Morning lineup:
Meet The Press: NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton; Satire Roundtable: Comedians Lewis Black, W. Kamau Bell and Laura Krafft; Serious Roundtable: Eugene Robinson (Washington Post), Amy Walter (Cook Political Report), Luke Russert (NBC News) and Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell (R).
Face The Nation: NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton; Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani (9/11); "Ebola Czar" Ron Klain; Roundtable: David Rohde (Reuters) and Robin Wright (U.S. Institute of Peace).
This Week: "Game Changers" of 2014.
Fox News Sunday: "Year In Review"; Author Laura Hillenbrand; Roundtable: Jason Riley (Wall Street Journal), Susan Page (USA Today), Steve Hayes (Weekly Standard) and Bob Woodward (Wall Street Journal).
State of the Union: Outgoing Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ); Roundtable: Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R), Matea Gold (Washington Post), Republican Strategist Kevin Madden and Democratic Strategist Donna Brazile.
Evening lineup:
60 Minutes will feature: a profile of Pope Francis (preview).
While I was away...
Stephen Colbert said goodbye (for now) in epic fashion.
And, speaking of departures...
Michele Bachmann might be on her way out of Congress, but she's clearly not done saying crazy shit.
The way Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) sees it, President Barack Obama has been supporting Islamic jihad "at every turn."
"And I have been very surprised, to answer your question, to see the President of the United States, at every turn, cut the legs off of our ally, Israel, and in fact embrace and lift up the agenda of Islamic jihad," Bachmann said during an interview on Washington Watch, hosted by the Family Research Council's Tony Perkins.
And, in other news...
Rush Limbaugh continued to be his racist self.
Limbaugh argued during his show on Tuesday that [Idris] Elba shouldn't be cast as Bond because he's a "black Briton" and the MI-6 protagonist was conceived as a white man from Scotland.
"James Bond is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming. He was white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is, was," Limbaugh said. His comments were flagged by The Guardian. "But now [they are] suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton, rather than a white from Scotland. But that's not who James Bond is and I know it's racist to probably point this out."
Limbaugh likened Elba playing Bond to George Clooney and Kate Hudson playing President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in a biopic.
Color me surprised.
- Trix