Thursday Cable News Links and Open Thread
Wednesday's numbers: FNC dominates, Big Ed craters.
CNBC hypes advertiser, blows Google report.
Spin feud: MSNBC vs CNN.
CNN sacks Roesgen: flashback.
FNC Apollo special.
Confirmation coverage update.
Bizarro MSNBC? Todd under fire.
O'Reilly and all that jazz. Hotline after dark.
Q&A: Larry. Cable star Al. Magnanimous Maddow.
Updated through the day. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your cable news comments in today's open thread. Standard rules apply. fox news cable news
Blackflon
Once again the Heinous Hound Hens and their poodles play the race card against Fox News. And once again they provide not one piece of documented evidence in their usual smear job.
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/newshounds/16848/
July 16, 2009, 8:44:35 AM EDT – Like – Reply
Mike C.
Re: "O'Reilly and all that jazz": I had to read that and leave a comment at that link. :+: I even looked past the writer saying that Bill leans conservative despite calling himself an independent traditionalist.
July 16, 2009, 11:37:25 AM EDT – Like – Reply
Ashley
Must watch the FNC special this Friday on the Apollo 11 mission. 10 P ET. Just caught Shep's preview, It looks great. Got some flashback goosebumps seeing that magnificent Saturn V sitting on the launch pad.
For those Fox Haters, they of course are free to tune in to MSNBC for a rerun of "Lockup - Raw".
July 16, 2009, 3:28:58 PM EDT – Like – Reply
david smawley
MSNBC will probably make a nice home for Susan, in the past, Foxnews said "no thanks".
July 16, 2009, 4:21:59 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Mike C.
You beat me, David. I was going to say "I hear MSNBC calling."
July 16, 2009, 4:50:13 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Ashley
david smawley | 07.16.09 - 4:26 pm | #
Probably not. As untalented and inept as she is, she's a newsperson and MSNBC has no use for newspeople in its organization.
July 16, 2009, 4:54:08 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Ashley
Wow, Cavuto was on fire this afternoon in his closing comments about Congress and its current attack on Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
Cavuto calling Congress "Liars".
Woo Hoo!!!
July 16, 2009, 5:01:06 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Ashley
Well I see that Ed only has about 415,000 more viewers than me.
Congrats again to FNC for the outstanding ratings. Also interesting to note that between their primary broadcasts and first rerun (to cover the East and West Coasts), BOR has almost 3 million more viewers than Mr. Czechoslovakia.
Outstanding!
July 16, 2009, 5:18:20 PM EDT – Like – Reply
david smawley
Well, Ashley, can't argue that point, but since her reporting is really more like commentary, perhaps she can be squeezed into a guest host spot for say Ed Schultz. How could she do any worse & she is better looking than he is. Don't Start!
July 16, 2009, 5:34:22 PM EDT – Like – Reply
david smawley
Sorry Mike, how bout this possibility...either KO or Maddow make her a special prime time work in progress "producer". She would get the same special attention from either one.
July 16, 2009, 5:46:13 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Cecelia
NO ONE could get more craven in their coverage than CNN's Rick Sanchez covering the Sotomayor hearings.
This idiot has spent the entire afternoon fomenting ethnic animosity over the temerity of "old" Republicans in asking Judge Sotomayor questions related to her background.
A background that SHE has ballyhooed and made an integral part of her professional package.
Sanchez has even made himself a part of the story by doing a feature of on his "wise Latina" mama. After which, he got a little huffy about the number of people who promptly criticized his mother's inability to speak English for so many years.
Sanchez impugned those critics by saying that they are several generations too far from Ellis Island or the southern border, to make such judgments...
As with Sotomayor, Sanchez makes his own background a story, and then tells people to back off when their questions don't follow his narrative.
Surprise...
July 16, 2009, 5:55:58 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Ashley
david smawley | 07.16.09 - 5:39 pm | #
Very true.
Cecelia | 07.16.09 - 6:00 pm | #
After which, he got a little huffy about the number of people who promptly criticized his mother's inability to speak English for so many years.
Seems like this tool is always a little huffy. Killers tend to be less than patient.
July 16, 2009, 6:06:44 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Blackflon
Who the hell woke up the dreaded patrick? The moron is on the loose again.
July 16, 2009, 6:14:25 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Cecelia
When it comes to watching Shuster and Hall, I'm feeling like Mike C. after watching a Countdown O'Reilly WPITW segment.
I can't take it anymore.
Today, Shuster referred to Sarah Palin's tweets as "twits" and impugned the veracity of the "conservative media" and "rightwing" blogosphere by (yet again) bringing on an oh-so nonpartisan Media Matters guy, without a hint towards that site's position.
July 16, 2009, 6:18:43 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Mike C.
Last night at 10:00, Keith finished fifth! in the 25-54 demo thanks to a CNBC documentary on the porn industry.
July 16, 2009, 6:47:02 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Ashley
Who the hell woke up the dreaded patrick? The moron is on the loose again.
Blackflon | Homepage | 07.16.09 - 6:19 pm | #
Probably his mother, making noise as she walked down the basement steps.
July 16, 2009, 6:47:02 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Mike C.
I'm looking forward to the Apollo 11 documentary tomorrow night.
I didn't get to write about this over the weekend, but "Judging Sonia Sotomayor" was a great special. All sides were heard. People you'd never expect to talk to Fox did.
July 16, 2009, 6:49:40 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Ashley
Today, Shuster referred to Sarah Palin's tweets as "twits" and impugned the veracity of the "conservative media" and "rightwing" blogosphere by (yet again) bringing on an oh-so nonpartisan Media Matters guy, without a hint towards that site's position.
Cecelia | 07.16.09 - 6:23 pm | #
Did the idiot comment on his recent ignorant tweet about NewsCorp and Direct TV?
Did the idiot mention that he deleted a couple of his own past tweets AFTER J$ had commented about them?
If anyones tweets should be referred to as "twits", it's SHuster the Incompetent Talking head.
July 16, 2009, 6:53:23 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Ashley
Based on the Newshound standards for Chyron mistakes, I bet they are really raising hell over the now over the CNBC/Google mistake.
Agreed?
Anyone??
Buhler???
July 16, 2009, 7:10:55 PM EDT – Like – Reply
chris
Ashley | 07.16.09 - 7:15 pm |
not a peep, I'm not surprised (and since the NH are ignoring me, they should have no problem with me posting here and ignore this also)
July 16, 2009, 8:01:18 PM EDT – Like – Reply
Mike C.
Juan Williams wondered in passing if Palin was a twit last Monday on "The O'Reilly Factor."
July 17, 2009, 12:14:39 AM EDT – Like – Reply
Blackflon
Based on the Newshound standards for Chyron mistakes, I bet they are really raising hell over the now over the CNBC/Google mistake.
Agreed?
Anyone??
Buhler???
Ashley | 07.16.09 - 7:15 pm | #
#1. News Hounds has no standards.
#2. They will be the first to tell you that it doesn't matter what any other news organization does because they only hate Fox News' presentation of the news.
#3. They are biased hypocrites when they complain and then turn around and do the very same thing they accuse Fox of doing. ( bogus headlines comes to mind ).
July 17, 2009, 8:32:22 AM EDT – Like – Reply
Cecelia
Juan Williams is a pundit. He's not hosting a news show as is David Shuster, but surely he could have gone on a tv show and questioned Palin's judgment and even her intelligence without being so utterly condescending and ungraceful.
July 17, 2009, 9:59:14 AM EDT – Like – Reply
