The Sunday News shows were pretty good - better than average today. I thought David Gregory’s interview with Gen. Petraeus was pretty weak. But their round table discussion had several good moments talking about the conservative movement.

To the Contrary had a very cutting edge discussion about genetic profiling, and some of the present and potential pros and cons of having your genetic profile taken and what that might mean. There should be more of this kind of analysis of up and coming issues in the talk shows.

Inside Washington didn’t have one of it’s best weeks, but it had it’s moments. McLaughlin Group again was the most controversial and interesting. I guess the bombshell of the day was that Zuckerman is thinking about running for the U.S. Senate seat from New York. He didn’t deny it, and McLaughlin mused that this would be a good time for an “outsider” to come and run against the establishment.

I had to laugh when McLaughlin said that Zuckerman would come and clean up the mess in Washington. Um, didn’t Zuckerman lose a bunch of money to Bernie Madoff? (and it wasn’t all his, either, from what I understand). Zuckerman is very much pro Israel to the point of imbalance and bias. That isn’t what we need right now. No doubt, though, that Zuckerman, with his high media profile and connections with monied interests, could probably raise a lot of money, especially if he catered to the Tea Party folks. But I’d be surprised if he could win the seat. I could see him getting a more than trivial percent of the vote.

I also thought that the distance between Pat Buchanan and Monica Crowley on Iran was very interesting. Buchanan was for a hands off policy with Iran, declaring them no “threat” to the U.S. Crowley wants to bomb them. What a disaster that would be.