Sunday Morning Coffee Talk
Here’s a list of who is going to be on the Sunday talk shows today:
Washington Journal: 7:30am – Dr. Robert Ouelett, Frm. Pres., Canadian Medical Assn. 8:30am – Lawrence Knutson, Author, “Escaping the Gilded Cage” 9am – John David Dyche, Author, “Republican Leader: a Political Biography of Senator Mitch McConnell”
ABC’s This Week: On Sen. Ted Kennedy — Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA). Roundtable: Liz Cheney, George Will, Sam Donaldson, Gwen Ifill, and EJ Dionne.
CBS’ Face The Nation: Ted Kennedy’s Legacy – Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA),Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA),.Michael Eric Dyson, Georgetown University sociologist.
Chris Matthews: Howard Fineman Newsweek; Michele Norris NPR; Andrea Mitchell NBC News; Bill Plante CBS News. Topics: Has television forever altered American politics and changed history? Chris Matthews’s special personal reflections on Senator Edward Kennedy.
CNN’s State of the Union: Senator Ted Kennedy – Close friends Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT). Also Larry Lucchino, President and CEO of the Boston Red Sox; Thomas M. Menino, Mayor of Boston; Thomas P. O’Neill III, Former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor; and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Ted Kennedy’s Nephew.
Fareed Zakaria – GPS: Repeat of interview with China’s Premier Wen Jiabao. Then Malcolm Gladwell.
Fox News Sunday: Dick Cheney. “Were the actions of some CIA officials appropriate or did they go too far in their effort to protect the country from another terrorist attack?”
NBC’s Meet The Press: An hour-long tribute to the life, legacy and political career of Sen. Ted Kennedy, with Maria Shriver, John Kerry, Chris Dodd, Bob Shrum and Kathleen Kennedy Townsend. Plus, Doris Kearns Goodwin .
H/T to Firedoglake for putting this all together!
I think Fareed Zakaria looks interesting and I hope he asks Wen Jiabao about human rights and in particular, the Dalai Lama, but that may be too much to ask.
UPDATE: NPR is apparently going to discuss (if they haven’t already) Secretary Clinton’s revolutionizing of US foreign policy and the audio will be available on the website at approximately 12pm EST. You can check out the program, here. It sounds like it’s going to be good.
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I missed the talking heads, but I did hear the story on NPR, and I thought it was not nearly as positive as the lead-in suggests. Also, they waited till the end of the story to bring in the way she has made women central to her diplomacy, and that, in my book, is the most revolutionary aspect of her approach.
Elizabeth-
Thanks for giving us the heads up on that because I haven’t gone back to the site to listen to the story. And yes, the lead-in DOES make it seem like it’s going to be very complimentary, which is why I kind of thought it would be. And I agree that her focus on women should be given top billing in any discussion of her foreign policy priorities. By far the best coverage so far of that was the NYT Magazine special edition last weekend where Secretary Clinton was interviewed and she was able to focus not just on the fact that women were central, but WHY they were central to US foreign policy/diplomacy during her tenure at the State Dept.