I have no idea where Al Rodgers has been, but we need a place to talk about Sunday Talk!
Sunday Talk (subject to change):
- MTP: Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) and Gen. George Casey.
- Face the Nation: VP Dick Cheney.
- This Week with George S.: Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), Olympic speedskater Joey Cheek on Darfur. Cheek is doing some bipartisan lobbying with the Save Darfur Coalition. The roundtable consists of George Will, Cokie Roberts, and Sam Donaldson.
- Fox News Sunday: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and others
- Late Edition: Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN), Sen. Joe "Overexposed" Biden (D-DE), Iraqi Deputy PM Ahmed "Bush is My WMD Bitch" Chalabi, Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah
More TV Alerts and funnies below the fold...
Future (mostly political, media) guests (subject to change):
- (Via Sandia Blanca in the comments) Christy Hardin Smith (aka ReddHedd) of firedoglake will be on Washington Journalon C-Span at 7:45 a.m. Sunday (Eastern time).
- Chris Matthews Show on CNBC 3/18 panel (David Gregory, Elisabeth Bumiller, Cynthia Tucker, and Andrew Sullivan) to answer the following: "Why has Bush lost the Republican voters, and can he get them back? Will Internet bloggers propel a Democrat to become the main alternative to Hillary Clinton?" Yes, folks! Matthews is still obsessed with Hillary Clinton. Quotes from the show here.
- CNN Presents Investigates What Happens When World Runs Out of Oil It airs 3/18 at 8PM and 11PM, and 3/19 at 8PM and 11PM.
- CBS News Sunday Morning (3/19 at 9AM EST): Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) v. Bill Bennett on Iraq
- Gov. Mitt "Flip-flopper" Romney (R-MA) and 08 hopeful on CSPAN's Q&A on 3/19.
- 60 Minutes 3/19: A story about how the NYPD defends NYC. A story about NASA's top scientist studying climate and how he's being silenced by Bush on global warming.
- CNBC's Kudlow & Company on 3/20: Gary Hart, Steve Forbes, Ralph Nader, and Pat Buchanan to talk about those running for president in 2008.
- ABC WNT dedicating 3/20 broadcast to Third Anniv. of Iraq War CBS has been doing a series the week of 3/13 on Iraq.
- Late Late Show: TWW's Stockard Channing on 3/20
- The Daily Show: Clive Owen on 3/20; ex-Iraqi Gen. Georges Sada for Saddam Hussein on 3/21; Michael Mandelbaum (author of The Case for Goliath) on 3/23; Michael Gordon (author of Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq) on 3/27; Queen Latifah on 3/29; Sharon Stone on 3/30; Ricky Gervais on 4/3; Studs Terkel (author of book on WWII music) on 4/4; Gen. Anthony Zinni on 4/5; Josh Hartnett on 4/6
- The Colbert Report: Connie Chung on 3/20; Steve Kroft on 3/21; Susan Sarandon on 3/22; NYT Baghdad bureau chief John F. Burns; Sen. Gary Hart on 3/27; ex-FEMA dir. Michael D. Brown on 3/28 (this is bound to be freakin' hilarious); Bruce Bartlett on 3/29; Robert Greenwald (presumably promoting his anti-DeLay film) on 3/30
- Leno: Steve Carell on 3/21 (re-run); James Carville on 3/23 (re-run)
- Conan O'Brien: CNBC's Jim Cramer on 3/23 (re-run)
- Jimmy Kimmel: Sam Donaldson on 3/24
- The View: Michael & Jodi Schiavo on 3/28 (presumably to talk about Terri and TerriPAC)
- Regis & Kelly: George "People's 1997 Sexiest Man Alive" Clooney on 3/31
Funnies
Kos answers questions in NYT Mag
Q: Have you met John Kerry?
A: Only once. I was in a bathroom stall next to him at the Democratic National Convention. I didn't say hello. It was a private moment for him.
Hotline 3/16 rounds up reaction to Harris's announcement on H&C. The funnier highlights...
Nelson manager Chad Clanton: "Katherine Harris' latest theatrics are a desperate attempt to deflect attention from a career of blunders and failures; from her ties to one of the country's largest-ever bribery scandals; and, from the fact that she has no real support for her campaign."
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GOP consultant J.M. "Mac" Stipanovich: "Katherine Harris moves in ways so mysterious that the designs of the creator seem transparent by comparison."
GOP consultant Rick Wilson: "We've wasted a month. She's like the sorority girl in college who's always got the boyfriend drama" (St. Petersburg Times, 3/16).
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UVA's Larry Sabato: "I'm not sure $100 million could elect Katherine Harris. You can spend $100 million marketing dog food, but if the dogs won't eat, it isn't going to sell"(Wallace, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 3/16).
NYPost: Pirro veers off the map If you had to guess, you'd probably think Pirro had lived in NY for fewer years than Hillary Clinton.
Gaffe-prone Republican attorney-general candidate Jeanine Pirro has done it again - bragging about her knowledge of upstate areas while erroneously claiming New York has a border with Ohio.
Pirro's bumble occurred during an interview on Albany's WROW-AM, as she bragged about her upstate credentials: born in Elmira and educated at SUNY Buffalo and Albany Law School. "I've been to Chautauqua County, which is all the way on the west coast, I should say the west end, of New York, bordering Ohio," the ex-Westchester DA said.
In fact, Chautauqua borders Pennsylvania. New York has no border with Ohio. Pirro later offered up another malapropism after acknowledging her geography mistake: "Am I better than that? Absolutely not."
Jay Leno last week:
The FBI is investigating Americans -- just for opposing the war. You know, maybe when we're done establishing a democracy in Iraq, we could try it over here. Stop, I don't want to get investigated, don't applaud!
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Come back soon, Al Rodgers... wherever you are!