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I love that mashup, because the guy with the instant vanilla rouge represents just about every smarmy jerk I can think of including the snide and arrogant medium-sized dollop of eyegorp named Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan. I’d never heard of the smug douchebag until his interview with Andrew Breitbart.
Meanwhile, Mr. P.S.P-M can take his carpetbagging anti-American propaganda-pimping style of “journalism” back to Oceania and stuff it up his CNN.
In response to the Daily Caller reporter who shouted a question at Obama the other day, Sam Donaldson claimed: Many on Right Oppose Obama Because He’s Black
What this man did yesterday is something new, to me wrong and unusual. I think it is probably the result of the growing incivility of the times, the competition among reporters and news organizations to be noticed not only for the work product but for the theatrics of the gathering…and there is one more factor, let’s face it: Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there – they oppose him not for his polices [sic] and political view but for who he is, an African American! These people and perhaps even certain news organizations (certainly the right wing talkers like Limbaugh) encourage disrespect for this president. That is both regrettable and adds, in this case, to the general dislike of the press on the part of the general public.
I guess we are just supposed to forget the three hours a day, five days a week that Limbaugh gives POLICY REASONS on why he opposes Obama- or we should just ignore it like main stream journalists do.
Well now Sam has been vindicated!! Yes, that’s right! Another partisan asshole camoflaughed as a journalist, Don Lemon, agrees! I guess that settles it then.
CNN Host Don Lemon Thanks Sam Donaldson For Saying Right Is Opposed To Obama Because He’s Black…
NOT. And they wonder why nobody trusts them anymore.
Ron Paul walks out of a CNN interview when confronted about White Supremacist writings in his news letters.
Ron Paul clearly has something to hide.
The weather two days ago was rather pissant and shitty:
Award-winning journalist Christiane Amanpour called journalism worldwide a “sacred endeavor” as she accepted the 2011 Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism at Arizona State University.
“We have so much power for good, and also for bad when we don’t act,” Amanpour said at the Nov. 17 award event. “To speak truth to power is an incredible thing.”
ASU President Michael Crow presented Amanpour with the 28th annual award, given each year by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication to recognize a distinguished journalist who embodies the values of the school’s namesake – excellence, integrity, accuracy, fairness and objectivity.
Amanpour was honored at a luncheon attended by more than 1,100 students, media leaders, business executives, civic leaders and Cronkite School supporters at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel.
During her two-day visit to the school, Amanpour watched a broadcast of Cronkite NewsWatch, the school’s award-winning student-produced newscast. At the luncheon, she praised Cronkite students for living up to the legacy of Walter Cronkite.
“It gives me a huge amount of hope and faith in the future of this great profession,” she said.
Read the rest…if you can stomach it, that is.
CNN is hosting the 2nd 2012 GOP Presidential debate. The location is Manchester, New Hampshire, site of the nation’s first primary in 2012. Present will be Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Herman Cain and Rick Santorum.
Here’s the live stream.
Treat this as an open thread.
I thought it was just me who thought the halftime show sucked more than usual. Amazing amount of money and effort went into an incredible amount of lame, IMO, but it seems like I’m not alone. Over a third of the U.S. gave them some serious downdingage on the CNN poll. Hell, a third of the WORLD did.
I feel sorry for the Peas, but they did it. I’ll give ‘em thumbs up for the WTF dancers award — illuminated dancing document boxes — but I doubt that was the Peas’ idea. So, in order to cheer ‘em up, here’s The Overnight Open Thread.
Well, well, well. Here comes another pompous big mouth Brit twit, Piers Morgan, who will be replacing the cadaver-like Larry King at CNN, promising that he’ll beat Fox News’ primetime ratings.
Yeah, whatever dude. Take another hit off the bong.
We’ve heard this claim from no-talent blowhards such as Keith Olbermann (aren’t you NFL fans glad NBC dumped that loser from Football Night in America?), Ed Schultz, Rachel Maddow, etc., etc. for years. And every year FNC’s ratings get higher, while yours are in the crapper, and sinking lower than whale shit.
I mean c’mon. This guy thinks Joy Bahar is talented. Huh? At what? She’s nothing but yet another in a long line of ignorant liberal big mouths with absolutely nothing important to say. The only people who watch that blithering idiot are other idiot libs.
And he wants Obungler, Donald Trump, and Simon Cowell for his first interviews? Wow! That’s brilliant! I’ll bet that’s never been done before! Why didn’t someone else think of that? There’s some must see TV! NOT!
These libs never get it, and I doubt they ever will.
The reason your ratings suck aren’t due to who’s hosting what show. The problem is with your ultra-liberal bias you’re only going to attract an extremely small percentage of TV viewers. Nobody whose politics are middle of the road or conservative wants to listen to your cheerleaders rah-rahing everything Obungler does.
CNN’s Piers Morgan Vows Format And Other Changes To Beat Fox News Competition: Promises “I’m Going To Be There To Win” And “It’s Time To Kick Some Ratings Butt”
Piers Morgan tells us that he’s planning big changes to the Larry King Live interview slot he inherits in January. “The format, everything, will change. I’m not just going to be another man sitting in the CNN studio wearing red braces.” Morgan also promises he’ll beat his Fox News rivals (see below) — but not if he expects to do that with overexposed guests like Simon Cowell and Donald Trump or what he says is his top “get”, President Obama. The production team needs to be finalised before guests are signed, he says. Morgan tells us he hasn’t locked down his show’s executive producer yet, “though we are about to. What I would say is that there will be significant format changes, and the show will look and feel different and distinctive to Larry’s. I don’t want to copy him because he’s a legend. You don’t follow Sinatra at the Sands and try and warble My Way…”
The show will be mostly filmed in New York apart from 3 months in the summer when Morgan is in Los Angeles judging America’s Got Talent. He notes, “One key change will definitely be that I will pre-tape many of the interviews so I can market and promote them in advance of them airing, which I believe will increase ratings. I’ve done this very successfully with my Life Stories series in the UK, with subjects as diverse as Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Simon Cowell, and Richard Branson.”
Morgan also tells us his mission is to help boost CNN’s sagging primetime line-up against Fox News, MSNBC, and other rivals. Larry King Live scored its lowest monthly viewer total in nearly 20 years in May, averaging just 653,000 viewers each night. And, last week, CNN underwent a management shakeup. CNN overall is a ratings mess right now and getting its clock cleaned by Fox News. So the older cable news channel brought in the guy who talent-scouted Glenn Beck, Nancy Grace, and Joy Behar to fix it, HLN’s Ken Jautz. The TV world has changed since Larry King first began interviewing 25 years ago, says Morgan, noting that back then there wasn’t any Fox News or even MSNBC. Since then, there’s been an explosion in cable TV with rapid-fire hosts like Glenn Beck who don’t do long interviews with newsmakers. “Don’t get me wrong, they’re great at what they do,” says Morgan. “But I think there’s a gap in the market. For years, Larry King has shown the power of the extended interview, which is something I’ve specialized in with my British talk shows. When it comes to my rivals, however long it takes, I’m going to be there to win.” Morgan says, “The main message I want to communicate is that I intend this show to be a game-changer in terms of how interview shows are conducted on American TV. And I haven’t joined CNN to come 2nd, 3rd, or 4th.
Read the rest here, and the comments. Especially the comments.
This is either the most incredible act of chutzpah or ignorance from this administration yet.
From Politico: Napolitano: “The system worked”
It’s a short article, so I’ll quote the whole thing:
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week demonstrated that “the system worked.”
Asked by CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union” how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who sought to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the flight, Napolitano responded: “We’re asking the same questions.”
Napolitano added that there was “no suggestion that [the bomber] was improperly screened.”
And what “system” is this? Individual initiative of a passenger? Incompetence of a jihadi?
And what precisely does that last sentence mean? That everything is hunky-dorey because he wasn’t profiled?
Napolitano needs to meet the bus. It’s bad enough when you’re ideologically blinkered, but she’s a general purpose moron on top of it.
Hat tip: Bumr50
Update: See also Great Ball of Fire! Heh.
Update 2: Peter King rebukes Napolitano (hattip to Goddessoftheclassroom)
Hamas is keeping busy during the “truce” with Israel by manufacturing rockets as fast as they can, and escorting CNN journalists on guided tours of their “metal shops” and training camps.
(Hat Tip: JIDF)
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