26 Apr 08 Sunday talk lineup; Sen. Barack Obama on ‘Fox News Sunday’

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
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ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.; former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.; Reps. Artur Davis, D-Ala., and Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas.
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CBS’ “Face the Nation” — David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Barack Obama; Howard Wolfson, campaign adviser for Hillary Rodham Clinton; Roger Mudd, author of a book on CBS news.
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NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean.
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CNN’s “Late Edition” — Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y; Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich.; Steve Coll, author of a book on the bin Laden family; James Rubin, a Clinton campaign adviser; Susan Rice, an Obama campaign adviser.
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“Fox News Sunday” — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. (I’m sure there will be not one mention of the “bitter” comments, nah, none at all)

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19 Apr 08 Sunday talk lineup*: John McCain on ‘This Week’, Clinton, Obama campaign advisers on ‘MTP’

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
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ABC’s “This Week” — Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.
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CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Gov. Ed Rendell, D-Pa.
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NBC’s “Meet the Press” — David Axelrod, campaign adviser for Barack Obama; Geoff Garin, campaign adviser for Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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CNN’s “Late Edition” — Former presidential candidate Bill Bradley; Gov. Jon Corzine, D-N.J.; Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter; Rep. Chaka Fattah, D-Pa.; Catholic University President David O’Connell; Delia Gallagher, Vatican analyst; Carly Fiorina, adviser to McCain.
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“Fox News Sunday” — Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.

*I know these aren’t related to my normal subject matter anymore, but I’ve been posting these for close to a year now, so it’s just habit and I’m sticking to it.

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12 Apr 08 Sunday talk lineup; Nancy Pelosi, Robert Gates on ‘Face the Nation’, Stephen Hadley hits ABC and Fox

Guest lineup for the Sunday TV news shows:
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ABC’s “This Week” — Former President Jimmy Carter; National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.
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CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Defense Secretary Robert Gates; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
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NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Democratic strategists James Carville and Bob Shrum; Republican strategists Mary Matalin and Mike Murphy.
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CNN’s “Late Edition” — Sens. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., Joe Biden, D-Del., Bob Casey, D-Pa., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.; Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari.
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“Fox News Sunday” — Former Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D.; Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter; Hadley; Olympic speedskater Joey Cheek; Alex Ovechkin, left wing player for the Washington Capitals hockey team.

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04 Feb 07 Kristol’s Hazy Rhetoric.

Bill Kristol today on Fox News Sunday:

“Yeah, doubling the U.S. troop presence in Baghdad can make a big difference. Look, if I were a Sunni extremist and was worried, which I would be, about a doubling of U.S. forces in Baghdad, what would I do? I would try to convey an impression of chaos. I would get the biggest truck bomb possible and drive it into a market in a Shiite area. If that’s going to drive us out of Iraq, that’s just ridiculous.

That would just send a message to any place we have interests, all the most ruthless group of terrorists has to do is kill a bunch of civilians and we’re going to leave. There’s no evidence they can stand up to U.S. troops and quite a bit of evidence that they’re worried. On the whole over the last two weeks, some of the news for Iraq is slightly optimistic. It’s going to be tough, but I see nothing that persuades me that the surge can’t work quite well.”

So by that logic you just told the insurgents the best way to get rid of the U.S. inva–occupation. Take a break, they’ll think you turned tail and then then as soon as they pull out rise up and take over. Brilliant! It is really interesting to watch the new and creative ways that neo-cons can turn any amount of violence and mayhem in Iraq into an optimistic positive that shows we are “winning the war on terror.” Again, by Kristol’s logic then if the violence subsides, does that mean we’re losing?

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