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Offline franksolich

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Pedro Picasso stuck to the boob tube again
« on: July 15, 2009, 09:02:26 AM »
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AngryOldDem  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jul-14-09 03:34 PM
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Observation about CNN's coverage of Sotomayor....

...whenever it thinks the discussion is headed into complicated legal areas, Wolf immediately goes to commercial. How is this serving the public's right to know? This has been going on all day. Some of the best and most instructive exchanges have come while CNN was taking a break. It's beginning to piss me off that CNN thinks I can't process anything deeper than a sound bite.

As soon as CNN cut to commercial, I switched to CSPAN, which had some House vote on. But MSNBC is still with it.

Take the ad breaks where they logically occur; otherwise whittle the hearings down so that they can fit into your nightly newscast and don't bother televising them live at all.

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JuniperLea  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-14-09 03:37 PM
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1. I've noticed she's been interrupted...

Many times, by Republicans, when her answer is sounding very cerebral or when it lays waste to their plan to trap her somehow and she sets them straight. She takes it all with aplomb. I like her more and more every time I hear her speak.

Pedro Picasso, who gets all he knows, from television:

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Atman  (1000+ posts)        Tue Jul-14-09 03:41 PM
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2. Actually, judging by the time of your post, the hearing broke for recess.

Granted, CNN DOES suck royally. I don't doubt that Wolfie cut away every time the hearings made his head start to hurt. But you're not missing anything now. CSPAN is "recapping" during the break, showing highlights.

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AngryOldDem  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jul-14-09 03:49 PM
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4. It was just before, but the conversation was getting interesting.

They could have waited a few more minutes. It just seems that when they cut away in midsentence the excuse always seems to be they're heading into stuff that's just too deep for us ordinary folk to understand. Noticed that yesterday, too.

So why do I keep watching CNN? Good question.

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csziggy  (1000+ posts)      Tue Jul-14-09 03:46 PM
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3. MSNBC cut as soon as Sotomayor started her discussion of FISA

In response to Feingold's question. I was pissed since I wanted to hear her answer. CNN did not broadcast either - I turned over and they were doing some sort of recap.

If there weren't such a distinct pattern I'd suspect they cut whenever the talking heads aren't able to understand what is being said. But it is much more systematic than that.

Oh my. 

Such presumption on the part of the zipper primitive.

If the talking heads don't understand it, it's a sure thing the primitives don't understand it.

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AlinPA (1000+ posts)      Tue Jul-14-09 03:52 PM
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5. CNN does dumbed down coverage of everything. If there are no soundbites, they don't try to cover it.

But their coverage, although simplified, is still too complex for the primitives to get.
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Re: Pedro Picasso stuck to the boob tube again
« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2009, 10:50:52 AM »
They were breaking away to cover her ass. Didn't want their audience to here her contradictions. She tried to worm her way around every stupid thing she has said.
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Re: Pedro Picasso stuck to the boob tube again
« Reply #2 on: July 15, 2009, 10:57:20 AM »
I watched a part last night and it seemed to me she was trying very hard to speak slowly and from notes/prepared talking points.

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Re: Pedro Picasso stuck to the boob tube again
« Reply #3 on: July 15, 2009, 11:26:41 AM »
Quote from: dutch508 on July 15, 2009, 10:57:20 AM
I watched a part last night and it seemed to me she was trying very hard to speak slowly and from notes/prepared talking points.



WHAT? No TelePrompter......and hey, she's talking as fast as her brain works.
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Re: Pedro Picasso stuck to the boob tube again
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2009, 02:08:48 PM »
They should try CSPAN2, since thats the "Senate Channel" of the system. Just saying.

Oh and she looks like Manuel Noriega's twin sister
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Re: Pedro Picasso stuck to the boob tube again
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2009, 02:13:47 PM »
Quote from: FGL on July 15, 2009, 02:08:48 PM
They should try CSPAN2, since thats the "Senate Channel" of the system. Just saying.

Probably Pedro Picasso, the ultimate child of television, watches that, too.

You know that when Pedro Picasso was a lad, circa 6 or 7 years old, circa 1966, his father once took him to some space show where he met Barbara Eden, or whatever her name was ("was," in case she's dead now), who was some character on some mid-1960s television half-hour situation comedy.

It affected Pedro Picasso profoundly, and he's kept his eyeballs glued on the television set since then.

All that Pedro Picasso knows, he gets from television.
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Re: Pedro Picasso stuck to the boob tube again
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2009, 10:27:12 PM »
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Oh and she looks like Manuel Noriega's twin sister

That's it! I knew that toad looked familiar!
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Re: Pedro Picasso stuck to the boob tube again
« Reply #7 on: July 16, 2009, 05:54:24 AM »
I'm sure they would all be happier if she wasn't on television at all. The woman has more than a few 'tells' when she is lying that aren't apparent if one listens to her on the radio as she speaks slow and methodically.

The most obvious tell is her eyes - she blinks more than McCain when she lies.

Watch her on YouTube as she explains her 'Wise Latina' comment. Blinkitty-blink-blink-blink.

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4elLq021igc[/youtube]
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