How will the Pundits and Columnists takes sides in the GE? Here's my list so far

[featherman]

This is kind of a "top of my head" list of cable news hosts and commentators as well as columnists and news anchors and how I think they will likely slant the coverage during this GE campaign. Each of them does it as we know. Obviously Faux is not included but if there is a likely pro-Obama employee of Faux that you know of, please include.

Feel free to add to this list. I will continue to tally through the GE and change "affiliations" as necessary:

PUNDITS, COLUMNISTS, AND ANCHORS TAKE SIDES FOR THE GE: likely breakdown as I see it today 6/2/08

Keith Olbermann - Obama
Tim Russert - McCain
Rachel Maddow - Obama
Pat Buchanan - McCain
Chris Matthews - Chris Matthews
Howard Fineman - unknown
Jonathan Alter - Obama
Richard Wolffe - Obama
Andrea Mitchell - McCain
Brian Williams - McCain

Wolf Blitzer - McCain
Candy Crowley - McCain
John King - McCain
Jack Cafferty - Obama
Larry King - not of this planet
Glenn Beck - McCain
Anderson Cooper - Peter Pan

George Stephanopoulus - McCain
Charles Gibson - McCain

Bob Herbert - Obama
Paul Krugman - unknown
David Broder - McCain
Frank Rich - Obama
Charles Krauthammer - McCain
E.J. Dionne - Obama
Maureen Dowd - hates everybody equally
David Brooks - McCain
Thomas Friedman - unknown
William Kristol - McCain
Mark Shields - Obama


Katie Couric - unknown

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. Steve Doocy.

[Dr.Phool]

2. I disagree about Krauthammer.

Even McCain isn't crazy enough for him. He might endorse Francisco Franco if we dig him up for him.

[SOS]

35. Franco would suffice in a pinch

The neocons base their political philosophy on the Italian Fascist Party of the 1920s and 1930s.
Rove's foreign policy adviser (and yellowcake forger) Michael Ledeen is a fanatical admirer of Mussolini and D'Annunzio.
If they could dig up Mussolini, Ledeen and Rove would be the campaign co-chairs.

[Aloha Spirit]

3. John King - McCain; Thomas Friedman - Obama; Anderson Cooper - Peter Pan

[featherman]

9. I've changed Anderson Cooper to "Peter Pan" per your suggestion

and John King to McCain. I suppose I should include his girlfriend/wife/whatever in this but don't watch McCNN much anymore so can't remember most of their commentators and reporters.

Thomas "Units" Friedman is hard for me to pin down yet. AIPAC?

[vi5]

4. Chris Matthews....."unknown".....

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..........oh man. That made my day. His man crush on McCain is going to make his Bush love seem positively hateful and loathsome by comparison.

[featherman]

5. I know what you are saying but I'm getting a feeling Chris's passionate crush

on McCain may be cooling a bit - it happens with love around the world. Maybe McCain didn't ask him to the prom or something.

[SayitAintSo]

20. I dunno .. Obama made his leg tingle... remember ? n/t

[blm]

6. Good idea - and one made possible by Dan Rather's admission that corpmedia NEEDED to protect Bush

before and during the 2004 campaign for the favorable rulings they expected in his second term. McClellan's recollections further validate how IN THE TANK the media was for Bush for so long.

If not for those who admitted media's complicity in recent months, McCain would be far ahead of Obama in the breakdown you posted.

[featherman]

7. I'm thinking this is a much better breakdown than Gore or Kerry got

The wackiest prediction I did not include since it was too strange

Matt Drudge - Obama

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0608/10744.html

[blm]

14. Gore had about 70% of corpmedia for Bush and post 9-11 Bush had 90% of media carrying his water.

Corpmedia had other, more greedy reasons for targeting Kerry, too.

FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY:

June 2, 2003
Kerry Seeks to Reverse FCC's "Wrongheaded Vote"

Commission Decision May Violate Laws Protecting Small Businesses; Kerry to File Resolution of Disapproval

WASHINGTON - Senator John Kerry today announced plans to file a "Resolution of Disapproval" as a means to overturn today's decision by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to raise media ownership caps and loosen various media cross-ownership rules. Kerry will soon introduce the resolution seeking to reverse this action under the Congressional Review Act and Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act on the grounds that the decision may violate the laws intended to protect America's small businesses and allow them an opportunity to compete. As Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Kerry expressed concern that the FCC's decision will hurt localism, reduce diversity, and will allow media monopolies to flourish. This raises significant concerns about the potential negative impacts the decision will have on small businesses and their ability to compete in today's media marketplace. In a statement released earlier today regarding the FCC's decision, Kerry said: "Nothing is more important in a democracy than public access to debates and information, which lift up our discourse and give Americans an opportunity to make honest informed choices. Today's wrongheaded vote by the Republican members of the FCC to loosen media ownership rules shows a dangerous indifference to the consolidation of power in the hands of a few large entities rather than promoting diversity and independence at the local level. The FCC should do more than rubber stamp the business plans of narrow economic interests.

"Today's vote is a complete dereliction of duty. The Commissioners are well aware that these rules greatly influence the competitive structure of the industry and protect the public's access to multiple sources of information and media. It is the Commission's responsibility to ensure that the rules serve our national goals of diversity, competition, and localism in media. With today's vote, they shirked that responsibility and have dismissed any serious discussion about the impact of media consolidation on our own democracy."

[AllentownJake]

Drudge thinks he'll win

and would love to have the occasional link thrown his way.

[butterfly77]

8. You are wrong on krugman,,,,

he won't be for Obama he will be for Nader or come out of some other bag...

[newmajority]

10. Yep. He's been a complete Hillary tool for months now

and I don't see him endorsing Obama at all.

[grantcart]

12. he has also conceeded that there was very little difference between the two on policy issues

[featherman]

11. I know he was quite harsh on Obama... so he may just leave the reservation as

you suggest - I changed him to unknown

[Tatiana]

13. I bet you 3 F.U.'s that Friedman is in the tank for McCain. n/t

[Aloha Spirit]

15. Yeah, Friedman was all over that gas tax holiday.

[mrbluto]

16. Your Bias is showing (re:Krugman)

No way that Krugman is pro-McCaine.

Yet in snarkville you put him as unknown.

This list is a typical tactic. Put in enough "TrueFacts", then slip in the shiv a few of your own biases, then hope people swallow the whole list.

You are in danger of becoming like the monster you (supposedly) intended to fight.

[featherman]

17. If you are addressing me, in the original post I had him for Obama but one

reply speculated that he might not reverse himself that dramatically and may opt for neutrality or something. So I moved him to "unknown".
I don't see where the bias is in that? I'm just trying to figure this out. I will certainly put him in the Obama column as soon as he makes it clear that is where he is going to be. I think Krugman is great and I'd like to have his strong voice on our side in this fight. But has he moved to supporting Obama yet?

[mrbluto]

18. Um....ok. You make a good point.

I responded reflexively.

I've just seen too many on this board tear him a new one merely because he's not cheerleading for Obamaa and occasionally has some critical things to say.

But I can't blame my post on the others on this board - it was me who did the typing.

[featherman]

32. Paul's a stand-up guy with principles... he's been so harsh on Obama that

it might take a while for him to pivot to open support. This is no way implies he would ever, ever be a McCain guy.

[BklynChick]

19. Eugene Robinson -- Obama

:rofl: about Chris Matthews. I think he's a McCain man myself.

[anonymous171]

21. Dowd likes manly men, so she's for McCain.

[AllentownJake]

23. Wouldn't bank on that

She's about as predictable as Matthews.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. McCain manly?? no way. She will definitely be for O IMHO

[CatsDogsBabies]

33. Is McCain a manly man?

not to me (a woman), he isn't. I think McCain is creepy and he hugs Bush.

[anonymous171]

39. Haven't you read some of her columns on Obama?

She just loves emasculating him.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

22. Krugman was a Hillary fan and wrote against O. Mathews loves Obama !

[AllentownJake]

25. Plus he wants to run for Senate as a Democrat in PA

I expect him to be very partisan this election in our direction.

[anonymous171]

26. Finally, bias in OUR favor.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

28. SO true - doesn't it feel great to finally have a winner?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

27. cool. He is brilliant - I wrote him one time - think about the yellowcake

deal, don't remember. He wrote me back a long, personal, hand-written letter. NOT, just kidding.

[mrbluto]

30. Krugman run for office?

Really?

That's really surprising!

Where did you hear about this?

I like the guy - but I don't see him as having a surfeit of "Political Charisma" that seems to be the requisite for winning an election.

[AllentownJake]

31. Sorry Tweety

Tweety thinks he can take old Arlen's seat in 2010.

[mrbluto]

36. Ah! the axis of the earth....

...just returned to normal.

Suddenly I was in a Bizzaro world where Krugman would actually seek a political office.

Whew.

[NC_Nurse]

29. I think you're right about Tweety - he's ultimately just in it for himself.

I think Anderson will be for Obama - if only because he's young. ;-)

I mean, McCain almost looks like an old pirate, y'know.

I think some of them will jump on the Obama train simply because they know it's a new thing. Compared to
dragging around the smelly garbage of the Bush admin. like McCain, Obama is a breath of fresh air.

[RichardRay]

34. Put Krugman back to Obama...

Yes, he was a strong Clinton supporter, but read anything he's even written outside of his political cheerleading and I don't see any way he's going for McCain.

If the Clinton's point the way even a little bit Stephanopoulus will fall into line and go with Obama.

Beck will be in the hole with Krauthammer diggin for Franco (or maybe Mussolini).

Walter Cronkite will heave himself to his feet one more time and support Obama as best he can.

Edward R. Murrow will rise from the dead and record a plug for Obama.

[DeadElephant_ORG]

37. I've got to see this in 2 columns - 1 for each candidate.

[Forkboy]

38. Chris Matthews - Chris Matthews

:rofl:

You know him well. :)

[IsItJustMe]

40. You forgot one group. Faux news = McCain

[featherman]

42. Goes without saying

[anonymous171]

41. Ferraro- Hillary