Tuesday Cable News Links and Open Thread
Luntz focus group faces unexpected obstacle.
Friday's numbers: O'Reilly-Hannity-Bolling 1-2-3.
Boots on the ground. Blurring the lines?
Rescue perturbs Coop? Cavuto overcomes.
Q&A: Hemmer, Mika, Geist, Kurtz. Today's oops.
Joe vs Olbermann: update. Big Ed doubles down.
"Psychic" sues CNN. FNC's primary? Hotline after dark.
Geraldo's rescue. Truce? What truce? Fox hires...who?
Updated through the day. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your cable news comments in today's open thread. fox news cable
Chris
Olby needs to stfu-he knows nothing about Scott Brown. Or what is going on in MA-he showed a Dail Kos poll last night that had Brown and Coakley tied at 48%-why doesnt he show all the polls that have Brown up by 11 (maybe he did, I didn't watch-"24" was on-getting good I might add) I tuned in during a commercial break and caught the biased DKOs poll
January 19, 2010, 9:10:31 AM EST – Like – Reply
FNCFan20
I miss Megyn Kelly. Me and a few others are starting to think something is up between her and FNC. Her maternity leave ran out shortly after New Year's (Julie Banderas tweeted that her hosting of the New Year's special marked her official return from maternity leave) and she's STILL gone.
January 19, 2010, 11:21:05 AM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
She's been doing her weekly spot on O'Reilly so my guess is that she's just easing back into place.
January 19, 2010, 11:31:10 AM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
I miss her too!
I had heard something about her getting her own show.
January 19, 2010, 1:09:25 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Mediaite calls Olbermann's tirade against Scott Brown "borderline absurd"?!!
January 19, 2010, 1:18:04 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Olby is nothing more than a hateful, nasty, spiteful, thin-skinned partisan hack.
January 19, 2010, 1:33:52 PM EST – Like – Reply
Puck30
Cecelia, it's mediaite. nuff said.
January 19, 2010, 1:39:02 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Hello "Guest", I have no idea who you are, but I tapped into my psychic abilities and found a photograph of what I believe you look like. Kind of a little fellow.
PICTURES
January 19, 2010, 5:45:15 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Oh, and I'm not a partisan hack. What I am is brilliant, cheery, thoughtful, intelligent, dashing, quick-witted, beloved by millions, and most of all...modest. But even you Guest can agree that Olbermann's comments about Brown were absurd. Fortunately, more and more people are seeing that as evidenced by Olbermann's (and MSNBC's) declining ratings.
January 19, 2010, 5:48:03 PM EST – Like – Reply
Blackflon
Oh, but the sheep over at Dollar's Dump are defending Fox's coverage and non-coverage of Haiti to the bitter end.
Posted by: john t on Sun 1.17 10:56pm
Can anyone dechipher this idiot's comment?
First he says "coverage" and then he says "non-coverage".
Littlejohnt.......still dumb as a rock.
Any bets on how long it will take him to post an excuse for his stupidity on Redditt?
He's like the 3 stooges all rolled into one.
January 19, 2010, 3:42:47 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Four if you count Shemp.
As for 'sheep' defending FNC coverage (not that it needs defending, except from morons) we've posted videos of Fox's coverage from Haiti. So our readers know what they are talking about. The newshounds have yet--a full week into the coverage--to post a single video of Fox's reporting from Haiti. Not one! That tells us who the 'sheep' really are.
January 19, 2010, 3:51:46 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Can't forget Shemp, one of the original three stooges until he left to go out on his own and was replaced by Curley. Of course, he did come back.
He's like the 3 stooges all rolled into one. Kind of, but he's not as smart as Curly or as polite as Moe.
January 19, 2010, 3:59:27 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
You are right, FNC's coverage does not need defending, and how exactly would john t know anything about FNC's coverage since he doesn't watch. He's just playing parrot, saying what the other parrots at the kennel are saying. But as we know from repeated past instances, john t does not let facts get in the way of his lies.
January 19, 2010, 4:25:03 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
While I think that Greta will do great tonight for the election coverage, this really is a job for
BRIT HUME!
January 19, 2010, 6:11:06 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
After reading the article about Luntz's problems getting people to publicly admit support for Coatley I can only say, Be still my pounding heart!
Who would have thought an upset of this magnitude would have been possible, much less likely, a year ago.
January 19, 2010, 6:35:52 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Instead, says Luntz, they’re ashamed. “They don’t want to be on television defending Martha Coakley. It’s passé. It’s socially unacceptable. I never dreamed I’d see Democrats in Massachusetts embarrassed to admit they’re Democrats.”
See what having friends like Cankles will do for you?
January 19, 2010, 7:59:44 PM EST – Like – Reply
ZoneDaiatlas
Did anyone hear what Chris Matthews just said?
He said this...
"If they go for Republican Scott Brown it's deliberate, premeditated murder for health care!"
January 19, 2010, 6:43:21 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
Chris Matthews: what an ass
January 19, 2010, 7:07:51 PM EST – Like – Reply
david smawley
Biggest cable news night since 08 election night, my guess is that FoxNews will do fine, but all cable news networks will benefit. Early returns will no doubt affect viewer interest. Fun part will be spin from you know who.
January 19, 2010, 7:18:48 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Just flipped to Blitzer on CNN and they are already reporting about 5% of the vote in.
If they indicated where the votes were from I missed it but in this early going Brown is uo by 5%.
FOX needs to do better than this!
January 19, 2010, 8:30:12 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
O'Reilly gave the same #s but I agree FNC should have those numbers on the screen. I think they will starting at 9:00 pm.
January 19, 2010, 8:37:29 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
Local Fox station has Brown up 52-47% also a live webcast 9pm: Myfoxboston.com
January 19, 2010, 8:44:03 PM EST – Like – Reply
ramjet
Luntz coming up on Hannity.
Matthews is trying his best to over-take Olbermaan in irrelevance.
January 19, 2010, 9:14:20 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Chrissy looked like he needed CPR quick, maybe followed by a little time on life suppoet. Not a poker face, to be sure!
January 19, 2010, 9:36:49 PM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Matthews did not look or sound healthy. Olbermann looked PO'd. I hope Matthews is well and is simply tired. I hope Olby stay PO'd.
January 19, 2010, 9:39:26 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
When Matthews forget Scott Brown's name and then started stuttering, I feared he was having a stroke.
January 20, 2010, 12:23:00 AM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
just checked MSNBC-Olbermann is on the air live-not watching
January 19, 2010, 10:08:20 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Most amazing moment (ouside of the election result): Keith Olbermann trying to get Howard Fineman to agree that Brown's win was a response by Mass voters to Pres. Obama's skin color.
January 20, 2010, 12:19:22 AM EST – Like – Reply
IM Right
Cankles is despicable. Also, because of Cankles, MSNBC did not cover Brown's acceptance speech in its entirety. If FNC did that in the case of the Coakley win, the hounds would be screaming out loud against Fox. I bet they are quiet now.
January 20, 2010, 12:29:26 PM EST – Like – Reply
