Saturday Shows for December 23rd, 2006
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)
Analysis: Not word one about Queen Nazi Pelosi's upcoming coronation, the latest Murtha ethics investigation, the latest Obama ethics investigation, the outrageous suggestion that the Dhimmicrats are thinking of giving the seat to the loser (their candidate) from Florida's contested election in the 13th Congressional district or any of a dozen other stories that actually are happening in Washington. That would require actual reporting, rather than waiting for a source to dictate some juicy tidbit to them.
- Meme:
- Less and less is happening inside the beltway this time of year, therefore they have to talk more and more to fill the holes.
- Topics:
- Bush hints at more troops in Iraq and seems open to compromise with Dems on domestic policy issues
- Why is Hillary Clinton 'up' this week?
- 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)
Analysis: Does he pay for the time to do this infomercial? Did he have to pay Tom Boy?
- Meme:
- Get you last minute Christmas gifts heeyah! Firesale prices!
- Topics:
- Turning the tables, Tom Brokaw interviews Tim about his bestselling book, “Wisdom of Our Fathers, Lessons and Letters from Daughters and Sons.”
- Guests
- CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET
Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)
Analysis: They don't even pretend anymore, do they? They have said nothing about the faux reporting coming out of the AP and Reuters, a scandal for their own industry that makes Enron look like a misdemeanor crime. And the implications about how their entire profession, intentionally or not, is actively betraying this country and free human beings everywhere in the face of monstrous evil is just not even a glimmer of a thought for them. I repeat my suggestion to change this to an hour show and give half of it to Media Matters and the other half to Accuracy in Media and just let them have at it. These guys might get 5 minutes at the end of each segment to defend themselves, but it wouldn't do them any good as once the topics were raised they'd have to deal with them and that would spell their end.
- Meme:
- Screw this examination of the media! We wanna be political pundits!
- Wow, the media is getting so trashy and tabloid like... so let's talk about Rosie and the Donald!
- Topics:
- Summing Up Iraq: Is Pres. Bush changing his message?
- War of Words! Are Rosie and Donald BOTH playing the press in their feud over Miss USA's 'second chance'?
- 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
Analysis: Make a note, this is probably the only place you'll see any discussion of the crimes committed during this clown's tenure. And having Rosett on tells you they aren't likely to pull any punches. This one is worth staying up for.
- Meme:
- Did you know that Kofi Annan was allowed to retire this week and get away without being prosecuted?
- Topics:
- Opinion Journal web page: "Weak Kofi"
- A discussion of Annan's legacy
- The legacy of Kofi Annan's decade at the United Nations and what it means for American interests.
- The new underground railroad
- On Christmas weekend, the story of Christians who guide North Korean refugees to freedom in the West.
- Fox News Channel web page
- Kofi Annan says goodbye after a decade as United Nations chief. We'll examine his legacy:
- Guests
- 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
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12/23/2006 10:29:26 AM PST by
Phsstpok
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NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)
Analysis: Lil Timmah has found a pastor he can like, mainly because that pastor is falling all over himself praising Osama Obama (as Teddy Kennedy called him). This gives him a twofer, starting with a chance to criticize conservative Christians as knuckle dragging morons while pointing to a "real Christian" who obviously is smart (because he likes a Dhimmicrat). That way he can't be accused of being an anti-Christian bigot, dontcha know? He also gets to elicit the wisdom of Newsweek and let that font of all knowledge bestow on a benighted world the message of what's wrong with most Christians. Oh, and the Newsweek spokesman may even tell us his conclusion that this whole Messiah / Son of God business is just some tripe dreamed up in the fourth century to sell to the yokels. Seems Mr. Meacham has bought the whole gnostic / Koran version of Jesus as a "prophet" but not God's Son. Yep, the perfect guy to edumacate us igorant ijits. This from the same people that got several thousand people killed with a fake story about flushing the Koran down a toilet. I don't know about you but I detect a not so subtle pattern to the common viewpoint developing in "intellectual" circles about Christianity that is startlingly reminiscent of the most loathsome movements in history.
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 Christmas! Let's talk about what's wrong with Christians and how the Christian church has to change... well it make sense to the people in the DBM.
- Topics:
- Faith in America:
- Can religion unite the country for the greater good?
- What role will God and values play in the 2008 presidential election?
- Two "Meet the Press" holiday traditions
- A "Meet the Press Minute" with famed poet Robert Frost from Christmas weekend 51 years ago
- A special performance of holiday music from the United States Navy Band Brass Quartet.
- Guests
- Dr. Rick Warren
- Author "The Purpose-driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?"
- The Purpose Driven Life web site | Bio
- Rick Warren and Barack Obama (ProLife Blogs - Dec 20, 2006)
- Rick Warren: on Barack Obama, and being a “back channel for peace” (Hot Air, MD - Dec 18, 2006)
- Rick Warren continues to deceive (WorldNetDaily, OR - Dec 14, 2006)
- Field testing Pastor Rick Warren's peace plan (OCRegister, CA - Dec 10, 2006)
- Faith, Russert and Two White Guys (Huffington Post, NY - Dec 22, 2006)
- The Purpose of Christmas with Rick Warren (Fox News Channel special, 12/24/06)
- Jon Meacham
- Newsweek Magazine Editor
- Author of "American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation"
- Faith, Russert and Two White Guys (Huffington Post, NY - Dec 22, 2006)
- Miracles and New Testament Studies (American Thinker - Dec 23, 2006)
- 'Newsweek' Editor Jon Meacham Likens Journalists To Cartoon Morons (NewsBusters - Dec 4, 2006)
- Mohler, Land part of new on-line religious dialogue (Florida Baptist Witness, FL - Dec 8, 2006)
- Reflecting local religious flavor (GetReligion, DC - Dec 4, 2006)
- 'On Faith' Conversations Shed Light on Religion (Christian Post - Nov 25, 2006)
- 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)
2 posted on
12/23/2006 10:33:17 AM PST by
Phsstpok
(Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)
Analysis: How much you bet Ol' Bob can't resist getting Nasty to Laura? How much you want to bet she stays nice the whole time, but in the end you realize that she's gutted him like a trout? She'll wait until he says something nasty about her kids or her husband, then let him have it with both barrels... in a nice way, of course.
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:
- What was that song from South Pacific? Oh yeah... Happy Talk! Of course, the character that sang it was named Bloody Mary...
- Yeah, yeah, literacy, fellowship, helping poor kids, patriotism, blah, blah, blah... but what are you covering up about that scab on your leg?
- Topics:
- An Exclusive Interview With The First Lady
- Guests
- Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com
3 posted on
12/23/2006 10:34:57 AM PST by
Phsstpok
(Often wrong, but never in doubt)
To: Phsstpok
Thanks, Phss, FNS looks good!
4 posted on
12/23/2006 10:35:04 AM PST by
HonestConservative
(We make war that we might live in peace.)
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Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)
Analysis: Chris Wallace has proved that he can be nice to Democrats, even really stupid ones like Jon Carry and The Swimmer. Now it's time for him to earn his place in the DBM pantheon of talkers by proving he can be nasty to a totally inoffensive Republican like Lynne Cheney. I bet he gets right on her case about the coming grandchild. He's looking for a Wolfie moment of his own. Then he'll make all sorts of veiled accusations about the Vice President in loaded questions on the Libby trial. Then it's on to religion, specifically Christianity, and what's wrong with it. The new Catholic Archbishop of Washington is paired with Billy Graham's daughter. The Catholic will be asked about child molesting priests and Anne Graham Lotz will be asked about why she and her brother are fighting over where to bury their parents. Oh, and they'll be asked to explain why the Christian church is the source of all of the ills in the world. Well, that's how the DBM sees it. And any mention of the flaws in Islam will be couched in terms of how bigoted Christians are for not being tolerant of their "co-religionists" for the minor doctrinal differences with Christianity. No Brit this week again on the roundtable, and Mara's out too. Ho hum.
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:
- What was that song from South Pacific? Oh yeah... Happy Talk! Of course, the character that sang it was named Bloody Mary...
- Yeah, yeah, literacy, fellowship, helping poor kids, patriotism, blah, blah, blah... but what do you have to say about your lesbo daughter's pregnancy for all of your knuckle dragging conservative supporters?
- It's Christmas! Let's talk about what's wrong with Christians and how the Christian church has to change... well it make sense to the people in the DBM.
- Topics:
- A discussion with the wife of the vice president on
- How do White House officials feel about their time coming to an end?
- What is it going to be like for them working with the Democrat controlled Congress?
- Sharing her love of history with children.
- What is on the White House’s mind as Vice President Dick Cheney prepares to testify for the defense in the Scooter Libby case?
- Two religious leaders discuss religion in America
- Can religious morals keep up with the 21st century?
- What changes is the church ready to make?
- Fox News essay Coming Up on FOX News Sunday
- Guests
- Lynne Cheney
- Archbishop of Washington Donald Wuerl
- Anne Graham Lotz
- Sunday panel
- Bill Kristol
- Weekly Standard Editor
- It's Up To Bush (The Weekly Standard - Dec 18, 2006)
- Juan Williams
- Fred Barnes
- Nina Easton
- Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com
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12/23/2006 10:40:34 AM PST by
Phsstpok
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CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)
Analysis: Wolfie got skunked on a regular basis by his guests. Now it's his turn to rewrite history by picking and choosing just what snippets he'll let us see and hear. By the end of the show we're supposed to believe that the wisest people of the year are Jon Carry, Howard Dean and George Clooney. If only we would have listened to them all would be well, Wolfie has spoken.
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:
- Remember the opening to The Outer Limits?:
- "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We can reduce the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the editing room to... The Selective Outtakes."
- Topics:
- the best of 2006
- From Iraq to Afghanistan to the elections, (selective and partisan) excerpts from the best interviews
- Guests (all links are to CNN transcripts so we can check the context of any clips they use)
- President George W. Bush
- Secretary of State
- Nouri Al-Maliki, Iraqi prime minister
- Gen. George Casey, commander, multi-national forces-Iraq
- Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts
- Howard Dean, DNC chairman
- President Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan
- President Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan
- Ehud Olmert, Israeli prime minister
- Lynne Cheney, wife of vice president
- George Clooney, actor/director
- CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)
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12/23/2006 10:46:18 AM PST by
Phsstpok
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ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)
Analysis: Georgie Steponallofus is carefully working on the new narrative for the DBM about what's going on in the Middle East. The DBM and Dhimmicrats were in danger of letting Bush set the agenda and actually getting people to start talking about winning and they just can't have that. Dodd will be touted as an expert on all things and will be given kudo's for having the courage to ignore the White House and try to make peace in our time. He'll make polite noises about protecting Israel, but everyone knows that they are in the same position the Czech's in the Sudetenland were in 1937. Nominally in opposition they have Lindsey Graham, but you never can tell what John McCain will have told him to do and say. He might back the President and push McCain's troop increase (most likely) or he could cut the legs out from the President in the spirit of the gang of 14 and bipartisan comity. The new UN Secretary General will be asked about what the US must do and what rights US citizen's must sacrifice in the name of international peace since everyone knows anything wrong in the world must be our fault. Unlike his predecessor, there is hope that he actually is intent on doing some good, not on getting rich while attacking the US. As a South Korean diplomat he will be fully aware of what we can do for him as well as how we can be arrogant and ignorant at times (when people like Jimmah Carter are in charge or the Dhimmicrats control congress). And in the roundtable ABC has found a blogger they can like, a professional (and well known leftist) hired to do "original reporting" for the Huffington Post. You had to know it was coming.
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:
- Hail the wisdom of Chris Dodd and Jon Carry for defying the evil McChimpy Bushitler and holding talks with the peace loving Assad.
- Little Lindsey is going to tell us what John McCain told him to think this week.
- Kofi's gone and there's a new sheriff at the U.N. Do you suppose anything will change? Would it matter?
- A heart warming Christmas interlude with the parents of McChimpy Bushitler.
- Topics:
- Two senators just back from the Middle East discuss a possible surge of troops into Iraq and the President's admission that we are not winning the war.
- The new United Nations Secretary-General discusses the genocide in Darfur, the war in Iraq and his new agenda for the UN.
- VOICES: Former President George Bush and wife Barbara Bush share their thoughts about the importance of volunteerism and the work of the Salvation Army this holiday season.
- Guests
- Senator Chris Dodd, Democrat - Connecticut
- Senate web site | Bio
- Dodd, Kerry Meet with President Assad of Syria (Press Release, Dodd Senate web site - Dec 20, 2006)
- Dodd and Kerry hold talks with Syrian president on Iraq (WTNH, CT - Dec 20, 2006)
- Dodd urges talks with Syria, Iran (Danbury News Times - Dec 22, 2006)
- More troops to Iraq a mistake: Dodd (Connecticut Post, CT - Dec 22, 2006)
- Sen. Chris Dodd on 2008 Bid: 'Let's Go' (NewsMax.com, FL - Dec 13, 2006)
- Robert D. Novak: Bolton's dismissal was a big win for Chris Dodd (The Union Leader, NH - Dec 7, 2006)
- Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican - South Carolina
- Senate web site | Bio
- Sen. Graham: Wal-Mart's prices are too low (Blogging Stocks - Dec 20, 2006)
- Graham Says 20-Thousand More Troops Needed In Iraq (WCIV, SC - Dec 15, 2006)
- Lindsey Graham: Russia's 'One-Man Dictatorship' (NewsMax.com, FL - Dec 3, 2006)
- Graham visits Iraq, talks with al-Maliki (The State, SC - Dec 13, 2006)
- Graham Wary of Talking With Iran, Syria (WLTX.com, SC - Dec 6, 2006)
- Iraq: Military Option -- Reject Trojan Horse Advice And Fight The War (American Chronicle, CA - Dec 21, 2006)
- Ban Ki-moon
- United Nations Secretary General | background info
- Ban Ki-moon gets Nigeria`s support (AngolaPress, Angola - Dec 20, 2006)
- Sangdong Journal On His Ancestors’ Wings, a Korean Soars to the UN (New York Times, NY - Dec 22, 2006)
- UN’s Quiet New Man (Korea Times, South Korea - Dec 22, 2006)
- Ban Ki-moon: The new UN SG (Weekly Blitz, Bangladesh - Dec 19, 2006)
- New UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sworn in (Xinhua, China - Dec 16, 2006)
- The man to save the United Nations? (Asia Pacific Media Network, CA - Dec 22, 2006)
- VOICES: Former President George Bush and wife Barbara Bush
- Roundtable:
- George Will
- Jonathan Karl
- Melinda Henneberger
- ABC This Week comment web page
7 posted on
12/23/2006 10:49:52 AM PST by
Phsstpok
(Often wrong, but never in doubt)
To: A.Hun; Bahbah; Txsleuth; MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative; Alas Babylon!; Seattle Conservative; ...
PingThe Weekend Talk Show Preview Thread is up
If you want on or off my ping list please FReepmail me
It will be cross posted to my blog at
http://wizards.townhall.com/
Here's a sample of my usual witty commentary...
CBS, NBC and Fox all go the traditional Christmas season route with what should be softball interviews with the wives of the President and Vice President. Somehow, however, I just don't think they'll be able to restrain their inner David Gregory...
Most of the politicians are out of town so there hasn't been much "traditional" news (their sources aren't there to tell them what to report) and the DBM is doggedly ignoring the real stories that undermine their precious "narrative." ... The dinosaur media is more than a profession in decline, it is an active cancer which is killing our society. But then, that seems to be their objective...
8 posted on
12/23/2006 10:54:32 AM PST by
Phsstpok
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Mark Kilmer has posted his preview for this weekend, after all. It is up over at RedState.COM
10 posted on
12/23/2006 11:51:43 AM PST by
Phsstpok
(Often wrong, but never in doubt)
To: Phsstpok
Let's add this absolutely terrific commentary by Victor Davis Hanson to the WSJ mix:
Is Annanism?
NRO ^ | 22 Dec 06 | Victor Davis Hanson
The triumph of the therapeutic over the tragic.
Everyone seems to take some joy in listening to outgoing secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, especially during the holidays. But just as with other such ethicists as a lip-biting Bill Clinton or creased-browed Jimmy Carter, Annan is as publicly acclaimed as he is privately ignored. We like such itinerant moralists — more when they are off the job than on, and always in retrospect rather than contemporaneously. As we watch them hedge, we somehow feel apologetic rather than outraged over their latest deception.
The secretary-general — introduced with fulsome praise by Sen. Chuck Hagel — recently gave a remarkable farewell speech at the Truman Library. It was delivered in his customary soothing inflection with impeccable diction, and it was just as customarily predictable — the content was as historically inaccurate as it was exemplary of what we have now come to know as “Annanism.”
More at FR link: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1757270/posts
12 posted on
12/23/2006 11:59:08 AM PST by
Bahbah
(.Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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