Tuesday Cable News Links and Open Thread
Monday's numbers: O'Reilly-Beck-Hannity 1-2-3. FNC tops all cable: Reese's piece. Weekend numbers.
More MSNBC changes! "Insiders" hype Beck/Bill tiff.
Who's most-trusted? SotU coverage. Civics vs seismics.
Q&A: Soledad, Coop. Wolf vs Rick. Grace: camera-shy?
Arianna's bash. Rita Cosby resurfaces. Hotline after dark.
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keyboard jockey
Tom Friedman on Imus In The Morning.
Tom what your are doing is called a PRETENSE.
Tom Friedman on Imus In The Morning, advises his Golfing Buddy – President Obama, to ignore the Tea Party Movement, and the Populism spreading across the country. Tom Friedman “Confused with a chance of Goulash”
http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2010/01/tom-friedman-just-doing-his-patriotic.html
January 26, 2010, 1:41:17 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
Lets see how long FNC can remain number 1 in all of cable
January 26, 2010, 1:45:07 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Probably one week. It's tough beating USA, sports, etc.
January 26, 2010, 1:49:52 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Isn't Fox Broadcasting the #1 Network now over ABC, CBS, and NBC?
January 26, 2010, 3:02:11 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
when "24" and American Idol air. Usually CBS beats them
January 26, 2010, 3:07:43 PM EST – Like – Reply
JC in OC
Is Nancy Grace afaid that her deposition might embarass her to the point of killing herself?
January 26, 2010, 3:24:56 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
For the SOTU, Cankles, Chrissie, and Maddow are "Anchors"? That just must be driving Chuck Todd crazy.
The evidence just keeps piling up showing why MSNBC may soon be fighting to stay out of 4th place.
January 26, 2010, 4:06:03 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Nice balance in the FNC SOTU coverage.....Palin/Rove and Beckel/Trippi. Now that is Fair and Balanced!
The Stossel town hall on FBN might be interesting.
January 26, 2010, 4:21:11 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grandpa D
SOTU Anchors --
CNN - Blitzer/Brown
FNC/FBN - Baier/Cavuto
MSNBC - Olbermann/Matthews/Maddow
Which of these things doesn't belong here?
January 26, 2010, 5:01:55 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
Which of these things doesn't belong here?
simple: MSNBC - Olbermann/Matthews/Maddow-all OPINION hosts
January 26, 2010, 5:21:40 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
Fox Nation currently has this in one of their lede items:
ACORN Filmmaker Busted By FBI
Looks like a straight up headline-will the newsliars notice?
January 26, 2010, 5:24:27 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Hot Air has a link yo the Nola site with a Pyayune atricle:
NOLA James O’Keefe arrested for trying to tap Mary Landrieu’s office phones
I must say this sounds flat out wierd. It seems Giles used his cell phone to tape the others, who were dressed as telephone repair men and did something, or attempted to do something to the phones.
Can't wait for the details!
January 26, 2010, 6:07:47 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Fox is on it, Fox Nation Hot Air is on it, Breitbart is on it, J$P is on it, but I bet the kennel krowd will proclaim that it was ignored by Fox.
January 26, 2010, 6:19:19 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
I'm sure-or they will cherry pick what is said about it-While all this is going MM has a article up asking How Fox will cover it: http://mediamatters.org/blog/201001260042
No where in it is the Fox Nation headline or how Fox News is covering it. But they did have time to update the story 3 times with no mention.
January 26, 2010, 6:38:38 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
I just noticed that the story is part of the scrawl on Fox also. They are definitely giving it a lot more coverage than say MSM coverage of the IPCC Himalayan Glaciers PHONY will be gone in 2035.
January 26, 2010, 6:40:07 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
Did I miss the J$P link on it? I don't see it
January 26, 2010, 6:46:22 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
It was on his twitter page-not here
January 26, 2010, 9:55:03 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Well, it certainly should be up there because this is potentially huge.
If this kid was trying to wiretape a United States senator, the sound of his former friends backing away from him with be deafening.
The investigation trying to link him with a Republican bigwig will be swiftly coming.
January 26, 2010, 8:47:06 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
"What did they know, and when did they know it" will be back in vogue...
Oh, god, a legal and political circus gets me giddy!
January 26, 2010, 8:49:01 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Great article by Rita Cosby.
"The men and boys were furthered heartened when the pilot upon spotting them dropped a chocolate bar (surely a Hershey’s in 1945) with a note wrapped around it. The note was simple – and I paraphrase – “Go 15 miles west to American lines and freedom.”
That sent chills up my spine.
January 26, 2010, 5:44:52 PM EST – Like – Reply
Blackflon
Here's the latest tidbit of ignorance from the resident moron at News Hounds.
They can sell an ad time to anybody they want to. I just think it's time for the RWers to shut the hell up about "liberal media".
Posted by: john t on Tue 1.26 3:56am
He was referring to an add that is scheduled to appear on CBS during the Super Bowl from an anti abortion group.
I could explain to littlejohnt that he doesn't know anything about ad time on TV but I am afraid it would make him cry.
January 26, 2010, 6:25:11 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Little John is telling the RW'ers to shut up about the ad, but he's not telling the left wingers to shut up about ad. What are the RW'er saying? The left is demanding the ad be kept off, but the ad has been purchased. Little John is confused.
January 26, 2010, 6:28:59 PM EST – Like – Reply
happysmokeruk
FBI arrests PIMP O'keefe....Malkin has disowned him already....How quick will FNC disown their super hero.
How will Beck/Hannity/O'reilly/The Friends/Wallace (who gave this alleged criminal the award of power player of the week on FNS)....etc spin this huge mess. The Friends will be must see TV tomorrow....but I suspect they'll give very light coverage.
January 26, 2010, 6:37:48 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Malkin has "disowned him already"?
Wow...she moves fast!
January 26, 2010, 8:50:38 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
Hate, false accusations, troll, no evidence to back up such a ludicrous claim. Let me go out on a limb here, you're a newshound, aren't you?
January 26, 2010, 6:59:48 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
Johnny, perhaps you should consider a protocol to aid Haggis in not making a bigger fool of himself.
Haggis, for all the time you've spent here you sure seem to be clueless in reading regulars. As if Right has ever done anything that would justify your assuming that that Right would deny something that he had himself just admitted. After all, you are not one of his role models.
Right was replying to a since deleted vicious smear against Blackfon by a NHer.
January 26, 2010, 7:19:04 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
When people come in here from the newshounds and commit actionable libel and/or slander against someone, I have no choice legally but to delete the post. Not to mention that it violates our rules against attacking our commenters. I didn't know what point exactly Haggis was making but it seemed to be an off-shoot from that deleted libel so it went.
January 26, 2010, 7:22:36 PM EST – Like – Reply
happysmokeruk
Grammie...I didn't see this supposed post that Ashley was replying to....So I had to assume he was replying to my post....So no need for the high horse routine
I'd love to have heard what the FBI said to O'keefe while arresting him...maybe it went something like this...."We're the FBI son, and we haven't had our dinner yet"....."So get your trousers on, you're nicked" LOL
Brownie point for the 1st person to name the UK series these quotes came from.
January 26, 2010, 7:42:06 PM EST – Like – Reply
I.M. Right
After all, you are not one of his role models.
Cecelia, ain't that the truth! The following is a list of people who are not my role models, but would be a role model before Haggis would ever be a role model:
- The Don't Tase Me Bro Guy
- Balloon Boy's Dad
- Haggis' imaginary friend Stan
- Tareq Salahi
January 27, 2010, 11:36:05 AM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Yes, nothing like the schadenfreude over a wrong move from someone who exposed some ACORN workers blithely giving advise about govt subsidities for sex slavery trade.
Who needs THOSE kinds of whistleblowers...
January 26, 2010, 7:20:25 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
We don't know many details yet, but on its face it looks like a devastatingly dumb act.
Looks like this brilliant kid didn't have any sort of older mentor to provide some commonsense.
January 26, 2010, 7:16:27 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
Looks like Prissy hasnt been to Fox Nation yet-in her latest article she asks:
"Will this be a lede on Fox Nation?"
Um, yes it is-They might just wait till its removed and then do a write up on it
January 26, 2010, 7:24:45 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Of course she's been there. That's why she asks it as a question, instead of saying it's not there, because she knows it is. That in and of itself is FHWiR worthy.
January 26, 2010, 7:32:05 PM EST – Like – Reply
happysmokeruk
In other words she made use of the famous Cavuto mark.
January 26, 2010, 7:50:01 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
It's interesting. You can suspend your judgment of people talking on camera about how to con the govt out of money for a sex slavery business, but you've got O'Keef tried and convicted.
January 26, 2010, 8:11:27 PM EST – Like – Reply
happysmokeruk
A couple of low level employees saying some stupid things on camera....Doesn't make the whole organisation corrupt. You wouldn't say the US army was all corrupt after a couple of Privates said something stupid on camera....Now would you?
" but you've got O'Keef tried and convicted."
Just like FNC did with ACORN.
January 26, 2010, 8:19:07 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
It was more than a couple of employees, Haggis, O'Keefe got the same result from 4 offices. And yes, ANY organization (let alone one receiving federal money) is answerable for the people it hires.
Saying THAT is not "trying and convicting" them.
Your assumptions about O'Keefe with the little information that you have, IS jumping the gun.
January 26, 2010, 8:43:06 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Remember anchorman Charles Gibson admitting that he knew nothing of the ACORN story.
The irony here is that some of the media is now going to have to give their readers the background they never bothered informing them about when the piece was a story!
January 26, 2010, 8:06:32 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
one more note: Fox Nation linked to a foxnews.com article-they kept "in-house"
January 26, 2010, 9:26:08 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Let's not let provocateurs derail the comments away from cable news, no matter now temping.
January 26, 2010, 8:51:00 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Sorry, Johnny.
I'm praying that this news isn't true, for the sake of this young man with so much potential! However, if the story is as bad as it could be, Megyn Kelly has got some potentially exciting legal and political drama to cover!
January 26, 2010, 9:06:47 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
Changing the subject.........any news on who Fox hired?
January 26, 2010, 9:57:36 PM EST – Like – Reply
johnny dollar
Haven't heard a thing yet.
January 26, 2010, 10:03:19 PM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
ok-I'm sure when its annouced you'll have a link to it
January 26, 2010, 10:19:41 PM EST – Like – Reply
Grammie
News Busters has a great link to:
<img src="http://newsbusters.org/graphics/trans.gif"/> <!-- BEGIN CONTENT AND COMMENTS --> Olby Orgasmic Over O'Keefe
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/01/26/olby-orgasmic-over-okeefe
I don't think Grampie was as excited about the birth of his firstborn namesake as KO was tonight. He sounded like a bunch of kids reveling in Xmas morning and that wonderful feeling that life is very good. Unseemly.
January 26, 2010, 11:17:04 PM EST – Like – Reply
Cecelia
"He sounded like a bunch of kids reveling in Xmas morning and that wonderful feeling that life is very good. Unseemly."
Frankly, that's precisely how I felt when I watched O'Keefe's expose of the ACORN employees!
January 27, 2010, 6:32:04 AM EST – Like – Reply
Blackflon
The O'Keefe story was the lead on both Olbermann and Maddow last night. Shows you where their priorities are.
O'Keefe was an idiot for his actions but it doesn't rise to a Watergate type crime. Not even close.
I'll wait for ALL of the facts come out before throwing the key away.
The Hounds had to search high and low on Fox to find that Hannity and Beck did not mention the O'Keefe story last night.
Of course they never mentioned all of the other places on Fox where it was mentioned.
Once again, an example of their cherry picking.
January 27, 2010, 8:06:32 AM EST – Like – Reply
Chris
Its no surprise they didnt cover it-they have their own shows and can cover what ever they want.I say who cares (haters are the only ones that do) Olby got part of the story wrong, he said something about o'keefe using prositutes-when in fact, thats not true-it was only one women dressed up as one. No real prostitute was used-damn can he ever get something right?
January 27, 2010, 9:17:26 AM EST – Like – Reply
