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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:
- Week 4 of the DBM blitzkrieg against McChimpy Bushitler - this is our last chance, so screw reason and fairness... let's pile on the BS! if we tell enough lies they can't possibly respond to all of them in time!
- Did you know that John Murtha served in the military and opposes George W. Bush? Murtha is a true hero!
- Did you know that Chuck Hagel served in the military and opposes George W. Bush? Hagel is a true hero!
- There is secret evidence that the White House is hiding that will prove... PROVE, that George W. Bush is, in fact, the anti-christ!
Topics:
- White House Under Fire:
  - Shocking revelations in a brand new book, "State of Denial," by journalist Bob Woodward, paint an administration in disarray.
  - Did the White House ignore calls in 2003 for more troops in Iraq
  - Is the Bush team as dysfunctional as the book claims?
- A new congressional report details hundreds of contacts between a convicted lobbyist and top administration officials.
  - Did the White House mislead the public about the scope of its dealings with Jack Abramoff?
- The President's path to war
  - The White House declassifies a summary of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq in order to defend its strategy in the war on terror. Is politics overtaking policy in the weeks before the midterm elections?
- VOICES SUNDAY: U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall unveils his first work as the nation's poet
Guests
- Fran Townsend
  - White House Bio
  - Current White House advisor
  - DoJ intelligence officer under Clinton
  - The Terror Consigliere (TIME - Sep 3, 2006)
  - Scheuer, Townsend call BS on Clinton’s alleged Afghan invasion plan (Hot Air, MD - Sep 26, 2006)
  - Forging a World of Liberty under Law (Across the Aisle, DC - Sep 28, 2006)
  - Clinton spinning History (RedState, VA - Sep 27, 2006)
  - Press Gaggle by Tony Snow and Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism Frances Townsend (Whitehouse.gov (press release), DC - Sep 5, 2006)
- Senator Chuck Hagel, ~~Republican~~ RINO - Nebraska
  - Senate web site | Bio
  - Why the Israel Lobby Wants to Marginalize Chuck Hagel (New York Observer, NY - Sep 13, 2006)
  - The war against the war (Washington Times - Sep 29, 2006)
  - Bush Throws Down the Gauntlet (Consortium News - Sep 29, 2006)
  - 'Threat of the first order' (Princeton University The Daily Princetonian - Sep 29, 2006)
  - An alternative way forward for the US (Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - Sep 28, 2006)
  - Campaign Firepower (WOWT, NE - Sep 22, 2006)
  - Bush Lied Part II (American Thinker, AZ - Sep 14, 2006)
  - Vulnerable EVMs - The Danger To Elections Is Real (The Statesman, India - Sep 29, 2006)
- Representative John Murtha, ~~Democrat~~ Dhimmicrat - Pennsylvaniastan
  - House web site | Bio
  - John Murtha: Meet the New Boss (TPMmuckraker, NY - Sep 21, 2006)
  - John Murtha: Another Term? Another Flaw. (The Conservative Voice, NC - Sep 19, 2006)
  - Rep. John Murtha: To Surge or Not To Surge (Yahoo! News - Sep 5, 2006)
  - Rep. John Murtha: A 1917 History Lesson (Yahoo! News - Sep 1, 2006)
  - John Murtha on Hillary Clinton: 'Slowly Coming Around' (New York Observer, NY - Aug 29, 2006)
  - Help Jack Murtha And His Friends Kick Some Lying SwiftBoat Wannabee Ass (Huffington Post, NY - Sep 26, 2006)
  - ‘Concern’ in Murtha camp (The Hill, DC - Sep 27, 2006)
- ROUNDTABLE
  - George Will
  - Tori Clarke
    - Former Pentagon Spokesperson
  - Mark Halperin
    - ABC News Political Director
    - Co-author of "The Way to Win: Taking the White House in 2008"
  - Donna Brazile
    - ABC News consultant
- VOICES SUNDAY: U.S. Poet Laureate Donald Hall
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