{"id":345352,"date":"2010-02-21T05:29:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T10:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=68366"},"modified":"2010-02-21T05:29:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T10:29:19","slug":"sunday-talking-heads-february-21-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/345352","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Talking Heads: February 21, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_right'><object width=\"325\" height=\"200\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gNYZH9kuaYM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gNYZH9kuaYM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"325\" height=\"200\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Since NBC won&#8217;t let me post Evan Lysacek&#8217;s Olympic Gold Medal figure skating performance, I&#8217;m posting a brief history of pretty much everything instead.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/Series\/Washington-Journal.aspx\" ><strong>Washington Journal:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>7:15am \u2013 Julie  Rovner<\/strong>, NPR, Health Policy Correspondent.\u00a0 <strong>7:45am \u2013 Gov.  Schweitzer<\/strong> (D-MT).\u00a0 <strong>8:15am \u2013 Gov. Markell<\/strong> (D-DE).\u00a0 <strong>8:45am \u2013  Ed Morrissey<\/strong>, hotair.com, Senior Correspondent &amp; Blogger.\u00a0 <strong>8:50am  \u2013 Ed Goeas<\/strong>, The Tarrance Group, President.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ThisWeek\/governor-arnold-schwarzenegger-ed-rendell-this-week\/story?id=9879737\" > <strong>ABC&#8217;s This Week:<\/strong><\/a><strong> <\/strong> <strong>Terry Moran<\/strong> host.\u00a0 <strong>Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/strong> (R-CA) and <strong>Gov. Ed Rendell<\/strong> (D-PA).\u00a0 <em>Roundtable<\/em>: <strong>George Will<\/strong>, <strong>Arianna Huffington<\/strong>,  <strong>Matthew Dowd<\/strong>, <strong>Donna  Brazile<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNNI\/Programs\/amanpour\/\" >Amanpour.<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sections\/ftn\/main3460.shtml\" >CBS&#8217; Face The Nation:<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Colin Powell<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechrismatthewsshow.com\/index.php\" > <strong>Chris Matthews:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>David Ignatius<\/strong>, <strong>Savannah Guthrie<\/strong>,  <strong>Helene Cooper<\/strong>,                                                                                     <strong>John Harris<\/strong>.<strong> <\/strong> Politico.\u00a0 <em>Topics<\/em>:  The Crucial Crossroads:  Will Obama Push His Agenda, or Move to the  Middle?\u00a0 Obama&#8217;s Biggest Asset:  Love, Not War, With the Clintons.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/Programs\/state.of.the.union\/\" >CNN&#8217;s State of the Union:<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Gov. Deval Patrick<\/strong> (D-MA) and <strong>Gov. Jim  Douglas <\/strong>(R-VT), Broken Government.\u00a0 Then, <strong>Sen. Evan Bayh <\/strong>(D-IN),<strong>Susan   Molinari<\/strong>, <strong>Jon  Corzine <\/strong>(D-NJ).<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/goog_1266622551564\/\" ><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/Programs\/fareed.zakaria.gps\/\" >Fareed Zakaria &#8211; GPS:<\/a><\/strong> <strong>James Baker<\/strong>.<em> <\/em><strong>Yemeni  Foreign Minister Abu Bakr Abdullah al-Qirbi<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/fns.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/02\/19\/this-week-on-fox-news-sunday-22110\/\" >Fox News Sunday:<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Sen. Mitch McConnell<\/strong> (R-KY).\u00a0 Then,<strong>Gov. Haley Barbour<\/strong> (R-MS), <strong>Gov. Jennifer  Granholm<\/strong>, (D-MI).\u00a0 <em>Fox News AllStars<\/em>: <strong>Bill Kristol<\/strong>, <strong>Mara  Liasson<\/strong>,<strong>Stephen Hayes<\/strong>,<strong> Juan Williams<\/strong>.\u00a0 <em>Power  Player of the Week<\/em>: <strong>Steve Grove<\/strong>, Head of News and  Politics at YouTube.<span id=\"more-68366\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032608\" >NBC&#8217;s Meet  The Press:<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Commander of U.S.  Central Command, General David Petraeus<\/strong>.\u202a\u00a0 <strong>Gov. Tim Pawlenty <\/strong>(R-MN).\u00a0  <em>Roundtable<\/em>: <strong>E.J. Dionne<\/strong>, <strong>Peggy Noonan<\/strong>, Chairman of  the House Republican Conference, <strong>Rep. Mike  Pence<\/strong> (R-IN), and Chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign  Committee, <strong>Rep. Chris Van Hollen<\/strong> (D-MD).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/Series\/Newsmakers.aspx\" >Newsmakers:<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Rep. Tom Price<\/strong> &#8220;weighs in on the health care reform debate, giving  his perspective from his former career as an orthopedic doctor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/Series\/Newsmakers.aspx\" >Q  &amp; A:<\/a><\/strong> Pulitzer prize winning author <strong>Ted  Morgan<\/strong>. His 19th book, &#8220;Valley of Death: The Tragedy at   Dien Bien Phu That Led America Into the Vietnam War,&#8221; is  the story of a 1954 battle where the French were  defeated by the Vietnamese resistance forces, ending French rule in  Indochina.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/\" > Religions &amp; Ethics:<\/a><\/strong> Making  Foreign Aid Work; Churches and\u00a0 Gay Youth ; Orthodox Fasting; Lenten  Season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sections\/60minutes\/main3415.shtml\" > <strong>60 Minutes:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Blackwater 61<\/strong> &#8211;  &#8220;Blackwater 61&#8243; is the call sign of a plane  flown by the embattled government contractor Blackwater that crashed  into a mountain in Afghanistan killing all onboard. The widow of one of  the soldiers killed &#8211; a pilot herself &#8211; says the firm was negligent in  the way it operated the flight.\u00a0 <strong>The Bloom Box<\/strong> &#8211; Large  corporations in California have been  secretly testing a new device that can generate power on the spot,  without being connected to the electric grid. They&#8217;re saying it&#8217;s  efficient, clean, and saves them money.\u00a0 <strong>Ground Zero<\/strong> &#8211; It&#8217;s been  eight years since the attack on the  World Trade Center and billions of dollars have been spent, yet none of  the promised buildings and memorial has been completed in what its  developer calls &#8220;a national disgrace.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/ttc\/\" > To The Contrary:<\/a><\/strong> <em>Topics<\/em>: 1- The end of 12th grade? 2- Girls who play sports reap  benefits  beyond the playing field; 3- Genetic mapping and cures for children  with rare diseases.\u00a0 <em>Panelists<\/em>: <strong>Dr. Bernadine Healy<\/strong>; <strong>Del.   Eleanor Holmes Norton<\/strong> (D-DC); <strong>Nicole  Kurokawa<\/strong>; <strong>Irene Natividad<\/strong>.\u00a0 TTC web extra &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/ttc\/ttc_extra\/catalyst.html\" >Women  Stuck in the Pipeline<\/a>.\u00a0 A new study finds women M.B.A.s still lag  behind men when it comes to  pay and promotion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/content.jhtml?cid=1276528\" >Univison&#8217;s Al Punto:<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Guatemalan President  Alvaro Colom<\/strong>; <strong>Gov. Arnold\u00a0Schwarzenegger<\/strong> of California; <strong>California State Senator Abel Maldonado<\/strong> (R-Santa  Maria); <strong>Paquita la del Barrio<\/strong>, Mexican Bolero Singer-Songwriter.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktv.org\/Default.aspx\" >C-SPAN&#8217;s  Book TV.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/21\/booksalon\/\" >FDL Book Salon:<\/a><\/strong> Chat  with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepr.net\/index.php\/dean-baker\/\" >Dean Baker<\/a><\/strong> about his new book, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0982417128?tag=firedoglake-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=0982417128&amp;adid=192MSAEGFEJ2XQZCF0Z5&amp;\" >False  Profits: Recovering from the Bubble Economy<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 &#8220;<em>False Profits<\/em> recounts the causes of the economic meltdown,  dissects the  government&#8217;s inadequate responses to it, and offers a thoughtful  progressive program for rebuilding the economy and reforming the  financial system.&#8221;\u00a0 Hosted by <a href=\"http:\/\/news.firedoglake.com\/author\/dday\/\"><strong>David Dayen<\/strong><\/a>, 5pm ET.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/02\/21\/booksalon\/\" >FDL  Movie Night Monday:<\/a><\/strong> Join host <a href=\"http:\/\/lafiga.firedoglake.com\/\" ><strong>Lisa Derrick<\/strong><\/a> and Director\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/moviedearest.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/reverends-interview-on-these-shoulders.html\" >Glenne McElhinney<\/a><\/strong> to discuss <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.impactstories.org\/film.htm\" >On these Shoulders We Stand<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 &#8220;Eleven elders of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual  Transgender community in Los  Angeles chronicle gay life from the 1950s into the early 1980s. The film  brings to light Los Angeles&#8217; hidden gay history by interweaving first  person accounts with narration and unprecedented access to seldom-seen  archival materials.&#8221;\u00a0 Monday, 8pm ET.<\/p>\n<p><div class='hitEmbed_none'><object width=\"580\" height=\"465\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y-vAE2ETi_A&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/y-vAE2ETi_A&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"580\" height=\"465\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-this\/share-icon-16x16.gif\" alt=\"Share This icon\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=68366&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_68366\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since NBC won&#8217;t let me post Evan Lysacek&#8217;s Olympic Gold Medal figure skating performance, I&#8217;m posting a brief history of pretty much everything instead. Washington Journal: 7:15am \u2013 Julie Rovner, NPR, Health Policy Correspondent.\u00a0 7:45am \u2013 Gov. Schweitzer (D-MT).\u00a0 8:15am \u2013 Gov. Markell (D-DE).\u00a0 8:45am \u2013 Ed Morrissey, hotair.com, Senior Correspondent &amp; Blogger.\u00a0 8:50am \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}