Pat Buchanan has been on FNC 3 times, from what I’ve seen, in 2 weeks. What’s up with that? I thought he was a MSNBC contributor. I know he’s promoting a book, but I thought employees from other cable news networks can only go on other cable news networks once, to promote their product. I guess I was wrong, or am I?
Back for his first day in more than two weeks due to a family emergency, Joe Scarborough made some time Wednesday to talk with the NYTimes’ Jacques Steinberg. The story focuses on how Morning Joe went from post-Imus gap filler to must-stop shop for politicians and their surrogates during the primaries. Steinberg also reveals Scarborough has signed a contract extension with MSNBC until March, 2011.
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Via Die Jüdische
The Israel Project Launches TV Ad Campaign to Increase Pressure on Iran and Stop Rocket Attacks on Israel
Ads to Air as Thousands Expected at National Mall to Celebrate Israel’s 60th Anniversary
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Israel Project (TIP) is launching a major TV ad campaign to highlight Iran’s sponsorship of terrorism and encourage enhanced pressure on Iran to peacefully end its illegal nuclear program.
The ad campaign consists of two 30-second spots that will begin running Sunday (June 1) on CNN, CNN’s Headline News, MSNBC, CNBC and FOX News Channel in Washington, D.C., Maryland and northern Virginia. The TV ads will air hundreds of times until June 5.
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‘Daily Show’ Tweaks Joe Scarborough for Poor Predictions on Obama — Here’s More
By Greg Mitchell
NEW YORK On “The Daily Show” tonight, Jon Stewart played a few clips of TV pundits dissing Barack Obama’s chances vs. Hillary Clinton a year or so ago. One of them was Joe Scarborough, in a late 2006 segment pooh-poohing his chances.
A search of the MSNBC site from that period uncovers more, from December 22, 2006. Say it ain’t so, Joe.
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SCARBORUGH: Even before the final votes were tallied in the 2006 elections, politicians started lining up for the 2008 presidential sweepstakes. Without further ado, let me kill Hamlet in the first act and tell you how your favorite candidate will fare over the next 12 months.
Barack Obama
Forget the fact this guy’s middle name is “Hussein.” Forget the fact he has been in national politics for less than two years. Forget the fact that Hillary Clinton will raise more money than God in 2007. Forget all of that, the Washington press tells us, because Barack Obama is none other than the second coming of JFK.
Yeah, right.
Barack Hussein Obama is more Johnny Bravo than John Kennedy. The vest fits and the fans scream while DC’s star-maker machinery shifts into overdrive.
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CNN anchor wins Zayed award
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper will receive a special recognition from the Zayed International Prize for the Environment for his outstanding contributions to investigative journalism and reports on the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360°. Cooper traveled around the world with Sanjay Gupta, a chief medical correspondent, and Jeff Corwin, a wildlife biologist and Animal Planet host, for Planet in Peril, the statement said. The trio investigated the current state of the planet, focusing on four major areas: global warming, overpopulation, deforestation and species loss.
>Related: Emmy Award Winning U.S Journalist to Receive Special Recognition from Zayed Prize
