Programming notes

*** Friday’s “Daily Rundown” line-up (live from Java Joes in Des Moines): Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Iowa Republican Party Chairman Matt Strawn on the lay of the land with just about 100 hours to go… Marist College's Lee Mirgingoff on the new NBC/Marist numbers on Iowa… One of us (!!!) with a caucus primer... More news from the trail with the AP's Liz Sidoti, Politico's Jonathan Martin, the Washington Post's Nia-Malika Henderson, and Southern Illinois University's David Yepsen.

*** Friday’s “Jansing & Co.” line-up: MSNBC’s Chris Jansing interviews Romney Senior Adviser Eric Fehrnstrom, DNC Vice-Chair Mayor R.T. Rybak, Democratic strategist Kiki McLean, former Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler, USA Today’s Susan Page, Rep Frederica Wilson (D-FL) on anti-hazing legislation; and Politico’s Alex Burns on 10 Major Political Blunders of 2011.

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*** Friday’s “NOW with Alex Wagner” line-up: Alex Wagner’s guests include New York Magazine’s John Heilemann, MSNBC’s Richard Wolffe, Politico’s Ben White, Brown University’s Wendy Schiller, and radio host Kurt Anderson.

*** Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: NBC’s Andrea Mitchell -- live from Java Joes in Des Moines -- interviews GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Also on the show: NBC’s Chuck Todd, Politico’s Roger Simon, Iowa Democratic Party Chairwoman Sue Dvorsky, former RNC Chairman Michael Steele, CNBC’s John Harwood, and former Defense Secretary William Cohen (on Iran).

*** Friday’s “News Nation with Tamron Hall” line-up: MSNBC’s Richard Lui interviews Agriculture Secretary (and former Iowa Gov.) Tom Vilsack and the Washington Post’s Ed O’Keefe.

*** Saturday’s and Sunday’s “UP with Chris Hayes” line-up: MSNBC’s Chris Hayes interviews Lt. Gen. (ret.) Ricardo Sanchez and former Rep. Joe Sestak (on Saturday) and MSNBC contributor Dave Weigel and The Nation’s Corey Robin (on Sunday).

*** Sunday’s “Meet the Press” line-up: NBC’s David Gregory interviews presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

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Egilman

Here comes the anti Paul media storm, Bring the Popcorn!!!

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#1 - Fri Dec 30, 2011 10:02 AM EST

hawkeyedemocrat

The media has given Paul a pass for far too long. And yet Paul's supporters have claimed the media was anti-Paul when they were ignoring Paul's crazy positions. Paul is seen as an oddball, that everyone but his supporters knows has zero chance at being the GOP nominee. Obama has been lucky in the past, but no one is that lucky. The media ignored Paul's nutty positions, because they didn't think Paul had a chance, and they elected not to tear the old man down. If the media was even a fraction as anti-Paul as Paul's have claimed since 2007, the media would have hauled out his racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and nutty conspiracy filled newsletters in every interview. The media would have exposed Paul for the crack pot he is, but instead they simply gave him little media attention.

Paul's Iowa supporters consistent of low information voters (who usually have little or no formal post HS education), college kids who want pot legalized (but are too intellectually immature to realize that even under a Paul Presidency Congress would have to change the federal drug laws, and there is currently zero chance of that happening), and engineers who are smart in math, but are otherwise clueless (and usually have no personality, which is why they find Paul so exciting).

When you ask a Paul supporter (be it a low information voter with little formal education, a college student who dreams of being able to smoke pot legally, or an Engineer) about specific Paul positions, they admit they disagree with him on pretty much what ever issue you mention. I have yet to meet a Paul supporter who thinks it would be a good idea to abolish the FAA, and turn over airplane inspections and air traffic to the airlines. That is just nuts, and unlike his racist newsletters this is a position Paul took in the fall debates.