"Great Work CNN!" Josh Marshall waxes cryptic.

[Karmadillo]

He says you will understand soon enough.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2004_07_25.php#003225

[gasperc]

1. did Novak get fired, whatttt's up

anything, anyone????

[apnu]

3. wha... wha... what? Details please! n/t

[wicket]

2. Oooooo I can't wait!

Josh always gets the greatest scoops :)

[SnohoDem]

4. Given the time of the post,

11:20 PM EDT, I thought it was a sarcastic reference to the "open mike" problem.

[gasperc]

7. I think your right

CNN left an open mike near the balloon drop person, on purpose?? and why did so much time go by before someone in the CNN booth caught on???

[Karmadillo]

11. I think you're right. I'm afraid I was thinking it was

an 11:20 am post. I should have known there was no way any sane person would put "CNN" and "great work" in the same sentence.

[Green Mountain Dem]

5. I think it might have to do with....

WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE BALLOONS!!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

6. Considering the time of his post, I'd say he was being sarcastic.

CNN's allowing of the profanity on air, live, last night is being talked about today.
But I can hope it's something good.

[lottie244]

12. The FCC should fine them...but since they let Matthews use "journalistic

profanity" last night against Al Sharpton, the FCC will probably do nothing. I wonder if Blitz had flashed his tit would it have been different?

[readmylips]

8. Maybe because novak said ...

be very afraid of Teresa. She's too opinionated and said other degrading things. Ron Reagan was complaining about novak's insults about Teresa on his show.

[Jackpine Radical]

9. This is what it's about:

From the TPM link above:

See CNN's Breaking News Alert: "Security forces have captured a high-level al Qaeda operative in a raid in central Pakistan, Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said."

But here's the thing. I'm not going to be able to watch the television coverage of this throughout the day. But many of you will. So I'd be very, very curious to hear whether when, oh say, CNN goes on about how this al Qaida guy has been hauled in they will mention at all, or with any consistency, that one of the most respected political magazines in the United States reported just weeks ago on the pressure the administration has been placing on the Pakistanis to serve up an al Qaida bad guy on this day.

Will they make the obvious connection? Or will they just ignore it?

This is just the latest, but perhaps the most blatant, example of how this administration has placed politics and, really, political dirty tricks above national security itself, and along the way persisted in defining political deviance down until tactics we used to associate with banana republics start to seem commonplace here.

[redqueen]

10. This morning on NPR

the host asked their reporter in Kabul (I think) about the fact that the arrest was made a week or so ago (details are fuzzy... was driving)... he asked why if the arrest was then was it reported on the same night that Kerry was giving his acceptance speech.

I cheered.

[Jacobin]

13. I heard that too. Was good to hear it

[SnohoDem]

14. Explained:

from http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/

(July 30, 2004 -- 01:37 PM EDT // link // print)

The reference to CNN last night was to their running live on-air the panicked reactions of the convention director as the balloons failed to drop precisely on schedule. Originally it may have been a glitch. But they seemed to keep it running long after they could have rectified the problem.
-- Josh Marshall