The Lineup
Sunday Talk this week is full of Alberto Gonzales talk!
* MTP: reporters' roundtable on 08, Gonzales and other hot topics; WaPo's Dan Balz, LA Times' Ron Brownstein, CNBC/WSJ's John Harwood, NBC's Andrea Mitchell, WaPo's Eugene Robinson, NBC's Chuck Todd
* FTN: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) & Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) on Gonzales; SI's Frank Deford, WaPo's John Feinstein and Kansas City Star's Jason Whitlock on trouble in sports; Politico's Jim VandeHei
* This Week: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) & Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) on Gonzales and Miers & Bolten contempt; Bob Dole & Donna Shalala (co-chairs of Wounded Warriors Commission); roundtable of Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria, Cokie Roberts and David Gergen on hot topics; Jacob Komar on recycled computers for needy families
* FNS: Newt Gingrich; Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI); Cal Ripken Jr.
* Late Edition: US Amb to UN Zalmay Khalilzad; Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY); Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT); Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO); Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA); National Urban League Pres. Marc Morial; ex-OH SoS Ken Blackwell (R); roundtable of CNN's Bill Schneider, CNN's Ed Henry, and Hotline's Amy Walter.
More TV Alerts (all subject to change)
* Political Capital with Al Hunt (Bloomberg, repeats throughout weekend): ex-Sen. Bob Dole (R-KS)
* Chris Matthews Show 7/28-7/29 Time's Michael Duffy, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell, WaPo's David Ignatius, and USN&WR's Gloria Border discuss "What is the truth behind the President's predictions of horror if US troops are pulled out of Iraq? Who won the contest between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama this week?" Quotes here.
* Newsmakers (C-SPAN, 10am, 7/29): VA Sec. Jim Nicholson
* Road to the WH (C-SPAN, 6:30pm, 7/29: Rudy Giuliani in IA; Tom Tancredo in IA.
* 60 Minutes 7/29: Medicare Part D passage in Congress; Dennis Kozlowski interview; mixed martial arts
* Q&A (C-SPAN, 8pm, 7/29): "Shooting Michael Moore" filmmaker Kevin leffler
* The Daily Show: Alastair Campbell on 7/30; Lewis Gordon Pugh on 7/31; Jed Babbin on 8/1; Matt Damon on 8/2
* The Colbert Report: Evan Osnos on 7/30; Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on 7/31; Michael Beschloss on 8/1; Michael J. Behe on 8/2;
* Letterman: Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) on 7/31; Al Franken (DFL-MN) on 8/2;
* Leno: Anderson Cooper on 8/1;
* Ellen DeGeneres: Al Gore (rerun) on 8/2
* The View: Anderson Cooper on 8/3
Jack Cafferty: Please no more Lohan!
Items
* Remember John Sweeney? He's the GOP Rep defeated by Kirsten Gillibrand in 2006. He's also the guy who allegedly physically abused his wife. She denied it during the election, but she's not anymore. Gayle Sweeney spills all. (They're getting a divorce.)
* Some US Christians who don't like Harry Potter have sent J.K. Rowling death threats
* Waning Influence of Condi Rice and the State Dept.
* NY-26: Rep. Tom Reynolds (R) Watch is up and running.
* Am I being too sensitive or is this a low blow in the 7/23/07 edition of The Note
Back to the Democrats, Al Gore's daughter seemed to rule out a run for her father. (We thought that was his son's job.) "He's really not going to get in the race," Kristin Gore said Friday at a bookstore in Washington, per ABC's Teddy Davis. "He's really liberated working on things he cares about."
Congrats to Countdown frequent guest and ex-Nixon WH counsel John Dean. In a new movie about Watergate, Brad Pitt will be playing him. Dean's wife will be played by Pitt's ex-girlfriend, Gwenyth Paltrow.
Stephen Colbert interview in Charleston Post & Courier. He sounds like such a good dad.
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are scheduled to guest star on episodes of The Simpsons this coming season.
John Kerry on his favorite Simpsons character.
"I could say my favorite character is Mr. Burns, because thanks to him even after Dick Cheney is out of office he will live on as a cartoon. But I'm actually a Bart fan, despite the fact Time named him one of the 100 most influential people, and I didn't make the list. [...]"
If you've got some time and a nice photo, you can try to Simpson-ize yourself (see what you'd look like if you were a Simpsons character.)
Joke of the Week
Bill Maher, on Bush's colonoscopy: "At least for once in our lifetimes, we saw the words 'Bush,' 'operation,' and 'success' in the same sentence" (From Maher's recent HBO special.)