Sunday Talk Show Line Up

Meet the Press: Not Sarah Palin

Face the Nation: Not Sarah Palin

Fox News Sunday: Not Sarah Palin, not even here!!

ABC’s This Week: Not Sarah Palin

Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer: You guessed it….. Not Sarah Palin

Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy, two conservative pundits, on MSNBC with Chuck Todd, got caught with their mics still on after a segment. Apparently the core conservatives are not happy about the Palin pick.

Rachel Maddow, the Air America radio host and perma-filler-in-er at MSNBC, is at last getting her own show on the network. The well-liked (by NBC News staffers) and well-received (by MSNBC viewers) commentator will take over the 9pm slot — a pretty hefty change, given that we’re only weeks away from the election. This means, of course, that Hamptons playboy Dan Abrams is losing his show Verdict. None of this is entirely surprising to insiders, nor Jossip readers — MSNBC chief Phil Griffin hinted Maddow getting her own show was a near inevitability, and we’ve been regularly covering her ascent at the network.

Though removed from primetime, Abrams, however, isn’t going far: He remains NBC News’ chief legal correspondent, and is expected to continue appearing on the network.

But the real matter at hand is now how well Maddow’s show will do, but how well Keith Olbermann’s Countdown will do without her. Certainly, Olbermann carries his own weight at the network. But Maddow, as an omnipresent guest and sometime fill-in anchor, has lent her expertise to Olbermann’s crusade against the Bush administration and John McCain. It’s likely that, with her own show to handle, she will have little to no time to appear on Olbermann’s program, nor anywhere else but daytime.

Source: Jossip.com

Sunday Talk Line Up

ABC - This Week (George Stephanopoulos): with Governors Bill Richardson (D-NM) and Bobby Jindal (R-LA).

CBS - Face the Nation (Bob Schieffer): with Governor Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Karl Rove.

CNN - Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer): with T. Boone Pickens and Governor Ed Rendell (D-PA).

Fox - News Sunday (Chris Wallace): with McCain manager Rick Davis.

NBC - Meet the Press (Tom Brokaw): with Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.

Congressman John Hostettler R-IN discussed his book “Nothing for the Nation: Who Got What Out of Iraq” Congressman Hostettler names Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Fieth, David Wurmser, and others who were in positions to implement this War. He also speaks of the Clean Break: Strategy for Securing the Realm where it states clearly that “removal of Saddam Hussein from power is an Israeli objective in its own right.

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SUNDAY TALK LINE UP

Meet the Press hosts Govs. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA), Dave Freudenthal (D-WY) and Bill Ritter (D-CO), and NBC pol. dir. Chuck Todd.

Face the Nation hosts Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Gen. Wesley Clark. The roundtable is TBD.

This Week hosts MN Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R), Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) and Ralph Nader, and a roundtable with Nation’s Katrina vanden Heuvel, conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington and National Review’s Byron York.

Fox News Sunday hosts PA Gov. Ed Rendell (D), ex-OMB dir./ex-Rep. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Bob Barr. The “Power Player” is Nathans Restaurant owner/host of the Q & A Cafe Carol Joynt.

Late Edition hosts U.S. Amb. to Iraq Ryan Crocker, Senate Min. Leader Mitch McConnell, NJ Gov. Jon Corzine (D), LA Gov. Bobby Jindal (R), and a roundtable with CNN’s Ed Henry and Hotline’s Amy Walter.

OTHER WEEKEND SHOWS

Washington Week features New York Times’ Linda Greenhouse and NBC’s Pete Williams examining three decisions handed down by the SCOTUS this week; New York Times’ Peter Baker on Pres. Bush’s decision to lift some trade sanctions against North Korea; and Washington Post’s Shailagh Murray returns from Unity, NH, to report on the first joint campaign rally with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton (PBS, FRI, 8pm).

Political Capital features Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) (Bloomberg, FRI, 7:30pm).

This Week in Politics features Dem strategist Hilary Rosen, Dem strategist Donna Brazile, CNN’s Bill Schneider, Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut, radio talk show host Stephanie Miller, Washingtonpost.com’s Chris Cillizza, Time’s Joe Klein and CNN pol. ed. Mark Preston (CNN, SAT 6pm, SUN 2 pm).

Newsmakers hosts Congr. Black Caucus Chair/Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI). She will be questioned by AP’s Jesse Holland and The Hill’s Mike Soraghan (C-SPAN, SUN, 10am/6pm).

Road to the White House features Dem strategist/author Bob Shrum discussing the vetting process for VP candidates, how WH nominees prepare for their convo speech and the fall debates, and his experiences advising WH candidates since ‘72 (C-SPAN, SUN, 6:30pm/9:30 pm).

Chris Matthews Show features NBC’s David Gregory, New York Times’ David Brooks, CNN’s Gloria Borger and BBC’s Katty Kay (NBC, check local listings).

Reliable Sources features New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, Washington Times’ Christina Bellantoni, Rolling Stone publisher/ed.-in-chief Jann Wenner, political analyst Keli Goff, National Review’s Jonah Goldberg, Buzzmachine.com’s Jeff Jarvis, and TVWorthWatching.com’s David Bianculli (CNN, SUN, 10 am).

GPS features British PM Gordon Brown, The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland, New York Times’ John Burns and The Times’ Oliver Kamm (CNN, SUN, 1 pm).

Roll Call TV with Robert Traynham features DNC comm. dir. Karen Finney, RNC E-campaign dir. Cyrus Krohn, Roll Call’s David Drucker and Roll Call’s Emily Heil (CN8, The Comcast Network, SUN, 10 pm).

PBS’s NOW show tonight is titled “Fighting the Army.” It should be good. From the website:

Of the thousands of U.S. troops getting discharged from the Army each year, many who are suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries aren’t getting the vital care they need. The Army claims these soldiers have pre-existing mental illnesses or are guilty of misconduct. But advocates say this is a way for the Army to get rid of “problem” soldiers quickly, without giving them the treatment and benefits to which they’re entitled.

This week, NOW travels to Fort Hood in Texas to meet traumatized soldiers fighting a new battle, this one against the army they served. Are soldiers being wrongfully discharged for honorable service?

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ABC’s “This Week”: Karl Rove and Barack Obama senior advisor David Axelrod; round table with Vanity Fair’s Dee Dee Myers, Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne, ABC News’ Matthew Dowd and George Will.

Bloomberg’s Political Capital with Al Hunt: Mitt Romney and Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.).

CBS’ “Face the Nation”: Hillary Clinton communications director Howard Wolfson, John McCain supporter Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Obama supporter Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.).

CNN’s “Late Edition”: Major Gen. Mark Hertling, Commander, Multi-National Division-North; Rep. Jane Harman (D-Venice); Rep. David Dreier (R-San Dimas); Obama supporter Robert Reich; Clinton economic advisor Gene Sperling; McCain economic advisor Douglas Holtz-Eakin; Mary Tillman, mother of Pat Tillman and author of a book about her son; CNN’s Bill Schneider, Suzanne Malveaux and Gloria Borger.

C-SPAN’s “Newsmakers”: Major Gen. William Etter, National Guard Bureau, Acting Director of Joint Staff.

“Fox News Sunday”: Clinton campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe; Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee; Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), chairman of Democratic National Campaign Committee; Col. Michael Colburn, director of the U.S. Marine Band; panel with Fox’s Brit Hume, Nina Easton, William Kristol and Juan Williams.

NBC’s “Chris Matthews Show”: David Brooks of the New York Times, Andrea Mitchell of NBC News, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and Katty Kay of the BBC.

NBC’s Meet the Press: CBN’s David Brody, the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, the Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus, Newsweek’s Jon Meacham and NPR’s Michele Norris.

SUNDAY TALK LINE UP 4/6/08

Meet The Press: Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA) will debate Clinton supporter Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA) and then Tom Brokaw, Michael Eric Dyson and Amb. Andrew Young discuss Martin Luther King

Fox News Sunday: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) followed by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA)

ABC’s This Week: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) & Sen. James Webb (D-VA), then Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, and closing with Katrina vanden Heuvel, Dan Senor, Cokie Roberts and George Will

Face the Nation: Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, then the Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran, McClachty’s Nancy Youssef and CBS News- Lara Logan

Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer: Rep. John Murtha, (D) Pennsylvania; Clinton Supporter, Sen. Christopher Dodd, (D) Connecticut; Obama Supporter, Sen. Dick Durbin, (D) Illinois,
Sen. John Cornyn, (R) Texas, Rev. David O’Connell, Catholic University President

C-Span Campaign 08 Road to the White House: (6:30 p.m.) Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) & Chelsea Clinton speak at the Montgomery County Democratic Committee Spring Reception in Pennsylvania. Kennedy speaks on behalf of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), and later Chelsea Clinton speaks on behalf of her mother, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY).