Posted on 04/06/2002 10:31:13 AM PST by Pokey78
Maybe it was Paul Begala's opening comments on the first day of CNN's revamped Crossfire that it was time to "kick a little right-wing ass" that angered Republicans. Or when cohost James Carville kept interrupting GOP Chairman Marc Racicot. Whatever, Republican leaders are blackballing the show. "The word is out: Don't go on; you'll get screwed," says a top Senate aide. Adds a House colleague: "It isn't a total boycott, but the show's last on our list to do." That's a blow for CNN, which has struggled to snare GOP guests as it battles with conservative-friendly Fox News. The complaints: Combative liberals Begala and Carville, both Democratic Party operatives, are too good at what they do, and conservative journalists Robert Novak and Tucker Carlson, who might see a nuance now and then, can't keep up. And they hate the live George Washington University audience. "It's like Jerry Springer," gripes a GOP-er. Says CNN's Ali Weisberg: "Robert Novak and Tucker Carlson are tough and smart on the right, and they can certainly hold their own. ... Crossfire always tries to keep its guestsand now its live audiencebalanced."
Actually the American people do feel that Clinton was a success as president. He left office with the highest approval rating of any president. The American people do not think Bush is an idiot. Just the opposite.
I'd love to see The Great One, Mark Levin, and Ann Coulter. They would annihilate the gruesome twosome.
Boycott it, absolutely.
Let Paul and Snake Head sit there and gripe to each other till their ratings tank.
"Great One" indeed, I love that guy.
He deserves the title. I love to see him take what would otherwise be about a page and a half of comments and condense it down into a single sound byte. And on top of that, he's a smarmy bastard when he does it.
LOL!
I love that guy!
That was 500% greater effort than I put in to the show. It was horribly non-entertaining.
Everbody's comments are totally on the mark, now that I think about it. I didn't bother to give it such detailed analysis
[ as to why it S^CKS, big time]
Stopped only to check it out when I realized it was the *new* Crossfire.
(Do they think a 2nd Admendment name is going to keep viewers?) Kept right on going after a minute of its non-sense.
Carville is repulsive. He'd stand a better chance on radio. But wait! Radio is home to the VRWC.
And the audience is so mean spirited, no liberal has a chance.
The left fails to appreciate that people generally do not buy what
is neither wanted or desirable. Might I suggest Europe, then, Mr. Carville? Or Zimbabwe?
Is that the new Right-Wing agenda? If you can't win the debate, shut the opposition up?
No, silly leftist. But it's rather obvious that putting Begala and Carville up against a Washington institution like Novak and a light-in-the-loafers pantywaist like Tucker Carlson isn't CNN's idea of a balanced show.
Republicans simply decided not to play along with CNN's scam, that's all. Now when they decide to put Anne Coulter on against the Forehead, then you'll see the little geek get his ass whipped. Until then, no cooperation with the Clinton News Network and its stacked deck!
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Given that all politics is local, the GOP should concentrate on getting the message out to the public directly, not through "filters" like CNN.
That's only partially true. Bill Clinton's poll numbers may have been holding but Clinton had worn out his welcome after eight scandal-filled years. The last-minute pardons hurt him, as did the trashing of the White House. If he was so popular, why did Al Gore avoid using him to bolster his own candidacy? That decision tells me that Clinton was not truly popular by 2000, just tolerated. Nixon had good approval numbers too, right up to the day he resigned.
Meanwhile, George Bush has approval numbers Clinton only dreamed of, and Clinton and his minions are still trying to whitewash Bill and prop him up as a success, when every month's events (the mid-east mess, now) show how poor a job Clinton actually did as President. Media shills aside (they'll be forgotten eventually), history won't be kind to the 'Man from Hope'.
Polls still show Clinton with high approval, so the pardons didn't hurt. And the trashing? Bush said it didn't happen. As for Gore not using him, that is not a reflection of his popularity but rather Gores bad judgement. After all, he did lose the electoral votes. Maybe if he had used Clinton, he would have garnered more of the popular vote in some of the states he did poorly in and won the electoral votes in addition to winning the popular vote.
Do you have a source for Nixon approval ratings?
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