JC Watts Now Working At C N N

KOTV Channel 6 Tulsa ^ | 01/20/06 | some dude at AP

[OKSooner]

CNN has hired former Oklahoma congressman J.C. Watts Jr. to provide political commentary.

Watts, a Republican, was elected in 1994 to Congress. He served 4 terms.

CNN’s president Jon Klein: "J.C. is one of the most respected and effective conservative communicators in the nation's capital."

[OKSooner]

JC, say it ain't so...

[OKSooner]

Ping...

[John Lenin]

Will blacks call him a CNN house slave ?

[EagleUSA]

A tragic choice...the Clinton News Network. I am shocked. Well, let's hope he maintains his conservative sanity...and does not defect to liberalism for a huge paycheck.

[Sunshine Sister]

You gotta be kiddin' me! JC on CNN?????? They must be paying him well.

[mlc9852]

Maybe even CNN realizes they need to present the other side to compete with Fox!

[martin_fierro]

Dunno why FoxNews didn't snag him instead of that fossil Novak.

[yobid]

I predict he won't last long there.

[EagleUSA]

Maybe even CNN realizes they need to present the other side to compete with Fox!
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You may have hit on it! CNN ratings are in the tank -- and still sinking. The FOX business model is a winner so far, and commands an impressive lead in ratings and viewership. It kind of reminds me of the TV program "AMERICAN IDOL"...the program model is sooooo sucsessful, that many others are copying -- maybe some logic and sanity sunk in to the heads of the board of directors of CNN...just maybe :-)

[My2Cents]

Traitor!

[JoeGar]

I like JC and I'm glad to see CNN try to present a more balanced picture of the news.

[areafiftyone]

Posted HERE

Did he start yet?

[danbo]

J.C. and Glenn Beck: who will be next? If this keeps up, cable could become infested with conservatives/republicans; not just FOX. And then what's next, the networks? Is this bad?

Personally, I like the thought of FOX have actual competition for balanced news.

[rhombus]

I like JC and I'm glad to see CNN try to present a more balanced picture of the news.

I'm ever hopeful too.

[ssaftler]

According to the San Francisco Comical this morning, Watts and Glenn Beck's new positions at CNN are all the inner dealings with Roger Ailes at Fox. Or, at the very least, the bozos at CNN are so frightened of Fox, they are trying to emulate them.

This, of course, was followed by the standard 5 boilerplate paragraphs that every Comical story mentioning conservatives has to have (hates women, called the "Wisteria Lane" 9/11 widows greedy, laughed at the victims of Katrina, the usual drivel).

[LeeHarvey]

First Glenn Beck, now JCW? What's going on at CNN? Has FOXNews finally knocked some sense into them? Do they finally see that "Fair-and-Balanced" actually works?

Only time will tell...

Here's one news junkie who is glad CNN is starting to move in the right direction (even though it still leans left).

[Yo-Yo]

And on another thread today:

Rush Limbaugh & Daryn Kagan Romance Buzz Dies Down

Coincidence?

[Richard Kimball]

CNN may be making a legitimate move to the right. If Glen Beck and JC pull ratings that the liberal twits don't, they'll assume the positions of power at the network. Fox has pulled CNN to the right. If these guys are successful, CNN will have no choice but to hire more conservatives. Fox has, IMHO, started tilting left lately, and let's face it, they've never been the best network at covering breaking news. They've also started loading up on Geraldo types.

It would be a hoot to see CNN become the conservative network. I'm going to check out Beck's show.

[Joe Boucher]

Better watch out, they'll call you a racist and put you in time out.

[atomicpossum]

As long as he sticks by his conservative views, more power to him.