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In Two Days, Networks Devote 25 Minutes to Rick Perry Indictment
NewsBusters.org ^ | August 18, 2014 | Scott Whitlock

Posted on 08/18/2014 12:05:36 PM PDT by Kaslin

In just two days, the three network morning and evening shows deluged viewers with over 25 minutes of coverage (17 stories) on the indictment of Texas Governor Rick Perry. These programs made sure to speculate as to whether the controversy could "end any chance" for the Republican in 2016. [See video below. MP3 audio here.] The indictment came after Perry lobbied for Texas District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg to resign after her drunk driving conviction.

From Saturday morning through Monday morning, CBS offered the most amount of coverage, five stories over nine minutes and 14 seconds. Over the same period, ABC produced six segments (or eight minutes and 48 seconds). NBC delivered six segments for of seven minutes and 37 seconds.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: texas
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1 posted on 08/18/2014 12:05:36 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

They want to get it into people’s mind that defunding an agency is somehow unconstitutional...so the gravy train can keep flowing.


2 posted on 08/18/2014 12:08:59 PM PDT by cotton1706 (ThisRepublic.net)
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To: Kaslin

Don’t those idiots in the MSM see that Perry’s reaction to the judge’s stupid maneuver makes him a rock star?


3 posted on 08/18/2014 12:09:45 PM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: Kaslin

Perry is getting his first dose of “Palin-ization”...


4 posted on 08/18/2014 12:10:36 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: Kaslin

Whodda thunk that when all of the circuses went out of business that the clowns would all go into “journalism”?


5 posted on 08/18/2014 12:11:06 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (America is not a refugee camp! It's my home!)
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To: Kaslin

Typical reaction by the msm. Carrying the water for the dnc.


6 posted on 08/18/2014 12:11:14 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Kaslin

They must have really been afraid of him, as now they’ve got every potential conservative threat under a cloud - - Palin, Gingrich, Christie, Herman Cain, Scott Walker...

So you’ve got to figure they’ll go after Ted Cruz next.

Who hasn’t been targeted besides Jeb Bush?


7 posted on 08/18/2014 12:13:20 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Kaslin

I would like to see them devote half that time on Obama’s hidden college records or the fact that he used the SSN of a dead man to register for the draft.


8 posted on 08/18/2014 12:17:01 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Yeah, who?


9 posted on 08/18/2014 12:17:02 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

go Rick!!! you tha man.

Crush a Rat DA into dust!!


10 posted on 08/18/2014 12:18:20 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Kaslin

Oh yeah, an unbiased media, sure it is!

I wonder if Rick can see Alaska from his house?


11 posted on 08/18/2014 12:28:52 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Kaslin; GeronL

Where is Braq Brak to denounce these phony scandals???


12 posted on 08/18/2014 12:32:12 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (ISIS has started up a slave trade in Iraq. Mission accomplshed, Barack, Mission accomplished.)
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13 posted on 08/18/2014 12:39:47 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: a fool in paradise

Amazing how the many can find so much time for that phony scandal and ignore all the real ones.


14 posted on 08/18/2014 12:41:37 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: bigbob

Mittens Romney has also not been targeted.


15 posted on 08/18/2014 12:42:37 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: Kaslin

He couldn’t buy that much air time. The question becomes does this coverage
help or hurt his chances if he persues a presidential run.


16 posted on 08/18/2014 12:47:11 PM PDT by deport
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To: Kaslin
Macaca!

-PJ

17 posted on 08/18/2014 12:47:58 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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18 posted on 08/18/2014 12:50:56 PM PDT by Bratch
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To: deport

Right now, he’s on my plus list.


19 posted on 08/18/2014 1:18:29 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: deport

Well, if he wasn’t a household name then, he is now.


20 posted on 08/18/2014 1:24:19 PM PDT by txhurl (2014: Stunned Voters do Stunning Things!)
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