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Saturday Shows For 5/13/06

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

Meme:
- Oooooo, the politics is getting FUN!!!!
Topics:
- Congress up in arms over a report that the NSA is collecting records of private phone calls
- John McCain makes nice with former rival Jerry Falwell
- The GOP is stuck with Katherine Harris in Senate race
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:
- The White House hasn't been doing the daily press briefings, so Tim's going to make sure that these three get their face time (to trash Bush)
Topics:
- The President, Iraq, CIA, government surveillance and more
Guests
- David Gregory
- Kelly O’Donnell
- Chip Reid.
CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

Meme:
- We're serious journalists and we'll examine these issues in depth so you don't have to!
- There's nothing to see here, move along.
Topics:
- Is the headline true? USA Today reports that the government is collecting phone records
- The press and the Patrick Kennedy scandal
- Is a new TV channel for babies a good idea?
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:
- Ahmadinejad is nuts
- Gore is nuts
- Lindzen is NOT nuts
Topics:
- "Men of Letters" (Opinion Journal web site)
  - Is Iran's letter-writing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad crazy like a fox, or just plain crazy?
  - Al Gore makes his movie debut
  - An interview with MIT scientist Richard Lindzen on global warming and academic conformity.
- Message from Iran: What does the Iranian president's letter tell us about the regime we're dealing with? (Fox web site)
- Global warming frenzy: Media hype reaches new heights ahead of Al Gore's film (Fox web site)
Guests
- Richard Lindzen
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

Weekend Show Guests

Sen. Joe Biden, D-Dela (ABC News This Week)
- Joe Biden Proves He’sa Man of his Word (National Ledger)
- Biden says Hayden CIA nomination could be "difficult" (XETV FOX6 San Diego)
- Sen. Joe Biden: Firefighters must be funded from Washington (The Union Leader, NH)
- Joe Biden's weird sense of chivalry (renewamerica.us, D.C.)
- Senator Joe Biden - Cut Up Iraq Then Cut Out (The Conservative Voice)
- CBS Continues to Hype "Domestic Spying Scandal" (NewsBusters)
Donna Brazile (ABC News This Week Roundtable)
- ABC News Consultant
- Democrats' timing seen as a misstep (Washington Times)
- The Democrats' abortion problem (Reno Gazette Journal, NV)
- MUST READ: Brazile On Primary Process (noticias.info, Spain)
- Primary colors: Dems see in black and white (The Union Leader, NH)
David Brooks (ABC News This Week Roundtable)
- New York Times Columnist
- DAVID BROOKS AND THE POLITICS OF PINCH AND KISS (New Republic)
- A word with David Brooks (Arizona Republic)
- Killing the CIA (Spiegel Online, Germany)
Zbigniew Brzezinski (CNN Late Edition)
- Former national security adviser (Carter Administration)
- US will not allow a nuclear Iran (Gulf News, United Arab Emirates)
- The US's geopolitical nightmare (India Monitor, UK)
- Will US and Iran find a common language? (Persian Journal, Iran)
- The Perils of Engagement (Wall Street Journal)
- Attack on Iran would be great blunder: Brzezinski (Tehran Times, Iran)
- Entire nation would respond to a military attack (MehrNews.com, Iran)
- US War Doctrine And Iran (Center for Research on Globalization, Canada)
Laura Bush (ABC This Week, Fox News Sunday)
- Laura Bush says Gulf Coast rebuilding (Seattle Post Intelligencer)
- Laura Bush announces grants for devastated school libraries (Leesville Daily Leader, LA)
- Remarks by First Lady Laura Bush at the American Red Cross National Convention (Yahoo! News (press release))
- Laura Bush Tells Graduates to Help Others (Washington Post)
- Laura Bush on immigration: US should be a ``welcoming country'' (Chicago Sun-Times)
Mary Cheney (Fox News Sunday)
- Excerpt: Mary Cheney's 'Now It's My Turn' (ABC News)
- Mary Cheney has her turn (Cincinnati Enquirer)
- Cheney's daughter pulls no punches (DetNews.com)
- 'Too little, too late' for Cheney's daughter to speak up (USA Today)
- Mary Cheney tries to have it both ways — and fails (San Francisco Chronicle)
- POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: Answer for Mary Cheney (Houston Chronicle)
- Mary Cheney Stands Behind Dad on Iraq (ABC News)
Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tennessee: Majority leader (CNN Late Edition)
- Frist ‘fills the tree’ (The Hill)
- Frist Hails Reopening Of Immigration Reform Debate (The Chattanoogan)
- Senate leaders end immigration stalemate (Grand Island Independent, NE)
- Boehner Ridicules Senate Republicans as Party Tensions Rise (Bloomberg)
- Tax-cut bill wins final passage (CNN)
Newt Gingrich, R-GA (Meet The Press)
- Gingrich: GOP can stop House loss (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
- Gingrich discusses national issues (Leader Times)
- Gingrich on NSA Phone Records Program: ‘This Can’t Be Defended" (ThinkProgress)
- CBS Jumps on "Bad News" for GOP & Hope for Dems, But Not So Excited in 1994 (NewsBusters)
- Transcript: Newt Gingrich on 'FOX News Sunday' 4/16/06 (FOX News)
David Gregory (CNBC's Tim Russert Show)
- Bush: David Gregory Couldn't Pass Background Check (NewsBusters)
- Ignoring Growth, Eyeing Gas Gauge (The New Media Journal)
- CBS and NBC Stick With Gas Pains, Ignore Wednesday’s Huge Price Decline (NewsBusters)
- ABC: Snow a "Conservative Commentator Who Called" Bush "'an Embarrassment'" (NewsBusters)
Stephen Hadley: National security adviser (CBS Face The Nation, CNN Late Edition)
- The CIA’s (deputy) man with the plan (ISN, Switzerland)
- The General and the Agency (FrontPage magazine.com)
- Red Cross Says US Continues to Refuse Access to Secret Detainees (Voice of America)
- Iran letter to Bush talks of ‘new solutions’ (Indian Express, India)
- Iran's president writes unprecedented letter to Bush (San Jose Mercury News)
Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb. (ABC News This Week)
- Key Republicans back Hayden for CIA (ABC News)
- CIA Nominee Hayden Defends NSA Programs (Guardian Unlimited, UK)
- Choice for CIA chief faces tough questions (MSNBC)
- Senate leaders end immigration stalemate (Grand Island Independent, NE)
- Hagel concerned about collection of phone call data (Grand Island Independent, NE)
- Hagel: CIA nominee will face tough questions (Lincoln Journal Star)
- Immigration and the welfare state (Town Hall)
Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif. (CBS Face The Nation)
- Rep. Harman's opponent wants to send a message (Daily Breeze, CA)
- NSA is watching (Sarasota Herald-Tribune, FL)
- Hayden nomination unlikely to be sidelined by NSA reports (KHON2, HI)
- RNC: THE REAL DEM AGENDA: STOP TERRORIST SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM (noticias.info, Spain)
- NSA's data mining explained (CNET News.com)
John Harwood (Meet The Press Roundtable)
- Tax cuts passed by the House (KCEN-TV, TX)
- Vote expected on $70 billion tax cut (WIS, SC)
- Energy Skepticism on the Rise (Wall Street Journal (subscription))
- Democrats See Hope in Ohio (Wall Street Journal)
- Gasoline Prices Fuel Unease, Poll Finds (Wall Street Journal)
Abdel Ilah Khatib: Jordan's foreign minister (CNN Late Edition)
- Jordan's king reaffirms ties to Palestinians (Daily Star - Lebanon)
- Egypt, Jordan want talks with Olmert (Times of Oman)
- Analysis: Turmoil surrounds Aqaba meeting (Middle East Times, Egypt)
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont (CNN Late Edition)
- Judiciary Committee member
- Patrick Leahy on the NSA (RedState)
- NSA PROGRAM REVEALED (PBS)
- Bush tries to quell NSA furor (TMCnet)
- Americans Get The Shaft in NSA Data Mining (InternetNews.com)
- Hotline After Dark -- What's That Tapping Sound? (National Journal)
- Sanders, Leahy challenge Bush domestic spying program in court (BurlingtonFreePress.com, VT)
Richard Lindzen (Journal Editorial Report)
- Richard Lindzen, Global Warming Shill (The Huffington Post)
- While Washington Slept (Guerrilla News Network)
- Daily Policy Digest (National Center for Policy Analysis)
- Getting far too heated over global warming (Times Online, UK)
- Global warming already visible (Connecticut Post)
Jon Meacham (Meet The Press Roundtable)
- Books by David L. Holmes, Peter R. Henriques and Jon Meacham (New York Times)
- The Enlightened Republic (Washington Post)
- Editor discusses founding fathers' religious intent (The Journal News.com, NY)
- Bushes muster for literacy (Washington Times)
- Time ME Search: Meacham Declines; Okrent Advises (New York Observer)
Kelly O’Donnell (CNBC's Tim Russert Show)
- Interview of the Vice President by Kelly O'Donnell, Nbc News (Whitehouse.gov (press release))
- Interview with Vice President Dick Cheney (Newsweek)
- The Cheney Nobody Knows (New York Observer)
- NBC’s Today: Bush “Snooping” Into Lives of “Ordinary Americans” (NewsBusters)
- Snow's Debut Is an Apology-Filled Mess (Washington Post)
- White House newshounds cower before dust bunnies (Boston Herald)
- Katie Couric And Tim Russert's Gloomfest On Today (NewsBusters)
Chip Reid. (CNBC's Tim Russert Show)
- CBS & NBC Paint Tax Cuts Through Liberal Prism of Higher Dollar Savings for Rich (NewsBusters)
- Asleep at the Wheel: Credulous 'Today' Curiously Incurious About Kennedy Case (NewsBusters)
Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. (CBS Face The Nation)
- Sen. Arlen Specter called for dialogue with Iran (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, NY)
- Specter Says He Will Ask Phone Companies to Testify on Database (Bloomberg)
- Arlen Specter: Evil, Evil Man (RedState)
- Sen. Arlen Specter (Think Progress)
- Senator Arlen Specter Pushes Tax On Oil Profits (All Headline News)
- Arlen Specter: High court gives Congress no respect (Sacramento Bee)
Reese Witherspoon (ABC This Week, Voices segment)
- Reese Witherspoon: My marriage is fine (Life Style Extra, UK)
- Jennifer Garner, Reese Witherspoon & Tyson's Trip For Kids (Post Chronicle)
- Reese Witherspoon Is the Hippest of Hollywood Moms (Fashion Monitor Toronto, Canada)
Judy Woodruff. (Meet The Press Roundtable)
- LOBBYING PROBE (PBS)
- UNREST IN DARFUR (PBS)
- US political climate divisive -- Woodruff (Flint Journal, MI)
- THE ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX (PBS)
George Will (ABC News This Week Roundtable)
- George Will Assails McCain on Constitution Remarks (NewsMax)
- GEORGE WILL: Terror can come from knowing what happens (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)

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The most interesting guests to me will be Laura Bush, Mary Cheney and Newt Gingrich. I'll also be interested in what Lindzen says on JER.

The dominant meme appears to be that the public is out of their minds not to hate Bush's "domestic spying" and that he really, really is a bad guy. Really.

Unfortunately I'm traveling starting first thing on Saturday morning and will likely not have extensive access to the net all week. I had most of the thread done last night but then my RoadRunner service died!!! I'm in my hotel room in San Francisco and just got my internet access set up. I'll be on as much as I can the rest of the day tomorrow but probably will be very scarce tomorrow. I also probably will not be able to post this thread next weekend (the horror!) as I don't get home from this trip till Sunday, but I'm sure you'll all survive just fine. If I have access I'll pop in a bit, but if not I wish you all a safe and happy week.