The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - a preview
It is all a plot.
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For Sunday, November 25, 2007
Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert has another of his roundtables, this time with Democratic strategists James Carville and Bob Shrum; Republican strategists Mary Matalin and Mike Murphy..
FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace asks Fred Thompson what is going on. Then he talks to Carl Levin and Lindsey Graham about the situation in Iraq.
This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos has John McCain and Big Bad Bill Richardson on to talk about the campaign and about the situation in Iraq.
Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer discusses matters with retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni.
Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer chats with Mike Huckabee and former Iraqi boss Iyad Allawi.
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The big news about the MTP roundtable is that Bob Shrum has yet to move to a small, South American city where he can live anonymously, just so as not to be recognized as "that guy who…" And has Mike Murphy declared himself a Rombot or a McCainiac?
What does Fred Thompson want? It was far too much to expect the mortal man to walk onto the national political stage and become Ronald Reagan over night, of course, but I would like him to be Fred Thompson and I'd like to know what to expect from Fred Thompson.
Zinni's a surprise on FTN. I mean, he's not on a book tour and there is really nothing left for the man to say.
Huckabee. I see him serving only one purpose, albeit a very important one, this primary season, and that should be done after Iowa, but I suppose one couldn't convince him to quit if he wins those non-binding caucuses. Heck, maybe it's what Blitzer will tell him to do. Don't know what he can ask of Allawi, except to go away.
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"The big news about the MTP roundtable is that Bob Shrum has yet to move to a small, South American city where he can live anonymously, just so as not to be recognized as "that guy who…"
As a past member of the Kerrey for President effort in '92, that really made me laugh. We used to call his consulting firm "dumb and soak us".
Equally surprising is that people hire Joe Trippi.
Mark, here's what I found for my preview thread on Zinni:
- Think tank: us needs to shift to "smart power" (Xinhua, China - Nov 8, 2007)
- Change 'war on terror' policy, says study (MSNBC - Nov 6, 2007)
- US focus on 'terror war' sinks image to all-time low: report (AFP - Nov 6, 2007)
- The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military (Registan.net, WA - Oct 30, 2007)
- Neo-consciousness on the couch (NJ Blog, New Jersey - Oct 28, 2007)
- U.S. At War With Radical Islam (AINA, CA - Nov 19, 2007)
- Will Cheney and Pelosi Be Partners in Mass Murder? (The People's Voice, TN - Nov 21, 2007)
- Rice, Hadley to be subpoenaed in pro-Israel lobby spy case (AFP - Nov 2, 2007)
- Time for a Military Coup (OpEdNews, PA - Nov 20, 2007)
- Talking number twos (Guardian Unlimited, UK - Nov 23, 2007)
- Prediction Time (National Review Online, NY - Nov 6, 2007)
- Are pakistan's nukes in safe hands? (TIME - Nov 7, 2007)
- US worried about Pakistan's nuclear arsenal (Indian Muslims, CA - Nov 9, 2007)
- Former US officials form genocide task force (Earthtimes, UK - Nov 13, 2007)
- Secretaries Albright and Cohen Should be Removed from Genocide Task Force (Huffington Post, NY - Nov 20, 2007)
Two of those articles talk about him as Hillary's VP pick, but that's probably a long shot. Much more it's the implicit criticism of Bush's foreign policy in the "think tank" report that he was part of and the new "genocide task force" made up largely of Clintonistas. I think that Zinni is serving as Hillary's mouthpiece in the current campaign on things military and that he's particularly part of the campaign on the left to discredit or distract from any perception that we might be heading towards victory in Iraq. They can't have that.
And where's Biden? Otherwise looks like the usual gang.
Thanks again, Mark, for your great summaries.