Now here's something that doesn't happen every week, Anderson Cooper did all 5 days of 360 in :60. Enjoy this review of last week's news stories.
This week's puzzle isn't a new picture, but it does have several pictures of Anderson embedded in it. Good luck!
So it is Friday and I was dreading posting all day. I knew 360 was probably going to be marginally better than Thursday night and I was right. I did not comment on Ms Phebe’s post because I think I was holding my frustration in but I am in the same boat as she was in on Thursday. I was so disappointed in Thursday 360 I could not believe it. I figured Friday’s 360 would be much of the same with the exception of some wording. Remove “fundraiser”, insert the words “campaign trail” and we would have much of the same. During these times I am thankful that I come from a country that at most spends 5 weeks on a election and the focus would never be put on issues such as have been covered in the past two days. In Canada, the parties pick the party leader at conventions and then we vote for a party. No primaries or caucuses. No two year campaigns. We call an election and get to business and I could not be happier about that sometimes. So for my post on Friday’s show I basic covered it in one sentence recaps. I think it is all this really deserves.
Hillary and Barack united and it feels so good…..or does it? It was a supposed love fest in Unity New Hampshire.
During the second hour of 360 on Thursday night they did actually air a piece about Zimbabwe. After the sitting through the first hour and being an “all of the above” from Phebe’s post, I switched the channel to watch Daily Show and Colbert Report but Ms. Phebe kept recording and we are lucky enough to have the clip since most people did not get a chance to watch it when it aired. Just a warning some images may be hard to watch.
Have a great weekend everyone and to all our Canadian readers, have a happy and safe Canada Day weekend ~ Sapphire
I cannot blog about Thursday's AC360, just can't do it. I've reached the end of my rope with the dismal direction that my former favorite program has taken. Maybe there is a reason AC360 had an exclusive on the 'private' Obama Clinton meeting, and those fabulously blurry cell phone pictures? Could it be because no other network gave a shit? It's a good thing it's Thursday and I have the weekend to get over it or I seriously think I would hand in my blogging resignation.
I should point out that if you stuck with the entire hour you....
A....are a glutton for punishment
B....were treated to a 19 second report on one of the most controversial Supreme Court decision in years. This could and should have been a major story with discussion by Toobin, an expert on the highest Court.
C....watched an exclusive (but brief) interview with Christina Anmanpour about Korea. (Guess it CNN puts out all that money to send a team to Korea to watch an implosion they need to pimp it. )
D....did not hear the word Zimbabwe once.
E....are a fool! I am in this category, but my excuse is it's my job.
I guess after that horrendous excuse for a program we all could use a smile so here's my meager attempt.
First a mural painted on a men's room wall.
A football team that needs to trade a player or two.
And this last one is just wrong, wrong, wrong. But I bet it made you smile?
I will be going to communion Sunday to ask God to forgive me for posting that last picture. I might as well also pray for better program content and a new executive producer for AC360, while I'm at it. Thank God It's Friday! ~ Phebe
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Oh good Lord, now we have Nader entering the race controversy. Ed Rollins hit the nail on the head when he said " Ralph Nader is today a tragic case of what he may have been, at one point in time, which was a crusader for good issues..... I think he's only in this for ego purposes, at this point in time......This kind of rhetoric only does a detriment to the process". Right on Ed, now can you explain why Nader's words are still the newsworthy? Divisiveness is ugly and if it serves no purpose why spread it?
Here's Wednesday's panel.....Ed Rollins, Rev. Al Sharpton and Roland Martin. This screengrab sort of cracked me up. They look like the panelists on the old game show "To Tell The Truth".
Which leads us to the title of the post. Roland Martin said " The Spinners had a song 'Everybody Plays the Fool, Sometimes', which he thought was a good description of Nader. To which Anderson replied "That's probably the first time the Spinners have been quoted in a political climate". (More on this later.)
Candy Crowley filed a report about relations between the Obama campaign and the Clintons and Tom Foreman gave us his take on McBush in Raw Politics. I loved the political ad that was shown in part during TF's piece. I did some searching and found the full ad on You Tube and I think it's just brilliant. Hope you agree?
It's been quite a day at Chez Phebe. Seems sometime Tuesday night my router and my modem had a fight and decided not to speak to each other any more. After an hour on the phone with my internet provider's technical department Wednesday morning I was forced to give up until someone smarter than me could arrive to straighten the whole thing out. My son-in-law saved the day, but not until I had gone through 11 1/2 hours with no internet connection. I had no idea how addicted I had become to my computer. Going cold turkey was painful.
So for those of you who didn't see your comments posted yesterday or those of you who did only to see them later disappear, forgive me. I couldn't moderate as I usually do and I had some housekeeping to do when I finally got back on line.
Let's just hope that modem and router can get along better in the future. Or I will need to find a detox facility for my addiction.
That's it for me today. If you have time please check out our latest Q & A with Betty Nguyen at All Things CNN. Until tonight~Phebe
Tuesday's AC360 opened with Breaking News (a much overused term, IMO) about how Obama intends to bring the Clinton team on board. Really the story didn't need 12 minutes of coverage and discussion. The answer was simple......he's buying them. Candy Crowley said it wasn't unusual and Arianna Huffington said Obama had to do it, so again I say Breaking News?
Digging Deeper had panelists Roland Martin, Tony Perkins (a personal favorite for many of you) and Rev.Al Sharpton. The discussion got a little personal when Anderson's afterlife came into question. Take a look.
The program closed with the Pregnancy Pact (I'm very over that story) and Erica doing the 360 Bulletin, welcome back EH....we missed you.
Erica gave us a look at the tee shirt viewers can win if they 'Beat 360'. Personally I'm a little miffed about this new incentive. We all remember this, don't we?
I have a few things to share with you tonight. First a short video that someone took of AC entering the Time Warner building.
Mark Twain, who lived along this river, once said, "Ten thousand river commissions with the minds of the word at their back cannot tame that lawless stream." Why, say critics of our current efforts, do we think our levees can do any better?
An FOA sent us another treat from WNYC. This is an interview that Anderson Cooper did September 4, 2006 with Leonard Lopate about Dispatches From The Edge.
360 in :60 this week includes both Erica Hill and Anderson Cooper.
I couldn't resist using this picture for one of our Sunday night puzzles. Hope you enjoy it!
This weekend, 60 Minutes rebroadcast Anderson's report on A Life Saver Called "Plumpynut". If you haven't had a chance to see it yet, CBS has it posted on their website.
Now that Obama is the "presumptive nominee" the focus has switched from Obama & Clinton to Obama & McCain. They have several more months to torture us with their political games. Speaking of games, four years ago when Kerry was running against Bush I guy created a computer software game based on the election. Here is Anderson Cooper's interpretation of what the game would have been like in this June 2004 Nth entitled "Playing Politics to the Nth Degree".
Tonight's 60 Minutes is a repeat of Anderson's segment is on Plumpynut. CBS's website says "Plumpynut is a cheap, nutritious food that needs no refrigeration or preparation that is saving starving children in the developing world. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports on this miracle product that would save even more lives if more of it could be made." 
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