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Bill Maher Is Breaking Up

artappraiser — Tue, 18 Feb 2014 02:44:59 +0000

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Bill Maher Is Breaking Up With MSNBC: 'You've Stopped Leaning Forward'
By Tom Kludt, TPM Livewire, Feb. 17, 2014

Bill Maher is launching his own personal protest against MSNBC's wall-to-wall coverage of the George Washington Bridge scandal.

Maher has been pretty dismissive of the scandal from the beginning, arguing last month that there will be no smoking gun tying New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) to the politically motivated lane closures.

That outlook puts the liberal comedian sharply at odds with MSNBC, which has given significant coverage to the scandal and broken news on the lane closures, so Maher announced in a blog post on Friday that he's done with the liberal cable news channel [....]

Maher went on to say that MSNBC has become no better than Fox News, and that "Bridgegate has become [MSNBC's] Benghazi."

"You've stopped leaning forward," Maher added. "Look, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little lanes of traffic don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." [....]

Yes. Now he's really REALLY

Ramona — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:48:12 +0000

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Yes. Now he's really REALLY sad. . .

http://nypost.com/2014/01/15/

artappraiser — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 23:30:24 +0000

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http://nypost.com/2014/01/15/bruce-springsteen-jimmy-fallon-jab-christie...

(For those who don't know, Christie is an extreme fan of Springsteen.)

Of course he didn't forget

Ramona — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 03:28:44 +0000

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Of course he didn't forget but did he really think there would be no photos? I can't believe how dumb these pols are when it comes to covering their tracks. Or making up better lies. They're slipping. (That story is all over MSNBC tonight. I'm sure it'll be all over the place tomorrow, too. The explanation should be interesting.)

Christie appears to have

rmrd0000 — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:35:05 +0000

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Christie appears to have forgotten that he had seen David Wildstein recently, the WSJ obtained photos of Christie on day three of the bridge closure. In his press conference, Christie stated that he had not seen Wildstein in a long time.

LOL. Short and sweet and

Ramona — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 23:22:00 +0000

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LOL. Short and sweet and right on.

Great post. Totally

Doctor Cleveland — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:16:45 +0000

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Great post. Totally self-destructive on Christie's part.

His ego is like a huge zeppelin overfilled with gas... it swelled, and it swelled, and ... Hindenburg.

The type that decided what

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:28:46 +0000

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The type that decided what they wanted to be when they grew up after watching All the President's Men?

I should also point out types like Josh Marshall love these kinds of stories too and that he spends a lot of time and resources on them; he even gives out an annual award for the best political scandal. (Actually, maybe I'm wrong about this but I think I read a post by him recently saying something along the lines of "it doesn't get better than this.") So it's not just cable TV news. I just thought the latter are more subject to having to follow ratings when deciding what to spend resources and time on. And what I was suggesting is: maybe cable TV audiences basically consist of a lot of Josh Marshall types, so even though most of the nation isn't that interested, this story is giving them relatively good numbers.

I think this is the sort of

Donal — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 11:51:46 +0000

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I think this is the sort of story reporters like ...

Christie Story Attracts

artappraiser — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 02:27:11 +0000

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Christie Story Attracts Little Public Interest
Recent Opinions of New Jersey Governor Are Largely Unchanged
Pew Research Center, Jan. 13, 2014

After reading this, I am puzzled by what cable news TV has been doing on it (both MSNBC & Fox seem to be treating this story like it's the best thing since sliced bread as far as coverage is concerned.) Maybe their audiences are different demographics with different "poll" (Nielsen) results than the general public with news interest?