{"id":8417,"date":"2002-12-06T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2002-12-06T22:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/12\/06\/phil-dona-who\/"},"modified":"2002-12-06T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2002-12-06T22:09:10","slug":"phil-dona-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/12\/phil-dona-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Dona Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As MSNBC ratings plumage, I <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/jeff_miller.blogspot.com\/2002_08_25_jeff_miller_archive.html#80798659%20\"\ntarget=_blank>predicted<\/a> that low rating wouldn&#8217;t keep them from not<br \/>\ncanceling his show. He is now the Typhoid Mary of cable news, oblivious to the<br \/>\nnetwork&#8217;s destruction around him. Post 9-11 the viewing public has already had<br \/>\nits phil of Mr. Donahue.<\/p>\n<p>In related MSNBC news:<\/p>\n<p><font\ncolor=#3333ff>While preparing for her interview with &#8220;Hardball&#8221; host Chris<br \/>\nMatthews last week, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton tried to pressure MSNBC<br \/>\nproducers to give her a list of his questions ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right up<br \/>\nuntil five minutes before the show her staff people were begging for the<br \/>\nquestions,&#8221; Matthews told radio host Don Imus Thursday morning.<\/font> [<font\ncolor=#3333ff><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2002\/12\/5\/153227\">Full<br \/>\nStory<\/a><\/font>] <\/p>\n<p>I guess she is use to the David Letterman <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/Articles\/Printable.asp?ID=3951\"\ntarget=_blank>method<\/a> of providing both the questions and answers to her<br \/>\nahead of time. After all it takes planning and practice to appear<br \/>\nspontaneous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As MSNBC ratings plumage, I predicted that low rating wouldn&#8217;t keep them from not canceling his show. He is now the Typhoid Mary of cable news, oblivious to the network&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}