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Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 6/23 - 6/24/07 (not the live thread)
Network and Cable News Networks | June 23, 2007 | Network and Cable News

Posted on 06/23/2007 5:00:21 PM PDT by Phsstpok

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of June 23rd and 24th, 2007

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

NBC's "Meet the Press"
  • Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-IL
  • Pat Buchanan

CBS's "Face the Nation"

  • Ed Koch
  • Ed Rollins
  • Sam Waterston

Fox News Sunday

  • Sen. Trent Lott, R-MS
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA
CNN "Late Edition"
  • Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-TX
  • Sen. Ron Wyden, D-OR
  • President Nguyen Minh Triet, Vietnam
  • Egyptian Amb. Nabil Fahmy
  • Israeli Amb. Sallai Meridor
  • Dennis Ross

ABC's "This Week"

  • Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-MA
  • Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-AL
  • David Hyde Pierce

Immigration and the election horse race are the focus this week, which must mean that things are going fairly well in Iraq, therefore that question must be ignored (except in the abstract as a source of depressive conventional wisdom, of course).  I get the impression that the so called "compromise" bill is fairing no better this time out than last and I think the line up is an indication of that.  Though typically stacked against the supporters of preserving our sovereignty and protecting our security the fact that they are left with some of the less appealing defenders of amnesty and presenting voices that have been effectively moving things against the bill this week is key. 

NBC Meet The Press - Only Lil' Timmah seems hell bent on trying to set up a cliché confrontation between a "good and decent progressive supporter of poor downtrodden and innocent undocumented Americans" (Gutierrez) and a "nasty fascist right wing racist hate monger" (Buchanan).  I have a feeling the show will resemble a bad SNL skit more than it usually does.  The one thing that's certain is that they'll both say nasty things about McChimpy Bushitler, so Lil Timmah will be happy.

CBS Face The Nation gets much more parochial wallowing in the potential of a "Great New York Race" between Her Heinous, Rudy and this cycles Ross Perot in waiting, The Bloomberg.  Again, both Koch and Rollins have been saying nasty things about McChimpy Bushitler of late so the dinosaur media will be pleased.  Sam Waterston is a reliable liberal, but you never can tell what he might say about Fred Thompson.  No doubt Ol Bob has high (or low) hopes about some great sound bite emerging.

Fox News Sunday serves up a pro amnesty RINO facing off with a pro amnesty Dhimmicrat.  Papa Wallace must be so proud of his little boy.  There is a classic roundtable with Brit, Bill, Juan and Mara, so we can hope for a return of the smack down.  I'm hoping that Brit will stop letting Chris and Juan "run out the clock" and just stomp on them one more time like the old days.  It appears that they need it desperately.

CNN Late Edition gets eclectic with its long format program, for which I salute them.  Kaye Bailey Hutchison has stated flatly that she will not vote for cloture, which withdraws the fig leaf from those counting on her for cover.  She is going to have to protect herself against the powerful interests in Texas that have been pressuring her to vote for amnesty, so she still may offer up some weasel words, but I think she's going to be comfortable in her position by Sunday.  Ron Wyden is not your typical Northwest Liberal Dhimmicrat.  Though he is reliably left on most things, particularly environment and defense issues, he's also a co-sponsor of a measure making English the official national language.  He's done other surprising and thoughtful things in the past, as well.  I love it when people surprise me.  Next they move on to the President of the State of Vietnam, Nguyen Minh Triet, who is in the US for high level meetings with American government and business interests.  I find it telling that PBS has declared him a "reformer" while at the same time he has stated that human rights in Vietnam are no big deal and certainly no concern of ours.  Finally they cover the Palestinian civil war, though you probably won't hear the word "civil war" mentioned once.  Count on the focus being on blaming Israel and demanding that the Israelis make some new concessions to make things right.  The DBM won't be happy till the Zyklon B flows through the shower heads again.

ABC This Week provides potentially the most interesting point counter-point with Teddy "the swimmer" Kennedy bloviating about the evil racist conservatives who hate all people of color followed (separately) by Jeff Sessions speaking up for Americans of all stripes against hostile invasion.  I'm holding my breath expecting some sleazy "will you stop beating your wife" type ambush from Georgie Steponallofus during the Sessions segment.  I'm confident that Lil Georgie won't ask Teddy to praise President Bush for his "steadfast support of immigrants rights" but he will no doubt fish for some Bush bashing bites from Sessions.

The Saturday Shows should already be on as I write this, but the breaking news about the missing pregnant women in Ohio.  From the listings I don't think we're missing Much.  The Beltway Boys blather on about Bloomberg, Hillary and the poor state of Bush.  The phrase "nothing to see here, move along" was invented for this show.  CNBC's Tim Russert Show is hawking Michael Beschloss' book on "Presidential Courage" in making unpopular, though ultimately correct, decisions.  It's safe, however, as Beschloss has already indicated he doesn't think that applies to McChimpy Bushitler, while he's a constant fixture at pro-Carter and Carter sponsored events.  No bias there.  Fox News Watch opens with ABC's Taliban 'graduation' video and appear to cast doubt on it's authenticity which would therefore dismiss the threat posed.  They also focus in like a laser beam on the Clinton's Soprano's ad, offering up more contributions in kind to the Hildabeast.  The Journal Editorial Report also focuses on the Bloomberg announcement, but my gut feeling is that they will effectively dismiss the significance, except as a media phenomenon, so that we can all move on.  They also plan to discuss the administrations actions so far in relation to the Palestinian civil war.  The latter is perhaps the most significant event of the year and only this show and CNN LE appear to have any interest in it.  Typical of JER, and even a blind biased anti-American news organization can stumble across a real issue once in awhile.  Just like a blind sow finding an acorn.

I trust that I've read the trends this week on the immigration bill correctly and that these shows will mark the stake through the heart of the current exercise in back room back door legislation.  I think that one of the Republican candidates (particularly Fred) could make quite a case for running against that sort of elitist disregard for the wishes of the people without allowing it to be couched as jingoistic "nativism" (a ridiculous term to use in this country on this topic).  The fascination with "The Bloomberg" fits right into the pattern of ongoing meaningless news obsessions of the dinosaur media (can you say Paris?) and their simultaneous refusal to meaningfully engage issues such as the emerging success in Iraq or the murderous debacle among their beloved Palestinians is proof that they are doomed, if not already dead and just awaiting burial.

This should be cross posted to my blog at Wizards.townhall.com later today. I have finally caught up over their and I hope to keep up to date from now on. In fact I'm going to change the format just a bit when posting this in light of the success of the technique I used to get caught up. This analysis will still be first but then I'm going to try putting all of the show by show posts into one big Post number 1. If I end up falling back to separate posts you'll know that I found an upper limit to the length of FR posts.

This thread 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 valuable 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 preview of the Sunday shows over at Redstate.COM.

Politico.COM has The Buzz of Compromise instead of their previous Sunday Talk Show Tip Sheet


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; immigration; iraq
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Saturday Shows for June 23, 2007

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

CNBC's Tim Russert Show (Tim Russert)

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page


NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)


CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)


Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)


CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)


ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)


1 posted on 06/23/2007 5:00:26 PM PDT by Phsstpok
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To: Phsstpok

PHSSTPOK! Good evening.


2 posted on 06/23/2007 5:02:13 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: A.Hun; Bahbah; Txsleuth; MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative; Alas Babylon!; Seattle Conservative; ...
Ping

The Weekend Talk Show Preview Thread is up - way late, but since the early Saturday shows got pre-empted probably no harm, no foul...

It will also be cross posted to my blog at

http://wizards.townhall.com/

Here's a sample of  my usually sometimes witty commentary...

... Immigration and the election horse race are the focus this week, which must mean that things are going fairly well in Iraq, therefore that question must be ignored (except in the abstract as a source of depressive conventional wisdom, of course).  I get the impression that the so called "compromise" bill is fairing no better this time out than last and I think the line up is an indication of that  ...

... The fascination with "The Bloomberg" fits right into the pattern of ongoing meaningless news obsessions of the dinosaur media (can you say Paris?) ...


3 posted on 06/23/2007 5:02:46 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Bahbah

and good evening to you. I’ve been kind of incognito as I’ve not caught up at work after my nearly month of exotic travel. I need a vacation to recover from my vacation (and business trip)!

I’ve dipped in my toe a bit but must admit I didn’t even make it through a quarter of last week’s Sunday thread. How are all and sundry?


4 posted on 06/23/2007 5:06:32 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Phsstpok
one of the few times I got a chance to read your open which is incredibly insightful, great job again P.
5 posted on 06/23/2007 5:16:06 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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All and sundry are well. In re: he will no doubt fish for some Bush bashing bites from Sessions.

he is going to have to drug the Senator or be holding one of his children hostage because Sessions has said publicly that he loves the President and he is just wrong on this bill...just like me.

6 posted on 06/23/2007 5:16:13 PM PDT by Bahbah
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"There is a classic roundtable with Brit, Bill, Juan and Mara, so we can hope for a return of the smack down."

Sorry, but it's been so long since zippy has gotten his richly deserved beating that I've lost faith they they're even capable of it any longer.

I think I'll go watch cartoons with my kids instead...
7 posted on 06/23/2007 5:19:27 PM PDT by rockrr (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0)
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To: Phsstpok
I need a vacation to recover from my vacation

LOL. That's what always happened to me.

8 posted on 06/23/2007 5:19:27 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: Bahbah

I still have vivid memories of the way Kennedy dragged Session’s name through the mud during his judicial confirmation hearings. Paybacks being what they are I always enjoy a Sessions b#%ch slap of “The Swimmer”.


9 posted on 06/23/2007 5:21:42 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter ( Who is the Democrat's George Galloway?)
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To: Bahbah; Phsstpok
We could have a big thread tomorrow! This Congress has achieved something few others have a new low in popularity with poll after poll showing their likability/job approval somewhere between 20 and 30%!! You really have to try and try hard to get that bad a ratings from the public! It will be interesting to see some reactions tomorrow!! Which I am sure we will get!
10 posted on 06/23/2007 5:21:50 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: rockrr
Zippy is just "too" apprapoe for The Crash Test Dummy Juan, clever and funny as hell.
11 posted on 06/23/2007 5:24:01 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: rodguy911

I won’t tell ya what my brother calls him ;’}


12 posted on 06/23/2007 5:25:00 PM PDT by rockrr (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0)
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the Palestinian civil war. The latter is perhaps the most significant event of the year and only this show and CNN LE appear to have any interest in it.

This is so true. The powers that be do not APPEAR to be taking the obvious lessons from this event, but only time will really tell.

13 posted on 06/23/2007 5:27:33 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: Phsstpok

Former Baltimore Orioles star Cal Ripken, Jr.
The Road To Cooperstown (Baltimore Sun, United States - Jun 20, 2007)

^^^^

At least the Power Player of the Week should be interesting on FNS.

Thanks for all your work, Phsstpok.


14 posted on 06/23/2007 5:29:32 PM PDT by maica (America will be a hyperpower that's all hype and no power -- if we do not prevail in Iraq)
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To: rockrr

I can only imagine,HAHAHAHAA


15 posted on 06/23/2007 5:34:15 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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To: Bahbah
Only one of many stories the msm conveniently forgets to cover, but that’s o.k we will do it for them.
16 posted on 06/23/2007 5:36:00 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Support The New media, Ticket the Drive-bys, --America-The land of the Free because of the Brave-)
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For example...

Zahar: Hamas will pursue ‘Israeli spies’
By ASSOCIATED PRESS

Hamas will go after “Israeli spies” in Gaza and might use bombs in its struggle with Fatah in the West Bank, a leading Hamas hardliner in Gaza was quoted as saying Saturday.

The comments by Mahmoud Zahar, a founding member of Hamas, suggested that his group’s offer of amnesty to Fatah members was not ironclad and that Hamas would try to destabilize the Fatah-controlled West Bank.

Zahar, who is close to the Hamas military wing, spoke in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel. His comments were published on the magazine’s Web site.

Hamas: Fatah gave information to Israel
Zahar is widely seen as one of the key players in Hamas’s violent takeover of Gaza in mid-June. He staunchly opposed the brief government coalition between Hamas and Fatah and leads the movement’s hard-line wing.

In response to the takeover, the security forces of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas arrested scores of Hamas activists in the West Bank, and Fatah-allied gunmen seized others, in some cases shooting them in the legs.

Zahar said Hamas loyalists in the West Bank would defend themselves in the same way they had targeted Israel during years of the Palestinian uprising - with bombs and attacks, according to the magazine.

Link: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1182409619451&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull


17 posted on 06/23/2007 5:52:19 PM PDT by Bahbah
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To: Phsstpok

Thank you, P.

Excellent job as usual!


18 posted on 06/23/2007 6:16:57 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: Phsstpok

I’m no fan of Buchanon, but when he’s not focused on the Jews and ones race he can make a strong articulate case for conservatism. Hopefully he contains himself and keeps to the strong points against amnesty without giving anyone else fodder to say we’re all racists.

Even so, MTP will be better then the amnesty Roundtable over on FOX. Murdoch’s been quite the enforcer lately over there that “thou wilt help us Pass this big business screw America” Bill.

Sessions, of course, promises to be the best.

all in all, minus FOX, looks like a good lineup because it has Republicans, conservatives, Democrats and liberals bashing this bill. And those liberals defending it are the least likeable and least articulate of the bunch. your analysis that they are helping to torpedo the bill could be right on. But, senators are nortoriously thickheaded so we’ll have to wait and see the effect.


19 posted on 06/23/2007 7:04:24 PM PDT by Soul Seeker (Kobach: Amnesty is going from an illegal to a legal position, without imposing the original penalty.)
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Murdoch’s been quite the enforcer lately over there that “thou wilt help us Pass this big business screw America” Bill.

Is Fox taking any kind of rating hit over amnesty? I used to be a daily viewer but now I might only watch Sunday night’s Hannity America and the 1/2 News Hour.


20 posted on 06/23/2007 7:06:24 PM PDT by Sybeck1 (Amnesty GOP members are betting on a Clinton nomination, to get their support back!)
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