good lord, the cable news is SO WEIRD lately!! this is my news thread

hey guys, i am doing contract work at home and have the news on most of the time. this is where i will post weird cable news news. that cool?

yes!

ok, this guy is undercovered. bret baier. even bret baier got pissed at glenn beck. they usually do a teaser for the next program sometime during the previous hour, during beck's show they have some headline news reader break in & do the teaser that way, instead of beck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHJjdof50H4

there was a washington times story today about the justice dept. dropping a case against three (3) members of the black panthers allegedly for voter intimidation. a significant amt of time devoted to this on an earlier show on fox.. sometimes i wonder about story selection, right? idk, haven't read all of the story yet but.. well i wonder about story selection, allocation of resources..

the funny thing is, i specifically remember this being mentioned on election day last year and then the reporting that there wasn't much of anything to it, and no real irregularities. don't know what show i was watching that day though.

bret baier's house is very tasteful. (hey, it is the style section for washington dc, it is very tasteful)

clearly his wife ran the show here & he's like ok, just put in a bar

i'm not sure why people in twitteronia are feeling sorry for vanity fair intern (http://twitter.com/VFintern) watching cable news all day. 1) he has one of the most sought-after internship opportunities there are 2) he is graduating from yale and already has more experience/connections/opportunities than 99% of the country 3) watching cable news all day is not that hard.

IMHO they should've left dude locked in that office with cable news all summer long! it takes at least a couple weeks to really appreciate more than just ZOMG BREAKING NEWS, shiny graphics, people yelling at each other.

switched channels for a minute and chief twitter correspondent rick sanchez was, i guess, about to fact check some misleading rightwing ad about health care reform. so he plays the entire 30 second ad and then talks about how he's going to show obama saying something and blablabla and doesn't fact check right away, thus probably reinforces whatever they got wrong. good work!

once again shep sings over the TRACKING H1N1 animation, talks to another off-camera person about her having a baby recently, then makes them play the animation two more times and sings over it again.. i don't think they actually reported anything about h1n1.

and ana marie cox is on the case!

@VFintern If only all regular Fox viewers were so compelled. I have to say, I kind of love Shep Smith. TRACKING H1N1 ta-da....! #shepsmithneedsanewnetwork

I already started this thread, daria. (but it didn't take)

The Cable News Wasteland appreciation/depreciation thread, y'all.

oops, sorry! you gotta update, i didn't see that

tanning bed people ran an ad in the new york post blaming the media for reporting that they cause cancer. spox for tanning bed association interviewed on the studio b:

so.. tanning beds. this seems like a dumb thing to do, because you might get cancer.

i might get hit by a bus someday but i'm not going to go lie down in front of one!

shep declares he aint never been in no tanning bed, are you kidding me?
(obv shep doing a segment on this *required* this subject be addressed, because one had to wonder.)

jonathan hunt reports that blue moon is a girl beer XD

they decide guinness is the answer. OBVIOUSLY.

crazy birther at the world net crazy has a problem with bill o'reilly.
One of the somethings he is undoubtedly hiding is his birth certificate.

oops. this guy
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105366

i'm kind of bummed that cavuto's people have redone his show graphics (maybe for HD?) and he no longer has a giant red pulsating space galaxy/sea anemone thing floating behind his head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWPY7b35vF4

http://i31.tinypic.com/2vkat5u.jpg

isnt all money spent on porn "stimulus" money??? eh???????

CNN: "beer chat"
FOX: "beer summit" or "beer diplomacy"
MSNBC: that awful ed guy calling sarah palin "caribou barbie"

ah, joe the biden is at the beer summit! dey better keep an eye on him dere

candy crowley lost a bunch of weight looks like

i kind of really like candy crowley for reasons that are unclear to me.

maybe it's because she seems kind of dour?

i like her. i hardly ever see her on. but that may be because i am weary of most of the regulars on CNN & they have too many talking heads panels with them, so i don't watch - borger, castellanos, even carville and brazile, honestly. though i really really like jeffrey toobin, somehow he stays levelheaded amidst the absurdity.

the CNN is doing another "national report card" thing on a special about obama's second 100 days, or first 200 days, whatever. i flipped on the last one briefly and it looked like people giving out ice skating scores and was daft and pointless imho.

the shep has said a la homer simpson "MMMMM, BEER" approx fifty times this week.

I fide for Chris Matthews and Keith and Rachel all day but The Ed Show is so terrible. Please bring back 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or give Eugene Robinson his own show or something.

ride

i can't watch the ed show either. call me superficial, but i might give it a little more of a chance if he had a pretty co-host. could be a man, mind you, but pretty. i'd be OK with them moving dylan ratigan to the evening spot, his show is quite watchable IMHO even if he talks over people a lot - he's got a crew with him (including spitzer, toure, contessa), it skews liberal and moves pretty fast.

i'd also like j0nathan capehart to be on tv more, he is the most debonair gentleman in all of journalism.

good grief, i actually read some of the comments to shep's post on facebook re: beer summit, and even the small part of the fox news audience who are shep fans on facebook.. are emphatically NOT liberals, it seems. unless the law of the interwebs, where the only people who comment are the complainers, is in effect here.

(his staff do the updates, he said on the air that he didn't do facebook or twitter, tv was enough, & someone off camera was like 'YES YOU ARE ON FACEBOOK')

the daily beast goes after judge napolitano

i haven't watched his show, aside from the episode where shep flipped the f out over torture. might check it out. i'm fascinated by fringe groups, cults, and conspiracy theories.

i don't think anything exciting or interesting has happened on tv today. mika brzezinski, the 'liberal' on morning joe, couldn't be convinced that health care reform wasn't dead.. who was arguing that it might happen and might work? john harwood from the wall street journal! at least scarbs declares that he's conservative.

the GDP didn't fall near as much as expected. to glenn beck and guest, this means.. WE'RE DOOMED

also, SHEP, age 16 it looks like, though he must have been at least late 20s by then XD

FOX/MSNBC peace accord fail, evidently.

obama was right, this stuff is totally like pro wrestling. though about pro wrestling, from what i remember, it is always more fun to root for the bad guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6H6n_onZI0

actual lols at that Andrew WK video

i know, right? ok i'm just going to repost this clip (was on the fox thread), from which the title of this thread was inspired. this is like a perfect ~one minute gem of cable news

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkQQ7JkD1lE

i like this dylan ratigan guy. so chuck todd comes on to say something about this cash for clunkers program: hey you know, this is like health care and all this other stuff, we're rewarding people for good behavior! this fits in the white house philosophy!

they kind of ignore him & go back to discussing it the same way they did the previous hour, which is nassim ("black swan") taleb and ratigan agreeing that this is a completely terrible way of rewarding people for making BAD decisions.

seriously, this show should be on tv at a better hour, this is the most watchable daytime show that isn't studio b. ratigan is a very good interviewer. now if only he'd settle down a bit and not talk over people..

scarbs to ratigan: Just between you and me, how many lines did you do before coming out here today?

this seems to actually mean: "dude. we don't really feel like thinking about stuff."

there's this guy on now from politics magazine who.. waaau, is so particularly groomed and made up that he looks like he stepped out of a silent film & i can't tell if he's 45 or 25 and just doesn't get enough sleep.

okay so that Orly Taitz (sp?) dentist/lawyer/leader of the "birthers" lady was just on MSNBC screaming "LET ME FINISH" and "LISTEN TO THE TRUTH" for five minutes while the hosts tried to, you know, ask her questions. it was pretty chaotic and lol.

christ what a bunch cackling nitwits.

xpost to ratigan video

good grief, these birthers. there's really nothing you can do to convince them. i heard one person ranting away about it & in response to the point about obama's birth announcement being in a honolulu paper, said oh, that was just his grandmother calling in an announcement, he was really born in kenya. ??? the other thing is where rightwingers say they don't believe it, but then say well you should investigate and see if it's true, just dancing around and letting the story hang out there instead of declaring.. facts.

imo when purveyors of horseshit like Billo and NRO start calling you crazy, you might want to take heed.

xpost yeah i don't know what happened to morning joe, i used to like it, but quit watching for a while due to being beyond infuriated with scarbs thinking it's perfectly OK for the US to torture people & that right wing extremism is a big joke. (seriously, he laughed about that one.)

i'll put it on now in the early AM because the CNN is boring and i can't sit through the fox and friends. scarborough was just straight up rude to ratigan, really being a jackass. anyway i'm not even kidding about the dylan ratigan doing a pretty good show, it's pretty heavy on talk about the economy and wall street bailouts in particular, though i wish it didn't get interrupted so often by commercials and 'breaking news' that usually isn't.

<3 thraed

little green footballs is off the chain with attacking and making fun of the birthers, who they call 'nirthers' for whatever reason. that's saying something, because last i checked that blog was known in the lefty blogosphere as little green fascists.

i was thinking about cnn earlier. they are such a distant third in entertainment value when compared to fox & msnbc but i think that throwing themselves so headlong into social networks/the internet is pretty brave and dope tbh. i would watch rick sanchez every day if he wasn't on at the same time as shep. i haven't been watching as much shep tho lately. i need to get back in the swing of things.

howard dean hosting olbermann was O_O and the hilarious, tiny british man with the dumbo ears was pretty good

howard dean hosting olbermann was O_O

was so disappointed in how bland this ended up being ;_;

oh the pretty britishes guy is richard wolffe. talking points memo is on his shit & MSNBC's, because wolffe works for a PR firm now, he used to be/sometimes is a 'journalist.' worked for newsweek & wrote an account (Renegade) of being on the road with the obama campaign & apparently had a lot more access to the candidate than most of the reporters on the trail. also was on countdown pretty much every day nodding in agreement to whatever olbermann said.

yeah dean was all right, i watched some of it. they should put on some people he can argue with, maybe olbermann's bookers have no contacts any more who actually disagree with their usual host.

yeah i know all about wolffe but his name slipped my mind & i didn't feel like looking it up. my friends and i always make fun of him for being british so we yell "ALLO THERE KEITH!" a lot and shit - we're pretty cool guys - i def was a lil o_O about him writing an obama book tbh because i imagined it to be a pure cash grab and not like i care much about journalistic standards on cable news but yeah

i can't watch sanchez. i'm not thrilled with their current use of technology, i appreciate that they're trying new stuff, but from my POV it seems they get redundant with it. i don't need a shot of a screen in the studio when you can just as well put that screen itself right on the tv & not have the stuff i'm supposed to be looking at shot from a weird off-center angle and some dude trying to move it around.

also if i post stuff on the twitter it's already on my screen, i don't need to see it on the scrollbar on the CNN - it reminds me of that old VH1 pop-up video or .. jeez didn't they do that on The Box or something?

You mean weiner.

o'donnell just replayed in its entirety from the nbc archives, a segment from the evening newscast in 1992 w/brokaw anchoring, when bill clinton denied that he had an affair with gennifer flowers

really the interesting thing about it is that hillary <3<3<3 and flowers have the exact same hair and makeup and style of outfit (did every professional woman in the south look like that in the 90's?)

o'donnell just replayed in its entirety from the nbc archives, a segment from the evening newscast in 1992 w/brokaw anchoring, when bill clinton denied that he had an affair with gennifer flowers

WHY lol

oreilly not too pleased with the anthony verdict apparently

what just got deleted.

I don't care really, it was just bugging me that I couldn't bookmark the last post.

some shit "mintice" joke

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was banning mintice too much? those were two downright terrible posts

i hadn't modded in a while, maybe i modded too hard?

come as u r imo

like when you don't drink for a while & then get really drunk

MintIce

go shit up other boards as you are imo

go shit up other boards, as you are emo

you did the right thing jor

http://www.northernsun.com/images/imagelarge/Destined-Old-Woman-No-Regrets-2x3-Magnet-(2915).jpg

lol

LOL http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/07/27/fiu-hires-rick-sanchez-for-football-play-by-play/

dude is bonkers; i anticipate at least one youtube hilight per week

so these msnbc commercials are p much the worst right?

the earnest speaking to someone just off screen that is ostensibly the viewer?

yup

i like maddow's

larry & ed's are terrible tho

and matthews' makes me lol every time

lol yah the maddow hoover damn one is textbook "maddow otm"

the others are just like smdh @ u l0sers

part of it is that maddow actually seems to be speaking to someone off camera trying to convince them of her point

the others are just old men talking to themselves in diners, which you can see anywhere in america

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http://gawker.com/5827044/fox-and-friends-has-some-thoughts-on-obamas-ramadan-proclamation

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

yo

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ugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAdsdlq42nE

:^O

right?

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/08/17/odonnell-walks-out-of-cnn-interview/

*walks next door to own studio*

o nvm i assumed that was lawrence odonnell carry on

thought she handled that sorta well tbh

feel like i just said this on another thread--i hate everything christine o'donnell stands for but anything is better than piers morgan

yup

btw anderson cooper crying on tv obv

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/299838_261284667243892_107130565992637_694207_1242628557_n.jpg

lol

feel like larry odonnell is getting a liiitle bit carried away with this whole occupy the national restaurant association thing

alex wagner is really hot, also doesn't seem to be wearing a ring call me

apparently she's getting her own show?

apparently fox aired a CAR CHASE that ended very badly, live?

sad for shep... car chases brought him so much joy

Live with Kelly & Michael counts here, right? The doors that are opened in waiting rooms...

I understand the Morning Joe crew discussed Emma Goldman today; details plz.