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.

[Phsstpok]

These are links to recent articles by or about this weeks guests that I think might give a clue as to why they have been invited on this week's shows

• Senator George Allen (NBC Meet The Press)
  • Reagan Navy Secretary Enters Race to Challenge Sen. Allen (Washington Post)
  • George Allen in 2008? (RedState.COM)
  • GOP's big names jockey for position at The Peabody (WMC-TV, Memphis, TN)
  • Sen. Allen questions sale of port facilities (Daily Press, VA)
• Gary Berntsen, former CIA agent, author of “Jawbreaker” (CNBC'S Tim Russert Show)
  • Jawbreaker: a CIA Account of the War on Terror (Stanford Review, CA)
  • The book the CIA doesn't want people to read (MSNBC)
  • Losing bin Laden (Washington Post)
  • A Half-Dozen Questions About 9/11 They Don't Want You to Ask (Mathaba.Net, UK)
• Senator Joe Biden  (NBC Meet The Press)
  • Joe Biden Rips Port Critics' Arab-bashing (NewsMax)
  • Wanted: Alternative to Hillary Clinton (International Herald Tribune, France)
  • Biden to push for 'rail police force' (The News Journal, DE)
  • Washington: Splitting hairs or hair-raising splits? (Jerusalem Post)
  • Congress still has its say about nuclear power and India (WHBF, IL)

• Donna Brazile (ABC This Week roundtable)
  • Bush dodges showdown over ports deal as Dubai firm gives up stake (Canada.com)
  • Port Security Frenzy: Real Concern or Real Grandstanding? (Townhall.COM)
• Art Buchwald, political satirist (ABC This Week)
  • Art Buchwald having 'time of his life' at hospice (Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa)
  • The Final Days of Art Buchwald: A Visit (Editor & Publisher)
  • The Genius of Art Buchwald (Washington Post)

• Jay Carney (ABC This Week roundtable)
  • TIME.com -- Jay Carney: Biography (Time Magazine)
• Gov. Howard Dean: Chairman, Democratic National Committee
  • Harold Ickes' Data Project Snubs Howard Dean (NewsMax)
  • Moe, Larry and Curly? (Washington Post)
  • Howard Dean rallies the Democratic troops (Aspen Daily News, CO)
  • Howard Dean fires up Albuquerque crowd (Santa Fe New Mexican, NM)
  • Howard Dean, on the Iraq War (Questions and Observations)
  • Howard Dean Compares President Bush to President of Iran (National Ledger, AZ)

• Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn. (Fox News Sunday)
  • Dubai firm scuttles USports deal (Connecticut Post)
  • Senators want foreign-deal panel fixed (Washington Post)
  • In Congress, budgets are irrelevant (Town Hall)
  • Last paychecks in for Sikorsky workers (Connecticut Post)

• John Edwards: Former vice presidential candidate and former U.S. senator
  • Edwards' work on Russia study adds foreign-policy credentials (Winston-Salem Journal, NC)
  • Edwards, McCain to appear at political events in Iowa (DesMoinesRegister.com, IA)
  • John Edwards talks policy, presidency, hoops (Bradenton Herald)
  • Ex-Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards Visits the Heartland (KTVO, MO)

• Senator Russ Feingold, D-Wis. (ABC This Week)
  • Patriot Act passage will cap long Feingold-Sensenbrenner battle (Janesville Gazette, WI)
  • Bush Signs Renewal of Patriot Act (Guardian Unlimited)
  • ANWR stage is set (Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, AK)
  • Wanted: Alternative to Hillary Clinton (International Herald Tribune, France)
• Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn (ABC This Week)
  • Looking to '08, Frist reshuffles team (U.S. News & World Report)
  • Frist Announces Flag Vote (National Journal)
  • Bill Frist Threatens Mini-Nuclear Option To Block NSA Hearings (The Moderate Voice)
  • Congress Rebels Against Bush On Ports While Warner Seeks Rescue (The Moderate Voice)
  • Port Security Still Could Cause Rift Between Bush, Congress (FOX News)
• Michael Gordon, chief military correspondent for the New York Times (NBC Meet The Press)
  • New York Times raises new charges against German intelligence (World Socialist Web Site)
  • Germans Deny 'NY Times' Iraq Report, Keller Holds Firm (Editor & Publisher)
  • Editor's Response to German Statement on Times Report (The New York Times)

• Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard (Journal Editorial Report)
  • Release the captured documents (American Thinker, AZ)
  • Open the Iraq Files (Opinion Journal)
• Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark. (CBS Face The Nation)
  • Huckabee among presidential hopefuls taking stage at GOP event (Arkansas News)
  • Mike Huckabee in '08? (Town Hall)
  • Republicans Looking Beyond Bush to 2008 (Guardian Unlimited, UK)
  • Yepsen: Left/right extremes drive Iowa political landscape (Des Moines Register)

• Duncan Hunter, R-Calif. (Fox News Sunday)
  • Duncan Hunter Rips Clinton on Dubai Deal (NewsMax) - prediction: it will never come up
  • Duncan Hunter Warns of Dubai WMD Trade (NewsMax) - but this will
  • Duncan Hunter slams DP World deal (Marine Log)
  • Ports deal off, Bush avoids a showdown (International Herald Tribune, France)

• Jack Kemp: Former vice presidential candidate and former U.S. congressman
  • Jack Kemp: George Allen Is 'Rising Star' (NewsMax)
  • Edwards' work on Russia study adds foreign-policy credentials (Winston-Salem Journal, NC)
  • The politics of the ports deal (PowerLine Blog)

• Zalmay Khalilzad: U.S. ambassador to Iraq
  • US presses Iraqis to end deadlock (ABC News)
  • Khalilzad Admits US Unlocked Pandora's Box in Iraq (Zaman Online, Turkey)
  • Zalmay Khalilzad: US power broker (BBC News, UK)
  • US Plans to Let Iraqis Deal With a Civil War (LA Times)

• Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan : Member Armed Services Committee, Select Intelligence Committee and Homeland Security Committee
  • Domestic-spying panel briefed at White House (AZ Central.com)
  • Stabenow, Levin reach different conclusions on Patriot Act (MLive.com, MI)
  • Senator wants answers on 2,000 missing in Katrina (Times Picayune, LA)
  • Levin accuses White House of ignoring law in OK'ing ports deal (WLNS, MI)

• Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. (CBS Face The Nation)
  • Sen. Barack Obama rallies Kansas Democrats (Kansas.com)
  • Statement of Senator Barack Obama on the African Union (Sudan Tribune, Sudan)
  • Barack Obama on energy independence (Grist Magazine, WA)
  • Barack Obama appearance draws large crowds in Memphis (WMC-TV, TN)

• Mike Pence, R-Ind. (Fox News Sunday)
  • Line-item veto might hitch ride on lobbying overhaul bill (GovExec.com)
  • The Contract with America, Renewed (RedState.COM)
  • How Did the GOP Lose Its Way? (Human Events)
  • GOP evokes budget promise (Washington Times)

• Claire Shipman (ABC This Week roundtable)
  • GMA Sets 'Sights on Cheney (NewsBusters)
• Gen. Bernard Trainor (Ret.)
  • Germany gave US Saddam's war plan (International Herald Tribune, France)
  • German Intelligence Gave US Iraqi Defense Plan, Report Says (New York Times)

• Sen. John Warner, R-Virginia: Chairman Armed Services Committee, Member of Select Intelligence Committee and Homeland Security Committee
  • Port deal dies in a storm (Newsday)
  • John Warner: 500 US Warships Docked in Dubai (NewsMax)
  • DP World to Shift US Port Control to US `Entity' (Bloomberg)
  • Ports Deal A Victim Of Wide Opposition (Post Chronicle)
  • Fox News Alert: Rove Asked DPW to Drop Deal (News Hounds)

• George Will (ABC This Week roundtable)
  • George Will: Chief Justice John Roberts gave law professors a needed lesson in constitutional law (Union Leader, NH)
  • Geroge Will: Looking back (and ahead) with Edwards (Jewish World Review)

[Phsstpok]

Ping

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The most interesting guest to me is Mike Pence.  Will he become a major player (I hope)?

The dominant meme appears to be that Bush is so over, let's look to his replacement and ignore everything he says and does from now on.

[eeevil conservative]

HOW ARE YOU DOING!!????

Thanks for the post too!!

[Bahbah]

Placido Domingo!!! I'll go back and do my homework, which you have so wonderfully provided, but I am a hardcore opera fan and I just got all excited when I saw this. Thanks you so much for all of your hard work, Phsstpok. It's a feast of information.

[Phsstpok]

I'm doing good, thanks. The massive amounts of eye drops I'm doing are causing my pupils to shrink to pin heads, so I don't know how much of what I'm seeing is the result of the surgery and what is distorted by that teeny tiny window. Regardless, I don't have any big pain and I do have massively better sight, without correction, in that eye.

The big issue I'm still dealing with is having been awake throughout the surgery. I remember it, but I can feel that I'm blocking, as well. Thirteen years ago, when I had the corneal transplant with only local anesthetic, it was two hours of surgery and the trauma of that experience, not the surgery itself, debilitated me for 6 months. This was only 15 minutes on the table. Still, watching it from the inside....

I am probably doing too much and am getting headaches. I'm going to cut back on this thread and the Sunday thread, as well (as much as I can stand... you know how it is).

[eeevil conservative]

I wonder if ANY OF THE TALK SHOWS will bring THIS STORY UP!?

Deal gives Dubai firm control of 23 U.S. ports - Eller lobbied Schumer - Causing this uproar

I AM NOT HOLDING MY BREATH! this will be BURRIED!

[eeevil conservative]

We will SOOOOO miss you.. but we truly want you to take care of yourself!

I am so sorry for this trauma... I really am...

[Phsstpok]

Placido Domingo isn't mentioned on the FNS web page, but Chris Wallace talked about him during his "coming up this weekend" segment on Fox And Friends this morning. He specificially mentioned that he will sing.

Probably the Power Player Of The Week segment?

[Jean S]

Excellent job! Thanks.

[Bahbah]

Probably the Power Player Of The Week segment?

That would be my guess. They have my attention :)

[Cboldt]

LOL. Good presentation, quite a few laughs in it (for me anyway). Appears your surgery was successful, otherwise you REALLY aren't one to complain.

Damn, If I'd have posted that ports thread a few weeks ago, this ports-crap would have had a short period of discomfort, eh?

[Cboldt]

The Eller angle was covered on a Sunday thread in the middle of February.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581542/posts?page=701#701
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581542/posts?page=731#731

Eller's 10-50 million dollar beef is trivial in a 7 billion dollar deal. Not something to be ignored, but not the center of attention either.

See also http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1593184/posts?page=538#538 for links to disposition of the case Eller took to London to try to stop the sale of P&O. (they lost).

[Phsstpok]

Send the link, with explanation, to each of the shows.

That's part of the reason for the thread.

Good catch, by the way.

[eeevil conservative]

LOL! Cboldt already has pointed out that I am WAY LATE to the game! ROFLLL!

dang! and as much as I try and stay involved... I MISSED THIS! the media has been STRIDENT in burrying it!

oy!

[Phsstpok]

Oh, wow, Bill Frist really is running for president:

If the United Nations doesn't agree to major reforms of its Human Rights Commission, the U.S. should stick to its principles and withdraw from the body.

U.S. should recoil from UN rogues (Bill Frist Op-Ed)
(FR Thread discussing Chicago Tribune op-ed by Frist)

Now he chooses to grow a pair! 

[Cboldt]

LOL! Cboldt already has pointed out that I am WAY LATE to the game!

Schumer's involvement is news - but I figured the overall context was helpful. Most people piling on the "Eller revelation" jump to the conclusion that Eller is the pivot point or something. Schumer's pre-involvment via Eller is news in that it tarnishes his personal motive for action.

FWIW, the reason I found Eller back in February was because it was reported that a Miami player was suing to stop the sale. Hence a focus for research.

I'm surprised you missed this, your posts are surrounding mine on that Feb 19 thread!

[Phsstpok]

Arabs drop ports deal; S. Fla. firm in running [Eller]

FR thread on new Miami Herald article.

FR may have been on this before, but it's coming up again.  Ping the shows!
 

[Cboldt]

[Frist] If the United Nations doesn't agree to major reforms of its Human Rights Commission, the U.S. should stick to its principles and withdraw from the body.

Now he chooses to grow a pair!

Yeah, of lips. Talk is cheap, and he does quite a bit of it. Still hasn't brought the President's Circuit Court nominations up, one of which is coming up his ONE YEAR anniversary of being voted out of Committee.

[eeevil conservative]

Feb 19th.... I think I was sober that day...

oy!

I have to admit- it is the Schumer in the thread title here on FReep that made me go check it out....sorry I missed your information back then....I guess I get intimidated by you and a few others on your research...

you all are TREMENDOUS...

[Txsleuth]

Like I asked Gipper 08 yesterday....I want to know how Mike Pence feels about the Appropriations Committee voting to put the ports amendment in the Supplemental Bill for our troops, which is using them...and humiliating President Bush..

Also, I notice Schmuckie isn't on the list..because I would like to know about his relationship with the company that COULD take DPWorld's place...

Granddaughter bugging me to play with blocks, I will write more later...