Head exploding....Pundit on Abrams tonight said.....

[Catchawave]

Advertisers pay more money for Obama and Hillary coverage than other candidates? Did I hear this right?

[babylonsister]

1. News to me; who was the pundit? Anyone trustworthy? And how

would that actually work?

[Catchawave]

3. Sorry, had it on as background noise

Was hoping someone could jump in and clarify.

Sigh, you know how we DUdes and DUdettes are media paranoid :D

And Dan's been on a roll lately....I'll look for the transcript. I hope I'm wrong.

[babylonsister]

5. You're better than I; it's on background here, too, but I'm not even

listening. No biggie, though I've never heard of this approach before and can't figure out how that'd work.

[comradebillyboy]

7. It was Jack Burkman

a complete fucking idiot who was asking why Hillary wasn't being grilled about Whitewater and the Ken Starr bullshit from 15 years ago.

[babylonsister]

10. I recognize him and you called it right; he IS a big fat idiot. That explains it. nt

[polichick]

2. Sounds like America to me...

News = entertainment these days.
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[rurallib]

9. Bet they can't wait for Bloomberg's money

[WCGreen]

4. They can track it fairly easy...

It could very well be that the H&O show plays out much better than JE and DK...

[Catchawave]

6. Tweety told Elizabeth that....

"...her husband wasn't as exciting, paraphrased, he's not a minority or a woman".

I'll definitely look for Dan's transcript tommorrow and start a new thread, either to prove what I heard, clarify, or apologize :dilemma:

[comradebillyboy]

8. Your interpretation is essentially correct

I saw the segment and the totally clueless jack Burkman made a series of amazingly stupid off the wall comments. Abrams basically laughed in his face.

[Catchawave]

11. Good, I did hear that....thanks, who is this jack burkman?

I'll do a new thread tommorrow when the transcript is up.

Candidate coverage driving ad revenue is worrisome. Glad Dan laughed :hi:

[comradebillyboy]

13. jack burkman is a republican party political hack

he was on all the talk shows during the Bill Clinton persecution. Later he was a functionary for little Ricky Lazio when he ran against Hillary for the NY senate seat.

[Orangepeel]

12. that coverage probably gets higher ratings which will then lead to more money later

but news networks don't auction off space in real time, after they know what story will run when. Most of the time was bought a while ago and the advertiser wouldn't know exactly what the story would be.