Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 7/28 - 7/29/07 (not the live thread)

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Preview and Analysis for Weekend of July 28^th and 29^th, 2007

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:

NBC's "Meet the Press" Dan Balz, Washington Post Ron Brownstein, Los Angeles Times John Harwood, Wall Street Journal Andrea Mitchell, NBC Eugene Robinson, Washington Post's Chuck Todd, NBC CBS's "Face the Nation" Sen. Arlen Specter, R-PA Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-VT Jim VandeHei, Politico Frank DeFord, NPR, Sports Illustrated John Feinstein, Washington Post Jason Whitlock, Kansas City Star Fox News Sunday Sen. Russ Feingold, D-WI Speaker Newt Gingrich Cal Ripken Jr.

CNN "Late Edition" Zalmay Khalilzad, US Ambassador to UN Rep. Charles Rangel, D-NY Rep. Chris Shays, R-CT Rep. Roy Blunt, R-MO Marc Morial, National Urban League Pres. Ken Blackwell, Family Research Council's Bill Schneider, CNN Ed Henry, CNN Amy Walter, The Hotline ABC's "This Week" Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UT Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY Former Sen. Bob Dole, R-KS Former HHS Secretary Donna Shalala Cokie Roberts, ABC Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek Former WH adviser David Gergen

Well, we're back on board the Dhimmicrat's good ship Pequod and Captain Harry "Ahab" Reid's loyal first mate Patrick "Starbuck" Leahy is sharpening up his verbal harpoons and issuing the deadly subpoenas in preparation for yet again setting out after Moby President.  They're taking a practice run at ("that dumb greaser") Gonzalez, rolling out a carpet bombing campaign of totally bizarre and distorted accusations based on deliberately misrepresenting what was said and when.  And the White House can't release the evidence that will prove they're lying without endangering American lives.  What a tactic!  Holding the lives of Americans hostage to their political ambitions.

The Dhimmicrats are now styling themselves as "progressives" rather than liberals, and they are adopting the "progressive" tactic of the show trial so popular in 1930s Moscow.  They cheered it then and they're cheering it now.

And George Orwell is turning over in his grave.  Won't we ever learn?

They missed with their rush tactic on the Iraq war, trying to force a stampede to defeat.  They obviously still believe in the tactic and they hope to stampede AG Gonzalez out of office before any defense can be mounted and thereby start a domino affect going, leading to the ultimate Nixonesque destruction of the much hated McChimpy Bushitler.  They may also fear that the reality on the ground in Iraq may finally break through and begin to expose their lies for what they are.  This may be their peak of power for the next two years, perhaps forever.  Desperate times call for desperate measures, so don't be surprised by any tactics that they try.  For them there is no tomorrow and they feel anything that the country loses in the process is only our just reward for not bowing down before them earlier.

NBC Meet The Press has one of their world famous "council of the wise journalists" events.  We're supposed to empty our minds of any contradictory thought and absorb their wisdom without comment or question.  Prepare to be dazzled by their totally unsubstantiated and poorly reasoned opinions which, of course, you are expected to accept as gospel.  Really.

CBS Face The Nation has Patrick "Starbuck" Leahy himself, as his deranged Igor, Snarlin Arlen Specter.  Has there ever been a more ungrateful wretch in American politics?  Bush and company saved his ass from the "uppity" conservatives challenging him for reelection, so of course he has been practicing his Brutus impression ever since.  My mother had a phrase she applied to Ross Perot, whom she knew, "Crazy as a bitsy bug."  It surely applies to Arlen, in spades.  They then hare off to wallow in the sad state of ethics in sports.  Oh the shame, oh the horror.  Of course, this is coming from a bunch of journalists, so the whiff of hypocrisy is just a bit strong.

Fox News Sunday serves up the once and future moonbat, Russ Feingold, who is being increasingly spoken of as "the real progressive" who might just jump into the Dhimmicrat presidential race.  He is furiously testing the waters with "tried and true" leftist themes, though he's disappointing the code pink / Cindy Sheehan wingnuts because he's still insisting on tepid and meaningless censure resolutions instead of pulling out all of the stops for full goose bozo impeachment hearings.  Perhaps this week he'll correct his oversight and actually call for Bush's impeachment.  If that doesn't convince the true believers watch for him to openly call for Bush's death at the hands of the righteous masses.  Hey, this is a man who believes that the first amendment applies to him and his ideas but no one else, so don't be surprised by how far he's willing to go.  As a contrast Fox offers us "pygmies are us" Newt Gingrich to pontificate on all things Newt.  He's now publicly flirting with the Thompson campaign, perhaps hoping for a VP slot.  If ever someone was perfectly suited to the role of Secretary of Transportation, or perhaps Education, Newts the guy.  But a position of high authority with life or death consequences?  I don't think so, and I'm a  fan.

CNN Late Edition has a deceptive roster, given their stated focus on the Gonzalez controversy.  Charlie Rangel and Chris Shays are hardly at the center of that controversy and Roy Blunt's only involvement is his leadership.  No, I think Wolfie is going in a different direction this week, while still paying lip service to his faxed instructions from moonbat central.  Rangel and Shays are quintessential old time back room wheeler dealers and I think Wolfie is angling for some sort of dramatic behind the scenes deal in the green room, even if it doesn't make it to the air.  Wolfie is a foot soldier in the great game and sees his role as facilitating the jobs that need to get done, even if he's not able to report on them.  Of course, what Wolfie thinks needs doing and what most American's think needs doing are several parsecs apart, but hey, he's trying.  Blunt, Blackwell and Khalilzad are obviously on the show for target practice, while Marc Morial is on board for Bush bashing duty.  I'll place a bet now, that no mention will be made of the Morial administration officials from New Orleans convicted of graft, which may have contributed to the Katrina debacle.  That would be beneath CNN.  No doubt ol' Marc will be granted ample opportunity to blame all things Katrina on Bush.  It's part of the template, after all.

ABC This Week brings us the unhinged berserker of the Dhimmicrat Jihad horde, Chuck "the schmuck" Schumer.  Smeared with the dung of his own political skulduggery and criminal activities, Chuck is the embodiment of the axe murderer pointing the finger at others and crying "criminal" to distract from his own misdeeds.  But the morons of the media fall into lock step and take his blathering seriously.  Historians will look back at this period, if honest government survives, and roundly condemn the so called institutions of democracy that so willingly cooperated with such evil people.  Orrin Hatch continues his Admiral Stockdale impersonation, perhaps hoping to die before his act wears too thin.    No doubt his LDS affiliates are warning him from being to hard on brother Reid or any of his minions.  It must be hard to serve such masters.  Perhaps Mitt will be allowed to redeem them.  Bob Dole and Donna "Munchkin" Shalala then weigh in with tales of horror from the VA.  Who knew that VA hospitals weren't up to the standard of Beverly Hills clinics?  Certainly not the Congress that has consistently under funded them for 50 years.  It must be Bush's fault!

The Saturday shows are predictable, as expected.  The Beltway Boys focus on the "fight" between Obama and Clinton over how to treat with vicious dictators.  Hillary contradicts some of her own rhetorical attacks on Bush by calling Obama's position naive, while Obama goes nuclear by comparing Hillary's position to Bush/Cheney.  Oh the humanity.  They also pile on in the Alberto Gonzalez hate fest.  Never have so many held so much hate for one man for no good reason.  But it plays well at the cocktail parties, so Mort and Fred will gladly go along with the hate speech.  He's just a Hispanic, after all, and one who doesn't support open borders, so he's fair game for any and all calumnies.  There's no listing for CNBC's Tim Russert Show, so clearly no one publicshed a new book this week.  Fox News Watch continues their unbroken record of ignoring the cancer at the heart of their so called profession while wallowing in tabloid trash.  Oh, and Neal will be allowed to slime any Republican he chooses without challenge, as is traditional.  The Journal Editorial Report serves up a repeat of the interview with Ted Olson from June.  Well worth the time, as ever.

This weeks shows, like the news from Washington, is an artificial construct, of interest only to the zombies and shadow people who live without good reason within the beltway, and serve only their own selfish needs.  Events to rival any in 1,000 years are unfolding and actually trending in our favor in many parts of the world, not the least of which is Iraq, but these drones continue their mindless rants based on the illogical and ideological nonsense developed in the opium dens of their dark hearts.  They have their agendas and reality is not going to mess up their precious narrative!  This charade may be nearing its end, however, as reality has a nasty way of breaking through even the thickest coating of BS that Tim Russert and his ilk can trowel out for force feeding the sheeple.  If the blinders fall from the eyes of the vast majority of people it may not be pretty for those that have been lying so fiercely and consistently. 

And that makes them desperate.  Prepare for Armageddon!  Gotterdammerung is nigh.  Cry Ragnarok!  If they go down they're going to try to take us with them, for we are ungrateful wretches who have never appreciated how well they've treated us by protecting us from the nasty vagaries of truth.  How inconsiderate of us.

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

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Show by Show Preview

Below are the topics and guests announced for these programs.  For the Sunday shows I provide my take on the "memes" that the shows are trying to push along with information on each shows guest's, including 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.

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Saturday Shows For July 28, 2007

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

• Topics:
  • Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama trade insults; we'll tell you why
  • It's been a bad week for Attorney General Gonzales as he is suspected of perjury
• 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)

• Topics:
  • no listing
• Guests
  • no listing
• CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

• Topics:
  • Media Revolution or Gimmick? We discuss the impact of the first 'YouTube' debate
  • The Lindsay Trap: A tabloid tizzy over Lohan's new lows
  • Sauced in Space? What DON'T we know about NASA?
• 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

• Topics:
  • Opinion Journal web page: Worth Repeating
    • A summer repeat this week:
      • An interview with former Solicitor General Ted Olson
      • A debate on the new Supreme Court: is there really a conservative majority?
  • Fox News Channel web page
    • Supreme Decisions: A look at the Roberts' court
    • Could the fairness doctrine really return to the airwaves?
• Guests
  • Former Solicitor General Ted Olson
• 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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NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

• Meme:
  • It doesn't matter what McChimpy Bushitler says or does, we're not going to let anyone hear it, so he's irrelevant
  • Pay no attention to what's actually happening in Iraq, we have spoken and you will believe only what we tell you
  • Listen, he's lying if we say he's lying, even if we have to lie to make his statement a lie, it's still a lie and he must be punished, get it?
  • Eugene Robinson: "From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned president."*
• Topics:
  • The heated rhetoric in the race for the White House
    • Democrats: With less than six months to the Iowa caucuses, Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama turned up the rhetorical heat in the race for the White House with verbal jabs calling one another "naïve" and "irresponsible."
    • Republicans: The jockeying for the frontrunner position intensifies as Fred Thompson prepares to enter the race.
  • Dhimmicrat calls for a Special Counsel to investigate the possibility (of the chance) that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (might conceivably have) perjured himself (if you squint real hard, look at it just right and see what you want to see)
  • The politics of the war in Iraq
• Guests
  • Dan Balz
    • Chief Political Reporter, Washington Post | Profile (from PBS Washington Week site)
    • Bush Can't Make the Sale (Washington Post - Jul 24, 2007)
    • Poll Shows Clinton With Solid Lead Among Democrats (Washington Post - Jul 22, 2007)
    • For New Image, McCain Looks to His Past (Washington Post - Jul 14, 2007)
    • Public Voice Adds Edge to Debate (Washington Post - Jul 24, 2007)
  • Ron Brownstein
    • Los Angeles Times Columnist | Bio
    • Giuliani, the federalist candidate (Los Angeles Times - Jul 25, 2007)
    • The first step back to consensus (Los Angeles Times - Jul 20, 2007)
    • Bush the albatross (Los Angeles Times - Jul 18, 2007)
  • John Harwood
    • Wall Street Journal | Profile (from PBS Washington Week site)
    • Chief Washington Correspondent, CNBC
    • John Edwards Reveals His Tax Plan For America (Political Capital Blog, CNBC - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Edwards Urges Rise In Hedge Fund Taxes (Wall Street Journal - Jul 8, 2007)
    • How Wall Street Helps Fuel The Campaign Horse Race (Wall Street Journal - Jul 26, 2007)
  • Andrea Mitchell
    • Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent, NBC News
    • Domenici: I Want My Involvement In The Attorney Scandal To Be Over (Think Progress, DC - Jul 10, 2007)
    • Novak's Limited Plame-gate Hang-Out (The Baltimore Chronicle, MD - Jul 10, 2007)
  • Eugene Robinson
    • Washington Post Columnist
    • Bedtime for Gonzo (Washington Post - Jul 26, 2007)
    • How do you spell success in Iraq? (Indianapolis Star - Jul 10, 2007)
    • Bush stays on Libby's good side (Indianapolis Star - Jul 6, 2007)
  • Chuck Todd
    • Political Director, NBC News
    • NBC's Todd Clips Cooper: 'Maybe He Wasn't Following the Campaign' (NewsBusters - Jul 24, 2007)
    • Thoughts on the Debate (Town Hall, DC - Jul 24, 2007)
    • Fred Thompson's Week In Context (Atlantic Online - Jul 26, 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)

* Stolen (and adjusted) from the lips of Captain Ahab in Melville's Moby Dick

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CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

• Meme:
  • It doesn't matter what McChimpy Bushitler says or does, we're not going to let anyone hear it, so he's irrelevant
  • Listen, he's lying if we say he's lying, even if we have to lie to make his statement a lie, it's still a lie and he must be punished, get it?
  • Patrick Leahy: "From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned president."*
  • Arlen Specter: "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of government -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision."**

• Topics:
  • Alberto Gonzales
  • Politics
  • Trouble In Sports
• Guests
  • Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat - Vermont
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
    • Leahy says he'll subpoena Rove, aide (CNN - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Democrats Urge Perjury Probe of Gonzales (Forbes - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Democrats ask for perjury investigation of Attorney General Gonzales (International Herald Tribune, France - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Gonzales defends his 2005 testimony (Houston Chronicle - Jul 28, 2007)
    • Leahy Expects Ex-bush Aide To Testify (Guardian Unlimited, UK - Jul 8, 2007)
    • This Week's Victories, Battles and Polls (Town Hall, DC - Jul 25, 2007)
    • Wiretap Debacle (Wall Street Journal - Jul 26, 2007)
    • How Leahy tried, and failed, to downgrade aid to Israel (Ha'aretz, Israel - Jul 2, 2007)
  • Senator Arlen Specter, Republican - Pennsylvania
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Ranking member, Senate Judiciary Committee
    • Advise and Repent (Wall Street Journal - Jul 28, 2007)
    • Specter angry at Roberts for overturning precedent, wants green cards for all illegals (Hot Air - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Specter breaks Air Force One rules (Think Progress, DC - Jul 27, 2007)
    • Chatty Senator on Air Force One Pushes Rules — and Buttons (New York Times - Jul 27, 2007)
    • Specter sees no compromise with WH (United Press International - Jul 27, 2007)
    • Specter has new immigration package (The Hill, DC - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Bedtime for Gonzo (Washington Post - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Specter Suggests Special Prosecutor (Los Angeles Chronicle - Jul 24, 2007)
  • Frank Deford
    • Senior Contributor, Sports Illustrated
    • The latest views on the NBA referee scandal (San Antonio Express, TX - Jul 27, 2007)
    • Jury verdict puts colleges on notice about sex bias (Honolulu Star-Bulletin, HI - Jul 11, 2007)
    • Sevens wild in the world of sports (Baltimore Examiner, MD - Jul 4, 2007)
  • Jason Whitlock
    • The Kansas City Star
    • Golf can’t be in denial over performance-enhancing drugs (Kansas City Star, MO - Jul 19, 2007)
    • Whitlock adds strong voice to racial debate (Columbia Daily Tribune, MO - Jul 22, 2007)
    • Fouled Out (Pitch Weekly, MO - Jul 18, 2007)
    • Violence and American culture: the road to Abu Ghraib (Columbus Free Press, OH - Jul 26, 2007)
  • John Feinstein
    • The Washington Post
    • The Sports World Should Stop Mincing Words (Washington Post - Jul 16, 2007)
    • Feinstein Interview (Today's Golfer, UK - Jul 27, 2007)
    • Coach K: ACC's power play hurt hoops (Tallahassee.com, FL - Jul 20, 2007)
  • Jim VandeHei
    • Executive Editor, Politico.com
    • Lawmaker says environment ripe for change (Politico, DC - Jul 11, 2007)
• Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

* Stolen (and adjusted) from the lips of Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's Moby Dick

** Stolen (and adjusted) from the lips of The Mock Turtle in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

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Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

• Meme:
  • It doesn't matter what McChimpy Bushitler says or does, we're not going to let anyone hear it, so he's irrelevant
  • Listen, he's lying if we say he's lying, even if we have to lie to make his statement a lie, it's still a lie and he must be punished, get it?
  • Russ Feingold: "From hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee. Ye damned president dude."*
  • Newt Gingrich: "Be what you would seem to be -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise."**
• Topics:
  • When Dhimmicrat's Attack:
    • The Senate lashes out at Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for the latest (manufactured) "scandal" plaguing the troubled Justice Department
    • Dhimmicrat's are calling for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate whether Gonzales committed perjury for giving "misleading" statements about the White House terrorist surveillance program and last year's firing of U.S. attorneys.
    • Is an external investigator necessary to get to the bottom of the scandal or do the Democrats merely have a political axe to grind?
    • Will Gonzales be able to survive this latest scandal?
    • Tune in Sunday to find out, same (Moon)Bat Time, Same (Moon)Bat Channel
  • Newt being Newt
    • harsh words for the 2008 GOP presidential field this week
    • saying they lack answers to the nation's big problems
    • calling the overall election process “insane” and “pathetic”
  • Fox News Sunday panel
    • Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama take real political shots at one another for the first time in the 2008 race
    • Clinton painted the Illinois Senator as “naïve”
    • Obama compared Clinton to President Bush
    • Who came out on top?
  • Fox News essay: Coming up on Fox News Sunday
• Guests
  • Senator Russ Feingold, Democrat - Wisconsin
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Senate Judiciary Committee
    • Senator Feingold: History Will Judge Senate Democrats Harshly (Huffington Post, NY - Jul 27, 2007)
    • Feingold Seeks Censure Of Bush, Cheney (U.S. News & World Report, DC - Jul 23, 2007)
    • Feingold seeks caucus support for censure (The Hill, DC - Jul 23, 2007)
    • Feingold: Right-Wing ‘Stunts’ On Iraq Are ‘Killing Americans’ (Think Progress, DC - Jul 23, 2007)
    • Don't Count Russ Feingold Out Yet (CBS News, NY - Jul 20, 2007)
    • New book paints Feingold as voice of progressive movement (Janesville Gazette, WI - Jul 23, 2007)
    • Feingold bio: Idealism lives (The Capital Times, WI - Jul 21, 2007)
    • Feingold Turns to Dross (Atlantic Free Press, Netherlands - Jul 19, 2007)
    • GEORGE WILL: Despite McCain-Feingold, there’s hope for free speech (Kansas City Star, MO - Jun 29, 2007)
  • Newt Gingrich, Republican - Georgia
    • Former Speaker of the House
    • Newt.org web site | Bio
    • Newt Gingrich Calls it Like he Sees it on GOP Candidates (FOX News - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Could Newt join Fred Thompson? (USA Today - Jul 27, 2007)
    • Gingrich says if Thompson's in, he's out (Houston Chronicle - Jul 20, 2007)
    • Newt Gingrich goes nuclear: May enter race to foil pygmies (Examiner.com - Jul 23, 2007)
    • Meet the Pygmies (Washington Post - July 27, 2007)
    • McCain brushes off Newt Gingrich's criticism of Republican presidential field (International Herald Tribune, France - Jul 24, 2007)
    • Gingrich: "A Crisis Of Competency" (NRO via CBS News - Jul 21, 2007)
    • Gingrich: Fear Islamic dictatorship (Allentown Morning Call, PA - Jul 20, 2007)
  • Roundtable:
    • Brit Hume FOX News Washington Managing Editor
      • Grapevine Whine - Myth of the Liberal Media (News Hounds, CA - Jul 24, 2007)
      • Grapevine Whine - Liberal Media, Redux (News Hounds, CA - Jul 27, 2007)
      • Q&A: Brit Hume Recollects the Days of Being a CIA Target (FOX News - Jun 28, 2007)
    • Fred Barnes of the Weekly Standard
      • Fred Barnes Argues Bush Will Go Down as Best President Since Lincoln (News Hounds, CA - Jul 26, 2007)
      • Minority Power! (NRO via CBS - Jul 25, 2007)
      • Bush Would Rather Fight Than Switch (The Weekly Standard - Jul 13, 2007)
    • Juan Williams of National Public Radio
      • Kristol Rips YearlyKos, Run By A ‘Left-Wing Blogger’ Who Was ‘Not Respectable 3-4 Years Ago’ (Think Progress, DC - Jul 22, 2007)
      • FBI's Mueller Contradicts Gonzales (NPR Day to Day - Jul 27, 2007) Note: page has link to audio
      • One voice at town hall (San Jose Mercury News - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Mara Liasson of National Public Radio
      • Foreign Policy Stokes Clinton-Obama Rivalry (NPR All Things Considered - Jul 27, 2007) Note: page has link to audio
      • Democratic Debate Fields Frank YouTube Questions (NPR Morning Edition - Jul 27, 2007) Note: page has link to audio
  • Power Player Of The Week: Cal Ripken
    • Former Baltimore Orioles Shortstop
    • No break for Iron Man; busy Hall schedule for Ripken (Baltimore Sun - Jul 27, 2007)
• Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com

* Stolen (and adjusted) from the lips of Captain Ahab in Herman Melville's Moby Dick

** Stolen (and adjusted) from the lips of The Duchess in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland

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CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

• Meme:
  • It doesn't matter what McChimpy Bushitler says or does, we're not going to let anyone hear it, so he's irrelevant
  • Pay no attention to what's actually happening in Iraq, we have spoken and you will believe only what we tell you
  • Listen, he's lying if we say he's lying, even if we have to lie to make his statement a lie, it's still a lie and he must be punished, get it?
  • Zalmay Khalilzad: "(The UN) go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity." *
  • Charlie Rangel: "'When the earmark is worth two million dollars to me for my building, am I to lose what chance threw me in the way of getting safely, through the whims of a drunken gang that I could whistle away the lives of! And me bound, too, to a born devil, that only wants the will and has the power'" **
  • Christopher Shays: "I don't interfere with them and they don't interfere with me. In Congress, I'm master of my fate." ***
  • Marc Morial: "You know, Judge, dirt's a funny thing. Some of it rubs off on everybody." ****
• Topics:
  • Capitol Hill takes on Alberto Gonzales. Is the Attorney General telling the truth?
• Guests
  • Zalmay Khalilzad
    • U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. | Bio
    • US Angry at Saudi Over Iraq Role (Alalam News Network, Iran - Jul 27, 2007)
    • Why the UN belongs in Iraq (International Herald Tribune - Jul 20, 2007)
    • Zalmay Khalilzad's NYT op-ed [Michael Rubin] (National Review Online Blogs, NY - Jul 20, 2007)
    • Under pressure on Iraq, US makes overtures to UN (ABC News - Jul 20, 2007)
    • Iraq Warns Against Early Us Pullout (Guardian Unlimited, UK - Jul 20, 2007)
    • A matter of honour (Economist, UK - Jul 26, 2007)
    • US says Hezbollah breached ceasefire in Lebanon (Earthtimes.org - Jul 25, 2007)
    • Britain, France circulate milder draft resolution on Darfur at U.N.; Sudan calls it 'awful' (International Herald Tribune, France - Jul 23, 2007)
  • Representative Charlie Rangel, Democrat - New York
    • House web site | Bio
    • Monument to Me (Town Hall, DC - Jul 24, 2007)
    • Financing Government, Congress Style (FOX News - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Democrats anger S. America allies (Chicago Sun-Times - Jul 19, 2007)
    • Trade Double-Cross Update (Wall Street Journal - Jul 13, 2007)
    • The 9/11 Generation Answers The Call (CBS News, NY - Jul 23, 2007)
    • Paulson: Taxes hurt US globally (Atlanta Journal Constitution - Jul 27, 2007)
  • Representative Christopher Shays, Republican - Connecticut (Note: improperly listed as "Charles Shays on CNN)
    • House web site | Bio
    • Report Reveals Mixed Progress on Iraq Benchmarks (PBS News Hour (transcript) - Jul 12, 2007)
    • 'Tepid cooperation by Pak in fight against terror' (Times of India, India - Jul 12, 2007)
    • Bushites grilled over Musharraf alliance (NEWS.com.au, Australia - Jul 12, 2007)
    • Lawmakers Sign Pledge to Put Aside Politics, Establish Healthier, More Prosperous Future for Americans (PR Newswire (press release), NY - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Shays falls short in attempt to block funds for FAA plan (New Canaan Advertiser, CT - Jul 27, 2007)
    • River Bill Prompts A Partisan Flood (Hartford Courant - Jul 23, 2007)
    • HUD plans will underfund low-income housing (The Stamford Times, CT - Jul 25, 2007)
    • Rep. Christopher Shays Apologizes for Capitol Hill Confrontation (FOX News - Jul 20, 2007)
    • Shays eyes face-to-face apology to officer (Greenwich Time, CT - Jul 25, 2007)
    • Abuse of workers building US embassy in Iraq alleged (Miami Herald, FL - Jul 26, 2007)
  • Representative Roy Blunt, Republican - Missouri
    • House web site | Bio
    • House Minority Whip
    • A reality check on the Iraq debate (MSNBC - Jul 11, 2007)
    • Skelton at center of Iraq debate in House (News-Leader.com, MO - Jul 12, 2007)
    • Roy Blunt Refocuses Republicans (Human Events, DC - Jul 11, 2007)
    • In New Climate, Conservatives Need Strength of Ideas, Says GOP Whip (CNSNews.com, VA - Jul 11, 2007)
    • Blunt: Bi-Partisan Farm Bill Turned Into Partisan Tax-Bill by Majority (Earthtimes.org - Jul 27, 2007)
    • Blunt: Republican Crime Bill Tough on Meth, Written With Needs of Law Enforcement in Mind (PR Newswire (press release), NY - Jul 25, 2007)
    • Blunt: SCHIP Should Be Used to Insure Children, Not Impose Gov't-Run Health Care (Earthtimes.org - Jul 24, 2007)
    • No Standards Left Behind (Wall Street Journal - Jul 28, 2007)
  • Marc Morial
    • President, National Urban League | Bio
    • Former New Orleans Mayor
    • `Last guy standing' in city hall scandal sentenced (KATC, LA - Jul 11, 2007)
    • Urban League Attracts Presidential Candidates (BET, DC - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Politics and poverty (Kentucky Post, KY - Jul 28, 2007)
    • Urban League won't endorse candidates (St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Jul 24, 2007)
    • No GOP hopefuls on Urban League slate so far (St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Jul 12, 2007)
    • Consumer demand drives corporate efforts to make a diverse workplace (St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Remarks by the President at a White House Tee Ball Game (Standard Newswire (press release), NY - Jul 16, 2007)
  • Ken Blackwell
    • Senior Fellow, Family Research Council | Bio (TownHall.COM)
    • Former Ohio Secretary of State
    • Blackwell for Senate? "Give me a break." (Cleveland Plain Dealer, OH - Jul 19, 2007)
    • Curiouser and Curiouser (TownHall - Jul 27, 2007)
    • A Triple-Win Would Be Romney’s Chance (TownHall - Jul 19, 2007)
    • The Supreme Court Giveth, the Supreme Court Taketh Away (TownHall - Jul 16, 2007)
    • Census: Get the numbers right (Cincinnati Enquirer, OH - Jul 5, 2007)
  • Bill Schneider
    • CNN Senior Political Analyst
    • For Clinton, debate could turn into 7 against 1 (CNN - Jul 23, 2007)
    • McCain, NH Republicans find Bush's unpopularity a heavy burden (CNN - Jul 19, 2007)
    • CNN: Conservatives Will Be 'Angry' Over Commutation, GOP Double Standard re: Clinton (NewsBusters - Jul 2, 2007)
  • Ed Henry
    • CNN White House Correspondent
    • Robert Novak Says "Bullshit" And Walks Off The Set Of Inside Politics (mediabistro.com, NY - Jul 13, 2007)
    • Voinovich: Bush Has ‘F—ed’ Up The War, Needs To Start Thinking About His Legacy (Think Progress, DC - Jul 16, 2007)
    • THE 'BUMPER STICKER' THAT BLOWS UP (Yahoo! News - Jul 18, 2007)
  • Amy Walter
    • CNN Political Contributor
    • Editor-in-Chief, “The Hotline”
    • The YouTube-ification of politics (CNN International - Jul 18, 2007)

• CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)

* Stolen (and adjusted) from the lips of Winston Churchill

** Stolen (and adjusted) from the lips of Fagin in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist

*** Stolen (and adjusted) from the lips of Captain Louis Renault (Claude Raines) in the film Casablanca

**** Stolen from the lips of Willie Stark (Broderick Crawford) in the film All The Kings Men

---

ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

• Meme:
  • It doesn't matter what McChimpy Bushitler says or does, we're not going to let anyone hear it, so he's irrelevant
  • Listen, he's lying if we say he's lying, even if we have to lie to make his statement a lie, it's still a lie and he must be punished, get it?
  • They do too have to violate their oaths of office and give us secrets that we can leak for our own political benefit!
  • You know, before the Bushitler regime the VA health care system was perfect and everyone loved everything about it.
  • Chuck Schumer: "I'll get you, my pretty president, and your little dog, Gonzalez, too!" *
  • Orrin Hatch: "Who am I? Why am I here?" **
• Topics:
  • Open warfare by the Dhimmicrats against the White House
    • Senate Democrats call for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for perjury
    • Congress charges White House aides with contempt
  • Care for wounded soldiers back in the headlines
    • The co-chairs of the President's bipartisan Commission On Care For America's Wounded Warriors discuss the report they released earlier this week
  • Obama and Clinton square-off on the campaign trail
• Guests
  • Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat - New York
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Member, Senate Judiciary Committee
    • Chuck Schumer Wants Slowdown On High Court Nominees (Post Chronicle - Jul 28, 2007)
    • Schumer to fight new Bush high court picks (The Politico - Jul 27, 2007)
    • So What's New? (Captain's Quarters - Jul 28, 2007)
    • CNN's Roberts Gives Fluff Interview to Senator Schumer on Gonzales Issue (NewsBusters - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Senate Democrats Arrange Perjury Charges for Gonzales (PBS News Hour (transcript) - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Judiciary Committee Members and Journalists Gone Wild (Power Line, MN - Jul 27, 2007)
    • Snow: Congress 'creating controversies' over Gonzales (CNN - Jul 27, 2007)
    • Alberto Gonzales: American Hero (American Daily - Jul 28, 2007)
    • The Clinton-Schumer Letter (New York Sun, NY - Jul 24, 2007)
    • Schumer calls for FAA chief to quit (New York Daily News - Jul 24, 2007)
    • ANTI-TERROR BOO$T UP (New York Post, NY - Jul 28, 2007)
    • YearlyKos Ask The Leaders Forum - Reid, Pelosi, Schumer, Emanuel (Seeing the Forest, CA - Jul 18, 2007)
    • Moneybag Democrats are mighty quiet on this one (Houston Chronicle - Jun 30, 2007)
  • Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican - Utah
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Member, Senate Judiciary Committee
    • A former Hatch aide, US Attorney in DC is in a tight spot (Salt Lake Tribune - Jul 23, 2007)
    • White House-Congress showdown over subpoenas documents escalates (San Diego Union Tribune - Jul 8, 2007)
    • Hatch urges fellows to back fourth-seat bill (Salt Lake Tribune - Jul 17, 2007)
    • Hatch: Libby not a criminal (ImediNews, Georgia - Jul 8, 2007)
    • Odd DC voting rights alliance needs McConnell to stand aside (Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Hatch Spars with White House Over Children's Health Program (KCPW, UT - Jul 13, 2007)
    • Republican Sens. Grassley, Hatch Urge President Bush To Consider SCHIP Reauthorization, Expansion Legislation (Medical News Today (press release), UK - Jul 17, 2007)
    • Bush Administration Opposes Cigarette Tax Increase To Fund SCHIP Expansion, HHS Secretary Leavitt Says (Kaiser network.org, DC - Jul 18, 2007)
    • So were they all honorable men (Daily Herald, UT - Jul 26, 2007)
  • Fomer Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, Republican - Kansas
    • Co-chair, Wounded Warriors Commission
    • Panel to lay down steps for improving veterans care (Gulf News, United Arab Emirates - Jul 25, 2007)
    • Wounded troops gain allies (USA Today - Jul 25, 2007)
    • Panel Calls for Better Veterans Care (Washington Post - Jul 25, 2007)
    • Birthday Quiz: Bob Dole Says ... (WRAL.com, NC - Jul 22, 2007)
    • Patriotic twist for Dodd law? (Connecticut Post - Jul 28, 2007)
  • Fomer HHS Secretary Donna Shalala, Democrat
    • Co-chair, Wounded Warriors Commission
    • Editorial: War vets need better care now (Waco Tribune Herald, TX - Jul 28, 2007)
    • Service disability ratings need more streamlining (HeraldNet, WA - Jul 28, 2007)
    • Our troops deserve an overhaul of the US military medical system (Kansas City Star, MO - Jul 26, 2007)
    • Veterans' Health Care: Shocking inaction (Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jul 26, 2007)
  • Roundtable:
    • Fareed Zakaria
      • Newsweek International magazine
      • Losing the real war (Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates - Jul 7, 2007)
    • Cokie Roberts
      • Roberts: Will Obama's buzz translate into Obama votes? (Daily News Tribune, MA - Jul 23, 2007)
    • David Gergen (note: spelled "Gargen" on ABC web site)
      • Harvard's Kennedy School of Govenrment.
      • Debate Format A Small Step For Politics (Forbes, NY - Jul 24, 2007)
• ABC This Week comment web page

* Stolen (and adjusted) from the lips of The Wicked Witch (Margaret Hamilton) in the film The Wizard of Oz

** Stolen from the lips of Vice Admiral James Stockdale (Ret.) from the 1992 Vice Presidential debate

[Phsstpok]

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...

... Well, we're back on board the Dhimmicrat's good ship Pequod and Captain Harry "Ahab" Reid's loyal first mate Patrick "Starbuck" Leahy is sharpening up his verbal harpoons and issuing the deadly subpoenas in preparation for yet again setting out after Moby President. ...

... The Dhimmicrats are now styling themselves as "progressives" rather than liberals, and they are adopting the "progressive" tactic of the show trial so popular in 1930s Moscow.  They cheered it then and they're cheering it now.

And George Orwell is turning over in his grave.  Won't we ever learn? ...

[rodguy911]

Great job “P” as always but what a lousy lineup. Just when you think it can’t get any worse it does.
If they keep it up their numbers will torpedo down even further than they already have.

[Bahbah]

Your post was a reminder to tune in to the Beltway train wreck.

Mort says that Obama was right to be against taking down Saddam. By accident, kind of, but right nevertheless.

[rodguy911]

Poor Mort he is beyond confused.

Something I will bring up tomorrow about oblama, I think he and hillary have not had a meeting of the minds about him being VP and it's all fallen through.

He is either very gutsy ,stupid or naive to go up against her with the Bush/Cheney lite comment.

He can get away with murder since he is of color(just like bubba)but that only goes so far.

Looks like hillary has decided on Richardson, a tried and tested clintoinista, no time for breaking in a green horn that might actually demand to do something in "her" adm. should she win(which she won't, negatives will keep her out).

They might take a few close states out west with the burgeoning illegal hipspanic vote with fat boy.

anyway that's my guess, bama out-- richardson in.

[Bahbah]

that's my guess, bama out-- richardson in.

I think you are correct about this. She'll get black voters no matter what. She can count on Richardson to go along with any criminal scheme they come up with. He's a loyal Clinton puppy and he'll stay that way.

[rodguy911]

Exactly Bah, they got 91% last time. What would a bama backlash cost them? 10% big deal. Richardson can bring thousands of illegal who vote who knows how many times into the fold. It may get expense buying all those illegal but what the hay nothing they haven’t done before.

[CDB]

Your analogy to the “Pequod “ is perfect! After reading your superb post, all I come up with is the ancient (ca 15th century) German painting/woodcut. “Ship of Fools” (Narrenschiff).

[CDB]

Just when you think it can’t get any worse it does.

Rod, You took the words right out of my mouth.

[rodguy911]

Like minds CDB!!

They are all rat all the time but I still say it will come back to haunt them ratings time.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****serves up the once and future moonbat, Russ Feingold,****

Fortunately I still have some Jagermeister in the fridge so I can play the sunday morning drinking game. Everytime Feingold says impeachment I'll take a shot.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

****An interview with former Solicitor General Ted Olson****

I still miss Barbara Olson. Great lady. God bless!!!

[Bahbah]

Theodore Dalrymple wrote a great essay recently on Tony Blair and the effect of willing lies on society in general, and by government in particular. I haven’t been able to retrieve it yet. But it is a chilling thing, and he is a very astute observer of things.

Here is a post of an article discussing Dalrymple’s piece: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1873030/posts

[maica]

I listen to Hugh Hewitt converse with the beltway boys every Friday night, in the hour after their appearance on Brit’s show without Brit. Almost every week Hugh asks them their opinion on something and they respond that they haven’t heard of [whatever] situation. They are so deep inside the beltway that they might as well be working at the Washington Post or Pravda.

[Bahbah]

Most interesting, maica. They were both insistent that the immigration bill had to pass. The insulation from reality may explain that.

[Phsstpok]

I still miss Barbara Olson. Great lady. God bless!!!

And don't forget that she was a FReeper, too.  A regular contributor prior to her murder at the hands of Bin Laden and company.

I, for one, have a blood debt to settle with the Jihadis and will do all that I can to see their line and their heresy ended during this century. 

 

[rodguy911]

Megadittos!!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

And to think that the only reason she was on that flight was to appear on Bill Maher’s TV show. I still have her final book but have not bought myself to read it since it’s mostly about the Clinton’s. If Hitlery gets the nomination that will spur me to read it.

[CDB]

They can’t help being ‘rats. Like Rush says, if they see a pile of excrement, they can’t stop themselves from stepping in it.