FNC and CNN cover Ahmadinejad UN Speech. MSNBC opts out…
Both FNC and CNN carried President Ahmadinejad’s UN Speech today. However MSNBC opted not to. Perhaps after carrying yesterday’s Ahmadinejad university appearance, MSNBC had decided that was enough of Ahmadinejad? MSNBC did cover President Bush’s UN speech this morning.
I sent you an email about this. I think MSNBC made a mistake by not covering this
Comment by randy — September 25, 2007 @ 7:47 pm
I was very disappointed with CSPAN & CNN when Ahmadinejad spoke at Columbia. CSPAN kept advertising it was coming up but maybe they didn’t receive the translation or something.. because they abandoned ship. So, I flip to CNN and they ended up DIPPING IN/OUT (pulling a classic FNC move of talking over the audio and reducing screen size) of the Q&A/speech. Anyway, I ended up watching on FNC and caught the entire thing. Thanks, FNC!
Comment by Terance — September 25, 2007 @ 8:02 pm
Why dose MSNBC have to cover it?..KO says the same thing everynight. LOL :)
Comment by mlong — September 25, 2007 @ 8:22 pm
Oooooh, you’re gonna get beat up for that one, mlong. ;)
Comment by ImNotBlue — September 25, 2007 @ 9:04 pm
Learn something you stupid fools. Ahmadinejad is about as far-right as they get. Saying their are no non-heterosexuals in Iran, etc., etc. Wow. #3 I can’t stand Keith Olbermann, but at least know your facts before you speak…..Why dose MSNBC have to cover it?..KO says the same thing everynight. LOL :) Has this world moved to complete idiocy.
Comment by Aaron — September 25, 2007 @ 9:34 pm
I saw more than one hour in several CNN platforms but only a few minutes in others, like CNN International for example (only 15 minutes). On the other hand ‘CNN en espanol’ did a 90 minutes wall to wall coverage, obviously CNN.com was live in two streams.
But, returning to Ahmadinejad, he did only one mayor announcement (the nuclear program and the IAEA). The UN Speech was ‘non news’ for me.
The yesterday speech was obviously the “The speech”. He’s like Hitler, in the far extreme right, ultra-right, or radical right. This guy is dangerous and need to be stopped. Will be very expensive if the Security Council dont take action against this guy.
Yesterday speech was enough.
Comment by Rodrigo — September 25, 2007 @ 10:22 pm
I bet MSNBC would have broadcast Hugo Chavez’ speech live if he bothered to show up this year… the UN parades criminals around. Honestly, it’s not a big deal if MSNBC blew it off. Nobody would have been watching anyway. MSNBC finally got the point, don’t bother trying to compete… they know they aren’t going to win, so why spend money on nothing.
Comment by Nobody — September 25, 2007 @ 10:29 pm
all 3, Fox, CNN and MSNBC, covered it. I checked all 3 to see if that was the case. Maybe MSNBC didn’t cover the begining, but near the end and during the question-and-dodge session, all 3 had it.
Comment by Great Thanks — September 25, 2007 @ 11:15 pm
Great thanks, we were talking about his UN speech today, not the one at Columbia
Comment by randy — September 26, 2007 @ 1:00 am
Aaron, resorting to name calling is really not necessary. When you attack people it lowers the value of your argument (jmho). You may not like or respect the opinion of someone else but at least we have the right to say it in this country (unlike Iran).
Ahmadinejad and the other past “presidents” of Iran do not really have any power. The mullah’s control the country and make the majority of the decisions in Iran. The “president” serves as more of a figure/talking head role.
Comment by Rich — September 26, 2007 @ 6:37 am
Rich, I was watching “Democracy Now” yesterday and some guy said Ahmadinejad didn’t even have the power to appoint his own cabinet. You sure wouldn’t know that by watching CNN/MSNBC/FNC. IMO, the American news nets like to have a villain and while I don’t agree with most of what Amadinejad says.. making him sound like the “decider” isn’t helping matters either.
Comment by Terance — September 26, 2007 @ 7:44 am
The mullah’s have been in control following the death of Khomeni (sp)after he came to power during the overthrow of the Shah of Iran. Once Khomeni died, they shifted the power to the mullah’s and pretty much have used the “figurehead” president.
I’ll respectfully disagree on one aspect and that is Ahmadinejad would only say what he’s “instructed” to say and the mullah’s (imo) are “pushing the envelope” to see how far they can go.
We may disagree about the war in Iraq, however Iran’s growing presence is very troubling. Just ask some of it’s neighbors including Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia…
Comment by Rich — September 26, 2007 @ 6:21 pm