Morning lineup:
Meet the Press: White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod; House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC); Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL); Republican Strategist Karl Rove; Roundtable: David Brooks (New York Times) and Tom Friedman (New York Times).
Face the Nation: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN); Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL); President of America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Karen Ignagni.
This Week: White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod; Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); Roundtable: Former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn, Former RNC Chair Ed Gillespie, George Will (Washington Post) and Cokie Roberts (ABC News).
Fox News Sunday: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs; DCCC Chair/Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD); House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA); Republican Strategist Karl Rove; Roundtable: Bill Kristol (Weekly Standard), Mara Liasson (NPR/FNC), Former White House Press Secretary Dana Perino and President of the Center for American Progress John Podesta.
State of the Union: House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH); White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod; Reliable Sources: American University Professor Jane Hall; Radio Host Bill Press; Peter Baker (New York Times); Jim Geraghty(National Review); Sharon Waxman (TheWrap.com); Ben Mankiewicz (Turner Classic Movies).
The Chris Matthews Show: Dan Rather (HDNet); Katty Kay (BBC); Helene Cooper (New York Times); Joe Klein (TIME).
Fareed Zakaria GPS: U.S. Special Representative for AfPak Richard Holbrooke; Chrystia Freeland (Financial Times); Amity Shlaes (Bloomberg News); Columbia University Professor Jeff Sachs.
Afternoon delight:
Amanpour: Israeli Author Amos Oz; Palestinian Attorney Elias Khoury; Islamic Theologian Sheikh Dr. Tahir Ul-Qadri; Archbishop Desmond Tutu; Rev. Mpho Tutu: Singer Annie Lennox.
Primetime viewing:
60 Minutes will feature: an interview with former trader-turned author Michael Lewis discussing the current situation on Wall Street, the large bonuses still being paid and his predictions for the future of the industry (preview); and, a profile of British musical savant Derek Paravicini (preview).
The National Georgraphic Channel will premiere Sizing Up Sperm, which uses real people to represent 250 million sperm on their marathon quest to be first to reach a single egg, with leading fertility experts walking us through the dramatic journey from the sperm’s point of view.
On Comedy Central...
Jon Stewart had a ball covering Eric Massa's ticklishly-explicit appearance on Glenn Beck's show.
The Daily Show
Monday: Author Michael Lewis ("The Big Short")
Tuesday: Actor Jude Law ("Repo Men")
Wednesday: Rapper Snoop Dogg ("More Malice")
Thursday: Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke
And Stephen Colbert examined Beck's efforts to sow his wild oats.
The Colbert Report
Monday: Former CIA Operative Robert Baer
Tuesday: Author Rebecca Skloot ("The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks")
Wednesday: Author Nell Irvin Painter ("The History of White People")
Thursday: Republican Strategist Mary Matalin
Meanwhile...
Rush Limbaugh told his audience that if HCR passes, he'll be doing his doctor shopping elsewhere. Preferably somewhere with a booming sex-tourism business.
CALLER: If the health care bill passes, where would you go for health care yourself? And the second part of that is, what would happen to the doctors, do they have to participate in the federal program, or could they opt out of it? [...]
LIMBAUGH: My guess in even in Canada and even in the UK, doctors have opted out. And once they’ve opted, they can’t see anybody Medicare, Medicaid, or what will become the exchanges. They have to have a clientele of private patients that will pay them a retainer and it’ll be a very small practice. I don’t know if that’s been outlawed in the Senate bill. I don’t know. I’ll just tell you this, if this passes and it’s five years from now and all that stuff gets implemented — I am leaving the country. I’ll go to Costa Rica.
He wouldn't be the first person to seek medical attention outside the US.
PALIN: We used to hustle over the border for health care we received in Canada. And I think now, isn’t that ironic?
Actually, I'd say it's hypocritical.
Which brings us to right-wing sugar daddy Andrew Breitbart.
"They’re an elitist pestilence," he says of his celebrity targets. [...]
The taping ends with small talk and handshakes. Afterward, Breitbart heads downstairs to visit Greg Gutfeld, who hosts the Fox overnight show Red Eye. Then they meet up with Felix Dennis, the high-flying founder of Maxim magazine, and spend the rest of the evening at a midtown club drinking Cristal.
And that's all he wrote.
- Trix
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