bumping Gilchrist and putting on Biden as "balance" for Specter?  That would be totally bizarre.

[meema]

Thank you!