Posted on 12/14/2002 12:07:41 PM PST by God'sgrrl
From MSNBC: Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. This Hollywood political power couple is taking on the President. But is their anti-war stand … anti-American? Join Phil and a live audience, Monday, 8 p.m. ET.
It's been placing next-to-last lately. So they MsNBC execs on in a position of cancelling a show that 1.) never should have lasted more than 2 weeks, if aired at all, 2.) said show helping to drag down "Hard Ball" faster than necessary, and 3.) also cancelling "Hard Ball" as well.
That's half their primetime schedule all at once.
Then, given the MSNBC programming geniuses last 6 months of picking/developing winners, GE will have to can the execs.
GE's problem then becomes what to do with the network. Conservatism (aka as the truth) is selling now. Whether the
market can support another non-head-up-its-butt network is the least of GE's problems. It would then be accused of a
conservative bias for trying to attract viewers and thereby advertisers, and thereby turn a decent ROI for its nvestors.
Liberals, to quote Limbaugh, "love failure". Wall Street doesn't.
Sounds like the PR department is presumptuously assuming the show will even be on the air Monday night. There's a quite decent chance the MSNBC execs are hashing out Phil's Phinal Doom via conference call right now.
By the way, why are these nobodies referred to as "politlcal power couples"? They have no political power at ALL, anywhere. And they may have some industry power in Hollywood itself (and even that might be pushing it ... neither of these two are exactly in the primes of their careers), but once they cross the LA city limits, they're not one iota more important than you or I are.
... is taking on the President.
Why is this news? If they had a chance, ANY chance, the tiniest iota of a chance, perhaps it might be news. But they don't. They have ZERO chance. People in the White House are openly laughing at these self-appointed "power players." Sarandon and Robbins are NOBODIES.
I'm surprised that Michael Moore and Ralph Nader won't be joining them. Phil has limited time left to give his cronies air time. Phil is a goner one way or another in the near future. Either MSNBC will go under completely or some other whacko (Jesse Ventura?) will be given a shot.
MSNBC has already signed up Ventura. His show starts early next year.
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