“This Week” This Week
EmailWith George Stephanopoulos taking a well-deserved vacation, I’ll be filling in this Sunday with an end-of-the-year show that looks forward toward 2009.
Our guests will be Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, who will talk about the pending Congress, the economic crisis facing this country, and the Obama transition. Both men are strong, new, interesting voices in the Senate, and I’m very much looking forward to the conversation.*
Another guest: incoming White House press secretary Robert Gibbs. For this segment, we solicited some advice from Bush White House press secretaries Dana Perino and Scott McClellan, and former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart. We chatted with Gibbs about some current questions, his regrets from 2008, how he sees his new job, and the advice from his predecessors.
The roundtable is a great one: Kurt Andersen of PRI’s "Studio 360," Slate’s John Dickerson, National Public Radio’s Alison Stewart, and CBN’s David Brody. We’ll talk about the news and what we see coming down the pike for 2009.
Hope you’ll join us!
- jpt
* Previous guests had to be rescheduled because one of them had a sudden family commitment and another had the flu.
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Nice Jake. Happy Hanukkah. Will be watching. Lisa
Posted by: Lisa S | December 26, 2008, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm
Why isn’t this on ABC News????
Blagojevich lawyer: Subpoena Obama staff…
It is on MSNBC… check it out.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Posted by: Joe V | December 26, 2008, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm
Good luck Jake, I’ll be watching (I don’t usually)
Posted by: Kit | December 26, 2008, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm
Bravo Americans for not buying. It is truly the power of the people to show that without spendable income the greedy will suffer. When a retailer can bring down prices 80%, imagine the profits you were previously giving and then compounded by the obscene profits to credit card companies. This shows the true power of the people
Posted by: Scott Buchele | December 26, 2008, 1:09 pm 1:09 pm
Joe V said::Why isn’t this on ABC News????
Blagojevich lawyer: Subpoena Obama staff
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN GRASSHOPPER Joe V>
ABC is the All Barack Channel
Posted by: nonesense | December 26, 2008, 2:03 pm 2:03 pm
Andrew Sullivan? Really, Jake? That stellar coverage he offered this fall on Trig Palin really makes me want to tune in. Maybe I can mute it for that part so I won’t miss the whole show…
Posted by: bob | December 26, 2008, 2:13 pm 2:13 pm
Thats great, Jake! I will watch (i don’t usually) and I will spread the word. In return, can you keep the Sunlen Miller reporting on your blog to a minimum?
Posted by: Question | December 26, 2008, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
Wow sounds like a real extravaganza ! Say Jake maybe you can ask little Georgie just how Greg Craig’s report exonerated ANYONE? Now that would be some killer reporting ! Especially in light of the fact that it is reported that the Chicago Impeachment panel is not gonna allow Blago to call witnesses. Can you imagine if that happened to Bill Clinton? Cheers
Posted by: left coast | December 26, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
If you want ratings ask Andy about Palin.
It would be awesome if Bristol gave birth today so that Sullivan could be shown up as a complete knob.
Posted by: BertieW | December 26, 2008, 6:26 pm 6:26 pm
I always watch George but having read you here for so long I will be looking forward to you being at the helm this Sunday. Good luck – not that you need it.
Posted by: Ranger Phx | December 26, 2008, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
David Brody in for Sullivan. Excellent, now I can watch the whole show! Looking forward to it.
Posted by: bob | December 26, 2008, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm
Advice for Obama: Accelerate socialist plans including increased taxes on the rich and transfer of funding to younger people who have been disadvantaged (young people should have higher paying jobs).
Posted by: SuzyTheLiberal | December 27, 2008, 2:35 pm 2:35 pm
Jake, I like your blogs most of the time. My advice is to stick with George’s type of demeaner. It’s a known fact that the main stream media is becoming too liberal, but George seems to be embarassd by that. He is guilty of giving into his bosses and promoting the left’s policies, but I feel that he tries to be objective and simply ask the questions most of the time. I watch Fox News Sunday, then switch to Meet The Press, followed by George on ABC, and last 1 hour of Wolf on CNN when Sunday’s schedule permit. It is my attempt to get real news that I usually only get from Lou Dobbs on CNN. As a free thinker who wants objective news, George S. comes the closest when he can get away with it.
Posted by: Bob Vanore | December 27, 2008, 7:38 pm 7:38 pm
Fit to Print: Have you noticed the endless stories regarding Obama in Hawaii? This time in 2000, the same press that was writing stories about Bush’s pick of Colin Powel for Secretary of State (Powell’s wife hadn’t received much Hamas money—was he qualified?), is now writing puff pieces about Barrack’s daily trek to ‘the gym.’ Did you know he and his wife sipped on shave ice on their way to ‘the gym’ yesterday? Riveting. I am reading more hard news in Seventeen lately.
We get it–Obama shoots hoops. So do I, and I am a lot older than Obama. My father-in-law plays pick-up basketball at the Y.M.C.A. and he is eighty years old. You can imagine how underwhelmed I am that a man of Obama’s age can throw a rubber ball into a hoop. Then again, I am quite impressed with the hoops the media is contorting through. They work so hard at flip-flopping their way to ‘the gym’ and photographing Barrack Obama throwing a ball into a basket. Every day. I think I know why.
George Bush runs at a 6 minute mile pace—something only 10% of high school males can do. The Secret Service has a tough time keeping up with him. He is not 5’ 6” as the media loves to portray him. He is one inch shorter than Obama. He runs like a deer. Those AP reporters that are eating Hawaiian sweet bread and tequila shots can muster the energy to hoof it to ‘the gym’ every day and write cream puffs about our Kennedyesque President-Elect. Their camera’s weren’t fast enough to capture Bush’ regimen, much less their running shoes.
So as we are force-fed the basketball ‘Court of Camelot,’ I hope the press remembers to ask Obama a question in March,2009. ‘Why are we still in Iraq?’ He promised to shoot that free throw to terror when he was running to the left of Hillary. Let’s hope the press is fit enough to print that truth.
Posted by: Lance | December 27, 2008, 11:42 pm 11:42 pm
Obama will have to call Ehud Olmert to get his latest instructions on foreign policy.
Posted by: JoeForSure | December 28, 2008, 6:10 pm 6:10 pm
In the first 100 days get the damn budget in line before you start throwing all this money around and travel to the southern states and help our democratic party before we become extinct like northern republicans, with Obama on the ticket the GOP can slowly crawl it way back, and on the THe magic negro CD that aint nothin right now If you dont get the joke then your a stupid person that needs a sense of humor im black and voted for Obama and the names I have heard since he won is a lot worse so we all have got to have a sense a humor the media bascially help fuel the Palin is stupid crap I was one democrat who said a long time ago this country is in for a fall like Rome it takes time to build it back up so being fiscally sound is the best way to innoculate democrats from 2010 butt kickin and a one term president ala Carter.
History says that 2009 will probaly look like 1977 except that every is now more advance this will be better for us in the long run.
Hey Barak wassup with people bailout no more stimulus checks under 1200, it better have zeros behind or it wont work
Posted by: Quintell | December 29, 2008, 3:44 am 3:44 am