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NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)
Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is 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.
- Meme:
- We told you before and we'll tell you again, Katrina was all Bush's fault
- Bush doesn't have a plan!
- It is too a civil war!
- The Republicans are doomed - really! We mean it!
- Topics:
- Katrina
- One year after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast
- Assessing the accomplishments and struggles New Orleans has faced on its road to recovery.
- Mayor Nagin's latest controversial comment defending New Orleans' clean-up efforts by criticizing the progress of rebuilding at New York City's Ground Zero.
- Federal recovery efforts & preparedness update
- Decision 2006 is right around the corner and many big races are heating up. We'll discuss some of the major issues on voters' minds, and take a look ahead at the Presidential field for 2008 in our political roundtable
- Guests
- Ray Nagin
- City of New Orleans web site | Bio
- Ray Nagin Blames Racism, Red Tape on Slow Katrina Recovery (FOX News - Aug 19, 2006)
- The Katrina Aftermath, One Year Later: Race and the New Orleans Economy (Black America Web - Aug 22, 2006)
- The Katrina Aftermath, One Year Later - Part Two: The Crisis in Housing (Black America Web - Aug 23, 2006)
- Diss ain't fair, Nagin (New York Daily News, NY - Aug 25, 2006)
- Ray Nagin: A Man With No Shame (The Conservative Voice, NC - Aug 22, 2006)
- David Paulison
- Director / Under Secretary for Federal Emergency Management
- FEMA web site | Bio
- Blaming FEMA (WBIR-TV, TN - Aug 24, 2006)
- New director changing the way FEMA works (SunHerald.com - Aug 24, 2006)
- FEMA Director: Housing remains top problem after Katrina (Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, GA - Aug 24, 2006)
- FEMA ready for the next one, chief says (Houston Chronicle - Aug 24, 2006)
- The Future for FEMA: An Interview With R. David Paulison (EMS Magazine, MD - Aug 1, 2006)
- FEMA HEAD MAY WATCH HBOS LEVEES: R. David Paulison says (Eurweb.com, CA - Aug 2, 2006)
- Roundtable
- Robert Novak
- Al Hunt
- Kate O'Beirne
- Eugene Robinson
- 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)
3 posted on
08/25/2006 6:00:32 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
(Often wrong, but never in doubt)
To: Phsstpok
Russert's panel looks like a reunion of the CNN show that used to be one of the few political discussion shows on the air. Only Mark Shields is missing.
18 posted on
08/26/2006 5:04:35 AM PDT by
maica
(9/11 was not “the day everything changed”, but the day that revealed how much had already changed.)
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