Weekend Show *Preview* for 1/27 - 1/28/07 (not the live thread)

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[Phsstpok]

Saturday Shows for January 27^th, 2007

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)

• Meme:
  • Iraq = Vietnam, and we all know how that turned out, don't we?  Can you say "impeachment?"  I knew you could
  • Can someone please put John Kerry out of our misery?
• Topics:
  • Is Iraq really turning into a new Vietnam?
  • John Kerry exits stage left and Tinseltown's betting on Hillary!
  • Dick Cheney under attack!
• 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:
  • no update as of 7:30 PM, 1/26/07
• Topics:
  • no update as of 7:30 PM, 1/26/07
• Guests
  • no update as of 7:30 PM, 1/26/07
• CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

• Meme:
  • It's not our fault, we didn't do it, nobody saw us, we're just the messenger.
  • Let's make fun of someone else in the media so that no one will pay attention to how bad our profession is behaving.
  • What's all this talk about the old media?  We still tell people what to think.  Bow down before your DBM overlords!
• Topics:
  • State of the Union Address: What did the media make of the president's speech?
  • 2008 Race: Which candidate will win 'Netroots' primary?
  • The Rehab Defense? 'Grey's Anatomy' seeks therapy for slur
• 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:
  • You do realize what stakes are on the table right now, don't you?
• Topics:
  • Opinion Journal web page: State of the Union
    • Does a Constitutional showdown loom over Iraq? President Bush asks for Congress's support, but the members say no.
    • Will ethanol really provide energy "security"?
  • Fox News Channel web page
    • Are we headed toward a constitutional showdown between the White House and Congress?
    • Our panel breaks down the Bush agenda at home and abroad, and its chances for success
• Guests
  • no listing
• 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 11 p.m. and again Sunday at 6 a.m. ET

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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.

• Meme:
  • Iraq = Vietnam, and we all know how that turned out, don't we?  Can you say "impeachment?"  I knew you could
  • What's all this talk about the "old media?"  We still tell people what to think.  Bow down before your DBM overlords!
  • Bush is wrong.  We've may have (ambitious and unscrupulous) Republicans to tell you so.
• Topics:
  • 2008 presidential campaign:
    • an exclusive interview with the former Republican governor of Arkansas about his future political plans. Will he make a run for the White House?
  • What to do about the war in Iraq?
    • Two senators and two foreign policy experts discuss the way forward
• Guests
  • Former Governor Mike Huckabee, Republican - Arizona
    • Bio (from Wikipedia)
    • Former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee to run for president: AP (MarketWatch - Jan 26, 2007)
    • The Republican to Watch: Mike Huckabee? (RealClearPolitics, IL - Jan 15, 2007)
    • Mike Huckabee leaves a cleaned slate (Baxter Bulletin, AR - Jan 24, 2007)
    • Huckabee to Iowa (Arkansas Times, AR - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Mike Huckabee's Officegate (Arkansas Times, AR - Jan 18, 2007)
    • AP Newsbreak: Brother-in-law of ex-Gov. Huckabee out of state job (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR - Jan 26, 2007)
  • Senator Chuck Schumer Democrat - New York
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
    • Chuck Schumer Has Seen the Promised Land! (New York Magazine, NY - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Positively Chuck (Politics on the Hudson, NY - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Maggie Gallagher's Everyday Thoughts: Chuck Schumer's Imaginary Friends (Evening Bulletin, PA - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Chuck & Hill talk, and talk, and talk - Plenty to jeer, but Sens. do little to oppose Bush on Iraq (Rooklyn Heights Courier, NY - Jan 19, 2007)
    • Schumer Hits Talk Circuit (Broadcast Newsroom, CA - Jan 24, 2007)
    • Chuck Schumer's Book to End With M. Night Shyamalan-esque Twist (Wonkette (satire), DC - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Schumer's take on Democratic victory, vision (MSNBC - Jan 24, 2007)
    • Schumer Lets Slip: 'We Support The Troops' a Sham (NewsBusters - Jan 25, 2007)
    • More politics of envy from the Democrats (Scripps News, DC - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Schumer to push for administrative changes of SOX law (MarketWatch - Jan 22, 2007)
  • Senator David Vitter Republican - Louisiana
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Foreign Relations Committee Member
    • Landrieu joins surge opposition (2TheAdvocate, LA - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Senate Panel Rejects US Troop Increase (Playfuls.com, Romania - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Katrina Victims Outraged Over Bush Snub (Think Progress, DC - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Law enforcement turns up heat in NO (2TheAdvocate, LA - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Clarification From GrassrootsFreedom.com on the Vitter Amendment (PR Newswire (press release), NY - Jan 19, 2007)
    • Rumor-Busting: Bloggers Won't Be Required To Register (InformationWeek, NY - Jan 18, 2007)
    • Blog bill fails, critics apologize (LSU The Reveille, LA - Jan 23, 2007)
  • Michael Gerson
    • Senior Fellow Council on Foreign Relations | web site | Bio
    • Former Speechwriter for President George W. Bush
    • Michael Gerson: Bush SOTU Speech Exceeded Expectations (Newsweek - Jan 24, 2007)
    • The Writing on the Wall: The state of a very different union (JMU The Breeze, VA - Jan 24, 2007)
    • Christian Socialist "Conservative" (FrontPage magazine.com, CA - Jan 24, 2007)
    • The Myth of the “Anglo-Saxon Model” (The Myth of the “Anglo-Saxon Model” *(AMERICAN.COM, DC - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Do you have to have balls to have balls? (Salon - Jan 24, 2007)
    • The state of the speechwriters (International Herald Tribune, France - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Confessions of an Ex-Conservative (Lew Rockwell, CA - Jan 16, 2007)
    • The Psychology Behind the Worst Possible President (AlterNet, CA - Jan 17, 2007)
    • The new Iraq strategy (Financial Times, UK - Jan 11, 2007)
  • Ken Pollack
    • Brookings Institution Scholar | web site | Bio
    • Former Foreign Policy Adviser for President Clinton
    • Was Failure Inevitable? (Commonweal, NY - Jan 3, 2007)
    • Iraq reverberates across globe analysis (Detroit Free Press, MI - Jan 7, 2007)
    • The PU-litzer prizes of 2006 (Vermont Guardian, VT - Jan 5, 2007)
    • Why I'm Right About Liberal Jews and the Antiwar Movement (New York Observer, NY - Jan 21, 2007)
• 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)

[Bahbah]

Good evening, my friend. I have been hoping to see you.

[Phsstpok]

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.

• Meme:
  • Iraq = Vietnam, and we all know how that turned out, don't we?  Can you say "impeachment?"  I knew you could
  • What's all this talk about the "old media?"  We still tell people what to think.  Bow down before your DBM overlords!
  • Bush is wrong.  We've got (ambitious and unscrupulous) Republicans to tell you so.
• Topics:
  • The Plan For Iraq
• Guests
  • Senator Jim Webb, D-Virginia
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Armed Services Committee
    • Jim Webb's Response to Bush's State of the Union Address (OpEdNews, PA - Jan 24, 2007)
    • Jim Webb's Barnburner (Al-Jazeerah.info, GA - Jan 26, 2007)
    • JIM WEBB IS COYOTE, THE TRICKSTER (Free Market News Network, FL - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Unraveling Webb's Response (CBS News, NY - Jan 26, 2007)
    • PBS's Lehrer Pundits Agree That Democrat Jim Webb Is Eloquent, And 'A Star Is Born' (NewsBusters - Jan 24, 2007)
    • WashPost Hypes 'Folk Hero' Jim Webb's Bush-Bashing Dem Response (NewsBusters - Jan 24, 2007)
    • More Fawning Over Democrats: CNN Puffs Virginia's Jim Webb (NewsBusters - Jan 23, 2007)
  • Senator Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Senate Minority Leader
    • Mitch McConnell, fierce partisan, tames his image (Scripps News, DC - Jan 25, 2007)
    • McConnell praises Petraeus (Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Failure Is Not an Option...or Is It? (ABC News - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Another Kentuckian at the top (Kentucky Post, KY - Jan 23, 2007)
    • Lott and McConnell: United They Stand? (Washington Post, DC - Jan 19, 2007)
    • Payback Time for Trent Lott? (Newsweek - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Charge of the Light Brigade 2007? (Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Jan 26, 2007)
  • Senator Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Judiciary Committee
    • Gonzales: Constitution doesn't guarantee habeas corpus (World War 4 Report, NY - Jan 24, 2007)
    • The Controversy over Curtailing Habeas Corpus Rights: Why It Is a Bad Day For The Constitution Whenever Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Testifies (FindLaw - Jan 26, 2007) Note: written by John Dean
    • Arlen's terrorists (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Arlen Specter Responds [Michael Rubin] (National Review Online Blogs, NY - Jan 5, 2007)
    • Arlen Specter and Syria Redux [Michael Rubin] (National Review Online Blogs, NY - Jan 9, 2007)
    • Arlen Specter 'would meet' Ahmadinejad (Jerusalem Post, Israel - Dec 28, 2006)
    • Senators to Press Bush Admin on US Attorney Firings (TPMmuckraker, NY - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Senators Specter And Leahy Lead Bipartisan, Bicameral Effort To Bolder Security For Judges Across America (All American Patriots (press release), Sweden - Jan 25, 2007)
• Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

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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.

• Meme:
  • Iraq = Vietnam, and we all know how that turned out, don't we?  Can you say "impeachment?"  I knew you could
  • What's all this talk about the "old media?"  We still tell people what to think.  Bow down before your DBM overlords!
  • Bush is wrong.  We've got (ambitious and unscrupulous) Republicans to tell you so.  Pay no attention to Joe.  He's a Jooooo.  Just ask Jimmah Carter.  It's all their fault
• Topics:
  • A Republican war critic discusses the war in Iraq and presidential politics
  • Is the battle over Iraq a sign of more fights to come between the White House and the Democratic Congress?
  • With widespread condemnation for the White House plan for Iraq, what is the Congressional alternative?
  • FOX News Sunday panel
    • This week's State of the Union
    • The latest news in the Lewis "Scooter" Libby trial
  • Fox News essay: Coming up on Fox News Sunday
• Guests
  • Senator Sam Brownback, Republican - Kansas
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Interview with US Presidential Candidate Sam Brownback (Lifesite, NY - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Brownback, Romney clash on abortion credentials (Lawrence Journal World, KS - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Brownback favors proposal for smaller troop increase (Lawrence Journal World, KS - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Brownback could back rival resolution against troop increase (Pittsburg Morning Sun, KS - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Brownback Refutes '94 Campaign Charge (Christian Broadcasting Network, VA - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Brownback candidacy creates dilemma for Kansas moderates (Kansas City Star, MO - Jan 22, 2007)
  • Senator Joe Lieberman, Independent - Connecticut
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Go Joe! Lieberman offers own war strategy: Quit bickering (Tucson Citizen, AZ - Jan 18, 2007)
    • The bipartisan war on Bush (Salon - Jan 25, 2007) note: click through ad to get to link
    • CNN's Roberts cites Lieberman as a "Democrat" who does not "oppose the president" (Media Matters for America, DC - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Russert failed to challenge McCain claims on Lieberman, Gulf War, McCain's plan for Iraq (Media Matters for America, DC - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Joe Lieberman et le Petit Surge (Huffington Post, NY - Jan 16, 2007)
    • We Were Right About Joe Lieberman (Huffington Post, NY - Jan 14, 2007)
    • Climate Act introduced to US Senate (Nuclear Engineering, UK - Jan 26, 2007)
  • FOX News Sunday panel
    • Brit Hume
      • FOX News Washington Managing Editor
      • Brit Hume Trashes Democrats for Giving General Petraeus an "Up or Down Vote" (News Hounds, CA - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Bill Kristol
      • Weekly Standard Editor
      • American Goebbels or Endless Kristolnacht (The Nation via PEJ News, Canada - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Juan Williams
      • NPR Senior National Correspondent
      • On Fox News Sunday, Williams claimed Obama's Muslim father "presents a problem" (Media Matters for America, DC - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Mara Liasson
      • NPR National Political Correspondent
      • Special Report Roundtable - January 25 (RealClearPolitics, IL - Jan 26, 2007)
• Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com

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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.

• Meme:
  • Iraq = Vietnam, and we all know how that turned out, don't we?  Can you say "impeachment?"  I knew you could
  • What's all this talk about the "old media?"  We still tell people what to think.  Bow down before your DBM overlords!
  • Bush is wrong.  We've got (ambitious and unscrupulous) Republicans to tell you so.
• Topics:
  • The president pushes more troops into Iraq while friends and foes start pushing back on his plan. Will the political debate impact what is happening in Baghdad?
• Guests
  • Senator Jay Rockefeller, Democrat - West Virginia
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Intelligence Committee chairman
    • Reaction of Sen. Jay Rockefeller to President's 2007 State of the Union Address (HNN Huntingtonnews.net, WV - Jan 23, 2007)
    • Rockefeller: Cheney applied 'constant' pressure to stall investigation on flawed Iraq intelligence (Contra Costa Times, CA - Jan 26, 2007)
    • McClatchy reporter should have questioned Jay’s intelligence (Blogs.dailymail.com - Jan 26, 2007) hat tip to InstaPundit
    • Intelligence chairman: Bush draining homeland security funds (ABC Action News - Tampa, FL - Jan 23, 2007)
    • Senate Intel Chairman warns of Iran drumbeat. (Think Progress, DC - Jan 21, 2007)
    • Rockefeller's Treachery (ChronWatch, CA - Jan 15, 2007)
    • Deadly Dirty Politics - Democrats and Republicans at War (ChronWatch, CA - Jan 14, 2007)
    • Sen. Jay Rockefeller on Democratic memo announcing plans to play politics on Senate intelligence committee (Findarticles.COM - Dec 8, 2003)
  • Senator Christopher Dodd, Democrat - Connecticut
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Kennedy supports Dodd presidential bid (Providence Eyewitness News, RI - Jan 27, 2007)
    • Dodd makes his first campaign stop in New Hampshire (WTNH, CT - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Presidential hopeful Dodd: Limit Bush's troop moves on Iraq (WHNS - Jan 15, 2007)
    • Lieberman Passes Up Chance To Back Dodd's Presidential Bid (Hartford Courant, CT - Jan 14, 2007)
    • The State Of The Union Is About The State Of Iraq (Opinion Editorials, VA - Jan 27, 2007)
  • Senator Jon Kyl, Republican - Arizona
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Judiciary Committee
    • Sen. JON KYL, R-Ariz.: Losing 'momentum' against terrorism would be grave error (Tucson Citizen, AZ - Jan 21, 2007)
    • 'Surge' digs Iraq hole deeper (Daily Trojan Online, CA - Jan 21, 2007)
    • Republican Senator: Give Bush Iraq Plan a Chance (NPR - Jan 18, 2007)
    • No compromise seen between two Iraq resolutions (Frankfort Times, IN - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Where was bipartisan Jon Kyl? (Arizona Republic, AZ - Jan 17, 2007)
    • Kyl reiterates need for border fencing (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ - Jan 25, 2007)
  • Michael Steele
    • Former Republican Lt. Governor of Maryland
    • Michael Steele to chair GOPAC (Delmarva Daily Times - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Reconsidering "Black Politics" (ZNet, MA - Jan 22, 2007)
    • "Trumping the Race Card" [John J. Miller] (National Review Online Blogs, NY - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Black voters nix Republicans (Online Journal, FL - Jan 23, 2007)
    • What’s the Matter with Harlem? (National Review Online, NY - Jan 17, 2007)
  • Donna Brazile
    • Democratic strategist
    • Biden's Hidden Strength (New York Press, NY - Jan 16, 2007)
    • Run, Al, Run (Rolling Stone - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Can Obama Count on the Black Vote? (TIME - Jan 23, 2007)
    • Obama on tightrope in bid for black vote (Washington Times, DC - Jan 24, 2007)
    • Obama Vaults Into Democratic Top Tier (Washington Post, DC - Jan 16, 2007)
• CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)

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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.

• Meme:
  • Iraq = Vietnam, and we all know how that turned out, don't we?  Can you say "impeachment?"  I knew you could
  • What's all this talk about the "old media?"  We still tell people what to think.  Bow down before your DBM overlords!
  • Bush is wrong.  We've got (ambitious and unscrupulous) Republicans to tell you so.
• Topics:
  • Opposition to the President's plan to surge troops in Iraq.
  • Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Ca on his presidential bid.
  • Voices segment: the six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
• Guests
  • Senator Joe Biden, Democrat - Delaware
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Sununu has to Biden his time (Concord Monitor, NH - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Sen. Joe Biden to kick off presidential campaign Wednesday (USA Today - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Senator Joe Biden Pushes for Creation of Homeland Security Trust Fund (All American Patriots (press release), Sweden - Jan 23, 2007)
    • Sen. Joe Biden Finally Gets It Right: "The Vice President Doesn't Know What's He's Talking About" (News Hounds, CA - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Craven Senate scoundrels (Washington Times, DC - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Biden vs. Dodd in SC (The State, SC - Jan 24, 2007)
    • Biden ascending as SC choice (The State, SC - Jan 20, 2007)
  • Senator Richard Lugar, Republican - Indiana
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Lugar Opposes Measure Critical of President (Fox 28, IN - Jan 24, 2007)
    • Congress Reacts to State of the Union Address (PBS - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Lugar in minority on vote against troop surge (Indianapolis Star, IN - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Lugar is latest Republican to express doubts over Iraq surge (The Hill, DC - Jan 24, 2007)
    • A call to arms (Portsmouth Herald News, NH - Jan 24, 2007)
    • Lugar seeking action from Bush on ethanol plan (Indianapolis Star, IN - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Lugar will hold to Bush to State of the Union ethanol commitment (Palladium-Item, IN - Jan 25, 2007)
    • RICHARD LUGAR: ENERGY WAR WITH RUSSIA (Free Market News Network, FL - Dec 28, 2006)
  • Representative Duncan Hunter, Republican - California
    • House web site | Bio
    • California Rep. Duncan Hunter makes GOP presidential bid official (North County Times, CA - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Use more Iraqi forces in Baghdad: Hunter (United Press International - Jan 11, 2007)
    • DNC: Duncan Hunter Out of Touch on Iraq (Earthtimes.org - Jan 11, 2007)
    • CNN informed viewers that Rep. Hunter "supports military" (Media Matters for America, DC - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Tremoglie: An Interview With Congressman Duncan Hunter (Evening Bulletin, PA - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Duncan Hunter Argues Cost of New Border Fence Construction is Affordable (KPBS, CA - Jan 15, 2007)
    • Hunter takes Arizona GOP straw poll (North County Times, CA - Jan 16, 2007)
  • Voices segment:
    • Kevin Bacon
      • On the Web: Donate to charities with Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon (The News Journal, DE - Jan 26, 2007)
• ABC This Week comment web page

[fkabuckeyesrule]

Will Kevin Bacon be dancing??? LOL!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

Did anyone hear Alan Spector on the Laura Ingraham show this week....classic radio!

[fkabuckeyesrule]

It'll be nice to see Mr. Steele again. I hope he runs again fro something.

[Phsstpok]

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

The battle is well and truly joined.  The extreme left in the Dhimmicrat party, which was so careful to hide in the run up to the election, is out in full force, claiming their "mandate" to lynch George W. Bush.  The banshee wail is being raised and the wild hunt has begun.  They smell blood and they demand their victims.

The deck this week is stacked with Bush critics (surprise, surprise), particularly those that can be found from the Republican party.  There is a leavening of a few less hostile voices, but very few (and some of those could be suspect... which would be why they got invites to the shows, of course)...

... The interesting thing for me to watch is whether or not any of the so called "anti-war" players hedge or back off of some of the more extreme things being said, particularly in the World Workers Party affiliated march in Washington on Saturday....

... The bottom line for me this week is that I think the left has over reached and I think a few of them see that also.  These shows may well provide me a way to test that hypothesis. ...

Note to my FReeper friends.  I'm real late tonight as I had two more stitches removed from my corneal transplant today.  This is always a traumatic event for me and I'm really running behind.  The worst part is as my surgeon comes at me with either the tiny scissors or tweezers and says "now stay perfectly still and don't blink."  OMG!!!!!!!!!!!  One thing I have learned is that it's real hard to drink straight bourbon from the fetal position.  Anyway, I've finally got this posted, late as it is.  I'm going to cross post this to my blog then go back into hiding.  I'll hang around a bit tomorrow but will probably still be on the light side (yeah, right... as if I can keep quiet for long!).

[CDB]

Many thanks for all your superb analysis--and under such duress, etc. Get well, soon. The very thought of stitches on my corneas sends shivers down my spine. Your pain threshold must be close to Jack Bauer's.

[Phsstpok]

It's nice to hear from you, too. I hope I'll be in a position to participate a little more tomorrow, but you can never tell.

This is another "de minimus" weekend for me, I'm afraid. My surgeon has scheduled another session next Saturday, as well, but we could see that he did have a positive impact on the shape of my cornea with what he did today through the computer topography (which is another fun task, albeit not quite so traumatic).

Thank goodness for dim light bulbs! ;^>

Best

Joshua

[Txsleuth]

Oh...good grief....Newshounds needs to lose its website license for that ignorant response to what Brit Hume was talking about on Special Report.

[Phsstpok]

Yeah, I thought it was over the top too, but... "website license?" I didn't know I needed a license... (Oh am I in trouble with Mr. Orwell.....)

[Txsleuth]

Well..bless your heart....you have so much stuff done to your eyes..I just am amazed at how much work you do on this thread every week...

I love the thread, once again....and your count total was correct...you just had 1 less person in the "don't know" catagory, 1 more in the "pro-Bush" catagory, and one less in the "anti-Bush" catagory.

[Phsstpok]

Yeah, I figured what I'd done wrong, but I couldn't find who I'd misidentified. I gave up because staring at something like that with one eye for more than 15 minutes is even more futile than doing it with two!! ;^>

Besides, it really didn't affect the point. The shows are demonstrably biased in their choice of guests. That is going to be one of my priorities going forward with this thread. Once I get back on track with timing (assuming I do) I intend to send a note to each of the shows (plus reliable sources and a few others) with the relative moonbat vs. patriot count and see if they can be shamed into acknowledging and adjusting their "balance" in their guests.

[Txsleuth]

Okay...maybe I was over the top, but jeeez louise, they totally misrepresented what Brit was talking about.

If the purpose of that site is to monitor the "news", then they better start listening better to what is being said, rather than projecting their opinions.

[Txsleuth]

The problem is, to them, some of the Republicans that we see as leaning to far left...are probably still too far right.

Did you hear Fred or Mort say that Lieberman was asked who he was going to back in 2008...and he said he was going to wait, but if he didn't agree enough with ones that running, he may back NY Mayor Bloomberg for an INDEPEDENT candidacy!!! YIKES.

[rockrr]

Hello Phsstpok. Thanks for another stunning analysis!

I had a "friend of a friend" once upon a time who had, well, a substance abuse problem. If there was any substance around, he would abuse it ;'}

One thing that he used to do that would crack me up (OK, I realize that it was really pathetic, but looking past that) was to carry around a "Bourbon in a baggy". Every now and then I would see him rooting around in his jacket pocket. It caught my curiosity, so I finally asked his sister who told me to "Watch closely (but not too closely) - every once in a while he sticks a straw into a baggy filled with Bourbon and takes a drink".

So it's not exactly a conventional way to imbibe, but you certainly have my, uh, blessings to do so!

(Rest easy and take care of yourself).

~rockrr~