DOWNGRADED: CNN is shifting CROSSFIRE

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[The Wizard]

see what james carvile can do for you!!!!!!

[Hazzardgate]

Bugalla was actually worse on that show that Carvile (if that's possible). I think all the cheering DUmmies in the audience made him feel special.

[Beck_isright]

They must have a French program director. This is an obvious surrender move to FNC.

[mystery-ak]

GEEEEEZ...that CNN pic in the title freaks me out...looks like an ad for Star Trek or something.

[The Wizard]

good point, I guess the revelations about CNN conduct is taking hold....My guess is CNN will soon stand for "closed news network"

[Hazzardgate]

Yup it certainly looks like the dominos are startin' to roll. I hear Aaron Brownshirt might be getting a pink slip soon, too.

[kcvl]

CNN is mulling whether to move Paula Zahn to prime time and get itself another morning anchor.

When war broke out in Iraq, causing CNN to kill Connie Chung’s show, Aaron Brown initially took over early evening war coverage. But Zahn moved in soon thereafter, anchoring 7 to 9 p.m. war coverage. Many TV biz watchers speculated that was a sure sign CNN was testing Zahn for a prime-time run. There’ve even been rumblings that Zahn’s empire might be beefed up to absorb the “Crossfire” time slot.

Sources close to the situation say the prime-time Zahn model is being considered, and that CNN suits spoke to Jane Clayson about taking the morning gig, though that’s not going to happen, one said.

Clayson, you’ll recall, anchored CBS’s “The Early Show” with Bryant Gumbel when it was doing weaker numbers. Since bowing out of that show, she signed a new CBS News contract making her a correspondent for the evening news and ”48 Hours Investigates.”

“We’re not commenting on any possible programming changes,” a CNN rep told this column.

With regard to the displacement of “Crossfire,” the rep said that it “is a show we value very much that will continue to air on CNN.”

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Since that piece ran on Friday, it’s been open season on Eason Jordan.

Rush Limbaugh had a field day: “CNN is reporting that 11 chemical-bio weapons labs have been found in the Iraqi town of Karbal, and they’re buried to escape detection. I’m wondering how long has CNN known this? It’s a legitimate question now.”

[Reo]

Hey, James! It's the ratings, Stupid!

[Hazzardgate]

Buck up boyos!

[hoot2]

hey, that guy in the back ground looks like richard dreyfuss...

[TruthWillWin]

I haven't watched Crossfire in over 2 years. I'm not sure why?

[Hazzardgate]

Putting CROSSFIRE up against Neil Cavuto is a death-knell for CROSSFIRE

Even worse luck for CROSSFIRE .... it will be up against

[COURAGE]

"Bush, Blair and Rumsfeld. They are the funny trio"

[hole_n_one]

[ALS]

[timydnuc]

Have you seen the lefties lately. They have this constipated, Billy Crystal "little old Jewish man" look on their faces. I don't know whether to give them Imodium or Phillips Milk of Magnesia. Pick a bowel activity and stick to it fellows.

I think the propositition is; "sh!t, or go blind". If that's the alternative, I'm sure most will be searching for canes and "seeing eye" dogs instead of a good, solid toilet. Either way, they have shown their collective ass, and they can't bring it back.

The left has taken a huge hit. Get your boots on, it's time to kick them while they are down. Liberate the USA next. We're on a roll!

[fightinJAG]

This iteration of Crossfire is the worst show ever. It's absolutely unwatchable.

If CNN wants to do something right for a change, they would make Lou Dobbs show 2 hours; let him fill the Crossfire slot.

[fightinJAG]

So, you wanna start an all-liberal, all the time cable station?

Uh-huh. You can't even get liberals to watch the kings of liberalism, the Forehead and Serpenthead, for a stinkin' 60 minutes of "Crossfire."

If the Rat audience is so large and supposedly so underserved by the media, you'd think the most partisan and wacko showcasing of liberals on television---Crossfire---would be a breath of fresh air, a draught of cool water for Rats everywhere.

Instead, Crossfire is being cancelled.

HAHAHAAAAHAAAAAA

[Hazzardgate]

You should check out the DUmmies crying about this.

"What is going on? One of the last avenues to truth has now been blocked!", sobbed one loyal CROSSFIRE viewer.

The idea that someone thought of CROSSFIRE as an "avenue to truth" is so Baghdad Bobish. Those DUmmies are so hilarious.

[fightinJAG]

I have a friend who must be a soulmate with those who thought Crossfire was an avenue to truth---one day he told me he wasn't going to watch war news on television, he was just going to get his updates from NPR and that would be sufficient!