Sunday Morning Shows Guest List - 6/21

[JamesA1102]

CBS: FACE THE NATION
John McCain - Republican

NBC: MEET THE PRESS
Sam Nunn - Democrat
Fred Thompson - Republican

ABC: THIS WEEK
Chris Dodd - Democrat
Lindsey Graham - Republican

FOX NEWS SUNDAY
Pete Hoekstra - Republican
Evan Bayh - Democrat
John McCain - Republican
Paul Ryan - Republican

Once again Republicans out number Dems, even if you factor out FOX. And the Dems featured can't be considered Liberals or Progressives either.

Plus Sam Nunn has been out of office for 12 years. How relevent is he? Fred Thompson has only been out of office for 6 years and was a candidate for President last year.

The MSM continues to let Republicans and Conservatives frame the debate. Imagine if John Kerry or Al Gore had done as many Sunday show interviews criticizing the President as McCain has.

[Windy]

1. Bayh isn't really a democrat either... nt

[Thrill]

2. It never changes. DINOs always on to represent the Democrats

How convienet that they have the Democrat on that opposes the Public Option.

And does McCain beg to be on these shows? Jeesh

[JamesA1102]

3. No They invite him.

The networks invite the guests who appear on these shows for the most part.

[Bluzmann57]

4. Glad I slept late

Although McCain and co. likely would have put me to sleep anyway.

[karynnj]

5. Of the three other shows, only Face the Nation with a McCain solo is unbalanced

Both Nunn and Thompson is out of office, but a key issue in Iran relates to an area where Nunn is very well regarded - nuclear proliferation. Nunn is socially conservative and was especially bad on DADT but he was one of the foreign policy experts.

Dodd, who is a liberal (and likely the best friend of Kennedy) is equivalent to Graham - his biggest drawback is that he was never all that proficient on these talks shows - something that made me not consider him in 2007 even though he had a good liberal record.
The question though is who would have been better. The Obama administration is carefully controlling what they say on Iran and they likely did want Biden, Rice or Clinton, who just had surgery on her elbow, out there - possibly pushed to say things they prefer not to say. Kerry was already high profile on this via a NYT op-ed and Hardball and Situation Room appearances. The fact is that even though the Republican gung ho message is the type that plays well even though it is wrong, Dodd did an ok job stating Obama's position.