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Jackson4Gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:07 PM
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Personalities for Gore TV?
Gore will have the TV station by the end of the year. Now we must think of who he should have on there. Here is who I have so far:

Franken
Garafolo
Maher (Maybe)
Press
Robbins
Carville
Begala
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FlashHarry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:09 PM
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1. Conason and Van den Heuvel. N/T
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Nevernose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:10 PM
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2. Carville can't have a TV show -- it's be illegal
Vicious dogs must be restrained at all times!

If James Carville were thrown in a pit with six rabid tigers and a hungry T-Rex, my money'd be on Carville.
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Jackson4Gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:12 PM
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3. LOL, it would be called "Straight talk with James Carville"
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bryant69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:13 PM
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4. Curious
If Gore has is own TV station (which I think is a fine idea), do you think that will basically signal that he is not going to run again for the presidency?

I'm not sure that's a negative; getting a solid progressive voice in the media would probably be more positive and have a longer lasting effect than a term or two in the White House. But it is sort of a lateral move.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com
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Jackson4Gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:17 PM
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10. I dont know about that
Gore could run again. If the party calls on him this time, he is there. Either way he is helping the party!
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Unknown Known Donating Member (829 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:13 PM
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5. Sidney Blumenthal - he can have his own show as well
Paul Krugman :)
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Terwilliger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:13 PM
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6. Phil Donahue!
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:14 PM
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7. Bill Moyers eom
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:14 PM
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8. Micheal Moore
Whoopi

Robin Williams

We need humor
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:38 PM
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16. In that case ...
They need to get Jon Stewart!

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IranianDemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:32 AM
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32. John Stewert and Al Franken!
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eleny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:14 PM
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9. Mike Malloy and Bernie Ward, too
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:27 PM
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11. Olberman
eom
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mkregel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:29 PM
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12. hmmmm
Bill Moyers
Lieberman and Malloy (imagine the two of them duking it out in a crossfire format)
Boondocks - the show
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:47 PM
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18. Boondocks the show ..I love it
Aaron Mcgruder would be great
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janekat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 10:13 PM
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23. He's friggin great - Bill Maher had him on
n/t
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WhoCountsTheVotes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:31 PM
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13. They should call it "Liberal Media Television"
Think of all the free advertizing from freepers we'd get. Everyone would want to see exactly what Liberal Media is saying!
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HootieMcBoob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 10:21 PM
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25. Oh my god!!
That is so funny :) it's perfect. Ok, people. You're always talking about the liberal media...well...let me show you a little liberal media. Excellent idea.

The Real Liberal Media.
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HootieMcBoob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 10:22 PM
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26. Tim Robbins?
He gave a great speech to the national press club after the whole baseball hall of fame thing.
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Fixated Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:34 PM
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14. Me
I'm an asskicker. ::sigh:: I'll tell you guys when I make it.
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TroubleMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:35 PM
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15. Randi Rhodes
Edited on Thu Oct-02-03 09:35 PM by TroubleMan
Dave Stewart and Dave Chapelle
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tsipple Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:40 PM
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17. Nancy Skinner
But only if Nancy loses her Illinois Senate bid, which I hope is not the case. (I'm voting for her.)

Mike Malloy would be another choice.

Eric Zorn would be yet another good choice. He's a Chicago Tribune columnist.

Also, I think it ought to be called GNN (Global News Network, although we all know what the G stands for :-)).
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liberalnurse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 09:59 PM
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19. Lets not forget Wanda Sykes!
She really could compliment the comedy end.

John Daily also should come aboard!
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Gingergal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 10:03 PM
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20. How about Greg Palast?
Molly Ivins and Jim Hightower for commentary.
Maybe Uncle Walter Cronkite might show up!
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Terwilliger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 10:07 PM
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21. Wanda Sykes??? I think not...she's a friend of Drew Carey
:puke:
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TroubleMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 10:23 PM
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27. Did you see her comedy routine? It was anti-bush

and very funny.

I'm sure most of us have conservative friends. She is not (from what I've seen) a conservative.

You know that Chris Rock ain't a conservative, and she helped write a large portion of his jokes.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 10:13 PM
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22. did you know ... apparently the original plan for "Earth in the Balance"
... was for it to be a TV show, along the lines of Carl Sagan's immensely successful "Cosmos".

I guess David Suzuki is currently doing something like this now ... actually, he's someone who would likely say yes if approached by Gore. The story I heard was that Suzuki's daughter was at the Rio conference in 1992, doing a presentation as a youth delegate, and Gore (who was part of the US delegation) rushed up and gave her a hug, told her how much he enjoyed her talk and hoped she would keep doing it ...

That was the first I'd heard of Gore, and I thought what he did was pretty cool.
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janekat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 10:15 PM
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24. Mark Shields, Al Hunt, Morgan Fairchild (very smart), Jim Lehrer
n/t
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 11:23 PM
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28. from what I have been reading...
...the format will be for younger viewers and will be news and documentaries. I doubt very much that this will be the shouting pundit format now used by CNNMSNBCFOX. I doubt that our old warhorses will even be represented. Lehrer, Shields, etc. Probably not even Begala or Carville.

I suspect that some of us might even be disappointed and think this venture will not be the "red meat" network that would thrill us all.

But if I know anything about Al Gore, I know that he is a visionary. His eye is on the future. Ten years, twenty years. And so he intends to influence people who might not be currently political.

This isn't directly meant for us. And it shouldn't be.
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Lindsay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-03 11:37 PM
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29. grasswire, you're probably right.
But I vote for Al Sharpton anyway.
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LyndaG Donating Member (172 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:24 AM
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30. How 'bout...
Bill Clinton, Ann Richards, Mario Cuomo
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foreigncorrespondent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-03-03 12:31 AM
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31. I can't suggest a personality, but...
...I can certainly suggest a brilliant tv show that GNN should pick up and run with on a weekly basis. CNNNN is a brilliantly written political humor show airing weekly here in Australia on the ABC network, and is defenately a must for all political leftists out there.
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