Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 12/7/2008 (not the live thread)

Network and Cable News | December 6, 2008 | Network and Cable News Shows

[Phsstpok]

The Sunday shows

Presented in the order they run in my area

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NBC Meet The Press (Tom Brokaw)

• Memes:
  • The One has arrived. The One will save us. And if anything doesn't work out... well, its still Bush's all fault.
  • The world will love us now. All we have to do is betray 50 years of bipartisan foreign policy and admit that everything bad that has ever happened (including today's economic melt down) is America's fault.
• Topics:
  • In his first Sunday morning television interview since winning the election, President-Elect Barack Obama goes one-on-one with Tom Brokaw about his plans for the country and his new administration
• Guests
  • President Elect Barack Hussein Obama (Democrat - Illinois)
    • Barack Obama web site | Bio
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Obama unveils 21st century New Deal (Politico - Dec 6, 2008)
    • Obama's Mighty Economic Challenge (Washington Post - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Cuba Urges Obama to Make Moves to Normalize Diplomatic Relations (FOXNews - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Obama Team Aiding Treasury in Push for Rescue Funds (Washington Post - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Obama Says Job Losses Show ‘Urgent’ Need for Action (Bloomberg - Dec 5, 2008)
• Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments)

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CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

• Memes:
  • The bailout of Wall Street ain't makin' it. Let's bail out the UAW evil auto makers
  • The bailout of Wall Street ain't makin' it. Don't blame us!
  • The financial melt down was caused by greedy bankers and now your honest government will fix things. Who's this Angelo guy and why are you (not) talking about him?
  Topics:
  • Auto industry bailout
  • The economy
• Guests
  • Senator Chris Dodd (Democrat – Connecticut)
    • Senate web site | Bio (unavailable - web page error)
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Chris Dodd MySpace page
    • Chairman, Senate Banking Committee
    • Automakers seek help, round two (Boston Globe - Dec 4, 2008)
    • Dodd: Financial Industry Bailout So Far a Bust (Hartford Courant - Dec 4, 2008)
    • Lawmakers and Treasury clash on bailout oversight (MarketWatch - Dec 4, 2008)
  • Senator Jeff Sessions (Republican – Alabama)
    • Senate web site | Bio (note: launches streaming audio)
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Member, Senate Budget Committee
    • Sen. Jeff Sessions takes his bailout concerns to Bush (al.com, AL - Nov 15, 2008)
    • Sen. Sessions Urges President Bush to Limit Further Intervention in the Market (WHNT, AL - Nov 17, 2008)
    • We have definite voting trends (Eufaula Tribune, AL - Dec 2, 2008)
  • Thomas Friedman
    • Wikipedia web page
    • New York Times columnist
    • Author, Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
    • All Fall Down (New York Times - Nov 25, 2008)
    • We Found the W.M.D. (New York Times - Nov 22, 2008)
    • Obama’s Iraq Inheritance (New York Times - Nov 29, 2008)
• Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

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Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

• Memes:
  • The world will love us now. All we have to do is betray 50 years of bipartisan foreign policy and admit that everything bad that has ever happened (including today's economic melt down) is America's fault.
  • The bailout of Wall Street ain't makin' it. Let's bail out the UAW evil auto makers
  • The financial melt down was caused by greedy bankers auto execs and now your honest government will fix things.
  • Aren't those ignorant red neck hicks opposed to the sophisticated bail out of these necessary industries just so odd?
  Topics:
  • The aftermath of the Mumbai attacks:
    • increased tension between the bordering nations of India and Pakistan
    • Secretary  Rice traveling to the region, urging Pakistan to cooperate with India's investigation
    • the possible link between Pakistan and the rogue terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba has caused concern in the international community, can conflict can be avoided?
  • Automakers ask lawmakers for financial help -- again
    • Is help on the way from Uncle Sam?
    • Two key Senators discuss:
      • Richard Shelby -- the top Banking Committee Republican, who opposes a bailout
      • Democrat Carl Levin -- the top advocate for the auto industry
  • Fox News Sunday panel
    • One month into the transition, what kind of marks has the president-elect and his "administration to be" earned?
  • Fox News essay: Coming up on Fox News Sunday
• Guests
  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
    • State Department web site | Bio
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Mumbai terror attack: Pakistan gives Condoleezza Rice pledge of strong action (Times Online, UK - Dec 4, 2008)
    • Rice says she won't give Clinton too much advice (guardian.co.uk, UK - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Rice’s Royal Swan Song Plays Out at Buckingham Palace (New York Times - Dec 4, 2008)
  • Senator Carl Levin (Democrat – Michigan)
    • Senate web site | About page
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Levin Says Obama Should Offer Bush Support for Auto Bailout (Bloomberg - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Levin Works With Senate On Loan Package (WWJ, MI - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Claims Auto Industry Tied to National Security Disputed (90.3 WCPN ideastream®, Ohio - Dec 5, 2008) Note- includes link to streaming audio
  • Senator Richard Shelby (Republican – Alabama)
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Automakers seek help, round two (Boston Globe - Dec 4, 2008)
    • Sen. Richard Shelby: Auto industry bailout pitch 'disturbing' (The Birmingham News - al.com, AL - Dec 5, 2008)
    • 'And Tell Me, Mr. CEO, Did You Buckle Your Seat Belt?' (Washington Post - Dec 4, 2008)
  • Fox News Sunday panel
    • Bill Kristol
      • The Weekly Standard
      • Wikipedia web page
      • Before He Goes (The Weekly Standard - Nov 29, 2008)
    • Mara Liasson
      • National Public Radio | Bio
      • Wikipedia web page
      • Obama Pledges To Help Governors With Recession (NPR Morning Edition, Dec 3, 2008)
    • Charles Krauthammer
      • Syndicated columnist
      • Wikipedia web page
      • Politics now main driver of the American economy (Houston Chronicle - Nov 28, 2008)
    • Juan Williams
      • National Public Radio | Bio
      • Wikipedia web page
      • So Far, Obama Has Approval Ratings On His Side (NPR Morning Edition, Dec 4, 2008)
  • Power Player of the Week: Jim Messina
    • Incoming White House Deputy Chief of Staff
    • Obama transition team personnel director
    • Wikipedia web page
    • A Westerner in the White House: Messina Tapped as Obama Deputy Chief of Staff (New West, MT - Nov 17, 2008)
    • Obama's staff: Montanan works way into top aide post (The Missoulian, MT - Nov 27, 2008)
• Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com

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CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

• Memes:
  • The world will love us now. All we have to do is betray 50 years of bipartisan foreign policy and admit that everything bad that has ever happened (including today's economic melt down) is America's fault.
  • The bailout of Wall Street ain't makin' it. Let's bail out the UAW evil auto makers blue States
  • The One has arrived. The One will save us. And if anything doesn't work out... well, its still Bush's all fault.
  • Obama and Democratics, smart and good... Bush/Cheney/Palin and Republicans, stupid and evil... got it
• Topics:
  • The challenges Secretary of State designate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) will face as Obama’s top diplomat
  • The Democrats are being forced to raise taxes because of failed Republican policies
  • Any Republican who says they won't raise taxes is both mean and lying... remember George H W Bush!
• Guests
  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
    • State Department web site | Bio
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Mumbai terror attack: Pakistan gives Condoleezza Rice pledge of strong action (Times Online, UK - Dec 4, 2008)
    • Rice says she won't give Clinton too much advice (guardian.co.uk, UK - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Rice’s Royal Swan Song Plays Out at Buckingham Palace (New York Times - Dec 4, 2008)
  • Governor Tim Pawlenty (Republican – Minnesota)
    • Minnesota Governor's web site | Bio
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Minnesota's red ink: $5.2 billion; Pawlenty seeks 10% spending cuts (Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN - Dec 4, 2008)
    • Pawlenty: Franken complaints ‘frivolous’ (Politico, DC - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Clements: Pawlenty, stop playing political games and solve the fiscal crisis responsibly (Capitol Report, MN - Dec 5, 2008)
  • Governor Ed Rendell (Democrat – Pennsylvania)
    • Pennsylvania Governor's web site | Bio
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Parker: Brown-Rendell harkens back to Hill-Thomas (Scripps News, DC - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Conflict of Interest? Hardball's Suspicious Silence on Rendell Gaffe (NewsBusters - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Workers brace for potential cutbacks (The Patriot-News - PennLive.com, PA - Dec 5, 2008)
  • Ed Rollins
    • GOP RINO strategist
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Letter: GOP deserved it (Topeka Capital Journal, KS - Dec 2, 2008)
  • Donna Brazile
    • Democrat strategist
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Should Obama come to Georgia? No, says Brazile (Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA - Nov 25, 2008)
  • Gloria Borger
    • CNN correspondent
    • Contributing editor at U.S.News & World Report | Blog
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Borger: Obama chooses experience over politics (CNN - Dec 1, 2008
  • Bill Schneider
    • CNN analyst
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Poll: Americans back Obama troop redeployment plan (CNN - Dec 4, 2008)
  • Joe Johns
    • CNN correspondent | Bio
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Ex-Bush speechwriter: Obama would control Clinton in Cabinet (CNN - Nov 24, 2008)
• CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)

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ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

• Memes:
  • The world will love us now. All we have to do is betray 50 years of bipartisan foreign policy and admit that everything bad that has ever happened (including today's economic melt down) is America's fault.
  • The bailout of Wall Street ain't makin' it. Let's bail out the UAW evil auto makers
  • The One has arrived. The One will save us. And if anything doesn't work out... well, its still Bush's all fault.
  • Obama and Democratics, smart and good... Bush/Cheney/Palin and Republicans, stupid and evil... got it
• Topics:
  • The attacks in Mumbai
    • The U.S. investigation into
    • The fight against international terrorism
    • The state of diplomatic relations between India and Pakistan
  • The end of the Bush administration
    • Secretary Rice's tenure in the Bush administration
    • The challenges facing Obama's pick for the State Department, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
    • The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
  • The economy
    • The union said this week it would make major concessions in its contracts to help the Big Three automakers lobby Congress for $34 billion in federal aid
  • Roundtable
    • The likelihood of an auto industry bailout
    • Obama's national security team
    • The economy
• Guests
  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice
    • State Department web site | Bio
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Mumbai terror attack: Pakistan gives Condoleezza Rice pledge of strong action (Times Online, UK - Dec 4, 2008)
    • Rice says she won't give Clinton too much advice (guardian.co.uk, UK - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Rice’s Royal Swan Song Plays Out at Buckingham Palace (New York Times - Dec 4, 2008)
  • Ron Gettelfinger
    • United Auto Workers President | Bio
    • Wikipedia web page
    • Why were Wall Street workers not asked for concessions? (Los Angeles Times - Dec 5, 2008)
    • Gettelfinger: Crisis unites heartland groups for auto loans (DetNews.com, MI - Dec 5, 2008)
    • 'To small-business people, it is a tsunami' (Detroit Free Press - Dec 5, 2008)
  • Roundtable
    • George Will
      • ABC News
      • Syndicated columnist
      • Wikipedia web page
      • George Will: Obama's economic forecast (Arizona Republic, AZ - Dec 4, 2008)
    • Cokie Roberts
      • ABC News
      • Syndicated columnist
      • Wikipedia web page
      • Knowing what you don't know (Pittsburg Morning Sun, KS - Dec 4, 2008
    • Peggy Noonan
      • The Wall Street Journal
      • Wikipedia web page
      • 'At Least Bush Kept Us Safe' (Wall Street Journal - Dec 5, 2008)
    • E.J. Dionne
      • The Washington Post
      • Wikipedia web page
      • Squeeze Shouldn't Stop Long-Term Spending (Real Clear Politics - Dec 5, 2008)
• ABC This Week comment web

[Phsstpok]

This Weeks Shows:

More on the ascension of The One and the failures of McChimpy Bushitler this week. La de da. The valedictory hand off from Secretary Rice to Secretary to be Clinton will be spun as a litany of all of the Bush mistakes that must be fixed, not an acknowledgment of what's been accomplished.

Similarly the talk of the economy will be all the things Bush has done (and is still doing) wrong and all the things The One will do to save us from the evils of capitalism. The emphasis will be on this weeks bailout of the auto union, as well as a preview of the next bailout forced by Bush, the rescue of (blue) states (ruined through no fault of their own).

And this week The One himself deigns to make an appearance on one of the shows. Of course, he chooses to bestow his magnificence on the network that went all in (and then some) in supporting him, NBC. Tom Brokaw has the "big get" interview, likely as a farewell as he is rumored to be handing off to David Gregory as the shows new host, perhaps even at the end of this very show.

It's hard to decide which roundtable will lavish more praise on Obama's cabinet picks so far, CNN or ABC, but it's certain both will be fulsome (if not slobbering) in their praise. And I'll lay odds that the group on ABC will find a way to take a shot at Sarah Palin. Just call it a "hunch." Watch for a backhanded compliment giving her credit for Saxby Chamblis' win because she energized the moron redneck Christian vote, or something to that effect.

The Shadow Cabinet:

On a separate topic, I'm working on a post for later I'll be calling "The Shadow Cabinet," or something similar. In a parliamentary system, like the UK, the party (or parties) that don't hold the government will assign members of their party to be their experts and designated spokesman for each of the major ministries. What this provides is an official opposition person to go on shows like these Sunday shows and to put forward, authoritatively, the other side when the Obama spokesperson puts out the government line on a controversial topic. By not having a formal opposition shadow cabinet we give the media the power to choose our spokesmen, and thus the message, or at least the effectiveness of the messenger, for our side.

I'm wanting to start a discussion of who we this those people should be. Unlike a "real" shadow cabinet there's no requirement that they be current members of Congress, nor that they realistically would get the particular government post when a new conservative president gets elected.

Heres a straight list of the current cabinet positions and the current office holders. I'd like to get this group started thinking about who we'd like to see as our spokesmen or the issues covered by each position. I don't want anything posted or this thread, let will be pinging you all when I get the full post up.

Office	Incumbent
Secretary of State	Condoleezza Rice
Secretary of the Treasury	Henry Paulson
Secretary of Defense	Robert Gates
Attorney General	Michael Mukasey
Secretary of the Interior	Dirk Kempthorne
Secretary of Agriculture	Edward Schafer
Secretary of Commerce	Carlos Gutierrez
Secretary of Labor	Elaine Chao
Secretary of Health and Human Services	Michael Leavitt
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Steve Preston
Secretary of Transportation	Mary Peters
Secretary of Energy	Samuel Bodman
Secretary of Education	Margaret Spellings
Secretary of Veterans Affairs	James Peake
Secretary of Homeland Security	Michael Chertoff

 

[Phsstpok]

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Have at it.

[Cindy]

A page of article links which caught my interest (January 1, 2007 to December 31, 2008) that got little coverage or serious attention by the main-stream media.

http://www.truthusa.com/AgainstUSorForUS.html

[ExTexasRedhead]

My TV is being turned off all MSM news, Liberal human waste like Letterman, the Oprah, and the rest of the Liberal America haters . I’m boycotting the MSM for the next four years. I’ve had my fill of Liberal BS to last me a lifetime. I “refuse” to watch these domestic terrorists lie to the American people repeatedly. That’s the one freedom I still have. One could say my health depends on it. My blood pressure is maxed out.

[mrsmel]

Welcome to the Club! I haven’t watched network news for years, cable news for years, and Fox news for almost a year, and never felt better. I’m better informed thanks to the internet, and my intake of information is unadulterated, unless I choose to find what the conservative (correct) view of current events is. I already know more than I ever want to know of what the liberally biassed view of the news is, I’ve had years of being force-fed the swill from the left. I’m better informed than before, and have a much healthier of the “big picture”, especially as a Christian (I don’t sweat the small stuff so much now, it’s easier now to step back and see the “big picture”, and know that it’s all in God’s hands, as He foretold).

[SouthTexas]

My blood pressure is maxed out.

They make pills for that. :)

[Phsstpok]

I think you meant post #5 for ExTexasRedhead, not me (though I understand the sentiment).

[freekitty]

I don’t watch any of those nutjobs.

[freekitty]

Kind of makes you not want to watch. I haven’t for years and don’t intend to now. You have already summed it up.

[justiceseeker93]

You should have given us a barfie alert at the top of this thread!

[Bernard]

If Bob Schieffer id going to ask Chris Dodd about what's wrong with the banking system, then the commercial breaks should feature testimonials from OJ Simpson about hotel security in Las Vegas.

If Dodd gets a speaking fee foe this appearance, he should spend it on buying a clue and a better lie than, "I didn't know I was getting a special deal!! Gosh, when did that happen?"

[justiceseeker93]

My TV is being turned off to all MSM news...

I don't blame you. All the news you really need to know is available right here on the Internet. At least for now.

[Albion Wilde]

My blood pressure is maxed out.

God can fix it, better than we can. Keep the faith.

[BossLady]

WOW!!! Excellent work on the chart and lists!

[JohnLongIsland]

No Schmuckie?

[rodguy911]

Wow what a work of art Phsstpok! Thanks so much.

[rodguy911]

There is only one reason to watch any of this tripe. To see what the leftward leaning commies are up to next. That's the only reason I ever watch these guys to see how they intend to attack capitalism/freedom next.
Know your enemy. Keep him close(Obmama/Hillary)

[Arrowhead1952]

I’m boycotting the MSM for the next four years. I’ve had my fill of Liberal BS to last me a lifetime. I “refuse” to watch these domestic terrorists lie to the American people repeatedly. That’s the one freedom I still have. One could say my health depends on it. My blood pressure is maxed out.

Join the crowd. I have been on a boycott of the DBM for about three years now, and don't intend to ever listen to their side of anything. I dreamed up my new tag line this morning as I was eating breakfast. Goes perfectly with the current times.

[Marysecretary]

I’m trying not to watch it much anymore either. It’s too depressing.