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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Yep! Pretty big deal for her to defend Palin.
Whoa.. this is good.. has Drudge put this up yet? He should!
"Actress Patricia Heaton noted that Hollywood workers too often just assume everyone they work with is a like-minded liberal. When those around her belittle John McCain or Palin, the former "Everybody Loves Raymond" co-star politely reminds them that she's a Republican."
Patricia-Heaton -another actor on the short list of republicans in hollyweird. and pretty attractive to boot.
Don’t feel guilty. Delta Burke and her husband Gerald McCraney are two of Hollywood’s out of the closet conservatives.
Frank Luntz sucks eggs; the rest of the article give me hope for next week.
****Fairness in Hollywood? What happened?****
Maybe they found out how much nObama will take from them in taxes “to spread the wealth around”.
I wasn’t really surprised by the photographic memory comment, the whole mix up with her teleprompter at the convention, she said it started going crazy and she just gave up on it and spoke from her memory more than anything else... the woman is smart and she is a natural and the heck with Parker, Noonan, etc....
“Huh? Is this satire??”
That’s what I thought at first - that it was from Scappleface or The Onion!
Maybe even people in Hollywood can see what life will be like under the Messiah.
Oh that's right...the bottom line. How silly of me. You would think that they would consider that when they can't get whole families to the box office....but they don't.
Just a ploy. These folks are afraid of a backlash caused by the MSM's and Hollywood's treatment of Palin. This little shin-dig is supposed to make up for all of their terrible treatment of Palin. This makes everything OK.
But I thought that there WAS no media bias towards Obamar.
Somehow the valet was given a starring role and they aren’t happy about it.
Yessirree! When Kerry spoke, we at least knew we were waffles. When Obama speaks, we are not sure if we are getting grits, kidney pie, leftovers or turkey surprise.
If I ever ran into Olberman I’d immediately shift into reverse.
But I’ll admit it. I love watching those Designing Women reruns!<<<<<<<
Me, too. Even when Julia went off on some liberal political cause or another, she still had class. And you had to love Anthony and his “unfortunate incarceration”.
Great characters and writing. Good for Linda B-T if she is fair minded enough to see MSNBC for what they are.
The dems dominate the Internet?
Where?
The entire party will implode and there will be complete rejection of it from the mainstream inside of two years.
“Fairness in Hollywood? What happened?”
Maybe someone woke up and realized that “first they came for the Jews”...
You may think that your a Friend with Obama’s personality type but a lot of Stalin’s friends found out the raeal truth. Look at the eyes.
My favorite line of the whole stinking night.
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