Programming notes

*** Friday’s “Jansing & Co.” line-up: MSNBC’s Chris Jansing interviews Rep. Dan Kildee (D-MI), the AP’s Liz Sidoti, Politico’s Ken Vogel, Republican strategist Chip Saltsman, Democratic strategist Emily Tisch Sussman, the Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran, and Sarah Jane Glynn from the Center for American Progress.

*** Friday’s “MSNBC Live with Thomas Roberts” line-up: Guest Host Alex Witt interviews Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) on the battle over gun control… Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) will discuss the President’s Middle East Trip…  Chicago Teacher’s Union President Karen Lewis will join to talk about the largest school shutdown in the country…  And Adam Umhoefer, executive director of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, joins to discuss the case his group is bringing against Prop 8 next week at the Supreme Court. 

*** Friday’s “NOW with Alex Wagner” line-up: Alex Wagner’s guests include Huffington Post’s Sam Stein, Demos’ Heather McGhee, Politico’s Jake Sherman, and Bloomberg’s Josh Green. 

*** Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” line-up: Chris Cillizza, filling in for Andrea Mitchell, interviews Mitchell (who reports on the president’s trip to Jordan), as well as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Politico’s John Harris, The Washington Post’s Karen Tumulty and Jonathan Capehart and NBC’s Rehema Ellis.

*** Friday’s “News Nation with Tamron Hall” line-up: Craig Melvin, filling in for Tamron Hall, interviews Gen. Barry McCaffrey, American Urban Radio’s April Ryan, Former State Dept. official PJ Crowley, and Dem strategist Chris Kofinis.

*** Saturday’s and Sunday’s “Weekends with Alex Witt”: As part of her weekly “Office Politics” segment, MSNBC’s Alex Witt interviews Chris Hayes. 

*** Saturday’s “MSNBC Live Weekends” line-up, starting at 2:00 pm ET: Craig Melvin’s guests include Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), Fmr. South Carolina GOP Chair Katon Dawson, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), Fmr. DNC Comm. Director Karen Finney, The Third Way’s Bill Schneider, The Guardian’s Ana Marie Cox, former PLO spokeswoman Diana Buttu, former Mideast envoy Dennis Ross, National Review’s Katrina Trinko, Eva Moskowitz of Success Charter Network, Derrell Bradford of Excellent Education for Everyone and NY1 anchor Errol Lewis.

*** Sunday’s “MSNBC Live Weekends” line-up, starting 3:00 pm ET: Craig Melvin’s guests include former RNC Chairman Michael Steele, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), Iowa GOP Chair A.J. Spiker, music executive Michael “Blue” Williams, WBAI-FM host Esther Armah, Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry, NYU Law School’s Kenji Yoshino, The Grio’s Perry Bacon, and MSNBC Contributor Goldie Taylor.

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On another thread. Nothing here to bash the GOP on...............yet. Give them time. : )

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Reply#2 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:47 AM EDT

Feeling sorry for yourself Hand?

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Reply#3 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 9:54 AM EDT

Yep Mo... The Hand is clearly sore for some reason...

Also, I don't understand why they blame GOP self-flagellation on outside sources.

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#3.1 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 12:55 PM EDT
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This obituary appeared in our local paper today, under the headline "Fired By The Best":

Sandor M. “Sandy” Polster, former managing editor of the Times Record, died Thursday, March 21, from the effects of an almost-three-year battle with gastric cancer. He was 71.

Polster was an Ohio native whose subsequent life and journalism career in New York City largely shaped — or as he himself often joked, “justified” — his brusque personality. Often terse and abrasive, he is remembered for bringing volume and ambition wherever he went.

During a career in news that ranged from print to television and back again, Polster was fond of saying that he “had been fired by the best” of both industries. He cited a seven-year stint as editor and news writer for CBS News, with journalism icon Walter Cronkite, as “the best, most challenging, most fun years” of his career.

Likewise, his subsequent firing by Cronkite’s successor, Dan Rather, after five years remained a feather in his figurative cap. For years, Polster maintained in his office a picture of him peering over Cronkite’s shoulder while the pair refined a story for broadcast.

http://bangordailynews.com/2013/03/22/news/midcoast/sandy-polster-former-times-record-editor-and-bdn-columnist-fired-by-the-best-dies/

    Reply#4 - Fri Mar 22, 2013 2:08 PM EDT
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