Nah, You Probably Couldn’t Get Good TV Out of a Political Commentator Tomorrow.
By Jimmie on Jan 5, 2009 in Cool Columnists and Wicked Writers, Oh, THAT liberal media.
In the new Obamamerica, dissenters will no longer be allowed to inflict their tawdry criticisms of The One on the delicate sensibilities of the American television viewer.
The nation’s top selling conservative author has been banned from appearing on NBC, insiders tell the DRUDGE REPORT.
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“We are just not going to have her on any more, it’s over,” a top network source explains.NBC’s TODAY show abruptly cut Ann Coulter from its planned Tuesday broadcast, claiming the schedule was overbooked.
But executives at NBC TODAY replaced Coulter with showbiz reporter Perez Hilton, who recently offered $1,000 to anyone who would throw a pie at Ann Coulter. Hilton is also launching a new book this week, RED CARPET SUICIDE.
Coulter was set to unveil her new book, GUILTY.
But one network insider claims it was the book’s theme — a brutal examination of liberal bias in the new era — that got executives to dis-invite the controversialist.
“We are just not interested in anyone so highly critical of President-elect Obama, right now,” a TODAY insider reveals. “It’s such a downer. It’s just not the time, and it’s not what our audience wants, either.”
The ban apparently extends to MS-NBC as well.
“We’ve had Ann Coulter on ‘Today’ many times, but because of the news in Washington and the Middle East, we decided to cancel her appearance tomorrow. Understanding the media as well as she does, we are sure she knows this happens from time to time. We look forward to welcoming her back in the future.”
Hmmm…who sounds more credible here? It’s awfully hard to decide. I mean, it could be that the NBC (home of Chris Matthews, David Gregory, and Keith Olbermann) took the tough decision that it couldn’t spare ten minutes to interview a conservative political commentator who wrote a book that has to have at least one entire chapter dedicated to its rampant bias because it wanted to stuff that time full of updates about Washington and the Middle East.
Or it could be that the leg-tingling has gotten so bad that the news department of NBC looks like an outbreak of St. Vitus Dance and having Coulter there might have caused the limb-twitching to subside just long enough to harsh their Obama-induced mellow.
I’d say it’s 50-50 either way.
(via Ace, who says that NBC is going all-in on their “urban liberal” branding tactic, and Hot Air)
Stumble it!
It’s wonderful to see NBC continuing its elaborate seppuku rituals as a buffoon named Zucker tries to stupidize [!?] this collection of clowns even further.
Let’s see how hockey makes it instead of the NFL,, though that mistake was back in the ’90s. Now they’ve got Leno in prime time 10PM and when that doesn’t work, Conan will destroy their Tonight Show just like the Today Show is swirling round & round in the porcelain exit chute….
Commissar Zucker is demonstrating the failure of capitalism, one corporate unit at a time!
daveinboca | Jan 6, 2009 | Reply