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Is Donahue Soon to be Goneahue?
NewsMax.com ^
| 8/20/02
| Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
Posted on 08/19/2002 9:15:00 PM PDT by kattracks
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posted on
08/19/2002 9:15:00 PM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
...parading out shopworn liberals like Donahue in the hope that he'll somehow be able to compete with the likes of Bill O'Reilly when he can't even compete with Connie Chung. Ouch!
Mr. Thomas' act got tiring, formulaic, derivative, and preachy even to the most brained addled, vacuous, bon bon munching couch denizen by the mid 80's. What the hell was MSNBC thinking about?
To: kattracks
"We'll have an election to cover and a war in Iraq," Mr. Sorenson told the Times. "The channel is counting on Mr. Donahue to handle that kind of subject matter better than Ms. Chung.Meanwhile, Phil keeps preaching against war. These guys need to get on the same page.
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posted on
08/19/2002 9:28:57 PM PDT
by
THX 1138
To: Senator Pardek; kattracks
Hm, so here's a
country network that canned a conservative and replaced him with a liberal. Things have gotten
so bad for this
country network now with this liberal, you think the
country network will "beg" a conservative to replace him? Nah. They'll just end up with another liberal.
Oops, wrong channel. sorry.
To: Senator Pardek
Mr. Thomas' act got tiring, formulaic, derivative, and preachy even to the most brained addled, vacuous, bon bon munching couch denizen by the mid 80's. What the hell was MSNBC thinking about? That just about says it Sen. How are ya, BTW? Anyway, I can't imagine what these idiots must have been thinking either. When they said they were bringing back Donohue, I couldn't believe how out of touch they were. They were on the right track with Alan Keyes but he played their game and got dumped. They need someone who won't play the game and dig up Vince. I'll tell you what - if they did a program devoted to just the clinton scandals including the suspected murders, their ratings would fly through the roof. I wonder how long they will whistle past the graveyard by ignoring this obvious plum of an issue.
Hey! I've got it! Bring on John Clarke and Pat Knowlton. Now I'd watch that for sure.
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posted on
08/19/2002 9:32:18 PM PDT
by
Samizdat
To: kattracks
The day it is announced that Donahue has been cancelled, I think we should hold an online party celebrating the demise of that smug Socialist! He was so arrogant when talking of why he was coming back to television. Claimed there was no 'voice' for people who believe like him. Apparently there is also no audience.
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posted on
08/19/2002 9:32:44 PM PDT
by
ladyinred
To: kattracks
He had Studs Terkle on tonight... talk about throwing the deck chairs off the Titanic! (and they both had matching red outfits on, who's idea was that?)
To: kattracks
Donahue was the original piece of daytime TV crap.
A guy a work said to me ten years ago, "Within five minutes of walking in the door, I can tell if my wife watched Donahue that day."
I said, "Oh, yeah? How's that?"
"Because we have a fight."
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posted on
08/19/2002 9:35:49 PM PDT
by
Barnacle
To: ladyinred
He had the ba!!s to talk about the silent majority who do not back Bush and polls mean nothing! LOL!
To: kattracks
Anybody know how long Mr. D and Posner had their show.? My guess is that this will last about half of that time.
To: ladyinred
I just heard something really strange on Fox.
Apparently GWB is enjoying a 40%+ approval rating among blacks and they are beginning to switch to republicans.
Can this be true?
And if it is, how do we welcome our new members?
I suggest a big party! Plenty of food and drink and done on a national basis!
To: wirestripper
"Mr" D. had posner on the other night. He has hit rock bottom.
To: ladyinred
MSNBC is in denial. Calling this the summer of dead news. They are out of their freaking minds. We are at war. We are entering a new phase of the war soon with Iraq. We have Al Qaeda tapes. We have kidnappings. We have every debate for the coming elections. We have 9-11 anniversary coming. We have Israel's war to cover. We have floods in Europe from hell. I mean I could seriously name 40 high news topics here. I have not even hit the running trials and Wall Street scandals yet.
MSNBC is in total denial and is in risk of losing everything by pouring money into the Donahue show. By focusing on this insane new idea they have of talk shows all day and night on, people get lamed out. They want breaking news all the time. They want investigative pieces. They don't give a shit about Phil. They never really did. He was something for burned out 60's wives to watch in the late 1970's and 1980's.
He barely even has the Nader crowd. You have to apply the old saying of "I was liberal when I was young and became conservative when I got smarter,wiser, and older", this is obviously what happened to Phil's audience. He is boring. He can't connect with anyone but a cult. He is out of touch. He tries to be hip. He fails. He is too biased. He can't spin for his life. He is rude, obnoxious, and he looks like he is on a speedball.
Most of all his worst attribute is he books 3 liberals to 1 opposing view and shuts them up and interrupts them constantly. Bill O'Reilly was right when he said Phil won't make it to the Fall.
These MSNBC execs are trying to pull a rabbitt out of a hat with a hole in the bottom of it. They have filled their anchor desks with some seriously ADD ridden super former local NBC or wherever news hacks who have absolutely NO DELIVERY and are ugly.
The news business is shaping up to belong to 2 organizations. 1. Fox News Channel and 2. CNN. That is it. The networks are so damn stale they make a 2 week old loaf of bread that has sat out on a counter look fresh.
MSNBC will be sold. Watch. It will be sold off to some other corporation who will swear they can do wonders with it. They just can't afford to keep losing the money they are losing.
But where is Bill Gates? You know...the MS in MSNBC?? Where are his brilliant ideas that he spoke of the first day MSNBC went on air? Oh yes...I remember that day well. Where he said MSNBC will be just as popular as CNN in 2004 and maybe even more connected.
Having Phil Donahue is not a step to the future. They are digressing back to the age of television when there was nothing to watch. Which is exactly what people are doing right now with MSNBC. Not watching because there is nothing to watch.
To: kattracks
"He's going to have Oprah on and Harrison Ford and George Clooney," Mr. Sorenson told the Times. "I don't honestly expect to have an answer on this until November."
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Ya know, the more these actors/entertainers open their mouths about their liberal politics, the less I want to hear or see them. I loved the movie Perfect Storm and enjoyed Clooney's acting most of the time. Then he went and ruined it all by showing his liberal side.
I think the actors of years gone by knew something this current batch doesn't...keep your mouth shut off screen to keep the image alive rather than opening your mouth and revealing the real idiot behind the screen image. I wish they'd go back to those days when their private lives were kept private and the public was fed a well scripted image. Then we would not have them blasting their liberal views from their pedestals afforded them by the mere fact that they are well-known actors.
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posted on
08/19/2002 9:47:37 PM PDT
by
RGVTx
To: wirestripper
Apparently GWB is enjoying a 40%+ approval rating among blacks and they are beginning to switch to republicans.The truth (internet and Fox news) shall set you free!
To: wirestripper
The good news is there is a hardcore republican group of black republicans in Miami. No I am not kidding you. I have worked many a protest with this crew. They mean business and they try to shut down every DNC event they run into. They are not showing up in suits either. We are talking street/avg. joe's who are sick of the DNC lie. They even bring out papers with them and hand it out to fellow blacks and dem's showing them that it was the Dixiecrats that were responsible for hanging blacks...literally...and out to dry today.
The word is out and they want a life.
To: operation clinton cleanup
This is the best news I have heard in a long time. If the party does not run with this, they are going to be severely chastised by me and others.
To: My Favorite Headache
But where is Bill Gates? You know...the MS in MSNBC?? He got smacked down by janet reno... he is happy to be alive.
To: kattracks
Donahe is like a case of genital herpes. You can treat and subdue the symptons periodically, but the fundamental disease keeps returning.
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posted on
08/19/2002 9:53:08 PM PDT
by
RLK
To: RGVTx
Yep. MSNBC has all of the answers. If all else fails...bring out Hollywood actors onto Phil Donahue's set. Like we really give a shit what Harrison Ford has to say? He left his wife of how many years to bang Ally McBeal? Plus had more photo-op's with Bill Clinton than a random baby at a church picnic.
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