Inside Cable News

March 3, 2007

Question of the weekend…

If you ran CNN what would you do to stabilize the 8pm hour and deal with the threat Countdown with Keith Olbermann now presents?

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Contradiction?

Variety’s Brian Lowry writes about Sean Hannity saying one thing on his radio show and doing something else on the Hannity & Colmes program…

Sean Hannity has been on a crusade he calls the “Stop Hillary Express,” warning his conservative radio audience that without their vigilance, Sen. Hillary Rodham can indeed be elected president. More people would recognize this, Hannity lamented recently to his listeners, were the public not preoccupied with trifles like Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears, leaving it to committed patriots like him to educate them.

So what did Hannity lead with that night on “Hannity & Colmes,” his Fox News Channel program? None other than the still-dead Anna Nicole.

Uh oh…

HotAir.com has the video of Greg Gutfeld issuing an apology on Red Eye for a segment the night before where contributor Jonathan Hoenig got a bit…uh…headstrong. Hot Air has the Hoenig segment as well…

More on Glenn Beck’s bad joke…

The Daily Reel’s Mark Netter writes about Wednesday’s incident on Glenn Beck and thinks he sees a pattern…

Beck managed to bungle a softball segment about some naively salacious photos of American Idol contestant Antonella Barba (and some falsely attributed to her) with an embarrassingly sexist and demeaning come-on to Sansing.

The propensity for Beck to let slip a surfeit of information has been noted before, back in post-election November, when he asked interviewee Congressman-Elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), “Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.”

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