Posted on 11/06/2007 12:55:19 PM PST by outfield
The NYTimes' Jacques Steinberg follows up on his story about MSNBC being in "serious discussions" with Rosie O'Donnell about a primetime show on the network.
Rosie would fit the roster, Steinberg writes, because "[T]he cable channel believes there is ratings gold in shows that criticize the [Bush] administration with the same vigor with which Fox News's hosts often champion it." Countdown with Keith Olbermann being the standout.
"Officials at MSNBC emphasize that they never set out to create a liberal version of Fox News," Steinberg writes, quoting NBC SVP Phil Griffin the former Hardball EP who now runs the network. "It happened naturally," said Griffin, "There isn't a dogma we're putting through. There is a 'Go for it.'"
Two notable exceptions to the left is right strategy: MSNBC hosts Tucker Carlson, whose show, Steinberg writes "is in real danger of being canceled" and Joe Scarborough now hosting three hours in the morning.
"I'm just as conservative as I was in 1994, when everyone was calling me a right-wing nut," Scarborough says. "I think the difference is the Republican Party leaders, a lot of them, have run a bloated government, have been corrupt, and have gone a very, very long way from what we were trying to do in 1994. Also, the Republican Party has just been incompetent."
It’s like opening the Titanic’s sea cocks after the iceberg hit.
Trump has already weighed in saying she’ll tank once again.
Are these people delusional? I've never seen Fox News "champion it". They may be polite and respectful which in the minds of the moonbats means they are right-wing champions but not in an objective reality.
Spanning the whole range of perspective from A to B.
Do we get to hear more stories about how surprising it is that when a fully fueled, fully loaded jumbo jet crashes into a tower, the tower burns and then collapses?
Keith Olbermann is the iron pyrite of ratings gold.
ha ha ha ha ha ha ... you can't make this stuff up.
Simpsons reruns out draw that assclown
Yep! PMSNBC has become the Fart America of Sat/Cable TV.
I’m wondering how long it will take her *this* time to crash and burn in her own pool of paranoid misery?? Probably a lot quicker than with the View..not having 4 co-hags to reign her in, even the small amout that they did...Should be interesting to see who she blames at PMSNBC when she does lose it again.
The “woman” is as mentally unstable as Cynthia McKinney and Roseanne Barr.
She’s a very difficult employee. I bet she doesn’t last a year—she’ll either quit or be fired.
You network execs DO realize Bush will be out of office soon, right?
Let them make fools of themselves. Someday, historians will make it clear that President Bush was right and that MSNBC was wrong, totally wrong.
And you just listed Rodie’s first show’s guests!
“Officials at MSNBC emphasize that they never set out to create a liberal version of Fox News,”
Should read: “Officials at MSNBC emphasize that they never set out to create a television version of Air America”
heh.
“...Rosie’s first show’s...”
Sorry Rodie
What is this “MSNBC” they speak of???
[puzzled to the extreme]
Dan Abrams hires ANOTHER anti-Christian!!!
It’s a supposed news chaannel, taht is for all intents and purposes, an atm of the Democrat Political Party....
...That just jumped the shark.
I’ve never heard of fire melting steel. (sarcasm)
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