(from the 2008 Colbert Green Screen Challenge)

If I could remove one word from the lexicons of the Sunday Morning News Shows and other corporate media outlets, it would be "EXCLUSIVE!" There is nothing exclusive about having John McCain on your show for the upteenth time, David Gregory. And if you're trying to convince me that it's some sort of "catch" to get him on any specific Sunday, pull my other finger. I mean, leg.

"Face the Nation” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Judiciary Committee; Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee; Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), Chairman of the Armed Services Committee; Jan Crawford, CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent; David Martin, CBS News National Security Correspondent

“Meet the Press” Exclusive! Senator! John! McCain!
Also Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Sebastian Junger, author of "WAR"; Army combat veteran Wes Moore; Tom Ricks, Contributing Editor of Foreign Policy magazine and author;
NBC Military Analyst Gen. Barry McCaffrey (Ret.), Former Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Southern Command.

“Fox News Sunday” Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Mike Huckabee;

“ABC's This Week” Jake Tapper has an Exclusive Interview! with CIA Director! Leon! Panetta! The Panel will be: George Will, David Sanger, Robin Wright, Rajiv Chandrasekaran.

”The Chris Matthews Show” with Panelists Dan Rather, Gloria Borger, Katty Kay, and John Harris: Questions: Does General Petraeus Now Own the Afghanistan War? Sarah Palin's Year As Private Citizen: How's that Working Out For Her?

As a former constituent of Senator Sessions, my money's on him to bring the crazy this morning. What's catching your eye on the airwaves this am?

Obviously, Jeffrey Immelt feels more than a little pressure to prove that NBC is not the liberal bastion (and messenger of Obama's secret army) that the unapologetic righties like to whinge about, otherwise there's really no excuse for this latest hire:

Journalism continues staggering pushes forward on an otherwise ordinary Sunday! In the great "tradition" of mixing up people like Matt Lauer and Meredith Viera with public drunks like Hoda and Kathy Lee, The Today Show's newest hire? Jenna Bush. Whee!

Absolutely, completely, 100% true. Here's looking at you, NBC, via the AP report:

...a 27-year-old teacher in Baltimore, [Bush] will contribute stories about once a month on issues like education to television's top-rated morning news show, said Jim Bell, its executive producer.

"It wasn't something I'd always dreamed to do," she said. "But I think one of the most important things in life is to be open-minded and to be open-minded for change."

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the spawn of the guy who mangled the English language so often that it was painful to listen to him speak and who is personally responsible for the grammatically-odd statement above is going to cover educational issues?

That's like asking the spawn of Darth Cheney, Liz Cheney, on her opinion about Obama's foreign policy, or lifelong government-paid health insurance recipient John McCain about his opinion on the public option...oh wait.

As Atrios tweeted yesterday:

I look forward to seeing Jenna Bush interview Liz Cheney on The Today Show, being introduced by Luke Russert

Unqualified nepotism: Conservative values at their very best.

Morning, C&L junkies -- great to be over here saying hello again. Promised the ever-wonderful John Amato that I would give you all a heads up on the Sunday gabfests. It's that time of day. Fresh cuppa coffee. A read through of the latest in news and blogs. And the excited anticipation of who will be on what Sunday morning news show.

Or not. Just in case, though, the Sunday Talking Head line-up is up for your perusal here.

There are some surprises on the line-up listings this morning. The most surprising thing? Actual, honest-to-goodness liberals are booked for this morning. The fact that Carl Levin and Jimmy Carter and John Edwards are all on programs today? It sure looks like the booking folks have realized that Democrats are good for business these days. Must be those rising ratings for Olbermann.

Also, if you have a few good thoughts to spare, Steve Gilliard could use them. Get well soon, Steve! And now, another cuppa coffee...

The Sunday morning news show tapdance schedule is available for your perusal here. Lots of Stephen Hadley -- if he is the best spokesperson that the Administration could muster to spin the mess in Iraq, they are in deeper doo doo than I thought.