The Hate-Bush Network, Minus Bush

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | February 16, 2009 | Floyd and Mary Beth Brown

[Dixiekraut]

I agree with much of what is said here..but in fairness Rachel Maddow has had Pat Buchanan on her show a number of times...but perhaps the writer thinks he’s so far right that he’s left.

[Raycpa]

He is a nut with nutty ideas and a few conservative ideas.

[Pietro]

That’s no problem the gov. has been subsidising liberal speech for decades. Offalman will just get on the dole and proceed.

[ClearCase_guy]

Buchanan is a difficult person to characterize. Personally, I think he has a great deal in common with national socialism (not trying to be insulting, just trying to be accurate) and so I think fans of Obama will have a high tolerance for Buchanan. In the end, they’re all fascists together.

[ladyvet]

From what I see the left has not stopped bashing Pres. Bush one bit. Now of coarse it's about war crimes for him and his administration, blah, blah, blah.

It's just all a distraction to keep from having to face the fact that their idiot sock money in the White House,Chicago,Hawaii, Disneyland or where ever the hell he is today is a total f**k up.

[pepsionice]

I think MSNBC is now kinda like a 6-cylinder engine which is down to four cylinders. Without Bush, they really can’t blast anyone much...and to sound nice and Teletubby-happy all the time...just isn’t what people watched them for. I think over the next six months...they will slip the worst of any network. It’ll be hard to sustain anything they had from last year.

[tiki]

If it matters, I thinks he’s so far right that he’s left.

[GOPJ]

Media bias is not something unique to MSNBC, they just take it to a whole new level. As the balance of the left-stream media gushes over how much Obama works out, the same media complained about Bush’s “weird obsession” with exercise.While they went gaga for Obama's inauguration, the same correspondents complained about how much Bush spent on his more modest 2004 event. While the media were slamming Sarah Palin, they ignored Barack’s propensity for gaffes including “57 states” and Afghani-Iraqi translators. While the media drilled Republicans for a “culture of corruption,” they give Eric Holder, Tim Geithner, Bill Richardson, and Hilda Solis a free pass, saying they made honest mistakes.

MSNBC turns bias, hatred and double standards into an art forms, but their "numbers" show the rest of us can see right throught them...

[DemforBush]

“One night last week, for example, O’Reilly scored 3.5 million views compared to Olbermann’s 1.4 million. Keith Olbermann may need to go back to sports.”

I think one of the big differences here is, O’Reilly draws viewers who enjoy watching him, even if they don’t necessarily agree with him. He can be a blowhard at times, but mostly he’s civil to his guests and he’s willing to have almost anyone on. By contrast, Olbermann is *so* shrill and angry, his appeal is largely limited to the rabid far left.

Oh yeah, and ESPN doesn’t want him back!

[Badeye]

Buchanan is John McCain without a Senate seat.

[tlb]

>>>MSNBC is in big trouble without Bush to bash.

So far at least not really. Even as he loses to o’Reilly, Olbermann’s current ratings are not quite double what they were before the primaries began. That is still a big jump.

Overall they can lose to Fox and still be making money. Talking head shows aren’t terribly expensive to run.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I am more concerned with Glenn Beck. I suspect that he was recruited specifically to be a “right wing Keith Olbermann”. That is, just as obnoxious, offensive and knee jerk. And while this may be emotionally gratifying, it lacks class, and is self-defeating in the long run.

Personally, I would like to see Rupert Murdock set up a journalism school with Brit Hume as the headmaster, with entire courses in subjects like “ethics” (which are not relativistic, nor determined by vote), “objectivity” (how not to spin, even though you have an opinion), and “integrity” (how to be able to look yourself in the face every morning).

[MrB]

I heard some numbers this morning.

0bama’s inaugural balls cost 170 mil, and Bush’s 50 mil.

[Neverforget01]

Without Bush, they really can’t blast anyone much

Here come the bashing of Republican House members and Rush Limbaugh. MSNBC has plenty of targets. just watch.

[cricket]

Well, we know how Buchannan feels about Israel; and we know there is a ‘simpatico’ here, with the Left. So, why not have Buchannan on. . .a very safe bet, that reinforces the Left’s bias.

[Sans-Culotte]

All of the so-called journalists on the left-wing news channels want Obama to succeed, yet they were unwilling to even wear an American Flag lapel pin during Operation Iraqi Freedom for “fear of showing a bias” toward the U.S.A.

[Ole Okie]

It’ll be hard to sustain anything they had from last year.

Oh, boo hoo. World's smallest violin playing "Hearts and Flowers". And so on.

I'll weep a crocodile tear for them and wish them bad cess.

[csmusaret]

I don’t understand the fascination with Beck either. That guy is extremely hard to watch. Enough with the fourth grade histrionics already and please don’t eat ever again on TV. Him chewing chocolate made me gag so bad I turned my set off.

[BenLurkin]

Not surprsing MSNBC is losing money. They’re slobs. One of their guys on in the evening never wears a tie.