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Tom Brokaw will replace Tim Russert as moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press” through the November presidential election, the network announced today. Brokaw, 68, filled in for the first post-Russert week. “NBC Nightly News” anchor Brian Williams was the host today, and revealed Russert's interim successor during the broadcast. NBC News President Steve Capus said: "A lot has been said in recent days about what 'Meet the Press' means to NBC News and to the nation. To have someone of Tom's stature step up and dedicate himself to ensuring its ongoing success is not only a testament to his loyalty...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NBC News picked veteran Tom Brokaw to moderate "Meet the Press" through the 2008 U.S. election season, NBC News President Steve Capus said on Sunday. Tim Russert, the longtime host of the Sunday morning news program who was known for his interviews of leading U.S. political figures, died of a heart attack on June 13. He was also the television network's Washington bureau chief.

NBC anchor Brian Williams will be the first to fill in for Tim Russert as the host for "Meet the Press" this Sunday, the network said today. Russert died suddenly last week of cardiac arrest. After Williams, several different NBC news personalities are expected to rotate as the host of the Sunday morning interview show until a permanent replacement is named - sometime later this year or early next.

MSNBC/NBC News announce that Brian Williams will take over Meet The Press on a trial run starting this Sunday.

Commentary Editor's Note: During the next week, RFFM.org will do a series of columns on the state of journalism in America today. We will look into the failures of the dominant media and the lack of adherence to journalistic integrity on the Internet. The profession of journalism truly lost one of its most distinguished representatives with the sudden death of Tim Russert. The host of NBC's Meet The Press had developed into one of the best interviewers in the dominant media and the profession cannot afford to lose such individuals who ply their trade with dignity and pride. However, the...

"Mr. McClellan announced his resignation at the side of Mr. Bush on the White House lawn, but in sometimes emotional remarks he did not say what he would be doing or who would be succeeding him. It was unclear if Mr. McClellan had acted on his own or had been encouraged to leave after his two years and nine months as Mr. Bush's chief spokesman." --New York Times, on Scott McClellan's resignation, April 19, 2006 Former White House Press Secretary, Scott McClellan, counts the number of former colleagues' backs he's climbed on to promote his book.Much as we tried to...

For a moment, let's step away from the commentary, per se, and focus on the commentators. Liberals love to chide Fox News for its alleged conservative bias. So why don't we see, when it comes to being fair and balanced, how this morning's Fox News Sunday panel stacked up against that of its main competitor, Meet the Press? Here are the line-ups--you be the judge. MEET THE PRESS Host–Tim Russert Panel * David Broder–Washington Post columnist * John Dickerson–Slate * Gwen Ifill–PBS * Andrea Mitchell–NBC * Richard Wolffe–Newsweek

Calling Washington, D.C., "corporate-occupied territory," consumer advocate Ralph Nader launched his fifth campaign for the presidency Sunday. "I'm running for president," said Nader in an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press." Nader downplayed the impact he might have on the ultimate outcome of the race, saying "if Democrats can't landslide the Republicans this year, they ought to just wrap up, close down, emerge in a different form."

Takeway exchange from John McCain's Meet The Press appearance today. TIM RUSSERT: If the Senate passed your bill, S-1433, the McCain-Kennedy immigration bill, would you as president sign it? JOHN MCCAIN: Yeah, but the lesson is that it isn't going to come, it isn't going to come. The lesson is that they want the borders secured first. View video here.

Hillary Clinton, infamous for her refusal to face tough media interviewers, is boycotting the news program hosted by the toughest questioner of all: NBC's Tim Russert. In a panel discussion with political consultant Mike Murphy during Sunday's "Meet The Press," Russert revealed that Clinton is ducking an appearance on his show. Said Russert: "Last week we had Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee on 'Meet the Press.' This week we had John McCain. We invited Senator Clinton, she declined our invitation. Doing very few media interviews. I am told she might be doing 'Access Hollywood' on Monday." Murphy commented: "Yeah, I...

despite those serious differences, I thought there was much to like and admire about Ron Paul. What I had always appreciated about him was his outspoken support for the Constitution, the fact that he didn't get caught up in the trappings of Washington power, that he wasn't a hypocrite. I believed all that. And I have to thank Tim Russert for blowing his cover. I just simply didn't know that Ron Paul plays the Washington racket just like the rest of the gang. The only difference is he has figured out a system of plausible deniability for himself – a...

When Chris Wallace replaced Tony Snow as the host of “Fox News Sunday” in December 2003, the network appeared to take a more moderate approach to Sunday talk. Unlike Snow, a former Republican speechwriter, Wallace’s broadcasting résumé included nearly three decades at mainstream media staples ABC and NBC. And Wallace even snagged Howard Dean — who hadn’t been on the Fox network in five years — as his first guest; fellow presidential hopefuls John F. Kerry, Dick Gephardt and John Edwards rounded out the month. But this election cycle, said Wallace, some Democrats aren’t “playing ball” with him — or...

Fred Thompson took his acid bath this morning on Meet the Press. Measured by the traditional standards of Sunday morning political theater, it was an uneven performance. Fred did well on international affairs and "stumbled" on domestic policy. His answer on abortion in particular will come as an uncomfortable revelation to some of his more conservative supporters. I have a team of Jesuits attempting to unravel the yarn-balled logic of Fred's rambling answer, but it appears to boil down to this: "I'm 100 percent pro-life and have voted 100 percent pro-life. I hope one day Roe will be overturned and...

Those expecting to see a train wreck this morning when Fred Thompson appeared on "Meet the Press" must have come away disappointed. Though Tim Russert was his usual aggressive self, Thompson held his own and committed no gaffes of the sort that have plagued his campaign for the past two months. Yet that Thompson's performance on "Meet" — much like his debate debut last month — was one in which merely getting through without making any major errors is seen as tantamount to success says much about the diminished expectations for the candidate once seen as the cure to GOP...

A look at the Sunday morning chat circuit ... Former Sen. Fred Thompson visits NBC's "Meet the Press." Of special note, the program is reaching its 60th anniversary. It debuted on Nov. 20, 1947, and is the world's longest-running TV program. It airs at 9 a.m. on WESH-Channel 2. Former President George H.W. Bush will talk to "Fox News Sunday." It airs at 9 a.m. on WOFL-Channel 35. Sen Joseph Biden will take questions on CBS' "Face the Nation." It airs at 10:30 a.m. on WKMG-Channel 6. Another guest will be Mark Penn, who is a strategist for Sen. Hillary...

The much ballyhooed debate on "Meet the Press" between former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. and Markos Moulitsas, publisher of the liberal Daily Kos website, was instructive for what it revealed about both the divisions in the Democratic Party and the underlying disingenuousness of both factions. Ford was defending the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC), an organization that holds itself out as centrist, urges the Democratic Party to move in that direction, and proudly claims former President Bill Clinton as its most honored member. Moulitsas was there to represent the more leftist wing of the party, which has used his website to...

The Talk Shows Sunday, July 1st, 2007 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; Michael Gallagher, conservative talk radio host; Mark Green of Air America Radio.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind. THIS WEEK (ABC): Chertoff; Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Chertoff; House Majority Whip James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.; Lanny Davis, former Clinton special counsel; Ben Ginsberg, former counsel to the Republican National Committee; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski; former...

‘Meet the Press’ Demonstrates How Terrible an Unbalanced Panel Can Be Posted by Noel Sheppard on June 24, 2007 - 14:58. On June 3, NBC’s “Meet the Press” marvelously demonstrated how wonderful a panel discussion can be when there are an equal number of liberal and conservative pundits present as reported by NewsBusters here.Three weeks later, host Tim Russert stocked his panel exclusively with liberals: David Broder of The Washington Post, John Harwood of The Wall Street Journal and CNBC, Gwen Ifill of PBS’ Washington Week, and syndicated columnist Roger Simon. As a result of there not being one conservative...

The Talk Shows Sunday, June 3rd, 2007 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Democratic strategists Bob Shrum and James Carville; Republican strategists Mary Matalin and Mike Murphy.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo.; Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. THIS WEEK (ABC): Iraqi President Jalal Talabani; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; NASCAR driver Kyle Petty. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Richard Shelby, R-Ala.; Elizabeth Edwards, wife of presidential candidate John Edwards; Tagg Romney, son...

Welcome to Memorial Day 2007. Here's a lesson in How Not To Honor a Fallen Soldier 101. Don't do what Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson did to fallen Marine Lance Corporal Aaron Austin: Get his name wrong. Exploit his death on the campaign trail. Insult his mother by claiming she talked about money with you at his memorial service, which she vehemently refutes--and then refuse to apologize. Here's the transcript from Meet The Press yesterday. Geez:

The Talk Shows Sunday, May 13th, 2007 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.; actress Brooke Shields. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.; Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh; Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C; former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga.

The Talk Shows Sunday, April 29th, 2007 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and wife Cindy McCain. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., presidential candidate. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa. THIS WEEK (ABC): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan., presidential candidate; actress Natalie Portman. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Reps. Adam Putnam, R-Fla., and Jane Harman, D-Calif.; Hoshyar Zebari, Iraqi foreign minister; European Commission...

The Talk Shows Sunday, March 18th, 2007 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Former U.S. Attorneys Bud Cummins of Arkansas and David Iglesias of New Mexico; Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and John Kerry, D-Mass.; Alyssa Mastromonaco, campaign aide to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.; Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa.; former Rep. Tom Andrews, D-Maine, and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas; Richard Perle, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Defense Secretary Robert Gates; Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. THIS WEEK (ABC):...

The western world has had to deal with violent jihad by Muslims for more than a thousand years. After the defeats of Muslim armies in Spain centuries earlier, and of the Ottoman Empire during World War I, the west largely relaxed regarding that particular threat. The combination of billions of petrodollars with the acquisition and near acquisition of weapons of mass destruction (including nuclear weapons) together with the atrocity of September 11 completely changed the equation and the rules. It is a fact of life that grownups have to deal with the potential of these threats – and also deal...

Democratic Congressman John Murtha was on Meet the Press today talking about the Democratic Party's "plan" for Iraq. One thing really stuck out to me while I was watching him (kind of) answer Tim Russert's questions: this guy is wrong a lot. He says now that he was wrong to vote for the war in the first place. He says now that he was wrong to say in his 2004 book that a precipitous withdrawal of troops based on a set timetable would be a catastrophic mistake. He even says now that he was wrong to call for an additional...

Democratic strategists who had feared Sen. John McCain as the potentially unbeatable Republican candidate for president in 2008 were surprised and delighted by his dour appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press" last Sunday. One Democratic leader referred to McCain's performance, in suggesting President Bush's additional 21,000 troops may be inadequate, as "comatose." A Republican adviser to McCain said it was one of the worst performances ever on "Meet the Press."

The California governor likens Inhofe's stance to 'Stone Age thinking'; Inhofe is careful in his reply. WASHINGTON -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's comparison of U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe's stance on global warming to Stone Age thinking drew a mild response Monday from the Oklahoma Republican. "I admire him immensely. He is going to be one of our top leaders in the Republican Party," Inhofe said of Schwarzenegger. While careful not to criticize Schwarzenegger directly, the senator said the governor was embracing the stance that is popular in California. "In California, it is very much influenced by the Hollywood mentality," he...

Sacramento -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said for the first time Sunday that the goal of his health care reform package includes extending coverage to all 6.7 million uninsured Californians. In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Schwarzenegger again ruled out the possibility of raising taxes to pay for health care expansion and said the cost of services must be brought down. The governor's comments represent a significant advance in expectations for his health care initiative that began in earnest only a few months ago and so far remains largely a work in progress. "This is the year where Democrats...

The Talk Shows Sunday, November 5th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; Missouri Democratic Senate candidate Claire McCaskill; Maryland Republican Senate candidate Michael Steele.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., chairwoman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee; Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., chairman of the House Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee; and Rep. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y., chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.; Sen. Joe...

The Talk Shows Sunday, October 15th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton; Republican Rep. Mark Kennedy and Democrat Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota candidates for U.S. Senate. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Sen. John Warner, R-Va.; former Sen. Sam Nunn, co-chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative. THIS WEEK (ABC): U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton; Democratic Rep. Harold Ford Jr. and Republican Bob Corker, Tennessee candidates...

The Talk Shows Sunday, October 8th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Reps. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., and Martin Meehan-D-Mass.; conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins and Citizens United President David Bossie; retired Maj. Gen. Edward F. Grillo Jr., president of the Air Force Memorial Foundation.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Jim Talent, R-Mo., and his Democratic opponent, state auditor Claire McCaskill; journalist Bob Woodward. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Reps. Tom Davis, R-Va., and Ray LaHood, R-Ill. THIS WEEK (ABC): Reps. Tom Reynolds, R-N.Y., and Rahm Emanuel,...

Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, 10-1-06 and 10-8-06 It's week five of the drive by media campaign to win back power in Washington for those who truly deserve it (in their minds), the Dhimmicrats.  This week the attention shifts away from President Bush, because their lame but continuous attacks were beginning to work for him.  Instead they are starting to point out to the ignorant boobs out there that the Republicans are really the party of homo values, kiddie porn, dirty talk and probably worse things, like drugs or even (horrors) rock and roll!  They fully expect all...

The Talk Shows Sunday, October 1st, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf; Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, and his Democratic opponent, Rep. Sherrod Brown. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Presidential counselor Dan Bartlett; Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del. THIS WEEK (ABC): Bartlett; Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa.; poet laureate Donald Hall. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Bartlett; U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad; Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.; former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and...

Preview and analysis for Weekend Talk Shows, 9-30 and 10-1-06 It's week four (or 297, depending on how you figure it) of the WOB (war on Bush) and all things "Republi-fascist," as the drive by media might style what they're doing.  We've had a week of spin like we haven't seen since... well, since Clinton was in office.  All the old hateful and hate filled faces were back on the screaming head shows pulling their electrically powered rapid fire mouths back out of storage and plugging them in for one more go around of lies, screaming lies and videotape.  And...

Chris Wallace wasn't the only one interviewing Billy Jeff yesterday. MR. RUSSERT: The second year of the Clinton Global Initiative. What did you achieve this year? MR. RUSSERT: Do people keep their commitments? MR. RUSSERT: And you focus on poverty, religious and ethnic conflict, energy and climate change, and global public health. MR. RUSSERT: People make a commitment to invest in one of those programs... MR. RUSSERT: ...somewhere in the world? MR. RUSSERT: Time is important, almost as important as money. MR. RUSSERT: Up 60 percent in one year. MR. RUSSERT: If it worked in Afghanistan, you could roll it...

The Talk Shows Sunday, September 24th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Bill Clinton (D-FIRPOTUS); Sen. Lindsey Graham, (R-S.C.); Dr. JoGayle Howard, National Zoo panda doctor.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Bill Clinton (D-Arkancide); Afghan President Hamid Karzai; John Danforth, former senator and U.N. ambassador.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. John McCain, (R-Ariz.)THIS WEEK (ABC): Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, (R-Tenn.); New Jersey Senate candidates Sen. Bob Menendez, (D-N.J.), and Republican Tom Kean Jr. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Karzai; Sen. Arlen Specter, (R-Pa.); Rep. Jane Harman, (D-Calif.); Iraqi President Jalal Talibani; Alexander Haig,...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/23 & 9/24/06The campaign to trash President Bush and beatify President Clinton gets into high gear this week.  Perhaps now we know why the Clintonistas were so frantic to kill or discredit The Path To 9/11, because it had the possibility of preempting their re-re-re-re-launch of the "Clinton Legacy" (Take 843).  This is a contest between the Bush and Clinton world views.  Bush views the world in terms of western civilization representing humanity's progress up from barbarism.  Clinton views the world in terms of America's sins and how we must be...

The Talk Shows Sunday, September 17th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio; national security adviser Stephen Hadley.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. George Allen, R-Va.; former Navy Secretary James Webb, Allen's Democratic challenger. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Hadley. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz; Hadley; singer and songwriter Jewel. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Hadley; George Soros, Democratic financier; Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni; Iraqi national security adviser Mowaffak al-Rubaie; Ali Mohammed Jan Aurakzai,...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/16 & 9/17/06The President is up dramatically in the polls.  Unemployment is down, inflation is under control, growth is continuing at a robust but sustainable rate and gas prices are falling dramatically.  So what's the topic this week?  Yep.  George Bush and the Republicans are in trouble.  Read on.Meet the Press continues their Senate debate series with Virginia's Republican Senator George Allen and his Democrat challenger former Reagan Secretary of the Navy James Webb.  When they set this up for this week I think they were planning on "macaca" being the...

On today's episode of Meet the Press (Sunday, September 10, 2006), Tim Russert interviewed Vice President Cheney. In the interview, Russert took issue with the fact that the Vice President once stated on his show that it was "pretty well confirmed" that Mohammed Atta, one of the 9/11 hijackers, met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague in April 2001. Here's the craftiness by Russert: Mr. Cheney made the "pretty well confirmed" remark in a December 9, 2001, appearance, over four-and-a-half years ago. Russert failed to inform his audience this morning when the remark was originally made. In addition, in three following...

The Talk Shows Sunday, September 10th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ; Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; Jim Laychak, president of the Pentagon Memorial Fund.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Vice President Dick Cheney. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; New York Gov. George Pataki; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. THIS WEEK (ABC): 9/11 Commission members Thomas Kean, Richard Ben-Veniste, Jamie Gorelick, John Lehman; Sept. 11 widow and activist Gene Steuerle. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Rice; Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.; Said Tayeb Jawad,...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/9 and 9/10/2006The fifth anniversary of 9/11 is Monday, and the drive by media wants to make sure you know what you are supposed to think.  They also really don't want you to get a chance to hear any other versions of the 9/11 narrative that might raise questions about their approved one.Meet the press has Vice President Dick Cheney ("for the first time in three years" - gee I wonder why?) for the "full hour" (not counting commercials, promos, asides, other business, etc., etc.).  The drive by media is beginning...

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The Talk Shows Sunday, September 3rd, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., Elizabeth Dole, R-N.C., and Arlen Specter, R-Pa.; Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., and his Democratic challenger, state treasurer Robert Casey. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean; Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Sen. Lincoln Chafee, R-R.I., and his primary challenger, Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey; actress and animal rights activist Bo Derek. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Rep. Christopher Shays,...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for 9/2 and 9/3/06It's Labor Day weekend!  The press can now concentrate (without feeling silly) on the Fall elections.  Who cares if there's actual news that might affect the future of human existence, let alone the fortunes of the United States and all Americans?  They get to report on the horse race!Meet The Press starts off the Sunday shows in my area, so I'll talk about them first.  Lil' Timmah is back and he's got a signature MTP event - live debates.  He'll get to sit upright to ask questions of Casey...

The Talk Shows Sunday, August 27th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Donald Powell, federal coordinator for Gulf Coast rebuilding and New Orleans City Council President Oliver Thomas; Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del.; Steve Case, chairman and CEO of Revolution. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and FEMA Director David Paulison. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Gov. Haley Barbour, R-Miss., and FEMA Director David Paulison. THIS WEEK (ABC): Former Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Mike Brown; Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Donald Powell, federal coordinator for Gulf Coast rebuilding;...

Abbreviated analysis this week.  I'm trying to be good (honest) and not use my eyes much in the lead up to seeing my surgeon next weekend. My bet is 80-20 that the corneal transplant surgery (this will make number 4 in 26 years) is before the end of October.  We'll soon see (no pun intended... at least intentionally). Bottom line for this week, everything in the universe that is not perfect is the fault of George W. Bush.  As if we didn't know that already. The big theme this week is "all Katrina, all the time."  The DBM pulls out...

p>The Talk Shows Sunday, August 20th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y.; airport security consultant Rafi Ron; Rand Beers, former presidential counterterrorism adviser; Washington Nationals co-owner Mark Lerner.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. FACE THE NATION (CBS): Sen. Joe Lieberman, D-Conn. THIS WEEK (ABC): Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.; British Home Secretary John Reid; Spike Lee, director of the documentary "When the Levees Broke." LATE EDITION (CNN) : Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.; Iraqi Industry Minister Fawzi...

Weekend Talk Show Preview - Analysis for August 19th and 20thA quick note about the show web sites.  MTP's web site has excellent resources and links to provide background on the guests and they're tending to get it posted earlier on Fridays than they used to.  I want to commend Fox for the new Coming Up on FOX News Sunday feature on their web site.  It gives a good overview and intro to the show.  Maybe they've been reading our stuff?  ABC is doing a good job of posting on their site, including a semi informative intro beyond just the...

The Talk Shows Sunday, August 13th, 2006 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff; Connecticut Democratic Senate nominee Ned Lamont; Rep. Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Chertoff; Sept. 11 Commission chairman Thomas Kean and vice chairman Lee Hamilton; Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean and Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman.FACE THE NATION (CBS): Chertoff; Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.; Lamont.THIS WEEK (ABC): Chertoff; Sens. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., and John McCain, R-Ariz.; Cuban-American singer Jon Secada. LATE EDITION (CNN) : Chertoff; Sens....