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Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 6/30 - 7/1/07 (not the live thread)
Network and Cable News Networks | June 30, 2007 | Network and Cable News

Posted on 06/30/2007 1:29:26 PM PDT by Phsstpok

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of June 30th and July 1st, 2007

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

NBC's "Meet the Press"
  • Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT

CBS's "Face the Nation"

  • Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.

Fox News Sunday

  • Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
  • Michael Gallagher, conservative talk radio host
  • Mark Green, President Air America Radio
 CNN "Late Edition"
  • Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
  • House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C.
  • Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.
  • Lanny Davis, former Clinton special counsel
  • Ben Ginsberg, former counsel to the RNCommittee
  • Former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

ABC's "This Week"

  • Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
  • Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-CT

War and immigration are the themes the dinosaur media wants to talk about this week, but the failed car bombs in London and the apparently successful car bomb attack in Glasgow will blow everything else away.  Don't be surprised to see some of the "sillier" issues and players (in the grand scheme of things) pushed aside (Leahy's subpoenas, Gallagher and Green on the fairness doctrine etc.).  Between now and when these shows tape who knows what other events will change the shape of the dialogue.

All things being equal the big three (ABCCBSNBC) are setting up straight attacks on the Bush administration, based on Iraq and the dustups with Leahy and Waxman's respective star chambers.  Fox and CNN cast their respective nets a bit wider.

NBC Meet The Press gives leaky Leahy an unchallenged pulpit from which to preach against all things Bush.  I'm willing to guarantee you that no question will be raised about Leahy's own position during the Clinton administration defending executive privilege in the face of (Republican) subpoenas.  Nor will there be any irony invoked if he chooses to take a shot at Cheney about classified documents.  They don't call him leaky for nothing.  Lil Timmah has thrown away all pretense of objectivity or non-partisanship, particularly since the Plame fraud.  This looks like more of the same.

CBS Face The Nation tees up Richard Lugar, thanks to his public statements calling for "redeployment" our of Iraq (as the way to secure Iraq).  You begin to wonder if there's something wrong with the water up on Capitol Hill.  Ol Bob's show is the most likely to stay doggedly on their anti-Bush message and ignore the terrorist attacks (not to mention the growing signs of success in Iraq).  They are the most ideologically reliable leftist organization on the air.  They get a fax from Howard Dean (or Hillary) and they carry out their marching orders.  The big question for me is what is Lugar's motive, particularly his timing?  Is this payback for something Bush did (or didn't do) to him?  Is he auditioning/posturing for the VP spot on some Pubbie's ticket as the anti-war balance to a pro-war candidate?  It just doesn't make sense to me.  As Bill Kristol points out in his Weekly Standard piece Lugar's goals directly conflict with his proposed actions.  It's gotta be something in the water.

Fox News Sunday is the first of three shows (as scheduled in my market) to prop up Secretary Chertoff.  No doubt the intent in booking him was to trash the bigoted racist nativist Neanderthals who defeated the shamnesty bill, that enlightened solution to all of the immigration problems, now and forever.  Instead that topic will likely get short shrift in favor of discussions of the car bombs in the UK.  I wonder if anyone will suggest that car bombs might be coming across our southern border?  Brit, Bill, Juan and Mara make up the roundtable.  Though the prospect of a smackdown still lurks, I'm more interested in seeing how Juan is treated after endorsing the Supreme Court's racial preferences ruling this week.  The attacks have been fairly vicious, though not widespread.  I'm betting he's had some behind the scenes arm twisting, so I'm expecting him to back off his endorsement of the ruling, particularly as his masters in the DNC and MoveOn have decreed that this issue will be one of the key themes in next years elections.

CNN Late Edition also serves up Chertoff for the same reasons as Fox, but with the rest of the cast, particularly King, Brzezinski and Kissinger, this could actually be an interesting and meaningful discussion, even if they aren't on together.  Clyburn, Davis and Ginsberg run the risk of being bumped for more relevant talking heads.

ABC This Week matches Chertoff with Lieberman.  I believe that Lieberman was being set up for an attack following his endorsement of an attack on Iran, but the events in the UK will probably change the tenor of the entire show.  This could get interesting and I might just break down and watch Curious George this week.  On their roundtable each player was selected for a specific line of attack, Ruth Marcus to handle the Cheney bashing, Bay Buchanan for the jingoistic knee jerk reaction to the Bush immigration bill, Donna Brazille to promote the fantasy of a Bloomberg candidacy insuring a Dhimmicrat presidential win and Cokie Roberts to play up Hillary's new personae.  Marcus is likely to be bumped in favor of some terrorist expert, perhaps Fareed Zakaria or some other reliable Bush bashing international "expert."  Buchanan will probably stay, but will be goaded into making intemperate remarks about "ragheads" instead of "wetbacks."  Donna Brazille will likely be sidetracked by talk of the Goracle throwing his hat into the ring.  There will be a lot on display depending on how he gets treated by Hillary's most loyal myrmidon.  And Cokie, well, she'll just be Cokie, lauding the capabilities of a now triumphant Dhimmicrat House and Senate to solve all known problems, if only those nasty obstructionist conservatives would get out of the way.

The Saturday Shows will likely have less time to adjust but may well be preempted as they were last week over the missing mom murder case.  The Beltway Boys the immigration bill, the attacks on Cheney and McCain's collapse.  Pretty standard fare.  CNBC's Tim Russert Show takes on God.  Lil Timmah doesn't think small, does he?  Fox News Watch continues to descend into tabloid hell.  All they need do is look at MRC and they'll have weeks of real and substantive issues of media malfeasance to examine.  But nooooooo!  Finally the Journal Editorial Report does a substantive examination of this weeks Supreme Court rulings and the long term implications of the Robert's court.  Bringing in Ted Olson for the debate just emphasizes how much better this show is than anything else on all weekend.

Bottom line, this weeks shows seem like their caught up in a Robert Burns wee mousie moment, with the best laid plans of mice and the DBM Gang aft agley.  I'm betting NBC and CBS make either no change or minimal adjustment to spin the terrorist attacks as somehow Bush's fault, but otherwise sticking to their game plan.  Fox and ABC will likely adjust fairly well, thought the probably don't need to change their guests.  CNN will be the most flexible, as usual, which isn't that hard given their two hour format.  There are producers for all of these shows scrambling frantically as I write this, trying to anticipate how this will play out and what meme will emerge.  They will be terrified as they may actually have to discuss events that are unfolding without a preconceived outcome for their guests to promote.  Scary times.

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 their Sunday Talk Show Tip Sheet

TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carbombs; elections; immigration; iraq
Below are the topics and guests announced for this weekends 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.

Saturday Shows For June 30, 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

Sunday Shows For July 1, 2007

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 06/30/2007 1:29:29 PM PDT by Phsstpok
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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

It will also be cross posted to my blog at

http://wizards.townhall.com/

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

... War and immigration are the themes the dinosaur media wants to talk about this week, but the failed car bombs in London and the apparently successful car bomb attack in Glasgow will blow everything else away.  Don't be surprised to see some of the "sillier" issues and players (in the grand scheme of things) pushed aside (Leahy's subpoenas, Gallagher and Green on the fairness doctrine etc.).  Between now and when these shows tape who knows what other events will change the shape of the dialogue ...

... Bottom line, this weeks shows seem like their caught up in a Robert Burns wee mousie moment, with the best laid plans of mice and the DBM Gang aft agley ...


2 posted on 06/30/2007 1:31:10 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Phsstpok
Thanks for your hard work and for posting this every week.

Is suspect Pandsey is still crying in his beer and tucking his tail between his legs.

3 posted on 06/30/2007 1:34:37 PM PDT by upchuck (If you don't have borders, you won't have a nation ~ Mark Steyn)
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I wonder if our Beltway Boys are going to be preempted two weeks in a row.

Hi, Phsstpok!


4 posted on 06/30/2007 2:00:48 PM PDT by Bahbah
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Thanks, Phsstpok. Your informative posts are so wonderful. As usual, your comments are terrific and spot on. Best wishes for a Happy Independence Day!


5 posted on 06/30/2007 2:11:49 PM PDT by CDB (The Democrats "support the troops," in the best PT Barnum tradition)
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Curious how this brewing battle is getting ignored. But then the Dinasour Media has never been too swift on it’s feet. Either that or the vote totals in the US House show them the have as much chance of reinstituting the (un) Fairness Doctrine as they did of passing the Immigration bill.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1858926/posts

Sen. Coleman joins debate over Fairness Doctrine


6 posted on 06/30/2007 2:17:25 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (If you will try being smarter, I will try being nicer.)
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They will be terrified as they may actually have to discuss events that are unfolding without a preconceived outcome for their guests to promote.

Other than Chertoff, with whom it makes obvious sense to discuss the attacks in Britain, I think they will stick to the story they want to tell rather than venture into unknown territory without a script.

7 posted on 06/30/2007 3:01:09 PM PDT by Bahbah
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Beltway Boys and Fox News Watch appear to have been preempted by Geraldo and a one hour special on the car bomb attacks.

Geraldo.

Feh.

I’m turning to CNN (that should tell you how much I dislike Jerry Rivers).

I may be off much of the evening. We just lost power for a few minutes from a bunch of severe T Storms which are hovering around Memphis.


8 posted on 06/30/2007 3:05:37 PM PDT by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: Bahbah

Oh dear, the Beltway Boys may not be particularly scintillating, but to replace them with Geraldo!!!!


9 posted on 06/30/2007 3:06:51 PM PDT by Bahbah
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http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/102766.html

U.S. Senate appropriators proposed removing a longstanding provision barring official U.S. dealings with Palestinians in Jerusalem.

The version of the Foreign Operations Appropriations Bill approved this week by the Senate appropriations committee removes language from the version passed last week by the U.S. House of Representatives that provided that meetings between U.S. and Palestinian Authority officials “for the purpose of conducting official United States Government business with such authority should continue to take place in locations other than Jerusalem.”

The language, and longstanding custom, allows for “social” and “incidental” meetings with Palestinians. The custom heeds Israeli concerns that Palestinians will use official meetings to stake a claim to Jerusalem as their capital.

Aides to Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of the foreign appropriations subcommittee, said the removal of the language was a gesture to P.A. President Mahmoud Abbas, who this month severed his relationship with the Hamas terrorist group after its forces routed troops loyal to Abbas’ relatively moderate Fatah Party from the Gaza Strip.

“People wanted to extend a hand of respect to President Abbas,” said an aide to Leahy.

Additionally, the provision was seen as unnecessarily restrictive. “The committee felt that our diplomats should be in a position to make their own judgments about where they meet and what they are able to discuss w anybody in any country,” a Leahy aide said. The full Senate will consider the bill next week.


10 posted on 06/30/2007 3:32:47 PM PDT by Bahbah
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And just one more laugh for today...Chuck Todd reviews the appearance by Kookcinich at the AFSCME forum:

Kucinich: He has an amazing ability to not seem like he’s in the same room as other folks on stage. He’s very self-aware, almost too much so that it makes him seem somehow aloof. It’s odd, I wish I were a better writer so that I could explain it better. Bottom line: He’s more in line on the issues with the rank-n-file than anyone else on stage and yet, he’s getting less traction this cycle than he did four years ago.

LOL, not in the same room, Chuck, he’s not on the same planet.


11 posted on 06/30/2007 3:50:23 PM PDT by Bahbah
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What a job “P” no one does this like you, what an ace!

I can’t wait to see how the msm spins its way out of twin bomb attacks in merry ol’ by those misunderstood,”if we would only talk with them”,muzzies.

12 posted on 06/30/2007 4:45:33 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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I don’t see the fairness doctrine going anywhere at all,(absent a midnight bill with GW approval) its another emotional appeal with no solid argument on the rats side.
What really killed them is Hair Ameirka,when that died (and is still dying)its horrible non-sponsored death it said volumes about who is willing to listen to rat radio and what few will sponsor it.
It also gave conservative talk credibility that the msm would die to have.
13 posted on 06/30/2007 4:49:26 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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Hi Bah how are things? Unfortunately even FNC will go with anyone who generates numbers,I guess Whoreraldo is getting a few watcher here and there.


14 posted on 06/30/2007 4:51:16 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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Whoreraldo is getting a few watcher here and there.

Well, yes, but not here. He's unwatchable for me.

15 posted on 06/30/2007 4:55:49 PM PDT by Bahbah
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Oh I agree!! For most of us, but if he sells to the soap opera all the time viewers, he will get air time unfortunately. Just check out Greta von Greta, her show is soap opera all the time these days.
16 posted on 06/30/2007 5:18:15 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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I can’t stand Greta either, but you are right, it seems to sell. Her number of viewers amazes me.


17 posted on 06/30/2007 5:23:04 PM PDT by Bahbah
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just want to add a timely observation here good freeper....you do great work and have for some time too....

I added to the end of last weeks sunday thread a suggestion and especially since the Fainess Doctrine is back and mentioned on the coming sunday shows

We always title the sunday thread and date it. I submit a possible title change.................

THE SUNDAY UNFAIRNESS TALK DOCTRINE ON T. V.

We would have quotes and video and the title throws em under the bus


18 posted on 06/30/2007 8:13:52 PM PDT by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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Listening to the Beltway Boys this morning after they were preempted by Geraldo last night, I have to say that those two clowns are lucky not many people are hearing them.

According to them, opponents of the immigration bill are racists, pure and simple and the things they said about the provisions of the bill were just flat out lies.


19 posted on 07/01/2007 3:43:32 AM PDT by Bahbah
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