[Phsstpok]

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:
  • Those dastardly Republicans blocked the Iraq surge debate by actually daring to debate! ... wait...
  • Jon Carry is a loser, can we taint Mike Huckabee by association?
  • There have been hundreds of false charges made against our soldiers over fake "war crimes," therefore we must defend a mutineer as the real hero - fragging is patriotic!
  • Can you say "Bush is a lame duck"?  We knew you could
  • Let government confiscate or regulate everything... no, have government should sell everything everything and get out of the way...
• Topics:
  • Former presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass on his decision not to run in '08
  • "On the Trail" with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee
  • Sean Penn on the controversial court martial of Lt. Ehren Watada.
• Guests
  • Senator John Kerry, Democrat - Massachusetts
    • Former presidential candidate
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Jane Fonda, John Kerry and suspect intelligence (Salem Statesman Journal, OR - Feb 4, 2007)
    • A Presidential Also-Ran, Kerry Adjusts to What Passes for a Normal Life in the Senate (New York Times, NY - Feb 4, 2007)
    • NY Times Finally Notices That John Kerry Looks Like a Sad Horse (Wonkette (satire), DC - Feb 5, 2007)
    • A new Raleigh life for Kerry (News & Observer, NC - Feb 8, 2007)
    • Poor John Kerry (Christian Broadcasting Network, VA - Feb 6, 2007)
    • The real John Kerry says no go (Stockton Record, CA - Feb 4, 2007)
    • John Kerry can't shake loser label (Edmonton Sun, Canada - Feb 4, 2007)
  • Mike Huckabee
    • Former Arkansas Governor
    • Wikipedia Bio
    • Huckabee defends traditional marriages (Centre Daily Times, PA - Feb 9, 2007)
    • Huckabee: Marriages face enough challenges without 'experiments' (WMC-TV, TN - Feb 9, 2007)
    • Huckabee warns of wars with Islam, unhealthy behavior (Boston Herald - Feb 9, 2007)
    • Huckabee's political kiss of death (Statesman Journal, OR - Feb 9, 2007)
    • Can Mike Huckabee Compete In '08? (CBS News, NY - Feb 7, 2007)
    • Huckabee To Tackle Tax Critics (Fort Smith Times Record, AR - Feb 8, 2007)
  • Sean Penn
    • Sean Penn demonstrates at court martial for Iraq war objector (KPUA, HI - Feb 6, 2007)
    • Sean Penn joins protesters outside court martial (Kansas City Star, MO - Feb 5, 2007)
    • What to do with Army deserter Ehren Watada; Send him to jail in Iraq and strip him of his bars (Opinion Editorials, VA - Feb 6, 2007)
    • "Support the Troops"? How? (The Conservative Voice, NC - Feb 8, 2007)
    • If You Missed The "Peace Protests" (Post Chronicle - Feb 7, 2007)
  • Roundtable
    • Robert Reich
      • Clinton Administration Labor Secretary
      • Make the oil companies pay (Marketplace, CA - Feb 7, 2007) - Note, Transcript, audio at link
      • Keeping Up Appearances (American Prospect - Jan 17, 2007)
    • Cokie Roberts
      • The cooling abortion debate (Black Hills Pioneer, SD - Feb 8, 2007)
      • The least bad outcome for Iraq best we can do (Billings Gazette, MT - Jan 11, 2007)
    • George Will
      • Chicago sheds assets in hopes of gaining residents (The Union Leader, NH - Feb 7, 2007)
      • New majority, same old political trick (Daily Mail - Charleston, WV - Jan 29, 2007)
• ABC This Week comment web page

[maica]

Thanks for your immense work on these previews. McConnell and Feith on the FNS wiil both be worth watching, and some of Wolfie via poor man's TIVO [VCR and remote to go to selected guests]

Life is too short for me to spend time with McAuliffe or Reich.
Lott and Boehner just make me want to scream.

[Gritty]

Thanks for the penetrating analysis.

You may be having some unfortunate trouble with your eyes, but your brain is still in fine shape!