Sippy Insipid Cupp and Ging-grinch are back

[rocktivity]

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CNN To Force ‘Crossfire’ Hosts To Find Common Ground

CNN’s revived “Crossfire” program will still feature a host “from the right” and another “from the left,” but by the end of the show’s 30 minutes, the debaters will have to find some way to meet in the middle...

Yet those affiliations are firmly in mind. When “Crossfire” returns, it will do so with several format changes designed to make the right-versus-left debate it has long purported to present more substantial...Gone is the live studio audience...The network may mix and match the on-air anchors...depending upon their views on a particular topic.

The “Crossfire” relaunch tackles the question of how CNN intends to parry against Fox News and MSNBC, both of which have seen ratings surge over the years by relying on more partisan talk programs in primetime. CNN has striven to remain centrist across most of its programming, even as that stance seemed to render it a more vanilla provider of the news of the moment. By letting liberal and conservative hosts have at it so long as they sound a harmonious note at the end of the argument, the network clearly hopes to have its cake and eat it, too...

Was the captive audience of CNN early this morning -- their top stories was the anti-Syria strike polling, kids hurt by an amusement park ride, and a "Good Stuff!" segment about a girl surviving a brain-eating virus and a man advertising for a kidney for his wife. But their top top story was the return of their Crossfire show (take that, Jon Stewart!). On the right: Newt Gingrich and S.E. Cupp (though the anchor made a point of addressing her as Sarah Elizabeth). On the left: Obama election superstar Stephanie Cutter and deposed Obama advisor Van Jones.

Cupp and Jones had a brief skirmish over Syria, with Cupp doing her usual infantile vapid fearmongering (thus, her two equally applicable nicknames) and Jones making a point of both praising and criticizing Obama (I suspect he'll undermine himself out of fear of coming across as a knee-jerk supporter). Be that as it may, Gingrinch is so totally devoid of credibility, his mere presence automatically drains the show of any chance of retaining (never mind delivering upon) its honorable intentions. And if CNN's intention is centrism, I'll just remind them that only yellow stripes and squashed corpses reside there. As Keith Olbermann used to say, "Check, please!"


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[dem in texas]

1. CNN picks the Sorriest bunch of pols on TV

You have to hand it to CNN, they work hard to get such lousy people. The compulsive gambler, the blabber mouth football player, the wicked witch of the West, The total air head ex congressman from Tenn, paid Democratic and republican hacks who spout party line rhetoric when you push their talking buttons, and more. It never ceases to amaze me how often CNN misses the mark. But that is easy to cure, just change the channel.

[monmouth3]

2. I notice in the promo shots that sippy cup is very close to Gingrich...Very...close..Could it be?.nt

[AtomicKitten]

3. Van Jones would be worth watching.

The rest? Not so much.

[bigdarryl]

4. Cupp is a little nutty but SHE'S FINE AS HELL!!!

I will watch just to look at her