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Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for 2/8/2009 (not the live thread)
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Posted on 02/08/2009 2:03:13 AM PST by Phsstpok
The Sunday shows
Presented in the order they run in my area
NBC Meet The Press (David Gregory)
- Topics:
- A panel of key lawmakers on the economy:
- Recession continues to batter America's work-force
- Obama places increased urgency on passing the stimulus package
- The very latest negotiations, sticking points and potential areas of agreement
- "Presidential Leadership Series" - the leadership tests facing this new president
- The on-going and new challenges in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- How long will American troops likely remain on the ground?
- How do we now define victory?
- Guests
- Senator John Ensign (Republican - Nevada)
- Representative Barney Frank (Democrat - Massachusetts)
- Senator Claire McCaskill (Democrat - Missouri)
- Representative Mike Pence (Republican - Indiana)
- Tom Ricks
- Meet the Press mailbox (web page for comments)
CBS Face The Nation (Bob Schieffer)
- Topics:
- The economic stimulus package
- Guests
- Senator John McCain (Republican - Arizona)
- Senator Kent Conrad (Democrat - North Dakota)
- Christina Romer
- Face The Nation contact information - ftn@cbsnews.com
Fox News Sunday (Chris Wallace)
- Topics:
- The economic stimulus package
- There's growing opposition to Obama's "economic recovery plan"
- Obama calls for "action that's swift, bold and wise"
- The White House got knocked off message by Daschle's tax problems
- Can they regain their footing?
- Can they work with Congress to craft an economic stimulus package?
- Can anything they do reverse the current financial crisis?
- The battle in the Senate
- The Senate is divided about their version of the economic stimulus
- Many now wonder what the final bill will look like
- Some Senate moderates have proposed a scaled-back, less expensive stimulus package of their own
- Many fiscal conservatives have decried the bill as a pork filled piece of legislation that will only insure further and more permanent increases in future government spending
- Fox News Sunday panel
- Tax problems continue to hound the President's Cabinet nominees causing Tom Daschle to withdraw his nomination this week.
- After a campaign built on a "new era of responsibility" does the Obama presidency have an ethics issue?
- Fox News essay: Coming up on Fox News Sunday
- Guests
- Lawrence Summers
- Senator John Cornyn (Republican - Texas)
- Fox News Sunday panel
- Fred Barnes
- Mara Liasson
- Charles Krauthammer
- Juan Williams
- Fox News Sunday contact information - FNS@foxnews.com
CNN's State of the Union (John King)
- Topics:
- With growing unemployment numbers, can the Obama stimulus plan create enough jobs to jumpstart the economy?
- A visit to Carmel, Indiana to see how one local mayor will help his town with the federal governments money.
- Guests
- Ray LaHood
- Senator Richard Shelby (Republican - Alabama)
- Senator Charles Schumer (Democrat - New York)
- Governor Mark Sanford (Republican - South Carolina)
- Dee Dee Myers
- Katie Couric
- Jack Welch
- CNN's State of the Union (web page for comments)
ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos)
- Topics:
- Deal or no deal?
- An extraordinary week of Washington wrangling over the president's economic stimulus package ... with a few political casualties.
- An interview with the dynamic, young, African American who is tasked with rebuilding the GOP
- Guests
- Larry Summers
- Michael Steele
- Roundtable
- Robert Reich
- Newt Gingrich
- George Will
- Claire Shipman
- ABC This Week comment web
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 111th; bho44; bhoeconomy; bhostimulus; sundaytalk
I'm not doing separate Memes this week for each show in the interest of efficiency (and my bed time, such as it is). Instead I'm doing a single statement of this weeks memes. Lucky for me the network shows seem to be all clinging to the same paradigms, which makes this easier on me. Imagine that.
This weeks memes appear to come together around these ideas
- We are all doomed unless The One can save us
- Evil Republicans are trying to keep The One from saving us from the evils of captitlism
ummm... I think that covers the entire MSM/DNC interest in the "news" this weekend
Go figure
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posted on
02/08/2009 2:03:14 AM PST
by
Phsstpok
To: A.Hun; Bahbah; Txsleuth; MNJohnnie; eeevil conservative; Alas Babylon!; Seattle Conservative; ...
PING
The Weekend Talk Show Preview thread is now up.
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posted on
02/08/2009 2:06:08 AM PST
by
Phsstpok
(When you don't know where you are, but you don't care, you're not lost, you're exploring!)
To: Phsstpok
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posted on
02/08/2009 2:09:09 AM PST
by
snugs
((An English Cheney Chick - Big Time))
To: Phsstpok
Eager to see if Steele provides any support to the Pork Bill or urges the RINOs to vote No. I predict he’ll give lukewarm support to the pork and officially join the RINOs.
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posted on
02/08/2009 3:18:41 AM PST
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Phsstpok
I have a very strong stomach but I don’t think I could possibly force myself to watch all that. Especially the shows that have Robert B. Reichchchchchch and Chucky Schumer.
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posted on
02/08/2009 4:21:15 AM PST
by
Past Your Eyes
(Some people are too stupid to be ashamed.)
To: Phsstpok
Thanks for the background Phsstpok. It is appreciated!
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posted on
02/08/2009 4:21:42 AM PST
by
A.Hun
(Common sense is no longer common.)
To: Phsstpok
Regarding CNN’s State of the Union, I want to let you guys know that Carmel is the richest town in the state. This is the northside bedroom community for Indianapolis, and they have lots of subdivisions with million-dollar and up homes.
Carmel isn’t some rust-belt town where the factory has shut down.
This is like sending money to the Hamptons. I can’t believe CNN is using them as a story, unless someone wants to sabotage the porkulus bill.
To: newfreep
I predict he’ll give lukewarm support to the pork and officially join the RINOs.You think he is going to join three GOP Senators and oppose 37 GOP Senators and all the GOP House members to take a position with no support among the electorate? Want to put money on that?
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posted on
02/08/2009 4:58:20 AM PST
by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
("men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters." -- Edmund Burke)
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
Yep, Steele will follow his RINO instincts.
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posted on
02/08/2009 5:22:47 AM PST
by
newfreep
("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
To: Phsstpok
#
>>> # Steele Hit Job [Steve Hayward] (ational Review Online Blogs, NY - Feb 7, 2009) <<<
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And so it continues = the media bashing of a conservative American with African heritage.
I have just finished watching the BBC series “Jewel in the Crown” about the end of the British Raj in India.
The treatment that Michael Steele gets from his hometown newspaper would have fit right in with the behavior of some “sahibs” in India.
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posted on
02/08/2009 6:00:17 AM PST
by
maica
(Barack Obama is a Communist Party Project.)
To: maica
The screeching harpie Claire McCaskill never misses an opportunity to embarrass herself and the state of Missouri. Gad...
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