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The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

Meme:
- Immigration:
  - The immigration bill is heading in the right direction (amnesty) - Mort
  - The immigration bill is heading in the wrong direction (amnesty) - Fred
- Mexico
  - Mexico is our friend - Mort
  - Mexico is really screwed up and trying to export their problems here - Fred
- Bill and Hillary's marriage
  - Oh, this is going to be fun.... - Mort and Fred
Topics:
- The Senate passes a massive immigration deal, but is it DOA in the House?
- Why Mexico is not the good neighbor its president says it is
- The first of many stories about Bill and Hillary's marriage
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)

Meme:
- If Tim promotes enough leftist authors maybe they'll return the favor and promote his new book
Topics:
- Tim talks to Marlo Thomas about her new book, "The Right Words at the Right Time, Vol 2 Your Turn!"
Guests
- Marlo Thomas
  - Daddy was comedian/actor/philanthropist Danny Thomas, she was "That Girl" on TV and she's married to Phil (he was Oprah before Oprah was Oprah) Donahue, and now she's written (another) book!
CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

Meme:
- Journalists are misunderstood campaigners for truth and justice, but they do want to destroy the American way, and that's OK with this crowd
- TV (Fox in particular) is a great wasteland... what a novel thought we just had!
- Oooooh, ABC is in trouble now.... they promoted the MAN from GMA to go up against saint Katie!
Topics:
- Should journalists be prosecuted if they publish classified information?
- Has 'American Idol' changed TV forever?
- Charlie Gibson takes over 'World News Tonight'
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

Meme:
- Republicans are in trouble and (wait for it) It's Bush's fault!
Topics:
- Panicked Pachyderms (Opinion Journal web site)
  - Democrats start to believe they'll take back Congress this fall, while Republicans show signs of panic.
  - Political consultant Whit Ayres explains how much trouble Republicans are in.
  - Can the House and Senate cut a deal on immigration, and would it help Republicans in November?
- What are the GOP's prospects for holding on to its Congressional majority in the midterm elections? (FNC web site)
Guests
- Whit Ayres, Republican pollster and consultant
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 4 p.m. and 11 p.m. and again Sunday at 6 a.m. ET

Guests for weekend shows, 5/27 - 5/28/06

Whit Ayres (Journal Editorial Report)
- GOP Advisers: Bush's Stand Hurts Party (Human Events)
- Burns’s GOP primary opponent has unusual motive for running (The Hill)
- In pushing for immigration reform, Bush aims to shore up GOP base (Christian Science Monitor)
- Poll shows Frist popular with home state GOP (Nashville City Paper, TN)
- Poll: Conservatives Cutting Approval Rates (Forbes)
- McCain's speech at Falwell's school is key (San Diego Union Tribune)
- Cuts put the growth vs. equality debate back on the table (U.S. News & World Report)
David Broder (Meet The Press Roundtable)
- Columnist, The Washington Post
- David Broder on candidates' personal lives: Now OK with public "choking on a surfeit of smut" (Media Matters For America)
- DAVID BRODER: Voter restlessness rises in US (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
- David Broder Implies Anonymous Sources Always "Conscientious" (NewsBusters)
- David Broder Trashes Reid, Pelosi, Dean (Human Events)
- Broder Looking in Hillary's Panty Drawer? (Editor & Publisher, letters section)
- The crisis that Congress can't face — but must (Salem Statesman Journal, OR)
Elizabeth Bumiller (CBS Face The Nation)
- The New York Times
- Why Colbert matters (Salon - War Room)
- Fox, What Fox? New Press Secretary Changes Channels (New York Times)
- NYT: Only Simplistic 'Conservatives,' No Liberals, In Immigration Debate? (NewsBusters)
- Speech reflects Bush's views shaped long ago (Gainesville Sun, FL)
- White House spokesman has bumpy first briefing (Los Angeles Daily News)
E.J. Dionne (ABC News This Week Roundtable)
- Columnist, The Washington Post
- EJ Dionne: Rove's economic jujitsu (Sacramento Bee)
- EJ Dionne: Brooding Democrats show a spark (Sacramento Bee)
- EJ Dionne on the increasing number of non-Republican Republicans (Watching the Watchers.org)
- EJ Dionne: A learning curve for English (Sacramento Bee)
- EJ Dionne: Cheney's two-sided foreign policy (Sacramento Bee)
Senator Richard Durbin, Democrat Illinois (Fox News Sunday)
- Assistant Senate Democrat Leader
- House again votes for drilling in Arctic refuge (MSNBC)
- Senate passes immigration bill (Seattle Times)
- Bush hails 'turning point' in Iraq (Chicago Tribune)
- US senators slam immigration bill (United Press International)
- No need for a law to tell us English is our language (Rockford Register Star, IL)
- Durbin says leadership, not politics, needed to settle immigration issues (WQAD, IL)
- Senate passes landmark immigration bill (GG2.net, UK)
- Senate wants House to ease on citizenship (Herald News Daily, ND)
- Analysis: Frist Tries to Please Everyone (Olberlin, KS)
- Immigrant rights activists vow to press forward (People's Weekly World)
Senator Bill Frist, Republican-Tennessee (Fox News Sunday)
- Senate Majority Leader
- Analysis: Frist Tries to Please Everyone (Olberlin, KS)
- Frist ‘moving toward’ immigrant bill support (Nashville City Paper, TN)
- Matt Lauer Presses Bill Frist: Aren't You Just Pandering to Conservatives? (NewsBusters)
- Frist Supports Amendment Requiring Photo ID To Vote (The Chattanoogan)
- Frist Goes Ape (Yahoo! News)
- Bill Frist: A Doctor at Heart (Washington Post)
- FRC Praises Frist, Brownback on Broadcast Decency Bill (TMCnet)
- Frist Tries Again On 'Indecency' Bill (National Journal)
Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican-Nebraska (Meet The Press)
- Hagel Had A Major Role In Senate Immigration Bill - Now The Battle Begins (Nebraska StatePaper.com)
- The Wrong Course (National Review Online)
- Hagel, Nelson Take Opposite Views Of Immigration Reform (Yankton Daily Press, SD)
- Green-card Backlog Frustrates Skilled Immigrants (San Leandro India West, CA)
- Talking to Tehran, not at it (Asia Times Online, Hong Kong)
- Senate Bill Would Require Intelligence Budget Disclosure (Secrecy News)
- No One Is Illegal: The Fight For Immigrants’ Rights (Political Affairs Magazine)
- Guarding the border (Smoky Mountain Sentinel, NC)
Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican-California (ABC News This Week)
- Military officials: Haditha might be another My Lai (Hot Air, MD)
- Marine chief to visit Iraq amid allegations of marines killing civilians (Political Gateway, FL)
- Marines could face charges (Seattle Times)
- Lawmaker renews calls to build fence guarding border (GovExec.com)
- National Guard To Support, Not Supplant, Border Patrol (NewsBlaze, CA)
- House bill proposes giving Kennedy to NATO (Daily Press, VA) (note: the Aircraft Carrier, not Teddy)
- American Legion Joins Fight To Save Cross (NBC Sandiego.com, CA)
David Ignatius (Meet The Press Roundtable)
- How will analysis fare in the new US intelligence structure? (Daily Star - Lebanon)
- We must engage in Iran (Cincinnati Post, OH)
- Gen. Hayden Defends NSA Surveillance Program at CIA Nomination Hearings (PBS)
- Why did the U.S. call off Iran talks on Iraq? (Aljazeera.com)
- Everyone has a price - even Iran (Arizona Republic)
- Insights into John McCain's Soul (Human Events)
- Mold US intelligence to British model (Buffalo News)
Former Representative John Kasich, Republican-Ohio (ABC News This Week Roundtable)
- John Kasich is America’s Daddy (News Hounds)
- Fox News Misses Point On Oil Price Investigation (News Hounds)
- Federal gas tax cut would curb waste (Reading Eagle, PA)
- Kasich Disses DaVinci Code and Mel Gibson too (News Hounds)
- Iraq Concerns Worry Republicans (Voice of America)
- Your social program on table again (Buffalo News)
Nouri al-Maliki (Meet The Press - interview excerpts)
- Iraqi Prime Minister
- Al-Maliki to name security chiefs (Washington Times)
- Al Maliki on a mission to keep nation together (Gulf News, United Arab Emirates)
- AP blog: Iraq violence claims many lives (San Jose Mercury News)
- Editorial: New Iraqi cabinet welcomed (Waco Tribune Herald, TX)
- Bush, Blair offer no timetable for removal of coalition forces (KHON2, HI)
- Bush: Iraq Inauguration a Victory for Democracy (Bethesda Journal)
- Iraq’s al-Maliki: Iraqi Forces to Handle Most Security by 2008 (Men's News Daily)
Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican-Kentucky (CBS Face The Nation)
- Assistant Majority Leader
- So Mitch McConnell and Larry Craig are RINOs. (RedState.COM)
- Handel Praises McConnell Amendment to Immigration Bill (Duluth Weekly, GA)
- US Senate Unanimously Approves MINER Act (Mineweb, South Africa)
- McConnell intervened in case, group says (Kentucky.com)
- Frist Supports Amendment Requiring Photo ID To Vote (The Chattanoogan, TN)
- Senate moves toward action on immigrants (International Herald Tribune, France)
Representative John Murtha, Democrat-Pennsylvania (ABC News This Week)
- Republican opposing Murtha says he should apologize (Fort Wayne News Sentinel)
- FOX News Sics Swift Boat Smearers On John Murtha (News Hounds)
- Kennedys salute Murtha (The Tribune-Democrat, PA)
- Reports: Probe to cite marines (USA Today)
- Profile in Disgrace (National Review Online blogs)
- Congressman Murtha Smeared Again On Hannity & Colmes (News Hounds)
Tony Orlando's (ABC News This Week Voices segment)
- The worst songs: Your opinion (CNN International)
- Americans first wore yellow ribbons to remember 19th-century cavalry men (Delmarva Daily Times, MD)
Kate O'Beirne (Meet The Press Roundtable)
- Senate Somnambulism (National Review Online Blogs)
- Capital Disconnect (CBS News)
- A Congress Gone to Pot (National Review Online)
Eugene Robinson (Meet The Press Roundtable)
- Nation of Fear (Washington Post)
- New Orleans: racially divided at the end of the day (Seattle Times)
- Robinson: Bushisms, the CIA and Iran (Salem Statesman Journal)
- Phone spying should outrage us (Buffalo News)
- Spy vs. lie (The Wichita Eagle, KS)
- Dan Brown's Lowbrow Arianism (Human Events)
Tim Russert (CNN Late Edition)
- NBC Washington Bureau chief; host, NBC's "Meet the Press" and author, "Wisdom of Our Fathers"
- Tim Russert on His New Book 'Wisdom of Our Fathers' (Fox News)
- Tim Russert’s Not Quite Complete Denial About Role In CIA Leak (News Hound)
- A question for Tim Russert (American Thinker)
Barham Salih (CNN Late Edition)
- Iraq's deputy prime minister
- Ministers have one thing in common - Britain (Times Online, UK)
- FACTBOX-Key figures in Iraq new political line-up (Reuters AlertNet, UK)
- Key profiles (Aljazeera.net, Qatar)
- Iraq set for government (Swissinfo, Switzerland)
- Iraqi parliamentarians approve new unity government (National Post, Canada)
Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat-New York (CBS Face The Nation)
- Chairman, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
- Senate votes to cap cost of border cards (WSTM-TV, NY)
- Suddenly, It's a Steel-Cage Match With the White House (Washington Post)
- Senator Charles Schumer Signs Book Deal (1010 Wins, NY)
- Lawmakers laud end of ‘unfair’ phone tax (Mid-Hudson News, NY)
- Schumer delays Schwab confirmation over China issues (Reuters)
- Big Oil CEO: Blame Oil Prices, Not Us (ABC News)
Representative James Sensenbrenner, Republican-Wisconsin (Meet The Press)
- House Judiciary Committee Chairman
- House judiciary panel to hold hearing on FBI raid of congressional office (JURIST)
- Bob Scott: Sensenbrenner's immigration bill is mean-spirited (The Capital Times, WI)
- House Republican Criticizes Senate's Immigration Bill (New York Times)
- Sensenbrenner: Senate bill amounts to amnesty (CNN)
- Sensenbrenner disses Senate immigration bill (Chicago Tribune)
- House Republican Firm on Immigration Bill (ABC News)
- Suddenly, It's a Steel-Cage Match With the White House (Washington Post)
- House panel votes for Net neutrality (CNET News)
HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (CNN Late Edition)
- Uncle of Jordan's King Abdullah II
- Jordan Prince El Hassan bin Talal delivers speech at Brandeis (Daily News Tribune, MA)
- Jordanian at Brandeis; rift over writer erupts (Boston Globe)
- Dhimmitude at Brandeis (IsraPundit, Canada)
- Hamas' problematic game: Playing three roles at once! (Journal of Turkish Weekly, Turkey)
- A question of culture (Boston Globe)
Marlo Thomas
- Actress, author The Right Words at the Right Time, Vol 2 Your Turn!
- Book Review The Right Words At The Right Time Volume 2: Your Turn! (Blogcritics.org)
- Marlo Thomas: Words Can Change Lives (CBS News)
- Marlo Thomas writes about life-changing words (MSNBC)
- Marlo Thomas continues father's legacy (Munster Times, IN)
- That Girl: Season One (A.V. Club)
- Season 1 of groundbreaking 'That Girl' coming out on DVD (Philadelphia Daily News)
George Will (ABC News This Week Roundtable)
- George Will: Gonzales may need a refresher course on federal law pertaining to immigrants (The Union Leader, NH)
- Lessons for libs (Jewish World Review)
- George Will: Is Sen. John Sununu a ‘values voter’? (The Union Leader, NH)
- GEORGE WILL: Consider what President McCain might mean (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
- George Will Assails McCain on Constitution Remarks (NewsMax.com)
Antonio Villaraigosa (CNN Late Edition)
- Los Angeles Mayor
- Mexico's President To Meet With Mayor Villaraigosa (NBC4.TV, CA)
- LA mayor warns of Guard 'chilling' Mexican tourism, economic ties (Contra Costa Times)
- Jet-setting mayor (Los Angeles Daily News, CA)
- A Brown Day in LA (LA Weekly, CA)
- MEChA - -the Mexican Nazi movement (renewamerica.us)

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The most interesting guests to me will be the confrontations between Duncan Hunter and John Murtha (ABCTW). I have a feeling that this is a set up to make Hunter look bad, but if he's given a chance he might just surprise them. I'm also interested in the Mitch McConnell / Chuck Schumer "debate" on Face the Nation, but assume that McConnell will be handcuffed by his leadership position, so I'm not expecting the good stuff that he can usually bring to these things (but he might just surprise everyone). I also intend to pay attention to Eugene Robinson and find out just what type of talking points are likely to be coming out over the next few weeks.

The dominant meme appears to be that Washington is screwed up and it's the Republicans/Bush's fault. The secondary meme appears to be an attempt to denigrate any positive news from Iraq.

Here's Mark Kilmer's preview from RedState.COM

The Sunday Morning political talk shows - lineup

By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics

For Sunday, May 28, 2006
Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert will have Chuck Hagel and James Sensenbrenner on to talk immigration.
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks to Bill Frist and famed Nazi hunter Dick Durbin about immigration, gas prices, etc.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer will talk to Mitch McConnell and Chuckie Schumer about the election and politics.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to John Warner about Iraq and the "Hadttha revelations." Then he talks to Jack Murtha about what the show's site calls the "massacre in Haditha, Iraq." Oh, and Steph talks to singer Tony Orlando.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks to Iraqi deputy prime minister Barham Salih; Prince Hassan of Jordan, the king's uncle; LA Mayor Anthony Villargaiosa; and Tim Russert.
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Is there really anything left to discuss on immigration? To me, it seems that the lines have been long drawn on that matter. Perhaps Chuck (FTN) can discuss the recent spate of Presidential nominees flying through the Senate, despite a hostile Dem Party, the President's low job approval ratings, and the supreme influence of the lefty blogosophere.
I don't know if Jack Murtha (TW) is going to go on about "raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside," but it wouldn't surprise me.
I'll report on these shows tomorrow afternoon at RedState.com.

(2 comments, 2 new) Comments >> May 27th, 2006: 12:04:53

As to his "one man, five shows" graphic, boy do we have him beat all to hell! <g>