So last week Russert gave his entire show over to Murtha and this week he's doing the same thing with Feingold?! That's fair and balanced. /s
Good point, Mainepatsfan! Let's also consider who is on these shows, and what it says about their agenda, both the guest and the show host/producer.
Assume that the show decides who to invite. That doesn't mean if a big name makes themselves available the host won't jump on it (say Dick Cheney, Hillary, the Presdient), but by and large the shows give us whoever they want us to see.
So last week Murtha, IMHO, came on and made a fool of himself. I didn't expect to see him back this Sunday, and he's not. Don't expect to see him for awhile, unless it's a carefully coached exchange.
John Kerry is surprisingly absent, what with his amendment (failing miserably) last week. You'd think Russert would have him on to talk about it. So either Kerry's sulking, or more likely, he'd make such a shamble out of explaining his "nuanced" position that Russert chose the more articulate liar Feingold. Feingold's just a big as moonbat as Kerry, but doesn't come off as a flip-flopping panderer, something even the liberals expect to hear whenever Kerry's talking.
Lugar is on because frankly, the man is a senile, dottering old fool who consistently forgets the Republicans are now the MAJORITY in the Senate. The hosts can get him to rail against the administration as easily as against the democrats, with the right questions. Boxer is a moonbat who Shieffer will use to bounce off new attacks against the administration.
Very interesting that ABC has Mitch McConnel who can handle himself well and hopefully, if they're on together, handle Dick Durbin.
Fox News has the idiot Levin, who loves to show his superior intellect with his prop glasses perched on the end of his nose. I hope folks see thru this nonsense but many will fall for it. The "republicans" on the show are a bunch of self-serving RINOs. I don't know if their self-promoting egos are bigger than their love for the gooey middle, but Fox chose them and that concerns me. Expect Specter to challenge the president much more than the democrats. Warner is as dense as Lugar. Peter King is a RINO, IMHO, because he has to be or he would never get elected in NY. He can be almost a traitor to the party sometimes and other times the Republican shines through.
Wolf has Biden and Hagel! LOL! They're just such perennial guests I think they're fill ins when a bigger guest can't make it. Shows you the power of Blitzer! He does snag the "Cleaning Lady" who will tell us how bad things are in our foreign policy since she left. CNN loves it's Clintoniods. Kissinger? Is he still lucid? How old is he, for goodness sakes?
Finally, where is Algore? The man is selling his movie, don't these producers care about his agenda (they do)? But he'd remind everyone why it was good that Bush won in 2000. The show producers know this, of course!