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:
  • Iraq = Vietnam, and we all know how that turned out, don't we?  Can you say "impeachment?"  I knew you could
  • What's all this talk about the "old media?"  We still tell people what to think.  Bow down before your DBM overlords!
  • Bush is wrong.  We've got (ambitious and unscrupulous) Republicans to tell you so.
• Topics:
  • The president pushes more troops into Iraq while friends and foes start pushing back on his plan. Will the political debate impact what is happening in Baghdad?
• Guests
  • Senator Jay Rockefeller, Democrat - West Virginia
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Intelligence Committee chairman
    • Reaction of Sen. Jay Rockefeller to President's 2007 State of the Union Address (HNN Huntingtonnews.net, WV - Jan 23, 2007)
    • Rockefeller: Cheney applied 'constant' pressure to stall investigation on flawed Iraq intelligence (Contra Costa Times, CA - Jan 26, 2007)
    • McClatchy reporter should have questioned Jay’s intelligence (Blogs.dailymail.com - Jan 26, 2007) hat tip to InstaPundit
    • Intelligence chairman: Bush draining homeland security funds (ABC Action News - Tampa, FL - Jan 23, 2007)
    • Senate Intel Chairman warns of Iran drumbeat. (Think Progress, DC - Jan 21, 2007)
    • Rockefeller's Treachery (ChronWatch, CA - Jan 15, 2007)
    • Deadly Dirty Politics - Democrats and Republicans at War (ChronWatch, CA - Jan 14, 2007)
    • Sen. Jay Rockefeller on Democratic memo announcing plans to play politics on Senate intelligence committee (Findarticles.COM - Dec 8, 2003)
  • Senator Christopher Dodd, Democrat - Connecticut
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Kennedy supports Dodd presidential bid (Providence Eyewitness News, RI - Jan 27, 2007)
    • Dodd makes his first campaign stop in New Hampshire (WTNH, CT - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Presidential hopeful Dodd: Limit Bush's troop moves on Iraq (WHNS - Jan 15, 2007)
    • Lieberman Passes Up Chance To Back Dodd's Presidential Bid (Hartford Courant, CT - Jan 14, 2007)
    • The State Of The Union Is About The State Of Iraq (Opinion Editorials, VA - Jan 27, 2007)
  • Senator Jon Kyl, Republican - Arizona
    • Senate web site | Bio
    • Judiciary Committee
    • Sen. JON KYL, R-Ariz.: Losing 'momentum' against terrorism would be grave error (Tucson Citizen, AZ - Jan 21, 2007)
    • 'Surge' digs Iraq hole deeper (Daily Trojan Online, CA - Jan 21, 2007)
    • Republican Senator: Give Bush Iraq Plan a Chance (NPR - Jan 18, 2007)
    • No compromise seen between two Iraq resolutions (Frankfort Times, IN - Jan 26, 2007)
    • Where was bipartisan Jon Kyl? (Arizona Republic, AZ - Jan 17, 2007)
    • Kyl reiterates need for border fencing (Phoenix Business Journal, AZ - Jan 25, 2007)
  • Michael Steele
    • Former Republican Lt. Governor of Maryland
    • Michael Steele to chair GOPAC (Delmarva Daily Times - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Reconsidering "Black Politics" (ZNet, MA - Jan 22, 2007)
    • "Trumping the Race Card" [John J. Miller] (National Review Online Blogs, NY - Jan 22, 2007)
    • Black voters nix Republicans (Online Journal, FL - Jan 23, 2007)
    • What’s the Matter with Harlem? (National Review Online, NY - Jan 17, 2007)
  • Donna Brazile
    • Democratic strategist
    • Biden's Hidden Strength (New York Press, NY - Jan 16, 2007)
    • Run, Al, Run (Rolling Stone - Jan 25, 2007)
    • Can Obama Count on the Black Vote? (TIME - Jan 23, 2007)
    • Obama on tightrope in bid for black vote (Washington Times, DC - Jan 24, 2007)
    • Obama Vaults Into Democratic Top Tier (Washington Post, DC - Jan 16, 2007)
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