Posted on 10/27/2008 7:11:28 PM PDT by Chet 99
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - In a room full of television industry executives, no one seemed inclined to defend MSNBC on Monday for what some were calling its lopsidedly liberal coverage of the presidential election.
The cable news channel is "completely out of control," said writer-producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat.
She added that she would prefer a lunch date with right-leaning Fox News star Sean Hannity over left-leaning MSNBC star Keith Olbermann.
Olbermann was criticized by many who attended Monday's luncheon sponsored by the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The event was dubbed "Hollywood, America and Election '08."
Bloodworth-Thomason and others seemed especially critical of the way MSNBC -- and other media -- has attacked Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin while demeaning her supporters.
"We should stop the demonizing," she said, adding that Democrats have been worse than Republicans as far as personal attacks on candidates are concerned. "It diminishes us," she said of her fellow Democrats.
Bloodworth-Thomason even suggested a defense of Palin and her supporters should be written into TV programing, just as she went out of her way to portray Southern women as smart in her hit TV show "Designing Women."
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Rush and KO are not even on the same page KO is nowhere near Rush’s league.
Rush has the ability to discuss the opposition rationally. KO cannot. He’s a one-trick mimic, and a cheezy one at that.
Epic Fail.
I’m hungry.
Hollywood got so biased even in their entertainment shows that people quit watching.
Luv dem PUMA’s!
I don't. They are liberals who have been slighted and have gotten vindictive. If they support McCain, that's great, but there is nothing there to love. They are still part of a cult of personality.
I'll be impressed when they nominate a conservative or leave the party altogether. But just remember that after 11/5, they will be as liberal and as hateful as they ever were during the Clinton years. And Linda B-T was among the worst.
I’m suggesting his political philosophy is exactly the same as Olbernutcase.
I hope Hollywood is scared. Under their messiah, no one could afford going to a movie.
That’s certainly always been my impression!
LOL that was my first thought!
They’re afraid for their livelihoods after all these asinine stars have been shooting their mouths off and angering people who used to go to movies on a regular basis.
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winnah!
Great comment. We've got a tie for best comment!
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10092006/gossip/pagesix/pagesix.htm
KEITH GETS LOW RATINGS IN BED
bttt
These people promise us nothing more than a route to the Gulag.
“...must be a closet PUMA.”
That was my first thought, too - lol. She’s always been pretty liberal so you know it must be bad if she’s speaking out against it.
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