McLaughlin Group: By Leaps and Bounds, the most OUTSTANDING political show out there - They took their Brick Bats and slugged every point: Incompetence, Callousness, Race, Poverty, National Guard tied down in Iraq; etc.
Real Time w/ Maher: climatologist Stephan Schneider, Fareed Zakaria; Roundtable - Bradley Whitford (West Wing), Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, and fmr Chair of the US Commision on Civil Rights Dr. Mary Frances Berry.
AAR's Politically Direct: Ted Kennedy on the Bush Disaster, Iraq, and John Roberts; and Chuck D on the Bush Disaster.
This Week: Landrieu; Chertoff; and author and journalist Rick Bragg.
60 Min: Repairing the breached levees; marketing to the children of Baby boomers; foreign hospital care
Late Edition: (starts 1 hour earlier) Al Sharpton; Chertoff; Lott; Leavitt(HHS); Julie Gerberding(CDC); Reps. Jefferson, Baker, Melancon, and Jindal; John Breaux, Marty Evans(Red Cross); and former Surgeon General David Satcher
Meet The Press: Urban League President Marc Morial (the former two-term mayor of New Orleans); environmentalist Mike Tidwell (who wrote "Bayou Farewell: The Rich Life and Tragic Death of Louisiana's Cajun Coast"); Scientific American's Mark Fischetti (who wrote 2001 article "Drowning New Orleans"); and David Wessel, from the WSJ on the economic impact; and then Chertoff
AAR's The Laura Flanders Show
Saturdays and Sundays 7pm-10pm ET
Live reports continue, including Stan Tiner, editorial page editor of the Sun Herald of Biloxi, MS, and Rich Campbell, editorial page editor of the Hattiesburg American of Hattiesburg, MS.; Pratap Chatterjee on the political appointees who went from Iraq to FEMA; Donele Wilkins, National Co Chair of the National Black Environmental Justice Network on efforts to help storm victims; and historian-musicologist Ned Sublette, who's been writing a cultural history of New Orleans.
AAR's Mother Jones Radio
Sundays 1pm-2pm ET
Despite what President Bush says, a disaster on the Gulf Coast has been predicted for years. Journalist William Bunch, who says the Iraq war pulled funds away from flood prevention programs in New Orleans; Mike Dunne of the Baton Rouge Advocate, who has written for two decades about Louisiana's vulnerability to hurricanes and flooding; Ginger Ferguson, director of the Coalition for the Hungry and Homeless of Brevard County, FL, on the difficulty of providing aid after natural disasters; and Lainey Poche, a Louisiana National Guard sergeant stationed in Baghdad, on watching the crisis on TV.
AAR's On the Real
Sundays 11pm -1 am ET
Chuck D on Katrina and more. Guest Dr. Jawanza Conchufu, author of "The Hip Hop Street Curriculum."
Face The Nation: pre-empted for Tennis
Faux: Chertoff
Frank Rich's Sunday Column: Falluja Floods the Superdome
Maureen Dowd's Column: United States of Shame
Paul Krugman's Column: A Can't-Do Government
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