Carville and BEgal banned from CNN until after primaries

[wndycty]

Exclusive: After Obama Complaints, CNN Bans James Carville And Paul Begala From Appearing As Analysts Until Dem Primary Is Settled
January 24, 2008 -- 7:11 PM EST // //
Okay, this is interesting. I've just learned that CNN has told top Dem strategists James Carville, Paul Begala, and Robert Zimmerman -- who are CNN mainstays but are all Hillary supporters -- that they will not be doing any more political analysis on the network until the Democratic primary has reached a conclusion.

I'm also told that this move came after the Obama campaign repeatedly complained to high level officials at CNN about the presence of Carville and Begala on the network.

After I reached him today and pointed out that he hadn't been on CNN in some time, Carville confirmed to me that the network had told him that he wouldn't appear until the Dem primary is resolved.

Sam Feist, CNN's political director, also confirmed the decision to me. "As we got closer to the voting, we made a decision to make sure that all the analysts that are on are non-aligned," Feist said, adding that the decision had been made around the start of December. "Carville and Begala are two of the best analysts around and we look forward to seeing them on CNN plenty of times in the future, once the nominating process has ended."
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[lapfog_1]

1. Excellent!

Now if MSNBC will just ban Tweety... not for being pro-Obama... just because he is SO anti-Clinton.

(See, I support Obama, but I sure get it that Tweety is unfairly against Hillary, and for all the wrong misogynistic reasons!)

[neutron]

3. The Obama Slime Machine

went after them. The Media bowed down. Obama slimers are all over Daily Kos.
It's amazing to hear CNN yap about the Clinton machine, when straight lies
about the Clintons have been posted dailyi for MONTHS in the blogs.

[Missy M]

4. Obama has ads on CNN....

maybe that's the reason. The media are whores.

[bellasgrams]

2. BO strikes again. I wonder how he will spin this. You know he

won't admit they complained. That's his typical MO

[Andromeda]

5. Oh, sure!

Then, when are they going to get rid of Jack Cafferty?

That asshole isn't unaligned; his head is right up Obama's arse.

[robbedvoter]

6. From Rush Limbaugh - to CNN - they have to ALL push Obama on us

Hoping the Firzgerald investigation stays quiet until we get fooled.
No variation allowed. (and I am not missing those two, CNN or any of them, but has anyone wondered why are they so uniform?
Non-aligned" reads - push Obama.

[FrenchieCat]

7. Good. They are not impartial mouthpieces......

and so they don't need to show up except as announced surrogates!

Obama got it right.

OBAMA-WEBB 2008

[Raine]

8. Glad they got rid of them

they're too partisan.