If the Dem's want to get back in the White House...

dale

registered: 2000.03.21

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...they'd better put a muzzle on idiots like this guy.

"By year's end, his (Phil's) audience of 379,000 was about one-sixth of O'Reilly's 2.4 million on Fox. Therein lies the problem: Donahue has not lost one bit of smarts since his heyday. American TV has." So let me get this straight; the 379,001 people (Kluger included) who watch Donahue are "smarter" than the 2.4 million who watch O'Reilly? Really.
"But the gratuitous mean-spiritedness — and American viewers' obsession with it — has crept over into network TV..." I think he's saying it's not a good thing to be "mean-spirited". I'll buy that.
"The chances of any TV executive pulling the plug on a ratings champ — or keeping a runner-up on the air — are about as likely as Greta Van Susteren's old face suddenly reappearing." Oooops! Wait a minute... I guess it's ok to be mean afterall. You can be mean but only if you watch Donahue.

Speaking as a non-partisan, independant, voting American; THIS is the shit that annoys me.

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...they'd better put a muzzle on idiots like this guy.

"By year's end, his (Phil's) audience of 379,000 was about one-sixth of O'Reilly's 2.4 million on Fox. Therein lies the problem: Donahue has not lost one bit of smarts since his heyday. American TV has." So let me get this straight; the 379,001 people (Kluger included) who watch Donahue are "smarter" than the 2.4 million who watch O'Reilly? Really.
"But the gratuitous mean-spiritedness — and American viewers' obsession with it — has crept over into network TV..." I think he's saying it's not a good thing to be "mean-spirited". I'll buy that.
"The chances of any TV executive pulling the plug on a ratings champ — or keeping a runner-up on the air — are about as likely as Greta Van Susteren's old face suddenly reappearing." Oooops! Wait a minute... I guess it's ok to be mean afterall. You can be mean but only if you watch Donahue.

Speaking as a non-partisan, independant, voting American; THIS is the shit that annoys me.

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