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The death of the Sunday shows (partisan hacks chatting up sycophants or interrogating conservatives)
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| 4/21/14
| Dylan Byers
Posted on 04/21/2014 7:25:34 PM PDT by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706
I used to watch Meet the Press, The Week with or without David Brinkley and Fox News Sunday regularly. Now I still record them, but rarely make the time to watch them so I only keep a couple weeks back.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:30:27 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Republican amnesty supporters don't care whether their own homes are called mansions or haciendas.)
To: cotton1706
The Internet made the T.V. news superfluous.
That's not a bad thing as I thought that many of those talking heads were the most POMPOUS old wind-suckers ever to blow hard on the boobus-toobus.
To: cotton1706
Even Tim Russert had his Leftist bias, but it was nowhere close to the Sunday morning sycophants on TV now. I said something to a Leftist (former) friend about Russert’s bias and she said ‘ he's not biased’. I told her she didn't see it because she agreed with his bias. I haven't watched the Sunday morning shows in years.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:32:00 PM PDT
by
originalbuckeye
(Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
To: cotton1706
I got no time for these shows. I’m at church.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:32:05 PM PDT
by
henkster
(I don't like bossy women telling me what words I can't use.)
To: cotton1706
The LSM is all Liberal all the time. No need to watch lefty propaganda.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:32:15 PM PDT
by
VRWC For Truth
(Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
To: cotton1706
You can go on youtube and see old political shows -- even old interviews with Mike Wallace -- and you can see thoughtful, insightful, balanced
discussions. Each side felt that the other side had something to offer, so they
listened, and then they
responded.
Almost no one does that anymore. It's all gamesmanship -- shouting down the other person, putting words in their mouths, making up lies, hammering home one's own talking point and pretending that a question is being asked or an answer expected.
Low quality drivel. We are a nation which, in large degree, cannot really think about politics.
To: Alas Babylon!
Ping. We have discussed this many times on the Sunday thread for which I thank you.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:36:16 PM PDT
by
upchuck
(Support ABLE, the Anybody But Lindsey Effort. Yes, we are the ABLE!!)
To: KarlInOhio
I used to watch them too but stopped a while back. George Stephanopolis, Bob Schieffer and David Gregory made me sick. And Fox news since 2009 had become all Romney all the time. And the same old guests week after week, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Carl Levin, John Kerry, Deval Patrick, etc. etc.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:38:11 PM PDT
by
cotton1706
(ThisRepublic.net)
To: ClearCase_guy
Agreed. I think Tim Russert was the last. He was liked by both sides.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:38:29 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: cloudmountain
I agree with your point.
Free Republic is a good place and I come here for news. Although, I don’t agree with everything that is written, I go here to be informed.
Sometimes I have gone back to the news channels if the story is breaking, but this website is still looked at.
To: cotton1706
Gregory spoke of adding on layers in the form of big conversations about religion, foreign events, and societal trends. The core of the show has always been your Washington fix, were a Washington-based program. But I do think were adding on layers, changing the experience, making it more interesting, he said, adding that the American people want more than just Republicans and Democrats.
Sounds like Gregory wants to do a light entertainment type show... They should give him one - maybe at seven o'clock - and hire a real news person for 'Meet the Press"...
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:41:33 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(MSNBC reporters couldn't spot a criminal if he was at the company Christmas party.)
To: cotton1706
The public affairs shows Meet The Press, Face The Nation, and This Week used to set the agenda for the nations capital
Chilling thought but true.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:42:02 PM PDT
by
wonkowasright
(Wonko from outside the asylum)
To: cotton1706
Fox has become ‘the Rove channel’. I find myself watching it less and less. Even my elderly parents are becoming increasingly disgusted with it.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:42:07 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: ClearCase_guy
Yup. And I see it, sadly, on both sides of the aisle.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:42:53 PM PDT
by
wonkowasright
(Wonko from outside the asylum)
To: cotton1706
So now that NBCs David Gregory is on suicide watch the Sunday shows are irrelevant. Got it.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:44:37 PM PDT
by
Oldeconomybuyer
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
To: GOPJ
IOW....he wants to appeal to the LIV that sit on their butts watching daytime shows.
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:44:53 PM PDT
by
RushIsMyTeddyBear
(Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
To: cotton1706
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:44:53 PM PDT
by
CreviceTool
(A Good Samaritan with a handgun saved my life...)
To: CreviceTool
When I do watch FNS, its usually on my tape. We are either at church or at the beach
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posted on
04/21/2014 7:51:27 PM PDT
by
ExCTCitizen
(I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
To: upchuck
No one wastes time on communist propaganda any more except mindless pathetic parasites that don’t have cable or satellite or internet or nothing.
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