Weekend Watchdog

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Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked.

Then on Monday, we'll circle back and see if our questions were asked and answered. Let's take back our media!

For former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (Fox News Sunday): One of the first things you did after leaving the mayor's office was become a PR flack for the makers of Oxycontin, which was under fire for downplaying addiction risks.

Your meeting with the head of the Drug Enforcement Agency helped slow the agency's investigation. You claimed the the company was committed to fighting addiction, but now company officials have pled guilty for misleading the public.

If flacking for an irresponsible drug company was one of your top priorities after serving as a mayor, how can people trust you'll side with them over the drug lobby on issues such as having Medicare negotiate for lower prices and importing cheaper drugs from Canada?

For Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. (NBC's Meet The Press): In the first debate, you charged Iran with "exporting ... suicide bombers into Iraq." But a week earlier, the Financial Times reported that the Secretary of State "blam[ed] al-Qaeda, not Iran, for the suicide bombings [in Iraq]."

You also said, "The Iranians encouraged Hezbollah to attack Israel from Lebanon recent[ly]." But both
American
and Israeli intelligence officials found no evidence Iran was behind Hezbollah's aggressive acts that led Israeli to respond militarily.

With White House credibility shattered after invading Iraq over non-existent WMD, how can voters be confident you will approach Iran credibly and not recklessly?

For Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. (ABC's This Week): At March 24's presidential candidate forum on health care, you said you would be "putting out a plan over the next couple of months" detailing how to achieve universal health care. It's now mid-May.

Will you unveil this plan before May 24? And how will it improve upon the plan that former Sen. John Edwards has proposed?

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