Weekend Show *Preview* for 6/17 - 6/18/06 (not the live thread)

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[Phsstpok]

Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for Saturday June 17^th and Sunday June 18^th, 2006 (not the live thread)

The main message is the Sunday Shows.  Message 1 will be the Saturday Shows and message 2 will be the show guest links post.  Then I'll post the ping list.

ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

• 'This Week' will NOT air on Sunday, June 18, due to ABC's coverage of World Cup soccer. 'This Week' returns on Sunday, June 25
• ABC This Week comment web page

CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

• Meme:
  • Big couple of weeks for Bush in Iraq, so what's wrong with this picture?
  • Tony Snow is the face of evil in the White House because of his insensitive remarks about the 2,500th death in Iraq
  • Bush is a brave leader (tricky bastard, sneaking into) visiting Baghdad that way, but it doesn't affect the deep trouble we're in over there
• Topics:
  • War In Iraq and President Bush's Surprise Trip To Baghdad
• Guests
  • Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary
    • the honeymoon is definitely over
  • Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican - South Carolina, member Senate Armed Services Committee
    • Lindsey Graham: proof that you can live without a brain or a backbone
  • Sen. Joseph Biden, Democrat - Delaware, Ranking (minority) Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
    • Joseph Biden: proof that you can get elected without a brain capable of coherent thought nor any principles whatsoever, so long as you can get face time on the networks
• Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

• Meme:
  • Big couple of weeks for Bush in Iraq, so what's wrong with this picture?
  • Tony Snow is the face of evil in the White House because of his insensitive remarks about the 2,500th death in Iraq
  • We must not stop the vital work of the NSA, but they must reveal all of their most precious secrets to Congress... trust us, we can keep a secret.
  • Iraq has had a really good couple of weeks, how can we denigrate that?
• Topics:
  • White House press secretary Tony Snow weighs in on Iraq, the war on terror, and President Bush's poll numbers.
  • Plus, Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
• Guests
  • Tony Snow: White House press secretary
    • Not only is the honeymoon over, but the demands for resignation might even start today!
  • Senator Pat Roberts: Republican-Kansas, Intelligence Committee chairman
    • I was against more congressional oversight before I was for it (??? I think this is manufactured via creative quoting)
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Democrat-California, Intelligence Committee member
    • I am for the NSA surveillance program because I'm one of the ones that knows what's really going on, but Bush is still wrong on the war
  • Hoshyar Zebari: Iraqi foreign minister
    • Hello?  Remember us?  The Iraqi's?  We're still here.  We formed a government.  Anybody care?
  • Lawrence Eagleburger: Former secretary of state
    • OK, we beat Saddam when I was in office but then left all of the tough problems for others to solve, therefore you should look to me for advice on how to solve the problems we didn't solve when we had the chance..... ??????
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski: Former national security adviser
    • OK, we created the modern Jihadi terrorist state when I was in office and then left all of the tough problems for others to solve, therefore you should look to me for advice on how to solve the problems we didn't solve when we had the chance..... ??????
• CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)

Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

• Meme:
  • Big couple of weeks for Bush in Iraq, so what's wrong with this picture?
  • The Hillary Wing (Podesta) and the Dean wing (Rosenberg) of the left hold a peace summit, live, on network TV, will they kill each other or bury the hatchet in George W. Bush?
• Topics:
  • Are Americans impatient with Bush's Iraq strategy? White House Press Sec'y Tony Snow responds
  • Can Dems win House with unity on Iraq? John Podesta and Simon Rosenberg weigh in
• Guests
  • Tony Snow: White House press secretary
  • John Podesta
  • Simon Rosenberg
• Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com

NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

• Meme:
  • John Murtha can now come out of hiding because he can be portrayed as a victim, thanks to Ann Coulter's nasty remark
  • The oil companies: evil incarnate or simply greedy bastards who ought to be shot and have their obscene wealth confiscated?
• Topics:
  • Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), the 37-year veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps who has become the Democrat's leading critic of the Iraq war will join us exclusively on this Sunday's "Meet the Press with Tim Russert" to detail his problems with the Bush administration's handling of the war and further explain his plan for the redeployment of U.S. troops.
  • Murtha will also discuss his decision to both seek a leadership position in the new Congress and to suspend until November his campaign for the position of Majority Leader should the Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives in the 2006 elections.
  • Then, we turn to gas prices with a historic, exclusive interview with the heads of three of the major oil companies, all together on the "Meet the Press" set... All three leading businessman will share their views on the rising prices at the pump, the effect the war and Hurricane season will have on our markets, and whether an energy independent America is a future possibility.
• Guests
  • Rep. John Murtha, D-PA
  • Shell Oil's President John Hofmeister
  • ConocoPhillips Chrmn. & CEO James Mulva
  • Chevron's Chrmn. & CEO David O'Reilly
• 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)

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]

Saturday Shows

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

• Meme:
  • Good week for Bush, but will it matter?
  • Bad week for Dems, but will it matter?
• Topics:
  • Twin offensives both in Baghdad and here in Washington. We'll tell you how the politics surrounding the Iraq war may be changing
  • Dems unveil their new legislative agenda
• 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)

• Same listing listing as last weekend (Brokaw interviews Russert) as of Saturday at 9 AM (central) on http://mtp.msnbc.com, Repeat? Pt2?
• CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

• Meme:
  • Bush is a tricky bastard, sneaking into Baghdad that way, but we'll expose his cowardice!
  • Rove is tricky, fooling the prosecutor that way, but we'll expose his treason!
  • How obscene!  Actually helping to catch criminals on TV!  What is the world coming to?
• Topics:
  • The press and Pres. Bush's surprise trip to Iraq
  • The prosecutor lets Karl Rove off the hook in the CIA leak case. So why is the press still pounding him?
  • TV station's "Wheel of Justice"
• 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:

  • Three points to consider:

    • The Democrats released the latest version of there "take back Congress agenda" on Friday afternoon, the graveyard of news

    • They booked Rahm Emanuel on this show?

    • None of MoveOn.ORG or the Dean Scream progressive crowds issues (particularly "impeach Bush now!") were included

  • They gonna lose!  They gonna lose so bad!
  • Rahm Emanuel is "Hillary's man" - are Dean and company setting her up to take the fall?
• Topics:
  • Opinion Journal web site for show: Jits and Dems
    • Financial markets have the jitters; Journal editors discuss the reasons and debate whether slower growth is ahead.
    • Plus, an interview with Illinois congressman Rahm Emanuel about the new Democratic campaign agenda unveiled this week. How new is it?
  • Fox News web page site for show:
    • Do Democrats have a real shot at taking back the House of Representatives?
    • Plus, will the Fed raise interest rates yet again?
• Guests
  • Illinois congressman Rahm Emanuel
• 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 11 p.m. and again Sunday at 6 a.m. ET

[Phsstpok]

Weekend Guests

• Congressman Rahm Emanuel, Democrat, Illinois (Journal Editorial Report)
  • Rahm Emanuel scorecard (National Review Online Blogs)
  • House Republicans set up vote on Iraq withdrawal date (Coos Bay World, OR)
  • "Inside baseball" with the Democrats (Questions and Observations)
  • PARTY OF RAPIST PROUD TO BE GODLESS (Sunday Paper, GA)
  • Rahm Emanuel: Challenges Republicans to repudiate Ann Coulter (Chicago Sun-Times)
  • Rahm Emanuel Attacks Ann Coulter for Humiliated Hillary (NewsMax)
  • Rahm Emanuel Calls Ann Coulter a ‘Hatemonger’ on House Floor (NewsBusters)
  • California GOP Victory: A Harbinger for the Democrats? (ABC News)
  • With Bush in Iraq, Dems continue verbal attacks (CNN)
• Sen. Joseph Biden, Democrat - Delaware (CBS Face The Nation)
  • Ranking (minority) Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • US Officials Brief Congress on Iraq (Voice of America)
  • A ‘blow to Al-Qaeda’? Demise of a terrorist (Monday Morning, Lebanon)
  • US officials see new home-grown terrorist cells (Daily Times, Pakistan)
  • Cantwell supports special envoy for Iraq (Seattle Times)
  • Bush flies to Iraq to pledge support for premier (MSN Money)
  • Democrats are still divided over the war in Iraq (San Jose Mercury News)
• Zbigniew Brzezinski (CNN Late Edition)
  • Former national security adviser (Carter administration)
  • Bush Playing Like a Big Leaguer Again (Yahoo! News)
  • Neocon Prince of Darkness Sighted at Bilderberg Meeting (uruknet.info, Italy)
  • Brzezinski Wants Orderly Iraq Withdrawal (Post Chronicle)
  • What Does It Take to be Discredited? (Power Line)
• Lawrence Eagleburger (CNN Late Edition)
  • Former secretary of state (George H.W. Bush administration)
  • MORE BRIGHT MORNINGS TO COME (American Chronicle)
  • Lawrence Eagleburger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Wikipideia)
  • Former Sec. of State Lawrence Eagleburger: Bush Should Be Impeached If He Invades Syria or Iran (AntiWar.COM)
  • America and the Bosnia Genocide (December, 1997) - (New York Review of Books)
  • FOXNews.com - Transcript: Lawrence Eagleburger on FNS (August, 2002) - (Fox News)
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein: Democrat-California (CNN Late Edition)
  • Intelligence Committee member
  • Senate seersucker day becomes sign of sisterhood (Washington Post)
  • Dianne Feinstein: mass amnesty not massive enough (RedState.COM)
  • In The Eye Of The Global Warming Storm (Forbes)
  • ON THE RECORD (Washington Blade)
  • Pet projects prevail in US military-spending boom (Pittsburgh Post Gazette)
• Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican - South Carolina (CBS Face The Nation)
  • Senate Armed Services Committee
  • The friends of Lindsey Graham (Power Line)
  • Lindsey Graham Under Attack Over Judges (New York Sun)
  • Conservatives Backing Nominee Look at Graham (Washington Post)
  • Senator Lindsey Graham,poster Senator for clueless GOP. (RedState.COM)
  • Iraq Deaths Reach 2,500 US Military, Pentagon Says (Bloomberg)
  • So the Battle Continues (Hawaii Reporter)
  • A ‘blow to Al-Qaeda’? Demise of a terrorist (Monday Morning, Lebanon)
• John Hofmeister (NBC Meet The Press)
  • President, Shell Oil Company
  • Shell president says oil industry should tap more domestic resources (San Jose Mercury News)
  • Shell exec: Oil cos. follow the markets (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
  • Couric Concludes Coupons and Cuts Key to Crunch (NewsBusters)
  • Shell Oil Company President Says Supply, Not Greed Causing High Gas Prices (KBTV4.tv, TX)
• James Mulva (NBC Meet The Press)
  • Chairman & CEO, Conoco Phillips
  • Big Oil CEO: Blame Oil Prices, Not Us (ABC News)
  • Estate Tax Repeal Would Give Over $200 Million Windfall to Oil Company Executives (YubaNet, CA)
  • Democrats Seek to Reclaim $10 Bln From Oil Producers (Bloomberg)
  • Meet Charlie Gibson, ABC's New Anchorman (NewsBusters)
• Rep. John Murtha, D-PA (NBC Meet The Press)
  • Peter Daou: Ann Coulter Identifies John Murtha as a Target for Murder (Hufington Post via Yahoo! News)
  • Latest Ann Coulter Outrage: On Fragging John Murtha (Editor & Publisher)
  • Ann Coulter on John Murtha (OpEdNews)
  • John Murtha, Democrats Reassure Terrorists: All is Not Lost (Men's News Daily)
  • CONGRESSMAN JOHN P. MURTHA'S LETTER (WJACtv.com, PA)
  • House votes to support Iraq policy (Chicago Tribune)
  • Slain Marine's Kin Blasts John Murtha (NewsMax)
  • John Murtha–First the guilty verdict, then the trial (Canada Free Press)
  • MSNBC: Murtha Is 'Personal Attack' Victim, As Murtha Insults Rove's 'Fat Backside' (NewsBusters)
• David O'Reilly (NBC Meet The Press)
  • Chairman & CEO, Chevron
  • Estate Tax Repeal Would Give Over $200 Million Windfall to Oil Company Executives (YubaNet, CA)
  • Chevron CEO doesn't see oil crisis looming (USA Today)
  • Chevron CEO says confident Gorgon gas project will go ahead (MarketWatch)
  • Nationalistic energy policy hurting energy security-executives (MarketWatch)
  • Bosses don't make as much as they used to (Contra Costa Times, CA)
• John Podesta (Fox News Sunday)
  • former Clinton chief of staff
  • A Time for Leadership (Mother Jones)
  • Will she or won’t she? (Financial Times, UK)
  • Democratic Party urged to adopt 'muscular' foreign approach (MSNBC)
  • Good bye America! Part I (Gazeta.KZ, Kazakhstan)
  • Discounting the Facts, Part I (FrontPage magazine.com)
  • Aide to Annan Chastises Congress (New York Sun)
• Senator Pat Roberts: Republican-Kansas (CNN Late Edition)
  • Intelligence Committee chairman
  • Army puts files seized in Iraq on Web (SiliconValley.com)
  • Roberts cautious in wake of al-Zarqawi's death (Lawrence Journal World, KS)
  • Roberts: Death of Al-Qaida leader "damaging blow" to terrorists (49abcnews.com, KS)
  • Liberty Over Safety (Consortium News)
  • Roberts: Oversight of NSA surveillance will expand (Lawrence Journal World, KS)
  • No Senate Investigation (of Hillary Hollywood party illegal contributions) (Human Events)
• Simon Rosenberg (Fox News Sunday)
  • New Democrat Network President
  • Dean-Rosenberg 2200 (TPMCafe)
  • Dems will use World Cup to woo Hispanic voters (Albuquerque Tribune, NM)
  • Live from Las Vegas: Dean Addresses YearlyKos (Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog)
  • Daily Kos turns over BlogPAC to MyDD.com (The Hill, DC)
  • Bloggers and Dems woo each other ahead of 2008 (DetNews.com, MI)
• Tony Snow (CBS Face The Nation, CNN Late Edition, Fox News Sunday)
  • White House Press Secretary
  • Tony Snow Attacks President Carter (Think Progress, DC)
  • Tony Snow: 2500 US Military Deaths 'Sad Benchmark' (Post Chronicle)
  • Snow on 2,500 US Fatalities In Iraq: ‘It’sA Number’ (Think Progress)
  • Sen. Reid Strikes Back At WH For Calling Dead Troops "A Number" (Huffington Post)
  • White House Hotheads (Washington Post)
  • Go to hell Tony Snow! (Capitol Hill Blue)
  • Tony Snow on US Death #2500 in Iraq: "It's a Number" (Editor & Publisher)
  • Eric Boehlert: Is Tony Snow Out of the Loop? (Yahoo! News)
  • Tony Snow, as Dumb as His Predecessor (OpEdNews)
  • So far Tony Snow has been forthright about his ignorance (San Jose Mercury News)
• Hoshyar Zebari (CNN Late Edition)
  • Iraqi foreign minister
  • Hoshyar Zebari discusses the new unity government (KurdishMedia, UK)
  • Iraq Foreign Minister Zebari: Next Six Months 'Crucial' (Forbes)
  • Annan pledges to help build backing for new Iraqi government (Hindu, India)
  • Bloodshed continues in Iraq despite the government's Security Plan (Al-Manar, Lebanon)
  • War Games in Congress (Council on Foreign Relations, New York)
  • Zebari Joins EU Foreign Ministries' Meeting (Zaman Online, Turkey)

 

[Bahbah]

Lindsey Graham: proof that you can live without a brain or a backbone

Okay, it did not take very long before you had me laughing out loud.

[Phsstpok]

Ping

The Weekend Preview Thread is up

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I'm back!  Having survived Boston (with the special pleasure of meeting Alas Babylon!) I can now return to my official duties... sharing my priceless and spot on opinions!!!!!! (please remember to note my tag line)

The most interesting guest to me will be Tony Snow.  Based on the majority of Google News hits for "Tony Snow" it looks like the long knives are out over the "2,500 is a number" remark (forget the rest of the statement, just spin the number as an attack).  This is a big time test for Tony.

I'm particularly proud of the news links I dug out searching on both John Podesta and Simon Rosenberg.  I got a new perspective on the machinations in the Democrat party from those articles.  I think their on air meeting this weekend is a significant political event and could very well go a long way to determine whether the Democrats are united for the elections this fall and in '08.  Podesta may be making the opening move by the Hillary camp to the Dean/MoveOn.ORG camp on network television.  I also find it interesting that Rosenberg, Deans chief rival for the DNC post, has emerged as one of "his" guys, at least being presented as such at the Kos convention.  Perhaps this is the beginning of a grand alliance within the Democrat left?

The dominant meme appears to be that Bush has had a good month in Iraq, so far, but it's now time to get back to all of the bad things that the media wants to concentrate on.  Oh, and the Democrats may be totally in disarray and not have a brain in their heads, but it's obvious to everyone (in the media) that they're going to win in November... isn't it?

[stopem]

Thanks! Good job as usual!!!!

Looks like it the talk shows will be interesting this weekend.

[Seattle Conservative]

Hi Phsstpok!
Welcome back! Hope you had a good time in Beantown.

Thanks again for all your hard work this week. Loved your comment next to Lindsey. Well, Mr. Potato Head does it again - only has Al Murthaqawi on w no Pubbies to dispute what he says. I'm sure Timmy will be in all his glory - -asking the real tough questions of this Dim /s

I'm really looking forward to seeing/listening to Tony. IIRC this is his 1st time on the Sun shows since taking his new job and he should also have some interesting thoughts on Iraq after just returning from the Prez's surprise trip there.

[MNJohnnie]

Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Anyone who had ANY question about what was wrong with the Carter Administration discovered the answer in 5 secs of the PBS interview with this twit. I was flipping channels and heard him ranting and raving about "These sorts of Imperialistic Actions in Iraq have no place in modern times, they are doomed to failure".

Ok, that sort of wacko ranting may be part and partial of the Moonbat leftist speak these days but a former US National Security adviser SHOULD have a better grasp of reality then this nonsense. This is such a completely stupid statement in regards to Iraq one has no idea where to start responding. Best to just laugh at the absurdity and move on. There was not one factually coherent, intellectually honest statement in his rant so of course the Sunday shows will fall all over themselves to book him.

[Bahbah]

From John Podesta: "We can't solve the problem of global warming without multilateral action; or proliferation without actors operating in concert with another," he told the FT. "Ultimately, that means we have to accept constraints."

We must bow to the UN and the ICC. Nice to know in which direction they would take us. I don't care to go there.

[MNJohnnie]

Can Dems win House with unity on Iraq? John Podesta and Simon Rosenberg weigh in

Unity on Iraq??? Excuse me, 39 Democrat Senators and 43 Democrat Congresscritters told the Leadership to go screw themselves in the votes on Iraq this week. I know all the Democrat mouthpieces are out there spinning for all they are worth but this quite possibly was the most significant defeat of a Party's leadership platform in recent times. This is was a complete vote of No Confidence in the current Leadership of the Democratic party from Dean all the way to Pelose. They did not just LOSE the vote, they were humilitated, spanked, stomped flat.

[babylucas]

OK, we beat Saddam when I was in office but then left all of the tough problems for others to solve, therefore you should look to me for advice on how to solve the problems we didn't solve when we had the chance

Love it!

[Phsstpok]

Fabulous addition to the Murtha info on an FR thread, below, taken from the NRO Media Blog:

Murtha: Change Directions Like Clinton Did In Somalia 

I'm going to forward links to both the original NRO piece and the above FR thread to little Timmah on the What would you ask our guests link on the MTP web site.

Great catch, Pissant.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Excellent stuff, a true work of art....thanks for the effort it must take to make sense out of the leftists machinations....

[rockrr]

'This Week' will NOT air on Sunday, June 18, due to ABC's coverage of World Cup soccer.'

How would you know? In our market (Seattle area) they seemed determined to kill off any residual interest that viewers might have had to watch by shifting the airing times or preempting it altogether.

Of course I only noticed only because I used to tune in for George Will's contribution before he went bonkers.....

[rockrr]

Oh, BTW: Nice shot at Biden!

[rodguy911]

ANd still ride bareback behind McCain.

[rodguy911]

Thanks for the great job phsstpok, much appreciated.

[rodguy911]

Al Murthaqawi--gotta love it, along with Al Reuters doesn't get much better.

[rodguy911]

YOU gotta wonder in what part of Plains Ga. Carter learned to turn left--hardly a bastion of liberalism.Amazing.

[MNJohnnie]

ANd still ride bareback behind McCain.

Naw pretty sure McCain is the one in back if you know what I mean.

[Phsstpok]

YOU gotta wonder in what part of Plains Ga. Carter learned to turn left--hardly a bastion of liberalism.Amazing.

Or Annapolis, or the US Navy, for that matter.