The Sunday Grab Bag

Sunday morning starts on Monday morning. You probably are wondering how the television networks choose their guests for "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer and "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer.

I was in on a meeting the other day.

The executive producer said, "Cheney, Cheney, Cheney. That's all you're offering us is Cheney?"

The producer said, "Well, it's either him or Karl Rove."

An assistant producer said, "What about Condoleezza Rice?"

"We've had her on six weeks in a row."

Another producer said, "She's used up all her Oscar de la Renta suits."

"The Pentagon has offered us Don Rumsfeld."

The executive producer said, "We'll take him if he does the show from Afghanistan."

The producer said, "Well, that's going to cost some money to get all the troops together as a backdrop for the show."

"Are you people trying to tell me that all we can get this week are Cheney, Rove, Rice and Rumsfeld?"

The producer said, "The ratings are lousy on Sunday morning."