Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 6/24 and 6/25/06 (not the live thread)

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[Phsstpok]

Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 6/24 and 6/25/06 (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.

Sunday Shows for 6-25-06

ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

• Meme:
  • What is wrong with these Democrats?  We hand them the election on a silver platter and they just screw it up!
  • Bush has had two good weeks - it's time to bring out the big guns and knock that fool down a peg
• Topics:
  • Iraq Withdrawal?: In a pair of exclusive Sunday interviews, Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., join me to discuss the strategy of when and how to draw down U.S. troops from Iraq
  • McConnell and Durbin, two of the Senate's top party leaders, will also debate the hot political topics that could tighten Republican control of Congress or topple the legislative branch in favor of the Democrats this November.
  • Summers' Fall: In another Sunday exclusive, Larry Summers, outgoing president of Harvard University, appears on 'This Week' for his first television interview on his controversial reign at one of the nation's top academic institutions.
  • 'Voices': This week we'll hear from ABC News's very own John Stossel. The "20/20" co-anchor and New York Times bestseller is at it again, debunking "Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity" in a new book that endeavours to explain "why everything you know is wrong".
  • Please Note: On Sunday, June 25, "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" will be rescheduled or preempted in a number of cities due to ABC's coverage of World Cup soccer, and "This Week" will NOT air on the West coast. Please click here to find out when you can see 'This Week' in your town.
• Guests
  • Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
    • What has steffie got on Mitch, or what does he know he'll say that will embarrass Bush?  There has to be a reason they're granting him air time.
  • Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
    • It can't be that they think Turbin Durbin can out debate Mitch?  Nah, even steffie isn't that dumb... maybe...
  • Larry Summers, outgoing Harvard University president
    • This could go either way, but I'm leaning towards them making him out to be a troglodyte
  • ROUNDTABLE:
    • Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria
      • The US is so last century... it's Asia's century... get out of our way...
    • ABC News White House correspondent Martha Raddatz
      • She broke the Zarqawi story!!!  You must believe anything she says!!!
    • CNN anchor Lou Dobbs
      • An equal opportunity trasher of Democrats and Republicans on illegal immigration (but mostly Republicans, particularly Bush)
  • VOICES SUNDAY: ABC News anchor John Stossel
    • Pay no attention... it's a book promo... we'll break away to the World Cup right when he's about to say something critical
• ABC This Week comment web page

CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

• Meme:
  • What is wrong with these Democrats?  We hand them the election on a silver platter and they just screw it up!
  • Bush has had two good weeks - it's time to bring out the big guns and knock that fool down a peg
• Topics:
  • Situation In Iraq
  • North Korea Missile Threat
• Guests
  • Sen. Richard Lugar, Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee, Republican - Indiana
    • CBS is giving Luger a chance to perform his designated role, though he hasn't bashed Bush in nearly two weeks, agrees with him on Iraq (at least defeating the Dems on the pullout) so it must be immigration... or maybe North Korea?
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer, Foreign Relations Committee, Democrat - California
    • Kos has blessed her - she must go forth and preach the Truth of the Kos!
  • Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, Washington Bureau Chief
    • I kinda think he's embarrassed over this whole SWIFT thing, but it's not the LA Times Fault!  The NY Times did it first!
• Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

• Meme:
  • What is wrong with these Democrats?  We hand them the election on a silver platter and they just screw it up!
  • Bush has had two good weeks - it's time to bring out the big guns and knock that fool down a peg
• Topics:
  • Is the Taliban back in Afghanistan? President Hamid Karzai speaks out.
  • Sens. Chuck Hagel and Joseph Biden on Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and the latest on the alleged terror plots in the United States.
• Guests
  • Hamid Karzai: President of Afghanistan
    • How to get coverage in the drive by media - lesson 1: bash Bush
    • CNN is counting on blunting Bush's momentum from success in Iraq with Karzai's criticism of the entire WOT, particularly the loss of life in Afghanistan and the "wrong direction" the west is taking
  • Sen. Joseph Biden: D-Delaware, Foreign Relations Committee ranking member
    • I knew he would surface somewhere!
    • Joe Biden will single handedly fix all that is wrong with Bush's foreign policy by surrendering to the UN and Korea, simultaneously!  Top that if you can, John Kerry!
  • Sen. Chuck Hagel: R-Nebraska, Foreign Relations Committee and Select Intelligence Committee
    • How to get coverage in the drive by media - lesson 1: bash Bush
    • How to get coverage in the drive by media - lesson 2: bash conservative Republicans
    • Chuck Hagel has a twofer this week!
    • Hagel is a big catch for CNN: he is trashing "cut and run" as a slogan that was focus group tested!
  • Hussein Shahristani: Iraqi oil minister
    • Did you know that Iraq has an oil ministry?  I'm betting he told Wolfie that he's learned lesson 1
  • Madeleine Albright: Former secretary of state
    • Criticism of the Bush administration from the woman who gave us a nuclear North Korea.  How appropriate!
  • Henry Kissinger: Former secretary of state
    • Henry's got to have something bad to say about Bush.  Why else would Wolfie give him air time?
• CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)

Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

• Meme:
  • What is wrong with these Democrats?  The drive by media hands them the election on a silver platter and they just screw it up!
  • Bush has had two good weeks - it's time to bring out let the big guns have their shot at knocking him down a peg - fair and balanced and all that rot
• Topics:
  • Timetable for withdrawal from Iraq? Sens. John Warner and Carl Levin weigh in
  • Sen. Arlen Specter and Rep. Pete King on immigration reform deadlock
• Guests
  • Sens. John Warner
    • No chance John would get on any other show this week - let's see how they treat him
  • Carl Levin
    • Oh well, they'll let Carl trash John and won't challenge anything Carl says - "fair and balanced" and all that rot
  • Sen. Arlen Specter
    • Barf Alert!!!!!
  • Rep. Pete King
    • An "opponent" of Bush on the immigration bill... or is he?  Could a quid pro quo on the "cuts" to grants to New York (hey they need more than 50% for the NYC region) make him turn his back on protecting our borders?  This could be an interesting appearance for ol' Pete.
    • Besides, the Irish are putting pressure on him.
• Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com

NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

• Meme:
  • Bush has had two good weeks - it's time to bring out the big guns and knock that fool down a peg
• Topics:
  • The War in Iraq heats up on Capitol Hill, with the Senate defeating an amendment that called for a complete withdrawal of U.S. Troops by next year with a resounding vote of 86-13. With us, to explain his case for a withdrawal deadline, the co-sponsor of the amendment and potential 2008 presidential candidate Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI).
  • how are the political differences on Iraq affecting the 2006 and 2008 election landscapes -- and particularly the potential presidential candidacies of Hillary Clinton and John Kerry? And why is 2000 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) in such a tough race for his own Democratic Senate primary? We will have insights and analysis in our political roundtable
• Guests
  • Sen. Russ Feingold, D-WI
    • Kos has spoken!  Feingold is the progressive standard bearer and Russert marches to the tune they play
  • political roundtable
    • David Broder, Washington Post
      • Broder is their "right wing balance" this week - nuff said?
    • Ron Brownstein, Los Angeles Times
      • Brownstein's actually not that bad (as leftist journalists go), but he's going to have to defend the SWIFT story, so he's forced to Bush bash - perfect for MTP
    • David Gregory, NBC News White House Correspondent
      • The poster boy for BDS given more mouth foaming time - oh joy!
    • Anne Kornblut, New York Times
      • So nasty to Bush and company she got promoted from the Boston Globe to the New York Times - after all, they needed to replace Jayson Blair
• 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 for 6-24-06

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

• Meme:
  • Wow!  Who'd a thunk it?  Republicans actually supporting the war on terror!
  • Even more amazing, it seems to be working!
• Topics:
  • After months of bad news, the GOP is now embracing the Iraq war heading into the midterm elections
  • Plus, how the Democrats are losing the political advantage on the war
• 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:
  • Listen to the wisdom of (uber liberal) That Girl...
• Topics:
  • Tim talks to Marlo Thomas about her new book, "The Right Words at the Right Time: Your Turn!"
• Guests
  • Marlo Thomas
• CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

• Meme:
  • How DARE you criticize the press for releasing vital national security secrets!  Are you a fascist?
  • Dan Rather is a victim of the VRWC...
  • Why doesn't everyone realize that the murder of these two children is Bush's fault?
• Topics:
  • What's more important to the press? A big 'scoop' or protecting national security?
  • After 44 years, Dan Rather leaves CBS
  • Coverage of brutal murders of 2 U.S. soldiers in Iraq
• 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!  The Republicans actually stood up for something and it helped their standing!  What a concept!
  • Fighting pork is a noble cause... but it's so doomed
  • Boy, does Bush have a problem on his hands with Kim!!!!
• Topics:
  • Opinion Journal web site for show:
    • Why Republicans decided to go on the political offense in the debate over Iraq
    • Should the U.S. bomb that North Korean missile site before any test launch?
    • An interview with Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake about his (lonely) battle to limit spending earmarks.
  • Fox News web site for show:
    • Will big spenders in the House spell trouble for Republicans this fall?
    • How should the U.S. respond to a potential North Korea ballistic missile test?
• Guests
  • Congressman Jeff Flake, Republican, Arizona
• 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

[Phsstpok]

Weekend Guests 6-24 and 6-25:

• Madeleine Albright (CNN Late Edition) Former secretary of state
  • Madeleine Albright, John Danforth, and Andrew Kohut (Christian Science Monitor)
  • Book Review: The Mighty and the Almighty, By Madeleine Albright (Canada East)
  • The Mighty and the Almighty (Radio Netherlands)
  • Madeleine Albright: Bush's Faith Worrying (Wizbang)
  • The Beauty of Madeleine Albright (American Daily, OH)
  • Madeleine Albright: Lessons of Iraq War (OpEdNews)
  • Poll shows gulf between Muslims and those with Western attitudes (San Jose Mercury News)
  • American and European leftists: A symbiotic relationship? (Town Hall)
  • Albright criticizes Iraq invasion (China Daily)
  • Albright: Iraq Invasion Encouraged Others (Houston Chronicle)
• Sen. Joseph Biden: D-Delaware (CNN Late Edition)
  • Foreign Relations Committee ranking member
  • US Senate votes to fully back UN peacekeeping (Reuters)
  • Some Democrats coming to terms with Iraq split (Reuters)
  • Rumsfeld vindicated (Washington Times)
  • Will clear mark-up: US (Hindustan Times, India)
  • Senate calls for new N. Korea envoy (Reuters)
  • Cities may ban trains with chemicals (USA Today)
  • Chickens are coming home to roost for Bush (Milli Gazette, India)
• Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat - California (CBS Face The Nation)
  • Foreign Relations Committee
  • Sens. Levin, Boxer press Pentagon for answers on slain soldiers (WLNS, MI)
  • 2 senators press Pentagon for answers on murdered Calif. soldiers (San Jose Mercury News)
  • Live from Las Vegas: Senator Barbara Boxer Speaks (Northwest Progressive Institute Official Blog, WA)
  • Approaching the midterm(Washington Times)
  • How to neuter the Republicans (The Phoenix, MA)
  • Iraq Withdrawal Debate in Senate Stirs Memories of Vietnam Era (Bloomberg)
  • Public: End This War (Yahoo! News)
  • Senate Backs GIs' Mental Care (Hartford Courant)
• David Broder (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
  • David Broder is mad (InOpinion, VA)
  • Broder Label: Out of 'Left' Field (Editor & Publisher)
  • DAVID BRODER: Bush nosedives with weight of failure (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
  • The Left: Gearing up for battle (Questions and Observations)
  • Blogging along on the Information Superhighway of politics (The Southern, IL)
  • Anti-war Democrats turn against Lieberman (Central Maine Morning Sentinel)
• Ron Brownstein (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
  • What the Democrats Need Is a Little Power (Los Angeles Times)
  • Ron Brownstein (NNDB)
• Congressman Jeff Flake, Republican, Arizona  (Journal Editorial Report)
  • Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake Fights Pork, Loses (National Ledger, AZ)
  • Comrade Tries to Kill Hastert Project (ABC News)
  • House Approves Watered-Down Line-Item Veto (Forbes)
  • Immigration showdown is looming (AZ Central.com)
  • GOPers could pay for delay (New York Daily News)
  • Step lively, Congress, on border reform (Arizona Republic)
• Lou Dobbs (ABC This Week roundtable)
  • CNN anchor
  • Disputing Dobbs on immigration (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • CNN's Lou Dobbs defends immigration views (Chicago Tribune)
  • Lou Dobbs, Richardson debate immigration before tough audience (Bradenton Herald)
  • I had some respect for Lou Dobbs until June 8th 2006 (OpEdNews)
  • Andrea Batista Schlesinger: An Open Letter to Lou Dobbs (Yahoo! News)
  • Lou Dobbs Experiences 'Explosive' Growth (NewsBusters)
• Senator Richard Durbin, D-Ill. (ABC This Week)
  • Student gets deportation reprieve (Kansas City Star)
  • Dick Durbin: Consult with Mexico on Border Fence (NewsMax.com)
  • Republicans Target Democrats' Iraq Proposal (WCSH-TV, ME)
  • Here We Go Again, Dick Durbin Democrat (Post Chronicle)
  • Bush Killed the Two Marines, Too? (FrontPage magazine)
  • Democrats debate war exit (Newsday, NY)
  • How The Media Assists al Qaeda (Strategy Page)
  • With eye on elections, Senate debates Iraq war (ABC News)
  • Tobacco case delayed appointment of US ambassador (ABC Online, Australia)
• Senator Russ Feingold, D-WI (NBC Meet The Press)
  • Russ Feingold packs like a girl (Chicago Sun-Times)
  • Wisconsin's Feingold Loses Iraq Vote In Senate (WEAU-TV 13, WI)
  • Opinions vary on when to remove US troops from Iraq (49abcnews.com, KS)
  • Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) (Washington Post)
  • My Liberal Fantasy: Russ Feingold's 2008 Nomination Acceptance (Political Cortex, NY)
  • Possible candidates take positions on Iraq (San Jose Mercury News)
  • Attack Of The Bloggers (Post Chronicle)
• David Gregory (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
  • Re: Re: That WMD Story [Tim Graham] (National Review Online Blogs)
  • NBC's Gregory Resurrects Bush's 'Bring 'em On' & Cheney's 'Last Throes' of Insurgency (NewsBusters)
  • Media Angered Bush Iraq Visit Kept Secret (The Conservative Voice)
  • Pro-Gay 'Today' Sees Blitz of Pandering to Conservatives, But Not to Liberals (NewsBusters)
  • Imus and McGuirk: Zarqawi's death "bad news" for the "liberal elite news media"? (Media Matters for America)
  • Major Papers Embraced 'Axis of Feeble' Headline Mocking Bush and Blair (NewsBusters)
• Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Nebraska (CNN Late Edition)
  • Foreign Relations Committee and Select Intelligence Committee
  • Hagel: “Focus-Group Tested Buzz Words…Like ‘Cut and Run’ (Think Progress)
  • CNN and other outlets ignored Hagel's denunciation of GOP "focus group-tested buzz words like 'cut and run' " (Media Matters for America)
  • Cutting and running from democracy (Berkshire Eagle, MA)
  • Defining the future of the GOP (Ocala.com)
  • State GOP Unlikely To Take A Stand On Immigration Controversy (Nebraska StatePaper.com)
  • Activists Spur Movement to Mobilize US Political Moderates (Voice of America)
• Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan (CNN Late Edition)
  • Sons of this land dying, slams Karzai (New Zealand Herald)
  • Karzai critical of coalition's Taliban hunt (Ottawa Citizen)
  • Hamid Karzai makes speech in Beijing (People's Daily Online, China)
  • Attempt to Steer the News Backfires in Afghanistan (Washington Post)
  • Anti-Taliban offensive continues in southern Afghanistan (ABC Asia Pacific, Australia)
  • Time for some new thinking (Gulf News, United Arab Emirates)
• Congressman Pete King (Fox News Sunday)
  • King on "Celebrity" Bloomberg (New York Observer)
  • Terror cuts defy logic, he tells Congress (New York Daily News)
  • It's far from letter-perfect (New York Daily News)
  • Answers, please, Mr. President (New York Daily News)
  • Deadly thinking (New York Daily News)
  • Irish group to lobby Washington, again (The Journal News.com, NY)
  • Senate OKs immig bill, big fight looms (New York Daily News)
• Henry Kissinger, Former secretary of state (CNN Late Edition)
  • Solution in sight (Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates)
  • Setting Precedent: A History of US Military Occupational Crimes (Al-Jazeerah.info, GA)
  • Henry & Vlad Yakkity-Yakka In Russ Dacha* (New York Sun)
  • Kissinger Papers: US OK With Takeover (Washington Post)
• Anne Kornblut (NBC Meet The Press roundtable)
  • Cheney link of Iraq, 9/11 challenged (Boston.COM) from 2003
• Senator Carl Levin (Fox News Sunday)
  • Sens. Levin, Boxer press Pentagon for answers on slain soldiers (WLNS, MI)
  • 2 senators press Pentagon for answers on murdered Calif. soldiers (San Jose Mercury News)
  • Reid, Biden and Levin Hail Senate Passage of Legislation to Fix Bush Administration North Korea Policy (U.S. Newswire (press release))
  • Opinions vary on when to remove US troops from Iraq (49abcnews.com, KS)
  • Cut and Run or Trim and Trot? (Yahoo! News)
  • Occupation and Dependence (Questions and Observations)
  • More Helpful Suggestions From the Dems (PowerLine)
  • Push to leave Iraq hurts Democrats? (Washington Times)
• Senator Richard Lugar, Republican - Indiana (CBS Face The Nation)
  • Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee
  • Lugar, Bayh vote no on Iraq troop pullout (Indianapolis Star)
  • Venezuela embargo would push oil to $100 - Chavez (Reuters)
  • US may lose in the absence of Venezuelan oil (El Universal, Venezuela)
  • Nuclear Agreement Receives Backing of Key Senator (San Leandro India West, CA)
  • N-deal: US Senate panel to vote on June 28 (Times of India)
  • US urged to ratify treaty on corruption (United Press International)
  • Democrats need to challenge Lugar in November (Indianapolis Star)
• Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. (ABC This Week)
  • Column: McConnell resists amendment pressure (Meadville Tribune, PA)
  • Even Scalia Opposes Flag-Burning Amendment (Truthdig)
  • Dems' Iraq efforts fail in Senate (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • With eye on elections, Senate debates Iraq war (ABC News)
  • Today Portrays Dem Disarray, Kerry as Culprit (NewsBusters)
  • Poll shows some blahs (Grayson County News Gazette, KY)
• Doyle McManus (CBS Face The Nation)
  • Los Angeles Times, Washington Bureau Chief
  • US Criticizes Media on Terror Funds (Houston Chronicle)
  • US Warns North Korea on Missile Launch (Los Angeles Times)
  • Bush Takes Measured Tone on Zarqawi, War (Los Angeles Times)
  • Washington Week . Doyle McManus (PBS)
• Martha Raddatz (ABC This Week roundtable)
  • ABC News White House correspondent
  • ABC News: Martha Raddatz (ABC News)
  • ABC’s Rancorous Take on Bush in Iraq: 'Deception,' Fake Schedule & No Fewer Troops (NewsBusters)
  • Media Angered Bush Iraq Visit Kept Secret (The Conservative Voice)
  • ABC is first on Zarqawi's death (calendarlive.com)
  • Sharp Reporter, Even at 2 am (New York Times)
  • How Raddatz Did It (mediabistro.com)
  • Coverage of strike called overzealous (Bryan College Station Eagle)
  • The Bomb Heard Round the World (Washington Post)
• Hussein Shahristani (CNN Late Edition)
  • Iraqi oil minister
  • Iraq: Iran Helping Oil Smugglers -- Minister (Stratfor)
  • Iraq: Oil and the Next Conflagration (KurdishMedia, UK)
  • Iraq to lobby oil majors for investment (Middle East Times, Egypt)
  • NPR News Agenda from the Thursday Editors' Meeting (NPR)
  • Iraq: The Intra-Shiite Schism Erupts in Basra (Stratfor)
  • The New Iraqi Government: A Daunting Task for New Faces (Asharq Alawsat, UK)
• Senator Arlen Specter (Fox News Sunday)
  • Specter: a wedge for Republicans (San Jose Mercury News)
  • Specter counters House in move to save immigration bill (The Hill)
  • GOP Plans Competing Events On Immigration (Civilrights.org)
  • Specter to grill officials on Bush ignoring laws (Washington Post)
  • The Protean Politics of Arlen Specter (RedState)
  • Arlen Specter to Dick Cheney: Butt Out on Wiretap Probe (NewsMax.com)
  • Why Is Sen. Arlen Specter Mad at Vice President Cheney? (FOX News)
  • NBC Picks Up WMD in Iraq Finding, Olbermann Compares Santorum to Joe McCarthy (NewsBusters)
• John Stossel (ABC This Week Voices segment)
  • ABC News anchor
  • Into it: John Stossel (Christian Science Monitor)
  • John Stossel to explode myths in Calgary (Canada.com)
  • ABC news correspondent John Stossel takes stupidity tour to Canada (Canada.com)
  • John Stossel: Myth-Buster (FrontPage magazine)
  • Book Review: Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity by John Stossel (Blogcritics.org)
  • Lists of Best-Selling Books (FOX News)
• Larry Summers (ABC This Week)
  • outgoing Harvard University president
  • Summers's Ouster May Be Behind Delay in Oracle CEO's $115M Harvard Gift (New York Sun)
  • TCA Srinivasa-Raghavan: Mirror, mirror on the wall? (Business Standard, India)
  • Tuesdays with Larry (Harvard Crimson)
  • The Summers Backlash (National Review Online Blogs)
  • The Left promotes assertions that turn out to be false (Town Hall)
  • Why I Stood Up: The Case Against Summers (Harvard Crimson)
• Marlo Thomas (CNBC's Tim Russert Show)
  • Author of "The Right Words at the Right Time: Your Turn!"
  • Book Review The Right Words At The Right Time Volume 2: Your Turn! (Blogcritics.org)
  • First Ever Corporate Naming Rights for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Building Awarded to Chili's Grill & Bar (Yahoo! News (press release))
  • A father's influence lives on (St. Petersburg Times, FL)
  • Leave yourself open to inspiring moments (Orlando Sentinel, FL)
  • Oh, That Girl! (National Review Online Blogs)
• Senator John Warner (Fox News Sunday)
  • John Warner Raps Murtha on Massacre Charges (NewsMax.com)
  • Iraq Withdrawal Debate in Senate Stirs Memories of Vietnam Era (Bloomberg)
  • Withdrawal from Iraq rejected (Connecticut Post)
  • Playing fast and way too loose with the estate tax (Roanoke Times, VA)
  • Senate Opposes Amnesty for Iraqis Who Attack US Troops (Voice of America)
  • Deaths of GIs stir Senate to condemn Iraq amnesty plan (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • THE BUZZ THE BUZZ (Kansas City Star, MO)
  • Quotes from the Senate debate on Iraq (San Jose Mercury News)
• Fareed Zakaria (ABC This Week roundtable)
  • Newsweek International Editor
  • Fareed Zakaria responds to readers' queries on foreign affairs. (Newsweek)
  • Chasing utopia (Nepalnews.com)
  • America's competitive edge over rival nations may be growing dull (Pacific Daily News)
  • Ignatius, Zakaria Launch 'Experiment' in Global Journalism (Washington Post)
  • Sorry, your 15-minutes of fame is over! (MarketWatch)

   

   

   

 

 

[Phsstpok]

Ping

The Weekend Preview Thread is up

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

The forces of the Old Empire are marshaling their counter attack against team Bush.  They are throwing all caution (and discretion) away.  This could be a real interesting weekend.

The most interesting guests to me will be the debate between Mitch McConnell and Dick Durbin.  I can't understand what possessed ABC to give Mitch the opportunity to trash the turban... unless they have some FBI files loaned to them by Hillary?  Stossel is also always fun, but they'll minimize him in the Voices segment.  Watch Hagel and Karzai on CNN for clues to the counter attack against Bush and company to try to blunt their momentum.  And watch for a deal to be offered on immigration between Pete King and the amnesty crowd in exchange for more funding for NY.  Pete has to get reelected, dontcha know?

And watch the trash Bush hit parade on MTP.  That is the leading edge of the counter attack.  I'm betting that Timmah went to his contacts in the Democrat leadership and made it plain that he wouldn't sit still for losing to Steponallofus without fighting back.  They either had to cough up some big guns or he was going to start courting the pubbies.  It looks like the Dims complied, in exchange for a free hand to push their new message without any contrary voices.

The dominant meme appears to be that Bush has had a good couple of weeks 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) what they need to do in order to win in November... isn't it?

Be advised - I'm posting this on Friday night and then going to bed.  I've had a hard week trying to catch up from the trip to Boston and even managed to pick up a bug from a co-worker.  I have a feeling I'm going to be suffering through a minor bout of something all weekend, so I'm going to get some sleep.  I'll respond to you all in the AM.

[Bahbah]

Meme: What is wrong with these Democrats? We hand them the election on a silver platter and they just screw it up!

Okay, usually it takes a scroll down through a comment or two for the humor to build up and cause a true laugh out loud. This time you sucker punched me right off the bat.

[Barset]

Your analyses of the shows is amusing. Thanks for that and for the great links.

[Bahbah]

and even managed to pick up a bug from a co-worker.

Oh, sorry friend. Feel better. And take care of yourself.

[Txsleuth]

Good night...get well, and thank you for all of your hard work.

Hopefully after a good night's sleep, you will be raring to go this weekend.

I was surfing through some lib websites this week..and I found that Russ Feingold seems to be getting more and more popular, as Hillary and Kerry have disappointed the progressives...sigh.

Oh,...but, I even saw one post that suggested that Babs Boxer would make a great POTUS candidate!!!

BDS..it's everywhere!

[Txsleuth]

I turned on Alan Colmes' radio show...

and HIS new "talking point" re: the terrorist group in Florida??

"I thought we went to Iraq to fight them over there...and now we find out they are here...so, I guess Bush lied again..."

Also...of course he is appalled about the feds getting the banking transactions of terrorists.

[Seattle Conservative]

ROFLOL! You aren't the only one! Phsstpok said he wasn't feeling well and tired, but he was definitely on his game w that one!

[Chuck54]

Thanks as always Phsstpok. I was traveling last weekend and couldn't catch up until Monday.

Glad I'm back on schedule.

:)

[Peach]

Tim Russert's lineup is so abhorrent I feel like I've wandered over to the Daily Kooks website.

Week after week, your analysis is spot on and your professional delivery makes this thread a delight to read.

Hope you feel better soon, Phsstpok.

[Bahbah]

Here is part of a post from yesterday which is a dialogue between Hugh Hewitt and Mark Steyn which was a great read: "Bill Hemmer: Well, what kind of a message are you sending them, if you're suggesting leave before that mission's complete?

BB: Well, we're sending them the message that we stand behind them. We're sending them a message very clearly, we Democrats, that we want to give them what they need to do the job, that we want to be with them when they come home, and that we want to give them a mission that is doable and that is winnable. And you know, 99% of the Republicans said stay the course. And if you go back to a Republican president, Teddy Roosevelt, who said essentially that blind adherence to an executive by the Congress is unpatriotic. I think that's a fascinating thing. We need to stand up for our troops. We have to stand against the status quo which is not working."

I wonder if Senator Boxer will say something equally profound on FTN. Here is the link if anyone would like to read the entire interview, which is quite good:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654498/posts

[Txsleuth]

bttt

[STARWISE]

(phsstpok- your name is so hard to remember for posting .. LOL .. how do you say it?? ;)

Added to info re Karzai, he recently slammed the media and issued directives. This is to counter their glorifying giving the Taliban and conferring equal footing with those fighting for freedom. Of course, he's is being slammed by the lib organizations for squelching freedom of speech:

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Also on Thursday, the Afghan president defended guidelines issued to news groups about reporting on the Taliban insurgency, saying some media were "legitimising terrorism" in their articles.

He said he would guarantee media freedom but his government was concerned about how some of the media were reporting on the insurgency by the Taliban movement.

Media guidelines

Karzai said: "Part of the media especially the electronic media are ... almost legitimising some acts of terrorism. That's what we're concerned about. That's what we are trying to correct."

The document containing the guidelines was sent to Afghan editors on Monday, prompting an outcry from rights groups concerned about press freedom as Afghanistan tries to establish itself as a democracy.

It says "terrorist commanders" should not be interviewed or the Nato and US-led forces criticised.

"These directives are an insult to the hard work and personal sacrifice of Afghan journalists who try to get the truth out to the public"

Sami Zarifi, Human Rights Watch

Stories of terror activities should not lead news bulletins and "enemy" statements which portray the government as un-Islamic should not be covered or the security forces portrayed as weak.

Some television stations have broadcast interviews with alleged Taliban officials who speak against Karzai's government and the thousands of international soldiers based in Afghanistan to hunt down Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters.

Other media prominently carry Taliban claims about attacks that turn out to be false or exaggerated.

The hand-delivered 24-point list was anonymous but understood to have been issued by the intelligence service which had summoned editors to a meeting on the topic last week.

'An insult'

New York-based Human Rights Watch criticised the notice, saying it should be immediately revoked by the government.

Sam Zarifi, the group's Asia research director, said: "The intelligence services restrictions are a blatant intrusion on the freedom of Afghanistan's fledgling media.

"These directives are an insult to the hard work and personal sacrifice of Afghan journalists who try to get the truth out to the public."

The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission said it was concerned but added that it had reservations about some of the media's reporting.

[Txsleuth]

That sounds like President Bush and President Karzai need to talk...they have a LOT in common, re: having to fight the press, as well as the terrorists.

[Phsstpok]

Mark Kilmer's Sunday show preview is up at RedState.COM and his own blog, http://www.rightsided.org/:

The Sunday Show Lineup

By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics

For Sunday, June 25, 2006

Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert will talk to -- brace yourselves! -- Russ Feingold. They'll discuss "GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW!," "Russ '08," and maybe cheese.

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace will talked timetable/date certain, pro and con, with John Warner and Carl Levin. Then he turns his attention back to immigration, with Arlen Specter and Peter King.

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer has the WashPost's Doyle McManus in to help him ask questions of Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Dick Lugar and Democrat FR committeeperson Babs Boxer.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos chats with Mitch McConnell and that famed Nazi hunter Dick Durbin. Some affiliates will do the World Cup thing instead of Durbin & Steph. (The GOP Senate whip can take care of himself.) It depends on the House postion, if you're using the Equal House system, on the synastry chart for Durbin and Steph, and if Capricorn is at the cusp of the seventh house. It's a complex formula, but the show will be aired on my affiliate, in the neonatal binary cusp preceeded by Pluto.

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer has a good one this week. He talks to Afghan President Hamid Karzai then... together for the umpteenth time, Joe Biden andChuck Hagel.
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Better Russ than Kerry again. The smartest Dem on this week is Specter (FNS), and he's a Republican. (Karzai is a democrat, but the D isn't capitalized.) Warner is pretty good at handling Levin, and Mitch can handle Durbin. This is a R vs. D saga, several degrees more intense because the Dems want desperately to smell blood for the November general elections.

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Jun 24th, 2006: 13:03:30

For those who have missed it, the cryptic references to astrology are not so subtle smackdowns of Kos' partner in crime, Jerome Armstrong, who apparently made his mark by using astrology to predict the future (though it may have been mostly after the fact).  It appears he may also have used this "skill" to tout stocks and / or politicians, which Kos then conveniently began pushing on his web site (that last part may not have started till Armstrong was barred from doing stocks by the SEC and went into political consulting).  Inquiring minds (at the DOJ) want to now.

• Jerome Armstrong's Nutroots (Wizbang)
• The New Media is Starting to Look Old (American Thinker)
• Newest First Oldest First (Salon)
• Meet the new boss (Kos), same as the old boss (San Diego Union Tribune)
• Shill To Hack, Celebrated Lib Strategist Has Shady Market Past (New York Post)
  

[Phsstpok]

(phsstpok- your name is so hard to remember for posting .. LOL .. how do you say it?? ;)

It's pronounced (at least by me... I've never heard it said out loud) "fist pock" with a minor click between the syllables.  It's from Larry Niven's early novel Protector.  From the novel: "A hiss and snap of beak: Phssth-pok."  Niven actually spells it Phssthpok, but that just seemed a bit much for me. <g>

I had not seen the material on Karzai complaining about the media coverage.  All I heard was his complaints that could be used as attacks on us and the British.  Why am I not surprised?

Great catch.  I wonder if Wolfie will steer clear of this topic or tie it in with the controversy over the NY Slimes treasonous behavior?

[STARWISE]

Thanks .. hearing how it sounds makes writing it easier. And thanks for ALL you do, phsst! ;)

[Txsleuth]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1654871/posts

Here is a thread from early this morning....I thought I would bring it here...since Howie Dean DID do the dem response today...

And, I am sure this subject will be brought up tonight and tomorrow.

[Txsleuth]

I heard on Fox News a little while ago....that the Senate Judiciary Committee (Arlen Specter)...will be having "hearings" on the newest leak by the NYTimes..the tracking of the finances of terrorists...

THAT didn't take long, since the story just broke--Arlen must have broken a land speed record to get THAT hearing together...

Of course, the hearing isn't to find out who is a the bottom of LEAKING, or to find out if it is kosher for the NYTimes, LATimes, and Wall Street Journal...to go ahead and publish a story after being explicitly ASKED not to, by the POTUS/CIC during a time of war.

[Phsstpok]

THAT didn't take long, since the story just broke--Arlen must have broken a land speed record to get THAT hearing together... 

I can't believe that Fox would do this, but you don't suppose that they (and Arlen) had a heads up on the NY Times story and set this up aforehand?

Nah, that's too Machivellian...

But not outside of what is likely to happen today.

[acsrp38]

Joe Biden andChuck Hagel

As Laura calls them -- the Bagel

[Phsstpok]

More on the Jerome Armstrong (and therefore Kos) meltdown from Little Green Footballs:

MyDD Sanitizes Archives

Wizbang has caught the MyDD crowd going through their blog archives and removing all references to astrology, following the revelation that Kos partner Jerome Armstrong had a career as an astrologist: Jerome Armstrong’s Nutroots.

Hmm. This sounds familiar.

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I've been pondering the NY Times SWIFT story as an attempt to overwhelm the successes in Iraq for these shows (which is clearly what they intended).  They chose this week to drop this little bombshell to try to change the news cycle and, particularly, to try to get the White House and Republicans to call for prosecution or other sanctions so that they could declare themselves the victims of "evil Bushitler."  But I have a feeling that the smell of potential criminal acts by Kos and the Blogfather just a week or so after all of the lefty media "elite" and Democrat leaders kowtowed to them in Las Vegas may just make this an impossible play on their part.  It will be interesting to see if they are really that stupid as to try to play the New York Times as the victim of the "fascist Bush administration bent on world domination and destruction of the free press" in the context of this crap.

They lay down with pigs they got up with not only flees, but also a few other parasites... some of them fatal...

 

[Txsleuth]

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=68155

Phsstpok...I am re-posting one of the links you had above, re: the amendment in the Defense Spending Bill that just PASSED...re: North Korea.

I find it very, very maddening that this amendment by Biden, Levin, and Reid was passed on a unanimous consent...and I haven't been able to find ANY debate between the Republicans and the dems on this...

I am really ticked off tonight, can you tell? LOL

Considering that N. Korea has been bigtime in the news this last week...and our policy there should be, IMHO, of the utmost importance to the Congress and the American peop"le..

HERE is an amendment, not debated or voted on, on the floor of the Senate, that basically says that Bush has failed in North Korea, made us MORE in danger..and MUST, according to this amendment have a NEW person in charge...and must clear all of this with the Senate.

I would think that anything this important SHOULD have been debated "in the light of day"...

I SWEAR these "unanimous consent" amendments that are just added "en bloc" to these bills are gonna get our country in big trouble...

Also, there is an amendment, that was passed the same way...by Kerry that require a summit that involves Iraq, the surrounding countries, the Arab League, the EU, the permanent members of the UN Security Council...that one didn't have a roll call vote either...(if I read my source site right)...

[Bahbah]

This crappy stuff will never make it out of conference. Count on it.

[Txsleuth]

What I would like to know, is how it made it in the bill...where were the Reps??

Also...I would LOVE for President Bush to veto it..if it doesn't get take out.

This is one I am going to watch for, when the bill comes back to the Senate..

(please remind me if I forget, the old memory is going FAST..LOL)

[rodguy911]

Looks like the usual suspects on the Sunday shows, all rats all the time. Thank God for the "new media" to get the true story out.

The Miami or "Overtown 7" as they are know here, is a huge joke. These bozos are too dumb to break into a 7-11 much less blow up something. They used to do exercises at midnight in overtown, in costume.

One of the warehouse owners who knows them was interviewed on Miami radio today and he thinks if you gave them $500 they would agree to do just about anything.

Typical Miami dirtbags, the city is full of them, hardly the terrorist types.

The real terrorists were found through able danger, not screwing around and setting up Miami low-life criminal/terrorists wannabes like these idiots.

[rodguy911]

Feel better Phsstpok, great job again.

[rodguy911]

The msm/drive-bys have really shown their true colors during this war, their relationship with many of us will never ever be the same.

[Bahbah]

Here is another little bomb dropped in with that block of amendments: An amendment tucked into a defense policy bill that the Senate passed on Thursday would raise the cap for U.S. dues from the current 25-percent share of the U.N. peacekeeping budget set by Congress to the 27 percent the United Nations has said Washington owes.

I see that the deal is that the House has passed no such thing, as is the case with the "new envoy to N. Korea" business, so it is meaningless garbage. Apparently, Biden is trying to make himself feel important as Mr. Policy Guy. LOL. What a hoot he is.

[Txsleuth]

Oh, great...I hadn't seen the UN one.

I wonder if he will be asked about his "Iraq plan" of dividing a soveriegn country into 3 different ones???

Doncha know if a Rep had come up with that..and made as big of a deal about it as Biden did....he/she/we would never have heard the end of it by the MSM....all ridicule all the time.

I haven't heard ANY negative reviews..in fact, I haven't heard a PEEP about that plan for weeks...even from Biden...LOL

[Peach]

What a good catch, TXsleuth. When something is passed by unanimous consent, I'm assuming that even Republicans signed on to this assumption that the administration has permitted the N. Korean threat to grow.

And who should this coordinator regarding North Korea be? Madeline Albright? LOL

[Miss Marple]

Lugar fancies himself THE foreign policy expert. He was the Republican "go to" guy for foreign policy opinion during the Clinton years. Now he has to defer to Condi Rice and he doesn't like it.

He will babble and act "concerned" and trash Bush in a low-key way. I will watch him because he is my senator and I want to be able to call his office tomorrow and have my facts in order.

Why is it we never see Senator Inhofe or Senator Coleman? Your comment on Mitch McConnell answers my question, of course.

[TruthWillWin]

Great job!

Add me to your ping list please.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Oh,...but, I even saw one post that suggested that Babs Boxer would make a great POTUS candidate!!!

Now that is unreal....

I'm going with the Cheney/ Rove ticket in 08....