Posted on 10/27/2008 10:00:36 PM PDT by RobinMasters
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In a room full of television industry executives, no one seemed inclined to defend MSNBC on Monday for what some were calling its lopsidedly liberal coverage of the presidential election.
The cable news channel is "completely out of control," said writer-producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat.
She added that she would prefer a lunch date with right-leaning Fox News star Sean Hannity over left-leaning MSNBC star Keith Olbermann.
Olbermann was criticized by many who attended Monday's luncheon sponsored by the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The event was dubbed "Hollywood, America and Election '08."
Bloodworth-Thomason and others seemed especially critical of the way MSNBC -- and other media -- has attacked Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin while demeaning her supporters.
"We should stop the demonizing," she said, adding that Democrats have been worse than Republicans as far as personal attacks on candidates are concerned. "It diminishes us," she said of her fellow Democrats.
Bloodworth-Thomason even suggested a defense of Palin and her supporters should be written into TV programing, just as she went out of her way to portray Southern women as smart in her hit TV show "Designing Women."
Attendee Michael Reagan, the radio talk-show host and son of President Ronald Reagan, said he no longer will appear as a guest on MSNBC because "I actually get death threats."
"I'll stop sending them," joked Larry Gelbart, the writer, producer and director best known for the "M*A*S*H" television series and such movie screenplays as "Tootsie" and "Oh, God!"
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Liberal civil war has broken out in Tinseltown. The angry Hollywood denizens lambasting MSNBC are long-time Hillary worshippers.
Ugh! Frank Luntz is a putz. I wish he would just go away.
Linda Bloodworth-Thomason is a close friend of Bill and Hill. She and her hubby produced the videos at Bill’s inaugeration events.
Grins!!
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Democrats dominate the internet? He been smoking his special stash again???
Hear the PUMAS roar....
man I would never guessed this could happen
Bloodworth Thomason...wow
wonder where Steenbergen is on this hellbound train
and Markie Post?
Billy Bob?
all the Arkansas Hollywood mafia...
I can feel electricity in the air. Between the 2001 audio of Obama (”that was not the Barack I once knew”) and some of the movement in the polls and the PUMAs, not to mention the mysterious Drudge banner I cannot help but think that Obama is going to be curled up in the fetal position on Election Night.
“Sarah Palin Is Very Smart” [Greg Pollowitz]
Via Hugh Hewitt, so says former Ms. Magazine editor-in-chief Elaine Lafferty. We’ll see, however, if Lafferty’s Daily Beast posting gets as much media attention as that other Daily Beast posting. An excerpt:
It’s difficult not to froth when one reads, as I did again and again this week, doubts about Sarah Palin’s “intelligence,” coming especially from women such as PBS’s Bonnie Erbe, who, as near as I recall, has not herself heretofore been burdened with the Susan Sontag of Journalism moniker. As Fred Barnes — God help me, I’m agreeing with Fred Barnes — suggests in The Weekly Standard, these high toned and authoritative dismissals come from people who have never met or spoken with Sarah Palin. Those who know her, love her or hate her, offer no such criticism. They know what I know, and I learned it from spending just a little time traveling on the cramped campaign plane this week: Sarah Palin is very smart.
I’m a Democrat, but I’ve worked as a consultant with the McCain campaign since shortly after Palin’s nomination. Last week, there was the thought that as a former editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine as well as a feminist activist in my pre-journalism days, I might be helpful in contributing to a speech that Palin had long wanted to give on women’s rights.
Now by “smart,” I don’t refer to a person who is wily or calculating or nimble in the way of certain talented athletes who we admire but suspect don’t really have serious brains in their skulls. I mean, instead, a mind that is thoughtful, curious, with a discernable pattern of associative thinking and insight. Palin asks questions, and probes linkages and logic that bring to mind a quirky law professor I once had. Palin is more than a “quick study”; I’d heard rumors around the campaign of her photographic memory and, frankly, I watched it in action. She sees. She processes. She questions, and only then, she acts. What is often called her “confidence” is actually a rarity in national politics: I saw a woman who knows exactly who she is.
10/27 08:30 PM
the Mccain camp better keep driving it home and blow out the TV ads
Any thoughts?
Thanks!
Remember them. They were the ones that Hillary kicked and lied about the travel office so they could get the business.
It’s a guessing game quite honestly!
But the Presidential Material banner on the Obama caricature is quite curious.
A lot of people seem to think that Drudge has something or is playing with the MSM. Others think it has to do with polls (but in that case, the omission of Gallup is curious, no?).
I don’t think it has to do with polls (mostly due to Gallup and Rasmussen being missing).
It’s simple. Ms. Palin is a leader.
There was only one "smart" one out of four, that was Dixie Carter's character. The other three were so dumb they made Carter's character seem smarter than she was.
I'm feeling a bit of cautious optimism also. What a strange campaign season this has been...
Ok I just love this description comparing con artist Obama with...John Kerry:
“Obama also gets credit because he’s a better communicator than past Democrats, Luntz said, comparing the previous Democratic presidential nominee, John Kerry, to one of those trees that threw apples at Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz.”
I mean - I remember when Kerry went to the presidential debates with an orange brown face from fake tan lotion and the “those trees that threw apples at Dorothy..” catches his wooden face perfectly!
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