Reliable Sources on CNN now discussing KO

[highplainsdem]

Anyone else watching?

Edited to add CNN's name -- sorry, I thought everyone here was familiar with it.

[shraby]

1. Link to what you're watching? I don't read minds.

[snappyturtle]

2. OK...I'm game.....is Reliable sources a program?

[Cleita]

It's a Sunday morning show on TV with Howard Kurtz

a right wing tool as host.

[snappyturtle]

9. I read further down thread it's on CNN...I tuned in...WOW! Kudos

to David Schuster! It's on ads now will continue after......

[AngryOldDem]

13. He did a fine job standing up the criticism.

Somebody give this man a job.

[snappyturtle]

37. YES! nt

[Cleita]

4. dupe.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. No

Nor do I have a clue as to where these 'reliable sources' may be located - much less what makes them so 'reliable.'

[deminks]

5. Watching, Shuster is on, says Cappes(Brokaw) taking over and will be over Phil Griffin

Says that is a factor in KO's leaving. I say BINGO!

[barbiegeek]

8. Does Brokaw dislike KO? Jealous? Please explain

[deminks]

14. No, but I think it is more of a control issue over what is said.

I am looking for past conflicts now.

[AngryOldDem]

16. KO's just a bit too strong for Brokaw's fragile sensibilities.

I could be more charitable and say it's because Brokaw is old-school journalism where opinion and reporting don't mix. However, you can't really classify Countdown as a news show. And as I said downthread, I watched MSNBC on election night and Brokaw must have been watching something else. I think it's because Brokaw has turned sharply right in his politics and what KO says ruffles too many of his feathers.

[mulsh]

21. I can't recal Brokow ever committing journalism, news reading sure

never anything resembling journalism or actual reporting. It may have happened before he was on the Today show.

[AngryOldDem]

28. He also stood up to Nixon when he was WH correspondent.

But as I said, I was being generous in my assessment of Brokaw's motives.

[high density]

23. Brokaw seems to be in the typical corporate media false equivalence camp

The idea is to pit Republican comments versus Democratic comments and you have instant balance in the media. So Brokaw could have Republicans saying "Obama wants to kill grandma" and then have Democrats saying "well, that's just not true," and he would think that's all the 'reporting' one needs to do on the subject. Obviously Olbermann's format went too deeply into factual analysis instead of just parroting political talking points against each other.

[highplainsdem]

11. Shuster also mentioned Comcast's takeover.

[barbiegeek]

6. CNN-reliable? ROFL

[mmonk]

7. Schuster made some good points.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

10. Almost sounds as if Keith has plans to take

his talents elsewhere. Somewhere were his "wings won't be clipped"

[AngryOldDem]

12. Any thoughts on whether Rachel or Ed will "dial back" on their shows, too?

Sounds like there's a big game of chicken going on at MSNBC.

And I guess it's no surprise that the real boss at NBC/MSNBC is Brokaw. If you piss off Tom -- watch out.

I watched MSNBC on Election Night and I don't recall KO or anyone else making fun of the Tea Baggers. Seems to me the Tea Baggers were doing a pretty fair job of looking foolish all by themselves.

[highplainsdem]

20. If Brokaw were the "real boss" you'd've seen changes earlier. This is about the Comcast takeover.

Which may give Keith's old critics at NBC more of a voice in some ways, but it's still about Comcast.

[meow mix]

25. tweety confronted bachman on her zombie-like state

and she was unable to respond.. i think that shocked a lot of wingers

[barbiegeek]

29. Oh PLEASE tell me what he said. What did I miss!!

[highplainsdem]

32. Link to video at Crooks and Liars:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/chris-matthews-asks-michele-bachmann-if-so

[barbiegeek]

33. Heading there. Thank You

[meow mix]

34. "thank you congresswoman bachman, who seems to be in a trance"

:rofl:

[barbiegeek]

35. She either is a drinker or on some ritalin/speed meds to stay thin

she has those looks to me.

[meow mix]

36. extra dose needed to get thru an election

good point

[GoCubsGo]

15. Who was that mush-mouthed bald guy next to Ann Hall?

What a clueless dick.

[highplainsdem]

18. That was Jane Hall. And the clueless dick next to her was David Zurawik.

[Fuzz]

39. He was upset and dissing Olbermann because he was named worst person in the world

as couple times.

Poor baby.

[highplainsdem]

17. David Zurawik was disgusting, obviously out to settle scores with KO.

He admitted that he's been named one of the Worst Persons in the World before.

But of course that wouldn't have anything to do with his obnoxious attempts to drown out David Shuster whenever Shuster defended Keith or said anything critical of Fox News.

Or his own attempts at character assassination by falsely accusing Keith of character assassination for daring to point out that Beck has fantasized on air about killing Michael Moore and O'Reilly had kept repeating "Tiller the Killer" to his brainwashed audience.

He even compared Keith to Joe McCarthy.

David Zurawik IS today's "Worst Person in the World."

[AngryOldDem]

19. Wasn't that the other guy who was in the studio with Shuster?

The one who kept crying that KO's attacks on Beck and O'Reilly were over the top?

Last name started with a Z -- that's all I remember.

[highplainsdem]

22. You're right. I got them turned around. That was David Zurawik.

Editing my posts.

[blogslut]

24. I like David Shuster but

...you'd have to threaten my family to get me to watch Howard Kurtz.

[highplainsdem]

26. I don't like Kurtz either, but wanted to hear what Shuster had to say.

Only to find David Zurawik trying to drown Shuster out all too often.

[highplainsdem]

27. This is Zurawik's blog post whining about Olbermann having named him a "worst person in the world."

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2009/05/olbermann_worst_person_msnbc_z.html

Olbermann was rightly upset about Zurawik saying that MSNBC and Fox News are bad for America, equating the two.

And Zurawik's "big deal" comment there was belied by his nasty comments about Keith this morning, and his especially rude attempts to keep Shuster from pointing out the differences between MSNBC and Fox and between Keith and Beck and O'Reilly.

[highplainsdem]

30. Zurawik also called Olbermann a "rabbit punching swine" in a radio interview where he whined

about being criticized, about the same time he published his blog whining about Keith criticizing him. I found that on a rightwing website that specifically targets Olbermann -- they loved it. Not sure I can post that link here.

[highplainsdem]

31. From Crooks and Liars - what Zurawik said about MSNBC that led to Keith

naming him one of the worst persons in the world. Note that all of Zurawik's specific and wrongheaded complaints here are about MSNBC:

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/reliable-sources-david-zurawik-gets

And since those comments had been made on Reliable Sources, Kurtz was of course fully aware of Zurawik's animus toward Olbermann and no doubt invited him on today's show specifically to smear Olbermann again.

[Kurovski]

38. Thanks for the details!

:thumbsup: