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    Flap’s Links and Comments for March 2nd from 12:28 to 12:34

    March 2, 2011 /

    These are my links for March 2nd from 12:28 to 12:34:

    • Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum taken off air by Fox News – Fox News announced Wednesday that it is suspending the contracts of political contributors Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum because both have demonstrated that they are seriously considering running for president.

      Dianne Brandi, the network's executive vice president of legal and business affairs, said in an interview that the channel made the move because Gingrich aides told Fox News executives that the former House speaker is stepping up his exploration of a presidential bid.

      While Gingrich is not expected to announce that he is forming a federal exploratory committee this week, he is expected to say in Georgia on Thursday that he is meeting with advisors to explore seeking the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, a Gingrich aide said.

      Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania, has indicated that he plans to participate in Republican primary debates, Brandi said, "so that leads us to believe he is seriously considering running."

      Brandi said the network acted out of journalistic principle.

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      They will pull Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin too if they make too much more of an effort to run.

      I expect neither of them to give up the nice fat Fox News paycheck.

    • Oprah Winfrey’s new TV channel fails to win viewers – The OWN channel, which launched two months ago, is being watched by only 135,000 people at any one time.

      The ratings are 10 per cent lower than for the cable channel it replaced which was called Discovery Health.

      And only 45,000 of those watching are women aged 25 to 54, the audience the channel is being aimed at.

      Miss Winfrey, 57, has urged patience and supporters say ratings will improve when the chat show host begins appearing more regularly herself towards the end of the year.

      She will still be busy filming "The Oprah Winfrey Show" for the ABC network until September, but will then be able to devote more time to her own channel. That will include having her own show two or three nights a week.

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      Most of the Discovery-Health Channel's shows have been moved the FIT TV and that is where the viewership has gone.

      Oprah's vanity channel will maybe more successful when she ends her ABC show.

  • Rick Santorum,  Sarah Palin

    Video: Rick Santorum Crawls Back to Sarah Palin

    February 10, 2011 /

    Former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Rick Santorum on Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren Show

    White Sarah Palin was on Hannity calling Rick Santorum a Neanderthal of sorts, Rick was busy walking back his comments he made to S.E. Cupp.

    “This is a news story. Could they have said ‘is that what you meant?’

    And I would have said ‘No’ — that we know that I know, because, because she does — we’ve watched, I think, we’ve watched every episode of Sarah Palin’s Alaska. We enjoy it. We like to watch with the family. I know she has obligations to do other things.

    …. I just assumed she was busy, that’s all.”

    How do you spell damage control from the claws of the Mama Grizzly?

  • Rick Santorum,  S.E. Cupp,  Sarah Palin

    Video: Rick Santorum Steps Into It with CPAC Criticism of Sarah Palin

    February 10, 2011 /

    Former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Rick Santorum with S. E. Cupp.

    Yeah, Rick stepped into the pile with his backhand criticism of Sarah Palin. I knew it was going to be a FLAP because shortly after the quotes hit Twitter, Tammy Bruce was tweeting barbs against him.

    Here is Sarah Palin’s response on Fox News last night.

    Santorum was not very bright in attacking Sarah Palin. What does he gain?

    S.E. CUPP: What about Sarah Palin turning down the keynote? What do you think happened there?

    SANTORUM: I don’t know. You know, I have a feeling she has some demands on her time, and a lot of them have financial benefit attached to them, so I’m sure that she’s doing what’s best for her and her family.

    CUPP: You wouldn’t have turned it down.

    SANTORUM: Well, no, I wouldn’t have turned it down, but I don’t live in Alaska, right, and I’m not the mother to all these kids, and I don’t have other responsibilities like she has.

    Note how Mitt Romney has been treating Sarah – with kid gloves and always supportive. Mitt relishes her support, if she does not run. Mitt makes nice and alienates nobody.

    I don’t think Rick Santorum with the attacks on Palin’s family will ever receive any.

  • Carly Fiorina,  Rick Santorum

    Video: CA-Sen: Rick Santorum Endorses Carly Fiorina

    May 11, 2010 /
    Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum endorses Carly Fiorina for California U.S. Senate


    Another conservative endorsement for Carly Fiorina.

    I am endorsing a fellow conservative who is running for the U.S. Senate in the hotly contested Republican primary race in California.

    Carly Fiorina is a solid conservative who has solid pro-life values. She will support and defend Americans’ Second Amendment rights, and she has been outspoken in her opposition to the higher taxes and big-government policies championed by President Obama and his Democratic allies in Washington.

    Carly Fiorina has earned significant conservative credibility through the endorsements of groups like the Susan B. Anthony List and the National Right to Life Committee. She has also earned support from such conservative figures as Oklahoma senators Tom Coburn and James Inhofe, Arizona senator Jon Kyl, and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

    Sarah Palin and now Santorum endorse. Looks like the anti-DeMint conservative crowd is lining up for Carly.