Rachel Maddow again points out how Republicans dominate the Sunday shows

Maddow pointed out on her show this week that it's 8 to 1 this Sunday--with Senator Dick Durbin being the lone Democrat represented on the Sunday shows--even worse than last week's 'bin Laden' coverage when the networks invited Liz Cheney and various other Republican ilk to falsely claim their policy of waterboarding and other forms of torture led to bin Laden's demise.

which may be why almost no one watches that dreck.

Reading the reluctant, acerbic Jason Linkins on Huffpo is an alternative and often entertaining way to keep up with the Sunday shows.

But extremely irritating how the loss of 'bin Laden' will be associated with Repubs in the minds of succeptible viewers...

That's the subliminal message: Repubs care about your safety.

:argh:

But now they seem to have chained their mission to an exclusive focus of Faux and talk radio.

This is pathetic, no balance at all, not even pretend balance.

which will make him look decidedly undervalued and with a minority opinion thus furthering the illusion they present to their dim viewers of the master party's superiority.

and then you'll know why Republican guests dominate them.

for years without comment or public notice.. CorpoMedia© has GOT to be called out on it's bias.

I don't have cable, so can't comment on State of the Union, and Faux is a throwaway outlier.
ABC's Christiane Amanpour is pretty good - or at least fair; CBS's Bob Schieffer - not so good.

But David "Dances-With-Karl-Rove" Gregory is a sickening Teapublican suck-up sycophant (along with Todd George, Kelly O'Donnell and Matt Lauer)!

by essentially saying that they booked more Republicans because they were in power in Washington? Of course, when the Democrats won back control of Congress in 2006, they didn't suddenly start having more Democratic guests and not even from 2009-2010 when the Democrats were COMPLETELY in power in Washington did they bring on a substantial number of Democrats. Now, in 2011, when the Democrats control at least 2/3 of the Federal Government, none of the news shows really want to hear about what President Obama and the Democrats are up to or what they think about.......well.....anything. They seem to just want to talk to and find more about what the "loyal opposition" thinks about everything and give the Republicans a megaphone to spew their talking points (almost entirely unchallenged). Even after Obama achieved the seemingly impossible task of killing OBL most of the news shows hosted pretty much only members of the disgraced and failed Bush (mis-)administration- who had given up trying to capture/kill Bin Laden all they back in 2002 (and then again in 2006 when they closed the CIA Bin Laden Unit)!

:wtf: is going on here??????!!!! :banghead:

They might as well just attach the "Republican" label to all of their shows if that's all whom they are interested in talking with/getting political perspective from. Yeah, they'd be admitting that they're actually biased and that there really is no "liberal media" but at least they'd be honest about whose propaganda they're choosing to catapult day in day out.

My suggestions for the new show titles:

1.) Republicans Meet The Press
2.) Fox News Republican Sunday (well, Fox pretty much is an arm of the RNC already. Might as well make it official at this point)
3.) Republicans This Week
4.) Republicans Face The Nation
5.) The Republican State of the Union

etc......................................:eyes: :puke:

the Repukes dominated all of the "punditry" talk shows.

as long as "the (dis-)loyal opposition" are Republicans. The "liberal media" sure loves to pump up the losers- except when they're Democrats. :puke:

And at this time with amazingly cruel Republican budget proposals, hardly any Democrats are invited onto those shows to speak the truth-- we need more revenue from the top not more stomping on the poorest among us.

Very depressing.

i'm baffled as to why the Democratic Party isn't making an issue out of this slanted booking week-after-week

that we don't hear them raising the issue.

if they had Democrats on, what would they talk about? The NAFTA-style trade deals they're working on? The cut in federal worker pay? The expansion of oil drilling?

We'll see what Durbin talks about and if he's really getting across any Democratic message anyone would recognize.

failed policies!!

They love it when there is one Democrat that they can exploit. They love it when Krugman, Michael Moore et al., go after Obama or breaks with the Democrats. It helps their corporate cause.

What "Librul Media?" It doesn't exist!!!

:puke::puke:

The main street media is controlled by liberals. :sarcasm:

The more Republicans talk, the more their idiocy and wrongheadedness shows. The more likely they are to say something stupid. I say talk, Republicans, keep talking. Keep talking yourselves into oblivion.

Like it or not, the Rs have a contested race and the Ds do not. In 2008 and particularly in 2004, it was just the reverse of now. It was a steady stream of John Kerry and John Edwards and Wesley Clark and such at the time. The Sunday shows are not going to book people who are just going to sit there and say "yep, I agree with everything that's being done." That would be boring as all get-out.