Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Tucker Carlson-Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Video: new info about intel viewed by Devin Nunes.
  • Somerby: Maddow embellishes previous falsehood, making it even falser!
  • Megyn’s NBC debut: on weekends?!  Adams: New O’Book a nice little read.
  • Bo Dietl gripes FNC didn’t hire his security people.  Jonathan Mann retires.
  • Q&A: Rachel Maddow on rising ratings.  CNN fact-checks Russian dressing.
  • Videos: on cable news; dubious re ‘hacking’.

Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • Wednesday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Maddow-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Fox Biz original Peter Barnes retires.  Clarissa Ward in Palm Beach.
  • Friedman: ‘Liberal’ Shep driving away Fox viewers (no ratings cited).
  • Late Night videos: Joe and Mika with Seth Meyers
  • New CNN show is about ‘songs that define‘ us.  Bill Weir in Wautoma.
  • Tucker Carlson video: Taxpayers funding in public schools.

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • Q1 cable news program ranker: Fox News holds nine of top ten slots.
  • Tuesday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-Sean Hannity-Bill O’Reilly 1-2-3.
  • Zucker play:  First Van Jones, now David Axelrod to host CNN ‘special’.
  • Video: stands by comments on surveillance.
  • Videos: O’Reilly addresses flap; Tucker grills
  • Treacher: Fuss over O’Reilly ‘designated outrage‘.  Rense: An Imus moment?
  • Farhi: Can viewers tell news from opinion? Today’s lawsuit. Q&A: Chris Hayes.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

  • Monday’s numbers: Rachel Maddow-O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Q1 numbers: FNC breaks record, tops all cable; CNN, MSNBC increase.
  • Out# videos: Bill O’Reilly talks and
  • Q&A: Bill O’Reilly on sacrifice and self-discipline.  Video: Mr Bill
  • Massive protest‘ over CNN depiction of Hindus.  MSNBC: Gone Phishing.
  • FTV Live: Philly’s Jillian Mele is off to Fox News for possible morning role.
  • Hannity to CBS: Release the missing footage.  Kayleigh is sorry; so is Mr Bill.
  • Videos: Brit Hume on Tucker vs
  • CNN snags Gracie Awards.  Immunity negotiations in Ailes payment probe?
  • Sunday Showdown: Reliable Sources trumps MediaBuzz.  Weekend numbers.
  • FBN beats CNBC for six months straight; Maddow tops demo for third week.

Monday Links and Open Thread

Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz videos: intel; CNN story; loss;
  • Reliable Sources: Trump falsehoods; Trump lies; FNC bias; right-wing media.
  • The Sky News angle to the Nap flap.  Today’s conspiracy.  Sunday talkers.
  • Time after time.  Q&A: Zeke Emanuel on joining Fox.  David Gergen in DC.
  • Tucker videos: on undue government spying.
  • NY Times: 18 hours of FNC…a ‘message of fear’ vs ‘evenhanded’ Shep Smith.

Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Sean Hannity-Tucker Carlson-Maddow 1-2-3.
  • Videos: Outnumbered talks and award.
  • FTV Live: Judge Napolitano expected to return after the ‘waters calm’.
  • Flood: Fox News fires comptroller over racist comments and behavior.
  • Audio Q&A: Chris Hayes.   Dylan Ratigan resurfaces;  Tamron Hall too.
  • Pre-empted First 100 Tuesday town hall taped Wednesday, airs Sunday.
  • Steinberg: NBC embraces MSNBC, plasters logo on progressive channel.
  • Tucker videos: alleged school rapist; Superintendent’s

Thursday Links and Open Thread

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • Tuesday’s numbers: Maddow-Tucker Carlson-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Farhi: Shep Smith doing ‘cleanup’ at Fox.  First 100 town hall tonight.
  • ‘Bitch’ Nicole Lapin resurfaces.  Ainsley Earhardt makes book:
  • Q&A: Reza AslanJoe and Mika open up about Trump, Kellyanne, etc.
  • Ellison: Something’s brewing at Fox News…it must be another ‘civil war’!
  • Arianna Huffington rips CNN.  Clarissa Ward honored by Overseas Press.
  • Videos: on Gorsuch; concerns about Comey.

Tuesday Links and Open Thread

  • Monday’s numbers: O’Reilly-Rachel Maddow-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • CNN sued for firing injured journalist.  Poppy praises paternity leave.
  • Late Night videos: Chris Hayes Profile: Jessica Tarlov.
  • Andrea Tantaros: They’re spying on me!  Today’s cannibalism complaint.
  • Sunday showdown: MediaBuzz tops Reliable Sources.  Weekend numbers.
  • Judge Napolitano absent from Fox News airwaves.  ICN: A firing offense?
  • Video: Tucker Carlson, Rep Eric Swallwell the Russian threat.

Monday Links and Open Thread

  • Freaky Friday numbers: Maddow-Bret Baier-Tucker Carlson 1-2-3.
  • Buckman: Maddow badly bungled her ‘scoop’…and Fallon didn’t help.
  • Pribila: My pick for FNC’s next breakout star.  Maddow wins 2nd week.
  • Another Reza Aslan golden moment: engages in Voodoo goat slaughter.
  • Stonestreet: CNN’s ‘religion quiz’ doesn’t take Christianity very seriously.
  • Greg Gutfeld video: Timpf, Sivan, Dobbs et al snark on

Weekend Links and Open Thread

  • MediaBuzz videos: flap; Press Secy
  • Reliable SourcesTrump fixated on Fox News; news vs opinion; priorities.
  • Halperin: Media shouldn’t be combatants against the people they cover.
  • Brazile finally admits helping Hillary cheat; video: The Five
  • This is CNN: Serial plagiarist Zakaria says on air Trump is ‘bullsh!tting’.
  • CNN on a seven-week losing streak. CNN to air pandemic documentary.
  • The Judge who helped trigger an international tempest; Wemple’s whine.
  • Airport sets TVs to FNC; complaints ensue.  Andrea Tantaros is appealing.
  • Video: James Rosen, Sunday talkers: preview.

Friday Links and Open Thread

  • Thursday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Tucker Carlson-Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Watters asks Trump whom he’d fire: Schumer, Baldwin, or Zucker?
  • Wednesday’s numbers: Tucker Carlson-O’Reilly-Sean Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Smith keeps Judge Nap at arm’s length; TCG: Shep’s strange disclaimer.
  • Perino: How I reset my heart after the election…my visit to Mercy Ships.
  • Videos: on the tax leak; Tucker vs
  • CNN ‘pointed gun’ story rebutted by both Hannity and Juan. Sean erupts.
  • Terms of Megyn Kelly’s Fox exit still unsettled.  Hibbs: Megyn comes home.

Thursday Links and Open Thread

  • Somerby: People are finally noticing how ridiculous Maddow is.
  • Lien Forward: Trump attorneys mull legal action against MSNBC.
  • Tuesday’s numbers: Maddow-Lawrence O’Donnell-Hannity 1-2-3.
  • Monday’s numbers: Bill O’Reilly-Rachel Maddow-O’Donnell 1-2-3.
  • Concha: Impartial CNN journo says Trump ‘looked like a third grader‘.
  • Tucker Carlson ‘did a splendid job‘ pressing Trump…says Erik Wemple!
  • Surprise: Millennials getting their news from cable, with Fox in the lead.
  • Five fast facts about Erin Burnett’s husband.   David Shuster resurfaces.
  • Fox & Friends video: her ‘wiretapping’ experience.
  • Sunday Showdown: MediaBuzz-Reliable tied in demo.  Weekend numbers.
  • CNN wants entrée to Canada press gallery.  Today’s cannibalism complaint.
  • FTV: Rachel Maddow insists it’s the viewers’ fault if they believed her hype.
  • Tonight Show videos:  Rachel Maddow with Jimmy Fallon
  • NBC fuming: never told about tax ‘scoop’, felt Maddow didn’t ‘really deliver’.
  • Chumley: Thanks to Maddow, Scarborough, MSNBC for the the comic relief.

Wednesday Links and Open Thread

  • The Five video: Greg Gutfeld and the panel on
  • Steve Hilton gets Sunday night hour on Fox News: The Next Revolution.
  • Concha:  Maddow hands Trump ‘fake news’ ammo as social media jeer.
  • Somerby: Self-adoring circus clown starts media stampede over nothing.
  • Slate: Overhyped; Esquire: A nothingburger; Wrap: Will viewers defect?
  • Video: Kurtz on Maddow Wemple: Fox can’t handle her scoop.
  • AP: Bait and switch; Caller: Humiliating debacle; CNBC: A win for Trump.
  • Maddow ‘scoop‘, first reactions: Overhypedoverhyped…and overhyped.
  • Controversy swirls around Tucker Carlson segment involving Chatham, NJ.
  • Moscow slams ‘odious’ CNN Russia special.  Today’s cannibalism complaint.
  • Tucker videos: How in the 2016 election; analyzes.
  • Willow Bay resurfaces.   Big news for Ayman Mohyeldin.   Eagle trips up Shep.