by Denis Campbell
It was a dream match-up prime-time television listing for this past Tuesday night. Whilst it competed with an NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) rerun and gripping baseball, NBA and NHL playoff games, even the WWE’s (World Wrestling Entertainment) CEO Vince McMahon was filled with respect. “I tried for weeks to make this bout [...]
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Man v Cow Cage Match
Posted on 28 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: ABC fight and Monday Night Football announcer, CEO Vince McMahon, Down Goes Frazier!, Hannity, Howard Cosell, Hulk Hogan, Keith Olbermann, Limbaugh, Maddow, Man v Cow Cage Match, Matthew Erich "Mancow" Muller, Matthews, MSNBC, NBC, NCIS rerun, Nielsen, Olbermann, O’Reilly, prime-time television, puppy dog sleeping with kitty cat moment, Rumble in The Jungle, smashing Andre the Giant or Shawn Michaels Burying The Undertaker, Thrilla in Manila, World Wrestling Entertainment, WWE
Connecting the Offshore Dots
Posted on 05 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bank of America, Cayman Islands, Citi Group, Morgan Stanley, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, shell companies, Tax Code, Tax shelters, Ugland House
by Denis Campbell
Rachel Maddow’s example on MSNBC was a simple enough explanation of how $21 billion dollars in annual tax revenue disappears from US coffers through legal loopholes that create tax shell corporations.
Mr. Bill Hypothetical, based in Texas, earns $50,000 annually and pays a 25% tax rate. KBR’s profits, also based in Texas (a military [...]
Dittoheads Dropping Like Flies
Posted on 16 March 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 60% percent drop in sales of her latest tome, Alan Colmes, Ann Coulter, California lost conservative radio voices, citizen George W. Bush, Collins Michael Steele, creepy Mr. Rogers impersonator LA Gov. Jindal, earmarks are the bane of our existence, forge a compromise with the Democrats, former Hannity “liberal” sidekick, GOP in Exile, historically revised Reagan song sheet, Intro to Political Science lecture, Joe Scarborough (former GOP Congressman and host of Mor, John ("Oh My GOD") Boehner, John McCain, John Ziegler, keep the state running, Larry Elder, lead talking head of the Republican Party, Mark Larson, Mark Williams, Meet the Press, Melanie Morgan, more on-camera gaffes than former VP Dan Quayle in fron, MSNBC, Pat Buchanan, perennial GOP loser Alan Keyes, Phil Cowen, Rachel Maddow Show, Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia, Republican Governor, Republican National Committee (today), Rush Limbaugh, Schwarzenegger’s drift to the centre, SMU, Snowe, Spectre, their stations replaced them with cheaper nationally sy, this week’s GOP sacrificial lamb, US Conservative Talk radio in trouble, Wash Rinse Repeat because it’s going to take awhile
Is US Conservative Talk radio in trouble? Rush Limbaugh may be the lead talking head of the Republican Party but California lost conservative radio voices: Mark Larson, Larry Elder, John Ziegler, Melanie Morgan, Phil Cowen and Mark Williams as their stations replaced them with cheaper nationally syndicated programs. When the CA legislature sat in session for [...]
Chris Matthews Is Becoming The Left’s Bill O’Reilly
Posted on 21 November 2008 by Charley James | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill and Hillary Clinton, Bill Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Bosnia, Chris Matthews, Christopher Hitchens, Dan Burton, David Gregory, Eric Boehlert, FOX News, Hardball, Indiana Representative, Jamison Foster, Keith Olbermann, Linda Tripp, Media Matters, Michelle Bernard, Mr. Orally, MSNBC, New York Times, New York Times Op-Ed piece, obama, Op-Ed, Peter Beinart, Rachel Maddow, Sean Hannity, Time magazine, Vanity Fair, Vince Foster
by Charley James
As a progressive, one of the things that I appreciate about MSNBC’s evening line-up is that although its people have a liberal point-of-view, they stick to actual facts rather than slide down into the slimy half-truths and outright lies that Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the other on Fox’s right wing mouthpiece network [...]
The 72-Hour Twilight Zone
Posted on 01 November 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 1 in 7 voters still need to be swayed, 1896, 4x cancer survivor?, 72-year old, a losing mantra for Hillary, addled and angry, adequate Commander in Chief, around the neck of John McCain, arrogance, bin Laden videos, Bush Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, Cross of Gold Speech, Denis Campbell, devolution in two years to cocktail party joke, does strongly amongst white males not because of her po, even at McDonalds you are interviewed three times befor, excessive de-regulation, experience, financial crisis, financial disaster in 2008, greed factors exposed, laid bare by the Internet, latent racism, McCain, MSNBC, never met a lobbyist I did not like, npr Radio, obama, of course she’s not ready, philandering, Ronald Reagan’s former Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein, Sarah Palin already is one, Straight Talk Express bus crashed, support down to 35%, terrorist actions, The 72-Hour Twilight Zone, Trickle-down Reaganomics did not work in 1896 or 1980, ugly 72-hour zona absurdum. place of swift-boat attacks, walks it back on FOX, Warren Buffet’s new biography, William Jennings Bryan, you don’t hire a Vice President after one interview, ‘The Snowball’
by Denis Campbell
When Ronald Reagan’s former Chief of Staff Ken Duberstein says, (as he endorses Barack Obama for President), “even at McDonalds you are interviewed three times before being offered a job, you don’t hire a Vice President after one interview,” you know the Straight Talk Express bus has rolled over in a ditch. When [...]
Spooky Halloween Talking Points
Posted on 31 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (1) | Tags: 200 dollars to this year’s check, 21 million, 33-million people watched that ½ hour political ad, 76 Nobel Prize winners endorse Obama, a guilty verdict isn’t technically a “conviction” until, Alaska AG’s office said while Stevens’ crimes fit the d, Ashley Todd to Get Needed Help, Ben Smith, better than 2-1 margin, Chris Matthews, Christian Right Scaremongering, consider yourself warned, country stylings, Denis Campbell, dramatic gesture executed in a very safe fashion, elegant combination of pictures, Governor Sarah Palin… socialist?, Hagan is a Sunday school teacher/elder at a Presbyteria, Happy Halloween, Happy Halloween Weekly Talking Points Memo, He had me at the waving wheat, he’ll be accusing me of being a secret communist becaus, issues a four-figure annual check, It was realism, It was romance, Janet Porter, Joe the Plumber, Kay Hagan Godless American, last thing that should be driving America's voting habi, Mark Halperin, Mark Hemingway, McCain 7 millionObama winning kids’ mock election, McCain campaign, MSNBC, music designed not so much to sell America on Barack Ob, National Review, New York Times reports, Newspaper Endorsement scorecard, obama, Obama hanged in effigy at University of Kentucky, Obama maintains big lead 234-105, Obama Socialist, Obama ½ Hour Infomercial Reviews, Obama-backing papers, OP Vote Suppression Tactics Thwarted, Palin for President 2012, Palin has been a popular governor?, Politico, Rachel Maddow, racism is still alive, Rocky Mountain News, Samuel Wurzelbacher, Sara K. Smith, Sen. Elizabeth Dole, She added $1, signed with a Nashville PR and management firm to handl, sounds, tab for the presidential campaign approaches $2 billion, take warning, That seals your eternity, The Last Campaign Weekend, The sales-job is always better than the product Buyer b, thought it was fabulous, Time magazine, To all those who name the name of Christ who plan to wi, Tom Shales, voices, Vote Obama Go to Hell!, Washington Post, wider spread in circulation numbers, Wonkette, WorldNetDaily, Yes He Can (Vote)
The Last Campaign Weekend…
Happy Halloween, here are the points for this, the last Friday before we know the result.
• Scary News That’s Fit to Print
The New York Times reports: the tab for the presidential campaign approaches a shocking $2 billion. Clearly, the system must be fixed.
• Most popular Halloween themes:
Obama and McCain pumpkin carvings, Sarah [...]
Rachel and Keith Continue to Bring in New Viewers
Posted on 28 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill O'Reilly, CNN, FOX News, Keith Olbermann, MSNBC, Rachel Maddow
TV Newser has the results. Here are the full totals instead of just the 25-54 demographic. What’s impressive here is that Fox’s audience really hasn’t shrunk - they’re pretty much fans and they’re not going to switch channels.
MSNBC’s Olbermann and Maddow combo has attracted hundreds of thousands of NEW viewers to the fold. Numbers are [...]
Monday, 20:59:52
Posted on 19 October 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 Dutch nationals, 120, 15 February 2003, 20:59:52, 21-million marched peacefully, 400-Americans, 665 countries around the world, Amsterdam’s DAM Square, bogged down in lip-sticked pigs, Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, civil war and internal destruction, CNN, co-opted by his national party’s leadership, conducted by a decorated war hero, Countdown, crying terrorist at every corner, Denis Campbell, desperately trying to seize a shred of military glory r, Dutch media village in Hilversum, election ‘officials’ poised to steal another election, fear smear and lies can win, flight suit carrier deck photo op, FOX, great national debate, Hans Blix UN report, hijacking of our global goodwill, Keith Olbermann, let the UN inspectors finish hunting for WMD’s, lies and misdirection like a cheap magic trick, Mission Accomplished, Monday, moral standing, MSNBC, not all Americans were like George W. Bush, rained bombs on Baghdad, shameful election campaign, silent candlelight vigil by the US Consulate, sits smothered by election silliness, That’s Countdown for this the 2000th Day since the decl, The Iraq Platform’s Faisel Nasser, the war barely merits an above the fold headline, two weeks before Election Day 2008, We deserve much better, we don’t listen to focus groups, ‘Shock and Awe’
by Denis Campbell
Keith Olbermann will utter the words: “That’s Countdown for this the 2,000th Day since the declaration of Mission Accomplished in Iraq. I’m Keith Olbermann. Goodnight and good luck” thus closing Monday night’s MSNBC broadcast, two weeks before Election Day 2008.
If children have been born during this two year long Presidential campaign, imagine what [...]
Sarah Palin’s Feminine Wiles Fall Short
Posted on 29 September 2008 by Sharon Kyle | Comments (0) | Tags: 14 points higher than women. Desperately Searching for, 62 percent of men have a favorable opinion of the Alask, a strictly professional exchange, addressed Gibson as “Charlie” no less than five times, adept at using her charm and beauty to distract from ot, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Alaskan Governor, attractive woman, average citizen is still left wondering — who is Sarah, Biden will be in a precarious position, Bob Herbert, campaign spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt, Charles Gibson of ABC, Christopher Beam, CNN, CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll, compile and analyze what people are searching for on th, Couric didn’t seem to be biting, Couric seemed to rattle Palin, did not seem to work in Palin’s favor, earmarks investigation, enough is enough, Fareed Zakaria has asked that she step down, Feminine Wiles Fall Short, fifty-seven percent of male respondents said Palin was, gender gap, hard pressed to find a single report that looked favora, I trust that he’s up to the task, impossible to grasp the dialogue exchanged between Pali, it gives her an edge over her opponent that all attract, it is not all men. George Will, Jack Cafferty’s exasperation, Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interview, keywords “Sarah Palin legs”, looking directly and unwaveringly at Palin as she stumb, McCain avoided eye contact with Obama, moderated by veteran journalist Gwen Ifill, MSNBC, NBC believes what people search for says a lot about ho, NBC National Journal Reporter Carrie Dann asserts that, NBC News uses online research company Hitwise, New York Times, nine points higher than women, Palin is favored by men, Palin operating outside her comfort zone, Palin resembled a high-schooler trying to BS her way th, Palin searches caused web traffic to spike almost 30 ti, putting an unqualified pilot in the cockpit of a jetlin, reporters could not go into the meetings, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin knows where her strength lies, Sharon Kyle, she touched his arm, she’ll invite it, Slate, subtle gestures easily dismissed as personal style, the idea that the voters of the United States might ins, the reporter ban was a miscommunication, Thursday’s debate, volume fell almost as quickly as it rose, What’s important is that Palin feel comfortable enough, whether Palin is qualified to serve as president, Why else would the McCain campaign shield her from the, Within the first 7, zooming in on hard-hitting questions while staring with
by Sharon Kyle
Shortly after the Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interview, a slew of reports hit the Internet assessing the VP candidate’s performance. Try as I might, I was hard pressed to find a single report that looked favorably on Palin’s delivery. Slate’s Christopher Beam said that Palin resembled, “a high-schooler trying to BS her way through [...]
Maddow Head-to-Head with The King, Winning Hearts and Minds
Posted on 21 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Bill O’Reilly, Chris Matthews, CNN, Harball, Keith Olbermann, labelled sexist, Larry King, Maddow's a big fish in the pond, MSNBC, NBC, NBC News, Palin, Palin interview, Rachel Maddow, Rachel’s got cool and game, Republican SPIN machine, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, solid 1-2 punch, too controversial for the MSM, winning hearts and minds
Rachel Maddow in her second week is winning hearts and minds away from the King and even beat her buddy Keith Olbermann in the ratings giving MSNBC a solid 1-2 punch. MSNBC continues to grow viewers and present NBC with headaches because the right wing attack dogs succeeded in banning their hosts Olbermann and Harball’s [...]
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