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Saturday Shows for December 16th, 2006

Below are the topics and guests announced for these programs, along with my take on the "memes" that the shows are 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.

The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)

CNBC's Tim Russert Show (Tim Russert)

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

Journal Editorial Report (Paul Gigot) - FNC show page


1 posted on 12/16/2006 10:36:12 AM PST by Phsstpok
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NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

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.


2 posted on 12/16/2006 10:37:09 AM PST by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

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.


3 posted on 12/16/2006 10:37:59 AM PST by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

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.


4 posted on 12/16/2006 10:39:01 AM PST by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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Thanks, as usual, Phsstpok. Not sure I'll be able to be on much tomorrow but I'll try.


5 posted on 12/16/2006 10:39:24 AM PST by Morgan in Denver
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CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

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.


6 posted on 12/16/2006 10:41:29 AM PST by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

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.


7 posted on 12/16/2006 10:43:22 AM PST by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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To: A.Hun; Bahbah; Txsleuth; MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative; Alas Babylon!; Seattle Conservative; ...
Ping

The Weekend Talk Show Preview Thread is up

If you want on or off my ping list please Freepmail me

It will be cross posted to my blog at

http://wizards.townhall.com/

Here's a sample of  my usual witty commentary...

We've now moved on from the DOA Iraq Survey Group report.  Despite the best efforts last week of the dinosaur media (better known in my posts as the DBM) to prop up the rather lame attempt at "peace in our time diplomacy" it just didn't gain any traction at all.  The central idea that we are not capable of winning and that we must cede Israel's future to the Jihadists as a blood offering, the way Chamberlain ceded Sudetenland to Hitler, was just too obviously sleazy and low...

... The theme this week, if there is one, is "huh?"  They don't know where they are or what's happening and they're groping about for a stance they can get behind.  I wonder if anyone will ask if they might have misunderestimated the President, yet again?


8 posted on 12/16/2006 10:47:06 AM PST by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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If Tim Johnson is clinically brain dead you can bet that Harry will describe him as "calm and stable."

But if we're talkin' brain dead, what's his excuse for Ted Kennedy?

13 posted on 12/16/2006 11:07:43 AM PST by Darth Republican
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Mark Kilmer has posted his Sunday Morning Talk Shows - preview over at RedState.COM

He has an interesting take in the guest lineup in this excerpt

Okay, the scenario is pretty clear. First, present Gingrich as the face of the Republican Party (MTP), then bring in Colin Powell to demonstrate principled dissent (FTN). Harry Reid gives us the positive message from the Democrats (TW), and Steph gives us Hashimi, the most prominent Iraqi to demand a TIMETABLE. (He avoids the notion of a date certain, however.)

25 posted on 12/16/2006 2:17:06 PM PST by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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From yesterday's National Review Online Blog:

O'HANLON'S BOSNIAN MODEL FOR IRAQ -- AND IRAQ'S OWN "PLAN B" [Mario Loyola]

In his column today, Cliff suggests that "We ought to consider what Brookings scholar Michael O'Hanlon calls the Bosnian model: Each of Iraq's ethno-religious groups would establish autonomy within a unitary Iraqi state. Oil wealth would be shared by all cooperating and stabilized areas of the country."

The difference between Iraq and Bosnia is that the Bosnian model was instituted after a terrifying campaign of ethnic cleansing had largely run its course, and after the break-up-in-fact of the state and all its institutions along ethnic lines. 

Neither of these have occurred in Iraq yet, and if either ever does, we're going to remember 2006 fondly indeed.  In Iraq you still have a population that is highly mixed and a central government that still represents a broad national coalition.

A "Plan B" now being floated by Iraqis themselves seems to me a better idea, and has the virtue of presuming (unlike most ideas these days) that we can still largely succeed in Iraq.  The idea is to form a coalition of national unity that includes the the largest faction from each of Iraq's three main communities—the Shiite SCIRI (Supreme Council for the Revolution in Iraq), the Sunni Islamic Party, and the two main Kurdish parties—even if the resulting coalition rests on a parliamentary minority.  The idea is to "deputize" the strongest player in each community, and make them a primary political vehicle for laying down the central authority of the state within each community.  This will immediately pit SCIRI against the Sadr Organization, on the one hand, and the Islamic Party against the Sunni insurgents and Al Qaeda, on the the other.

Timed to coincide with the transfer of administrative control of the Iraqi Army to the central government (set to occur by early summer), this could really change things on the ground in Iraq.  The violence might continue, but you would have achieved several vital things: (1) the leading party within each community would have declared its first loyalty to the central government; and (2) the central government will finally have a professional force with which to impose its authority; (3) the logic of sectarian conflict now threatening to tear the country apart would be replaced with the logic of intramural conflict (within the Shiite and Sunni communities) between those who support the state's authority and those who oppose it.

This idea seems the better one to me because it maintains the goal of a strong central government, while the Bosnian model presumes that the central government has collapsed and cannot be reconstituted except in name. 

Posted at 9:58 PM

The plan B stuff is the things I've been hearing about the last couple of days and would be the reason for a temporary surge of US forces to help this new coalition make this stick.  But they'd be helping the Sunni members of the coalition against the Sunni insurgents and Al Qaeda, the Shiite SCIRI folks against Sadr's Shiite militia, etc.  If this is what Bush is working on with the Iraqis, including the head of SCIRI who he met at the White House last week, and they pull it off... hoo boy!

The anti-war / anti-American left and the old school Realpolitik Republican "business as usual" foreign policy crowd have each bet everything on convincing the American people that we've already lost and there's nothing we can do but leave.  But if we succeed....

 

26 posted on 12/16/2006 2:41:29 PM PST by Phsstpok (Often wrong, but never in doubt)
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Where are Dave Garroway, Jack Lescoulie...

Shhhhhh... you're dating yourself!

34 posted on 12/17/2006 5:39:20 AM PST by johnny7 ("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
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