Weekend Show *Preview* for 3/11 - 3/12 (not the live thread)

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[Phsstpok]

Saturday Shows

CNBC'S TIM RUSSERT SHOW

• Meme:
  • George Bush never really wanted to capture Osama and was really intent on going to war with Iraq all the time

• Topics:
  • Former CIA agent Gary Berntsen, author of “Jawbreaker”  tells the riveting tale of how Osama bin Laden escaped at Tora Bora.
• Guests
  • Former CIA agent Gary Berntsen, author of “Jawbreaker”
• The program airs on CNBC Saturday nights at 7 & 10 p.m. ET

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page

• Meme:
  • Is George W. Bush in control?
  • Why is he doing inexplicable things?
• Topics:
  • "Could scores of sealed documents reveal Saddam Hussein's terror ties?" (from FNC web site)
  • "The battle inside the Bush Administration over releasing Saddam Hussein's tapes and internal documents" (from Opinion Journal web site)
  • "What does South Dakota's ban on abortions tell us about the future of abortion law and politics?" (from Opinion Journal web site)
• Guests
  • Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard
    • Lead reporter pursuing the captured Saddam documents
• Journal Editorial Report (at Fox News) contact information - jer@foxnews.com
• The program is from The Wall Street Journal and airs on FNC Saturday nights at 11 p.m. ET and again Sunday at 6 a.m.

Sunday Shows

Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

• Meme:
  • George Bush is a lame duck (as per Chris Wallace Friday morning on Fox and Friends)
  • George W. Bush isn't in control.
• Topics:
  • "GOP revolt?"
  • "Scuttling of Dubai port deal"
• Guests
  • Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.
    • He led GOP the rebellion against President Bush
  • Mike Pence, R-Ind.
    • Can the GOP be saved?
  • Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn.
    • Democrats are happy that the deal to give an Ayrab company control of security at our ports may be blocked
    • Any damage to the President over the ports sell out is the fault of George W. Bush
    • Is Chris Dodd thinking of running for president?
  • Placido Domingo
    • He sings a little
• Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com

NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

• Meme:
  • George W. Bush isn't in control
  • Is George Bush irrelevant?
  • Who's next?
• Topics:
  • "With civil unrest rising in Iraq, what is the plan if the situation escalates?"
  • "(T)he regime in Iran continues to defy the world with it's nuclear ambitions. What is next?"
  • "(T)he Republican-led Congress turned against President Bush as the battle over our ports reached its boiling point. How will the port controversy affect the Bush presidency?"
  • Discussion of book "Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion & Occupation of Iraq".
• Guests
  • Senator George Allen
    • George Allen is running for president
  • Senator Joe Biden
    • Joe Biden is running for president
  • Michael Gordon, chief military correspondent for the New York Times
    • Everything you thought you knew about the war in Iraq is wrong and the New York Times will tell you the Truth
  • Gen. Bernard Trainor (Ret.)
    • He'll back up the New York Times version, he's a retired soldier, dontcha know
• 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)

CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

• Meme:
  • Forget about Bush, he's already toast.
  • Who's next?
• Topics:
  • none listed
• Guests
  • Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.
    • Mike Huckabee is running for president
    • Did you know he lost 110 pounds?
  • Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.
    • Barack Obama is running for savior of the world
• Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

• Meme:
  • George W. Bush is an idiot and a failure
  • Who's next?
• Topics:
  • National Security
  • Port Security
  • 2008 presidential politics
• Guests
  • Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn
    • Bill Frist is running for president
  • Senator Russ Feingold, D-Wis.
    • Russ Feingold is running for president
  • political satirist Art Buchwald
    • Art Buchwald is dying and they'll give him one last shot at George W. Bush
  • Donna Brazile (roundtable)
  • Jay Carney (roundtable)
  • Claire Shipman (roundtable)
  • George Will. (roundtable)

• ABC This Week comment web page

CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

• Meme:
  • George W. Bush really messed up in Iraq
  • George W. Bush really messed up with the ports deal
  • George W. Bush really messed up with the NSA domestic spying/breaking the law/invasion of privacy program
  • Who's next?
• Topics:
  • "DNC chairman Howard Dean on why he thinks a controversial port deal fell through"
  • "Sens. John Warner and Carl Levin weigh in on Iraq, the ports controversy and more."
• Guests
  • Zalmay Khalilzad: U.S. ambassador to Iraq
    • George Bush "opened Pandora's box" by invading Iraq and deposing Saddam
  • John Edwards: Former vice presidential candidate and former U.S. senator
    • John Edwards is running for president
  • Jack Kemp: Former vice presidential candidate and former U.S. congressman
    • Jack Kemp couldn't be running for president, could he?  Nah.
  • Gov. Howard Dean: Chairman, Democratic National Committee
    • Everything, everywhere, is George W. Bush's fault
    • Howard Dean is secretly running for president
  • Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan : Member Armed Services Committee, Select Intelligence Committee and Homeland Security Committee
    • Levin will spout the "George Bush is incompetent/lying and Katrina/NSA/DPW prove it" talking points
    • He may be crazy, but he's not stupid, therefore he's not running for president
  • Sen. John Warner, R-Virginia: Chairman Armed Services Committee, Member of Select Intelligence Committee and Homeland Security Committee
    • he's not running for president, either, but he'd like you to think so
    • he's going to be attacked as part of the "secret White House plot" to get DPW to pull out of the US ports (but they really aren't pulling out)
• CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)

This is NOT intended to be the live Sunday Morning Talk Show thread. I trust AB will do that as usual. This is strictly a preview of who will be on the main shows. The idea is to give folks a chance to muster their resources for that thread.

I would particularly ask that anyone with specific knowledge or resources about the topics / guests announced for these shows post them here so that the rest of us can go into the shows with a heads up on what to look for.

[Peach]

Yes - I think Ken would be an excellent person to get information to.

I need his hard address; I only have an e-mail address.

[Phsstpok]

I'm glad I was wrong on the outcome of the discussion. Did Tim try to steer him towards other conclusions?

I bet we don't see him on the MSM talk shows much anymore. Probably no round 2 next week on CNN the way Edwards and Kemp are getting this week.

[Txsleuth]

Sounds like homework....I will see what I can do...but, I betcha someone here on FR has it.

[Peach]

We'll find it by Monday. I have a dentist appointment Monday morning so won't be around until after that.

[Peach]

You're right; he won't be welcome on the shows after tomorrow now that he's made his intentions clear.

Tim tried repeatedly to get him to say the war in Iraq distracted us from capturing OBL, etc., and Bernsten wouldn't fall for it in any way and denied that Russert was correct on a lot of assertions. Loved that he slammed Kerry as being wrong that we outsourced capturing OBL. LOL

[Txsleuth]

Well...here in my city...it is Spring Break...so I will be having my 6 year old granddaughter all day, along with my 1 year old...

So...you can imagine I won't be getting much freeping done..but I will do what I can.

[Peach]

I'll just ping you to the thread so you can bump it. It probably won't go anywhere, but I'd really like to see at least a dozen freepers or more sign on to making phone calls or sending a few letters. Sigh

What else can we do? We just have to find a way to convey how important it is to turn around the debacle over the ports and garner support for the WOT. If we can make people see that WMD are probably in Syria and the president didn't lie, and that he certainly didn't lie about the relationship between Iraq/AQ, then the Democrats will be toast in November '06.

[Txsleuth]

What is needed on FR is an attitude adjustment...from anger to activism, like you said.

You need to post that on tomorrow's Sunday Thread also...because the Sunday Thread seems to draw a lot of the "activist" type freepers. None of the others will stomach those shows...LOL

[rodguy911]

What a job Phsstpok, excellent work! This thread really gives you a head start for tomorrow's "activities",should be big day tomorrow.

[Peach]

That's a good idea. See you tomorrow, Txsleuth and thanks for your comments and suggestions. Every bit of it helps.

[rodguy911]

There is a lot to turn around.
We made an important ally in the WOT look bad, world wide. In essence, IMHO, that jeopardizes our troops.How? They UAE, provided needed intel to us about terrorists. who knows how far it went, but who knows what we will get from them from now on.
Sad day. I'm still not over it.

[Txsleuth]

HAIRBALL is having a LIVE show at the Memphis REpublican get together NOW.

[Bahbah]

Thanks, sleuth. So much for McCain's stunt. I see Frist has won the straw poll. Good, because it won't do Frist much good, but it's a smack in the face of McCain.

[Bahbah]

Bless you, Peach. I couldn't see this but now I feel as though I did.

[Txsleuth]

LOL...McCain didn't even come in SECOND!!! Romney did.

Then Allen and Bush tied for third.

I guess McCain promising oodles of $$$$$$$ for Louisiana didn't work...hehe

[Phsstpok]

They're trying to set the agenda for the November elections, convincing us (and perhaps more importantly the panic stricken RINOs) that

1. George Bush is already toast and a lame duck (who may be impeached at any minute)
   
2. Iraq is already in a civil war
3. Iran is beyond our control
4. A-rabs are all terrorists and we have to shut off all contact with them
   

I appear to have judged Russert's agenda correctly on his CNBC show tonight, but Gary Berntsen seems to have crossed him up and not given him the answers he was after.

I don't see anybody doing that to him on MTP tomorrow (I just don't think George Allen is willing to make Russert look bad, he needs the Washington press corps to badly) and the NY Times will definitely have Trainor and Gordon on a short leash.

It won't matter if Huckabee is the best speaker ever and Obama mumbles incoherently on FTN, Schieffer will fawn all over Obama and sneer at "the hick."

The question for me on ABC is how will Frist do.  His stand on the UN human rights body is pretty strong, but I bet it won't even come up.  He'll either "go along" and be nice or Steffy will decide it's time to declare his candidacy over (but they see him as ineffective so they want to keep him in the race).

Pence and Hunter could be interesting.  Hunter has some big time fence mending to do with the White House (which he apparently has started) and Pence seems to be emerging as a strong up and comer.

I know I always get more out of this thread than I put into it and it definitely helps me figure out what's going on during the Sunday shows (if I could only keep up... <G>).

[Phsstpok]

Thanks, but The Core is on FX. Much more believable and reality based than anything Chrissy might spout. <g>

 Seriously, I'll flip back and forth. I really like the part with Delroy Lindo and the "unobtanium" and Stanley Tucci's Carl Sagan schtick is hilarious. It's trash, but it's trash that doesn't take itself seriously, unlike Chrissy.

[eeevil conservative]

WOW!

I really like this thread...


I have to be honest...

During the Terri Schiavo crisis I was quite active..

I even traveled to FLorida twice. I was up reading court transcripts until 5 am, etc...

I also got involved in the Mis Mae case and traveled to La Grange GA for WND....

I found out some things while I was there that made me drop everything.... I MEAN EVERYTHING....

I disappeared from FREEP for a LONG time.

Since I have been back.. I have been hanging out... but not really ACTIVE..

It has been too hard to do it...it's like I have had a wall up....protecting me from the fallout of failure once again...

But when Capitol Hill agreed to 45 day review and then never reviewed it and shut it down in 6 days... well- I AM HOT about that.

If the deal was rejected after the 45 days.. I could've handled that... just like I have accepted the eminent domain etc... it is not losing the battle that ired me.. it was them LYING to us about wanting to review than ANGERED ME....

now- this thread.. it has sparked me... to be ACTIVE again...

it feels good...

thanks...

sorry- I didn't intend to spill so much when I started typing.. but there it is...

thanks...

e.c.

[Txsleuth]

LOL...don't apologize.

It is like I told Peach earlier, we need to be able to vent on FR...we just need to vent about, and too, those that are the cause..not at each other.

Even though I am OLD, I am a newbie in political acitivism...so, I haven't had the disappointment yet that you obviously had when you even had to stop freeping..

But, I am becoming very disillusioned and weary about the Republicans...I expected to fight the dems...but not the GOP..

I can even fight the MSM...I KNOW their biases...but, I don't like not knowing what GOP politicians are "solid" and not "fair weather" Republicans.

[Peach]

What happened in GA? Can you tell us via freepmail?

We all need to walk away at times because we get so disillusioned. I've never been so furious with our own side as I am right now over this port deal.