Monday, May 05, 2008
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NYT Joins Forces with MSNBC
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Posted by:
Amanda Carpenter at
4:18 PM
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If you thought the New York Times and MSNBC were biased just wait until their joint-television show debuts!
This is from the Observer:
The Times and MSNBC are joining forces for a new cable show. Today is the debut of The New York Times Special Primary Edition, a new political show hosted by John Harwood where Times-journos will handicap the election. From a Times memo, it appers these shows will appear as specials--that is, they won't run every week, but whenever MSNBC and the paper choose to do it. I wonder if this means the reporters I wrote about HERE will be regularly teaming up with the likes of Chris Matthews, David Gregory, Dan Abrams and Keith Olbermann. i can only imagine what kind of "Worst Person in the World" list an Olbermann/NYT alliance would come up with. I expect all they'd have to do is google Republican and see which names come up first.
Update: I'm watching MSNBC right now and the NYT's Frank Rich, who equates the Hagee-McCain connection as equivalent to Obama-Wright, is on talking with Tim Russert.
Rich is saying Obama shouldn't be judged on the "battier" things Wright said. Now they are talking about Hagee. Rich notes McCain solicited Hagee's endorsement and hasn't disowned Hagree yet. Rich says President Bush is a bigger "impediment" to McCain than Wright is to Obama in a general election. I guess this is the kind of valuable analysis we can expect the NYT to lend MSBC the rest of the election season...
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Jan:
I agree. Elsewhere, I've said that comparing the Obama-Wright relationship to the McCain-Hagee relationship is like comparing a 55-gallon drum to a thimble.
I'm calling this. A commenter "Kimberly" will be on this post blabbing about McCain-Hagee in very short order. But just because Frank Rich's hack piece yesterday says so doesn't make it so. I'll make my preemptive plea:
If anyone has links to some credible sources that provide details about the McCain-Hagee relationship, provide them. HuffPo doesn’t count. Neither does Frank Rich's hack piece in yesterday's NY Times.
The MSNBC-NYT show is the straw to break the camels back. |
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The Wright comments didn't hurt Obama. His Gallup numbers are back up and he's still on schedule to oust Hillary and crush McCain. Don Cazayoux just picked up a long-held GOP seat in LA, after the GOP tried to tar him as an Obama/Wright crony. Child is going to win in MS too.
The general population is way too pissed right now to focus on ANY reverend-politician associations, whether it's McCain and Hagee or Bush and Haggerd (you remember him - Bush's spiritual advisor, lover of male prostitutes and meth?).
Right now the general population is focused on ending the war in Iraq, bringing balance back to the economy, fixing healthcare and the environment, and ending 8 years of Bush and GOP idiocy. If you have any doubts about this, please take a look at how much money is being raised by the Dem candidates, how many folks are registering as Dems, and how many folks are participating in Dem primaries. You can also take a look at W's popularity, or lack thereof. Bottom line: the GOP is in for a thumpin in 08! |
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Comparing Hagee-McCain to Wright-Obama is absurd, it’s simple not comparable. Only delusional Democrats, fearful of the negative impact Wright wrought on Obama’s Presidential run, would buy into this comparison. It will only work in lefty circles. It won’t work in the general population, and it will not gain any traction.
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Is La Raza Joe getting his own show? |
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