‘We Had to Burn the Village to Save the Village’: CNN Cancels ‘Sanjay Gupta MD,’ ‘CNN Money,’ ‘Unguarded’, and ‘Crossfire’
Posted: October 15, 2014 Filed under: Breaking News, Mediasphere | Tags: CNN, Crossfire, MSNBC, Newt Gingrich, S. E. Cupp, Stephanie Cutter, Van Jones, White House Leave a commentTVNewser reports: It was a short-lived return for CNN’s “Crossfire” as the network has canceled the political debate show, TVNewser has learned.
“Crossfire” joins other half-hour specialty programs “Sanjay Gupta MD,” “CNN Money,” and “Unguarded” which were all canceled today.
Returning to the air in September, 2013 after an eight-year absence, the new version of “Crossfire” featured former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, former White House staffers Van Jones and Stephanie Cutter, and former MSNBC host S.E. Cupp.
All four hosts will remain with the network as political commentators. Some of the staff has already been absorbed into other DC-based programs, while the remainder have been encouraged to apply for open positions in the bureau. Read the rest of this entry »
Daily Caller: A Modest Critique of Crossfire’s Stephanie Cutter
Posted: September 15, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: CNN, Daily Caller, Darwinism, Patrick Howley, Stephanie Cutter Leave a comment
Cutter: A charmless, dead-eyed, tacky sociopath with no sense of ethics? Or typical Democrat.
Patrick Howley offers this measured, scholarly, respectful characterization brilliantly disturbed, over-the-top hatchet-work on Stephanie Cutter in his review of the new edition of CNN’s Crossfire:
“A loathsome creature like Stephanie Cutter, the roots jutting out from her blonde dye job as black as the recesses of her soul, can push her way onto national television to sit next to a former Speaker of the House and two sitting U.S. senators. A charmless, dead-eyed, tacky sociopath with no sense of ethics, an empty shell spewing her flat-throated bile without the slightest trace of self-awareness Read the rest of this entry »
Who’s ‘Politicizing’ Benghazi?
Posted: October 13, 2012 Filed under: Mediasphere, War Room | Tags: Barack Obama, CNN, Mark Steyn, Mitt Romney, President, Stephanie Cutter, United States, YouTube Leave a commentIt was Obama who chose to blame a national humiliation on an obscure YouTube video
‘The entire reason that this has become the political topic it is is because of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.”
Thus, Stephanie Cutter, President Obama’s deputy campaign manager, speaking on CNN about an armed attack on the 9/11 anniversary that left a U.S. consulate a smoking ruin and killed four diplomatic staff, including the first American ambassador to be murdered in a third of a century. To discuss this event is apparently to “politicize” it and to distract from the real issues the American people are concerned about. For example, Obama spokesperson Jen Psaki, speaking on board Air Force One on Thursday: “There’s only one candidate in this race who is going to continue to fight for Big Bird and Elmo, and he is riding on this plane.”
She’s right! The United States is the first nation in history whose democracy has evolved to the point where its leader is provided with a wide-body transatlantic jet in order to campaign on the vital issue of public funding for sock puppets. Sure, Caligula put his horse in the senate, but it was a real horse…
via Who’s ‘Politicizing’ Benghazi? – Mark Steyn – National Review Online.
Panic is Delicious
Posted: October 12, 2012 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Barack Obama presidential campaign 2008, Big Bird, Florida, Mark Halperin, Mitt Romney, Nate Silver, Obama, Stephanie Cutter 2 Comments…In the 2012 election, as long as Obama was inevitable, he was inevitable. Beyond the pundits, there was the emerging belief that the macro polling models of guys like Nate Silver could not be wrong. The basic message was, “Obamas certainty of reelection is so large entirely new domains of mathematics are required to state it properly.”
The arguments for Romneys election were always framed as, “Well, IF he wins Florida and IF he wins Virginia and IF Hillary is an Al Qaida sleeper agent and IF Biden is caught in a Delaware hotel room with a Guatemalan pan flute band and a non-consenting farm animal…then maybe theres a fraction of a chance.”
The political media declared Mitt Romney dead for thirty long days between the end of the convention and the debate. But somewhere in those thirty days, Mitt Romney was born again. Hard.
You can see the fear in the Obama campaign now, as they careen from message to message, flailing, desperate for something – anything – to stick.
You can see their gyros tumbling as they slew from Big Bird to abortion to “Mitt Romney is a lying liar liarpants McLiar” to the walking disaster that is Stephanie Cutter every time she opens her mouth to the remarkable, bizarre interview the Three Divas Axelrod, Plouffe and Messina, obviously gave Mark Halperin this week. Their campaign is out of control, and they know it…
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