Blogus Disruptus…
I’m overloaded. Can’t keep up. I couldn’t check the internet or email all day today and well into the evening. I was expecting blog turbulence but not this much blog turbulence. So I’m putting the blog mostly in park for the next couple of days until I can get a proper balance going. Hang in there. I will be back at this again soon.
June 12, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Just leave it idling in neutral. What could go wrong?
June 12, 2012 at 9:19 pm
I’d say we might run out of gas, but that’ll never happen.
June 13, 2012 at 3:57 am
Spud, did you get a new job or something? Maybe you’re training in a puppy? Enquiring minds want to know.
June 13, 2012 at 5:50 am
Laura, missed all of yesterday until this morning. The link to the Salon story was great. Thanks for some good reading!
June 13, 2012 at 7:43 am
Al will take over driving, as everyone else bounces around the backseat and whines “Are we there yet? Are we there yet?”
June 13, 2012 at 8:15 am
Just watched someone on MSNBC get caught out by “$10 in spending cuts to every $1 in taxes”. It took him forever to get it straight, and the host and two other panelists were no help at all.
Note: Nobody can rattle this sentence off while under the gun on live television, so don’t even try. It may look simple on paper, but when you try to say it, all you get is “$10 of..um..one dollar..revenue. Won’t get fooled again!”
June 13, 2012 at 9:06 am
TVNewser@tvnewser
CNN cancels “John King USA,” replaces it with an extra hour of “Situation Room”: http://mbist.ro/MrMGOf
June 13, 2012 at 9:14 am
Somewhere, Dana laughs her Ash off.
June 13, 2012 at 9:36 am
Larry King gone
John King gone
Burger King king gone.
At least Piers still has The Queen.
June 13, 2012 at 9:42 am
So, CNN was waiting until the general election campaign was in full-swing to give John King USA a graceful end. CNN waited too long.
^^^^ My children would use that “Are we there yet?” as a game to see how long it would take before my response included profanity.
June 13, 2012 at 9:44 am
I would offer to drive, but only my hat peaks over the steering wheel.
June 13, 2012 at 9:46 am
Sofa King gone
June 13, 2012 at 10:08 am
I’ll bet the ‘Newt’ debacle had something to do with it. That was a spanking that no one wanted to see.
June 13, 2012 at 10:10 am
So Obama’s big plan to turn things around: give a speech. blaming Bush.
http://news.yahoo.com/analysis-obamas-gamble-asking-more-time-fix-economy-050328996–business.html;_ylt=A2KJjajoyNhP4hYAsIDQtDMD
Lemme know how that works out for ya, buddy!
June 13, 2012 at 10:27 am
John King ain’t gone, just the show. They named him Senior Grand Poobah Campaign Correspondent. Something like that.
June 13, 2012 at 10:28 am
Minister of Silly Walks
June 13, 2012 at 10:29 am
TVNewser@tvnewser
John King becomes CNN lead campaign correspondent: http://mbist.ro/MrMGOf
June 13, 2012 at 11:04 am
That’s good. I like him, all snark to the contrary.
June 13, 2012 at 11:14 am
I agree. Regardless of Newt beating up on him, John is a fair guy.
June 13, 2012 at 11:20 am
Maybe MSNBC should fill the Dylan R. hole with the lovely and talented Tommy Christopher (real name Leonard Slye)? Tommy would like to have this so much his drool cup runneth over. He’d be at least as good as the Lefty boy banders.
June 13, 2012 at 11:44 am
TC would be AWESOME!
June 13, 2012 at 11:47 am
Goldie Taylor. That is all.
June 13, 2012 at 12:18 pm
I know directly this is not cable news but since Politico is on MSNBC so often I think of it as cable news. Now a psychologist says Obama didn’t blame Bush early enough and often enough for his problems! You just can’t make this stuff up!!
“At some point, it’s hard to spin your way out of a trash heap,” said Drew Westen, an Emory University clinical psychologist who studies the role of messaging and emotion in politics.
Obama’s “fundamental error,” Westen said, was not blaming former President George W. Bush and conservative lawmakers early enough and often enough in his term for creating the country’s economic troubles before he got into office.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=B43FC0F1-DEF0-4C24-8FED-0ED31244A5E0
June 13, 2012 at 12:22 pm
Finally getting a chance to read some things:
How many times does the past come up and bite someone on the butt?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeedpolitics/in-1994-axelrod-warned-against-happy-talk-on-econ
June 13, 2012 at 12:25 pm
That’s one thing we admire about Abe Lincoln, how he blamed his predecessors for leaving him the biggest mess up to the great depression.
June 13, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Good old Harry Truman: THE BUCK STOPS WITH FDR
June 13, 2012 at 1:05 pm
It’s pretty embarrassing. Obama has spent the entirety of his Presidency blaming everybody for everything. I guess when you have a reality tv contest to choose your President, you end up with a child.
June 13, 2012 at 1:07 pm
^ The Biggest Accuser!
June 13, 2012 at 1:22 pm
Perhaps surprising no one.
FOX5Atlanta @FOX5Atlanta
BREAKING: Federal prosecutors dismiss criminal corruption case against John Edwards following mistrial (AP)
June 13, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Oh boo hoo from people who wouldn’t give the President the time of day no matter WHAT he said. What’s he gonna do in the face of Republicans pretending the economy collapsed on Jan. 20, 2009..say “Yeah, it’s all MY fault!”? It was a global financial collapse that happened before the election, and it’s going to take at LEAST two terms to recover from. There isn’t much else he can say when the right drops it all in his lap.
June 13, 2012 at 2:54 pm
NBC reports on calls for AG Holder resignation but distorts the reason..
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/06/13/nbc-reports-demand-for-holder-resignation-but-not-why/
June 13, 2012 at 3:42 pm
I agree it will take two terms to fix the economy, but that’s if the second one is Mitt Romney’s. Otherwise, it will take three terms.
June 13, 2012 at 3:54 pm
Why CNN pulled the plug on JOHN KING USA
From Dylan Byers, Politico:
In May, Matthews’ 5 p.m. program averaged 546,000 viewers, whereas the second hour of Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer averaged 406,000 viewers.
At 6 p.m., Politics Nation with Al Sharpton averaged 541,000 viewers — similar to Matthews’ program — while John King CNN dragged the network down to an average of 341,000 viewers. (It is important to note that all networks go through seasonal changes).
June 13, 2012 at 4:18 pm
Dumping King’s show was inevitable. Although he was a pretty good reporter he was a boring host.
To me going back to a third hour of SR with Wolf Blitzer seems like a temporary move until they can put together a real replacement show.
Wolf is almost as boring as JK and I doubt they will be any major ratings benefit. But it could have been worse they could have given the show to Tom Foreman.
June 13, 2012 at 7:03 pm
Obama vigorously sought this job and talked down the economy, so he should’ve long ago just manned up and shut up, while doing something other than making it worse and getting us into such a deep debt hole that hte other end is in China.
June 13, 2012 at 8:31 pm
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s wrong with CNN: Erin Burnett does a goofy segment about the song Call Me Maybe, then seques from a punch line about it immediately into a graphic tease for an upcoming story about the Sandusky trial. My damn local news would’ve handled that better.
June 13, 2012 at 8:37 pm
She can’t do a clean segue to save her life. The other night she went from the Sanduskey trial to a story about soda. That stuff was bad enough when it happened her first week, but at least then she seemed jarred by it. Now it’s just part of the show.
June 13, 2012 at 8:44 pm
It’s not all on Erin. The producers are throwing stories at the screen with no coherent transitions between them. “This happened, this happened, this happened…ok, go!”
June 13, 2012 at 8:47 pm
Exactly. Shep can move between stories like that smoothly, but she doesn’t yet have the ability. It might be nice if her producers would recognize that, and arrange the stories accordingly. It’s not as if she’s reporting breaking news.