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Campaign Update 05/30/08
La vida loca, the end of the party, and a female vice-president (just not the one you're thinking).
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A farewell to Tucker Carlson's show on MSNBC....
Friday, being the finale of Tucker's show on MSNBC, who does he have on but good old Marion Barry...
Oh, cable news will not be the same without Tucker and his antics... Friday, being the finale of Tucker's show on MSNBC, who does he have on but good old Marion Barry... ... more -
Tucker grilling Gerri Peev for Samantha Powers' off the record Hillary remark
A great moment from Tucker from the past week grilling Peev on her journalistic ethics...
Though very suspicious why MSNBC wants to hush Tucker's show off the air... A great moment from Tucker from the past week grilling Peev on her journalistic ethics... ... more -
Tucker's show cancelled on MSNBC!!! Oh no!!!
Nooooo! Now the only time to catch him is when he drops in on Morning Joe at 3 am Pacific Time to banter with Morning Joe and Willie Geist about the previous day's news makers and whatnot... I blame Dan Abrams and his unnecessarily redundant obsession with Clinton v. Obama. Phil Griffin will rue the day Tucker got cancelled! Nooooo! Now the only time to catch him is when he drops in on Morning Joe at 3 am Pacific Time to banter with Morning Joe and Willie G... more
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Tucker Carlson unintentionally reveals the role of the American press
Tucker Carlson explains how The American Press have become complicit with people of power.
Illustrating that point as vividly as anything I can recall, MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson had Peev on his show last night and angrily criticized her publication of Power’s remarks. Carlson upbraided Peev for her lack of deference to someone as important as Power, and Peev retorted by pointing out exactly what that attitude reflects about Carlson and the American press generally (via LEXIS; h/t Mike Stark):
CARLSON: What — she wanted it off the record. Typically, the arrangement is if someone you’re interviewing wants a quote off the record, you give it to them off the record. Why didn’t you do that?
PEEV: Are you really that acquiescent in the United States? In the United Kingdom, journalists believe that on or off the record is a principle that’s decided ahead of the interview. If a figure in public life.
CARLSON: Right.
PEEV: Someone who’s ostensibly going to be an advisor to the man who could be the most powerful politician in the world, if she makes a comment and decides it’s a bit too controversial and wants to withdraw it immediately after, unfortunately if the interview is on the record, it has to go ahead.
CARLSON: Right. Well, it’s a little.
PEEV: I didn’t set out in any way, shape.
CARLSON: Right. But I mean, since journalistic standards in Great Britain are so much dramatically lower than they are here, it’s a little much being lectured on journalistic ethics by a reporter from the “Scotsman,” but I wonder if you could just explain what you think the effect is on the relationship between the press and the powerful. People don’t talk to you when you go out of your way to hurt them as you did in this piece.
Don’t you think that hurts the rest of us in our effort to get to the truth from the principals in these campaigns?
PEEV: If this is the first time that candid remarks have been published about what one campaign team thinks of the other candidate, then I would argue that your journalists aren’t doing a very good job of getting to the truth. Now I did not go out of my way in any way, shape or form to hurt Miss Power. I believe she’s an intelligent and perfectly affable woman. In fact, she’s — she is incredibly intelligent so she — who knows she may have known what she was doing.
She regretted it. She probably acted with integrity. It’s not for me to decide one way or the other whether she did the right thing. But I did not go out and try to end her career.
Credit to Tucker Carlson for being so (unintentionally) candid about the lowly, subservient role of the American press with regard to “the relationship between the press and the powerful.” A journalist should never do anything that “hurts” the powerful, otherwise the powerful won’t give access to the press any longer. Presumably, the press should only do things that please the powerful so that the powerful keep talking to the press, so that the press in turn can keep pleasing the powerful, in an endless, symbiotic, mutually beneficial cycle. Rarely does someone who plays the role of a “journalist” on TV so candidly describe their real function. For anyone who wants to dismiss Carlson as some buffoon who is unrepresentative of journalists generally, I would refer them to the testimony at the Lewis Libby trial of the mighty, revered Tim Russert, Washington Bureau Chief for NBC News:
When I talk to senior government officials on the phone, it’s my own policy — our conversations are confidential. If I want to use anything from that conversation, then I will ask permission. Tucker Carlson explains how The American Press have become complicit with people of power. ... more -
Tucker brought it.
finally, some actual, balanced, elevated, sophisticated debate and discourse on Real Time.
It has been a long time since I've seen a conservative really call Maher on his sh!t.
In this clip, Tucker makes a great point about how Bill (and liberals (current?contributors)) take relentless, vicious, cheap, personal shots at republicans .....just like the gop-minded(backed?) pundits do toward the dems.
It just seems soooo counterproductive to debate/draw attention to anything other than the issues at hand.
I love Bill's show just as much as the rest of the current libs....but not half as much as I did back when he was on network tv and showed more of his conservative streak....
I think the hollywood/LA scene has totally polarized/jaded his opinions and rendered an otherwise beacon of truth and sensibility.....useless??delusive? ineffective!!
His show has pretty much descended into a partisan love fest (kind of like a certain tv network....) I hope this episode is a swing back to the good old days of Politically Incorrect when fair, balanced, HELPFUL discussion reigned supreme.
next part of this convo: (warning there is some adult language in this clip (not for the kids))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljHKHKVaynY
you can find the rest of this show on the internets / youtubes...or better yet, watch it via appropriate? channels.
related: I hope you guys do away with the "I support this / I don't support this" paradigm on the site BEFORE it goes public...especially for the "viewpoints" they are not campaigns, politicians, or referendums.
talk about further polarizing your audience and the population...wow...outrageous.. what about the f-ing grey areas?! ugh.. what good could possibly come out of this?
If current insists on maintaining some type of primitive voting system..please at least add a yellow light option....or use your collective imaginations....
i'm sure you'll come up with something amazing..as always
shannon finally, some actual, balanced, elevated, sophisticated debate and discourse on Real Time. ... more
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