CNN Late Edition (Wolf Blitzer)

Below are the topics and guests announced for this program, along with my take on the "memes" that the show is trying to push.  With each guest's name are a series of links that I found in a web search that helped me get a handle on who they are and what their likely positions will be when they are interviewed.

• Meme:
  • All bow down (or bend over, as the case may be) der Übermensch, our rightful lords and masters, are back in control of the government!
  • Bush is wrong, Bush is wrong, Lord God Almighty, Bush is wrong.
  • It's over, the (evil) US lost in Iraq.  Give it up.  Run away.  Frag your officers.  All the things that were so much fun in Vietnam.
  • Let's shoot McChimpy Bushitler and Darth Cheney, those nasty murderers of that nice Mr. Saddam (and make Queen Nancy President while your at it).
• Topics:
  • Fresh flames of unrest in Iraq. What is the next step and when will it be taken?
• Guests
  • Dr. Mowaffak al-Rubaie
    • Iraqi National Security Adviser
    • Iraqi PM's aide taunted Saddam (The Australian, Australia - Jan 3, 2007)
    • Preparations underway for execution of two of Saddam’s co-defendants (Victoria Times Colonist, Canada - Jan 3, 2007)
    • Iraq to Execute Hussein Co-defendants (AINA, CA - Jan 3, 2007)
    • Iraqi Official Held in Saddam Hanging Video Investigation (New York Sun, NY - Jan 3, 2007)
  • Senator Trent Lott, Republican - Mississippi
    • Senate Minority Whip
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Lott: I May Oppose Troop Escalation (Think Progress, DC - Jan 5, 2007)
    • Lott: Administration "Pushed" Intel on Iraq (TPMmuckraker, NY - Jan 5, 2007)
    • Pelosi, Reid urge Bush not to deploy troops (Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - Jan 6, 2007)
    • Gordon Smith and the Resurrection of Trent Lott Jon Perr (BlueOregon, OR - Dec 27, 2006)
  • Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat - California
    • Foreign Relations Committee member
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Sen. Barbara Boxer Yanks Award for CAIR (NewsMax.com, FL - Jan 5, 2007)
    • Boxer to head Senate Ethics panel while Sen. Tim Johnson recovers (KGET 17, CA - Jan 5, 2007)
    • Barbara Boxer's global hot seat (San Francisco Chronicle, CA - Jan 4, 2007)
    • San Francisco power (Stockton Record, CA - Jan 5, 2007)
    • Barbara Boxer outlines 2007 agenda (Grist Magazine, WA - Dec 28, 2006)
  • General George Joulwan, U.S. Army (Retired)
    • Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander
    • Online NewsHour: General Joulwan (PBS News Hour - May 12, 1997)
    • Online NewsHour: NATO's Next Step (PBS News Hour - March 31, 1999)
    • Transcript (CNN LATE EDITION - Nov 7, 2004)
  • Lawrence Korb
    • Former Assistant Secretary of Defense
    • Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress | Bio
    • US must resist 'military surge' and push for 'diplomatic surge' (Philadelphia Inquirer, PA - Jan 4, 2007)
    • Bush´new strategy begins, two new commanders for Iraq (EiTB, Spain - Jan 6, 2007)
    • Double or Nothing in Iraq (PEJ News, Canada - Dec 20, 2006)
    • Robert Gates Takes Oath as US Defense Secretary (Voice of America - Dec 18, 2006)
  • Danielle Pletka
    • Vice President, American Enterprise Institute | Bio
    • The Bipartisan Conventional Wisdom on Growing the Army (Across the Aisle, DC - Jan 4, 2007)
    • Intelligence chairman botches Islam facts (Houston Chronicle, TX - Dec 12, 2006)
    • Conservatives blast Iraq group as 'surrender monkeys' (Wilmington Morning Star, NC - Dec 8, 2006)
    • 'Chickenhawk Down': The Real Target Is Iran (Executive Intelligence Review (EIR), VA - Dec 30, 2006)
    • Delusions of victory (ZNet, MA - Dec 26, 2006)
  • John Burns
    • New York Times Baghdad Bureau Chief
    • A Wonderful Death (The Conservative Voice, NC - Jan 5, 2007)
    • The obscenity of killing Saddam (Downtown Express - Jan 4, 2007)
    • Iraqi Official Arrested for Recording Saddam's Execution (PBS - Jan 4, 2007)
    • Another New York Times Cover-up? (American Politics Journal, FL - Jan 2, 2007)
    • Post Mortem (Power Line, MN - Dec 30, 2006)
    • Iraq: Looking Back, Looking Ahead (RealClearPolitics Blog - Jan 2, 2007)
  • Rajiv Chandrasekaran
    • Washington Post
    • Author Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
    • In the zone (The Phoenix, MA - Jan 4, 2007)
    • Operation bungle Iraq (Asia Times Online, Hong Kong - Jan 5, 2007)
    • Chandrasekaran Denounces US Reconstruction Efforts in Iraq (San Leandro India West, CA - Dec 21, 2006)
    • Video of 'Wash Post' Reporter on 'Daily Show': The Green Zone Follies in Iraq (Editor & Publisher - Dec 15, 2006)
  • Representative Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio
    • Presidential candidate (yes, really - that's actually how they listed him)
    • Campaign web site | Bio
    • House web site | Bio
    • Kucinich plans NH trip (Boston Globe, MA - Jan 3, 2007)
    • Exit and Election Strategies (New York Times, NY - Jan 4, 2007)
    • Dennis Kucinich: The First Peace Candidate of the 2008 Presidential Election (Al-Jazeerah.info, GA - Dec 15, 2006)
    • Star Wars (The American Prospect, MA - Jan 5, 2007)
  • Representative Roy Blunt, R-Missouri
    • House web site | Bio
    • Clyburn Refuses To Take Ceremonial Whip From Blunt (TPMCafe, NY - Jan 5, 2007)
    • Blunt: 'Taxpayer Protections Must Remain in Place' (PR Newswire (press release), NY - Jan 4, 2007)
    • House Democrats set to work on new agenda (International Herald Tribune, France - Jan 5, 2007)
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