February 14, 2016

(The Daily Show attends a Trump rally to try to understand his appeal.)

It looks like establishment and corporate media darling Marco Ruboto will be doing a Full Ginsburg this Sunday morning and repeating his talking points on every one of the network political talk shows. I can hardly wait.

Here's the roundup for this weekend and once again, these shows are being dominated by Republican politicians and right wing talking heads on the pundit panels.

ABC's "This Week" — Republican presidential candidates John Kasich and Marco Rubio; Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and NASA astronaut Commander Scott Kelly, who is on the International Space Station.

Pundit Panel: Matt Bai, LZ Granderson, Bill Kristol and Ana Navaro.

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NBC's "Meet the Press" — Kasich, Rubio; Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Pundit Panel: Chris Cillizza, Ron Fournier, Gwen Ifil, Kathleen Parker and the Rev. Al Sharpton.

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CBS' "Face the Nation" — Trump, Rubio, Sanders.

Pundit Panel: Jamelle Bouie, Peggy Noonan, Dan Balz and Kimberley Strassel.

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CNN's "State of the Union" — Rubio; Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush: Sen. Patrick Leahy, David Axelrod, Jeffrey Toobin and Joan Biskupic.

Pundit Panel: Donna Brazile, Hugh Hewitt and Bob Woodward.

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"Fox News Sunday" — Rubio, Sanders.

Pundit Panel: Juan Williams, George Will, David Gregory and Kristen Soltis Anderson.

Here's more from the Orlando Sentinel:

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., talks to "Sunday Morning Futures" at 10 a.m. on Fox News Channel. Sebastian Gorka of the Marine Corps University is another guest. The panel will be Mary Kissel of The Wall Street Journal, GOP strategist Ed Rollins and journalist Judith Miller.

Singer-actor Harry Belafonte will be a guest on "Fareed Zakaria GPS" at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on CNN. Other guests are Michael Chertoff, former U.S. secretary of homeland security; Peter Bergen, author of "Manhunt: The Ten Year Search for Bin Laden from 9/11 to Abbottabad"; Rana Foroohar of Time; Martin Wolf of The Financial Times; and Alec Ross, author of "The Industries of the Future."

The panel on "Inside Politics," at 8 a.m. on CNN, will be Julie Pace of The Associated Press, Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker, Jackie Kucinich of The Daily Beast and Manu Raju of CNN.

"MediaBuzz," at 11 a.m. on Fox News Channel, will feature Heidi Przybyla of USA Today, Simon Rosenberg of the New Democratic Network, Fox Business Network anchor Trish Regan, Mary Katharine Ham of Hot Air and Juleanna Glover, former adviser to George W. Bush.

CBS' Bob Schieffer talks to "Reliable Sources" at 11 a.m. on CNN. Other guests are David Zurawik of The Baltimore Sun, Ryan Grim of The Huffington Post, historian Douglas Brinkley and James Fallows of The Atlantic. A panel on the death of Justice Scalia brings together Nina Totenberg of NPR; constitutional law expert Floyd Abrams; Steven Brill, journalist and founder of Court TV; and CNN's Toobin.

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