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CLINTON DUMPED BY '60 MINUTES?'
World Net Daily ^ | May 7, 2003 | Peter Johnson

Posted on 05/07/2003 8:10:08 AM PDT by ewing

Report Says CBS Likely to Drop New Segment With Ex-President

Television viewers are apparently not having 'visual relations' with Bill Clinton's weekly debate against Bob Dole on '60 Minutes,' leading industry experts to project CBS will oust the former President from the airwaves.

According to USA Today media colunist Peter Johnson, Clinton and Dole 'have generated virtually no buzz since they premiered in March and have done nothing to boost the sagging newsmagazine's ratings.'

Hence, as executives plan to announce CBS's fall schedule next week, analyists are betting that Clinton-Dole won't be back in September.

Don Hewitt, the show's executive producer, says although no decision has been made about the segment's future, the feature apparently got drowned out by strong viewer interest in the war against Iraq.

(Excerpt) Read more at worldnetdaily.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 60minutes; cbs; clinton; dole; dumped
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To: ewing
... the feature apparently got drowned out by strong viewer interest in the war against Iraq.

This is just an excuse. If it were true, the ratings would be up and people would be tuning it in in droves.

Instead, they are voting with their remote.

81 posted on 05/07/2003 9:44:13 AM PDT by Gritty
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To: SierraWasp
That is why Freepers should wear Real Pith Helmets when they read your rants to block all of the Pith that comes from you!
82 posted on 05/07/2003 9:44:26 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Free Republic, where leftist liars are exposed 24/7!)
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To: ewing
CLINTON and DOLE DUMPED by CBS
83 posted on 05/07/2003 9:49:20 AM PDT by Afronaut
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To: ewing

HA HA!

84 posted on 05/07/2003 9:52:23 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: DeFault User
LOL. Me too. Actually, I tape it while trying to listen to Harry Shearer on Le Show.

On Drudge Radio last Sunday, somebody asked about it and whether Andy Rooney's parody had anything to do with it.

I haven't watch 60Minutes in eons. So both Clinton and Rooney go unwatched and un-noted

85 posted on 05/07/2003 9:53:13 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: RooRoobird14
I did not have visual relations with that woman!
86 posted on 05/07/2003 9:55:27 AM PDT by Celtjew Libertarian
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To: ewing
Not only that, CBS on a few occasions did the dasterdly
thing of delaying the show 30 or 35 minutes, (deliberately
IMHO) to get higher ratings for the "Clinton Soapbox Show"
by snagging those of us who like the more popular
"Big Fat Greek Life" that follows it.

To us Tivo owners, that screwed up any other CBS recordings that night.

My reaction, I deleted the "Clinton Soapbox Show" as quickly
as possible, and I cancelled FOREVER, the instructions on my
machine to record every episode of "Big Fat Greek Life"
87 posted on 05/07/2003 9:57:25 AM PDT by Future Useless Eater (Freedom_Loving_Engineer)
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To: O.C. - Old Cracker
"they premiered in March "

I didn't know they were on :)

88 posted on 05/07/2003 10:04:30 AM PDT by TYVets (A Hillbilly with an attitude after 9/11)
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To: ewing
When the rat media gets nervous about putting a lying sack of shiite like that skunk bubba , we are winning gang, we are WINNING!
89 posted on 05/07/2003 10:05:49 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
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To: SierraWasp
CBS's next proposition will be a pubic hair pulling contest between Hitlery & Liddy Dole!!!

NASTY!!!

I would prefer and would watch a tag team mud wrestling match pitting Hillary and Chelsa against Monica and Gennifer.
I expect the Clinton team would be a heavy favorite due to Hillarys reputation for under mud ear biting, eye gouging, etc. The only way to combat the tactics would be for Monica to suck all the mud out of the pit(which she could do in a few seconds) exposing Hillary's ploy to the refs.


90 posted on 05/07/2003 10:13:14 AM PDT by nomorecameljocks
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In related news, TBS signed Bill Clinton to do a series of events where he will armwrestle blind orphaned 3rd-grade girls.
91 posted on 05/07/2003 10:17:36 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: RooRoobird14
Is there a corporate/organizational list somewhere of those supporting Klinton with speaking opportunities? Sure would like to boycott these.
92 posted on 05/07/2003 10:19:30 AM PDT by gipper81
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To: ewing
Too bad. What better match than two irrelevant pols on an irrelevant program on an irrelevant network?
93 posted on 05/07/2003 10:23:36 AM PDT by kevao
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To: AmishDude
Want better ratings? Replace Dole with Newt or Rush.

Their names came up, but Clinton turned them down.
Lack of cajones, I imagine.
94 posted on 05/07/2003 10:25:19 AM PDT by gcruse (Vice is nice, but virtue can hurt you. --Bill Bennett)
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To: AmishDude
That would be some good ratings.

I have actually been pleased with Dole a couple of times though...he hasn't been as wussy as I expected. Sometimes he attacked Clinton personally.
95 posted on 05/07/2003 10:46:21 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel!)
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To: ewing
I love KOTH.
96 posted on 05/07/2003 10:47:33 AM PDT by rwfromkansas (Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel!)
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To: AmishDude
Dear CBS, Want better ratings? Replace Dole with Newt or Rush. Good suggestions

Dear CBS, Want better ratings? Replace Dole with Ann Coulter and/or Camilla Paglia... LIVE ...instant fireworks

97 posted on 05/07/2003 10:56:04 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Just because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
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To: gcruse
Their names came up, but Clinton turned them down.

Yes, I recall that, now that you mention it. It was all about Clinton and they didn't realize that nobody wanted to see Clinton. (Although I'd watch Clinton getting hammered by a better debator.)

98 posted on 05/07/2003 10:58:01 AM PDT by AmishDude
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To: skinkinthegrass
Ann Coulter

Well, we're waiting . . .

99 posted on 05/07/2003 10:59:58 AM PDT by AmishDude
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To: ewing
Hewitt told the paper Daylight Saving Time always hurts "60 Minutes" because it's light out at 7 p.m., meaning more viewers are still outdoors. Thus, a ratings boost "couldn't happen if the Statue of Liberty danced The Big Apple," Hewitt said.

So,Don Hewitt, the Extreme Lefts Elderly 'Godhead', is still blaming others/and the weather of all things, for no boost in ratings? Refusing to admit he made a grave error in judgement? This isn't surprising.

100 posted on 05/07/2003 11:00:26 AM PDT by Pagey (Hillary Rotten is a Smug , Holier-Than-Thou Socialist)
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