Weekend Show *Preview* for 4/29 - 4/30 (not the live thread)

Network and Cable News Networks | 4/29/06 | Network and Cable News

[Phsstpok]

The main message is the Sunday Shows.  Message 1 will be the Saturday Shows and message 2 will be the show guest links post.  Then I'll post the ping list.

ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

• Meme:
  • It's the oil companies fault
  • OK, if it's not the oil companies, then it's the incompetent Bush administration foreign policies
  • George Clooney is a serious and important voice on the international stage (can you say "presidential material?")
• Topics:
  • Oil, Iraq and foreign policy
    • Turmoil overseas is pinching American pocketbooks at the gas pumps. On Sunday, I'll speak with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to ask how the administration's foreign policy is effecting the unsteady worldwide oil markets.
    • What's the plan going forward in Iraq? Secretary Rice & Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit; can the fragile Iraqi government survive and when will U.S. soldiers come home?
  • The Oil Industry vs. Congress
    • Senator Chuck Schumer, D-Ny., debates former Senator turned oil industry spokesperson J. Bennett Johnston, D-La., over rising gas prices and who's to blame.
    • As the oil industry continues to see record profits, Schumer and others in Congress are feeling the heat at home.
    • Will the issue take a toll at the polls in November and what can Congress or the industry do to ease the pain at the pumps?
  • Voices segment:
    • Academy Award winner George Clooney spent a good portion of his week not in Hollywood but in Washington, bringing attention to the continuing genocide in Sudan. Clooney traveled to Darfur and released a video of his experience. He's also a featured speaker in the Rally Against Genocide taking place in Washington this weekend. He'll talk to "This Week" about his trip and what can be done to stop the killing.
• Guests
  • Secretary Condoleezza Rice
    • Did you know she visited about 60 countries this week?
  • Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-NY
    • It's a setup.  Chuck has got a compliant Big Oil lobbyist who will gracefully concede to Chucky that it really is all because Bush has provided unnecessary "giveaways" to the Oil companies, but the good, honest (Democrat) oil companies really didn't want them (never mind that the subsidies he'll be talking about date back to Clinton).
  • Fmr. Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La.
    • J. Bennett Johnston pushed through legislation that provided subsidies for Gulf drilling when oil was $16/barrel.  The consensus from the articles I found is the oil industry gets billions from this now, but doesn't think they need it at current prices.  I think this "debate" is a set up to let Chucky "win" a major concession from a fellow Democrat, now oil industry lobbyist, so why won't Bush and Cheney get their (greedy/evil) friends in the oil industry to provide similar sacrifices?
  • George Clooney (Voices)
    • I think Clooney is one of the classic victims of living inside the Hollywood bubble.  He only hears from toadies and like minded radicals, so he can't help being a tool.  But even a tool can occasionally get something right.  I hope he can manage to get the press in this country to stop ignoring Darfur.  Of course, he'll completely ignore the rather significant efforts that the Bush administration has made to try to push this through the UN and blame it all on Bush.
  • Fareed Zakaria - Newsweek's International Editor
    • Will push the notion that "Amnesty works" and "The notion that illegal immigrants are prone to crime (beyond their immigration status) is unfounded; they know that as soon as the authorities catch them breaking the law, they'll be deported." (paraphrasing used in this article)
  • Jay Carney - Time Magazine
    • Must have some spin on Rove and Fitzgerald.  That's all I can think of.
  • Claire Shipman - ABC News correspondent
    • She'll be dissing Tony Snow, for sure
  • George Will
    • He'll be dissing George Bush, for damned sure
• ABC This Week comment web page

CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

• Meme:
  • It is NOT the environmentalists fault!
  • OK, maybe a little bit, but the incompetent Bush administration foreign policies are the real problem
  • The Republican "culture of corruption" extends to these obviously corrupt Republican Senators from Alaska, so when they tell you they want to drill in ANWR to bring down gas prices, don't you believe them!
• Topics:
  • None listed, but you know it's oil, Iraq and Iran
• Guests
  • Condoleezza Rice: Secretary of state
    • Did you know that she went to 600 countries this week?
  • Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.
    • She's in a tough race against a credible Republican so her friends at CBS are gonna give her a bit of free face time and show everyone just how important she is
  • Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.
    • The Washington Post has discovered the evils of Pork!  Of course, they're only interested in this particular pork (the "bridge to nowhere") as a tool to discredit Alaska's two Republican Senators because they favor drilling in ANWR.
• Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

• Meme:
  • It is NOT the environmentalists fault!
  • It's the oil companies fault
  • OK, maybe a little bit of the environmentalists fault (but that's a good thing) and only a little bit of the oil companies (but they're still evil and greedy), but the incompetent Bush administration foreign policies really are stupid, aren't they?
• Topics:
  • Will the new Iraqi government be able to unify the country?
  • What should be done about Iran's nuclear ambitions?
• Guests
  • Condoleezza Rice: Secretary of state
    • If you want to know about her foreign trips you should be watching CNN International
    • Bet: Wolfe will ask if the Bush administration needs to apologize to someone for something they did wrong.
  • Sen. Trent Lott: R-Mississippi: Select Intelligence Committee member
    • Trent will want to talk diplomacy and get in a few digs at Bush (which Wolfe will allow).  I hope that Wolfe will want to talk about that $700 million pork in the Iraq emergency appropriations bill.  This could be one time it could be really good to watch CNN.
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer: D-California: Foreign Relations Committee member
    • She's beginning to think that George Will isn't such a bad guy after all
  • Efraim Halevy: Former Mossad director
    • He is on the show for one reason and one reason only: Ex Mossad chief suggests Hamas negotiations (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY)
  • James Woolsey: Former CIA director
    • The moonbats are really out circulating the most bizarre stuff about him
    • The fact that he is promoting bio-fuels in a big way is not one of the bizarre lies being told by the moonbats
• CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)

Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

• Meme:
  • Fox is now a serious player in the news business
  • Fox is not the official news agency of the Bush administration!  Really, we mean it! (watch for more mandatory Bush bashing to establish "cred")
• Topics:
  • 'FNS' celebrates our 10th anniversary!
  • Exclusive interview with the President Bush's new chief of staff, Josh Bolten
  • Meet Tony Snow, new White House press secretary
• Guests
  • Josh Bolten, White House chief of staff
    • There will be some "tough reporting" attempted, but I bet this is mostly about how important Fox News really is
  • Tony Snow, new White House press secretary (may be video profile and not an interview)
    • Letting Tony enjoy the calm before the storm
    • Watch for efforts to establish Tony's credentials beyond Fox
• Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com
• Note: there is a special FOX News Sunday @ 10 celebrating the 10th anniversary, Sunday, April 30 at 10 p.m. ET

NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

• Meme:
  • It's the oil companies fault
  • OK, if it's not the oil companies, then it's the incompetent Bush administration domestic policies
  • They couldn't get a credible foreign policy expert, therefore it is impossible to raise the question of Iran
• Topics:
  • "the entire hour (is) an in-depth discussion on Gas Prices with an exclusive guest line-up"
• Guests
  • Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman
    • "Step right up, ladies and gentlemen, and see this weeks sacrificial offering from the Bush administration"
    • "Let me explain this to you slowly... there are these two forces working against us, supply and regulation..."
  • American Petroleum Institute President Red Cavaney
    • "Let me explain this to you slowly... there's a thing called supply, then there's this thing called demand..."
    • Russert will spout "record profits, hundreds of billions of dollars"
    • Cavaney will counter "8.3% profit... invested more in the last 10 years than our profit in that same period..."
  • Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
    • Listen for a variation of this rehearsed attack line: "We have followed the Cheney energy policy into this ditch. It's time for the President to call the Vice-President in and tell him, 'heck of a job, Cheney. You could have done a lot better.'" (ABC Online, Australia)
• 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)

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]

Saturday Shows for 4-29-06

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

• Meme:
  • The Bush administration is finally listening to them, but it's too late (and if they could hire Tony, why not hire one of them?)
  • The demagoguery about oil prices is all wrong, but it's going to work, so let's not bother providing any counter arguments
• Topics:
  • President Bush making some bold moves to save his second term: Will his plan work?
  • Partisan warfare breaks out over rising gas prices with big oil in everyone's cross hairs, but is Washington really the solution?
• 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:
  • Jane is one of the most talented people on the planet
  • Until she's earned a few more million from her book no one is to raise any controversial subjects in her presence, so Tim won't ask and Jane won't tell about her opinions on Iraq
• Topics:
  • Tim talks to Jane Fonda about her book, "My Life So Far".
• Guests
  • Jane Fonda
• CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

• Meme:
  • Yeah, yeah, the press is hyping this gas stuff way out of proportion and not providing even the simplest real information, but isn't it great to bash Bush?
  • Tony Snow is too a butt kisser for this White House
  • You can't hold news people accountable for anything that happens if they're "just doing their jobs"
• Topics:
  • Gas prices and the press. Are you getting the real story?
  • Tony Snow named White House Press Secretary
  • 'Primetime' producers and a confrontation caught on tape
• 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:
  • The folks in Washington are even stupider than we thought and they're going to get away with it again
• Topics:
  • From the Opinion Journal web site for the show
    • Gas prices are up, and Congress wants to help:
      • Will $100 rebates, new taxes, or busting up Big Oil bring prices down?
      • An interview with Dick Armey about the economic literacy of his former colleagues on Capitol Hill.
    • liberals suddenly want the U.S. to use military force--in Sudan.
  • From the Fox News web site for the show
    • With midterm elections approaching, what can the president and Congress really do to keep gas prices under control?
    • Can the U.N. stop violence in Darfur?
• Guests
  • Dick Armey
• 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

[Phsstpok]

The weekend show guests

• Dick Armey (Journal Editorial Report)
  • Bush focus: Keep Congress Republican (Baltimore Sun,)
  • Sowell's columns a study in contrasts (Sun-Sentinel.com, FL)
  • FreedomWorks Comes to Hawaii (Hawaii Reporter)
  • In the shadow of Israel (Australian)
• Samuel Bodman (NBC Meet The Press)
  • Sec. of Energy
  • Energy Secretary Sees 'Merit' in Fuel Rebates (Smartmoney.com)
  • Bodman: Supply Issues to Blame for Prices (MSN Money)
  • Bodman Blames Ethanol Conversions For Gasoline Disruptions (AXcess News, NV)
  • Switch in blend disrupts gas flow (Globe and Mail, Canada)
• Josh Bolten (Fox News Sunday)
  • White House chief of staff
  • Can Josh Bolten Rescue the Bush Presidency? (Time)
  • Josh Bolten: A 'Real' Chief of Staff (National Ledger)
  • DNC: Memo to Josh Bolten and Tony Snow (U.S. Newswire (press release))
  • Republican sell-out: Bolten's "Five point" disappointment for conservatives (RedState)
• Sen. Barbara Boxer (CNN Late Edition)
  • D-California: House Minority Leader; Foreign Relations Committee member
  • MORE HILL HYPOCRISY OVER OIL (Free Market News Network, FL)
  • Rio de Los Angeles (Long Beach Press-Telegram)
  • Chris Matthews Panders to Barbara Boxer, Becomes Censure Cheerleader (NewsBusters)
  • Talk fast, the motor's running (Orlando Sentinel, FL)
  • The concern is not immigration, it's illegal immigration (Redlands Daily Facts, CA)
• Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. (CBS Face The Nation)
  • Oil Nonsense and Congressional Ignorance (Wizbang, DC)
  • McGavick slams Democrats' claims (Longview Daily News, WA)
  • Senate candidate McGavick covers oil, immigration (The Olympian, WA)
  • Union’s early endorsements show shift toward GOP (The Olympian, WA)
  • Sen. Cantwell calls for probe into possible price gouging (Katu.com, OR)
• Jay Carney (ABC This Week - roundtable)
  • Time Magazine Washington Bureau Chief
  • DHS Background Check Questioned (Washington Post)
  • Passing the Torch from Michael to Jay (Time Magazine - subscription required)
  • What Viveca Novak Told Fitzgerald (Time Magazine - subscription required)
  • 10 Questions For Karen Hughes (Time Magazine - subscription required)
• Red Cavaney (NBC Meet The Press)
  • American Petroleum Institute Pres. & CEO
  • Oil official defends large profits (MSN Money)
  • Oil Industry Offers No Apologies For Record Profits (WISC, WI)
  • BIG OIL, BIG PROFITS (KFDX-TV, TX)
  • Industry groups reply to anger over gasoline prices (Oil & Gas Journal)
  • How dumb does Big Oil think you are? (Slate)
  • Are speculators driving up the price of oil? (San Jose Mercury News)
• George Clooney (ABC This Week - Voices segment)
  • George Clooney's Sudan appeal (FemaleFirst.co.uk, UK)
  • Clooney urges action in Darfur (Calcutta Telegraph)
  • Genocide in Darfur gets full force of Clooney's appeal (Australian)
  • George Clooney Appeals For Action To Stop Genocide In Darfur (Elites TV)
  • Clooney's African appeal (The Sun, UK)
• Jim Cramer (NBC Meet The Press)
  • Jim Cramer's Stop Trading! Back to Banks (TheStreet.com)
  • RealMoney Radio: The Politics of Oil (TheStreet.com)
• Sen. Dick Durbin, D-IL (NBC Meet The Press)
  • Asst. Dem. Leader
  • Sen. Dick Durbin on Gas Price Politics (FOX News)
  • Kudos to Cavuto on Destroying Dick Durbin (RushLimbaugh.com (subscription))
  • Durbin and Gas Prices (WIFR, IL)
  • Bush approval rating drops as oil price soars (ABC Online, Australia)
  • Cab Driver Beheaded by Taliban (Jawa Report)
  • Outraged senators want $28 million to repair Capitol tunnels (The Hill, DC)
  • CBS Weatherman Dave Price Once Again Enthusiastic Over Troop Morale In Iraq (NewsBusters)
• Jane Fonda (CNBC's Tim Russert Show)
  • Author: My Life So Far (Amazon.COM)
  • Jane Fonda: thoughts and lessons from her life 'so far' (Malaysia Star, Malaysia)
  • Jane Fonda has plenty to say about her life so far (OregonLive.com, OR)
  • Jane Fonda Declines War Protests (Washington Post)
  • Jane Fonda on PBS: Pathetic Right-Wingers Spread "Myth of Hanoi Jane" (NewsBusters)
  • Jane Fonda Interviewed Yet Again on Good Morning America (NewsBusters)
  • Jane Fonda won't talk about Iraq (Monterey County Herald, CA)
• Efraim Halevy (CNN Late Edition)
  • Former Mossad director
  • Man in the shadows: an interview with Efraim Halevy (Open Democracy, UK)
  • Out of the shadows (Jerusalem Post, Israel)
  • Ex Mossad chief suggests Hamas negotiations (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY)
• Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska. (CBS Face The Nation)
  • A 'Bridge to Nowhere' An overstuffed highway bill A teapot museum (Washington Post)
  • Senator Murkowski speaks out on high gas prices (KTVA, AK)
  • GOP urges $100 tax rebate to ease fuel cost impact (World Peace Herald, DC)
  • Republicans promise to ease petrol price burden (MSNBC)
  • Oil-spill victims turn to Congress (Seattle Times)
• Fmr. Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-La. (ABC This Week)
  • note: originally listed Friday as "J. Barrett Johnston" on ABC web site, now corrected
  • Vague Law and Hard Lobbying Add Up to Billions for Big Oil (Wilmington Morning Star, NC)
  • License to drill (San Francisco Chronicle)
  • Our Views: Huge giveaways for oil industry (2TheAdvocate, LA)
• Sen. Trent Lott: R-Mississippi (CNN Late Edition)
  • Select Intelligence Committee member
  • Calling out Trent Lott (Washington Blade, DC)
  • Senators fight for Katrina bill (Hattiesburg American)
  • Trent Lott's $700 Million Sin City Scheme (The Nation., NY)
  • TRENT LOTT, REDISTRIBUTIONIST (New Republic)
  • Trent Lott: Term limits poster boy (Town Hall)
  • GOP Critics Resigned to Life With Rumsfeld (ABC News)
• Secretary Condoleezza Rice (ABC This Week, CNN Late Edition, CBS Face The Nation)
  • Rice: UN Credibility at Stake on Iran (ABC News)
  • Rice Says UN Must Act on Iran Nuke Plan (Houston Chronicle)
  • Rice calls for the release of Bulgarian nurses (Alarab online, UK)
  • Rice Signs US Shared-Base Agreement with Bulgaria (Washington File, DC)
  • Rice reproached for calling Obiang a 'good friend' (Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa)
  • Gul, Rice discuss bilateral ties, terrorist PKK (Dünya online, Turkey)
  • Gov’t rates Rice visit as ‘very useful’ (Kathimerini, Greece)
  • Rice and Rumsfeld visit Iraq (ITV.com, UK)
  • Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice to meet Iraqi leaders (GG2.net)
• Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-Ny. (ABC This Week)
  • Chuck Schumer: Cry the beloved country (Canada Free Press)
  • Democrats and the price of oil (Toledo Blade)
  • Filling the tanks of demagogues (Demopolis Times, AL)
  • Bush, Big Oil, Slammed On Pump Prices (CBS News)
  • President Bush Outlines Plan Against Gas Price Hikes (WBOC TV 16, MD)
  • Pumped dry (Diamondback Online, MD)
  • McCain, Schumer spar on immigration (Newsday, NY)
• Claire Shipman (ABC This Week - roundtable)
  • ABC News correspondent
  • "Probably one of the first things" Snow is going to do is change White House TV channels from Fox News (MediaMatters)
  • Prices Stay High, but Oil Executives Stay Quiet (ABC News)
  • On ABC, Diane Sawyer Sounds Like Couric In Airing Rumsfeld-Bashing General (NewsBusters)
• Tony Snow (Fox News Sunday)
  • new White House press secretary (may be video profile and not an interview)
  • Tony Snow - Cover-ups for Press Secretary Begin Before he Officially Starts (OpEdNews.COM) FR Mentioned
  • "Open letter to Tony Snow" (Town Hall)
  • WHITE HOUSE GETS A SNOW JOB (Free Market News Network, FL)
  • Snow Day (CBS News)
  • Snow blindness (Guardian Unlimited)
  • Presidential Snow Job (CBS News)
  • Tony Snow in an Exclusive Interview on New White House Role (FOX News)
  • Smearing Tony Snow (Fox News)
• George Will (ABC This Week - roundtable)
  • Water warriors (Jewish World Review)
  • George Will: So bright, we have to wear shades (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, CA)
  • George Will Disses the GOP Again (Hammer of Truth)
• James Woolsey (CNN Late Edition)
  • Former CIA director
  • Special Report: Fueling Controversy (Guerrilla News Network)
  • How America's foes have us "over a barrel" — of oil (Seattle Times)
  • Bombshell presentation to launch DC terror symposium (WorldNetDaily)
  • Kevin Zeese: 'Hawkish Israeli Lobby Wants War with Iran!' (American Chronicle, CA)
  • CIA double agent Aldrich Ames (BBC News, UK)
  • James Woolsey, hemp advocate (Energy Bulletin)
  • R. James Woolsey Aids Pentagon Iraq War Scam (Conspiracy Planet)
• Daniel Yergin (NBC Meet The Press)
  • author & energy analyst
  • Bush tries to ease soaring gas prices (International Herald Tribune)
  • Bush halts Strategic Reserve deposits; market out of neocon control? (World War 4 Report, NY)
  • Oil Industry Is Beyond Reach of Presidential Dictate (Los Angeles Times)
  • Several factors influence pump prices (Kansas.com)
  • Ultimately, oil crisis is good for America, world (Newsday)
• Fareed Zakaria (ABC This Week - roundtable)
  • Newsweek's International Editor
  • Debate Immigration With Fareed Zakaria (Washington Post)
  • Globalization for Losers (National Review Online)
  • Why Darfur conflict should be on the world agenda (Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates)
  • Political Psychology: The Bush Bubble Myth (Yahoo! News)
  • The King and us (Indian Express, India)
  • What about China? (Buffalo News,  United States)
  • Fareed Zakaria.COM

[Phsstpok]

Ping

The Weekend Preview Thread is up

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The most interesting guest to me will be Tony Snow, though I doubt it will be anything more than a continuation of Brit Hume's interview from the other day.  This will be my first chance to see both Bolten and Bodman in anything but a drive by clip, so I'll be trying to assess just how good they are.  I'm actually hoping to get some real, beneficial, information and debate about the oil "crisis" out of both MTP and CNN Late Edition.  I think both ABCTW and FTN are total set ups with predetermined outcomes.

And I don't know how to say this, but I'm holding out hope that Clooney will actually do some good today on an important issue and not take the opportunity to bash Bush or Republicans.  I'm not holding my breath, just holding out hope.  Then again, if he does do something reasonable it will change my "presidential" speculation from a joke to a weird possibility.  He'll be 47 in 2008 and 52 in 2012.  Hey, if Reagan could go from being an actor to president, then not only is it possible but Clooney's got LOTs of time... (oh, that's frightening... I wonder if someone on the left is really thinking that?  I wonder if I'm guilty of a "loose lips" type of mistake here?)

The dominant meme appears to be that there is an oil "crisis" and that it's not clear whose fault it is, but they know who they're going to blame, Bush/Cheney and their oil company buddies.  Bush may not be over, thanks to his finally listening to the talking heads and shaking up his administration, but it's probably too little too late since he didn't fire Rumsfeld and Cheney.   Let's start looking to the next (Democrat) administration and ignore everything this current one does or says from now on (unless it hurts Bush).  Oh, and why aren't we out of Iraq and into Iran yet?

[Solamente]

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[Morgan in Denver]

Oil crisis? Sounds more like the topic de jour on a fairly slow news cycle. Also one that old media and the Democrats believe can be a vote getter.

Not much time today but I'm looking forward to tomorrow morning.

[Bahbah]

Hello, Phsstpok. I shall now read through some of the informative articles you have provided while chuckling over your witty commentary which I always enjoy.

[Phsstpok]

Done

[PrinceOfCups]

Love the preview thread!!!

[Miss Marple]

If I'm not on your ping list, please add me.

My contribution to today's thread is that Clair Shipman is married to Jay Carney.

[Phsstpok]

This weeks shows are very predictable (though I may be pleasently surprised by MTP and CNNLE) and dealing with the "conventional wisdom" of the chattering class in Washington.

But I think there may be something out there to challenge that conventional wisdom. I think we may be about to see a cultural phenomenon unrivaled in the history of this country's popular culture.

United 93 is out.

I haven't seen it yet, but I'm beginning to get the impression that this film might, all by itself, destroy 4 years worth of MoveOn.ORG propoganda about the WOT and get us back on the right track.  And the morons on the left know it and are doing everything they can to suppress it.  And it's not going to work.

See this FR thread for some of the evidence that is leading me towards this conclusion. 

I'm contemplating a "Schroedinger's cat" quantum indeterminate state.  I think that by this time next week we'll be talking about a phenomenon sweeping the country and then the world, reminding people of what's at stake and what it is we're fighting about. It could easily go the other way, but the possibility really intrugues me.

Michael Moore is deeply saddened.
 

[Phsstpok]

If I'm not on your ping list, please add me.

You weren't, which surprised me (I thought I'd put you on the list, even without your premission <g>).  You are on the list now.

My contribution to today's thread is that Clair Shipman is married to Jay Carney.

This is a Gomer Pyle moment:

"Surprise, surprise, surprise!" 

Great catch. 

[SERKIT]

Nice job, but what is "Meme"?

[Phsstpok]

Nice job, but what is "Meme"?

As defined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish Gene (1976): "a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation." "Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation. ...
www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/glossary.htm

If your interested, I think the definitive work on this topic is Virus of the Mind: by Richard Brodie.  The analogy of a virus spreading is appropriate.  How it gets started and how it is pushed in various directions is the business of the drive by media.  An important concept.

[Peach]

You're analysis is amazing, Phsstpok and if the RNC doesn't hire you, they are missing a golden opportunity. Thanks for the ping and for all your work.

[Txsleuth]

Watching Journal Editorial Report...and Dick Armey was NOT happy with President Bush capitulating to the calls for an investigation into price gouging...sigh

I am hoping since that was PRE-Tony Snow, maybe those kinds of "mistakes" won't happen..

I think Josh Bolton was there though...he needs to tell Bush that on this subject the Republicans really do have the upper hand...the DEMS have stopped every attempt that has been made to drill for our own oil...(also some WRONG Republicans)...

[Txsleuth]

Do you not find it odd that not one show looks like it has a segment planned re: the big illegal immigration boycott on Monday???

[Bahbah]

I'm back in time for Fox News Watch and I am most interested in how Tony Snow will be handled. Last week, Gabler tried to say something ugly about how it wasn't really changing jobs but they were all ready for him and talked over him so loudly it didn't get noticed.

[Txsleuth]

So far, nothing...not even discussed.

[Phsstpok]

Mark Kilmer's preview is up at RedState.COM

Who's on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows (lineup)

By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics

For Sunday, April 30, 2006

Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert has the most exciting show of his umpteen-year career as host of MTP. Yes, he will discuss the price of gasoline with Energy Secretary Sam Bodman, American Petroleum Institute Pres. & CEO Red Cavaney, CNBC's Jim Cramer, famed nazi hunter Dick Durbin, and author/analyst Daniel Yergin.

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace chat with some new White House personnel: Chief of Staff Josh Bolten then incoming Press Secretary Tony Snow. It's always nice to see Tony on what once was his show.

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer talks has Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice then Senators Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Rice, then it's Chuckie Schumer vs. former Louisiana Senator Bennett Johnston, a Dem who lobbies for "BIG OIL"!

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks to Rice and Trent Lott vs. Babs Boxer. Plus his usual cast ot thousands.
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Seriously, if you want to watch a show between 9 and 10 ET, this may be the week to skip Russert. FOX has the most interesting show of the week this week, what with all the cries of this and that about the WH "shakeup." Josh Bolten has to be a hot ticket, and Tony Snow is Tony Snow.

Secretary Rice takes three shows this week. After that, Schumer's marginal and Steph won't ask Johnston what he thinks of his replacement, Mary Landrieu. I'm not sure what to expect from Cantwell and Lisa M. Lott vs. Babs should be fun.

I shall watch the shows tomorrow morning and report what happened in the afternoon, right here at RedState.com.

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[Txsleuth]

OOPS...just came on...and I have to tell you...I didn't really understand Gabler's points...except they were against Bush, of course.
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