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Preview and Analysis for Weekend of March 31st and April 1st, 2007 Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UtahRep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. CBS's "Face the Nation" Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa.presidential counselor Dan Bartlett Fox News Sunday Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.Kevin Martin, chairman of the FCC. CNN "Late Edition" Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo.Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.Rev. Al SharptonDavid IgnatiusMichael WareCandy CrowleyJeff GreenfieldJoe Johns ABC's "This Week" Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.Presidential counselor Dan BartlettFormer Wisconsin Gov. Tommy ThompsonCal Ripken Jr. Week three of the...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of March 24th and 25th, 2007 Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Former U.S. Attorney David InglesiasFormer U.S. Attorney John McKaySen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill.Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. CBS's "Face the Nation" Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Former U.S. Attorney H.E. "Bud" Cummins." Fox News Sunday" Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss. CNN "Late Edition" Samir Sumaidaie, Iraqi ambassador to U.S.John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N.Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-UtahLanny Davis, former Clinton special counselDonna BrazileEd Gillespie, former RNC chairman. ABC's "This Week" Sen. Chuck Hagel,...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of March 17th and 18th, 2007 Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Senator Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.Rep. Joe Sestak, D-Pa.Former Rep. Tom Andrews, D-MaineFormer House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-TexasRichard Perle, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute CBS's "Face the Nation" Defense Secretary Robert GatesSenator Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. "Fox News Sunday" Former U.S. attorney Bud Cummins of ArkansasFormer U.S. attorney David Iglesias of New MexicoSenator Arlen Specter, R-Pa.Senator John Kerry, D-Mass.Alyssa Mastromonaco, campaign aide to Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. CNN "Late Edition" National security adviser Stephen HadleyRep. John Murtha, D-Pa.Former...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of March 10th and 11th, 2007 Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay KhalilzadMichael DuffyTed KoppelDana PriestMichael Beschloss CBS's "Face the Nation" Senator Charles Schumer, D - NYSenator Arlen Specter, R - PASenator Claire McCaskill, D - Mo "Fox News Sunday" Former Sen. Fred ThompsonRepresentative Maxine Waters, D - CABrit HumeBill KristolMara LiassonNina Easton CNN "Late Edition" Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar ZebariSenator Joseph Biden, D - DESenator Lindsey Graham, R - SCMike HuckabeeBill SchneiderDonna BrazileDavid Frum ABC's "This Week" Senator Jim Webb, D - VAFormer Senator...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of March 3rd and 4th, 2007 Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Representative John Murtha, D - PASenator Lindsey Graham, R - S.C.John HarwoodEugene Robinson "Fox News Sunday" Senator Dianne Feinstein, D - CARepresentative Pete Hoekstra, R - MIRepresentative Charlie Rangel, D - N.Y.Brit HumeBill KristolMara LiassonNina Easton CBS's "Face the Nation" Senator Carl Levin, Democrat - MichiganSenator Joseph Lieberman, I - CtAnne Hull CNN "Late Edition" Zalmay KhalilzadSenator Christopher Dodd, D - CTSenator Jon Kyl, R - AZLt. Gen. Raymond OdiernoRepresentative Tom Tancredo, R - CORon BrownsteinJill ZuckmanJohn...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of February 24th and 25th, 2007 Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Senator Carl Levin Democrat - Michigan Dan BalzMaureen DowdDoris Kearns GoodwinByron York "Fox News Sunday" Senator Chuck Hagel, Republican RINO - NebraskaGovernor Rick Perry, Republican - TexasGovernor Ed Rendell, Democrat - PennsylvaniaFormer FBI operative Eric O’NeillFred BarnesBill KristolJuan WilliamsElisabeth Bumiller CBS's "Face the Nation" Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Republican - CaliforniaFormer Sen. John Edwards, Democrat - North Carolina CNN "Late Edition" Dr. Mowaffak al-RubaieMadeleine AlbrightHenry KissingerSenator Sam Brownback, Republican - KansasRepresentative Jane Harman, Democrat - CaliforniaRepresentative Duncan Hunter,...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of February 17th and 18th, 2007Very late and abbreviated post this week.  The demands of my real job combined with inclement weather on a business trip this week has me way behind the eight ball right now.  I will therefore spare you my usual overblown and overly dramatic posting and limit myself to the necessary Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Tony SnowSenator Chuck Hagel - Republican - NebraskaSenator Jack Reed - Democrat - Rhode IslandRichard Engel CBS's "Face the Nation" Sen. Joseph Biden, Democrat - DelawareSen. Richard Lugar,...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of February 10th and 11th, 2007Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Representative Steny Hoyer, D-MDRepresentative John Boehner, R-OH CBS's "Face the Nation" Senator Chris Dodd, D-CTSenator Trent Lott, R-MSJohn Harris, Editor in Chief, Politico.COM "Fox News Sunday" Senator Mitch McConnell, R-KYSenator Jack Reed, D-RIDouglas Feith CNN "Late Edition" Senator Ron Wyden, D-ORSenator John Cornyn, R-TXRepresentative Duncan Hunter, R-CALt. Gen. Karl EikenberryTerry McAuliffe ABC's "This Week" Senator John Kerry, D-MAMike HuckabeeSean Penn The biggest news this week was the debate over the debate on the Iraq surge.  Republicans wanted to...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of February 3rd and 4th, 2007Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Former Senator John Edwards CBS's "Face the Nation" NFL Commissioner Roger GoodellCBS Sports Analyst Dan MarinoCBS Sports Lead Game Analyst Phil Simms "Fox News Sunday" Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. CNN "Late Edition" Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CaSen. Richard Lugar, R-IndRob Portman, Director OMBTom Vilsack, Former Iowa governorRalph Nader Robert Baer, Intelligence Columnist, TIME MagazineJohn McLaughlin, Former Deputy Director of CIAAmine Gemayel, Former president of LebanonMichael Gordon, New York Times ABC's "This Week" Sen. John McCain, R-AzSen....

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of January 27th and 28th, 2007Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Former Arkansas Gov. Mike HuckabeeSen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.Sen. David Vitter, R-La.Michael GersonKenneth Pollack CBS's "Face the Nation" Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va.Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa "Fox News Sunday" Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan.Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn CNN's "Late Edition" Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn.Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael SteeleDemocratic strategist Donna Brazile. ABC's "This Week" Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind.Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.Actor Kevin Bacon The battle is well and...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of January 20th and 21st, 2007Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows: NBC's "Meet the Press" Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-MassSen. John McCain, R-Ariz. CBS's "Face the Nation" Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. "Fox News Sunday" Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del.Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.   CNN's "Late Edition" Iraqi Ambassador to the U.S. Samir SumaidaieSen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. ABC's "This Week" Sen. Sam Brownback, R-KanNew Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.   The 100 hours are over and it looks like the "triumphant and all powerful"...

I'm "advance posting" the Saturday shows as I finish up the preview for the Sunday shows. Yeah, I know the Saturday shows have already started. Give me a break. I still have 15 of 16 stitches in my right eye and I have had to deal with that 16th stitch "attacking" me this week. You try to do this stuff and make deadline!!!!!!! ;^> I'll post the Analysis and details on the Sundays shows ASAP.

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of January 6th and 7th, 2007The new year begins, President Ford and Saddam Hussein have both been buried and now the Dhimmicrats are ascendant.  The only thing that would make the DBM's world complete would be if a fatal "accident" befell both Bush and Cheney so that Queen Nazi Pelosi could assume her rightful place in the White House.  Ah well, they can always hope that Conyers will ignore his promise and go ahead and impeach them both.  I mean, according to the DBM the Dhimmicrats have an overwhelming majority in both houses of Congress. ...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of December 30th and 31st, 2006With apologies to Robert Burns' mousie, these are the last shows for the year and all of the best laid plans of the show planners gang aft agley.  No doubt originally all that was to happen this weekend was a review of the (trumpant) Dhimmicrat's "overwhelming victory" in the November elections (never mind that the change in seats in 2006 in the House was barely half of the change in '94, or that the Dhimmicrats don't hold a majority in the Senate, despite what Wolf Blitzer tries to tell you). ...

Preview and Analysis for Weekend of December 23rd and 24th, 2006I'm trying a slightly different format this week.  I will put the show by show analysis in the detail post about each show, rather than in this post.  This is the overall analysis and a simple listing of the shows and guests for the five main shows for Sunday, sans comment, so that it's easier to see who is on at a glance.  Since starting my recovery from my eye surgery I seem to have accelerated the trend I was on of getting more and more wordy each week.  I'll...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for December 16 and 17, 2006We've now moved on from the DOA Iraq Survey Group report.  Despite the best efforts last week of the dinosaur media (better known in my posts as the DBM) to prop up the rather lame attempt at "peace in our time diplomacy" it just didn't gain any traction at all.  The central idea that we are not capable of winning and that we must cede Israel's future to the Jihadists as a blood offering, the way Chamberlain ceded Sudetenland to Hitler, was just too obviously sleazy and...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for December 9 and 10, 2006The Iraq Survey Group has delivered their tablets from the mountain and it is time for all of us to accept the fact that we have been defeated in Iraq and to stop worshipping the false god of democracy and freedom!  It's just too hard!  Instead we must accept Realpolitik and turn over all of the Middle East to the Islamists because we want to keep the oil flowing.  Those annoying Jews will just have to get over that whole Israel thing.  They should go back to...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for December 2 and 3, 2006 Having triumphed with a landslide win (hey, a 1 seat margin in the Senate and the smallest historical change in the House in a sixth year of a presidency is a mandate if they say it's a mandate!) the Democrats and DBM are now in full gloat mode.  They are trumpeting their plans to "fix" the country and undo all of the rotten things that the Republicans did since McChimpy Reagan defeated Holy Jimmy the C.  now the masks are off and they can finally reveal...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 25th and 26th, 2006 Very brief preview tonight.  I got the guests and links done on MTP and FTN, and the guests on  FNS Thursday night, before the surgery.  I was able to get the topics and guests for the other shows in tiny bits this afternoon, but that's all I'm going to do.  I got to the hospital a little after 6 this morning and the transplant was done and I was out of surgery, in recovery, before 10 AM and checked out before noon.  The surgery appears to...

Preview and Analysis of the Weekend Talk Shows for November 18 and 19, 2006The election is over.  So is the leadership fight.  The old media talking heads are now thrashing around trying to find a way to spin this new reality as a good thing and they're not having much luck.  And they're worried that a serious case of buyers remorse is setting in among the voters that they fooled in this election cycle. The few days since the election have seen the Dhimmicrats rhetorically confirm almost every warning the Republicans raised about what their agenda is.  You know, the...