Showing posts with label MSNBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MSNBC. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Rev. Al Sharpton on MSNBC: Cable News Wants More "Pop"
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Hiring Of Sharpton By MSNBC Follows Larger Trend (WNYC/NPR) That kind of hiring is somewhat of a trend, he says. Other examples include Eliot Spitzer at CNN and Fox News hiring Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee. "I think what we're seeing increasingly is that cable news executives are looking for people who pop on screen and will get people to watch the shows," Deggans says.
Saturday, March 08, 2008
Live-blogging MSNBC coverage March 8
8:00pm: From what I could gather from this giggly segment, Chris Matthews (who I like and think has been more than fair so far) and MSNBC think this primary 2008 election is a fight over rhetoric and campaign slag -- same shit different day.
If the MSM can't understand the move that the American people are making, they should go back on the street and talk to regular folks. This is a moment for Americans to stand up and say what we think needs to happen. We're taking our shot.
Given the fact that 5,000 homeless youth die on the street every year in America, given that there are millions of people in the "richest country in the world" who go to work every day and don't have health insurance, given the fact that the US has been involved for 5 years in war that the American people don't support that has killed thousands of American soldiers and maimed tens of thousands more, I'd like to suggest that MSNBC appologize to the American people for being part of the problem.
Some of us are doing something about that.
And personally speaking, I somehow just don't trust Mrs. Clinton to get us out of Iraq.
6:00pm: Here's a wild discussion between Chris Matthews and some commentators over the assignment of delegates. This election makes no sense to these folks in terms of getting votes and getting delegates.... They don't understand the election. Obama should be going for votes, not trying to lead a movement... etc.
Eugene Robinson -- Change message is the issue for Obama.
Tucker Carlson -- Says Hillary's message of being tough is right on for the country...
Rachel Maddow seems to be a shill for Hillary's campaign but postures as a journalist paid for by MSNBC, but whatever.....
Matthews is talking about how other campaigns have handled this or that attack....
If the MSM can't understand the move that the American people are making, they should go back on the street and talk to regular folks. This is a moment for Americans to stand up and say what we think needs to happen. We're taking our shot.
Given the fact that 5,000 homeless youth die on the street every year in America, given that there are millions of people in the "richest country in the world" who go to work every day and don't have health insurance, given the fact that the US has been involved for 5 years in war that the American people don't support that has killed thousands of American soldiers and maimed tens of thousands more, I'd like to suggest that MSNBC appologize to the American people for being part of the problem.
Some of us are doing something about that.
And personally speaking, I somehow just don't trust Mrs. Clinton to get us out of Iraq.
6:00pm: Here's a wild discussion between Chris Matthews and some commentators over the assignment of delegates. This election makes no sense to these folks in terms of getting votes and getting delegates.... They don't understand the election. Obama should be going for votes, not trying to lead a movement... etc.
Eugene Robinson -- Change message is the issue for Obama.
Tucker Carlson -- Says Hillary's message of being tough is right on for the country...
Rachel Maddow seems to be a shill for Hillary's campaign but postures as a journalist paid for by MSNBC, but whatever.....
Matthews is talking about how other campaigns have handled this or that attack....
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Live-blogging MSNBC Keith Oberman 2/12/08: Potomac Primary
Russert: Dems: #1 - not just the win, it's the magnitude of the win; #2 - did anyone reach over into the other's turf? On Repub side: where's the Evangelical vote? If Huckabee can do well in VA, he can move on to TX.
Ron Allen is in Little Rock covering the Huckabee campaign. Huck is pushing McCain right without offending.... [some pundits say
Andrea Mitchell: Hillary way behind in Potomac Primary. They're looking at the numbers, they feel this is defeat. This is not spin.... Looking towards Texas. Chelsea is there now. Firewall. Texas. Stop Obama March momentum...
NBC commentator ----Virginia: who's coming out? Women - 56% of the electorate so far; % of blacks is 29% vs. 63% white; age: youngest and oldest most turnout and is up in both. New voters is up - 35% of voters on Dem side, is very big. Biggest Dem turnout in VA since Lyndon Johnson...
Matthews: New Voters: that helps Obama....
Delegates
Hillary: 954 v Obama: 1025 pledged delegates tonight
1215 Hillary; 1190 Obama superdelegates
Huh? Not sure what they were saying.... Should be a democratic process....
Pat Buchanan: If Obama breaks away he will threaten Clinton base in OH and TX
Katrina Vanden Heuvel (Nation Mag): Obama needs to sharpen his war-economy connection
Eugene Robinson: Don't count out Clinton till the last dog dies.... [yes he really said that! and it's so true.....]
Pat: Impossible that Superdelegates would superimpose their will on the grassroots... Huck should get 35-40%, will be a viable candidate, Repubs need to re-think....
Ron Allen is in Little Rock covering the Huckabee campaign. Huck is pushing McCain right without offending.... [some pundits say
Andrea Mitchell: Hillary way behind in Potomac Primary. They're looking at the numbers, they feel this is defeat. This is not spin.... Looking towards Texas. Chelsea is there now. Firewall. Texas. Stop Obama March momentum...
NBC commentator ----Virginia: who's coming out? Women - 56% of the electorate so far; % of blacks is 29% vs. 63% white; age: youngest and oldest most turnout and is up in both. New voters is up - 35% of voters on Dem side, is very big. Biggest Dem turnout in VA since Lyndon Johnson...
Matthews: New Voters: that helps Obama....
Delegates
Hillary: 954 v Obama: 1025 pledged delegates tonight
1215 Hillary; 1190 Obama superdelegates
Huh? Not sure what they were saying.... Should be a democratic process....
Pat Buchanan: If Obama breaks away he will threaten Clinton base in OH and TX
Katrina Vanden Heuvel (Nation Mag): Obama needs to sharpen his war-economy connection
Eugene Robinson: Don't count out Clinton till the last dog dies.... [yes he really said that! and it's so true.....]
Pat: Impossible that Superdelegates would superimpose their will on the grassroots... Huck should get 35-40%, will be a viable candidate, Repubs need to re-think....
Live-blogging MSNBC Hardball with Chris Matthews 2/12/08: Potomac Primary
5:48pm: Now Eugene Robinson says we're looking at the margins tonight, Obama most likely to win. Tucker Carlson being humorous, saying every single person is voting for Obama. Michelle Bernard, Independent Women's Voice, who lives in Maryland concurs.
USA Today poll: Carlson yes momentum matters; polls among investors (the market polls) are important -- they're saying Obama 70%. Robinson says yes these are important numbers. Matthews says if Hillary can't get higher than 50%, isn't that a problem. Carlson says that's the whole game -- the promise of Obama is a governing coalition that expands the party.
Matthews: what about gender? What will women do? Bernard says Hillary's support is declining. Women like him. She gains no advantage by not doing well tonight... She's looking to Ohio, etc, but not a big change... Robinson -- she needs more support among working class people.
They're joking about Starbucks.... ha ha latte....
Significance: Bernard- if Obama wins tonight, he's the frontrunner, people will think about ROI, can Hillary close the deal?
That's it.
5:43pm Chris Matthews just hosted former Va. Gov. Doug Wilder and former Ohio Sen. and astronomical hero John Glenn, Wilder for Obama and Glenn who has just announced his support for Hillary in Ohio. I think Wilder had the upper hand, bringing up the issue of the economic cost of the war in Iraq and asking for an appology from Sen. Clinton for her vote authorizing Bush going to war.
USA Today poll: Carlson yes momentum matters; polls among investors (the market polls) are important -- they're saying Obama 70%. Robinson says yes these are important numbers. Matthews says if Hillary can't get higher than 50%, isn't that a problem. Carlson says that's the whole game -- the promise of Obama is a governing coalition that expands the party.
Matthews: what about gender? What will women do? Bernard says Hillary's support is declining. Women like him. She gains no advantage by not doing well tonight... She's looking to Ohio, etc, but not a big change... Robinson -- she needs more support among working class people.
They're joking about Starbucks.... ha ha latte....
Significance: Bernard- if Obama wins tonight, he's the frontrunner, people will think about ROI, can Hillary close the deal?
That's it.
5:43pm Chris Matthews just hosted former Va. Gov. Doug Wilder and former Ohio Sen. and astronomical hero John Glenn, Wilder for Obama and Glenn who has just announced his support for Hillary in Ohio. I think Wilder had the upper hand, bringing up the issue of the economic cost of the war in Iraq and asking for an appology from Sen. Clinton for her vote authorizing Bush going to war.
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