{"id":512343,"date":"2010-04-04T05:00:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-04T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/?p=76652"},"modified":"2010-04-04T05:00:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-04T09:00:48","slug":"sunday-talking-heads-april-4-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/512343","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Talking Heads: April 4, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class='hitEmbed_right'><object width=\"300\" height=\"183\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/76RrdwElnTU&#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\/76RrdwElnTU&#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=\"300\" height=\"183\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Season&#8217;s Greetings!\u00a0 I hope the Easter Bunny was as good to you as he was to me, one can never have too much chocolate imo.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/Series\/Washington-Journal.aspx\" >Washington Journal:<\/a><\/strong> <strong>7:<\/strong><strong>45am &#8211; <\/strong><strong>Alexander  Heffner<\/strong>, ScoopDaily, Editor in Chief &amp; <strong> Jonathan Strong<\/strong>, Daily Caller, Reporter.\u00a0 <strong>8:30am<\/strong> &#8211; StudentCam  Winner Interview.\u00a0 <strong>8:30am &#8211; Stuart Pratt<\/strong>, Consumer Data Industry  Association, President  &amp; CEO.\u00a0<strong> 9:15am &#8211; Stephen Wayne<\/strong>, Georgetown University,  Government Professor.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ThisWeek\/sunday-larry-summers-alan-greenspan\/story?id=10263754\" >ABC&#8217;s This Week:<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Jake Tapper<\/strong> hosts.\u00a0 <strong>Larry  Summers<\/strong>, Director of the National Economic Council, then <strong>Alan  Greenspan<\/strong>. <em>Roundtable<\/em>: <strong>George<\/strong> <strong>Will<\/strong>, <strong>Matthew  Dowd<\/strong>, <strong>Karen Finney<\/strong>, <strong>Robert Reich<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNNI\/Programs\/amanpour\/\" ><strong>Amanpour.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sections\/ftn\/main3460.shtml\" ><strong>CBS&#8217; Face The Nation:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Nancy Cordes<\/strong>, CBS News Congressional Correspondent; <strong>Jan  Crawford<\/strong>, CBS News Chief Legal Correspondent; <strong>Michael  Eric Dyson<\/strong>, Georgetown University; <strong>Bob Orr<\/strong>, CBS News Justice Correspondent; <strong>David  Sanger<\/strong>, New York Times Chief Washington Correspondent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thechrismatthewsshow.com\/index.php\" ><strong>Chris  Matthews:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Chuck <\/strong><strong>Todd<\/strong>, <strong>Norah O&#8217;<\/strong><strong>Donnell<\/strong>,  <strong>Helene Cooper<\/strong>,<strong> David <\/strong><strong>Ignatius<\/strong>.\u00a0 <em>Topics<\/em>: Will Obama&#8217;s  Centrist Moves Blunt 2012 GOP Attacks  That He&#8217;s Too Liberal?\u00a0 Why Hasn&#8217;t Obama Held a Primetime Press Conference  Since Last July?<span id=\"more-76652\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/Programs\/state.of.the.union\/\" ><strong>CNN&#8217;s State of the Union:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Larry Summers<\/strong>.  Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.  <strong>Michael Oren<\/strong>. <strong>John Thompson III<\/strong>, Georgetown men&#8217;s  basketball coach.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/CNN\/Programs\/fareed.zakaria.gps\/\" ><strong>Fareed Zakaria &#8211; GPS:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Thomas Friedman<\/strong>.\u00a0  <strong>Andrew  Sullivan<\/strong>.\u00a0 India&#8217;s movie sensation, <strong>Shah Rukh Khan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fns.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/04\/02\/this-week-on-fox-news-sunday-4410\/\" ><strong>Fox News Sunday:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Sen. <\/strong><strong>Jon Kyl<\/strong> (R-AZ) and <strong>Sen<\/strong>. <strong>Arlen Specter<\/strong>,  (D-PA).  <strong>Rep. Kevin McCarthy<\/strong> (R-CA) NRCC Recruitment Chairman. <em>Fox <\/em><em>News  AllStars<\/em>: <strong>Brit Hume<\/strong>, <strong>Nina Easton<\/strong>, <strong>Bill Kristol<\/strong>,  <strong>Juan Williams<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3898804\/ns\/meet_the_press\" >NBC&#8217;s Meet The Press:<\/a><\/strong> <strong>Dr. <\/strong><strong>Christina  Romer<\/strong>.\u00a0 Then, <strong>Michael Chertoff<\/strong>; a member of the House  Homeland Security Committee, <strong> Rep. Jane Harman<\/strong> (D-CA); and Chairman of the Senate Homeland  Security  Committee, <strong>Sen.<\/strong> <strong>Joe<\/strong> <strong>Lieberman <\/strong>(I-CT).\u00a0  Roundtable: <strong>Rick Stengel <\/strong>and <strong>David Remnick<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/Series\/Newsmakers.aspx\" ><strong>Newsmakers:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Gov. Mitch Daniels<\/strong> (R-IN) explains how changes in health  care will  impact his state. He also responds to questions regarding a potential  run for the White House in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.q-and-a.org\/Program\/?ProgramID=1277\" ><strong>Q &amp; A:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Michael Lewis<\/strong>, whose  new  book &#8220;The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine&#8221; is number one on the  New York Times non-fiction bestseller list.  In it, he tells the story  of several key players in the subprime mortgage crisis who understood  what was happening to the market and were able to make huge amounts of  money in the transactions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/\" ><strong>Religion  &amp; Ethics:<\/strong><\/a> Easter Hope in Haiti.\u00a0\u00a0 Easter East and  West.\u00a0 Embryonic Stem Cell Controversy.\u00a0 Trimming the Nuclear Arsenals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sections\/60minutes\/main3415.shtml\" ><strong>60 Minutes:<\/strong><\/a><strong> Patented Genes<\/strong> &#8211;  Should companies be able to own human genes? Morley Safer examines the  idea of biotech firms patenting genes for profit, a controversy now  being played out in courts of law.\u00a0  <strong>America&#8217;s Gift<\/strong> &#8211;  Many  Ugandans have been saved by an American program that provides  affordable anti-retroviral medicines to fight HIV and AIDS. But as a  result, people are now becoming less fearful of the virus and continue  to spread it by practicing unsafe sex. \u00a0 <strong>Going Smokeless<\/strong> &#8211;  As  cigarette sales plunge, tobacco companies are marketing new,  smokeless products to skirt smoking bans and keep customers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/ttc\/\" ><strong>To The Contrary:<\/strong><\/a> <em>Topics<\/em>: \u00a01- The Pope, Holy Week &amp; the priest pedophilia  scandal; 2-  Finding cures for rare pediatric diseases: Third part in three-part  series.\u00a0 <em>Panelists<\/em>: <strong>Del. <\/strong><strong>Eleanor Holmes Norton<\/strong> (D-DC); Former EEOC Chair <strong>Cari  Dominguez<\/strong>; The Progressive Magazine&#8217;s <strong>Ruth <\/strong>Conniff;  PoliticsDaily.com  Editor-in-Chief <strong>Melinda Henneberger<\/strong>; and Children&#8217;s National  Hospital&#8217;s <strong> Dr. <\/strong><strong>Chiatogu Onyewu<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.univision.com\/content\/content.jhtml?cid=1276528\" ><strong>Univision&#8217;s Al Punto:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Juan<\/strong> <strong>Manuel Santos<\/strong>, Former Colombian Defense Minister and  Presidential Candidate; <strong>Maritza Michaud<\/strong>, Spokesperson, Internal  Revenue Service; <strong>Gaby<\/strong> <strong>Pacheco <\/strong>and <strong>Juan Rodriguez<\/strong>,  Trail of Dreams S<strong>tudents; Dr. Franklin Chang Diaz<\/strong>, first Hispanic  Astronaut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/virtuallyspeaking\/2010\/04\/05\/virtually-speaking-sundays-culture-of-truth-and-ma\"><strong>Virtually  Speaking:<\/strong><\/a> <strong>Culture of Truth <\/strong>and <strong>Marcy Wheeler<\/strong>.\u00a0  &#8220;We discuss the atrocities documented earlier in the day by the Sabbath  Gasbags.  See CoT&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/moonshinepatriot.blogspot.com\/\">Bobblespeak  Translations<\/a> beforehand. And read <a href=\"http:\/\/emptywheel.firedoglake.com\/\">emptywheel<\/a> every day.  She&#8217;s  the hardest working woman in journalism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktv.org\/Default.aspx\"><strong>C-SPAN&#8217;s Book TV.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/04\/04\/booksalon\/\"><strong>FDL Book Salon:<\/strong><\/a> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/13-Bankers-Takeover-Financial-Meltdown\/dp\/0307379051\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1265384120&amp;sr=1-1\">13   Bankers: The Wall Street Takeover and the Next Financial Meltdown<\/a><\/strong> &#8220;As the authors insist, the choice that America faces is stark: whether   Washington will accede to the vested interests of an unbridled financial  sector that runs up profits in good years and dumps its losses on  taxpayers in lean years, or reform through stringent regulation the  banking system as first and foremost an engine of economic growth.&#8221;\u00a0  Come chat with <strong>Simon Johnson <\/strong>and host <strong>William Black<\/strong>, 5pm  ET.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2010\/04\/04\/booksalon\/\"><strong>FDL Movie  Night Monday:<\/strong><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/bravenewfilms.org\/blog\/?p=72462\">Thurston   Clarke &#8211; Special Salon To Discuss &#8211; The Kennedys (film)<\/a>.\u00a0 Chat with <strong>Thurston  Clarke <\/strong>about his views on the upcoming  film, <em>The Kennedys<\/em>, by the History Channel. Hosted by <strong>Teddy  Partridge<\/strong>.<\/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=76652&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_76652\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">&nbsp;<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><br style='clear:none' \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Season&#8217;s Greetings!\u00a0 I hope the Easter Bunny was as good to you as he was to me, one can never have too much chocolate imo. Washington Journal: 7:45am &#8211; Alexander Heffner, ScoopDaily, Editor in Chief &amp; Jonathan Strong, Daily Caller, Reporter.\u00a0 8:30am &#8211; StudentCam Winner Interview.\u00a0 8:30am &#8211; Stuart Pratt, Consumer Data Industry Association, President [&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-512343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512343","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=512343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}