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For Sunday, October 7, 2007

Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert will talk to John Edwards.

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace converses with Nancy (speaker).

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt and New Jersey Governor Jon "Free Sam the Plumber (posthumously)" Corzine about SCHIP.

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer pow-wows with Chuck Rangel (D) and Adam Putnam (R), then with the FRC's Tony Perkins.

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer interviews Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Sudanese Foreign Minister Lam Akol, probably a surprise or two (my guess), and his usual cast of thousands.
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Russert's doing the Dem candidates thaang. He does this with the candidates who meet he and his producers' criteria, Republican or Democrat. He's a good interviewer. Suck it up and find out how many America's there are this week. Who knows, maybe he'll trash Hillary?

Nancy does outreach? Technically, FNS is a FOX entertainment network show, in that this is where it airs on Sunday mornings, but it is re-aired in the late afternoon on FNC and FNC treats it as their own. After some of the things Nancy has said about FNC, one wonders if the wants to be heard by a more mainstream audience. The question would be: About what? What can the lady say?

Tony Perkins (FTN) might be in that cabal of potential third-party voters. He has referred to Rudy's social views as "far outside the mainstream of conservative thought." (Very True.) It would be interesting to see if this might turn into a vote for a pro-choice third party candidate/comfort provided to Hillary.

The SCHIP discussion on TW will lead nowhere, and it's one of the most irritating, least productive political debates in Washington. President Bush is not trying to kill poor children; rather, he wants the government safety-net program to work for those for whom it was intended.

I don't know what Blitzer's doing, unless he pulls in a few domestic, political guests at the last minute. LE strikes me as the most fluid of the shows – reacting to events – so this wouldn't surprise me.

I should be good to go tomorrow AM. Same chemo toxins (Platinol/Cisplatin), no side effects (queasiness).