Meet the Press (tv program)

by Frank James The moderators for the three presidential debates and the one vice presidential debate have been named. They are, in short, the usual suspects. Moderating the presidential debates will be Jim Lehrer of Public Broadcasting's News Hour; Tom.....

by Frank James What to make of this dust-up over whether Sen. John McCain was or wasn't in the "cone of silence" before he went on stage for the civil forum on the presidency at Saddleback Church Saturday night? For......

by Mark Silva You won't see these two appearing together in two many TV ads this season: Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain. In fact, you won't see them together in this ad either. But you will hear them, in a......

by Katie Fretland House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Sunday that she would be open to including expanded offshore oil drilling in an energy bill, if proponents of drilling in federal waters can prove it is a good alternative to solve......

by Mark Silva A couple of major political parties have just finished nominating their candidates for president and vice president. Pretty proud, they both are. So everyone will show up at the Sunday morning news talk shows, right? Wrong. Where......

by James Oliphant DETROIT--Backed by an increasing number of polls that show his campaign gaining momentum, Barack Obama brought his economic recovery message to distressed Detroit Sunday. In doing so, he sharpened his attacks on rival John McCain over...

by Frank James Joe Wurzelbacher of Toledo, Ohio, is the most famous plumber in America this morning. What he did to become such, most people in America by now know, was to confront Sen. Barack Obama after a campaign......

by Mark Silva Painful moments in political television: ? ? Sen. John McCain, nearly 26 years in Congress, 22 in the Navy, and today - on the 41st anniversary of the day, Oct. 26, 1967, that his bomber was shot down......

Ted for Tom on "Meet the Press?" I mused about this a little while ago, pretty much tossing aside the possibility. But there's now some reason to think - why not? [You ask, why replace Tom Brokaw? Because he......

'Tis the season for bad news - Ted Koppel and Discovery have ended their production deal, begun with so much fanfare a couple of years ago, after Ted exited ABC News... Reasons? Well, let Ted tell you, via press......

"This job is mine, Todd, mine! GET OFF OF MY SET!!!" Yes, the Times has finally weighed in on the David Gregory-to-"Meet the Press" moderator story - which of course means it must be essentially true because NBC leaks......

by Mark Silva It's official: Tom Brokaw's tenure as interim moderator of NBC News' Meet the Press is ending and the David Gregory era is beginning. Gregory, a tenacious questioner of presidents and more, will become moderator of the long-running......