Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Chutkan laughs. Lauro sits back down.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

A consequence of cucumbers

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

“They not like us!” (that’s for sure!)

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Shut up, hissy kitty!

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

The US Supreme Court is on the ballot in november.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

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  2. 2.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    There’s nothing constructive about criticism. That’s a red herring, or should be.

  4. 4.

    different-church-lady

    I am happy for Jay and his newly liberated life.

    We like to think things have never been worse, but for many years I have understood that the mid 20th century golden age of serious journalism was the fluke. Yellow journalism is the normal state, and we’re merely reverting to it.

  5. 5.

    Shakezula

    Hey now, CNN does too bring you important news. Why, here is this vitally important news thing about the perils of cat poop. News you can use people!

    (Correction: CNN is Atlanta‘s Pressed Corpse.)

  6. 6.

    MattF

    I used to watch CNN, back when they had Bobbie Battista reading the news. I thought that having a cross-eyed anchor was both charming and significant. But that was then.

  8. 8.

    schrodinger's cat

    @Baud: Or the learning channel is no longer about learning. I don’t get cable where I live and I don’t even miss it anymore. Seeing snooze hour once a week is enough to keep up with our brain dead media corpse.

  10. 10.

    red dog

    @different-church-lady: dcl, great analogy. I think we should just go back to those scathing newspaper cartoons from the 19th century. The golden age of TV news was what I grew up with in the 50s; short, true and newsworthy.

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama1m
    Presidents included a doubling in the S&P were Obama, Eisenhower, Reagan & Clinton but none came close to the 18% Obama annual return.

    Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama6m
    Correction, Coolidge’s record is with the DJIA, and Obama has the record with the S&P.

    Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama7m
    Calvin Coolidge 25.5% annual S&P return, Obama at 18%, Bill Clinton’s AVG. S&P return was 15.2%, with Ike and Reagan in 4th and 5th place.

    Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama11m
    When FDR died in 1945, the S&P 500 was 141% higher vs 105% for Obama, but at an annual rate of gain was only 7.5% vs 18% so far for Obama

    Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama13m
    Over all, the world’s stock markets outside the United States have risen less than two-thirds as much as the American one has.

    Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama13m
    The US stock market has done better since early 2009 than any of the next nine largest economies in the world. Only India came close.

    Jeff Gauvin ‏@JeffersonObama15m
    More than 52 months after Obama took office, the S&P 500 was up 106% during his term in office, for a compound annual gain of 18%. #Economy

  12. 12.

    drkrick

    He’s clearly getting out of the game none too soon. He called someone writing for Politico a journalist.

  13. 13.

    Violet

    I generally only watch local news. I can pause my TV, so I do that, zip through all the headlines, watch something if it seems relevant to me, watch the weather if I’m so inclined and turn it off. Whole thing takes about four minutes. At least local news might affect my life, like a road closure or storm heading my way.

  14. 14.

    Jewish Steel

    CNN’s coverage of this trial may well be sensationalist and devoid meaningful commentary. That doesn’t distinguish it much from the rest of cable news.

    But I can think of one constituency who would have a legitimate interest in how this trial played out. Black people. Sounds like CNN is a place where they could watch that happen.

  18. 18.

    Keith

    If you can make it through the copious amounts of commercials, it’s a truly awful channel (it’s really amazing how often random channel switching to CNN ends up on a commercial). Even the new morning show is the worst of all the news shows (and I do mean all of them). I recall Cristiane Amanpour telling Jon Stewart that the “new” CNN would be really, really good. Guess she was trying to make a good impression on her new job.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    @Joel:

    War would at least be some history. Here’s tonight’s schedule:

    8:00 PM Counting Cars: One Love, One Car
    8:30 PM Counting Cars: The Marleymobile
    9:00 PM Counting Cars: Floodpocalypse Now
    9:30 PM Counting Cars: The Horn Ultimatum
    10:00 PM God, Guns, & Automobiles: Welcome to Max Motors
    10:31 PM God, Guns, & Automobiles: Muller’s Way

  24. 24.

    Violet

    @Keith: This is very true. I can watch CNN, MSNBC and Fox one the TVs on the treadmills at the gym (among a bunch of other channels). I kind of know where they are on the channel lineup, but when I turn to them they are so often commercials and it takes five minutes or so to figure out which of them I’ve landed on.

  27. 27.

    MikeJ

    @schrodinger’s cat: No, it used to be accurate, and at least Hitler was a person in history. Now it’s nothing but pawn shops and hillbillies that live in swamps. And yes, I know there are no hills on which to billy in a swamp.

  30. 30.

    Redshirt

    @schrodinger’s cat: That was ten years ago, and would be welcome today. As mentioned, The History Channel has dropped all pretenses these days, and is full on reality shows.

    One day soon, all channels – all of them – will only show wrestling and prison shows.

  33. 33.

    Trollhattan

    Speaking of phone calls in the middle of the night, apparently limbaugh told a caller not to watch Fox yesterday. And today?

    On his Tuesday show, Republican shock jock Rush Limbaugh walked back his criticism of Fox News, explaining that when he said “stop watching these people,” he really meant select people on the network. “I said stop listening to these people that make you mad,” he insisted. “What else am I gonna say?”

    He added that he’s not afraid to criticize Fox News and called the network’s mustachioed reporter Geraldo Rivera “the grim reaper,” explaining his recent clash with the hosts of “Fox & Friends” was misinterpreted.

    “Fox and I are on the same team,” Limbaugh insisted. “But these people in the media, they can’t stand it.”

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/09/limbaugh-says-its-time-to-turn-off-fox-news/

    Did Murdoch threaten to cut off his supply of fresh wives/rentboys, or something?

  34. 34.

    Woodrowfan

    One commentator ranted about how this was all the fault of “liberals ruining the schools.” I liked Rosen’s response.. “The “Culture War: Forever!” room is down the hall to the right. This is press criticism. But thanks for stopping by.”

  37. 37.

    Mike E

    @kindness:

    CNN sucks

    That’s written on a brick I keep by my teevee, and what I bash into my face whenever I get any urge to watch said cable outlet.

  40. 40.

    different-church-lady

    OT: I’m at a cafe. There’s a guy sitting across the way. He’s got his laptop in front of him, and his iPad on a stand off to the side. The iPad is streaming some television show. He’s not looking at it.

    I can’t afford the iPad I need for work, but apparently everyone else can afford them (and the data plan) so they can just ignore them.

    I will never understand the world.

  41. 41.

    joel hanes

    Jay Rosen’s long hard journey to reality is not yet complete:
    he still believes that Politico media columnist Dylan Byers is a “journalist”.

  44. 44.

    sparrow

    @PeakVT: I’m already disapointed that instead of the *excellent* international Al-Jazeera English, we will be getting our own American version. I mean come on! The people who will watch Al-Jazeera are going to be self-selecting… please don’t dumb it down (I’m not saying they will, but for what other reason does it need to be different than the international version?)

  47. 47.

    sparrow

    @Baud: I remember back when I was a teenager and tending our house garden, I was so excited to watch *actual gardening shows* on HGTV (circa 2000?) when I could catch them at our neighbor’s house that had cable. I thought wow, it must be awesome to have all these specific channels with quality programming…. ha… ha…… heh. yeah.

  48. 48.

    Anna in PDX

    @Woodrowfan: Ha ha, I loved that response too. It is amazing what people will focus on when wearing ideological blinders. (not that I’m immune from that myself, but at least I would not go to an article decrying CNN’s descent into trash journalism and start spouting nonsense about political/social engineering)

  50. 50.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Speaking of commercials my local Time Warner peeps must be on some serious drugs at the moment cause the commercials are all screwed up, some come on in the middle of the commercial, or even at the very end (Vista Print is one of them) other ones (Progressive) abruptly stop before the end and another commercial starts, it seems to happen when the commercial is preceded by or followed by a Time Warner commercial, which basically means that an advertiser is paying Time Warner for time that Time Warner is stealing from the advertiser. If I were paying them good money for a commercial in prime time and they did that to me I would be pissed.

  52. 52.

    handsmile

    Seems like some others are upset with CNN as well:

    “Foreign media outfits perceived as being sympathetic to Islamists are being attacked, with CNN and al-Jazeera TV singled out for hostility. The US news network has been vilified by protesters as being pro-Brotherhood, partly because it described the military’s move as a coup.”

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/egyptian-state-media-backs-military

    (Do check out the accompanying photo: “CNN Shame on You” has real potential.)

    CNN, even CNN International, as pro-Islamist is one of the most hilarious things I’ve read today.

  53. 53.

    Keith

    @Violet: I finally gave up on CNN altogether (well, not counting spending a minute being horrified by how pedantic their new morning show was) when I flipped to The Situation Room and sat through a few commercials only to see Wolf Blitzer come on to say, “When we return, we’ll look at so-and-so”, after which, they went back to more commercials.

  54. 54.

    Pogonip

    I canceled my cable in March. Not only have I not missed it, I have not watched anything over the Internet either. There’s just nothing on (I already read Game of Thrones before the show started). If Keith Olbermann came back on I might watch him; I know he’s a jerk but he’s funny and a good reporter.

  56. 56.

    gbear

    Kind of OT but in keeping with the theme of not being able to take it anymore: A Texas woman goes off big time against the Texas legislature. A thing of some beauty. Video making the rounds on facebook.

  57. 57.

    scav

    @Litlebritdifrnt: Similarly, Recently, when I’m trying to up my geek points by watching various treks, I’m getting those running on top of other ads too. sometimes, it’s the same ad, running with slightly different start times. Utter gibberish / white noise and when over, everything freezes, I reload and continue. They’re really getting bang for their advertising buck.

  58. 58.

    quannlace

    And to complete the crankiness, remember when A&E and Bravo actually had cultural programs?

  59. 59.

    Eric U.

    I think there would be a real market for a news channel without all the panels of people arguing and the pontificating by the spokesmodels. When CNN shows a few minutes of CNN international, it’s like a breath of fresh air. Even back in ’90 when I was in the Gulf it was far superior to the standard CNN. I guess we can’t be trusted with such a thing.

  60. 60.

    Josie

    I have completely weaned myself from watching any cable news channels and am a much happier person because of it. I can get all the news I need from the internet and from local channels. I am amazed that the cable news channels are successful in having enough viewers to be able to pay their bills. People must be really desperate for entertainment.

  61. 61.

    Jose Arcadio Buendía

    Quit fighting the last war. There are Almost no persuadables who need cable news let alone CNN. Just make sure the left keeps winning the Internets.

  63. 63.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @quannlace:

    A&E used to show seriously good shit, like the Hornblower adaptations, but MBA vermin got involved and cancelled any further Hornblower because not enough quarterly ROI.

    Any notion of long term viewer loyalty has been obliterated by the “did we score some profit in the last 30 seconds?” mindset.

  64. 64.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Eric U.:

    There may be a market, but it’s small, too small to interest the Ferengi who run the show nowadays. CNN used to be (as pointed out above) about actually gathering news, not having panels of talking heads talking, which is the Faux model. The endless concern about monetary profit being the only reason for any corporation to exist drives out everything else.

  65. 65.

    SFAW

    @Shakezula:
    Not to be more of a dork than necessary, but: when Mrs. SFAW was pregnant with the SFAW-ette, we made sure that she did not change the cat box, because of the (real) dangers. Yes, the likelihood was low that something bad would have happened, but “low” does not equal “zero,” so I was happy (relatively) to take care of it.

    Although, my gut was large enough that I looked like I was 5-6 months along myself, so maybe I should have found another stooge to handle it.

    Other than that, CNN sucks majorly; maybe they should change their slogan to “America’s Finest News Sourse.”

  67. 67.

    Chickamin Slam

    Clearly what they need to add is a show where they dress in their swimwear and mud wrestle the issues. Mills Lane decides the victor.

  68. 68.

    Richard Fox

    @Baud: These days I just go on youtube and find scads of documentaries the BBC produced over the years. Was watching “History of Britain” which I liked, plus any number of documentaries on ancient / modern Europe.
    At least that IS history. But forget anything on cable.. it’s such a joke, and not worth watching, and I’m being polite.

  69. 69.

    Eric U.

    to some extent, I don’t care if CNN has sideshows on all the time. It’s better than when they decided they should be Fox Jr. I am somewhat disturbed that they seem to have picked people that think it’s ok for a man to shoot someone because he is losing a fight that he started

  71. 71.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Pogonip: . If Keith Olbermann came back on I might watch him; I know he’s a jerk but he’s funny and a good reporter.

    I was thinking of Olbermann yesterday during an odd and extended tantrum from Lawrence O’Donnell (about this, if you missed it), thinking that LO’D made me nostalgic for the low-key, self-aware, good-humouredly self-deprecating tone (and brevity) of the “Special Comments.

  72. 72.

    Origuy

    @Richard Fox: I’ve seen most of the British documentaries on Youtube, although more appear all the time. I’ve taken to using a UK proxy server to watch BBC, ITV and Channel 4 documentaries direct from the source. Try tunlr.net.

  73. 73.

    Seanly

    My wife & I are weening ourselves off HGTV – “House Hunters” doesn’t even bothering visiting homes actually for sale. We’ve become annoyed by all of the shows about whiney Toronto folks bitching about not being able to find the right house for under $750,000.

    I stopped watching anything on the TLC long before it became Ground Zero for the Quiverful Movement. Some of the popcorn fluff now on HGTV, Food Network, NatGeo, History & etc can be fun to watch, but most of the shows I just catch on occassion.

    I used to watch Headline News in the morning (when it is ostenibly still news), but it’s been nothing but trial coverage since that stupid Jody Arias trial. So CNN has 2 networks with the same coverage of the stupid trial. While I feel that the verdict will be important, the actual trial is about as boring as boring can get. When they’re not fluffing some boring trial, Headline News is pretty much the most vapid conventional wisdom.

    The news is just terrible.

  76. 76.

    Ted & Hellen

    HEY

    I have just been released from Cole’s basement. From Cole’s damp, sticky, and smelly basement…where I’ve been chained to an ancient, corroded radiator next to Assidy.

    For a fucking week.

    In the dark.

    In the pitch black dark of hell.

    Next to Assidy.

    The things I have heard and felt…against me during that time…are seared into the now crusted skin of what was once my soul. For all time.

    Assidy, as I suspected, is less than fully human, and after a week in Cole’s cellar there has been pronounced deterioration.

    Get out.

    Get out now.

    There was however, pleasure and even romance to be had down there in the 24 hour blackness, among the dog and cat leavings…among the…desicated…remains of what can only have once been Betty Cracker’s unspeakably rotten…heart. I HOPE to God it was her heart; as I say I couldn’t see a fucking thing.

    But yes, there was…intimacy of a sort. And now I fear Assidy has taken a liking to me beyond what was ever meant to be implied by my desperate allowance of his frantic, pathetic, and appalling thrustings. Oh dear god the thrustings! But yes! Allow them I did and don’t judge me!

    It was what I had to do to survive.

    And so now I am back among the living out here, and back among the semi dead souls of the Botsplainers here at BJ. (Oh my god, the BJs…the BJs…DOWN THERE IN THE DARK!)

    And I owe no explanations. No apologies.

    And I have NO regrets.

    Some where deep down inside, I am still Ted.

    And Hellen too.

    NO REGRETS.

  77. 77.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Seanly:

    I love “Property Brothers” for that very reason, they show the clients with a budget of $450K the “dream home” and then tell them that the home is on the market for $1.5million. The look of their faces is priceless. They then show them absolutely shitty fixer uppers in their price range and tell them that they can turn the fixer upper into their dream home within their budget. It is fun to watch.

  81. 81.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @Seanly:

    I have to admit that I have become a fan of “on demand” TV shows that are totally useless but I enjoy watching on a Saturday morning in my jammies and my baffies. “Ghost Hunters” “Storage Wars” “Auction Hunters” “Storage Hunters” “Ghost Adventures” (am waiting for a new series of that one), “Haunted Collector” “The Dead Files” “Salvage Dawgs” “Pawn Stars” “Hard Core Pawn” “Flea Market Flip” you name it, shows that I can watch that do not test my brain in any manner, that I can fast forward through the adverts (which I absolutely hate), and just chill out. I would never give up my cable because if I did I would have to give up my on demand, and that is not going to happen.

  84. 84.

    scav

    @burnspbesq: After a while, the constellation of symptoms is enough to identify the probable bacillus. Video proving this exact one is named “Fred” only matters in a court of law attempting to convict said Fred for the harm done.

  86. 86.

    lamh35

    OT: Welp to quote Black Dyanmite’s Daddy Bye…..

    @mikeallen
    SIREN: Elisabeth Hasselbeck to co-host FOX & Friends; joins Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade in mid-Sept.–Gretchen Carlson gets daytime hour

    Apparently, this is a surprise to the View people. I never liked Hasselbach, she was just another dumb blonde spewing Faux News talking points. But what really cemented the dislike was during the ’08 campaign I believe, when Michelle Obama came on The View and was her usual warm and charming self, Hasselbach went on Fox the next day and completely bad-mouthed Michelle Obama right after smiling in her face the day before. From what I understand, she was made to make amends before Michelle O came back on the show, but I’ll never forget it.

    So even though I hate to call other women “bitches”…I’m sorry, but that fits Hasselbach to a tee, IMHO.

  87. 87.

    Tokyokie

    @gbear: Thanks for the video! When one side has to use armed law-enforcement officers to remove those who criticize them and their positions, it’s a tacit admission by that side that it’s lost the argument.

  89. 89.

    Elizabelle

    The Learning Channel — TLC — means The Labor Channel.

    as in the Duggars and their quiver of — what? 27 kids?

    Reality TV sucks. Idiocracy: The Documentary.

  91. 91.

    Narcissus

    MBA vermin

    This is true. Maybe while we’re salting the remains of the Village we can take care of the “business” schools.

  92. 92.

    different-church-lady

    @me: Have you ever watched “Wipeout”? It’s only one short step shy of that.

  93. 93.

    different-church-lady

    @quannlace: It could have been worse: remember when people were saying we no longer needed PBS because A&E and Bravo were going to take over that role?

  96. 96.

    John Cole

    @Ted & Hellen: Right out the gate you start a fight with Cassidy and Betty. You are a pox on this fucking blog.

    This is your last fucking chance. Stop being a total douchebag or you are done.

    And before you get all sanctimonious and email me about oppression, look at what you just did. For once, some fucking introspection, you degenerate asshole. You get out of a week ban, and the first thing you do is troll the commentary.

    Asshole.

  97. 97.

    Comrade Jake

    I really don’t understand the commitment to the Zimmerman trial. I’ve caught a little on MSNBC and it is mind-numbingly boring.

  98. 98.

    Comrade Jake

    I’m impressed that Cole put T&H in time out, though frankly a permanent ban would’ve been proportional.

  100. 100.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    That’ll be enough of the sasstalk, folks. Write yer piece, make it relevant to the topic and move the fuck on.

  102. 102.

    Ted & Hellen

    I seem to have offended the delicate sensibilities of this blog.

    I am heartily sorry and offer my deepest and most heart felt apologies all round.

    There was no basement.

    I made that all up.

  103. 103.

    MikeTheZ

    @Josie: My fiance works in a hospital clinic, and policy is that they can only have CNN or Faux Noise on. Same policy existed at the plant I used to work at for the cafeteria and break rooms. And every hotel I’ve ever been to has one or the other on in the lobby. Places like that are a huge boon to the cable news industry.

  105. 105.

    Roger Moore

    @Comrade Jake:

    there is no way she’ll actually run. She’s just looking for more teevee time.

    It’s not the TV time she’s after; it’s the campaign contributions that aren’t legally campaign contributions so she’s legally allowed to keep them.

  106. 106.

    burnspbesq

    @Baud:

    What do you think about that? I always feel like I’m getting half the story, but hard to know for certain.

    There’s rarely any doubt that you’re not getting the whole story from FDL, but what I read is enough to make me both concerned and pissed. How the fuck are State and EPA supposed to evaluate the new EIR if the guts of it are confidential?

    And after the rail disaster in Quebec (which is starting to look like perhaps 50+ counts of negligent homicide), the push to build more pipelines is only going to intensify, because sending crude or refined products by pipeline is “safer” than sending them by rail (yeah, right, tell that to the people who are still working on cleaning up the Kalamazoo River three years after that spill).

  107. 107.

    PurpleGirl

    @MikeTheZ: I noticed this morning and afternoon (two doctors appts.) that CNN was on TVs. Now for some time the clinics had stopped using the TVs, especially the medical shows they bought for education. Now they are back with TV programming. They don’t play they loud enough that you really hear it, though.

  109. 109.

    NickT

    @John Cole:

    For once, some fucking introspection, you degenerate asshole.

    If more judges were prepared to talk like this from the bench, my respect for our justice system would be greatly enhanced. Walter Sobchak has been officially out-Sobchaked.

  113. 113.

    Johnny Coelacanth

    T&H: Just a bitter, old, queen with his kitschy dog names and too much time on his hands? Sad.

  115. 115.

    Johnny Coelacanth

    I have given up on TV news myself. I remember the halcyon days of the early ’90s when Headline News was just that; the headline stories, repeating every half hour. I would leave it on all day long as I read or worked around the house. Something about its predictable cycle was very comforting to my Asperger-y brainz. Then came the Internet and Fox News (roughly in that order) and fucked it all up, transmogrifying it into all trial all the time. I swear to God I think Jodi Arias should go free and Nancy Grace receive the death penalty.

  116. 116.

    James E. Powell

    Doesn’t the Great American Cable TV audience bear some responsibility for CNN’s content? I’m not a fan, not at all, but do we expect them to run content that no one watches?

  118. 118.

    handsmile

    @Arclite:

    Yes. Unquestionably. If you’re fortunate enough to be in a US media market that now offers Al Jazeera English (once it begins to air, Al Jazeera America will have a wider distribution), do watch it. You’ll be astonished at how much is going on in the world and how myopic and insipid is the American broadcast/cable media.

    As a consequence of severe budget cuts initiated during the Blair regime, the BBC is but a pale shadow of its once honorable and trustworthy enterprise. BBC America is simply a bad joke visited upon the former colonists. Its lead anchor, Katty Kay, regularly appears on the Morning Joe frat party and her contributions there exemplify what the BBC has become.

  119. 119.

    Xenos

    @Roger Moore:

    It’s not the TV time she’s after; it’s the campaign contributions that aren’t legally campaign contributions so she’s legally allowed to keep them.

    Was that not the Pat/Bay Buchannan business model? Run a campaign without advertising, get on TV, raise money, drop out while still a few million dollars in the black, keep the margin. Rinse, repeat every four years.

  122. 122.

    cokane

    Dunno how much respect i actually have for Jay Rosen. Rosen praised a guy who sits on his ass all day blockquoting other shit on the internet and demands money for doing so (sullivan) as a model for the future of journalism. :[

    Also, I don’t think the Zimmerman trial is the same as say covering the Michael Jackson trials, since several political issues are present in the trial.

  123. 123.

    Older

    @Ted & Hellen: Dear Ted and Hellen, I am going to miss you. Especially after today’s exchange, which has more or less convinced me that you are not the raving asshole I thought you, but just some guy with a sort of inappropriate sense of humor. I thought your posts today were hilarious. But I’m not the boss here; John Cole is and he’s not amused.

    I would suggest that you move to Sadly, No! but their attitude toward trolls has become significantly different recently. They used to encourage them so they could have great big hilarious free-for-alls with them, but now they too use the ban. And worse yet, they delete their posts, so I can’t see what all the fuss is about.

    I guess I’m just not well-suited to the current style, alas. I had better try to learn some manners while I still have the time.

  124. 124.

    Alex S.

    Maybe CNN should NOT have cancelled Crossfire. I think that incident scared them away from really trying to occupy the center or to “keep them honest”. They’ve answered the question of ideological positioning with “let’s not answer the question at all, let’s just forget about issues, keep them entertained.”

  125. 125.

    ruviana

    @Baud: It turned into RETV. I loved the different design show but now it’s mostly house-shopping interspersed with competitions and celebrity houses. Ugghh.

  127. 127.

    kd bart

    BTW, the criticism of CNN can very much also be applied to ESPN. Other than actual sports events, ESPN is virtually unwatchable(First Take with Skip Bayless and Stephen A Smith may be a leading cause of suicide). Even the sports events, for the most part, should be watched with the sound turned down.

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