Sunday Talk - Christmas Come Early

Like a gift from God, Sarah Palin's Rogue-A-Palooza tour (w/special guest) descended on America this week.

Over the next few months, hundreds of millions of Palin's Facebook friends will visit book stores – many for the first time – to meet their idol face to face.

And a sexy time will be had by all.

Meanwhile, the Jews will be flocking to Israel.

Morning lineup:

Meet the Press: Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL); Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA); Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX); Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT); Roundtable: Founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure Nancy Brinker and Dr Nancy Snyderman (NBC News).

Face the Nation: Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ); Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY); Dr. Jennifer Ashton (CBS News).

This Week: Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE); Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK); Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL); Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN); Roundtable: George Will (The Washington Post), Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich, Propagandist Liz Cheney and Walter Isaacson (Aspen Institute).

Fox News Sunday: Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN); Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI); Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO); Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA); Former Director of the National Institute of Health Dr. Bernadine Healy; Roundtable: Brit Hume (Fox News), Mara Liasson (NPR), Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard) and Anne Kornblut (The Washington Post).

State of the Union: Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH); Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO); Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH); Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Democratic Strategist James Carville; Republican Strategist Mary Matalin; Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina; Reliable Sources: Matthew Continetti (Weekly Standard); Joan Walsh (Salon); Julie Mason (Washington Examiner); Karen Tumulty (TIME).

The Chris Matthews Show: Joe Klein (TIME); Norah O'Donnell (MSNBC); Anne Kornblut (The Washington Post); David Ignatius (The Washington Post).

Fareed Zakaria GPS: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh; Maziar Bahari (Newsweek).

Afternoon delight:

Amanpour: Jeremy Ben-Ami (J Street); David Harris (American Jewish Committee); Afghan Minister of Interior Hanif Atmar; Former Afghan Presidential Candidate Dr. Ashraf Ghani.

Primetime viewing:

60 Minutes will feature: a report on the painful and costly surgeries many Americans undergo in their last two months of life (preview); an interview with Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari, who was interrogated and tortured by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard for four months (preview); and the first broadcast TV look James Cameron's new film, "Avatar" (preview).

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On Comedy Central...

John Stewart examined America's love/hate relationship with Sarah Palin.

And Stephen Colbert analyzed Palin's non-existent relationship with the truth.

Note: The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will both be airing reruns next week. New episodes will return on Monday, November 30. ...

Elsewhere...

Moonie Times Editor Emeritus Wesley Pruden was as nauseated as you weren't by President Obama's obsequious behavior in Japan, but he could understand where Obama was coming from:

It's no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of "the 57 states" is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World and reared by grandparents in Hawaii, a paradise far from the American mainstream.

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You know who has plenty of "natural instinct" and "blood impulse"?

Sarah Palin.

"If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat? I always remind people from outside our state that there's plenty of room for all Alaska's animals - right next to the mashed potatoes."

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Mmm... Caribou Barbie.

- Trix