Comments on: The Downside of Fox's Conservative Consolidation

By: Fritz Becker

Fritz Becker — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:03:06 +0000

What lies am I speading, I never said that you couldn’t get Fox news by satellite (you can get anything that way), I said that “I” can’t get it by cable. If you can get Fox News then I would like to know which cable company offers it? It was my understanding that the CRTC would not allow Canadian cable subscribers to receive Fox News, at least that has been their policy for at least ten years.
As I recall a local station used to air the Rush Limbaugh television show in the Toronto area in the mid 90′s but was forced to take it off the air when the resident lefties complained to the CRTC. To me it is highly surprising that the same group that had Rush kicked off the TV would allow Fox News on cable.

By: Yidith

Yidith — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:03:33 +0000

What nonsense; I also live in Toronto and I DO get Fox News! I have cable and my brother- also in Toronto- get’s his line-up whichalso includes Fox News via a satelite connection. so Canuck neighbour; stop speading lies about our “True North” please?

By: Fritz Becker

Fritz Becker — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:00:53 +0000

I don’t even hear what Gergen says anymore, I just can’t stop staring at that comb over. CNN seems to haul him out whenever they need a token “Conservative” and can’t find Ed Rollins or anyone else. Sometimes he’s on four or five shows per day, I’m beginning to wonder if he has an apartment above the studio or something.

By: Fritz Becker

Fritz Becker — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:52:36 +0000

I don’t entirely agree with the conclusions given regarding personalities moving from one network to the next. It would seem to me based on a flawed notion of zero sum economics, that if one right of center opinion maker moves from network “A” to network “B” means that one network gains and another loses as though there is a finite supply.
There is definitely an imbalance at MSNBC, but that is largely through their own doing. Since Tim Russert passed away the leftists have taken over the editorship of NBC’s news division and have been attempting to purge anyone who doesn’t have an Obama poster above their bed from the company. In other words it was a political based ideological decision to go left, not a market based one, and the ratings prove it. If you are wondering why Keith Olbermann always has guests on from The Huffington Post or The Nation look at it this way, if you were a Conservative would you want to face the psychotic rantings of Olbermann on air? Unless someone is an absolute masochist who would subject themselves to that level of abuse from a failed and demented sportscaster?

By: Fritz Becker

Fritz Becker — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:31:36 +0000

It should be pointed out that John Stossel fancies himself as a libertarian not a conservative and that Lou Dobbs is more of an independent populist. Stossel has been off the air for a while so he isn’t being drawn away from another network and from what he said on Glenn Beck’s radio show he is going to be a reporter for Fox not host of an Op-Ed show.
I would not put the blame on Fox, the environment at CNN and the other networks must be extremely hostile for anyone to the right of Ho Chi Min so it isn’t surprising that so many have jumped on board with Fox. I sincerely hope that Lou Dobbs stays with CNN, not for balance so much but because, like Glen Beck, I will no longer be able to watch his program other then through You Tube or the like. Since I reside in Canada I am forbidden by the Canadian Radio-Television Communications Commission from receiving Fox news due to our resident Maoists and Stalinists in Toronto.

By: BillSoCAl

BillSoCAl — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:49:05 +0000

I was just in a supermarket today. I saw one of the supermarket rags with a front page headline that Comrade Obama has said Crush Glenn Beck. Don’t they know that this is just going to bring more attention to the people and FoxNews when they go after them. I forgot they just plain don’t remember history do they. It is not taught anymore in the schools or colleges is it.

By: David Forsmark

David Forsmark — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:57:37 +0000

“Having one personality who believes that Hitler was misunderstood and the other who fawns over Katrina van den Heuvel like a love sick school boy makes it fairly clear that MSNBC is not interested in a genuine convervative viewpoint on its network.”
That’s good stuff, Walt!

By: Bob Schwalbaum

Bob Schwalbaum — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:41:41 +0000

Anyone who would label David Gergen a Republican.. has been duped by the folks at CNN who trot him out when they want the “other side” and instead, get some not so sly digs at the conservative viewpoint.

I truly despise the man.

By: Bob Schwalbaum

Bob Schwalbaum — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:35:19 +0000

Absolutly right.. Shephard Smith defines “smarmy”

I will miss Lou Dobbs if he switches, as my cable does NOT have FNB

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:14:21 +0000

I don’t watch Shep Smith, I guess I’m cleaning up the kitchen about then, but if he’s a lib like Prudent Man suggests, maybe we should advise the White House, they might lighten up on us, Fox that is.

By: Janet

Janet — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:10:21 +0000

Prudent Man,
I only watch CNBC early on, because I love Joe Kernin(?) and I’m especially happy when Jack Welch visits. I like to look at the futures so that I can anticipate how much I might lose that day, and I seldom listen to advice, I’m too old for that.

By: Walt

Walt — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:48:59 +0000

I would say that CNN and MSNBC either curtailed or marginalized their more effective conservative pundits. Glen Beck stated that he was fairly circumscribed as to what he could do on CNN. Tucker Carlson, while he was at MSNBC, found himself relegated to ever more marginal positions at that network as its leftist tilt became more consolidated. I am fairly certain that if either CNN or MSNBC had genuinely desired to keep these people, they would have. Being a token conservative on a leftist network, like Buchanan or Scarborough at MSNBC, is of little value, since you are treated as a freak or trophy in such an environment. Also, the Buchanan and Scarbrough types tend to reinforce negative sterotypes about conservatives in the eyes of liberals and moderates,especially in the case of Buchanan. Having one personality who believes that Hitler was misunderstood and the other who fawns over Katrina van den Heuvel like a love sick school boy makes it fairly clear that MSNBC is not interested in a genuine convervative viewpoint on its network. The situation at CNN is similar, if not as intense as MSNBC, regarding conservative perspectives. Also, as a side note, it is really hard to classify David Gergen as a conservative, since his employment with the Clinton Adminitration.