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Btw, since the nets like to talk about purported internet postings from the Nigerian terrorist… Here is a posting from Mr. Haskell:
Kurt Haskell here. Glad to see that a prior statment of mine is proved correct once again. The FBI’s statement, well……………………………….
Thanks Mlive, I love this story. KH
Just to give everyone an update. I had a visit from the FBI yesterday. They brought in several photos including one I casually identified to them as “The man they won’t admit exists that they detained in customs.” Amazingly, they changed their story and admitted that this 2nd Indian man was still being held in customs on “immigration issues.” (i.e. no passport) last night. So, there first story that only one man had been detained was apparently untruthful.
To MplsMom- I got a several minute close up look of the terrorist in Amsterdam and he has quite a different look about him. Further, there were very few black persons on our flight or at the airport and he was rather easy for me to identify later. Hope this helps. Thanks Mlive and those that continue to be supportive. KH
terrance, I don’t know what your previous discussion w/Boogie involved, but I did see Mr. and Mrs. Haskell on FNC from the Detroit station, I believe, on F & F Monday a.m. From what I remember, it was Kilmeade and Peter Johnson who interviewed the couple.
As reported earlier MSNBC appears to be auditioning new dayside talent. I’ve seen Jamie Floyd And Lynn Berry on over the last few days.
Jamie Floyd looks like a Nancy Grace wannabe who would fit better on “The Real Wives of New Jersey”. She has appeared on Tru(Court) TV as well as CNN & FNC in the past.
Lynn Berry is another story. She is smooth and has a natural delivery that is very easy to take. Easy on the eyes too as Terance would say. I think she’s a general reporter on WNBC (New York) at the moment.
Those 10 year ratings charts on TV Newser are really devastating looking if you are not a FNC viewer. The demo chart must be particularly worrying to MSNBC & CNN.
I would love to see a detailed analysis of just who these new FNC viewers are. I don’t think they are migrating from the other cable news nets so FNC must be getting new viewers from the somewhere new..
FNC got new viewers fron the “liberal MSM” believers who scoffed at all news media and listened to Rush Limbaugh exclusively. No, not a verifiable fact. My opinion.
Laural: re the Corburn interview. It goes to show what rational discussion can be had when the show interviewer is not interested in sound bites and doesn’t ask leading questions. It’s really a shame there are so few shows on the cable news nets that have hosts/anchors that don’t dominate the conversation with their own political points of view. PBS & CSPAN do it all the time.
It’s really a shame there are so few shows on the cable news nets that have hosts/anchors that don’t dominate the conversation with their own political points of view
Robert Samuelson underscores this point – and extends it to journalism at large and not just cable news – here:
Key graf: [Today] journalism is a jumble. Just who is a reporter and who is an advocate is often blurred [cable news anyone?]. Some journalism is openly partisan. Hardly anyone values anonymity. Reporters and editors have become multimedia self-promoters. They blog and tweet; they do TV and radio. Although career advancement and political bias have always influenced journalism, their impact has increased. The “marketplace of ideas” often resembles a demolition derby—victory goes to the most aggressive.
More information, he argues, has led not to a better informed electorate, as we thought it would, but to a more easily manipulated electorate.
I don’t agree with Obama’s Afghanistan policy, nor do I support his administration’s anemic “everything worked” spin last Sunday, but if Dick Cheney wants the President to stop saying “Bush’s fault”, he needs to stfu and let the current administration fight the bad guys.
– if Dick Cheney wants the President to stop saying “Bush’s fault” –
This administration isn’t going to stop saying ‘Bush’s Fault’ until they are sufficiently embarrassed of doing it. The ‘Cheney’-boogeyman’s got nothing to do with it.
Referencing Cheney is hardly a ‘boogeyman’. The guy was part of a stupid approach to fighting terrorism, and now he’s popping off at the current president as a threat to our national security every chance he gets. I don’t support the continued use of “Bush’s fault” language in a vacuum, but I most certainly do support a vocal push-back if Cheney is going to continue this ‘from the bunker’ dialogue.
The approach Cheney was a part of worked. And this administration was criticising its predecessor for quite some time before Vice President Cheney started in on ‘em. You have things backa$$ward, joe.
Iraq,Afghanistan and Gitmo no matter how we got there and what mistakes were made by Bush are now Obama’s problems and he’s going to have to start to deal with that.
December 30, 2009 at 7:02 am
Boogiewoogee – FNC finally got around to doing a telephone interview with Kurt Haskell. Apparently they didn’t need their “A team” after all!
That said, why should we hit Yemen with air strikes?
Did they allow the terrorist to board with a bomb and no passport?
Right. I don’t guess Amsterdam has any oil!
December 30, 2009 at 8:28 am
Yemen is a hotbed of terrorism, terrorist training, etc.
December 30, 2009 at 8:28 am
Then again, Amsterdam is well on its way to becoming a hotbed of Islamist terrorism, so feel free to fire on them too, Terance!
December 30, 2009 at 8:44 am
Ya gotta love this REAL PATRIOT Kurt Haskell!
Btw, since the nets like to talk about purported internet postings from the Nigerian terrorist… Here is a posting from Mr. Haskell:
Kurt Haskell here. Glad to see that a prior statment of mine is proved correct once again. The FBI’s statement, well……………………………….
Thanks Mlive, I love this story. KH
Just to give everyone an update. I had a visit from the FBI yesterday. They brought in several photos including one I casually identified to them as “The man they won’t admit exists that they detained in customs.” Amazingly, they changed their story and admitted that this 2nd Indian man was still being held in customs on “immigration issues.” (i.e. no passport) last night. So, there first story that only one man had been detained was apparently untruthful.
To MplsMom- I got a several minute close up look of the terrorist in Amsterdam and he has quite a different look about him. Further, there were very few black persons on our flight or at the airport and he was rather easy for me to identify later. Hope this helps. Thanks Mlive and those that continue to be supportive. KH
December 30, 2009 at 8:55 am
terrance, I don’t know what your previous discussion w/Boogie involved, but I did see Mr. and Mrs. Haskell on FNC from the Detroit station, I believe, on F & F Monday a.m. From what I remember, it was Kilmeade and Peter Johnson who interviewed the couple.
December 30, 2009 at 8:58 am
Just saw this in the Detroit Free Press, if anyone is interested:
http://freep.com/article/20091230/NEWS06/912300364/1318/FBI-probes-account-of-Mich.-couple
December 30, 2009 at 9:06 am
Missy, I saw a phoner with Gregg Jarrett.
BW & I were discussing the reasoning why none of the nets had picked up on this couples story.
December 30, 2009 at 9:15 am
Poll Question: “should US pay for skin graft for Panty Bomber?”
http://bellalu0.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/should-we-provide-panty-bomber-with-skin-grafts/
December 30, 2009 at 9:23 am
As reported earlier MSNBC appears to be auditioning new dayside talent. I’ve seen Jamie Floyd And Lynn Berry on over the last few days.
Jamie Floyd looks like a Nancy Grace wannabe who would fit better on “The Real Wives of New Jersey”. She has appeared on Tru(Court) TV as well as CNN & FNC in the past.
Lynn Berry is another story. She is smooth and has a natural delivery that is very easy to take. Easy on the eyes too as Terance would say. I think she’s a general reporter on WNBC (New York) at the moment.
December 30, 2009 at 9:31 am
Those 10 year ratings charts on TV Newser are really devastating looking if you are not a FNC viewer. The demo chart must be particularly worrying to MSNBC & CNN.
I would love to see a detailed analysis of just who these new FNC viewers are. I don’t think they are migrating from the other cable news nets so FNC must be getting new viewers from the somewhere new..
December 30, 2009 at 9:41 am
I believe Spud posted an in depth piece a while back about that.. (Probably was on ICN 1.0)
Anyway, I believe he showed FNC didn’t get their “new” viewers from CNN or MSNBC.
December 30, 2009 at 10:52 am
Missy, do you mean that Courtney Friel wasn’t interviewing them?
December 30, 2009 at 2:39 pm
I thought the first Coburn/Obama-clip was interesting, as far as his relationship with the Presidents.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/18/quotes-of-the-day-229/
December 30, 2009 at 2:49 pm
FNC got new viewers fron the “liberal MSM” believers who scoffed at all news media and listened to Rush Limbaugh exclusively. No, not a verifiable fact. My opinion.
December 30, 2009 at 2:52 pm
And we are THRILLED to hear it.
December 30, 2009 at 3:01 pm
And we are THRILLED to hear it.
Anytime. Reminds me of classic SNL: Heavy SARCASM.
December 30, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Sarcastic? Moi?
December 30, 2009 at 3:19 pm
Oh. My. God. Jersey Shore. I knew it was bad but…d@mn.
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/12/17/video-reality-show-idiots-make-blogger-weep-for-mankind/
December 30, 2009 at 3:23 pm
Laural: re the Corburn interview. It goes to show what rational discussion can be had when the show interviewer is not interested in sound bites and doesn’t ask leading questions. It’s really a shame there are so few shows on the cable news nets that have hosts/anchors that don’t dominate the conversation with their own political points of view. PBS & CSPAN do it all the time.
December 30, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Sorry, Corburn should be Coburn.
December 30, 2009 at 3:36 pm
It’s really a shame there are so few shows on the cable news nets that have hosts/anchors that don’t dominate the conversation with their own political points of view
Robert Samuelson underscores this point – and extends it to journalism at large and not just cable news – here:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/228550
Key graf:
[Today] journalism is a jumble. Just who is a reporter and who is an advocate is often blurred [cable news anyone?]. Some journalism is openly partisan. Hardly anyone values anonymity. Reporters and editors have become multimedia self-promoters. They blog and tweet; they do TV and radio. Although career advancement and political bias have always influenced journalism, their impact has increased. The “marketplace of ideas” often resembles a demolition derby—victory goes to the most aggressive.
More information, he argues, has led not to a better informed electorate, as we thought it would, but to a more easily manipulated electorate.
Nice piece.
December 30, 2009 at 4:00 pm
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1209/White_House_We_know_were_at_war.html
I don’t agree with Obama’s Afghanistan policy, nor do I support his administration’s anemic “everything worked” spin last Sunday, but if Dick Cheney wants the President to stop saying “Bush’s fault”, he needs to stfu and let the current administration fight the bad guys.
December 30, 2009 at 4:05 pm
– if Dick Cheney wants the President to stop saying “Bush’s fault” –
This administration isn’t going to stop saying ‘Bush’s Fault’ until they are sufficiently embarrassed of doing it. The ‘Cheney’-boogeyman’s got nothing to do with it.
December 30, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Referencing Cheney is hardly a ‘boogeyman’. The guy was part of a stupid approach to fighting terrorism, and now he’s popping off at the current president as a threat to our national security every chance he gets. I don’t support the continued use of “Bush’s fault” language in a vacuum, but I most certainly do support a vocal push-back if Cheney is going to continue this ‘from the bunker’ dialogue.
December 30, 2009 at 7:51 pm
The approach Cheney was a part of worked. And this administration was criticising its predecessor for quite some time before Vice President Cheney started in on ‘em. You have things backa$$ward, joe.
December 30, 2009 at 8:04 pm
Iraq,Afghanistan and Gitmo no matter how we got there and what mistakes were made by Bush are now Obama’s problems and he’s going to have to start to deal with that.
December 30, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Then again, Amsterdam is well on its way to becoming a hotbed of Islamist terrorism, so feel free to fire on them too, Terance!
Silly boy – when a Nigerian tries to attack America via Amsterdam, the correct response is to invade and occupy Luxembourg. Everybody knows that.