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To: StAnDeliver
"in order to keep a certain small moonbat segment watching endlessly. In third place, as it perpetually turns out."

I wish that were true. The Today show is clearly the highest rated morning television news show. It is a cash cow for the network, buoying the bottom line while evening programming has been in the tank for the last 6-7 years.

I'm sure that there are "moonbats" that watch, but there are also a TREMENDOUS number of ideologically unaffiliated people (mostly women) that watch. These are the kind of people that swing elections to one side or the other.

Having a news show ban one of the most powerful conservative voices, when frankly there aren't that many conservatives voices to begin with - is deeply troubling.

If conservatives don't stop pretending that the MSM is dying and don't wield any power, it's going to be losing elections for a very, very long time.

Incidentally, Drudge is reporting that Coulter is being replaced by Perez Hilton.

157 posted on 01/05/2009 3:09:36 PM PST by Big_Monkey
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To: Big_Monkey

Who the heck is Perez Hilton? Any relation to the blond bimbo?


176 posted on 01/05/2009 3:16:16 PM PST by Conservativegreatgrandma (When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; when the wicked rule the people mourn. Proverbs 29;2)
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To: Big_Monkey

NBC BANS COULTER FOR LIFE; CUT FROM ‘TODAY’ SHOW OVER BOOK’S CLAIMS, NO MORE CABLE
Mon Jan 05 2009 17:50:57 ET

The nation’s top selling conservative author has been banned from appearing on NBC, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT.

Banned for life!

“We are just not going to have her on any more, it’s over,” a top network source explains.

NBC’s TODAY show abruptly cut Ann Coulter from its planned Tuesday broadcast, claiming the schedule was overbooked.

But executives at NBC TODAY replaced Coulter with showbiz reporter Perez Hilton, who recently offered $1,000 to anyone who would throw a pie at Ann Coulter. Hilton is also launching a new book this week, RED CARPET SUICIDE.

Coulter was set to unveil her new book, GUILTY.

But one network insider claims it was the book’s theme — a brutal examination of liberal bias in the new era — that got executives to dis-invite the controversialist.

“We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals. “It’s such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience wants, either.”

For the book, Coulter reportedly received the most-lucrative advance ever paid to a conservative author.

The TODAY show eagerly invited the author months ago, for her first network interview on GUILTY.

The exclusive was to air during the show’s 7 AM hour. The cut came Monday afternoon.

Developing...


203 posted on 01/05/2009 3:27:51 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Big_Monkey
I was referring to this as a faux cause célèbre to incite the nutroots to buy whatever brand of tampons Madcow is selling tonight. If you can't follow the narrative, more's the pity.

Today Show jelloheads are bought and sold by campaign ads. You fit right in, noob. Quelle dommage.

A weak septugenarian candidate -- who spent 1/3rd of what Tiger Obamawoods spent -- lost. What a freakin shock. Who could have guessed? Maybe not you...

You did get one thing Wright -- the MSM is dying, and we are the wooden stake in the heart. Lead, follow, or get the complete and absolute f*ck out of my way.

210 posted on 01/05/2009 3:32:25 PM PST by StAnDeliver (We Are Your Overlords.)
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