Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 6/9 - 6/10/07 (not the live thread)

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[Phsstpok]

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of June 9^th and 10^th, 2007

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

NBC's "Meet the Press" Colin Powell Jeff Gerth Don Van Natta Jr. CBS's "Face the Nation" Tony Snow Sen Joe Lieberman (I-CT) Fox News Sunday Tony Snow Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL)

CNN "Late Edition" Carlos Gutierrez, Commerce Secretary Sen. Evan Bayh, (D-IN) Sen. Jon Kyl, (R-AZ) Mike Huckabee, (R-AR) Gov. Bill Richardson, (D-NM) Dmitri Peskov, Press Secretary to Russian President Putin Carl Bernstein ABC's "This Week" Senator John McCain (R-AZ)

War and immigration, again, with a special emphasis on the notion that it's all Bush's fault (again).

no attempt at analysis or ever research this week.  I've had a full week at the MS Tech Ed conference plus trying to squeeze in an hour here or there with my family at one of the parks.  Yesterday evening and all day today we're doing SeaWorld on our way out of town.  Right now I'm typing this from the patio of Mango Joe's cafe while we wait for the kids to come back from one roller coaster or another.  Alas Babylon! and I did get together for a couple of drive by howdy sessions, but a llittle thing called the Space Shuttle blew our plans for Friday night as Dave wanted to see that.  I see from his thread that they made it.  We watched it from Shamu stadium and it was spectacular, even from 40 miles away.  The one advantage we had was a 60 foot video screen to watch NASA TV of the launch we were seeing live over the tops of the buildings to our east.  Pretty amazing.  We were even treated to real near levels of sound from their sound system in the stadium.

I'll leave it at that.

The shows look good and we get two doses of Tony Snow.  All is right in the world if that ever happens.  On one appearance he'll have Turban Durbin telling us how the White House hates immigrants and didn't do enough to get the bill approved while Joe Lieberman will likely castigate the White House for being too easy on border security.  Tony knew what he was getting into when he took the gig.

Mark Kilmer has posted his preview over at RedState.

[Phsstpok]

The Sunday Morning Talk Shows   

Below are the topics and guests announced for these programs, along with my take on the "memes" that each show is trying to push.  No links this week.  This is being done on the fly before going to SeaWorld for the day.

Meet The Press

• Meme:
  • Iraq is a mess and it's all Bush's fault!
  • Let's get all of this distasteful stuff about Hillary out in a friendly forum so we can all just move on (.org)
• Topics:
  • President Bush's own Cassius discusses "his thoughts on the Iraq war, the faulty intelligence and his role in the Bush administration
  • The two authors of the new book that has everyone talking: "Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton."
• Guests
  • Former Secretary of State Colin Powell
  • Jeff Gerth
  • Don Van Natta Jr.

CBS Face The Nation

• Meme:
  • Doom and gloom.  The people won (those racist neanderthals) and it's all Bush's fault!
  • Iraq is a mess and it's all Bush's fault!
• Topics:
  • Immigration and war, what else?
• Guests
  • White House press secretary Tony Snow
  • Senator Joe Lieberman, Independent - Connecticut

Fox News Sunday

• Meme:
  • Doom and gloom.  The people won (those racist neanderthals) and it's all Bush's fault!
• Topics:
  • The immigration bill falls apart, delivering a blow to the president. Can Bush unite his party?
  • Fox News essay: Coming up on Fox News Sunday
• Guests
  • White House press secretary Tony Snow
  • Senator Dick (The Turban) Durbin, Dhimmicrat - Illinois
  • Fox News Sunday panel
    • Brit Hume of FOX News
    • Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard,
    • Juan Williams of National Public Radio,
    • Mara Liasson of National Public Radio

CNN Late Edition

• Meme:
  • Doom and gloom.  The people won (those racist neanderthals) and it's all Bush's fault!
• Topics:
  • The immigration bill comes to a halt in Congress – will both sides be able to reach a compromise?
  • Interviews with two presidential candidates, one Republican, one Democrat
• Guests:
  • Carlos Gutierrez, Commerce Secretary
  • Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Indiana
  • Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Arizona
  • Mike Huckabee, (R) Presidential Candidate, Fmr. Arkansas Governor
  • Gov. Bill Richardson, (D) Presidential Candidate, New Mexico Governor
  • Dmitri Peskov, Press Secretary to Russian President Putin
  • Carl Bernstein, author, "A Woman in Charge"

ABC This Week

• Meme:
  • Doom and gloom.  The people won (those racist neanderthals) and it's all Bush's fault!
  • Iraq is a mess and it's all Bush's fault!
• Topics:
  • An interview with Presidential candidate John McCain on the Trail in Iowa
    • "... one of the most prominent supporters of the bipartisan, but controversial, Senate immigration legislation ... he'll talk to George about what's at stake in the battle to secure the border" (PH: what a load of horse puckey!)
    • "... (he's) also been under fire for his position on the Iraq war – a position consistently at odds with the majority of the American people"
• Guests:
  • Senator John McCain, Republican - Arizona

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Saturday Shows for June 9^th, 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:
  • OK, that cryptic stuff didn't play well last week.  Let's just get back to regurgitation the conventional wisdom
• Topics:
  • Immigration Debate!
    • After bill dies in the Senate, we'll tell you how it will play out on Capitol Hill and in the presidential race
  • G-8 Threat: Pres.
    • Bush tries to diffuse simmering tensions with Vladimir Putin
• 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:
  • Argggghh!  My eyes!
• Topics:
  • Tim talks to Helen Thomas about covering nine presidents over 40 years at the White House.
• Guests
  • Helen Thomas.
• CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

• Meme:
  • I asked last week: "Can they get more tabloid?"  The answer appears to be yes
  • Oooo.  Oooo.  Let's play down and ridicule any "fears" about Russia.  They only have 10,000 nuclear warheads and a power mad mobster for president
  • And now for the really important stuff... Tony Soprano!
• Topics:
  • Paris and the Press: Have the media gone overboard covering her prison sentence?
  • Putin vs. Bush: Are the media fanning 'cold war' fears?
  • Should Tony Soprano live or die? Guess what fans say?
• Fox News Watch contact information Newswatch@foxnews.com

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page

• Meme:
  • Back to actually relevant issues, thank goodness (and the WSJ editors) ... no Paris or Lindsey!
• Topics:
  • Opinion Journal web page: Czech It Out
    • A reports from the Prague summit on democracy
    • An interview on Vladimir Putin's foreign policy
    • The FCC's legal defeat on TV decency standards
  • Fox News Channel web page
    • Russia's Threat!
      • Things heat up at the G-8 Summit amid talk of a new Cold War.
      • Is Pres. Bush doing enough to stand up to Putin?
    • FCC Loses Battle!
      • Is your summer TV about to get a whole lot raunchier?
• Guests
  • Bret Stephens
• 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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[Phsstpok]

Ping

a minimalist talk show preview thread is up. No analyis and no research. Sorry about that. My only excuse is that Bill Gates, Mickey Mouse and Shamu have kept me too busy this week. Right now this is being posted via wireless broadband from SeaWorld.

I could live with this...

[Carolinamom]

These basics, Phsstpok, are enough....you NEED a vacation! Have fun.

[Bahbah]

Hiya, Phsstpok. Very cool that you are posting from your current remote locale.

Actually, Joementum will be talking about the positive developments he sees in Iraq from which he just returned.

What amazes me is that there is zero appetite in DC for a really “good” immigration reform bill. I guess no one wants to take it on because Teddy Kennedy doesn’t ever want immigration done the right way.

You all have a great time.

[sanjacjake]

Thanks for your thoughtfulness. Now, I can read my
book and ignore the wit of Ronald Reagan, the role
model for honest, I said honest, politicians. JK

PS: Good read for R’s...D’s are beyond hope.

[Sybeck1]

Hmm, no Jeff Sessions or any pro enforcement types. This is bad when Bush and MSM are in cahoots!!

[MNJohnnie]

Intresting article here.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1846388/posts

Beware the Bloggers’ Bile (Joe Klein blames left-wing blog kookery on RUSH Limbaugh)

Intresting for three reasons.

It indicates the Political Left isn’t willing to hear anything in the “News” that does not validate their emotional based dogmas about Iraq.

That Left leaning Journalists, far from being objective, are subjected to, and respond to, considerable pressure to tow the party line on Iraq.

That the Left is serious stuck in denial about the impact of their own debate on their political fortunes. THIS is the normal type of discourse directed at anyone who disagreed with the Left during the 1960s-1970-1980 etc. Anyone who either went to College in that time frame or lived thru the Reagan era knows this debate tactic has been t the standard operating procedure of the Left for decades.

[MNJohnnie]

Thank you! I was dying with curiosity to see how the Know Nothings were going to interject their knee jerk Bush hater dogma into this thread.

[Sybeck1]

You got certain other laws in mind you think we shouldn’t enforce?

[ken5050]

Good chance that McCain will step in it this weekend..say something really outrageous. Steph is good at getting him to spill the beans..I recall something like this on the bus in 2000...

[maica]

And now for the really important stuff ----

Topics:
Paris and the Press: Have the media gone overboard covering her prison sentence?

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YES!!!!!!

I dreamed about Paris Hilton last night ---- she was sleeping in my bed, as an escape from jail, and she had a bald spot on the crown of her head where little dark hairs were growing out.

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And I purposely did not watch any TV yesterday just to avoid the words "Paris Hilton."

How cool that you were able to watch the Shuttle Launch in such a terrific way!.

[rockrr]

Thanks Phsstpok!

“Can Bush unite his party?” It appears to me that “his” party united without him!

[kabar]

It looks like we are just going to get the supporters of the Senate bill’s side of the story. Snow will be shilling again for the WH on why we need the bill and how they will redouble their efforts to get it. Where are Sessions, Cornyn, DeMint, etc.?

[Sybeck1]

You forgot the link you have been putting in your responses on other threads.

Here it is for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know-Nothing_movement

Glad I could help.

[Sybeck1]

“Where are Sessions, Cornyn, DeMint, etc.?”

If I were them I would be at the door demanding to be heard. Here we have the White House in collusion with forces that have worked to impugned them in the past. Absolutely remarkable!

[rodguy911]

even a minimalist pre-thread is better than almost anyone I know could produce.Tony sounds interesting although I expect my head to spin “just a little” over the past weeks events.

[rodguy911]

I’ll second that!!Scare the mouse!

[rodguy911]

Excellent take Bah! For an issue that has 80% of the American people all saying the same thing,secure the border first, you would think the congress critters might just start to get it, maybe we need mass firings in 08.

[Txsleuth]

Have a wonderful time while it lasts...I am grateful you did this much.

[Txsleuth]

I sure do wish I had read all the posts before I posted. I shouldn’t have bothered.

Thank you for all YOU do.