4/5/10 9:47 AM

Tuesday Cable News Links and Open Thread

February program ranker: FNC holds top 13 slots!  Coop droops; Rick slips.  More: FNC, CNN, MSNBC, HLN.  F&F: #1 for 100.  Monday's numbers: Bill-Beck-Hannity 1-2-3.  Weekend numbers.

Claim: FNC tried to hire Olby!  NBCers embarrassed?

King of tweets.  CNN's new formula.  CNBC is sinking?

Ford returns.  Profile: Kelly Wright.  Hotline after dark.

Updated through the day.  Use our valuable bandwidth to post your cable news comments in today's open thread.




Blackflon
Leslie Marshall Pushes Back Against the Elitist Attitudes of O'Reilly and Dana Loesch . . . Why Fund Education, Can't Save the Kids AnywayReported by Julie - Tue 12:16 AM  
 
 
There is not enough space to cover the lies and distrotions in this post. Julie's hate runs so deep that she can barely control her outright lies.
 
You can see for yourself the "ELLENING" that goes on.
March 2, 2010, 1:33:59 PM EST – Like – Reply


Scott
Blackflon, you crack me up.  I'm glad you have now incorporated "ELLENING" into your post's.    I feel humbled.  Use on and just cut-n-paste as "ELLENING" is a requirement for the Mentally ELLENED party.
March 2, 2010, 3:52:32 PM EST – Like – Reply


Grammie
Johnny, your "Weekend" kink goes to the stats for the month of February and your "numbers" link goes to Sunday ratings.
March 2, 2010, 3:13:36 PM EST – Like – Reply


 johnny dollar
My error. Fixed now, I hope.
March 2, 2010, 3:22:13 PM EST – Like – Reply


I.M. Right
Congrats to "The Friends" for their excellent ratings.  100 months at #1, and now beating CNN/MSNBC/HLN combined!  Well done.
March 2, 2010, 3:33:13 PM EST – Like – Reply


Chris
Even if Olby is telling the truth, he would never have lasted.
March 2, 2010, 3:59:58 PM EST – Like – Reply


Scott
Okay I'm really confused with this from Keithina Oellenberman.  
 
As to my Dad, he was opening his eyes tonight. Not really seeing much, and he slipped quickly from bewildered inertia to sleeping with the eyes open. It's another step forward from Houdini. Part of his motivation to fight on has been the awareness that his story has become part of the HCR debate - I won't get all preachy but maybe there's a little role modeling possible here.  
 
If daddy has been so sick and out of it then how would daddy know his Keithina has made him "part of the HCR debate?"  Didn't Keithina just start using daddy last Wednesday?  Also I find it interesting how many time's daddy was shown -I sent J$ the count last night among other count's- and amazing NO grieving SON in the picture's.  And who is Keithina stating about "a little role modeling?"  My read of it is he(Keithina) is claiming a "ROLE MODELING" status be backstabbing daddy and using his illness as a prop for his collasping show. My belief is he lost Katie because she saw he was disturbed and he is using a sick parent and deceased parent to explain his psychotic behavior.  And as far as the FNC thing that's an old LIE that was discredited by Murdock last year when EL OPSYCHObermann used it first.
March 2, 2010, 4:05:50 PM EST – Like – Reply


Scott
Okay I'm confused again. Keithina Oellenbermann states yaks about "life panel's."  Now call me a stupida$, fly-over, redneck, idiot, gun carrying, racist, trailer trash Iowan, but what is a "life panel" when discussing someone that is dying?  So the OPSYCHObermann of the ELLENOCRAT'S just admitted Palin was CORRECT about the "DEATH PANEL'S" since how can you have LIFE if someone is DYING?  Is OELLENbermann claiming one can have a "LIFE PANEL" to continue living when one is DYING?
March 2, 2010, 6:16:12 PM EST – Like – Reply


I.M. Right
I would like Olby to simply tell us what is his father not receiving now that he would under Obamacare.
March 2, 2010, 6:58:12 PM EST – Like – Reply


Grammie
I finally watched this video and I never would have thought my opinion of KO could have gone lower.  It hasn't actually gone lower, it has PLUMMETTED.  
 
As Jed Eckert said many of us have been thru situations such as his and some of us multiple times.  I can attest to that.  
 
KO is living in some strange world if he doesn't understand that considering all the potential outcomes and options is an ongoing ordeal, sometimes for years.  Doctor's ARE paid for it b/c it is part of their ongoing care and interaction with either/or/and the patient and family.  
 
These matters are discussed on an ongoing basis at regular office appointments and during hospital stays.  In the hospital that is part and parcel of the daily professional fee charged by the attending physician whether he sees you and/or the patient every day or not Doctors spend a lot more time reviewing and consulting other doctors sometimes then they spend with the patient/family.  
 
I can't even feel pity for him.  
 
This is just HIM and HIS PERSONA in this particular situation.  It is exactly the way he behaves in any other situation.  It is all about him and by God he is not to be questioned or thwarted by that great unwashed mass of "Tea Baggers".
March 2, 2010, 6:36:04 PM EST – Like – Reply


Cecelia
Grammmie, I wonder who's going to break the news to Keith that his father's doctors are charging Medicare for such consultations NOW...
 
Keith knows perfectly well Palin was not characterizing such discussions as being death panels.  
 
Keith is the most disingenuous human in the world.
March 2, 2010, 8:06:36 PM EST – Like – Reply


I.M. Right
Excellent Monday ratings for FNC.  Beck, Baier, Smith, BOR, Hannity, Greta all beat CNN/HLN/MSNBC combined in the ratings for overall.  Almost the same for "the demo" with the exception of Greta and the BOR rerun.
March 2, 2010, 6:56:36 PM EST – Like – Reply


Danny
Wow did anyone notice that Rep Weiner said that the reason that Obamacare is failing is because of Fox News?  He made that pronouncement on Countdown (with Olby absent)
March 2, 2010, 11:53:49 PM EST – Like – Reply


I.M. Right
Well then, thank you Fox News!
March 3, 2010, 3:56:58 PM EST – Like – Reply