• You're a Southerner and/or a Republican.
• You ran away from Mike Stark.
• You're a cosponsor of H.R. 1503.
• You write for The Washington Post under the byline Ben Pershing.
• You're ORLY's Facebook friend.
• You don't let facts get in the way of your theories.
Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers; Roundtable: Dan Balz (The Washington Post), Author Haynes Johnson, DLC Chair/Ex-Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN) and Ex-Rep. J.C. Watts (R-OK).
Face the Nation: Larry Summers; Roundtable: Bob Woodward (The Washington Post), David Brooks (The New York Times) and Kathleen Parker (The Washington Post).
This Week: Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan: Roundtable: Author/Blogger Michelle Malkin, Cynthia Tucker (The Atlanta Journal Constitution), Al Hunt (Bloomberg) and Jerry Seib (The Wall Street Journal).
Fox News Sunday: Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY); Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC); Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN); Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, (D-FL); Roundtable: Bill Kristol (The Weekly Standard), Mara Liasson (NPR), Stephen Hayes (The Weekly Standard) and Juan Williams (Fox News).
State of the Union: Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers Christina Romer; Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Reliable Sources: Michel Martin (NPR); Amanda Carpenter (The Washington Times); Michelle Cottle (The New Republic); Amy Argetsing (The Washington Post); Harvey Levin (TMZ.com); Sharon Waxman (TheWrap.com).
The Chris Matthews Show: Eugene Robinson (The Washington Post); Norah O'Donnell (MSNBC); Jennifer Lovem (The Associated Press); Howard Fineman (Newsweek).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: Afghani Presidential Candidate Abdullah Abdullah; Afghani Presidential Candidate Ashraf Ghani; John O'Sullivan (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty); Former CIA Deputy Director John McLaughlin; Author Robert Baer.
Primetime viewing:
60 Minutes will feature reports on: whether the TSA's airport security checkpoints are really making us safer; pushes by some prosecutors to institute harsher penalties against drunk drivers who cause fatalities; and, musician Wyclef Jean's efforts to help his native Haiti.
The National Georgraphic Channel will premiere Hitler's Hidden Holocaust, which presents in chilling detail – through eyewitness accounts, photographic evidence and rare video footage – the horrors perpetrated by Hitler's extermination brigades, known as the Einsatzgruppen or "action groups."
On Comedy Central...
Jon Stewart introduced the contestants on his new [un]reality show, "So You Think You Can Douche."
The Daily Show
Monday: Author Ronald Kessler ("In The President's Secret Service")
Tuesday: Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA)
Wednesday: Actor Paul Giamatti ("Cold Souls")
Thursday: Olympic Swimmer Dara Torres
And Stephen Colbert sought out one of the sperm that witnessed President Obama's conception.
The Colbert Report
Monday: Co-Author Tony Zinni ("Leading the Charge")
Tuesday: Author Kurt Andersen ("Reset")
Wednesday: Republican Candidate for Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach
Thursday: Actress Meryl Streep ("Julie and Julia")
Moving along...
Last Sunday, in a fit of poetry, Sarah Palin relinquished her title as defender of Alaska's airspace to focus on her next act.
While you might assume Palin would be a better fit for conservative radio than the less partisan world of syndicated broadcast TV, my sources say the country’s biggest radio conglomerate, Clear Channel, has already passed on her.
The main objection to Palin as radio talk-show host is that she would have to hold forth for three hours a day. While some of her recent remarks may indicate a talent for improvisation, anyone who’s listened to Rush Limbaugh or Thom Hartmann or Don Imus or Howard Stern or even Ryan Seacrest knows it’s the rare personality who can blab extemporaneously for 15 hours a week.
And relying on callers to get you through won’t help, because as we’ve all experienced, callers-in are usually more embarrassing than compelling.
At least she'll always have teh Twitter. Or not.
Meanwhile...
Sen. George Voinovich (R-OH) spoke a little truth to power:
"We got too many Jim DeMints (R-S.C.) and Tom Coburns (R-Ok.). It’s the southerners. They get on TV and go 'errrr, errrrr.' People hear them and say, 'These people, they’re southerners. The party’s being taken over by southerners.'"
YA RLY.
- Trix