[Phsstpok]

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.

NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

• Meme:
  • The trouble in the Middle East is all Bush's fault™
  • Iraq is the worst disaster in US military history
• Topics:
  • White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten "Meets the Press" for the first time
    • The ongoing violence in the Middle East
    • The war in Iraq
    • The President's veto of expanded stem-cell research funding
    • The administration's priorities for the remainder of the year
  • Washington Post Senior Pentagon Reporter Tom Ricks will unveil his new book, "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq."
• Guests
  • Josh Bolten
    • White House Chief of Staff
    • Bio (White House web site)
    • The Bush Bounce (Yahoo! News - Jul 10, 2006)
    • If Bush wants to change course, fire Rumsfeld (Central Maine Morning Sentinel, ME - Jun 25, 2006)
    • White House tells rabbis U.S. won't pressure Israel (WorldNetDaily, OR - Jul 4, 2006)
  • Tom Ricks
    • Author of "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq"
    • Reviving the Generals' Revolt (Yahoo! News - Jul 6, 2006)
    • Law and Gender in the Military: Ricks Interview (ADM Online - Nov 3, 1997)
    • On Point : The Searing Anger Inside the Pentagon - 5/27/2004 (WBUR.ORG (Boston NPR) May 27, 2004)
    • Growing Pessimism on Iraq (Washington Post - Sep 29, 2004)
    • How to lose a national reporter in five minutes (ThinkPR - Jan 18, 2006)
• 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)

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[johnny7]

LOL... I was expecting Michael Bolton to be scheduled for MTP!

[rodguy911]

Russert is a true rat in every sense so "Gen" Ricks has found a few armchair generals who disagree with GW. Wowdee I just love those Sun morn quarterbacks who just love to tell everyone how to do it now that it's already done.
More DBM BS undoubtedly.Just what we need more advice from those who couldn't be there on how to wage war.Thanks guys.

[maica]

Washington Post Senior Pentagon Reporter Tom Ricks will unveil his new book, "Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq."

At first reading, I thought this was your tongue-in-cheek humor, then realized that a WP writer could conceivably have written a book with such a title. Wow!

Also, regarding yesterday's Beltway Boys: what is Fred's problem? He is so defeatist about anything to do with the White House!