Fox News & Frist Staffer Coordinate 30 Hour Circus

[Oilwellian]

The 30-hour debate on President Bush's judicial nominees began on a testy note Wednesday night.

After Republicans walked into the Senate chamber together to begin the extraordinary session, Democrats argued that their move was not a show of unity but rather a television stunt orchestrated for Fox News. They pointed to a memo from Manuel Miranda, a staffer for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), which said:

"It is important to double efforts to get your boss to S-230 on time ... Fox News Channel is really excited about this marathon and Brit Hume at 6 would love to open with all our 51 senators walking onto the floor -- the producer wants to know will we walk in exactly at 6:02 when the show starts so they get it live to open Brit Hume's show? Or if not, can we give them an exact time for the walk-in start?"

Democrats had unsuccessfully attempted to delay the debate until 8 p.m. to allow the Senate to first complete its work on the VA/HUD appropriations bill.

http://www.thehill.com/story.asp?id=139

[Loonman]

1. Typical

Typical Republican bull puckey, dressed up for the mindless FNC masses.

Frist is a scumbag.

[Patriot_Spear]

2. You act surprised?

n/t

[Oilwellian]

4. Me? Surprised?

Of course not. I do find the "leaking" somewhat amusing though. :D

[HootieMcBoob]

3. I would hope the other cable news stations would report this

and not only the other cable news stations but the network news stations as well. If there's a copy of this memo they should have it.

[TacticalPeek]

6. They ought to cover Frist's poll rigging, too!

:mad:

[TacticalPeek]

5. How dare them?

Play politics?

Grandstand?

Fox watching chickenhawks for optimal stike at dems? Fair? Balanced?

Bwaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaahaha!

:evilgrin:

[Brotherjohn]

9. Between this and the Fox "daily memo" (urging them to cast stories in a...

...pro-Bush light), can ANYONE still claim that Faux News is "Fair and Balanced (TM)"?

[Bandit]

7. Brit Hume at 6 would love to open with all our 51 senators

All our 51 Senators. No Bias here. I thought there were 100 Senators. Fox news only has fifty one that they claim as theirs. Fair and Balanced indeed.
on edit:
After re-reading the above I realise that the memo was sent by a Republican staffer so I guess my point is moot. I thought the memo came from Fox News and was struck by the use of our 51 Senators. I was wrong. sorry for my jump to conclusions.

[Wickerman]

8. They have even given up the pretext of objectiveness

and still people watch that shite.
:eyes:

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

10. sen durbin mentioned this

last evening. he said something like "they all marched in together for fox news and then they all left."

[Timefortruth]

11. Did they get all 51?

Did Zell Miller walk in with them? I thought there were one or two of the Republicans that had a conscience, silly of me really.