Posted on 09/05/2014 4:13:06 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
Psst! Psst! Listen carefully to the questions whispered into your earpieces all you Sunday news show hosts out there.
Forget about who is the new host of Meet The Press. The key player is really "EP" or the executive producer according to senior editor Jason Zengerle at The New Republic. Did you hear that Chuck Todd? You are doomed to being nothing more than a conduit repeating the questions fed into your earpiece. Here is Zengerle downgrading the goateed one as he reveals that The secret to Sunday morning show success is the executive producer:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
I don’t suppose anyone has noticed he wears an earpiece for “IFB” at news conferences ...
I never watch those shows, partly because I assume that the guests are getting help over wireless earpieces. Why shouldn’t the hosts also get help?
Wasn’t Obama photographed wearing an earpiece during the debates in 2012?
“I sense a presence!”
*blllllart*
“Nope, that was just lunch. In other news, I say what the voices in my ear tells me to say!”
The guest that is. Probably the same for the pro-narrative guests as well.
If Jason Zengerle wants the job - he should sit in the damn chair - be a man about it...
Zengerle' making the wrong choice... Liberal elites might enjoy watching a ventriloquist dummy - a role played by the last Meet the Press host - but the people he wants won't be watching...
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