Iowa 2008: Your reactions…
In a half hour at 8pm, all the cable nets will go wall to wall on the Iowa caucuses. Call me cynical (and I am cynical) but I expect not a lot out of this until later on when the numbers start rolling in. In the meantime we can expect lots of people talking about what might happen and what could happen but not a lot about what has happened because it hasn’t happened yet. It’s a case of the nets having to keep viewers interested until there’s some actual news to report.
Post your reactions of the coverage of the nets’ coverage here…
FNC has lots of people in Iowa-Very Good.
At 8 ET, Bill came on for his mini-factor, and his talking points was all about should you care about the Iowa caucuses.
He said no. Great way to begin the coverage-he went on to say they do this stuff for the ratings. Funny.
Comment by jmkaib — January 3, 2008 @ 8:03 pm
CNN and MSNBC are live streaming while Fox News is not.
Comment by elmonica — January 3, 2008 @ 8:12 pm
I have to say I’m enjoying Shepard Smith today (and I haven’t in a while) and look forward to him and Greta at 11:00, but this Palestra stuff they’re doing on his shows is obnoxious and why (in part) I don’t watch The Fox Report anymore.
Comment by Sarah — January 3, 2008 @ 8:14 pm
Looks like Soledad was finally pulled out of hiding…I almost forgot about her!
Comment by Anonymous — January 3, 2008 @ 8:24 pm
Soledad is being screwed over by CNN.
Comment by jmkaib — January 3, 2008 @ 8:26 pm
She was screwed over by them as soon as she got the boot from AM…Miles hasn’t fared much better.
Comment by Anonymous — January 3, 2008 @ 8:35 pm
^3: Sarah, using the ever-annoying Palestra is an attempt to go after the “youth market” and their preference for getting news from the web over TV.
Comment by Amused — January 3, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
I wish we would just go to a national (or rotating regional) primary system, so that the rest of the country isn’t held hostage to the whims of the overwhelmingly homogenous populations of two very small states.
And starting tomorrow, I look forward to being able to all of us going back to ignoring Iowa for another 3 1/2 years.
Comment by Amused — January 3, 2008 @ 8:56 pm
Wow! FNC and CNN have both declared it for Huckabee.
Comment by jmkaib — January 3, 2008 @ 9:00 pm
I am looking carefully at this tonight.
My assesment is:
I come from a family that left a country to have better political sistem and fairness in the government.
If Hillary will not win there is justice still in this country,
At the same time no man pushing his religion(Huckabee) should run this country.
My family gave up one country to seek better things choosing America as the option.
They do not want to be robbed of their hopes by the wrong candidate
Sandy
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Comment by sandy — January 3, 2008 @ 9:19 pm
Liked Shep’s coverage today… just liked it used to be! We even got a bit of music and atmosphere on the FOX Report today - liked the old days! And I liked it! It actually gave the program some sort of buzz and completeness rather than cutting to the commercials in seconds!
Comment by Paul Tomlinson — January 3, 2008 @ 9:31 pm
#7 Amused: believe me, I know…I’ve written and complained about it all over the place…and it’s why I don’t watch much FNC anymore. And I’m 20-something…but I won’t clutter up this post with my thoughts on that. I have to say aside from that, I’m impressed with the FNC coverage thus far…well, for the most part.
Comment by Sarah — January 3, 2008 @ 9:36 pm
Sandy, as a lifelong Republican, I totally agree with you about Huckabee and how he’s running on his religion - so much so that he is one of 2 Republicans who would never get my vote if they somehow tragically become the GOP nominee. The other is Ron Paul, but that’s not going to happen.
My family also left repression and persecution for the freedom and opportunities here in the United States.
Comment by Amused — January 3, 2008 @ 9:37 pm
#11 Paul: that’s exactly what I was thinking about Shepard’s coverage. It’s like the old days!
Comment by Sarah — January 3, 2008 @ 9:37 pm
^12: Sarah, I totally agree - and I’m very impressed with your acumen and insights at such a (relatively) young age!
As for FNC coverage, I think they’re doing a very good job and I’ve actually been becoming a Megyn Kelly fan.
Comment by Amused — January 3, 2008 @ 9:39 pm
Shepard’s been great…and I love his sneakers LOL
I’m just glad FNC decided to go with actual journalists for this coverage.
Comment by Currently Available — January 3, 2008 @ 10:40 pm
Got of love how KO tried to downplay Obama’s win over his candidate Hillary..it was so bad that even the Daily Kos crowd got upset with him. LOL!!!
Comment by mlong — January 4, 2008 @ 7:04 am
Wasn’t Hannity crying about Ron Paul “fans” flooding the text polls recently? Well, how does he feel about Ron Paul spanking Rudy last night?
Comment by Terance — January 4, 2008 @ 8:57 am
“Well, how does he feel about Ron Paul spanking Rudy last night?”
Well since Rudy didn’t campaign in Iowa it’s probably isn’t bothering him to much.
Comment by mlong — January 4, 2008 @ 10:30 am
^ Well, Rudy’s name was still in the polling. And it looks like he was bringing up the rear.
Comment by Terance — January 4, 2008 @ 11:05 am
But Terance… Rudy didn’t try to campaign in Iowa, so his low polling was more or less what he expected. On the other hand, Paul was looking for a win… and didn’t get close.
It’s like taking a test back in High School. Either you were the kid who didn’t study, didn’t do the homework, and didn’t really care about the test… so you weren’t surprised when you got the “F”. Or you were the kid who studied hard, did the extra credit, and had note cards all over the place (man, I hated those kids)… and then you were really disappointed when you got the “D”.
Expecting failure, and achieving it… or expecting victory, and failing… which do you think hurts more?
Comment by ImNotBlue — January 4, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
ImNotBlue, did you by chance see Hannity last night? It looked like he was crying because his favorite “boy toy” came in last place. Don’t sit there and say Rudy didn’t want to win. Oh and FYI, I think Paul did rather well considering his “lack of star treatment” by FNC, CNN, MSNBC.
Comment by Terance — January 4, 2008 @ 5:28 pm