Welcome to Press the Face, a Sunday-morning talk show liveblog where you can respond to the Sunday talks with your opinions, support, refutations, or ravings. The larger goal is to provide meaningful accounts of the the shows for those who are unable to watch them, but it's also an opportunity to share our thoughts in real time as armchair spectators of the sport of political discussion.
The Sunday talks and this blog have had a week to digest the news that Osama bin Laden has been killed by American forces. History will write and rewrite the story of how the Navy Seals flew specially-equipped choppers under cover of night, stormed the compound, shot bin Laden, left with his body, identified it positively, and buried it at sea. Interviews will be given, books will be written, credit will be taken. What, however, does it mean in the context of our lives over the past couple of decades? How does this event bookend the role the U.S. had in creating the context for bin Laden's influence in the first place, and what does it say about our use of money and resources to fight the spread of governments and systems we find threatening to democracy?
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Sunday Talk's latest post has a list of the scheduled guests.
Here are links to the shows:
The Chris Matthews Show
Face the Nation
Fareed Zakaria GPS
Fox News Sunday
The McLaughlin Group
Meet the Press
State of the Union with Candy Crowley
This Week with Christiane Amanpour
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Let us go then, you and I. . .