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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

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

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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?

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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