Saw an, um, advance release version of Sicko last night. I highly recommend it. As the British Lefty Tony Benn says, “if you can find money to kill people, you can find money to help people.” This movie is more effective in two hours, than a month of Sunday Boobleheads. Speaking of which…
On Press the Meat, it’s a debate about immigration, with the ever-obnoxious Pat Buchanan, and some guy named Luis Gutierrez, who is a Democrat from Illinois (I’m sure his being Hispanic is a mere coincidence). Then, it’s a bunch of flat heads at the round table, with the increasingly senile Bush apologist, Dean David Broder, Wall Street Journal hack, John Harwood (who compared John McCain’s military experience to Rudy Guiliani, claiming that Rudy has a “claim to combat in a different way, because he was on the ground in 9-11,” PBS’s Gwen Ifill & the chief political columnist for the often wrong, always inane Politico.com, Roger Simon.
Depending on where you live, Faze the Nation appears to be preempted or delayed by Golf or auto racing or something this week. If you’re “lucky” enough to see it, you’ll get to see Ed (aint he dead yet?) Koch, some schmuck Republican consultant named Ed Rollins, and the person from Law and Order who ought to run for preznit, Sam Waterson.
Over at Fux News Sunday, Weaselface Wallace hosts Senator Brylcreem®, Trent Lott, plus occasion Democrat, Dianne Feinstein, and a man who has no use for Brylcreem®, Cal Ripken. And of course there’s the usual noxious group of assholes, including the truly disgusting Brit Hume, asshole son of a douchebag, Bill Kristol, and a pair of graduates from the NPR school of hackery, Juan Williams and Mara Liasson. Woo-hoo.
On This Weak, George Snufalufagus hosts Teddy Kennedy and little Jeffy Sessions, and then at the roundtable, it’s Fareed “Token” Zakaria, former Pentagon spokesbitch Torie Clarke, ABC News hack Jake Tapper, and George :jerk: Will. Then we’ll hear from David Hyde Pierce, about losing his dad and granddad to Alzheimer’s (a scary thing to have run in your family, to be sure).
Wolf Blitzer’s Late Emission is basically a pile of crap, except for those purists out there, who will probably enjoy listening to Ralph Nader (no doubt being coy about making another run – if you can call it running – for preznit in ’08).
Later, on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper does a story on Joe Darby, who did the right thing by turning in his fellow soldiers for abusing Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, and has stopped bing punished for it yet. Then it’s a Steve Kroft re-run piece on how sperm donations are making lots of anonymous siblings out there, and Scott Pelley has a look at Hitler’s Secret Archive.
Enjoy your Sunday – back to freakin’ work tomorrow.