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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:
- George Bush is running destroying pro military political cohesion with his war, he's even making the good pro military politicians mad at each other
- Jim Webb is a right wing American even a committed Stalinist could love
- Any Republican who doesn't oppose the surge is cutting their own throat and the dinosaur media must save them from their own folly or, regretfully, help bury them
Topics:
- The Iraq surge:
  - Can the new strategy help stabilize Iraq or is it too late to curb the violence?
  - A new National Intelligence Estimate paints a bleak picture of the reality on the ground in Iraq as the White House defends the new plan for victory.
  - Democrats oppose President Bush's Iraq strategy, but do they have an alternative?
  - Senate resolution rumblings: legislators are planning a "vote of no confidence" in President Bush's plan for next week
  - A new report revealed that "the White House may not have been forthright" about the number of additional troops it plans to send to Iraq.
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- Power Player Of The Week: a fallen football star making his big comeback in the nation's capitol in a new game — politics
Guests
- Senator Jim Webb, Democrat - Virginia
  - Senate web site | Bio
  - Galloway: Two senators show the courage of their convictions (Salt Lake Tribune, UT - Feb 3, 2007)
  - Frankly, Jim Webb embarrasses me (The Free Lance-Star, VA - Jan 29, 2007)
  - Tale of 2 economies: Bush, Democrats paint contrasting viewpoints (The Capital Times, WI - Feb 2, 2007)
  - Newsweek: 'Webb Gives Dems Testosterone,' Barnicle Says He's 'Terrific' For America (NewsBusters - Jan 30, 2007)
  - Narrow format, fine; narrow news, not good (The Free Lance-Star, VA - Feb 1, 2007)
  - Jim Webb's Barnburner (Al-Jazeerah.info, GA - Jan 26, 2007)
  - Democrat Defeatism Concerning Iraq, a Man Named Webb (WEBCommentary - Jan 29, 2007)
  - Truthdigger of the Week: Sen. Jim Webb (Truthdig, CA - Jan 26, 2007)
- Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican - South Carolina
  - Senate web site | Bio
  - Senator Graham Backs President (WCBD-TV, SC - Feb 2, 2007)
  - BUSH SENATE ALLIES DRAFT OWN RESOLUTIONS (Free Market News Network, FL - Feb 2, 2007)
  - Dole takes a stand and a chance (Charlotte Observer, NC - Feb 3, 2007)
  - Troop increase is a tough sale for GOP senators on '08 ballot (USA Today - Feb 1, 2007)
  - Army chief nominee gets harsh reception (Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - Feb 2, 2007)
  - US Senators Stress Bipartisanship (HULIQ, NC - Feb 3, 2007)
  - The Shame of Lindsey Graham (National Review Online Blogs, NY - Jan 10, 2007)
  - US Sens. Stabenow, Graham push trade prosecutor bill (WLNS, MI - Jan 31, 2007)
- Roundtable
  - Brit Hume
    - FOX News Washington Managing Editor
    - Hume used baseless claim to attack straw-man version of Wash. Post article on Libby trial (Media Matters for America, DC - Feb 2, 2007)
    - Not All Scientists Are Buying What the UN Is Selling on Global Warming (Fox News Special Report Political Grapevine - Feb 2, 2007)
  - Bill Kristol
    - Weekly Standard Editor
    - A Terrible Ignominy (The Weekly Standard - Feb 12, 2007 issue)
    - Kristol: Anti-Surge GOP Sens Are "Anti-Troops" (TPMmuckraker, NY - Feb 2, 2007)
  - Juan Williams
    - NPR Senior National Correspondent
    - NPR Interview with President Bush (NPR - Jan 29, 2007)
    - Juan Williams on Interviewing President Bush (NPR - Jan 29, 2007)
  - Mara Liasson
    - NPR National Political Correspondent
    - Conservatives Eye Wide-Open Presidential Field (NPR - Jan 29, 2007)
    - Establishing Bipartisanship Is a Big Challenge (NPR - Jan 22, 2007)
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