UB40 -- As Always, You Were Wrong Again What does it take for a Republican to be so wrong, so out of touch with the American public, so completely and consistently on the wrong side of the issues that you're no longer invited on a Sunday show
November 25, 2012


UB40 -- As Always, You Were Wrong Again

What does it take for a Republican to be so wrong, so out of touch with the American public, so completely and consistently on the wrong side of the issues that you're no longer invited on a Sunday show to opine? Apparently, the old axiom of a "dead girl or live boy" comes into play, because there is literally no other way I can think of to not see John McCain, Lindsey Graham, David Brooks, Peggy Noonan or Liz Cheney week after week.

It's frustrating to me that if you and I were as bad at our job as these guys are, we would be out of a job. But not only do these useful tools stay employed, they get new gigs and new platforms all the time. Boy, that's a nice gig if you can get it.

ABC's "This Week" -- Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; actor and director Ben Affleck, founder of the Eastern Congo Initiative, and Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash. Roundtable: ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, TIME Magazine's Joe Klein, Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, and The New York Times' David Sanger, author of "Confront and Conceal."

NBC's "Meet the Press" -- Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.; Reps. Peter King, R-N.Y., and Gregory Meeks, D-N.Y.; Dave Cote, chairman and CEO of Honeywell International Inc. Roundtable: Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns; Vice Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Carly Fiorina; MSNBC’s Al Sharpton; New York Times columnist David Brooks; and NBC’s Andrea Mitchell.

NBC's "The Chris Matthews Show" -- Sam Donaldson, ABC; Jodi Kantor, New York Times; Dan Rather, HDNet; Katty Kay, BBC

CBS' "Face the Nation" -- Annual books and authors show with presidential authors Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jon Meacham, Evan Thomas & Bob Woodward; Fiction authors "Gone Girl" author Gillian Flynn, writer of "The Expats," Chris Pavone, thriller novelist David Baldacci and "Fooling Houdini" writer Alex Stone.

MSNBC's "UP with Chris Hayes" -- Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN), Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of The Nation magazine; Hussein Ibish, senior fellow at the American Task Force on Palestine and executive director of the Hala Salaam Maksoud Foundation for Arab-American Leadership; MSNBC contributor Rula Jebreal, also a contributor to Newsweek magazine; Tarek Masoud, associate professor of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; Reza Aslan, author of ”No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam,” and an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; Eli Lake, senior national security reporter for Newsweek and The Daily Beast; Heather Hurlburt, executive director of the National Security Network, a progressive think tank, and a former speechwriter and member of the policy planning team in the State Department under the Clinton administration.

MSNBC's "Melissa Harris-Perry" -- Guest list not released.

CNN's "State of the Union" -- Retiring Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn.; Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.

CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" -- Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Jon Meacham and Robert Caro; Robert Kaplan, author of The Revenge of Geography.

CNN's "Reliable Sources" -- Bob Cusack of The Hill, Amy Argetsinger of the Washington Post and American University’s Jane Hall; Author and veteran military reporter Tom Ricks; Eric Deggans of the Tampa Bay Times; Jezebel Editor-in-chief Jessica Coen.

"Fox News Sunday" -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. Matthew Shay, President and CEO of the National Retail Federation and John Sweeney, Executive Vice President of Fidelity Investments. Panel: Bill Kristol, The Weekly Standard/Fox News Contributor; Kirsten Powers, Daily Beast Columnist, Fox News Contributor;
Liz Cheney, Chairman, Keep America Safe; Fmr Deputy Asst Secretary of State; Juan Williams, Fox News Contributor.

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