Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up

Once again, the Sunday shows strike out on Weekend Watchdog. [1]

Despite widespread disappointment at Congress' capitulation to the White House on Iraq, Sen. Carl Levin was not asked on Face The Nation [2] about his prominent role -- publicly caving in to President's Bush demands even before the veto was issued.

Despite a Sunday Boston Globe expose [3] on how the leading Republican candidates continue to inaccurately connect Iraq to Osama bin Laden in painting a oversimplified "worldwide war" picture, '08 hopeful Mike Huckabee was not asked on Fox News Sunday [4] about his claim that "we are in the midst of a World War III."

And despite one of ABC's own guest pundits last week [1] calling out Washington for ignoring the underlying cause of illegal immigration -- "no attention to economic development assistance to Mexico or Central America" -- ABC's This Week failed to bring it up [5] with Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez.

Which shows that when a outside-the-Beltway liberal viewpoint sneaks its way onto the TV, chances are it will be promptly ignored soon after.