CNN in Last Place – Behind MSNBC Reruns!
CNN has dropped to fourth place in the cable news business it invented. And Fox continues to rise while under fire from the administration. CNN, which invented the cable news network more than two decades ago, will hit a new competitive low with its prime-time programs in October, finishing fourth – and last – among the cable news networks with ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 27, 2009 09:34
Obama Overexposed?
President Obama has gone on virtually every network but Fox in a weekend tour de force that continues tonight: The president's week-long media blitz has left no other network behind. The president has appeared on CBS's "60 Minutes," Bloomberg and CNBC and will appear on five public affairs talk shows on Sunday: ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," CBS's "Face the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on September 21, 2009 08:55
Police Taser Deaf, Retarded Man
Before turning in last night, we watched Monday's "Colbert Report" which featured this segment on the increasing use of tasers by police forces, including on helpless old women: The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Current Events - Tasers www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Tasers This morning, I see that several people are commenting on a story about Mobile, Alabama police tasering a deaf, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on July 29, 2009 07:59
Stephen Colbert in Iraq
Stephen Colbert takes a lot of grief from my side of the aisle for his partisanship but his USO trip to Camp Victory in Iraq deserves nothing but praise. Here's Campbell Robertson's NYT writeup from a couple days back: War, as things go, is a fairly unironic exercise. Sure, there are endless incongruities to be found and parodied in the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on June 10, 2009 12:30
Memorial Day – Canuck Edition
Richard Florida passes along this snippet from The illustrated History of Canada: American draft dodgers in Canada were far outnumbered by the young Canadians who joined U.S. forces to fight in Vietnam. This factoid may be in that category Stephen Colbert would call "truthy" and Dan Rather would call "false but true." Canada did not participate in the Vietnam War for a ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on May 25, 2009 07:19
Fox News Not Conservative
So says E.D. Kain: Fox News is simply not conservative. The fact of the matter is, I find NPR and even News Hour more conservative than Fox - but in a different sense, I suppose, than the standard boiler plate conservatism that has so infested American politics. What I mean to say is that the conservatism of Fox News tends to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on April 20, 2009 13:06
Hate Radio?
While their agenda is different from mine, I've generally seen the Center for American Progress as a thoughtful, center-left institution. They employ talented, decent folks like Steve Clemons and Steve Coll (now their president and CEO). Think Progress, the blog of their "Action Fund," has generally followed suit, despite most of its authors being quite young and thus not ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on March 18, 2009 06:10
Colbert Rejected for South Carolina Ballot
Stephen Colbert's quixotic quest for the presidency--in South Carolina--has been thwarted by the Democratic Party.Stephen Colbert’s satirical run for the presidency has run into its first roadblock — his bid to be on the ballot in the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary was rejected on Thursday. The party’s executive council voted 13-3 to refuse Colbert’s application for a spot on the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 1, 2007 22:43
Colbert Files for South Carolina Primary
Stephen Colbert has filed for the South Carolina Democratic primary. Stephen Colbert's fanciful White House bid took a real step Thursday. It's up to South Carolina Democrats to decide whether to take him seriously. Colbert, who poses as a conservative talk-show host on the Comedy Central cable network, filed to get on the ballot as a Democratic candidate in his native South ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on November 1, 2007 14:59
Stephen Colbert Outpolls Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich
It's apparently silly season at Rasmussen, which continues to release results of absurd polling questions. Given a choice between Colbert running as a Democrat and Republican Congressman Ron Paul, 36% of voters prefer Colbert while Paul attracts 32%. Twenty-one percent (21%) say they’d vote for some other candidate while 10% are not sure. If the choice is between Colbert as a Republican ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 31, 2007 09:04
Colbert Outpolls Republicans with Young ‘Voters’
Comedian Stephen Colbert is doing quite well in the latest Rasmussen poll. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that Colbert is preferred by 13% of voters as an independent candidate challenging Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Rudy Giuliani. The survey was conducted shortly after Colbert’s surprise announcement that he is lusting for the Oval Office. The result is similar ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 24, 2007 15:27
Colbert Run May Violate Federal Election Law
Comedian Stephen Colbert's truthy run for the presidency may run afoul of federal election rules. Federal law bars corporations from contributing to candidates, either through donations or in-kind contributions such as free use of goods or services. Media organizations are permitted to feature presidential candidates in covering campaigns. But no precedent exists for a television network promoting and fostering a candidacy ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 24, 2007 09:57
Stephen Colbert Polling Ahead of Bill Richardson
Stephen Colbert has surged ahead of Bill Richardson and within a half point of Joe Biden in the latest Public Opinion Strategies poll. He's been "in" the race for less than a week, and already faux-pundit Stephen Colbert has surged ahead of longtime candidate Gov. Bill Richardson in one national poll gauging the race for the Democratic nod for president. And ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 23, 2007 09:04
Stephen Colbert Running for President
Stephen Colbert is running for president. Stephen Colbert has announced his candidacy for president on "The Colbert Report," tossing his satirical hat into the ring of an already crowded race. "I shall seek the office of the president of the United States," Colbert said Tuesday on his Comedy Central show as red, white and blue balloons fell around him. Colbert, 43, had recently ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on October 17, 2007 15:55
Netroots The Left’s New Machine
Jonathan Chait has a longish cover piece in TNR entitled, "The Left's New Machine: How the netroots became the most important mass movement in U.S. politics." What particularly struck me was this: The most significant fact of American political life over the last three decades is that there is a conservative movement and there has not been a liberal ...Posted in Outside The Beltway on May 2, 2007 09:23
