Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 7/7 - 7/8/07 (not the live thread)

Immigration is not to be mentioned except perhaps to belittle those who opposed shamnesty as bigots and jingoistic nationalist racists (I guess they don't know Michelle Malkin?). What's really happening in Iraq is also off limits. The only "truth" allowed about Iraq is the growing number of RINOs bailing out. No, this week it's all about the crimes of McChimpy Bushitler and his evil master/henchman, Fu Man Cheney. When the press takes seriously any comments from the Clinton's on someone else committing perjury or the need for sure punishment and respect for the rule of law you know that they didn't take the red pill. As the White Queen said to Alice, "sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

The line ups are truly astounding, with heavy emphasis on Republicans who hate Bush and either disagree with him on Iraq or agree with him on shamnesty (or both) and Dhimmicrats who want to impeach and imprison him (then they'll really think of some good punishment). I'm really surprised that none of them have Pete Domenici on. Maybe they want to make sure he doesn't back slide and that he really has "come to Jesus." I'm also surprised that there's no big tie in with the Goracle's revival meetings scattered about the planet, especially NBC who have turned over 75 hours of programming time to Gorestock. Can you say illegal contributions in kind? Now we know why the Goracle hasn't announced his candidacy yet and won't do so during these concerts. Of course, a week from now he can respond to the "overwhelming outpouring of support" and deign to throw his hat in the ring "for the sake of the children." What's so funny is the George Bush made Gore look silly in the debates. I get gleeful thinking what Fred Thompson might do to him.

NBC Meet The Press doesn't go with Gorestock, instead featuring a different kind of Howard Beale, this one from the RINO wing of the Republican party. Chuck Hagel, like Peter Finch's character, is truly delusional. Unlike Beale Senator Hagel has no redeeming value to make his lunacy endearing and endurable. He's merely insufferable. But he has his value to the dinosaur media in that he hates McChimpy Bushitler. He's good for at least four or five sound bites (carefully edited) each time he's on. Their roundtable of "wise reporters" sets up the Libby discussion with David Brooks defending the clemency and the rest of the players performing the role of lions to his role as the Christian in the Coliseum. Eugene Robinson in particular is queued up to preach the gospel of good government and denounce the evil that is Bush/Cheney. He also is likely designated to set up the "we need Gore for President to save us all" meme. Kornblut is on to expound on the goodness that is the Dhimmicrat presidential field, particularly Hillary and Obama as "agents of change." Purdum is along to sit shiva for John McCain's presidential ambition. With that they'll have come full circle back to Hagel. The maverick is dead, long live the maverick!

CBS Face The Nation tees up Chuck Schumer for the ~~prosecution~~ ~~persecution~~ inquisition. They see no irony is the man who probably ordered the illegal computer break in and identity theft operation against Michael Steele by his aides questioning anyone else's ethics. Chuck de Torquemada is a true believer and won't let Emerson's "hobgoblin of little minds" get in his way. Orrin Hatch is on to provide a prop for Republican bashing by pointing to his hearings on Clinton's pardons when he was chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Let no one say that CBS doesn't slavishly read the lefty blogs to get their action lines. The roundtable seems heavily tilted towards the "good news for Dhimmicrats, bad news for Republicans" campaign meme. These folks better not stumble over a single word else they'll get crushed in the verbal stampede to get all of this in in only a half hour.

Fox News Sunday is perhaps making a subtle point by having the case against Libby and the commutation carried by the head of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee, Chris Van Hollen. of course, that would require that they point out that blatant political slant to the Libby trial and verdict, which Chris Wallace undoubtedly will let slide because it's somehow "unfair" to question a Dhimmicrat's motives. Daddy would be so proud. It will be interesting to see how Chris Cannon is treated, having backed Conyers down on the anonymous "whistle blower" web site nonsense. If the Dhimmicrats have anything on him, real or imagined, watch for hints on this show. The Dhimmicrats and drive by media seem intent on denying Bush a legacy and inventing one for Clinton out of the whole cloth, no matter the cost to the Country. This morning on one of the Fox finance gabfests there was a Dhimmicrat shill praising the great Clinton economy of the 90s and nary a word was said about the bubble or the Enron and Global Crossing book keeping that fueled it. And they refuse to admit that our current economy is one of the best ever or to give Bush any credit for the remarkable success he has had. They've defeated any reform or rescue of Social Security and are celebrating the failure of shamnesty, even though they were all for it. After all, they can blame it on Bush. Now they are hoping to encourage an Al Qaeda attack on the US since the lack of any attacks on the US homeland is all they see that he has left. Watch for reporters to start egging on Osama and company to strike here. They've been playing down the car bombs in the UK as "minor" and done by "incompetent amateurs." If exactly the same thing were to happen her as happened in Glasgow it would be trumpeted as a "great defeat" for the Bush administration. Brit seems to be off this week, but Bill Kristol, Mara Liasson and Fred Barnes should provide some entertaining discussion. As usual it's an a panel uniformly in favor of amnesty, but they will likely give that short shrift, minimizing their defeat on that subject (and hoping for a back door revival... again). Kristol and Barnes both have interesting pieces in the Weekly Standard on Iraq and the Middle East while Mara will bring the

CNN Late Edition the three amigos, Snarlin Arlen Specter, Pat "Leaky" Leahy and Dick "REMF" Lugar, gang up to spell out all that is wrong with McChimpy Bushitler. With "friends and allies" like Specter and Lugar George Bush doesn't need enemies. Specter and Leahy will speak eloquently about the sanctity of the rule of law and how dangerous it is for the Bush administration not to bow to the will of Congress and surrender the tools the Constitution gives to the executive to the obviously much wiser men (and women) in the legislative branch and judiciary. Lugar is on his second week of being a "good Republican" after publicly turning his back on Iraq. I wonder if any of the criticisms of his position coming from troops and others actually over in Iraq will be raised? Don't count on it. It's as likely they'll invite Michael Yon on one of these shows. Thank God for the Internet and I know that the troops thank God for Michael Yon. You know, if today's press were in charge in 1940 you never would have heard of Ernie Pyle. Watch for a hostile interview with Mowaffak al-Rubaie about the failures of the Iraqi politicians to agree on necessary legislation. All he has to do to slam Wolfie in the privates is point to the current Congress and that should end that discussion right quick.

ABC This Week serves up the mother load of Bush bashers in the person of "Red John" Conyers. Despite his protestations to the contrary he's clearly setting up for impeachment proceedings. Watch for lots of sanctimony about "the rule of law" and "respect for process" but very little about the positions he took when stonewalling and covering up for the Clintons. Definitely don't look for any mention of William Jefferson or any of the other ethically challenged members of his party. Certainly don't look for any mention of his allies in this fight, including the World Workers Party and, I'm sure, CAIR and Al Qaeda's other friends in America. Beyond Comrade Conyers they also offer up another installment in their profiles of meaningless presidential candidates. This time it's Ron Paul and Mike Gravel. Both are critics of the Bush administration on Iraq and the White House on immigration policy. Watch for them to be celebrated for those "right thinking" positions. The ABC roundtable spares us the usual dour presence of George Will, giving us Zakaria and Vanden Heuvel to provide Curious Georgie his halleluiah chorus on the moonbat orthodoxy. Katrina will push the envelope towards the lunatic left but Fareed will give her cover by providing intellectual "context" for her ravings. Might they slip in the "Bush knew" or some other "truther" nonsense into the dialogue? Not likely with Rich Lowry along, but they'll hint at things like that. Lowry is on because he is critical of the commutation because it wasn't an all out pardon. Lot's of space there for both Bush bashing rhetoric and painting conservatives as both partisan hypocrites and lawless thugs. What's so amazing to me is the plethora of stories decrying Republicans "hypocrisy" over commuting Libby's prison sentence in contrast to criticizing Clinton's perjury from the same people who obfuscated Clinton's crimes. This weeks shows are all thick with irony.

The Saturday shows are the usual mishigosh (Yiddish for "crazy"). The Beltway Boys lament the untimely demise of the shamnesty bill because it would have "fixed the immigration problems." I never heard them explain how it would do that, just that bald assertion, particularly from Mort. Ah well, he never has felt the need to define or defend his positions on almost any issue. The more obscure, the better, I guess. CNBC's Tim Russert Show is up to their usual, pimping another worthless book, this time for CNBC's Jim Cramer. As Father Guido Sarducci used to ask, "coinchidenche?" Fox News Watch breaks their recent pattern and (apparently) avoids any Paris Hilton talk. Why should they when they have the offspring of The Green Prophet, Al Gore III, to wax tabloidic about? The Journal Editorial Report examines the UK terror attacks this week and providing context is Melanie Phillips, author of the wonderful book Londonistan. I think they've done a good thing there. They then examine the dynamics of Obama vs. Clinton (can you say "Fort March Park?") and the collapse of John McCain's presidential dream. The aspect of McCain's problems that no one has dared raise so far is what will he do when he feels he has nothing to lose, no one left to offend? I know there's a bevy of reporters staying on his campaign trail way after they would for anyone else because of what the meltdown might produce. Who will be the primary recipient of his ultimate rage? Bush? Cheney? His erstwhile "good friends" in the Senate or his one time allies in the press? Enquiring minds want to know.

So this weeks shows are basically a "Hail Mary" toss by the dinosaur media and their Dhimmicrat masters/puppets to launch their drive to finally bring down Bush "by any means necessary." Impeachment is the goal, placing Nazi Pelosi in the White House as the ultimate prize as revenge for the ignominious circumstances of Clinton's presidency. Really. That's what they're thinking over at moonbat central. The fact that they're also thinking that at CBS' "Black Rock," NBCs' "30 Rock" and ABC's Times Square HQs speaks to the fatal illness in their industry.

This should be cross posted to my blog at Wizards.townhall.com later today. I have finally caught up over their and I hope to keep up to date from now on. In fact I'm going to change the format just a bit when posting this in light of the success of the technique I used to get caught up. This analysis will still be first but then I'm going to try putting all of the show by show posts into one big Post number 1. If I end up falling back to separate posts you'll know that I found an upper limit to the length of FR posts.

This thread exists primarily as a heads up for who is on the weekend talks shows, what they've been invited on to push (based on their recent pronouncements) and the spin (meme) the DBM is likely trying to push based on that information. All of this is prep work for the weekly Sunday Morning Talk Show thread posted by Alas Babylon!. That thread provides a live commentary and analysis of the Sunday talking head shows, with valuable insight and exceptional fact checking. we are the Jedi Council of FreeRepublic, at least in regards to these DBM gabfests. You wanna know what was said and what it meant, as well as where they messed up? Read that thread!

Mark Kilmer has posted his excellent preview of the Sunday shows over at Redstate.COM.

Saturday Shows for 7-7-07

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:
- OK, explain to me why things we want fail one procedural vote and they are dead for all time but this crap gets beat 100 times and keeps coming back?
- Fox News, hablamos español
- Shamnesty, the legislation that will not die!
- The chutzpah tour moves on to the granite state, where old hippies go to die
Topics:
- The immigration bill is dead, but the issue is still alive on Capitol Hill
- The Clintons head to New Hampshire
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:
- More meaningless book pimping
Topics:
- Tim talks to CNBC's wildly entertaining financial guru Jim Cramer about his book, "Mad Money, Watch TV and Get Rich!"
Guests
- Jim Cramer
  - Author, Jim Cramer's Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich
CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET

Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)

Meme:
- Finally a couple of interesting and worthwhile questions, but still no examination of the faux reporting from Iraq
- Now they're in favor of perjurers doing hard time and of plugging leaks and punishing leakers? Who knew?
Topics:
- Terror Plots Foiled: The public understands the lethal terror threat, do the media?
- Libby's Sentence Commuted: Press reaction is fast and furious
- Gore's Son Arrested: Has coverage been fair?
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:
- Better? They've had bombings, we haven't. Hello?
- Sounds like they're laying out retirement plans for McLame
- Sounds like they're laying out funeral plans for Obama
- Melanie Phillips, maybe the best guest this week
Topics:
- Opinion Journal web page: Brits Do It Better?
  - Do the British do it better? What the London terror plots say about our progress against al Qaeda and radical Islam.
  - John McCain's Presidential fade
  - Barack Obama vs. Team Clinton
- Fox News Channel web page
  - Failed terror attacks in the U.K.: Proof of jihad in Britain?
  - Is Al Qaeda abandoning its tradition of large-scale attacks for smaller, ad hoc car bombings?
Guests
- Melanie Phillips
  - Author of Londonistan
  - Peace in our time deferred (Melanie Phillips web site - Jul 5, 2007)
  - The strategy of consensual dissimulation (Melanie Phillips web site - Jul 3, 2007)
  - The global warming scam (Melanie Phillips web site - Jun 22, 2007)
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

NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)

Meme:
- Everybody hates Bush, nobody likes him. He should go out in the garden and eat worms. Nyah, nyah. So there, doody head!
- The perjurer Russert asks fellow journalists to express their heartfelt outrage that Libby isn't being executed
- Now they're in favor of perjurers doing hard time and of plugging leaks and punishing leakers? Who knew?
Topics:
- An out of control RINO (the only "good Republicans") discusses the Iraq war & Republican Party politics.
- Meet the Press roundtable
  - "Insights & analysis" on the Libby commutation & Decision 2008.
Guests
- Senator Chuck Hagel, RINO - Nebraska
  - Senate web site | Bio
  - Foreign Relations Committee Member
  - Intelligence Committee Member
  - Hagel Scooters Away From Bush...Again (MSNBC - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Hagel: phased troop withdrawal (North Platte Bulletin, NE - Jul 5, 2007)
  - Hagel: Immigration woes deepened by Senate act (Columbus Telegram, NE - Jun 29, 2007)
  - Bruning Disappointed in Hagel Vote on Amnesty Bill (Southwest Nebraska News, NE - Jun 26, 2007)
  - Neb. AG primed for primary fight with Hagel over US Senate seat (Legal News Line, DC - Jul 3, 2007)
  - Nebraska Republican Enters Senate Race — Hagel or Not (New York Times, United States - Jun 7, 2007)
  - Taking On Chuck Hagel (Town Hall, DC - Jun 26, 2007)
- Meet the Press roundtable
  - David Brooks
    - New York Times columnist | Bio
    - Earth to David Brooks: Bring it On (Huffington Post, NY - Jul 5, 2007)
    - Press Reacts to Libby's Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card (Editor & Publisher - Jul 2, 2007)
  - Anne Kornblut
    - Washington Post "reporter" | Bio (Wikipedia)
    - From Obama, Clinton, Dueling Ideas of Change (Washington Post - Jul 4, 2007)
    - Major Media Play Up Mrs. Edwards Decrying Coulter's 'Hate' -- But What About Marcotte? (NewsBusters - Jun 27, 2007)
  - Todd Purdum
    - National Editor, Vanity Fair magazine
    - John McCain: Prisoner of Conscience: Politics & Power (Vanity Fair, Feb 2007)
    - Arianna Huffington: The Times Gives Tim Russert a Big, Wet Kiss (Huffington Post - Oct 31, 2005)
    - Richard Bradley: The Tim Russert Story Todd Purdum Wouldn't Tell (Huffington Post - Nov 1, 2005)
    - frontline: the invasion of iraq: interviews: todd purdum (PBS - Jan 29, 2004)
  - Eugene Robinson
    - Washington Post Columnist
    - Six Years and Counting (Truthdig - Jul 3, 2007)
    - Unmaking History (Truthdig - Jun 29, 2007)
    - Cheney the Survivor (Truthdig - Jun 26, 2007)
    - America Likes an Idiot, but It Needs Al Gore (Truthdig - Jun 1, 2007)
    - No need for September, we can measure Iraq progress now (Raw Story, MA - Jun 15, 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)

CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)

Meme:
- Everybody hates Bush, nobody likes him. He should go out in the garden and eat worms. Nyah, nyah. So there, doody head!
- The network that gave us fake TANG docs asks Senators to express their heartfelt outrage that Libby isn't being executed
- Now they're in favor of perjurers doing hard time and of plugging leaks and punishing leakers? Who knew?
- I wonder if anyone will ask Chucky about the identity theft, wire fraud and computer crimes he ordered against Steele?
- Shamnesty, the legislation that will not die!
- Betcha Hatch gets dissed for being a Mormon
- As Billary sail triumphantly on to New Hampshire the evil Republicans are in disarray
- Pay no attention to the federal indictments involving Hillary's Senate campaign, that's old news, we should all just MoveOn.org
Topics:
- Scooter Libby
- White House Subpoenas
- Politics
Guests
- Senator Charles Schumer, Democrat - New York
  - Senate web site | Bio
  - Judiciary Committee member
  - Schumer tick’d at Libby case (Politics on the Hudson, NY - Jul 3, 2007)
  - Schumer disappointed Libby's spared prison (WNYT, NY - Jul 3, 2007)
  - Bush Got It Right... Unlike Mr. Clinton (Yahoo! News - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Senators alter the power flow (Times Herald-Record, NY - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Schumer says mercury-contaminated fish in Ulster County pose risk (Mid-Hudson News, NY - Jul 4, 2007)
  - The diddle kingdom (Economist, UK - Jul 5, 2007)
  - Made in China, badly (San Francisco Chronicle - Jul 5, 2007)
  - Immigrants in boro still want reform (Flushing Times Ledger, NY - Jul 5, 2007)
  - Sen. Charles Schumer: GOP Has 'Lost Touch' (NewsMax.com, FL - Jun 11, 2007)
- Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah
  - Senate web site | Bio
  - Judiciary Committee member
  - Hatch helps kill immigration reform legislation (Salt Lake Tribune - Jun 28, 2007)
  - Hatch in thrall (Salt Lake Tribune - Jun 19, 2007)
  - Senate tiff likely over delays in judge vote (Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Immigration measure rehash receives mixed reviews, votes (Salt Lake Tribune - Jun 27, 2007)
  - Quotes related to White House subpoenas (San Jose Mercury News - Jun 28, 2007)
  - Get back to work! (St. George Daily Spectrum, UT - Jul 2, 2007)
  - Media’s motive for crying crisis (Peninsula On-line, Qatar - Jul 5, 2007)
  - The end game is socialized medicine for all the 'kids' (Houston Chronicle - Jun 29, 2007)
- Roundtable:
  - David Yepsen
    - The Des Moines Register
    - Bill Clinton critical of Bush (PRESS TV, Iran - Jul 6, 2007)
    - Full Swing In Iowa (CBS News, NY - Jul 4, 2007)
    - Yepsen: Battle report: Trio lead Dems; GOP field is chaos (DesMoinesRegister.com, IA - Jul 5, 2007)
  - Vaughn Ververs
    - Senior Political Editor, CBSNews.com
    - Build Up Or Tear Down? (CBS News, NY - Jul 6, 2007)
    - Change Is In The Air (CBS News, NY - Jul 5, 2007)
    - Fenced In On Immigration? (CBS News, NY - Jun 28, 2007)
  - Jeanne Cummings
    - Politico.com
    - Burn, baby, burn: GOP contenders' worry (Politico - Jul 6, 2007)
    - Money woes signal McCain malaise (Politico - Jul 2, 2007)
    - Business lobby fights isolationism (Politico - Jul 2, 2007)
Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com

Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)

Meme:
- Everybody hates Bush, nobody likes him. He should go out in the garden and eat worms. Nyah, nyah. So there, doody head!
- Yeah, let's ask the head of the DCCC about Libby. Wonder if Bill selling pardons will come up?
- Now they're in favor of perjurers doing hard time and of plugging leaks and punishing leakers? Who knew?
- Shamnesty, the legislation that will not die!
- What do you mean "Bush didn't lie?" We've all agreed that he must have. Didn't he? Well, then Cheney did!
Topics:
- The 'Scooter' Libby "controversy"
- Is the U.S. facing another act of terror?
- Fox News Sunday panel
  - The effect of the Libby commutation
  - The latest from the 2008 presidential race: as the candidates release their fundraising totals who are the winners and losers?
- Fox News essay: Coming up on Fox News Sunday
Guests
- Representative Chris Van Hollen, Democrat - Maryland
  - House web site | Bio
  - Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
  - No jail for Libby as Bush plays to his base (The Age, Australia - Jul 3, 2007)
  - Bush spares Libby from prison term (Baltimore Sun, United States - Jul 3, 2007)
  - Van Hollen reaches out to minority caucuses (Politico, DC - Jul 2, 2007)
  - Ethics Reform Bogged Down in Congress (ABC News - Jul 2, 2007)
  - Capito Gets Lit Up on 4th of July (WTRF, WV - Jun 28, 2007)
- Representative Chris Cannon, Republican - Utah
  - House web site | Bio
  - Judiciary Committee member
  - Cannon Fires Back on Executive Privilege (TPMmuckraker, NY - Jun 28, 2007)
  - Immigration Issue Again Draws In-House Rivals to Utah Lawmaker (New York Times - Jun 7, 2007)
  - Cannon: 'Rumor' site violates rules (Salt Lake Tribune - Jun 22, 2007)
  - Partisan bickering erupts over website (Politico, DC - Jun 21, 2007)
  - Conyers admits Justice Dept. whistleblower website was 'premature' after GOP complaints (Raw Story, MA - Jun 22, 2007)
  - Cannon Watch -- RINO Neocon Congressman Chris Cannon (R-Utah) (American Patrol Report)
  - Cannon lashes out at Dems for oil shale delay (Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Jun 27, 2007)
- Representative Pete Hoekstra, Republican - Michigan
  - House web site | Bio
  - House Intelligence Committee ranking member
  - Don't Be So Sure There Were No WMD in Iraq (American Thinker, AZ - Jul 2, 2007)
  - Another Revolt on the Right (Town Hall, DC - Jun 30, 2007)
  - House Republicans Oppose Immigration Bill (Town Hall, DC - Jun 27, 2007)
  - Hoekstra criticizes US Passport agencies for failing to meet demand (Grand Haven Tribune, MI - Jun 8, 2007)
  - Governor? Hoekstra keeping all his options open (Ludington Daily News, MI - Jun 15, 2007)
  - Dial up lawmakers' town hall meetings (DetNews.com, MI - Jul 1, 2007)
  - Former House Speaker Seeks Graceful Exit (Forbes, NY - Jun 16, 2007)
- Fox News Sunday panel
  - Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard
    - Of Senators and Soldiers (the Weekly Standard - Jul 6, 2007)
    - Richard Lugar, Meet David Kilcullen (the Weekly Standard - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Fred Barnes Beltway Boys co-host
    - Requiem for Reform (the Weekly Standard - Jul 5, 2007)
    - Do Nothing (the Weekly Standard - Jul 2, 2007)
  - Mara Liasson of National Public Radio
    - Democratic Presidential Hopefuls Debate (NPR Morning Edition - Jun 29, 2007) Note: article plus link to audio
    - Republicans Lash Back at Talk Radio's Criticism (NPR All Things Consdered - Jun 27, 2007) Note: Page has link to audio
Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com

CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

Meme:
- Everybody hates Bush, nobody likes him. He should go out in the garden and eat worms. Nyah, nyah. So there, doody head!
- Will somebody please ask Leahy why he lost his seat on the Intelligence committee? Please?!!!
- Now they're in favor of perjurers doing hard time and of plugging leaks and punishing leakers? Who knew?
- Mowaffak ol' buddy. When are you people simply going to die and relieve us of this entire problem? You're getting to be as bad as those darned Jooos!
- Shamnesty, the legislation that will not die!
- Whenever I hear about Phil Specter on Court TV I fantasize that they'll realize they've got the wrong Specter on trial
Topics:
- With some top Republican Senators calling for a change in strategy, what does this mean for Iraq?
Guests
- Senator Richard Lugar, Republican – Indiana
  - Senate web site | Bio
  - Senate Foreign Relations Committee ranking member
  - It is time to reassess our involvement in Iraq (Marion Chronicle Tribune, IN - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Sen. Lugar Says `Enough' (Hartford Courant - Jul 2, 2007)
  - Richard Lugar, Meet David Kilcullen (The Weekly Standard - Jun 29, 2007)
  - Of Senators and Soldiers (The Weekly Standard - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Sen. Richard Lugar Offers President Bush Advice (Post Chronicle - Jul 1, 2007)
  - Q&A: RICHARD LUGAR (National Journal, DC - Jun 29, 2007)
  - White House Rejects Lugar's Call to Change Iraq War Policy (Bloomberg - Jun 26, 2007)
  - Nets Embrace 'Respected' Lugar on Iraq as 'Tipping Point' and 'Turning Point' (NewsBusters - Jun 26, 2007)
- Mowaffak al-Rubaie
  - Iraqi National Security Adviser
  - From frontline attack to terror by francise (Financial Times, UK - Jul 5, 2007)
  - Report: Al Qaeda In Iraq Boasted UK Plot (CBS News, NY - Jul 4, 2007)
  - The Next Generation of Jihad (FrontPage magazine.com, CA - Jun 28, 2007)
  - Hitler 1938, Cheney 2007? (The People's Voice, TN - Jun 7, 2007)
- Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat - Vermont
  - Senate web site | Bio
  - Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
  - Leahy: Subpoena fight may go to court (Chicago Tribune - Jul 2, 2007)
  - It's contempt of Congress (The Capital Times, WI - Jul 6, 2007)
  - McClaughry: Pardon Fitz (National Review Online Blogs - Jul 6, 2007)
  - How Leahy tried, and failed, to downgrade aid to Israel (Ha'aretz, Israel - Jul 2, 2007)
  - Court Rejects Aclu Domestic Spying Suit (Guardian Unlimited, UK - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Jeffry Gardner: No big deal (Albuquerque Tribune, NM - Jul 6, 2007)
  - LEAHY'S LETHAL PLOY (New York Post, NY - Jun 30, 2007)
  - Leahy votes for immigration bill, Sanders against (BurlingtonFreePress.com, VT - Jun 29, 2007)
  - Legend of the Senate's Dark Knight (Raw Story - Jun 29. 2007)
- Senator Arlen Specter, RINO - ~~Pennsylvania~~ Scotland
  - Senate web site | Bio
  - Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member
  - Specter: 'Amnesty' was killer (Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Jun 29, 2007)
  - Specter, Casey disappointed with outcome (Towanda Daily Review, PA - Jun 29, 2007)
  - Senator Specter Fights for Constitution (ePluribus Media - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Sen. Arlen Specter Introduces Presidential Signing Statements Legislation (FOX News - Jul 3, 2007)
  - Senate tiff likely over delays in judge vote (Jackson Clarion Ledger, MS - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Union made (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Jul 4, 2007)
  - Hang it up, Arlen (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA - Jul 1, 2007)
- Ed Henry
  - CNN White House Correspondent
  - CNN's Henry asserted that "the subpoena issue" is "about the Democrats" (Media Matters for America - Jul 2, 2007)
  - What I Learned at the Revolution (Huffington Post, NY - Jul 3, 2007)
  - Snow: ‘I Don’t Know’ If Iraq War Has Helped Stabilize Middle East, It’s ‘Hard To Say’ (Think Progress, DC - Jun 18, 2007)
- Joe Johns
  - CNN Correspondent
  - Commutation Fallout (Anderson Cooper 360 Review - Jul 5, 2007)
CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)

ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)

Meme:
- Everybody hates Bush, nobody likes him. He should go out in the garden and eat worms. Nyah, nyah. So there, doody head!
- The little people are restless. Let the Stalinist show trials commence! We'll burn Bush and Cheney at the stake and crown Queen Pelosi Galore!
- Now they're in favor of perjurers doing hard time and of plugging leaks and punishing leakers? Who knew?
- Ron Paul, not as rich or charismatic as Ross Perot nor as dynamic as Pat Buchannan, but he's all they've got out at the fringes this time. (Oooo, I'm gonna get it for that one!)
- Mike Gravel. This election's Admiral James Stockdale. Could be a perfectly nice guy (Stockdale won the MOH), but Gravel sure has the loopy factor nailed down on the Democrat side. Who is he? Why is he here?
Topics:
- The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee discusses his committee's ~~hearing~~ Stalinist show trial next week on President Bush's grant of clemency for Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
- "On the Trail" series with two presidential hopefuls
- Voices segment: a simple contest each year brings new eyes and a fresh perspective to reporting from Africa
Guests
- Representative John Conyers, Jr., Dhimmicrat - Michiganistan
  - House web site | Bio
  - Chairman, House Judiciary Committee
  - White House Subpoenas (Daily Kos - Jun 13, 2007)
  - Rep. John Conyers Vows Full Review of Presidential Pardon Power (FOX News - Jul 5, 2007)
  - Untouchable Scooter Scoots as Conyers Blows Hot Air (uruknet.info, Italy - Jul 6, 2007)
  - White House Criticizes Clintons (Guardian Unlimited - Jul 6, 2007)
  - "smoking gun" on commie John Conyers (FreeRepublic - Jul 7, 2007)
  - Attacks are just political, not bigoted (Chicago Tribune - Jul 4, 2007)
  - Siegelman's Case Goes To Washington (TPMmuckraker, NY - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Rep. Conyers Holds Briefing with Michael Moore on Health Care Reform (Feminist Majority Foundation - Jun 21, 2007)
  - Single-payer universal health care can be a reality! (People's Weekly World - Jul 5, 2007)
  - Conyers addresses Yemeni conference (Arab American News, MI - Jun 30, 2007)
  - Conyers admits Justice Dept. whistleblower website was 'premature' after GOP complaints (Raw Story, MA - Jun 22, 2007)
- Representative Ron Paul, Republican - Texas
  - House web site | Bio
  - 2008 presidential candidate | web site | Bio
  - Ron Paul has more $ than McCain; Mitt Romney thinks we're all idiots (San Diego Union Tribune - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Ron Paul's fundraising falls short of claims (Capitol Hill Blue, VA - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Ron Paul Supporters Need A Lesson In Social Media Marketing (Pronet Advertising, CA - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Online community flocks to Ron Paul (The Hill, DC - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Ron Paul, the Mahatma (Newstarget.com, Taiwan - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Ron Paul: Rumors Of Disappointing Numbers (Liberty Papers, CA - Jul 4, 2007)
  - Paul, Culberson defend earmarks for area projects (Houston Chronicle - Jun 30, 2007)
  - Ron Paul Calls for Immediate Withdrawal From Iraq in Campaign Rally (TransWorldNews (press release), GA - Jul 2, 2007)
  - Paul denies report he compared NH tax evaders to Gandhi (Boston Globe - Jun 26, 2007)
  - RON PAUL: MAKING AMERICA UNSAFE FOR NEOCONS (OpEdNews, PA - Jul 2, 2007)
- Former Senator Mike Gravel, D-Alaska
  - 2008 presidential candidate | web site | Bio
  - Mike Gravel's ripple effect (Los Angeles Times, CA - Jul 5, 2007)
  - Who is this Mike Gravel? (PlanetOut, CA - Jul 5, 2007)
  - Mike Gravel: End the War on Drugs (All American Patriots (press release), Sweden - Jul 4, 2007)
  - Dadaism, Parody, or Just a Political Ad? (Corante, MA - Jul 6, 2007)
  - Gravel explains YouTube spots (MSNBC - Jun 18, 2007)
  - Rock! Fire! Gravel '08! (CBS News, NY - Jun 19, 2007)
  - Lighter Campaign Schedules (New York Times - Jul 2, 2007)
  - Taking Mike Gravel Seriously (The Simon, CA - Jun 26, 2007)
  - Democratic Debate Roundup (Washington Post - Jun 29, 2007)
- Roundtable:
  - Fareed Zakaria
    - Editor, Newsweek International
    - The land of the free and the home of the fearful? (Gloucester Daily Times, USA - Jul 5, 2007)
    - Zakaria: The Real Problem With Pakistan (Newsweek - Jun 16, 2007)
    - Shallow politics (The News - International, Pakistan - Jun 21, 2007)
  - Katrina vanden Heuvel
    - Editor, The Nation
    - U.S., Russia at Odds Over Increasingly Unpopular White House Plans for Missile System in Eastern Europe (Democracy Now via Bay Area Indymedia, CA - Jul 3, 2007)
    - The Most Patriotic Act of All (The Nation. - Jul 3, 2007)
    - All Over the Field (City Journal, NY - Jun 28, 2007)
  - Rich Lowry, Editor
    - National Review
    - Libby sentence: Examining our faux constitutional crisis (Salt Lake Tribune, United States - Jul 7, 2007)
    - A techno-populist victory on immigration (Salt Lake Tribune - Jun 28, 2007)
    - Tipping toward catastrophe (Salt Lake Tribune - Jun 18, 2007)
    - The derailed immigration bill (PBS News Hour (transcript)- Jun 29, 2007) Note: includes link to audio and video of show
- Voices segment: Nick Kristof
  - Columnist, The New York Times
  - A Totally Hot Guy Won The Nick Kristof Contest (Gawker, NY - Jul 5, 2007)
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