Friday Cable News Links and Open Thread
Thursday's numbers: Bill-Sean-Beck 1-2-3. Chart.
Is Olbermann losing it? Q&A: Bill Hemmer.
FNC's Obama hour. Dotcom: FNC up, MSNBC down.
CNN conflict revisited. Coop can't cut it? Aww.
Cox to MSNBC? Headline. The week's debuts.
Gibbs on Fox. Cody on Extra. CNN adds Vice.
MSNBC's $100,000,000 moneymaker?!? The B-word.
Shuster's teabag fetish. Hotline after dark.
Updated through the day. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your cable news comments in today's open thread. fox news cable
Tina
Johnny$ - you MUST put up a link to Jon Stewart skewering Olbermann last night. Too funny.
January 22, 2010, 6:57:48 AM EST – Like – Reply
Grandpa D
You're right! There's a link to it in "The B-Word" article.
Hilarious!
January 22, 2010, 10:52:31 AM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
That's the closest I'll come to linking to one of Stewart's 'comedy' bits.
January 22, 2010, 11:34:04 AM EST – Like – Reply
Blackflon
I must say, the left has got it's collective thong in a huge wad over this latest Court ruling. They really must think that the voter are stupid(Well, a great deal of them are).
The court ruled that corporations can now run political ads. They kept in place the law that disallows them to contribute money directly to candidates.
Since corporations are very big on image, I don't think you'll see GE coming out with the crappy ads like the politicians do.
To hear Olbermann and Maddow speak on the issue last night you would think that the end is near.
And yes, Olbermann has a HUGE head.
January 22, 2010, 7:53:49 AM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Olby - the $100,000,000 million dollar man.
"This is the highest rated program in cable news not on Fox. The ratings are not poor."
Based on what I've seen this week in the ratings, you may want to change that to This is the highest rated program in cable news not on Fox, CNN, and some of HLN.
January 22, 2010, 11:54:16 AM EST – Like – Reply
Puck30
"This is the highest rated program in cable news not on Fox. The ratings are not poor."
Well since it's Friday and it's time to dance. I'd like to send this tune out to my good pal Olb. It fits him so well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHt_GzOgjvA
January 22, 2010, 12:11:04 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
I just have to share this little gem from Adamincalifornia at the KO B-word link:
"adamincalifornia
KO has never come to terms with losing the pine wood derby when he was in Pack 321 (aka “The Countdown Pack”). He worked very hard on his car – he was the only one in his Pack who took the time to glue shiny sequins all over it and painted “Princess” on the side in glitter paint.
The first of many traumas he endured that day came when the judge told him that the car was too heavy with all of the sequins and glue, so he had to carve a chunk out of it. When his defiled car lost the first heat, young Keith told the judge that the nicest looking car should get a 2 second head start over the other cars. The judge (a Mister Frank Wurst, a well known local Republican who made a small fortune in the sausage industry) told Keith that “changing the rules after the race has started is wrong” to which young Keith replied “When the rules are wrong they must be changed!”
Keith did not get his extra 2 seconds that day and was eliminated in the first round of competition. He did not take it well – running home crying and never returning to “The Countdown Pack.” Over the years, Keith learned to positively channel his anger over that deeply traumatic and disturbing experience that he was mercilessly subjected to. He vowed that he would form his own countdown pack and expose people like Wurst.
Now that you know about the steep challenges that Keith has overcome, don’t you think the merciless cyber teasing directed at Mr. Olbermann is simply wrong? Can’t you see that this thread is an online Abu Grahib of humiliation? Can’t you be part of the solution rather than the problem?"
January 22, 2010, 1:23:46 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Hahaha!
Miss Precious Perfect and Princess.
January 22, 2010, 3:23:55 PM EST – Like – Reply
Billie
What will happen to Trace Gallagher?
Martha goes to the morning and that time slot will be used by Megan.1-3 pm, every day.
Sorry, my first time and don't know if I can talk about this here lol
January 22, 2010, 3:03:55 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Sure you can; anything about cable news coverage is welcome. They say Trace will be "absorbed" into other FNC programming. I think he'll land on his feet and get a prominent role. He's really very good at what he does.
January 22, 2010, 3:56:30 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
FNC is simulcasting Los Angeles local Fox Broadcasting affiliate live footage of a dog that is in the Los Angeles River in the moving water. I love dogs and this is breaking my heart. Powerful stuff. What Shephard Smith is not saying, he probably doesn't know, is that there has been sporadic bursts of rain today in LA. The flood channel as it is right now is at a certain level of water. Depending on the rain amounts, the water level could increase FAST which would not be good for the dog.
January 22, 2010, 3:31:45 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
An incredible rescue going on now. Wow! The dog is safe.
January 22, 2010, 3:35:28 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Re: MSNBC's $100,000,000 moneymaker?!?
Oh, yeah... the only reason that Olbermann was allowed to stay on the air and the only thing keeping from being waterboarded at Gitmo, was McCain-Feingold.
This has to be one of the more illogical Daily Kos spiels from Olbermann.
WOuldn't Keith's vast monetary contributions be even MORE necessary now that Keith's corporate overlords can corrupt the entire political process via running issue ads that the infant sheep ignorant public is sure to swallow like the dumbbunny hicks that they are?
January 22, 2010, 3:37:07 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Let's see: After 4 days of heavy rain in Southern California, the sun is starting to come out, the dog was saved, MSNBC online is down 20% while FNC online is up 20%.
Did I mention this is turning out to be an excellent way to start the weekend?
January 22, 2010, 4:08:50 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
and with a brief email, it just got even better!
January 22, 2010, 6:21:16 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
whats to lose? Olby already lost it
January 22, 2010, 5:21:24 PM EST – Like – Reply
david smawley
There appears to be no ceiling on the FoxNews night time ratings with Obama as POTUS, the next three years will find Fox mining ratings gold. The Factor @ almost 5 million on Thursday night, get ready to adjust those rate cards as running ads on Fox will become more expensive. But then, you get what you pay for!
January 22, 2010, 7:12:09 PM EST – Like – Reply
Puck30
Is Olbermann losing it?
great line that was posted somewhere else.
"At one point Olbermann “owned” his schtick, now his schtick “owns” him."
so true!
January 22, 2010, 7:51:39 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grandpa D
O'Reilly mentioned Johnny Dollar and showed the Coakley/Brown speech graph. Contrats!!
January 22, 2010, 8:04:20 PM EST – Like – Reply
badbilly
Hey Johnny Dollar!!! You got a "shout out" from Bill O tonight!! Congrats!!!!!
January 22, 2010, 8:04:27 PM EST – Like – Reply
Puck30
Congrats Johnny, you got mentioned on O'Reilly!
January 22, 2010, 8:04:48 PM EST – Like – Reply
Lurker
Congrats! BOR used the Coakly/Brown graph.
Let us know if you see a surge in page hits...
January 22, 2010, 8:06:13 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
How about that. It's my 15 seconds of fame I guess. I have to say it's one my favorite Talking Points Memos evah! Even tho Bill did make one error. I'll say no more...
January 22, 2010, 8:14:50 PM EST – Like – Reply
Puck30
What a Humble Dude! But you know what the headline will be over at you know where?
SEE! We told you he worked for FAUX NEWS!!!! LOL!
January 22, 2010, 8:20:39 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Just simply fantastic! That graph was clear and dead on. A classic example of how FNC was fair and balanced while CNN was not, and MSNBC was unfair and imbalanced. MSNBC is also deranged, but that's hard to show in a graph!
January 22, 2010, 11:14:21 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
It's gotten to the point with David Shuster, that if I had to chose whether to sit in a train cabin with he or Olbermann, I'd choose Olberman.
Keith might be a narcissistic adolescent but at least it's not a adolescent GIRL narcissist.
I am so disgusted with the sneering elistism of this shrieking shrill fey little sissy boy Shuster.
What can you say about a guy who goes into spasms of prissy lip-pursing disapproval over a beauty pageant contestant's boob job? (when it's really her views that he hates...)
I'm sorry, I don't usually talk like this and I was raised in a household as the sole female among a father and two brothers who were intellectuals rather than jocks. (My brothers got all the brainy genes.)
However, little Lord David Shuster just makes me sick!
January 23, 2010, 3:32:43 PM EST – Like – Reply
