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Title: Glenn Beck Coming To Headline (CNN) Prime
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Media Bistro
URL Source: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser ... ng_to_headline_prime_30940.asp
Published: Jan 17, 2006
Author: Media Bistro
Post Date: 2006-01-17 09:34:12 by Zipporah
Keywords: Headline, Coming, Glenn
Views: 102
Comments: 19
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"CNN's Headline News has signed conservative radio host Glenn Beck for an hourlong talkshow in hopes of building on the ratings momentum generated by a revamped primetime lineup anchored by 'Nancy Grace,'" Variety's Michael Learmonth scoops. The announcement will be made today.
"Glenn Beck is the next piece of the puzzle," Ken Jautz says. "Glenn's style is self-deprecating, cordial; he says he'd like to be able to disagree with guests and part as friends. It's conversational, not confrontational."
Strangely enough, "a timeslot has not been set" for the new program, which will premiere in April. "Jautz said any of the existing shows could be shuffled to accommodate Beck but none will be cancelled."
> Beck's Web site promises a "major announcement" at 10am today...
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#6. To: Zipporah (#0)
The local Air America radio station here in the D.C. area broadcasts CNN news spots on the hour and half-hour. Yesterday, after all the news spots on Gore's speech, CNN immediately added the comment that unwarranted surveillance had also taken place under Clinton and Carter (with no mention of the possibility that what happened under those presidents was legal at the time, as I believe it was.)
4: Clinton, Carter also authorized warrantless searches of U.S. citizens Another tactic conservatives have used to defend the Bush administration has been to claim that it is not unusual for a president to authorize secret surveillance of U.S. citizens without a court order, asserting that Democratic presidents have also done so. For example, on the December 21 edition of Fox News's Special Report, host Brit Hume claimed that former presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton issued executive orders "to perform wiretaps and searches of American citizens without a warrant." But as the ThinkProgress weblog noted on December 20, executive orders on the topic by Clinton and Carter were merely explaining the rules established by FISA, which do not allow for warrantless searches on "United States persons." Subsequent reports by NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell and The Washington Post also debunked the conservative talking point while noting that the claim was highlighted in the December 21 RNC press release. From ThinkProgress, which documented how internet gossip Matt Drudge selectively cited from the Clinton and Carter executive orders to falsely suggest they authorized secret surveillance of U.S. citizens without court-obtained warrants: What Drudge says: Clinton, February 9, 1995: "The Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order" What Clinton actually signed: Section 1. Pursuant to section 302(a)(1) [50 U.S.C. 1822(a)] of the [Foreign Intelligence Surveillance] Act, the Attorney General is authorized to approve physical searches, without a court order, to acquire foreign intelligence information for periods of up to one year, if the Attorney General makes the certifications required by that section. That section requires the Attorney General to certify is the search will not involve "the premises, information, material, or property of a United States person." That means U.S. citizens or anyone inside of the United States. The entire controversy about Bush's program is that, for the first time ever, allows warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens and other people inside of the United States. Clinton's 1995 executive order did not authorize that. Drudge pulls the same trick with Carter. What Drudge says: Jimmy Carter Signed Executive Order on May 23, 1979: "Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order." What Carter's executive order actually says: 1-101. Pursuant to Section 102(a)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1802(a)), the Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order, but only if the Attorney General makes the certifications required by that Section. What the Attorney General has to certify under that section is that the surveillance will not contain "the contents of any communication to which a United States person is a party." So again, no U.S. persons are involved.
Drudge makes no pretense of being nonpartisan. CNN does.
#13. To: aristeides (#11)
As does Fox .. fair and balanced..
With Glenn Beck, CNN can no longer even pretend to make that claim. Brown is gone, will Lou Dobbs be next?
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#9. To: aristeides (#6)
Yesterday, after all the news spots on Gore's speech, CNN immediately added the comment that unwarranted surveillance had also taken place under Clinton and Carter (with no mention of the possibility that what happened under those presidents was legal at the time, as I believe it was.)
#11. To: robin (#9)
Replies to Comment # 11. Drudge makes no pretense of being nonpartisan. CNN does.
#15. To: aristeides (#11)
Drudge makes no pretense of being nonpartisan. CNN does.
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