Olbermann & Wolffe getting on John King for softball Cheney interview!

He said, "The interview wasn't even on Fox-it was on CNN. Where were the follow-ups? Why did all Cheney's answers go unchallenged?" Richard Wolffe replied that John King is usually a good interview but this was a pretty softball interview. They went on. I don't have the exact quotes but it was good to see. :D

ETA-The birther BS will be later in "Worsts."

But you were saying you were worried about his ratings. The question is why? His ratings are a big boost for MSNBC. Again his are UP 32% and up 15% in the key Demo. Nothing to be worried about. He's growing. Because of him and Rachel MSNBC had their best month EVER in February.

and Liberal's have more things to do than watch a show religiously every night. But the bottom line is his ratings and Rachel's are continuing to be a big boost for MSNBC. They're basically carrying the network. Keith's ratings are up 30% and I believe Rachel's are up over 100%.

Isn't it odd that NBC puts CNBC on HD, but does not offer Maddow/Olberman on HD?

When it's comedians like John Stewart and David Letterman who do the tough interviews and people like John King pitch softballs.

especially compared to John King, Wolf Blitzer, David Gregory, and everyone at Faux.

It seemed like he was pretty comfortable letting Cheney say what he wanted.

as fact or opinion?

:shrug:

:puke:

interview what seemed like ten times in 4 hours alone. I just erased everything after the first one.

investgative reporting on the run up Bush's Shock N Awe bit - that is disgraceful catty...

I don't think King is usually a good interviewer. Was Richard just being polite? We all knew that the interview would be a softball-fest.

but who knows. Either way, he put it out there that he thought it was a softball interview. Maybe his preface makes him have more credibility.

After the sale, CNN made an idealogy shift to the right.

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an easy touch for the righties !

with direct quotes, I bet.

http://crooksandliars.com/2007/01/26/russert-played-for-a-fool/

Russert would never ask the hard follow up questions a bit like King. I like Tim Russert he came across as a great guy. But his interviews of righties left a lot to be desired. They viewed him as an soft touch and used his high ranking show to catapult their propaganda.

I guess so, but I also remember him catching McCain with his own words with the claim he didn't know much about the economy then denying/forgetting he said it.

...Russturd was a poor imitiation of a journalist that traded access for integrity and the reverance with which he is held by KO is just about the only thing that grates me about 'Countdown'...

it was a real soft ball interview with not much learnt. How King failed to ask Cheney about his top secret assassination ring is mystery.

..the post I was replying to was suggesting that Timmah would have been/had been tougher in the past...which is complete hogwash..

I got this on john king from dailykos.

"Who Was The Bigger Dick?"
"cheney or john king?" Excellent question..

<snip>

"To the surprise of no one, Dick Cheney's first post-long-national-nightmare-is-over interview was a recitation of his usual crap (although he did spice things up with a warning to America, along with a declaration of love for Rush Limbaugh).

So instead rehashing what Dick had to say, let's take a look at the performance by John King ... because let's face it; when an interview with the most controversial Vice President in history begins with:

President Obama urges absolute confidence in the struggling economy, but can the country afford his ambitious plans?

... you know that you're looking at an hour chock full of fair and balanced.

And leaving out the times King would state an Obama policy, with the question being, "is that how you see it," let's take a look at a few of the feet-charring moments Cheney faced:

<snip>

"And after letting Cheney blather on about how torture works, and how it helped the Bush administration stop "a great many 9/11's" (although he couldn't tell King about them because then he'd have to kill him), King came back with this devastating follow-up:

Much more of our conversation with the former Vice President Dick Cheney ahead. What's life like after the vice presidency, and how's his health? We'll ask when our exclusive interview with Mr. Cheney continues in just a moment. Don't go anywhere."

<read more>
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/16/21035/2823/...

Yuck! I didn't hear all of that. I guess because I skipped through parts of it but I DO remember the last thing in the article when JK did no follow ups but just said they'll be back with more... :eyes:

will continue to sell fascism until they drop.

Now he can live with it. Most people who even stuck around for the entire fiasco will have little respect for the sell-out creep. Cheney is one man that Americans should spit on.

Absolutely Agreed!