Ok, I'm done. CNN lost me with this crap Cheney interview

[LEW]

Is anyone watching Darth Vadar? My god John King is the worst. How can he just sit there and let Cheney lie and lie, and not call him on it? The picture should be John kissing his "a--" instead of sitting across each other at a table. No more CNN Sunday, that's for sure.:puke:

[valerief]

1. You watch CNN? Why? nt

[Rhiannon12866]

5. I'm watching. I turn to CNN on weekends rather than watch documentaries on serial killers on MSNBC..

We need a few more choices... :eyes:

[valerief]

7. Oh, god, most of MSNBC is unwatchable, too. Time to watch TCM. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

11. I like KO and Rachel, keep me up to speed on what's going on as well as DU...

But on weekends, it is more unwatchable than CNN... What gives? Is there no news on weekends?! And is there such a vast audience for serial killers, prison inmates and pedophiles?! Yikes! x(

[goodgd_yall]

42. Yeah, I don't get the MSNBC programming

Having no news on Friday night is really weird. It's bad enough that the weekends are just full of creepy documentaries.

[valerief]

65. I'd enjoy them if BushCo etal were wearing prison tangerine in them. nt

[valerief]

66. I'd enjoy them if *Co etal were wearing prison tangerine in them. nt

[Rhiannon12866]

69. When those come on, I change the channel as quick as I can...

Can they possibly think that the same audience that normally tunes in for Rachel Maddow is up for viewing details about grisly murders?! x(

[Hieronymus]

35. I watch CNN on Sundays for the same reason. Prison shows are so bad...

Cheney said nothing surprising.

[EFerrari]

71. Try Link. They have all kinds of good stuff on.

They're the ones that air Amy Goodman. You'll never go back. :)

[babylonsister]

2. I immediately turned when I saw darth, flipped to faux where I

saw Rove, over to cspan and there was lindsay graham. Time to go read a book.

[LEW]

3. Yeah, I still miss

Tim Russert. Hell, can't believe I'm saying it, but I think I miss Wolfie on Sundays.

[BlueJac]

4. I haven't watched that shit channel in years!!!

[tridim]

6. Is he being asked about his death squads?

You know, the big story revealed this week?

[NorthCarolina]

20. No it was just another John King puffball interview n/t

[Cyrano]

8. Some see TV "news" as it is and say "Why?" I turn off my TV and

say "Why not?"

(With apologies to George Bernard Shaw.)

[Mz Pip]

9. I watched for two minutes

During that time John King holds up a copy of "Human Events" newspaper saying that most people have never heard of it but that he reads it every day. The headline is a about Obama's 'hidden agenda' with a very unflattering pic of Obama.

They proceed to commiserate on the article and Obama's hidden agenda.

At that point I turned it off. :puke:

[grasswire]

14. that would explain things

Human Events is Scaife funded. It's a piece of trash.

[Demoiselle]

15. HUMAN EVENTS?

OF COURSE John King reads Human Events! EVERY DAY! Herewith, a little info on said publications, courtesy Wikipedia:

"Human Events is a weekly conservative magazine founded in 1944. The magazine takes its name from the first sentence of the United States Declaration of Independence which reads "When in the course of human events..."
.......Notable columnists include Ann Coulter and Robert Novak. Human Events is published by Eagle Publishing of Washington, DC, and is a sister company of Regnery Publishing.
According to journalist Richard Reeves, Human Events was former President Ronald Reagan's favorite paper. During face-to-face Cold War negotiations, Reagan told Mikhail Gorbachev that he could not give up the Strategic Defense Initiative because the editors of Human Events, "the so-called right wing, and esteemed journalists, who were the first to criticize him," were "kicking his brains out" over the defense system they supported.....
.....
Human Events regularly puts out top ten lists.....(as in) .........a list of Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries:

The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Mein Kampf, by Adolf Hitler
Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, by Mao Zedong
Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, by Alfred Kinsey
Democracy and Education, by John Dewey
Das Kapital, by Karl Marx
The Feminine Mystique, by Betty Friedan
The Course of Positive Philosophy, by Auguste Comte
Beyond Good and Evil, by Friedrich Nietzsche
General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, by John Maynard Keynes
Twenty books received honorable mention, including Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson."

ANY QUESTIONS?

[Mz Pip]

24. Discussing it like

it was fact, not opinion was what made me change the channel. There was no counterpoint. King held up the paper like it was some kind of proof that Obama has some hidden agenda and of course Cheney is nodding his head in agreement.

Now perhaps later in the segment he referenced some article in THe Nation, but I sort of doubt it...

[jbnow]

52. Wow...King is being so blatant. I use to hear

people say how bad King was. A few weeks ago I watched a lot of his show and realized no one was exaggerating. I watched little bits after that and oh so bad...

I pondered watching today...would he use that same insulting sort of questioning against Cheney that he did anyone who supported Obama policies? (Even if more politely) Maybe it was how he works...though I doubted that.

But I couldn't bear to see either King or Cheney and knew I'd hear about it. I figured I'd hear he didn't question cheney's crap at all...I didn't think I'd hear what you just told me. Talk about agendas, praising "Human Events" newspaper makes his crysral clear.

I never knew how much I could miss Wolf.

[Exilednight]

10. He's going to let him lie and not call him since CNN doesn't want a repeat of Wolfe's interview ....

with Cheney. That was painful to watch. It's sad that Blitzer actually calls himself a journalist. He was asking the touch questions, but Cheney refused to answer them and then went on to kick Blitzer around like a wounded dog. The sad part was, Blitzer didn't stand up for himself - he just stood there and took it.

[liberalmuse]

12. He makes all the movie villians seem watered down.

I am at a loss as to why this evil piece of shit still gets a platform to spew his lunacy, and undisputed at that. Every time he is allowed to vomit over the airwaves, he drags the energy of the entire planet down. Enough!

[polichick]

13. Bush's war in Iraq wouldn't have happened without CNN's constant drumbeat...

That network has always acted as an apologist for those criminals.

[droidamus2]

16. It's almost as if ...

Whenever I see Cheney interviewed it is almost like they have required that the interviewer ask questions but not be allowed to ask true followup questions. That way when Cheney lies they just go onto to the next subject and let the lie stand. Maybe John Stewart should interview Cheney.

[Exilednight]

18. See post #10 n/t

[The Wizard]

58. And maybe Jon Stewart could induce Cheney

to have the "big one" on TV. That would be a ratings grabber.
Anyone giving Cheney a platform other than as a defendant on the witness stand or some other form of cross examination is complicit in Cheney's crimes against humanity.
They used to enforce laws against criminals like Cheney. Seize his assets.

[jenmito]

17. Yup-King let Cheney lie over and over. Cheney said "we pretty much accomplished all the goals

we set out to achieve in Iraq"-like getting rid of the dangerous dictator who was harboring terrorists, get rid of al Qaeda in Iraq, while making Iraq into a democracy. He also claimed many terrorist attacks were thwarted thanks to waterboarding and other illegal things, naming the phony plot where terrorists were going to take over planes in London and explode them over the U.S. NONE of this was challenged. :eyes:

[Bobbie Jo]

19. Why isn't that thug in jail?

[jenmito]

21. I don't know but he SHOULD be!

[WinkyDink]

60. On the gallows, is how I'd phrase it.

[Life Long Dem]

22. Because he's able to ignore you and I.

He's praising some cartoon character or something some kid thought up.

He wants your attention. Do we know that they are "NOT" going after the bigger viewing audience? Seems to me there might be some truth to it.

[Imagevision]

23. For Cheney to continue to come out of the woodwork there is still a lot at $take in Iraq...

[nichomachus]

25. To everyone concerned about CNN

Turn off your TV -- go for a walk, paint the bathroom, write some letters, take a nap, read a good book. You'll be much better off for it.

[Phx_Dem]

26. John King isn't much better than Dick Cheney.

I'd bet the farm that the enabler didn't ask the war criminal about his secret assassination squad. Did he?

[City Lights]

27. I launched a pre-emptive strike against cnn.

As soon as I heard John King was going to give airtime to The Dick of Death, I emailed them and told them I wouldn't be watching. I told them I have no interest in listening to a war criminal.

I'll take Jon Stewart over john king any day of the week!

[Cha]

29. And, I thank you for actively doing

something about it, City Lights. I hope everyone who is disgusted with cnn's propaganda role with bush and cheney will do the same.

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*These numbers provided by Frenchie Cat:)

[LEW]

43. I did write an email before this post

If I complain, I will do something about it. Glad I did. Not one to constantly email negative comments, but this time called for such action.

[Cha]

49. Thank you, we

can do something about this blatant mediawhoredom.

[Kaleko]

45. Heh. I emailed a link to this thread to 3 different CNN addresses.

Subject: Why CNN is losing viewers every day

Check out the blogosphere to get a clue, folks.

Just one example, the John King "interview" with a known war criminal today:

"Ok, I'm done. CNN lost me with this crap Cheney interview"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8263562#top

Cheers from someone who hasn't been watching your infomercials pretending to be news for YEARS,

(my name)

[Cha]

50. Brava,

Kaleko~ They will get the message one of these days.

[City Lights]

56. Happy to do my part. Thank you (and FrenchieCat) for providing the contact info.

It's so easy to zap off an email or make a phone call when the contact info is right there.

:hi:

[CrispyQ]

67. Good for you, although I wonder if they read our comments.

I wrote to them after they showed Limbaugh for over an hour. I only know it was over an hour because I read it here - I certainly didn't watch that hateful gasbag! I told them they were becoming irrelevent. I told them that I stream MSNBC, & with Keith, Rachel & the internet, there is no need for CNN.

Our media is such a huge part of the problem in this country!

[eppur_se_muova]

28. Well, they just wanted to "balance" all the times they've had ...

(former VP and) President-Elect Al Gore on. :sarcasm:

[Dinger]

30. Nah, Little Bear Was On NOGGIN

Much better t.v.

[Hellataz]

31. That interview was such a sham.

Where exactly in this interview did John King ask Cheny about his death squad who only reported to him or the memo's that have come out stating that Bush had free will to pick up any American off the street and imprison and torture them with no other cause except that "he thought they might be a terrorist"

Of course Cheney isn't going to say anything positive about a democratic administration that is reversing all his ill will policies. Why aren't they asking him about the horrible and illegal things he's done?

Do we need to bring John Stewart to do the job?

[polichick]

34. "Do we need to bring John Stewart to do the job?"

Cheney wouldn't show up for that interview!

[Sebastian Doyle]

41. In fact, he did chicken out of talking to Jon Stewart

and sent his wife instead. Though Lynn delivered a Darth Vader doll to show that Dick was aware of the interview.

[polichick]

47. Wow, what a brave guy! But Lynn is almost as creepy.

[BlueMTexpat]

55. Lynn is even creepier, IMO ...

without her, Cheney would likely be just a "good ole boy" back in WY. She's the one with the balls in that family ... and they are steel balls at that.

[mvd]

32. The mainstream media lost me a long time ago

Letting Bush get away with everything drove me to get my news on the internet and from local news.

[mvd]

33. BTW, the way Cheney talks about terror..

really makes me wonder if he's still trying to sabotage our government for his malicious purposes. Disturbing.

[WinkyDink]

61. I think it's self-evident!

[Two Americas]

36. turn it off

I can't understand why people here are so addicted to the cable political shows, and why they cannot see how that has a corrosive effect on their thinking and skews their view of what is and isn't important, and how politics and government actually work.

I don't think it is possible to watch very much of that without having your view of reality be seriously distorted. The truth and whatever they are peddling are incompatible, completely incompatible - one displaces the other. It is all so powerful and seductive, and so subtly misleading. It becomes "real" in our imagination, and then leads us to tune out each others voices - where the real value is - because no one of us can possibly compete with those slick and compelling presentations.

I am convinced that most of the feuding here, and most of the right wing talking points we have to listen to every day here, all have their origin in the MSM cable "news" and "political" shows.

A common charge leveled at any and all posters here who say anything even remotely to the political left, is that they "don't know what they are talking about" and that they are "a small fringe minority of no importance." Obviously, that thinking can only be based on a comparison, and a notion that there are other voices who are "somebodies" and who do know what they are talking about. I strongly suspect that those saying that watch a lot of cable TV, and that is what they are using as a basis for comparison.

TV is so powerful, so seductive and persuasive on so many levels and in so many subtle ways, that I do not think anyone can watch it and not be dramatically affected. You can easily predict exactly how much TV people watch by listening to the "opinions" they express.


...

[depakid]

37. Much of the American corporate media reminds me of AIG

because they lack acountability- and think that no one would ever dare divest and re-regulate them, they have lost any sense of responsibility and journalistic ethics.

Like a child who's never disciplined for foul language and dishonesty- they'll say anything- and keep on pushing the envelope.

[Sultana]

38. CNN is Faux-lite

it has been a lost cause for some time.

[goodgd_yall]

40. Oops

I just posted my comment below yours and noticed you said the same thing. :-) It must be true, then.

[Sultana]

Comment Twins

:D

[Sebastian Doyle]

44. Yep. The minute it was bought out by AOHellTimeWarner

It pretty much became a tool of the right wing. Leslie Blitzer's a goddamn Mossad agent, for fucks sake.

[goodgd_yall]

39. I've come to the conclusion that CNN is FoxNews lite.

It practically carries the same stories and has the same commentary as Fox. "Lite" because CNN isn't populated with nutjobs like Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, and O'Reilly.

[progressoid]

46. What is this CNN of which you speak?

:shrug:

[madamesilverspurs]

48. CNN - Corrupt Non News

[EFerrari]

70. Crap Not News

[mwb970]

51. I switched to another channel the second I saw cheney.

I won't have that face in my house.

[specimenfred1984]

53. I caught a minute of that disgraceful war criminal too

TV sells tension, it tries to create it like a cheap sitcom does, thinking viewers will watch the shit-flinging. TV whores couldn't be more wrong, I changed the channel after about 5 seconds.

[LittleBlue]

54. Dick Cheney is irrelevant. I don't know why they give him a platform.

If I ran CNN, he would be persona non grata, meaning no interviews, no stories mentioning him, etc.

He is a proven liar and criminal; why let him use your network to spread lies?

[polichick]

57. Network execs share his politics.

[pmorlan1]

59. John King Was Pitiful

The low point for me was when John King held up a copy of Terry Jeffries' "Human Events" and pretended like it was a "real" newspaper instead of a propaganda sheet for the far right-wing anti-abortion crowd.

[WinkyDink]

62. Was John King always like this? I recall liking him and his reporting.

And I'm wondering if he's been influenced by his spouse's politics.

[grace0418]

63. Didn't see it, but my local news played a clip of Cheney talking about what a wonderful

guy Rush Limbaugh is. Which pretty much said it all for me. They're both slimy, disgusting pieces of shit. Birds of a feather...

[gauguin57]

64. Ted Turner needs to start yet another cable news channel ... one that's like CNN when it started.

The other day, I was thinking about when the first Gulf War started ... with reports from Baghdad with Bernie Shaw and Peter Arnett and John Holliman. CNN just had so much more gravitas back then.

Now, CNN is just silly. Giggling fools, who smile as they announce some gruesome death.
And Headline News ... please. Ridiculous.

You can even hear those reports on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlC60Kef9Mg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOPvdIQwfUU

[Supersedeas]

68. It's the O'fficial Johnathan King platform for unchallenged Rightwing talking points

[ecstatic]

72. I'm with you. Why do they continue to enable that fearmongering troll/bigot?

Cheney has ZERO credibility. So don't put that troll liar on TV and act like he's an authority on anything. He is a disgusting person with no class. I'm pleased with Gibbs' response.