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MSGOP They'd rather be "Right" than be ratings leaders
by Tamara Baker June 17, 2004 -- SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (apj.us)
-- Remember Lori Klausutis?
(http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html)
Michael Moore sure does. As Mimir points out over at DailyKos
(http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/6/15/203432/052),
Moore has been sparring with former congresscritter (R-FL) and current MSNBC talk-show host Joe Scarborough -- and Moore isn't shy about bringing up the tragic fate of Ms. Klausutis, who worked for Scarborough when he was still a congresscritter, and whose dead body had several severe skull fractures when it was found in his office one summer morning almost three years ago.
July 21, 2001, was smack-dab in the midst of the media frenzy over another congressman and another young woman: Gary Condit and the then-missing Chandra Levy. Ms. Levy's body had yet to be found, and there was absolutely no evidence that Condit had anything to do with her disappearance and death, but that didn't stop the "liberal" media from hounding both him and his son out of politics forever.
No such media frenzy ever occurred over Joe Scarborough and Lori Klausutis -- even though Lori's death happened under highly suspicious circumstances, and even though Scarborough and his minions went out of their way to lie about it, as they did to a Florida TV station when they falsely claimed that Lori had suffered from a whole host of ailments, as a way to try to support a "natural causes" explanation for her death. (Oh, and Scarborough, like Condit, was cheating on his wife. Condit's adultery was presented as evidence that he killed Chandra, but media pundits shied away from mentioning Scarborough's own catting around in connection with Lori Klausutis.)
Why? Why the widely disparate treatment of two congressmen with dead young women in their lives? There's only one thing that would account for it:
Scarborough is a Republican, and Condit is a Democrat. Fast-forward three years. Condit is still trying to get his shattered life together, and was recently given a bit of a boost in his defamation lawsuit against Dominick Dunne, one of his chief tormentors, when Dunne's key source for the Condit story, Martha Jane Shelton, came forward to say that Dunne had paid her to lie about Gary Condit
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39436-2004Jun13.html)!
Joe Scarborough, on the other hand, has several cushy gigs, including the one with MSNBC -- or as I call it, MSGOP. Why? Because MSNBC cancelled their highest-rated show -- and the only one hosted by a liberal -- while it allows low-rated neo-Confederates and proto-Nazis to stay on the air indefinitely.
They zapped Phil Donahue's comeback in February 2003 after six months, despite his fast-growing ratings. The excuse: he wasn't doing well enough against O'Reilly. Well, guess what? His replacements are doing worse! I just went and looked up MSNBC's ratings -- and Donahue's show, which pulled a 0.5, is still MSNBC's ratings champ over a year after it went off the air. The best Scar can do is a 0.4. And Dennis Miller over at CNBC? He's pulling a whopping 0.1. Check it out for yourself
(http://www.oreilly-s*cks.com/politics/cablenewsratings.htm).
Like I said: MSGOP.
http://americanpolitics.com/20040617Baker.html
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« Reply #1 on Jun 17, 2004, 4:34pm » | |
Good Post! I was wondering the same thing. You never hear anything about the woman that was found in Joe's office, but Condit was on TV daily.
However, I must say that Joe is better than most right wingers on TV and radio such as Hannity or Rush. 
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« Reply #2 on Jun 18, 2004, 10:24am » | |
Michigan not a state in Scarborough Country?
On MSNBC's Scarborough Country, host and former U.S. Representative Joe Scarborough (R-FL) referred on June 16 to author/documentarian Michael Moore as a "Canadian filmmaker." Moore was born in Davison, Michigan (a suburb of Flint, Michigan), in 1954. During the show, Scarborough also accused Moore of lying and of being a hypocrite.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200406170006
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« Reply #3 on Jun 20, 2004, 4:48pm » | |
There were times, before he became host of his own show, when I thought Joe Scarborough was fairly reasonable (relative to others) and actually made some sense. But since having his own show, he's been in a position where he has to take a more conservative stance than he used to, just for the sake of controversy and getting his guests riled up. No, he's not as bad as some, but he can be pretty bad. The one I like (although I certainly don't agree with many of his positions) is Pat Buchanan. He's not a knee-jerk conservative, he actually listens to what people are saying, and he even admitted that all the votes he received in liberal Palm Beach County were certainly misvotes that were intended for Gore. Now THAT I can respect.
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« Reply #4 on Jun 20, 2004, 4:56pm » | |
Pat Buchanan disagrees with Bush on a lot of things and isn't afraid to say so. He didn't agree with Bush about going to war with Iraq either. I also find myself agreeing with him more than any of the other conservative hosts.
He is more of an independent.
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