I'm watching Connie and Maury on MSNBC. Been about two seconds , But I th

[patricia92243]

think it is going to be good.

Remember, Connie Chung has been blackballed because she let it slip about Barbara Bush saying Nancy Reagan was a bitch. Soooo, as soon as the program is over, I'm going to e-mail MSNBC and encourage them to keep the show on the air.

[LiberalinNC]

1. Have you heard the Al Franken's encounter w/ Queen Barbs Bush?

:rofl:

[Tripper11]

2. Do tell! N/T

[LiberalinNC]

6. Franken's Flight w/ the Queen Bitch

In his knee-slapping 2003 book Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them), Franken relates an encounter with Barbara Bush on a flight to Washington. After describing his unsuccessful effort to pick up a conversation with Bush--the former First Lady rebuffed each approach with, "I'm through with you"--Franken quotes several unnamed "Washington insiders," both Republicans and Democrats, who thought it was funny that Franken regarded Bush's dismissive attitude of him as a form of kidding. Franken writes that at a Bat Mitzvah in Washington soon after his Barbara Bush encounter, "I kept hearing things like: 'Oh no, she's a horrible bitch.' 'Omigod, she's the worst bitch on earth.' 'She can be very charming, but Barbara Bush is the Queen Bitch.'" Then he writes, "But another, even more interesting, insight came from everyone who knew the Bushes. They all agreed. 'Dubya is her son.' He's mean."


Edit: It's much funnier to hear him tell the story. He tells it sometimes on his show!

[patricia92243]

5. No, I have not - tell us, tell us, tell us -please :)

[Crazy Dave]

3. The two of them are bitches

It's called "truth in journalism".

[salin]

4. ugh.

I just can't erase her repeat performances on CNN when a bush critic would suggest that the intel was slanted, or anything else remotely critical - and she would gasp and put her hand up to her mouth in an "oh, my" gesture and say... "You can't be suggesting...." (fill in with phrases... that the president lied.... or that the president misled... or anything else). The tactic was to shut the person down with stating something in a way that would force the speaker to call the president a liar outright - something most folks were a little too diplomatic to do at the time. Ugh. And the slip about Babs... just a part of connies gossipy side - not any indication of being objective or critical of bushco or the GOP in general.

[AzDar]

7. I thought she encouraged Newt Gingrich's dear ol' Ma to call Hillary

a 'bitch'...or perhaps it's some other brain-dead journalist (using THAT term loosely) I'm thinking of.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. I just turned it on to "The Indictment Hall of Fame" singling out Dems????

[patricia92243]

14. Phone rang and I missed that. Before that they were roast Abromoff (sp)

and later were dising Bush phone spying. I wish they would repeat the show at a later time. Ten o'clock on Saturday is not exactly prime-time.

[domlaw]

15. Check again @ 4pm

[patricia92243]

17. Thanks. Set my timer on my television so I can watch again. nt

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

28. Maybe they were trying to be "fair and balanced" by dishing on Dems too.

[domlaw]

9. Yep it's pretty good so far

Looks like Maury is there to "balance" but so far so good. I like Connie.

[Little Star]

10. E-Mail Address

here is a link to e-mail your approval if you choose. Go to the bottom of page and there is a place to e-mail the show.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10695627/

[The River]

11. Is it Just Me

or does anyone else think more than a few
"real" news shows are becoming more and more like
the "fake" news "Daily Show"?
Film clips narrated with humor...
Snarky asides...
self effacing hosts...

???

[domlaw]

13. I liked the little news SNL stuff @ the end.

I don't think they are going for the serious / hard news format. Remember too that they can get away with saying alot more with the snarky angle.

[patricia92243]

16. I agree. People have learned from Jon Stewart, and I say "Do what works."

For whatever reason, we Democrats have to use humor to help us get our message out. The Republicans use hate - we use humor. I'll take our method any day.

[The River]

26. I'm not saying

it doesn't work. I'm just wondering
if this is a trend, where will it end?
News became infotainment and lost content.
If news becomes comedic will it lose all meaning?

[NYCGirl]

21. Exec producer is Lizz Winstead, who created the Daily Show. So that's no

accident.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

12. Maury sounds as if he's doing a bad KO imitation.

[SillyGoose]

18. It was Newt Gingrich's mother who called Hillary a bitch.

Connie Chung got her ass put in the shredder over that one.

[Vinca]

19. I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than watch Connie and Maury. nt

[domlaw]

24. Yep and you can also watch

Another possible progressive show bite the dust. It doesn't hurt to support our side (if they keep on the same track)

[NYCGirl]

20. There's a reason it may be good. The exec producer is Lizz Winstead,

co-creator of The Daily Show, and one of the original Air America Hosts with "Unfiltered."

[Pirate Smile]

22. I watched the beginning and enjoyed it also - then I had to get in the

shower.

Thirty minutes is really short and MSNBC usually shows old crap in the afternoons on the weekends - Headliners and Legends, etc. They should expand the show if it ends up decent.

I soooo hate it when both CNN and MSNBC go to canned crap on the weekends (In the Money on CNN is OK sometimes)while Faux is running live news all day. People, wake up! You are supposed to cover the news on the weekends also!

[peekaloo]

23. Is Maury sending anyone to boot camp?

:shrug:

[KoKo]

25. I watched it. I can't stand either of them, though.

Maybe sensationalizing DeLay and Abramoff is a good thing...or maybe they will use it as a distraction from the real issues and make them into cartoon characters.

Wasn't Povitch just another Jerry Springer type? And Connie Chung was vile in her show where all she did was sit and either wallow in someone's misery or snark at people. She was worse than Rita Cosby if I remember.

[giant_robot]

27. I lasted about a minute...

...as soon as they started their little "tiff" over George Clooney I'd had enough. The show might have good points, but I won't watch until they drop the contrived bickering.

[Berry Cool]

29. I can't bring myself to watch these two titans of tabloid TV.

All I can think of when I see them is Maury giving guys paternity tests to determine baby-daddies, and Connie chasing after Tonya Harding during the '94 Olympics.