Show by Show Preview
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.
Saturday Shows For
The Beltway Boys (Mort Kondrake, Fred Barnes)
- Meme:
- We're doomed, I tell you! Doomed!
- Topics:
- President Bush defends current situation in Iraq
- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke is 'up' after calming Wall Street jitters
- 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:
- Topics:
- Guests
- CNBC's Tim Russert Show airs Saturday at 7pm, 10pm & 1am ET
Fox News Watch (Eric Burns)
- Meme:
- Whats this about the real world? How inconvenient!
- Topics:
- Immigration Outrage: 3 brutal murders in Newark spark a media debate about criminal illegal aliens. What took so long?
- Suspicious in Seattle: Why won't a major newspaper publish photos of terror suspects?
- 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:
- Ummm, would it be too much to actually talk about real issues and real people? I knew you would understand that!
- Topics:
- Opinion Journal web page: No Way, Jose
- Should terrorists such as Jose Padilla be tried in civilian courts?
- The new presidential campaigners: the candidates' spouses.
- Fox News Channel web page
- Michelle Obama Hits at Hill? A look at the battle for the women's vote, and the role spouses are playing in the 2008 presidential race
- End of Jose Padilla Trial: Why we need to keep suspected terrorists out of the American justice
- Guests
- 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
1 posted on
08/25/2007 9:18:11 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
To: A.Hun; Bahbah; Txsleuth; MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative; Alas Babylon!; Seattle Conservative; ...
Ping
The Weekend Preview is up
Way behind schedule and way less analysis than usual. I trust you won’t like this format too much :^>
2 posted on
08/25/2007 9:20:43 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
(When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
To: All
NBC Meet The Press (Tim Russert)
- Meme:
- The narrative is in danger! The sheeple are beginning to see through our BS! We must rally and restore the narrative!
- Quick, find a senile RINO to trot out and criticize Bush! We're losing traction!
- It's time to recycle the war critics from three years ago. We're running out of ammnition!
- Must pump up the silky pony, it's his last chance. Get his friend Lance to play up the cancer victim angle and push Elizabeth's cancer.
- Topics:
- The new National Intelligence Estimate paints a grim picture of the war in Iraq
- The senior Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee has blunt advice for President Bush:
- Bring some of the troops home by Christmas.
- Lance Armstrong on the fight against cancer & his 2008 Livestrong Presidential Forums
- Roundtable:
- reality check on the situation in Iraq
- Guests
- Lance Armstrong
- Senator John Warner Republican - Virginia
- Richard Engel
-
Michael Gordon
-
Thomas Ricks
- 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:
- Must pump up the silky pony, it's his last chance.
- Did you know that Elizabeth Edwards is dying of Cancer? It must be Bush's fault!
- If John Edwards designates his dying wife as the attack dog of his campaign, does that make her a .... nope, won't go there.
- Topics:
- Save the Silky Pony's candidacy!
- Guests
- Former Senator John Edwards, Democrat - North Carolina
- Elizabeth Edwards
- Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com
Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)
- Meme:
- The narrative is in danger! The sheeple are beginning to see through our BS! We must rally and restore the narrative!
- This is the question of our generation. Which side are you on?
- Topics:
- Iraq:
- Prospects for Iraq’s Security: another National Intelligence Estimate reveals the road ahead.
- The report signals little hope for significant progress if our troops remain in the region and assured chaos if we leave.
- What happens next on Capitol Hill?
- Mike Huckabee
- Can the former Arkansas governor gain the momentum needed to break into the top tier?
- Where does he stand on the issues most important to Republican primary voters?
- We’ll dig deep into his record in this FOX News Sunday exclusive interview.
- Fox News Sunday panel
- The Presidents Iraq speech
- Fox News essay: Coming up on Fox News Sunday
- Guests
- Senator Mitch McConnell - Republican - Kentucky
- Senate web site | Bio
- Minority Leader
- Groups pursue McConnell on Iraq and other issues (Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Aug 22, 2007)
- Advocates Launch Iraq War Ad Campaigns (PBS - Aug 24, 2007)
- McConnell slams ‘Old Europe’ Democrats (The Hill, DC - Aug 15, 2007)
- McConnell Delivers Remarks at The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library (Human Events, DC - Aug 17, 2007)
- McConnell praises wiretapping law (Louisville Courier-Journal, KY - Aug 14, 2007)
- McConnell Ridicules FISA Concerns In Speech To Cops (WLWT, OH - Aug 13, 2007)
- Senator Jack Reed - Democrat - Rhode Island
- Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
- Fox News Sunday panel
- Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard
- Gloria Borger, US News and World Report
- Byron York, National Review
- Juan Williams, National Public Radio
- Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com
CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)
- Meme:
- The narrative is in danger! The sheeple are beginning to see through our BS! We must rally and restore the narrative!
- This is the question of our generation. Which side are you on?
- Topics:
- With doubts rising about Iraq's Prime Minister, a former leader thinks he should return to power.
- Guests
- Lt. Gen. Raymond Odierno
- Ayad Allawi, Fmr. Iraqi Prime Minister
- Former Georgia Senator Max Cleland, Democrat - Georgia
- Ed Henry, CNN White House Correspondent
- Dana Bash, CNN Congressional Correspondent
- CNN Late Edition (web page for comments)
ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)
- Meme:
- The narrative is in danger! The sheeple are beginning to see through our BS! We must rally and restore the narrative!
- Quick, find a tractible blue dog to trot out and criticize Bush! We're losing traction!
- Topics:
- As President Bush compares Iraq to Vietnam and makes another push for support of his surge plan Curious George Steponallofus will tell the Truth and put those nasty fascist Republicans in their place
- Guests
- Senator Jim Webb, Democrat - Virginia
- Senator John Cornyn, Republican - Texas
- ABC This Week comment web page
3 posted on
08/25/2007 9:23:30 PM PDT by
Phsstpok
(When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
To: Phsstpok
thanks, for the briefing....I'll sleep late.
5 posted on
08/25/2007 9:37:44 PM PDT by
skinkinthegrass
(just b/c your paranoid, doesn't mean they're NOT out to get you....run, Fred, run. :^)
To: Phsstpok
no schmuckie?
To: Phsstpok
Fantastic work, as usual, Phsstpok. You work so hard, yet the Sunday Talk Show guests get more predictable, and worse. They really ARE running out of ammunition, and are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
8 posted on
08/26/2007 7:40:18 AM PDT by
CDB
(Michael Yon is the Ernie Pyle of the War on Terror)
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