Saturday Shows for 8/26/06
Below are the topics and guests announced for these programs, along with my take on the "memes" that the shows are 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)
- Meme:
- The Republicans are doomed (Mort) - Maybe not... but I'm not holding out much hope (Fred)
- McCain has turned on Bush, big time (the boys will agree on this one)
- Topics:
- You Decide 2006: Predictions for the House, Senate and statehouses
- What's really behind John McCain's remarks on Iraq this week? The Boys give you their take!
- 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:
- Bush is the problem and Lil Timmah has the author / reporter / leftist hack to prove it to you!
- He got an anti Bush book published, imagine that!
- It is too a civil war!
- Topics:
- Tim talks to Washington Post’s Tom Ricks about his book, 'FIASCO, The American Military Adventure in Iraq'.
- Guests
- Tom Ricks
- Journalist details Iraq 'fiasco' (ABC Online, Australia - Aug 24, 2006)
- WashPost Book Review Plugs Tom Ricks Iraq "Fiasco" Book (NewsBusters - Jul 30, 2006)
- Israel's 'Moral High Ground': Justin Raimondo (Antiwar.com, CA - Aug 22, 2006)
- Uncomfortable Truths about Israel (Huffington Post, NY - Aug 21, 2006)
- Washington Post rebukes writer for Katyusha allegation (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY - Aug 20, 2006)
- Speechless (PowerLine Blog - Aug 7, 2006)
- CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET
Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)
- Meme:
- The dinosaur is in full melt down mode - it's the fault of the idiot viewers!
- The dinosaur media's finest hour (pay no attention to the 99% of reports we got wrong - we conveyed the proper emotion!)
- The dinosaur media and Tom Cruise... a marriage made in heaven
- Topics:
- The media feeding frenzy over JonBenet suspect John Mark Karr
- The press and Hurricane Katrina one year later
- Tom Cruise -- Media star or media victim?
- 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:
- Could it be that the Democrats might, just might, be doomed?
- Wal-Mart is the evil empire? Wal-Mart! You're joking? You're not? Biden is the lead on this? The dims are so doomed!
- Topics:
- Opinion Journal web site: Red (State) Ken
- The Democrat's war against Wal-Mart: What's behind it, and is it good election-year politics?
- An interview with Republican Party Chairman Ken Mehlman on the GOP's November prospects, and firsthand reporting on races in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
- Fox web site
- Republican prospects in the midterm elections: Could anti-incumbent sentiment cost the GOP the majority?
- Top Dems take aim at Wal-Mart, hoping to score points with voters. Will it work?
- Guests
- Ken Mehlman
- Republican Party Chairman
- 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
1 posted on
08/25/2006 5:58:15 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
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ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)
Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the 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.
- Meme:
- We told you before and we'll tell you again, Katrina was all Bush's fault™
- This time, Bush manages to lose an entire planet!
- It is too a civil war!
- The Republicans are doomed - really! We mean it!
- Topics:
- One year after Hurricane Katrina
- Mike Brown, Former FEMA Chief -- how did it go so wrong for so many?
- Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. -- gauging the progress of the state's rebuilding efforts
- Don Powell, Federal Coordinator for Gulf Coast Rebuilding -- what remains to be done in assisting residents of Mississippi and Louisiana rebuild after Katrina.
- VOICES: Bill Nye the Science Guy, weighs-in on the universe shaking decision this week to strip Pluto of its planetary status. Good science or awful astronomy?
- Guests
- Mike Brown
- Senator Mary Landrieu, Democrat - Louisiana
- Senate web site | Bio
- Hope and Recovery Tour Louisiana Senator Landrieu Travel Log (Bayou Buzz - Aug 24, 2006)
- Blaming FEMA (WBIR-TV, TN - Aug 25, 2006)
- Stream of politicians to visit to commemorate Katrina anniversary (Biloxi Sun Herald, USA - Aug 24, 2006)
- Democrats spotlight blunders, unfinished work after Katrina (KATC, LA - Aug 24, 2006)
- LA Senator Mary Landrieu Releases Statement on Foiled Terror Plot (KSLA-TV, LA - Aug 10, 2006)
- Donald Powell
- Roundtable:
- Nicolle Wallace
- Donna Brazile
- George Will
- Voices Segment: Bill Nye
- "Nye Labs" web site | Bio (available on web site via Flash interface)
- ABC This Week comment web page
2 posted on
08/25/2006 5:59:31 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
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NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)
Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the 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.
- Meme:
- We told you before and we'll tell you again, Katrina was all Bush's fault™
- Bush doesn't have a plan!™
- It is too a civil war!
- The Republicans are doomed - really! We mean it!
- Topics:
- Katrina
- One year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast
- Assessing the accomplishments and struggles New Orleans has faced on its road to recovery.
- Mayor Nagin's latest controversial comment defending New Orleans' clean-up efforts by criticizing the progress of rebuilding at New York City's Ground Zero.
- Federal recovery efforts & preparedness update
- Decision 2006 is right around the corner and many big races are heating up. We'll discuss some of the major issues on voters' minds, and take a look ahead at the Presidential field for 2008 in our political roundtable
- Guests
- Ray Nagin
- City of New Orleans web site | Bio
- Ray Nagin Blames Racism, Red Tape on Slow Katrina Recovery (FOX News - Aug 19, 2006)
- The Katrina Aftermath, One Year Later: Race and the New Orleans Economy (Black America Web - Aug 22, 2006)
- The Katrina Aftermath, One Year Later - Part Two: The Crisis in Housing (Black America Web - Aug 23, 2006)
- Diss ain't fair, Nagin (New York Daily News, NY - Aug 25, 2006)
- Ray Nagin: A Man With No Shame (The Conservative Voice, NC - Aug 22, 2006)
- David Paulison
- Director / Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management
- FEMA web site | Bio
- Blaming FEMA (WBIR-TV, TN - Aug 24, 2006)
- New director changing the way FEMA works (SunHerald.com - Aug 24, 2006)
- FEMA Director: Housing remains top problem after Katrina (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA - Aug 24, 2006)
- FEMA ready for the next one, chief says (Houston Chronicle - Aug 24, 2006)
- The Future for FEMA: An Interview With R. David Paulison (EMS Magazine, MD - Aug 1, 2006)
- FEMA HEAD MAY WATCH HBO’S ‘LEVEES’: R. David Paulison says (Eurweb.com, CA - Aug 2, 2006)
- Roundtable
- Robert Novak
- Al Hunt
- Kate O'Beirne
- Eugene Robinson
- 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)
3 posted on
08/25/2006 6:00:32 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
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CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)
Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the 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.
- Meme:
- We told you before and we'll tell you again, Katrina was all Bush's fault™
- Bush doesn't have a plan!™
- It is too a civil war!
- The Republicans are doomed - really! We mean it!
- Topics:
- One year later, is the U.S. prepared for another Katrina?
- Guests
- Governor Haley Barbour (Republican - Mississippi)
- State web site | Bio
- Miss. economist predicts lasting benefit from Katrina (Biloxi Sun Herald - Aug 23, 2006)
- RPI: Gov. Haley Barbour Returns To Thank Iowans For Their Help (IowaPolitics.com (press Release), Iowa - Aug 14, 2006)
- Katrina: Climate or Engineering Disaster? (Manufacturers' Blog, DC - Aug 24, 2006)
- Profiting from Disaster (Gulf Coast Reconstruction Watch, NC - Aug 24, 2006)
- Less fortunate still hurting in Katrina's path (Hattiesburg American, MS - Aug 24, 2006)
- TRACKING HURRICANE KATRINA (Miami Herald, FL - Aug 25, 2006)
- David Paulison
- Director / Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management
- FEMA web site | Bio
- Blaming FEMA (WBIR-TV, TN - Aug 24, 2006)
- New director changing the way FEMA works (SunHerald.com - Aug 24, 2006)
- FEMA Director: Housing remains top problem after Katrina (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA - Aug 24, 2006)
- FEMA ready for the next one, chief says (Houston Chronicle - Aug 24, 2006)
- The Future for FEMA: An Interview With R. David Paulison (EMS Magazine, MD - Aug 1, 2006)
- FEMA HEAD MAY WATCH HBO’S ‘LEVEES’: R. David Paulison says (Eurweb.com, CA - Aug 2, 2006)
- Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com
4 posted on
08/25/2006 6:01:36 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
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Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)
Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the 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.
- Meme:
- It's all Bush's fault™
- We told you before and we'll tell you again, Katrina was all Bush's fault™
- WalMart was obviously in on it with him
- And Steve Case financed it all with the money he stole from AOL/Time Warner stock holders
- Wal-Mart is the evil empire? Wal-Mart! You're joking? You're not? Biden is the lead on this? The dims are so doomed!
- Topics:
- Guests
- Donald Powell
- Oliver Thomas
- Senator Joe Biden, Democrat - Deleware
- Steve Case
- Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com
5 posted on
08/25/2006 6:02:32 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
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CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)
Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the 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.
- Meme:
- We told you before and we'll tell you again, Katrina was all Bush's fault™
- So is everything wrong in the Middle East (pay no attention to the last 2000 years of strive, particularly the last 1300)
- Bush doesn't have a plan!™
- It is too a civil war!
- The Republicans are doomed - really! We mean it!
- Topics:
- As violence rages in Iraq, is that country on the brink of civil war?
- One year after Hurricane Katrina, we’ll talk to Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco.
- Guests
- Nouri al-Maliki
- Donald Powell
- Senator Richard Lugar, Republican - Indiana:
- Foreign Relations Committee chairman
- Senate web site | Bio
- US senator says Albania could be in NATO in 2008 (Serbianna.com, Michigan - Aug 25, 2006)
- Azerbaijani President receives US Senator Richard Lugar (Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan - Aug 21, 2006)
- Georgian PM, US Senator Discuss NATO Integration, Energy Security (Civil Georgia, Georgia - Aug 22, 2006)
- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister reasserts Moscow's role in conflict zones (Messenger.ge, Georgia - Aug 25, 2006)
- Senator Carl Levin, Democrat - Michigan
- Armed Services Committee ranking member
- Senate web site | Bio
- Terrorists’ Propagandist: The Contemptible Sen. Carl Levin (Men's News Daily, CA - Aug 2, 2006)
- Symposium: Star Wars Defense (FrontPage magazine.com, CA - Aug 24, 2006)
- Levin slams Bush's trade, health plans (Niles Daily Star, USA - Aug 19, 2006)
- Graham offers dark view of Iraq, Iran, Lebanon (Times Record News, TX - Aug 22, 2006)
- McCain faults Bush administration on Iraq (MSNBC - Aug 23, 2006)
- Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, Democrat - Louisiana
- Louisiana Governor's web site | Bio
- Blanco thanks New York after Nagin 'hole in the ground' comment (Times Picayune, LA - Aug 25, 2006)
- Nagin asks Blanco: Where's our money? (Times Picayune, LA - Aug 25, 2006)
- Lawsuit grace period denied (2TheAdvocate, LA - Aug 24, 2006)
- The Flood Again (Coast Weekly, CA - Aug 23, 2006)
- Democracy Disaster (International News Service, Australia - Aug 25, 2006)
- TRACKING HURRICANE KATRINA (Miami Herald, FL - Aug 24, 2006)
- CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)
6 posted on
08/25/2006 6:03:55 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
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7 posted on
08/25/2006 6:07:04 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
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Mark Kilmer has posted his preview over at RedState.COM
Posted at 12:48pm on Aug. 26, 2006
For Sunday, August 27, 2006
Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert is doing disasters this week. First, he revisits Katrina with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin then he talks to FEMA director David Paulison.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace looks at "lessons from Katrina" with Office of Gulf Coast Rebuilding coordinator Don Powell and New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas (D). Next, as logic dictates, he talks to Joe Biden. (Does Biden want to partition New Orleans?)
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer talks Katrina with Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour (RNC) and Paulison.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Paulison's predecessor, Brownie; Mary "Oh the Humanity!" Landrieu; and Powell.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer chats Kartrina with Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco; Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki; Dick Lugar and Carl Levin; and Powell.
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Read his analysis after the link. And he's included a link to this thread in that portion of his post. I do have to say that I'm especially taken with his comments about Aaron Brousard.
30 posted on
08/26/2006 11:01:10 AM PDT by
Phsstpok
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