Tag Archives: Stretch

The Rachel Maddow Decade

Posted on August 21, 2009 at 8:44 pm by Bob Cesca

Via Matt Osborne: “Meet the Press” had its highest total viewer delivery since April this past Sunday, averaging 3,359,000 total viewers for David Gregory’s most convincing victory in months. What was different on Sunday? An actual progressive on Stretch’s panel.

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Drama!

Posted on July 21, 2009 at 5:40 pm by Bob Cesca

I’ve been observing for a couple of days the corporate media’s very obvious attempt to paint healthcare reform as being impossible, doomed, screwed and so forth. Of course this is because the corporate media, and especially cable news, takes its … Continue reading →

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The Epitaph for Meet the Press

Posted on July 20, 2009 at 8:13 am by Bob Cesca

David Gregory via email to an aide of Mark Sanford: [C]oming on Meet The Press allows you to frame the conversation how you really want to…and then move on. You can see (sic) you have done your interview and then … Continue reading →

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Very Serious Question

Posted on June 14, 2009 at 3:43 pm by Bob Cesca

When will Rachel Maddow or Keith Olbermann be invited onto Meet the Press?

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Nexus Accountability

Posted on May 18, 2009 at 8:38 am by Bob Cesca

Jamison Foser: But when it comes to the media’s seeming disinterest in finding the truth, there’s an explanation sitting right there in the middle of Gregory’s comments: “nobody comes out cleanly.” That includes the media. The elite media is stocked … Continue reading →

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Morning Joe

Posted on May 15, 2009 at 8:10 am by Bob Cesca

Scarborough, this morning, is all over Speaker Pelosi’s press conference yesterday. Back in 2002, when the establishment press could’ve made a real difference in preventing the invasion and preventing torture as a means to justify the war, they instead abandoned … Continue reading →

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The Red Scare of 2009

Posted on February 20, 2009 at 7:28 am by Bob Cesca

On Morning Joe, Stretch thinks the Republicans have coalesced around a single message: the president and the Democrats are commie pinkos. I agree with Stretch’s analysis of the Republican message. They’ve embraced McCarthy. You know, because it worked so well … Continue reading →

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WTF?

Posted on January 25, 2009 at 10:26 am by JumpyPants

On Meet the Press just now, Stretch asked Larry Summers about that crazy CBO report. The report that doesn’t exist. It’s been more than 36 hours since this ridiculous Republican lie about the stimulus bill was debunked by Ryan Grim … Continue reading →

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Stretch

Posted on January 18, 2009 at 10:37 am by Bob Cesca

You could start reading the list of potentially catastrophic problems facing America and still be naming items on that list a week from now. In other words: a crapload of problems. And yet I’m watching Stretch interrogating Rahm Emanuel about … Continue reading →

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Worst Person

Posted on January 5, 2009 at 10:18 pm by Bob Cesca

Stretch.

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