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For Sunday, October 21, 2007

Meet the Press (NBC): Tim Russert interviews comedian Stephen Colbert about his Presidential candidacy in South Carolina. It's a joke, but so is Al Franken, the individual. And Colbert is funnier.

Then Russert has one of those "political roundtables," with Doris Kearns Goodwin , Kate O'Beirne, Judy Woodruff & Sally Bedell Smith, Not that it means anything existentially, but of those four, I could pick only Kate out of a lineup. Not that I'd ever be asked to do this.

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace talks to John McCain and Mike Huckabee about Sunday's FOX debate in Florida.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos talks to Joe Biden about Joe Biden, "on the trail" with Joe Biden.

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer talks to Mitt Romney.

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks to Jane Harman and Pete Hoekstra; Lebanese Parliamentarian Walid Jumblatt, an anti-Syrian; World Bank President Robert Zoellick; and his usual cast of thousands.
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One wonders if Russert would Colbert if, knowing what he knows now – "no wmd, no al qaeda, no aluminum tubing" – would he have supported the invasion of Iraq. And one is not surprised that Blitzer is staying "international."

For the legitimate Presidential election, the hosts seem to be keeping it safe: McCain, Huckabee, Joe Biden, and Romney – although each of those four is something of a long shot for ther Party's Presidential nomination and might slip and say something stupid in an effort to shake things up. (Biden, the lone Dem being interviewed, will say something stupid regardless.)