Posted on 01/06/2009 9:35:18 AM PST by andrew roman
Wait a minute.
When NBC’s Today Show – or any of a number of left-leaning main-stream media morning excrement-fests – had on author after author demonizing President Bush during his eight years in the White House, that was perfectly acceptable.
When these masters of journalism interviewed endless lefty whinycrat pundits who couldn’t race to the guest chair fast enough to blast the President that was more than reasonable.
The fact that we were (and still are) a nation at war would never keep the morning TV video rags from booking as many Bush-slammers as possible.
Hey, they're entitled. Free country.
(That they call themselves "objective" is what cracks me up).
But now, NBC is in protection mode.
They’ve already thrown the cuddly, warm and fuzzy protective feet-pajama shroud over our next President (as all of the mainstreamers have), sheltering him as best they can from not only criticism, but from the nasty, bitter, mean old kitten-slapping conservatives who continue to unleash on him for no other reason than to desperately keep hold of their innate bigotry, lest they lose their identity.
According to a "still developing" blurb on the Drudge Report , Ann Coulter, in support of her new book “Guilty,” was bumped from this morning’s Today Show because of overbooking.
Overbooking?
*cough*
Remind me to show you the photos of my Nebraska ocean front condo.
An “insider” at the Today Show says:
"We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now. It's such a downer. It's just not the time, and it's not what our audience wants, either."
Let’s pretend.
Let’s assume for a moment that I was part of the Today Show audience. How in hell do they know what I want to see? How do they know what anyone between the coasts wants to see?
They put on what they and their Riverside Drive set want to see.
Personally, I would have loved to see more stories about military victories in the war, more in-depth coverage and analysis of the elections of pro-America heads of state overseas, and better ways to prepare chicken marsala… but I’ve always been admittedly delusional. (I also want Hamas to stop firing missiles into Israel, Republicans to stop acting like liberals and all terrorists to die). Instead, everyone from Bob Woodward to Vincent Bugliosi to Michael Moore took those morning show seats, peddling their “downer” anti-Bush crap, crackling about everything from impeachment to war crimes while the nation was at war.
Nope. No bias there.
In the wake of NBC giving the boot to Coulter, CBS stepped in and agreed to attack her - er, interview her.
Kudos to Harry Smith from CBS's Morning Show for reinforcing what those of us here in reality have already known for quite some time - that the mainstream media's blatant biases are now pinned to their collective sleeves like Greenwich Village peace signs or Barack Obama's face to every checkout-stand magazine cover in all of creation.
Imagine Smith or anyone in MSM-land beginning an interview with Michael Moore or Al Franken this way:
You know what? You want to be taken seriously. I sense that. Right?
Disgusting condescension from on high.
Coulter, of course, has parried with folks far more equipped for verbal sparring than the likes of Harry Smith. She responded without missing a beat (to some studio laughter):
Well, I make serious points but often in a humorous way. For example, with you, Harry, because today, you are the most brilliant person in the mainstream media, the most manly, and I'm totally reconsidering my approach of attacking everyone in the media I then want to interview me for my books.
Of course, Smith - ill-fitted to actually discuss the issues of the liberal propensity toward victimization as written by Coulter in the book - goes back to the mount:
I took you seriously. I read 150 pages last night ... Here's my problem: Because you try to be funny, because you have this kind of sophomoric, sort of simplistic kind of view of so many things, the points that should be taken seriously - this whole section on single motherhood should be part of the American conversation right now. Because you're so goofy, who's going to take you seriously?
Replied Coulter:
As any comedy writer will tell you, "sophomoric" is New York Times code for "funny." I thank you for that.
Nice.
There is now talk that both NBC and MSNBC have become “Coulter-free” zones.
Hey, the free market is the free market. NBC can ban whomever they wish.
But any network that continues to call on the riot-master Al Sharpton for his commentary on anything anywhere is hard-pressed to make a reasonable case for banning Ann Coulter.
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NBC: Newsies Banning Conservatives
Where is Ayn Rand when you need her. Her books seem to be the script for all the MSM “newscsats”. They are playing out right before our eyes as we self destruct.
The Women of the web
I followed a link to http://www.wowowow.com/books/ann-coulter-
those women really HATE Ann. Many newbies showed up to defend Ann.
Barack Obama’s election reminds me of when I worked for ATEX in the 1980’s. La Prensa was one of our customers and Ortega’s wife was on the editorial board. When the Sandanistas overthrew the governmnet she closed it down. When the others asked who would speak out against the government she told them, “now that the right people are in charge there won’t be any”.
FYI...Ann will be on Steve Malzberg show WOR radio @ 4pm today.
Worth an additional $1M in her next advance! You go, girl!
Chris Matthews’ memo about making sure Obama is a success must be followed!
I intend to give the same ‘respect’ to Obama that the ‘progressives’ gave to President Bush. (But I’ll not whine and I’ll have real reasons.)
Can’t say anything about the magic man before the inauguration.
Ann said on Hannity last night, “I could buy NBC.” Whenever she launches a book, she plays the liberal MSM like a fiddle, laughing at them, and laughing her way to the bank. Getting “banned” by NBC was like gold to her, made Drudge headlines, and became a story in itself.
Ann delivers well-researched truths with such wit that it drives the likes of Harry Smith bonkers.
PRINCESS ANNIE....the gift that just keeps on giving...
what a gal!!
I only know that NBC banned her because I read it here. I haven’t watched them in years.
If you want news you can trust, you need to find honest sources of information. And if you care about finding honest sources of information, you probably don’t watch NBC, or MSNBC, or ABC, or CNN either.
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