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Every diary about CNN either praises it for sticking it to the right or condemns it for being really pro-GOP... and in each diary there's a bunch of people who come in and agree with the diarist.
I wish someone would tell me whether CNN is biased for us or for them already...
And are Jack Cafferty and Lou Dobbs on our side or are they reprehensible slime?
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by Arken on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 08:35:48 PM PDT
Lou Dobbs is a loose cannon.
Paula Zahn leans GOP.
Wolf Blitzer leans GOP.
Glenn Beck is to the right of the GOP and Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity.
To balance all this they would need to hire someone like Keith Olberman and let him do whatever he wants for one hour every day.
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by Shockwave on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 08:41:48 PM PDT
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We should go out and get a drink sometime.
by Arken on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 08:42:23 PM PDT
If he leaned any farther right, his right ear would be touching the ground. He usually doesn't even try to conceal his bias. Well, that's the way I see it - I can't stand to watch his show.
by myrealname on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 08:48:56 PM PDT
Wolf really hates these 2 guys. I remember a few weeks ago right before Lou's book came out Wolf said that my viewers wouldn't read the book, but his would be interested. I wonder if Wolf is going to change his viewers Nov 8th
by jkb246 on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 08:49:42 PM PDT
Miles O'Brien Anderson Cooper
On there side...
Don't forget Ed "I'm not Hemmer" Henery.
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by blueyedace2 on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 08:59:37 PM PDT
our side, with "our" meaning the people.
Over the weekend, I watched the speech that President Clinton gave last Wednesday. He reminded us that we should simply be given the facts. We can figure out what to do with them.
This is the salient point that the MSM so often misses. As Arken points out in this thread, comments about CNN run the gamut. I think that's because they're trying to please too many people instead of just handing the facts over to the people and letting us decide.
by VetGrl on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 09:10:07 PM PDT
I have googled it 9 ways to Sunday, and can't find a transcript of it, anywhere. I was watching it on MSNBC, but they cut away from it in the middle of it, back to the lovely Alex Witt and her empty-headed chatter. CNN wasn't covering it, at all. I am so frustrated! Been looking for it, ever since, because it was a wonderful speech--what I heard of it. Would love to read or see it, in its entirety. I only have snail dial-up, so I hope there's a written version of it somewhere, because my computer won't run videos very well. Thanks.
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by Molly Martinez on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 02:40:18 AM PDT
internet. (I, too, am a dial-up user!) There's a link to the program on the C-SPAN website in the archive of programs. I got a "page can't be displayed" message when I clicked on it, so I don't know if it's just video or if a print transcript is available.
If it helps your search, the theme was "the common good" and it was given at Georgetown.
by VetGrl on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 04:27:15 AM PDT
I'll give it a try.
by Molly Martinez on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 10:18:26 PM PDT
the "i'm SOOOOO judgementally right" fashion princess of the bimbobroadcastnetwork!
GAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKK!!!!
and all the airhead female talkshow hosts who are so busy emoting their own opinions that they never have time to let the guest state theirs - or the bobblehead kens (like the stick-up-his-youknowwhat you referred to in the diary - the starched and glued in place repubbie anchor who interviewed glenn blech today.....)
oh, did i remind you - don't get ME started on cnn!!!!!!!
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by edrie on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 10:43:58 PM PDT
Lou leans right? Maybe on immigration but he is the only one I know of that is supportive of the plight of the middle class in this country, and he's also going after e-voting.
He has said he is not a dem or repub. I would guess moderate libertarian, if anything.
by lrhoke on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 08:59:40 PM PDT
Dobbs will come down on an issue hard in a way that bruise a lot of people and their feelings. Boo hoo. Cafferty isn't one of us yet. But he sure speaks for a lot of people we should have with us. He plows fertile ground and it is up to the Democrats to harvest it.
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by eastvan on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 09:02:49 PM PDT
That's what I love about him! I perceive him as more on our side than not. His "questions of the day" are the only reason I can tolerate watching Wolfie's show. I change the channel to CNN when it's about time for the question--go back to what I was watching--and go back to CNN in time for the e-mail responses Jack has received. Invariably entertaining.
by Molly Martinez on Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 02:48:56 AM PDT
I doubt CNN is, as an institution, biased strongly for the R's or for the Dem's (other biases such as pro-establishment I am perfectly willing to agree to).
So, I don't think I agree with the diary title "CNN is so biased"; but the particular episode detailed by the diarist is nonetheless egregious and inexcusable. CNN may not be biased, but some producer there either is biased or got played for an incompetent fool.
by Warren Terra on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 08:44:09 PM PDT
...the title of the diary reflected a bit of outrage on my part that such a biased segment was aired.
by VetGrl on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 08:57:08 PM PDT
really bothers me. He seems to do anti-dem spin. A few days ago I wondered if we hired him from fox or if that was his next career step.
I've only seen minutes at a time since them and maybe I catch him at bad times but he is always bashing dems through his words or his disdainful tone when speaking about them.
by joynow on Wed Oct 25, 2006 at 11:47:43 PM PDT
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