Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 1/13 and 1/14/2007 (not the live thread)

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[Phsstpok]

I'm "advance posting" the Saturday shows as I finish up the preview for the Sunday shows. Yeah, I know the Saturday shows have already started. Give me a break. I still have 15 of 16 stitches in my right eye and I have had to deal with that 16th stitch "attacking" me this week. You try to do this stuff and make deadline!!!!!!! ;^>

I'll post the Analysis and details on the Sundays shows ASAP.

[Phsstpok]

Saturday Shows For January 13, 2007

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:
  • Shocking!  The White House hasn't rolled over for Nazi Pelosi and Dingy Harry!  How dare they!
  • Those rag heads in Iraq have the gall to actually claim to be human beings worthy of respect and consideration?  Who do they think they are?  Journalists?
• Topics:
  • Bush's new Iraq strategy sparks confrontation with Congress! We'll tell you what Democrats are doing to derail the president's plans
  • Are Iraqis getting tough on insurgents?
• 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:
  • Ooooo,  oooo,  oooo!  We've found two DBM reporters who have written books critical of this administration!  Who'd have believed that?
• Topics:
  • The War in Iraq.
• Guests
  • Washington Post’s Thomas Ricks
    • Author of "Fiasco"
  • New York Times’ Michael Gordon
    • Author of "Cobra II", about the War in Iraq.
• CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

• Meme:
  • The arbiters of "what you should know" want you to know that everyone, and we mean everyone, hate's George W. Bush and his "surge" plan.
  • Excuse me, that's the "escalation" of the war, not the "surge."  Please correct your memories.
• Topics:
  • New Way Forward: Press coverage of Pres. Bush's new plan for 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:
  • JER dares to ask the unaskable question!  Is Bush right?
  • Remember "Black Hawk Down?"  Can you rub your (Clinonista) faces in that betrayel of America?  Oh please?
• Topics:
  • Opinion Journal web page: Iraq, Back on Track?
    • President Bush's new strategy in Iraq, and its chances for success--in Baghdad and Washington.
    • An interview with Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down," on Somalia.
  • Fox News Channel web page
    • As the president lays out his plans to clear, hold and build in Baghdad, he issues a warning to Iran
    • The U.S. goes on the offensive in Somalia, killing several Al Qaeda suspects in air strikes this week
• Guests
  • Mark Bowden
    • Author of "Black Hawk Down,"
• 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

[Bahbah]

You have no deadlines and no requirements that you do this. We are grateful when and if it shows up. So TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF!

[Bahbah]

Okay, broke my boycott and am watching Media Watch, or whatever they call this thing. Jane whatsername agrees with Gabler that the media are not interviewing enough opposing generals and IRS members and whoever who does not agree with the President's change in approach. Why does she not suggest they interview a few who do agree? (I hope I am not misrepresenting what she said. I don't think I am.)

[Rummyfan]

The arbiters of "what you should know" want you to know that everyone, and we mean everyone, hate's George W. Bush and his "surge" plan.

Eff all of'em and their horses!

[Bahbah]

I can go with that, although I do like horses, so I would leave them out :)

[Bahbah]

Just for the record, the press is only reporting negatively on the President's plan for Iraq because they are following the mood of the "people." Cal Thomas trys to point out that the media has worked hard to create this negativity, but isn't very successful in his attempt.

Gabler should stop with the Nazi Pelosi finger in the air thing and try to show less of his teeth which take up one third of his face.

[Arrowhead1952]

There are some days I wish a Republican would stand up and do the same thing X-42 did to Chris Wallace on FNS. Get right in the face of one of the Sunday morning talk show hosts and say, "Now that you have done your little liberal hit job on me, can I ask you a question? Have you ever voted for a Republican in your life?"

After that, tell the host that he/she will NEVER again appear on another DBM Sunday talk show and tell all other Republicans to do the same.

I hope to be able to get to Church tomorrow, as I am an usher. I think I'll leave the tube off. I am sick of the liberal media.

[OldFriend]

Can we say an extra prayer for all our friends in the path of the ice storms.

[greyfoxx39]

Your hard work is much appreciated, thank you.

[A.Hun]

Thank you Phsstpok...your efforts are greatly appreciated, even though I now have to have a barfbag in hand to watch any of the Sunday shows.

Godspeed on your recovery!

[Phsstpok]

Preview and Analysis for Weeked of January 13th and 14th, 2007

Very late and abbreviated posting this week.  I've had troubles (really mostly discomfort and annoyance) with the stitches for my corneal transplant this week, so my reading and writing time is restricted to short bursts.  I'm sure that this just breaks your collective hearts!

Maybe this is a good thing?

Anyway, here's my 3 cents (my 2 cents is worth more than most people's so I'm adjusting for the inflation of my ego).

Ironically this weeks shows are much more interesting and serious than they have been since the elections.  We've all complained about the repetitious booking of non-entity guests, but I think that's largely not a problem this week.  We get dueling saints (McCcain and Obama) on CBS FTN, but I actually want to hear them go toe to toe on the topics we're wrestling with.  I'm glad that CNN has finally acknowledged that Mitch McConnell exists and it will be nice if they recognize that he is the actual senior Republican in the Senate (I doubt it).  Levin is a moron but Wolfie will probably treat him with kid gloves.  I assume it's too much to ask for them to put him on at the same time as Mitch?  Nah.  They don't have the guts.

Hadley carries the administrations message this weekend on both ABC and NBC.  We'll see if he can get past the leaked memo critical of Maliki, which seems to be the only thing that the DBM seems to be interested in.  Murtha is the Dhimmicrat of choice on Steponallofus' show on ABC.  Do you think he'll ask any inconvenient questions about ABSCAM or the PAID "charity" scandals?  I'm taking bets and have no doubt I'll clean up.

Fox has Cheney, but the promo material is totally one sided and disgustingly partisan.  I'm betting daddy Wallace has taken Lil' Chrissy to the wood shed and instructed him to toe the party line more closely.  Or do you suppose uncle Ben (Bradley) did the scolding?  At least Brit is back on the panel and can smack down Juan.  Interesting that the DBM is launching a sex scandal whisper campaign against him just now.  I guess he was getting to upppity for a non-leftist.

MTP has an interesting set up with (presidential candidate) Dodd and RINO Hagel versus Republican Kyl and that Jew independent Lieberman.  I'm relatively pleased with Kyl but really like Lieberman best of these four on the WOT.  Who'd a thunk it?

All in all an interesting week, certainly lots more potential than last weeks line up (ugh!).  And we must all praise the bookers for leaving Biden and Graham out of the mix this week.  Thank you, gentlemen!

Oh, and most of the Saturday shows have already happened as I post this (I didn't watch them, I was working on this) but I'm betting I didn't miss much (JER is still to come, so I'm looking forward to that).

This will (probably) be cross posted to my blog at Wizards.townhall.com (sometime Sunday). This post exists primarily as a heads up for who is on the weekend talks shows, what they've been invited on to push (based on their recent pronouncements) and the spin (meme) the DBM is likely trying to push based on that information. All of this is prep work for the weekly Sunday Morning Talk Show thread posted by Alas Babylon!. That thread provides a live commentary and analysis of the Sunday talking head shows, with rare insight and exceptional fact checking. we are the Jedi Council of FreeRepublic, at least in regards to these DBM gabfests. You wanna know what was said and what it meant, as well as where they messed up? Read that thread!

Mark Kilmer has posted his excellent Sunday preview over at RedState.COM.

[Phsstpok]

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:
  • Everybody hates Bush.  Nobody likes him.  He should go out in the garden and eat worms.
  • Dodd is the serious statesman in this group with real potential as a Presidential candidate.  Really!  We're serious!  Stop laughing!
  • I'll see your Lieberman and raise you a Hagel!  There are far more self serving anti-American RINOs than patriotic pro-American Dhimmicrats.  Get over it.
• Topics:
  • How will the president's plan change the course of the war and what kind of support is the administration expecting from the government of Iraq?
  • In the first 100 hours of the new Congress, how are Republicans and Democrats responding to the president's plan?
    • Will Congressional Democrats try to block the troop increase?
    • Four senators with very different views sit down for an exclusive discussion
• Guests
  • National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley
    • White House Bio
    • Why Bush's plan can't work (Capitol Hill Blue, VA - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Bush has a plan, but no backers (The Age - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Why is Washington 'surging' in Iraq? (Arab American News, MI - Jan 13, 2007)
    • November memo outlines Iraq changes (Concord Monitor, NH - Jan 11, 2007)
    • CIA Leak Witnesses (Ottawa Recorder, Canada - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Bush Holds Iraq Strategy Meeting With National Security Advisors (HULIQ, NC - Dec 23, 2006)
  • Senator Chris Dodd, Democrat - Connecticut
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Sen. Chris Dodd: Hillary No Lock to Win Nomination (NewsMax.com, FL - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Interview With Chris Dodd (Hartford Courant, CT - Jan 11, 2007)
    • Local reaction to Dodd bid great choice, but no chance (Bristol Press, CT - Jan 11, 2007)
    • 2008 Like It’s Today: Dodd In, All the Way (New York Times, NY - Jan 11, 2007)
    • Dodd says predatory lending must stop (MSNBC - Jan 9, 2007)
  • Senator Joe Lieberman, Independent - Connecticut
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Bipartisanship, or Lieberman Unshackled (Huffington Post, NY - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Sen. Joe Lieberman: You Can Call Him an I-Conn.-oclast (New York Times, NY - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Senator Joe Lieberman responds to President's Iraq plan (Wilton Bulletin, CT - Jan 12, 2007)
    • US Congress to debate Climate Bill (NDTV.com, India - Jan 11, 2007)
    • Lieberman abandons push for Katrina accountability (Facing South, NC - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Joe Lieberman's Anti-party (TheDay, CT - Jan 8, 2007)
  • Senator Jon Kyl , Republican - Arizona
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Good soldier Kyl will try to sell Bush Iraq plan (Tucson Citizen, AZ - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Guest Opinion - Jon Kyl (Casa Grande Valley Newspapers, AZ - Jan 4, 2007)
    • Sen. Jon Kyl (Arizona Republic, AZ - Jan 1, 2007)
    • Sen. Murkowski continues to question Iraq plan (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, AK - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Some AZ congressmen doubt border fence will be built as envisioned (KVOA.com, AZ - Jan 11, 2007)
  • Senator Chuck Hagel, RINO -Nebraska
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Lieberman blasts Senator Chuck Hagel as rancorous, partisan (BTC News - Jan 11, 2007)
    • Sen. Chuck Hagel: Iraq 'Worst Blunder Since Vietnam' (NewsMax.com, FL - Jan 11, 2007)
    • Hagel Blasts Troop Surge Plan (NTV, NE - Jan 11, 2007)
    • Analysts differ on Hagel's harsh words (Sioux City Journal, IA - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Inside the glass house (Sunday Times.lk, Sri Lanka - Jan 13, 2007)
    • The National Interest, Iran and Sen. John McCain (Yorktown Patriot, CO - Jan 11, 2007)
• 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)

[Phsstpok]

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:
  • Everybody hates Bush.  Nobody likes him.  He should go out in the garden and eat worms.
  • The proxies, Biden and Graham, met last week, now it's time for the principles to meet... let the rumble begin!
  • The darling of the press in the last Presidential election cycle meets the darling of the press in the current cycle... can McCain woo back his base?
• Topics:
  • The Plan For Iraq
• Guests
  • Senator John McCain, Republican - Arizona
    • Armed Services Committee
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • McCain Climate Legislation Important Step Forward (NewsBlaze, CA - Jan 12, 2007)
    • McCain: trouble with the far-right vote (Houston Chronicle, TX - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Sen. John McCain Defends Bush's Iraq Strategy (MyFox Washington DC, DC - Jan 13, 2007)
    • McCain fate tied to plan (Macon Area Online, GA - Jan 13, 2007)
    • The National Interest, Iran and Sen. John McCain (Yorktown Patriot, CO - Jan 11, 2007)
  • Senator Barack Obama, Democrat - Illinois
    • Foreign Relations Committee
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Clinton, Obama poised to show their hands soon (WSTM-TV, NY - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Barack Obama 'the new Jack Kennedy' (Telegraph.co.uk, UK - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Barack Obama Likely to Run for President (Hawaii Reporter, HI - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Barack Obama in swimming trunks -- Is he a beach babe or not? (49abcnews.com, KS - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Climate Bill Sets Stage for Debate in Congress (ABC News - Jan 12, 2007)
    • No Vieira Softballs For Stone Cold Barack Obama [Video] (NewsBusters - Jan 11, 2007)
• Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

[Phsstpok]

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:
  • Everybody hates Bush.  Nobody likes him.  He should go out in the garden and eat worms.  Isn't that right Darth Cheney?
• Topics:
  • The new strategy for victory in Iraq.
    • "...in the face of mounting criticism from Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill and overwhelming disapproval from the American public, President Bush announces plans to send an additional 21,500 troops to Iraq as part of his latest strategy to defeat the insurgency."
    • "The newest plan for a troop "surge" goes against recommendations by the Iraq Study Group, as well as statements by top U.S. Generals, that the Iraqis finally need to begin to take over the brunt of the fight."
  • Other international threats
    • What is the next step for U.S. policy with Iran, given their growing interference in Iraq?
  • A number of domestic issues
    • How does the White House plan to work with the new Democratic majorities in Congress?
    • Is there room for compromise or are this week’s contentious oversight hearings an indication of things to come for the next two years?
  • The FNS panel will then analyze the Democratic congress as it pushes through its "100 hours" agenda ,as well as the new strategy for the war in Iraq.
  • Fox News essay: Coming Up on FOX News Sunday
• Guests
  • Vice President Dick Cheney
    • White House web site | Bio
    • WA Post: In Review of TV's '24', A Shot at Dick Cheney! (NewsBusters - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Libby Heads to Trial in CIA Leak Case (ABC News - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Cheney may visit Japan in February: report (Boston Globe, MA - Jan 13, 2007)
    • MINETTA: CHENEY KNEW THE EXACT FLIGHT PATH (Free Market News Network, FL - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Biden May Have Overplayed Anti-Cheney Card (U.S. News & World Report, DC - Jan 11, 2007)
  • Roundtable:
    • Brit Hume
      • Fox News Washington Managing Editor
      • Axed Fox Newser Behind Brit Hume Affair Rumor (Radar Online, NY - Jan 3, 2007)
      • A Few Choice Words, Including 'Mistakes' (Washington Post, DC - Jan 11, 2007)
    • Bill Kristol
      • Weekly Standard Editor
      • Stop Him Before He Comments Again! (Washington Post, DC - Jan 9, 2007)
    • Juan Williams
      • NPR Senior National Correspondent
      • Journalist Juan Williams to speak at King celebration (Seattle Times, WA - Jan 10, 2007)
    • Mara Liasson
      • NPR National Political Correspondent
      • Republicans Split on Bush Iraq Plan (NPR Morning Edition - Jan 12, 2007)
• Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com

[Phsstpok]

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:
  • Everybody hates Bush.  Nobody likes him.  He should go out in the garden and eat worms.
  • John Murtha is a war peace hero so pay no attention to the bundles of Chinese Yuan, Iranian Rial and Saudi Riyal stuffed in his pockets
  • Ahnald... the good Republican... you know, one who promotes the leftist Dhimmicrat agenda
• Topics:
  • The president's plan for Iraq.
    • Can the troop surge really make a difference?
    • How much time will the U.S. give Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to improve the political situation?
    • In the face of fierce opposition on both sides of the aisle, can the White House work with a newly empowered Congress?
    • How far will the Democrats go toward cutting off funding for the war?
  • The California governor's agenda for 2007
    • At the start of his second term, the California governor is staking out brand new political territory, with bold new proposals including
      • health care for all Californians
      • new curbs on global warming
      • more prisons for criminals
    • Will his proposals work?
    • Is his "new centrism" the answer to our national problems?
  • Voices segment:
    • Atlanta's Mayor, the first black woman elected mayor of a major Southern city, discusses her mission to preserve the legacy and original works of one of Atlanta's most famous past residents, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• Guests
  • National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley
    • White House Bio
    • Why Bush's plan can't work (Capitol Hill Blue, VA - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Bush has a plan, but no backers (The Age - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Why is Washington 'surging' in Iraq? (Arab American News, MI - Jan 13, 2007)
    • November memo outlines Iraq changes (Concord Monitor, NH - Jan 11, 2007)
    • CIA Leak Witnesses (Ottawa Recorder, Canada - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Bush Holds Iraq Strategy Meeting With National Security Advisors (HULIQ, NC - Dec 23, 2006)
  • Representative Jack Murtha, Democrat - Pennsylvania (branch offices in Hanoi, Moscow and Mecca - open for bids for further franchises)
    • House web site | Bio
    • Murtha's Plan to Stop Bush (Yahoo! News - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Jack Murtha's Congressional Shenanigans (FOX News - Jan 10, 2007)
    • Senator Biden, Meet Jack Murtha (Huffington Post, NY - Jan 9, 2007)
    • Democrats' Strategy to Unequivocally Oppose Surge (Huffington Post, NY - Jan 12, 2007)
    • MURTHA'S 'CHARITY' MESS (New York Post, NY - Dec 31, 2006)
    • Nonprofit Group Connects Rep. Murtha, Lobbyists, Raises Ethics Questions (Free Internet Press, NY - Dec 25, 2006)
  • California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
    • Personal Web site | CA Governor's web site | Bio
    • Arnold, we're not in Kansas anymore (Napa Valley Register, CA - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Sorry Arnold, California isn’t sixth any more (MSNBC - Jan 12, 2007)
    • US is still in denial over global warming (Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA - Jan 11, 2007)
    • Freezing weather continues overnight (KGET 17, CA - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Iraq plan: Schwarzenegger backs Bush (NDTV.com, India - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Cold snap threatens California citrus crop (WALB-TV, GA -  Jan 13, 2007)
  • Roundtable:
    • George Will
      • GEORGE WILL: History hangs over the decisions about Iraq (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, MS - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Katrina vanden Heuvel
      • Surge Homeward (The Nation., NY - Jan 10, 2007)
    • Fareed Zakaria
      • Zakaria: Even If We 'Win', We Lose (Newsweek - Jan 13, 2007)
  • Voices segment: Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin
• ABC This Week comment web page

[Phsstpok]

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:
  • Everybody hates Bush.  Nobody likes him.  He should go out in the garden and eat worms.
  • Who is this McConnell guy and why can't CNN book the real leader of the evil Republicans, Trent Lott?
  • Levin?  On CNN?  He's slumming, right?
  • Kerry?  You booked Kerry?  Kiss this show goodbye!
• Topics:
  • The president pushes his new plan for Iraq
    • Will Congress support it?
    • Will more U.S. troops make a difference?
• Guests
  • Hoshyar Zebari
    • Iraqi foreign minister
    • Wikipedia Bio
    • Iran's Kidnapped Diplomats still in Detention (Fars News Agency, Iran - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Iran Slams Illegal US Actions (Prensa Latina, Cuba - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Detained Iranians were liaisons (Birmingham News, AL - Jan 13, 2007)
    • US: No immediate plans to attack Iran (Jerusalem Post, Israel - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Bush pushes Iraq PM to bust Shiite militias (Boston Herald, MA - Jan 13, 2007)
  • Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican - Kentucky
    • Senate Minority leader
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Orange Bowl win pays off in pork for McConnell (Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Jan 11, 2007)
    • McConnell Vows to Play Hardball by the Rules (NPR - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Senate keys on ethics, lobbying overhaul (NPR - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Maybe Not Too Little, But Surely Too Late (Washington Post, DC - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Congress Divided Over Bush War Plan (Helena Independent Record, MT - Jan 11, 2007)
    • GOP is losing patience (Cincinnati Post, OH - Jan 13, 2007)
  • Senator Carl Levin, Democrat - Michigan
    • Armed Services Committee chairman
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Levin walks fine line on strategy for Iraq war (DetNews.com, MI - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Carl Levin: Al Qaeda's Man in Washington? (Post Chronicle - Jan 8, 2007)
    • Defense Chief Warns Against Failure in Iraq (New York Times, NY - Jan 12, 2007)
    • Levin: Bush Needs Exit Plan (WXYZ, MI - Jan 10, 2007)
    • Sen. Carl Levin: I'll Consider 'Surge' in Iraq (NewsMax.com, FL - Jan 4, 2007)
    • Levin blasts Bush plan for more troops (Detroit Free Press, MI - Jan 12, 2007)
  • Shaukat Aziz
    • Pakistani prime minister
    • Government focussing on development of backward areas: Shaukat Aziz (Associated Press of Pakistan, Pakistan - Jan 13, 2007)
    • India invites Shaukat Aziz (Hindu, India - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Population burst causing problems: Shaukat Aziz (The News - International, Pakistan - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Pakistan PM for Expanding Economic Ties with Iran (Pakistan Times, Pakistan - Jan 13, 2007)
  • General Richard Myers (Ret)
    • Former Joint Chiefs chairman
    • Five years on, no end to the horror that is Guantanamo (Belfast Telegraph, UK - Jan 9, 2007)
    • Bigger Army and Marine Corps, use of National Guard proposed (Helena Independent Record, MT - Jan 12, 2007)
    • CBS Most Negative on Iraq Plan, Clinton Got Bigger Bounce in Midst of Lewinsky Scandal (NewsBusters - Jan 11, 2007)
    • Heck-of -a-Job Myers? (The Nation., NY - Jan 3, 2007)
    • New Iraq plan is latest twist on winding road of policy reversals and reruns (Bryan College Station Eagle, TX - Jan 11, 2007)
  • Senator John Kerry, Democrat - Massachusetts
    • Foreign Relations Committee member
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Democrats and disdain (American Thinker, AZ - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Kerry loses the burger vote (Boston Globe, MA - Jan 11, 2007)
    • Cursed? Sens. Keep Whiffing on the White House (ABC News - Jan 13, 2007)
    • Democrats' Litmus: Electability (Wall Street Journal - Jan 10, 2007)
    • Decision looms for Kerry on '08 run (Boston Globe, MA - Jan 9, 2007)
    • John Kerry: Latest Perspective On Iraq (Post Chronicle - Jan 5, 2007)
• CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)

[Phsstpok]

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It will (probably) also be cross posted (eventually) to my blog at

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Here's a sample of  my usual witty commentary...

Ironically this weeks shows are much more interesting and serious than they have been since the elections.  We've all complained about the repetitious booking of non-entity guests, but I think that's largely not a problem this week.  We get dueling saints (McCcain and Obama) on CBS FTN, but I actually want to hear them go toe to toe on the topics we're wrestling with....

... Fox has Cheney, but the promo material is totally one sided and disgustingly partisan.  I'm betting daddy Wallace has taken Lil' Chrissy to the wood shed and instructed him to toe the party line more closely.  Or do you suppose uncle Ben (Bradley) did the scolding?...

... All in all an interesting week, certainly lots more potential than last weeks line up (ugh!).  And we must all praise the bookers for leaving Biden and Graham out of the mix this week.  Thank you, gentlemen! ...

[Txsleuth]

I haven't read your thread yet...I just wanted to tell you that I am sorry about the trouble with your stitches in your eye.

Did you have another surgery?

I appreciate even more that you got this thread together...you are just awesome to do this, while you are having such trouble with your eyes....really, thank you.

[altura]

Your watching Gabler. Wow!

[Phsstpok]

this is still the recovery from the transplant the day after Thanksgiving. My surgeon put in 16 stitches and the first of those came loose within the last 10 days or so. These will be unraveling or "popping" on a regular basis for the next several months. I had some stitches left from my surgery in 2003 until early 2006. This next visit on the 27th is meant to pull a few more of them and to use others to try to "tension" my cornea and make it flatter (kind of like working on a drum head). It's not a fun process but, as procedures go that surgeons like this do, it's no big deal.

Every time I go to his offices I remember the phrase "I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet." Compared to many of his patients I'm not having any problems at all.

I'm getting ready for bed now and plan to try to NOT do much on the thread tomorrow. Wanna bet how successful I am ;^>