[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

• Abdullah Abdullah: Afghanistan minister of foreign affairs (CNN Late Edition)
  • Malaysia pledges to help reconstruct Afghanistan (Bahrain News Agency, Bahrain)
  • Kabul calls for policy ‘consistency’ (Pakistan Dawn, Pakistan)
  • Afghanistan asks Pak to sincerely rein in terror (NewKerala.com, India)
  • Security Situation In Afghanistan Has Improved A Lot (Bernama, Malaysia)
• Sen. Joseph Biden: D-Delaware Foreign Relations Committee (CNN Late Edition)
  • Democrats to unveil positive agenda, starting with budget (Ocala.com, FL)
  • Dems bash Bush, but they also go positive (Canton Repository (subscription), OH)
  • 'US troops may leave Iraq by summer' (Times of India, India)
• Wolf Blitzer (host - CNN Late Edition)
  • Bush Administration Wants To "Talk Things Over" With Iran; (March 17 Situation Room transcript)
  • Russ Feingold Takes A Stand (March 17 Situation Room transcript)
  • Operation Swarmer Launched in Iraq; Rumsfeld Works on Iraq P.R. Effort; (March 16 Situation Room transcript)
  • U.S. Military Opens Investigations Into Iraqi Civilian Deaths Last Year; (March 16 Situation Room transcript)
• Zbigniew Brzezinski: former national security adviser (CNN Late Edition)
  • Zbigniew Brzezinski: Bring the troops home! (World War 4 Report, NY)
  • Get Your War Out (Yahoo! News)
  • The Commander in Chief Has Lost the Troops (Antiwar.com, CA)
• Ahmed Chalabi: Iraqi deputy prime minister (CNN Late Edition)
  • Barnes: Media Stuck on Daily Diet of Explosions in Iraq While Columnist Sees Progress (NewsBusters)
  • ZWEIFEL: Another Iraq Story Gets Debunked (jihadunspun.com, Canada)
  • The Case of the Phony General: Frontline Responds (Mother Jones, CA)
  • Iraqi Leader Details Next Step to New Government (New York Times)
  • Iraq: Pressure From Without and Chaos Within the Shiite Alliance (Stratfor)
• Vice President Dick Cheney (CBS Face The Nation)
  • Cheney lends support to GOP candidate (News 14 Charlotte, NC)
• Sam Donaldson (ABC This Week - roundtable)
  • David Gregory Insists He's Not Putting on a Show (NewsBusters)
• Sen. Richard Durbin (Fox News Sunday)
  • Gas Prices On the Rise, Again (KSBI 52, OK)
  • US Senators investigate why gas is so high (49abcnews.com, KS)
  • Durbin Calls Budget A 'Loser' (CBS2 Chicago, IL)
  • Border-security debate seen as threat to immigration law (Houston Chronicle)
  • Lawmakers Question Oil Execs on Prices (Forbes)
  • Illegal immigrants shouldn't be classified as criminals (San Jose Mercury News)
• Paul Gigot, Walls Street Journal (host - Journal Editorial Report)
  • The Journal Editorial Report Archive (past show transcripts) (OpinionJournal.COM)
• Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. (ABC This Week)
  • Chuck Hagel and President Bush (Redstate.COM)
  • Hagel co-sponsors bill to address domestic spying (Lincoln Journal Star, NE)
  • News Analysis: Bush doctrine splits Republicans (International Herald Tribune, France)
  • Bush democracy push meets resistance (UPI)
• Henry Kissinger: former secretary of state (CNN Late Edition)
  • Democracy Push by Bush Attracts Doubters in Party (The Ledger, FL)
  • Doctrine that aims to heal Republican rifts on policy (MSN Money)
• Sen. Richard Lugar: R-Indiana, Foreign Relations Committee chairman (CNN Late Edition)
  • Obama and Lugar introduce 'American Fuels Act' (Grist Magazine, WA)
  • The US - Venezuela energy showdown (V Crisis, UK)
  • US-India Nuke Bill Sent to the Hill (Washington Post)
  • A step forward in Indo-US nuke deal (Chennai Online, India)
  • News Analysis: Bush doctrine splits Republicans (International Herald Tribune, France)
• Stephen Moore, Walls Street Journal (Journal Editorial Report)
  • On Scarborough Country, WSJ's Moore falsely claimed U.S. has more oil than Saudi Arabia (Media Matters for America, DC)
  • The Journal Editorial Report Archive (past show transcripts) (OpinionJournal.COM)
• Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa. (NBC Meet The Press)
  • Murtha to Receive JFK Profile in Courage Award (TownHall.COM)
  • Accepting reality: America lost Iraq War (Aljazeera.com)
• Colorado Governor Bill Owens (Journal Editorial Report)
  • Sensible step toward immigration reform (Denver Post)
  • Salazar working with Bush on borders (Denver Post)
  • Colorado House Passes Smoking Ban; Owens' Signature Expected (TheDenverChannel.com, CO)
• Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review (Journal Editorial Report)
  • Illegal Detour - Thinking reasonably about immigration (National Review)
  • Risky business (PowerLine Blog)
  • The Party of Death: The Assault on the Sanctity of Life (ProLife Blogs)
  • The Journal Editorial Report Archive (past show transcripts) (OpinionJournal.COM)
• Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I. (ABC This Week)
  • New England lawmakers applaud $1 billion boost in home heat aid (Eyewitness News, RI)
  • Moderates blow by Bush's spending cap (GovExec.com)
  • House OKs additional $1b in energy assistance (Boston Globe)
  • Liberians In US Crave Ellen's Intervention, Want Permanent Residency Status (AllAfrica.com, Washington)
• Jason Riley, Walls Street Journal (Journal Editorial Report)
  • The Journal Editorial Report Archive (past show transcripts) (OpinionJournal.COM)
• Cokie Roberts (ABC This Week - roundtable)
  • Bush's political boomerang (Napa Valley Register, CA)
  • A new rug, with mud stains (Napa Valley Register, CA)
• Tim Russert (host - NBC Meet The Press & CNBCs Tim Russert Show)
  • Democrats believe National Security now in play (MSNBC "Russert on Politics")
  • GOP treads carefully around Iraq, ports (MSNBC "Russert on Politics")
  • Libby lawyers subpoena Times, Judith Miller, Tim Russert (WIS, SC)
  • Tim Russert: Port Fight in Best Interest (Human Events)
  • Poll shows nearly half of Americans favor censure (Oxford Press, OH)
• Bob Schieffer (host - CBS Face The Nation)
  • A Message For Iraqis (CBS News Face The Nation web site)
  • Feeling Abandoned In New Orleans (CBS News Face The Nation web site)
  • Honesty Still The Best Policy (CBS News Face The Nation web site)
• George Stephanopoulos (host - ABC This Week)
  • Bush legacy rests on Iraq, Stephanopolous says (Charleston Gazette, WV)
• Chris Wallace (host - Fox News Sunday)
  • Wallace: Bush may be sliding into lame duck status (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Mike Wallace (CNBCs Tim Russert Show)
  • Mike Wallace: Journalist First, American Second (with Vintage Video) (NewsBusters)
  • I'm Mike Wallace, signing off (Kansas City Star, MO)
  • The Man Who Made '60 Minutes' Tick (Washington Post)
  • Wallace gives a look behind the scenes of history (Boston Globe)
• George Will (ABC This Week - roundtable)
  • George Will on Bush’s national security record (Think Progress, DC)
  • Robert Schlesinger: George Will blasts WH (Yahoo! News)

[Phsstpok]

Ping

The Weekend Preview Thread is up

If you would like on or off my ping list please Freepmail me

The most interesting guest to me is Dick Cheney.  How badly will they edit the interview?

The dominant meme appears to be that Bush the GOP is so over, let's look to his their replacement and ignore everything he they says say and do does from now on (unless it hurts Bush).  Oh, and we've lost in Iraq, let's go home now.

I will probably be light on this and the Sunday thread.  I've gone back to work and have actually had more trouble with my eyes this week, mostly because I'm having problems getting used to the better vision in the left eye.  Trying to work on my office computer has been giving me headaches and making me nauseous, but it's gotten a little better each day.  Today my brain just gave up trying to mix the vision from the eye with the contact lens (about 20/40) and the eye that had the operation (about 20/80) and I just can't read anything for more than about 10 minutes at a time.

I count on others to carry the load.  I shall return!

[Miss Marple]

What an amazing amount of work you put in! Thanks for all you do!

I will be sure to watch Cheney on CBS, as I am sure he will destroy Schieffer. HA!

[Txsleuth]

HELLO>...to one of my favorite Freepers!!!

Did you get your ping...from cgk, who is the keeper of the ping list thread???

I got it tonight...but, I am afraid I may have given him the wrong actual title of what you call your thread..

BUT, I wanted your wonderful new thread to be listed with all of the other regulars...so whenever a freeper, especially a new one, looks as the list..they will see yours.

[Once-Ler]

Wow. Thanx for compiling all this in one thread. I think I'll be prepared to yell at the TV Sunday morning much more convincingly this week. :)

[A Citizen Reporter]

Wow! Add me to your ping list.

Russert's only guest is Murtha?

Did I read that Russert was subpoenaed this week?

[mathluv]

'Note: this week the program airs on FNC Saturday at 4 p.m. ET and again at 11 p.m. Saturday night and Sunday at 6 a.m.'

I did not realize it came on during the afternoon on Saturday. Thanks for the info and the ping.

[Phsstpok]

The Journal Editorial Report is starting on Fox News Channel

Also, a few extra Fox weekend shows have posted info:

The Beltway Boys (Fred Barnes and Mort Kondracke)

• Topics
  • Public anxiety rises to new levels over the war as U.S. and Iraqi forces launch a new offensive
  • And the White House staff under fire — with the loudest shot coming from a Republican
• Airs Saturday at 6 and 11:30 p.m. ET on FNC

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

• Topics
  • The media and the war in Iraq: three years later
  • What's the attraction between the media and the mob?
  • At age 87 Mike Wallace says he'll retire
• Airs Saturdays at 6:30 p.m. ET and Sundays at 2:30 a.m. ET

And one just for history buffs

War Stories (Oliver North)

• Topic: The Life and Times of Dwight Eisenhower
  • Find out how this small-town American went from the poorhouse to the White House, becoming a fierce soldier and brilliant diplomat along the way
• Airs Sunday at 8 p.m. ET

[Morgan in Denver]

Hi Phsstpok, I would like to be on the ping list for the preview thread. Thanks. Morgan