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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are:  White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer; Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC);  Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Tom Frieden; and an exclusive interview with legendary baseball announcer Vin Scully.

Sitting at the roundtable are: Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX); Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol; New Yorker editor David Remnick;, and Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests this Sunday are CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook; Valerie Jarrett, a senior adviser to President Barack Obama; former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Pierre Krahenbuhl, Commissioner General for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency; Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA); and John Dean, a key Nixon administration figure from the Watergate scandal.

Joining his panel discussion are David Ignatius of the Washington Post and CBS correspondent Margaret Brennan, who covers the State Department.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: Sunday’s guests on “MTP” are:  Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Sen. John Thune (R-SD): Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN); Ambassador Riyad Mansour, Palestinian representative to the United Nations; and Tom Frieden, director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R); Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI), chairman, House Intelligence Committee; Journalist Carl Bernstein and former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather.

Her panel guests are Newt Gingrich, Ana Navarro, Marc Lamont Hill, and Erikka Knuti.

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are: Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX); and Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX).

The dguests are: Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK); CNN “Crossfire” co-host S.E. Cupp; and UC Berkley professor and former Clinton Labor secretary Robert Reich.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are: House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI): and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

His panel guests are: CBS News Elections Director Anthony Salvanto; David Leonhardt, The New York Times; Amy Walter, the Cook Political Report; and CBS News Political Director John Dickerson.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: The guests on MTP are: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Chris Gunness, the Spokesperson for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency; Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI); Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY); and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

At the roundtable are: Judy Woodruff, Co-Anchor and Managing Editor, PBS NewsHour; David Brooks, New York Times; Nia-Malika Henderson, Washington Post; and Ruth Marcus, Washington Post.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Palestinian Minister Mohammad Shtayye; Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin;  Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes; House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: This Sunday’s guests on “This Week” are: Secretary of State John Kerry;  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; and House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI).

The roundtable guests are: ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz; Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass; New Republic Senior Editor Julia Ioffe; and Wall Street Journal White House Correspondent Carol Lee.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are: Secretary of State John Kerry; Rep. Peter King (R-NY); and Martin Indyk, the former U.S. special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations.

Special reports from the field: Mark Phillips in Ukraine; Clarissa Ward in Moscow; and Holly Williams in Gaza.

On his panel are: Peter Baker, The New York Times; David Ignatius, The Washington Post; and Kim Strassel, The Wall Street Journal.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: Sunday’s MTP guest are: Secretary of State John Kerry

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are Secretary of State John Kerry; Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); the House Homeland Security Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-TX); and  Robert Turner, Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in Gaza City.

Her panel guests are The Atlantic‘s Peter Beinart; Michael Crowley of TIME magazine, NPR’s Steve Inskeep and CNN commentator L.Z. Granderson.

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests for Sunday’s “This Week” are: Attorney General Eric Holder; Trayvon Martin’s friend Rachel Jeantel on the one year anniversary of his killer’s acquittal.

The guests at the roundtable are: Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol; Republican strategist Ana Navarro; former Obama White House senior adviser David Plouffe; and ABC News’ Cokie Roberts.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are: Ambassador Maen Rashid Areikat, the Palestine Liberation Organization’s chief representative in the United States; and Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX).

On a special immigration panel, the guests are: Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL); Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA); and Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX).

His panel guests are: Jane Harman of The Wilson Center; Nia-Malika Henderson, the Washington Post; Danielle Pletka, the American Enterprise Institute; and Gerald Seib, The Wall Street Journal.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: Sunday’s guests for MTP are: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif; the Obama administration’s Mideast peace envoy, Martin Indyk; The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg; Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI); and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX).

Sitting at the roundtable are: former Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI); former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA); Stephen Henderson, Detroit Free Press; and Kimberley Strassel, The Wall Street Journal.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); and Border patrol agent Chris Cabrera.

Her panel guests are Republican Reps. Marsha Blackburn and Aaron Schock; Democratic Reps. Donna Edwards and Beto O’Rourke.

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests for Sunday’s “This Week” are: Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX); Bishop Mark Seitz of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso; and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske.

Joining the roundtable discussion are: Yahoo News National Political Columnist Matt Bai; Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd; and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA).

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ); Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC); and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL).

His panel guests are all novelists: “The Director” author David Ignatius; “Mean Streak” author Sandra Brown; “Cop Town” author Karin Slaughter; “Personal” author Lee Child; and “The Skin Collector” author Jeffrey Deaver.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: The guests on “MTP” are: Secretary, Department of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson; Rep. Raul Labrador (R-ID); and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Guests at the roundtable are: Chuck Todd, Political Director & Chief White House Correspondent, NBC News; Carolyn Ryan, Washington Bureau Chief, The New York Times; Lori Montenegro, National Correspondent, Telemundo and Michael Gerson, Columnist, The Washington Post.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are Rep. Henry Cuellar (R-TX); Mayor Alan Long, Murrieta, CA; and U.S. Navy’s first female four-star admiral, Michelle Howard.

Her panel guests are RNC Spokesman Sean Spicer; DNC Spokesman Mo Elleithee; Carly Fiorina; and liberal radio talk-show host Stephanie Miller.

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on SundY’S “This Week” are: Pres. Barack Obama; Rep. Peter King (R-NY); and  documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson.

At the roundtable are: Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd; Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol; editor and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel; ABC News’ Terry Moran; Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick; and the Judicial Crisis Network’s Carrie Severino.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are: Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV); Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY); former US ambassador to Iraq, James Jeffrey; CBS News State Department Correspondent Margaret Brennan and TIME Magazine‘s Michael Crowley.

His panel guests are Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal; Michael Gerson of The Washington Post; former Clinton White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers; and Todd Purdum of Politico.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: The guests on MTP are: Former President Bill Clinton; and Reince Priebus, Chair, Republican National Committee.

The roundtable guests are: Kathy Ruemmler, former White House Counsel; Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI); Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent; and Nia-Malika Henderson, National Political Reporter, The Washington Post.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are Chairman of the House Oversight Committee Darell Issa (R-CA); Lois Lerner’s attorney William Taylor; and Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI).

Her panel guests are attorney Stephanie Cutter, Neera Tanden, Liz Mair, and Mattie Duppler.

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on Sunday’s “This Week” are: war criminal and former Vice President Dick Cheney; and  Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

At the roundtable are  Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MI); Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL); ABC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Terry Moran; and Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are Sen. Marco Rubio (R.-FL); Rep. Mike Rogers (R.-MI) and former deputy director of the CIA and CBS News’ Senior Security Correspondent Michael Morell.

His panel guests are Tavis Smiley of PBS; Robin Wright of the Wilson Center; David Ignatius of The Washington Post; and CBS News Political Director John Dickerson.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: This Sunday’s MTP guests are : Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee; Michele Flournoy, former Undersecretary of Defense;  NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel; NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell; and NBC News Correspondent Kevin Tibbles.

At the roundtable are: E.J. Dionne, Columnist, The Washington Post; David Brooks Columnist, The New York Times; Katty Kay Anchor, BBC World News America; and Erika Harold . former Congressional Candidate (R-IL).

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guests are Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein.

Her panel guests are Donna Brazile, Kristin Soltis Anderson, Penny Lee, and SE Cupp.

Every Sunday it’s almost guaranteed that the majority of the Sunday talk shows would be dominated by right wing neocons who have over the last 40 years managed to take this country into not just economic failure of the middle class but into being the laughing stock of the international community. This morning was no different as the war mongers and neocon war criminal were on full display.

Let’s start with “This Week” and the Bill Clinton’s former Press Secretary’s lien up. You can’t make this up, Laura Ingraham, a right wing radio talk show hack who managed to wheedle herself into a gig with ABC News, thinks that poor Eric Cantor can’t take a joke. During one of her appearances for David Brat, Cantor’s primary challenger, she suggested that Obama should have traded Cantor to the Taliban for Sgt, Bowe Bergdahl because of his stance on immigration reform. Ummm, Cantor is Jewish. She doubled down on that this morning’s “This Week” reacting to Cantor’s saying that comments like that “cheapened the debate.” Remember Daniel Pearl’s beheading, anyone?

While I dislike Eric Cantor, Laura went too far the first time and way over the antisemitism line the second. No Laura, we’re not laughing and you aren’t funny.

On “Face the Nation,” we have Senator Lindsey “I never saw a war I didn’t like” Graham on his fainting couch saying that the developments in Iraq and Syria portend another 9/11.

“The decision to withdraw U.S. forces created a vacuum,” Graham said. “Syria is launching pad. …If the central government in Iraq collapses – and that’s the goal of ISIS – Iran will own southern part of Iraq, that’s where the Shiites live; they can operate ISIS from Baghdad to Kurdistan all the way in to Syria. They will eventually march on Jordan and Lebanon – our best ally in the region is the King of Jordan – and they will attack us from that part of Iraq and Syria. According to our own Director of National Intelligence, FBI Director, the next 9/11 is coming from here.”

“That a very serious statement,” Schieffer said.

“I think it’s inevitable,” Graham replied. “They plan to drive us out of the Mideast by attacked us here at home.”

Where are Rudy, “a noun, a verb and 9/11,” Guiliani and Rep. Peter, “Mr. Islamaphobia,” King (R-NY)?

But the icing on this morning’s cake was on “Meet The Press” with David “The Dancing Master” Gregory’s interview with none other than one of the chief Bush war criminals former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. When asked by Gregory about his and his neocon buddies culpability for the sectarian violence, Wolfie hedged:

   Gregory: Where you and others culpable of underestimating the level of sectarian violence, warfare in the country that creates the potential for this kind of terror states to develop today?

   Wolfowitz: Look, you use the word sectarian so did Richard Engel, This is more than just the obscure Shia/Sunni conflict. This is al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda is not on the road of defeat, al-Qaeda is on the march. Not just in Iraq and Syria and we have real enemies in the US and what we should be looking for friends. I think when we stick with our friends and those friends are not always perfect, but we stuck with the Kurds for twenty years. Northern Iraq, Kurdistan is a success story. We stuck with them South Korea for sixty years. South Korea is a miracle story if we walked away from that country in 1953, that country was a basket case.

(h/t John Amato at Crooks and Liars)

Never mind several centuries of the Sunni/Shiite rift, it’s Al Qaeda? oy.

First off Wolfowitz should be in prison in either The Hague or a max security here in the US. He shouldn’t be marched out as an expert any defense or foreign policy matter, let alone the Middle East.

Pass the antifreeze and make mine a double.

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on this Sunday’s “This Week” are:  House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA); House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX); former Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli; ABC News contributor Col. Steve Ganyard, USMC (Ret.) and journalist Elizabeth Drew, author of “Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon’s Downfall.”

The Roundtable guests are  Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL); Democratic strategist Donna Brazile;  Democratic strategist Donna Brazile; syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham; and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer;s guest are Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); former Obama National Security Adviser Tom Donilon; RNC chairman Reince Priebus; and the lawyers who defeated California’s ban on gay marriage, Prop 8, David Boies and Ted Olson.

Joining Mr. Schieffer on his panel are Robert Costa of The Washington Post; Gwen Ifill of PBS; and CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: The guests on MTP are former Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney; Richard Engel, NBC News Chief Foreign Correspondent; Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV); Rep. Peter King (R-NY); David Ignatius, The Washington Post; Dexter Filkins, New Yorker; and Kevin Tibbles, NBC News Correspondent.

Guest at the roundtable are Chuck Todd, NBC Chief White House Correspondent; Ruth Marcus, The Washington Post; former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. (D-TN); Ken Cuccinelli, former Virginia Attorney General;  and Steve Schmidt, GOP Strategist.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Dana Bash and Gloria Borger are guest hosts this Sunday.  Their guests are House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA); Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC); retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton; also Iraq war veterans Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) and Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL).

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The Sunday Talking Heads:

This Week with George Stephanopolis: The guests on this Sunday’s “This Week” are: House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI): Seattle Mayor Ed Murray (D);  FiveThirtyEight.com editor-in-chief and ABC News special contributor Nate Silver; and a preview of Diane Sawyer’s exclusive interview with Hillary Clinton.

At the roundtable are Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK); ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd; Fusion’s “AM Tonight” host Alicia Menendez; former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D); Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot; and editor and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel.

Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer: Mr. Schieffer’s guests are: Senate Intelligence Committee chairperson Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA); Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA); and journalist David Rohde.

His panel guests are Thomas L. Friedman of The New York Times; Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal; David Gergen of Harvard University; and Michael Gerson of The Washington Post.

Meet the Press with David Gregory: This Sunday’s dancing contest with “Lurch” is preempted for the Men’s Final of the French Open.

Must more interesting and better eye candy.

State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Ms. Crowley’s guest are Secretary Of State John Kerry; Sen. John McCain (R-AZ).

Three retired generals will debate the fine line with “bringing them all home” and “never negotiate with a terrorist”. They are retired Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis, who has kept in touch with the Bergdahl family; retired Lt. Gen. William Boykin; and retired Maj. Gen. Paul Eaton.

Her panel guests are Donna Brazile, Jackie Calmes and Ana Navarro.