CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)
CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)
Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)
Below are the topics and guests announced for these programs (if any), along with my take on the "memes" that each show is trying to push. With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.
The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)
CNBC's Tim Russert Show (Tim Russert)
Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)
Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page
Thanks for the ping Phsstpok. The times, they are a'changing.
Should be a very interesting Sunday.
The Sunday Shows - lineup
By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics
For Sunday, July 23, 2006Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert will grill White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten, then some WashPost reporter hawks his book about the war called Fiasco.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, then he talks about November with House Speaker Dennie Hastert.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer with help from the WashPost's David Ignatius, not the slug who wrote that anti-Bushie book to be hawked on Russert's hour, will talk to Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Daniel Ayalon and the Syrian Ambassador to the U.S. Imad Moustapha.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos's This Week will be pre-empted by British golf. Expect news on this even from Kevin and Paul over RedHot.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks to Ambassador John Bolton, not Josh Bolten, then to Dick Lugar and Chris Dodd ('08) of Senate Foreign Relations, Pete Hoekstra and Jane Harman of House Intelligence, and about a skillion other folks.
-----Okay, we've got Josh Bolten and John Bolton. I assume that deserves some tacky remark, but I'll let it go. Michael Bolton, for what it's worth, has a CD of Sinatra covers, most of which were covers when Frank did them. Don't blame me.
So Bolton is doing the two cable shows, and Bolten gets to do Russert. CBS did will by petting Israel against Syria, Hoestra vs. Harman favors the GOP, and Lugar vs. Dodd isn't not a contest.
We get a break from the '08s, with only Dodd appearing this week and he can't figure to be more than a marginal character, dropping out, if he enters, before Iowa.
I'll cover the shows and have the piece up at RedState.com on Sunday afternoon.
Comments >> Jul 22nd, 2006: 13:34:26
and I posted my portion of this thread on http://wizards.townhall.com/ this morning, so we've got good coverage on the blogsphere of these shows.
I would also guess that Mark is reading this thread, given this remark:
Okay, we've got Josh Bolten and John Bolton. I assume that deserves some tacky remark, but I'll let it go. Michael Bolton, for what it's worth, has a CD of Sinatra covers, most of which were covers when Frank did them. Don't blame me.
But that's just me being tacky...
I will (pettily) suggest that Mark get someone else to check his post,
CBS did will by petting Israel against Syria
becuase it is "pitting" not "petting" and I assume "well" not "will." That would have a totally different meaning... dontcha know? Of course, if you transpose the incorrect letters in both words, it would work out.
I too are lexicdysk. It covers a lot of my screw up...
Seriously, his analysis is generally spot on. The mix of people on CBS and CNN both are better than I've seen in quite some time. I'm not sure, however, that I agree with his Hoekstra vs. Harman and Lugar vs. Dodd assessments. He has to remember the reason these folks are being invited on the shows. Hoekstra and Lugar will be asked to talk about the things they have criticized the administration about over the last several weeks, not the points on which they agree. I believe that these folks know this is why they are being invited on the shows, for which they would most likely sell their souls, so don't expect a straight up "contest." These folks will deliver what they were contracted for, in one way or another.