Sunday Talking Heads: May 1, 2011
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 1st, 2011 4:43 am by HL
Sunday Talking Heads: May 1, 2011
Rabbit, rabbit. Deficit talk, Arab Spring, and the White House Correspondents Dinner. Kirk hosts FDL Book Salon, Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill. Teddy hosts Movie Night Monda, for my wife… And digby and McJoan are Virtually Speaking. The video shows the effect of Sunday talking heads on the human brain. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Rabbit, rabbit.
Deficit talk, Arab Spring, and the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Kirk hosts FDL Book Salon, Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill. Teddy hosts Movie Night Monda, for my wife… And digby and McJoan are Virtually Speaking.
The video shows the effect of Sunday talking heads on the human brain. It doesn’t have to be this way.
ABC’s This Week: At home with the Chair of the House Budget Committee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Roundtable: George Will, Arianna Huffington, David Stockman, Chrystia Freeland. Then, Arab spring.
CBS’ Face The Nation: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Gov. Robert Bentley (R-AL). Then, Michael Gerson, Michael Eric Dyson.
CNN’s State of the Union: The political consequences of entitlement reform, Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). Plus, “President Obama’s national security shuffle” with former National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and former Rep. Jane Harman. Education Roundtable: the former superintendent of Denver public schools, Sen. Michael Bennet (R-CO); the former U.S. Secretary of Education, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN); CNN education contributor and the founder of the Capitol Preparatory Magnet School, Steve Perry; and the president of the American Federation of Teachers, Randi Weingarten. Ends with Larry King and Alzheimers.
Chris Matthews: Is Racism Behind Attacks On President Obama’s Qualifications? How Has President Obama Changed The Job Description?
Fareed Zakaria – GPS: Roundtable: Arab Spring. Martin Indyk, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and vice president and director of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution; Fawaz Gerges, the Director of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics; Ayman Mohyeldin, Al Jazeera English’s Cairo-based correspondent who was recently named one of TIME Magazines 100 most influential people in the world; Elliott Abrams, a senior fellow for Middle Eastern Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and former deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush. Malcolm Gladwell on the income gap and college rankings. And more.
Fox News Sunday: Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). Roundtable: Brit Hume, Nina Easton, Bil Kristol, Juan Williams.
NBC’s Meet The Press: Mayor Michael Bloomberg (I-NY), Virginia Governor and Vice-Chair of the Republican Governor’s Association, Bob McDonnell (R-VA), and Former White House Senior Advisor, David Axelrod, “on the changing 2012 political landscape and the “Trump Effect” in the current discourse.” Then, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). Ending with Seth Meyers, host of the White House Correspondents Dinner.
Newsmakers: Republican Party of New Hampshire’s Jack Kimball and Republican Party of Iowa’s Matt Strawn relate the flurry of activity they’ve been engaged in ahead of the voting for the 2012 presidential nominee.
Q&A: Carol Guzy, photographer for The Washington Post. Along with two Post colleagues Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti, she has just won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography. They won for a series of photographs of the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti…
60 Minutes: Lara Logan – Tthe CBS News chief foreign correspondent and “60 Minutes” reporter reveals what happened to her in Tahrir Square. Mitch Landrieu – The New Orleans mayor talks about the city he loves and his efforts to heal wounds it still suffers from corruption and Hurricane Katrina. Zenyatta – Another look at one of the greatest American thoroughbreds ever to grace a track – the nearly undefeated Zenyatta.
To The Contrary: Topics: 1- Women surpass men in advanced degrees; 2- Does having children hurt marriages? 3- GOP budget threatens impoverished children according to the Children’s Defense Fund. Panelists: Patricia Sosa, Kellyanne Conway, Avis Jones-DeWeever, Dana White.
Univision’s Al Punto: Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D-IL); Adryana Boyne, National Director Voces Action; Javier Manjarres, Conservative Blogger, The Shark Tank; María Cardona, Democratic Strategist; Mario Sepúlveda, Chilean Miner.
Virtually Speaking: Joan McCarter (DailyKos’s mcjoan) and digby, 9pm ET.
C-SPAN’s Book TV: In Depth with Tibor Machan.
FDL Book Salon: Black Tide: The Devastating Impact of the Gulf Oil Spill. “Dramatic and compelling, Black Tide exposes the human failings and human cost of the largest oil disaster in American history and how it could easily happen again.” Chat with author Antonia Juhasz, hosted by Dr. Kirk Murphy. 5pm ET.
FDL Movie Night Monday: “Addressing a timely and critical issue, for my wife… chronicles the making of an activist for Marriage Equality. Charlene Strong was thrust into the spotlight after the tragic death of her wife, Kate.” Hosted by Teddy Partridge, 8pm ET.
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