Regis Philbin watches Democracy Now!
Regis talks about meeting Amy Goodman on his show Live with Regis and Kelly (Dec. 19th). And that's really all there is to this but it's hilarious anyway.
Regis and Joy go to Phil Donahue & Marlo Thomas' annual Christmas party and Regis finds himself seated next to Amy Goodman, one of the most respected journalists in America -- who he's never heard of. So when he asks what she does Amy explains she has a show on PBS where she covers global events. Regis immediately finds himself feeling a touch inadequate for the conversation. In the end though the most unlikely of plugs:
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REGIS: So I went to the annual Phil Donahue/Marlo Thomas Christmas party last night.
KELLY: Yes, tell me.
REGIS: Well, it’s just a lot of fun, you know. And the violins are playing
KELLY: It’s beautiful. They have a beautiful home, right?
REGIS: Yeah, it’s a penthouse up on Fifth Avenue. Just great.................(more)
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REGIS: “What are you doing about global warming?” “We’re staying cold.” Woman was very interesting, so I tuned her in. She’s on from 8:00 to 9:00 in the morning.
KELLY: Oh, fantastic!
REGIS: Channel 34, one of those PBS stations. And not only do they have it on TV, but then they take that hour, and they play it on, I guess, PBS radio. PBS have a radio thing, too? Yeah. They play it on the radio from 9:00 to 10:00.
KELLY: That’s great!
REGIS: In case you missed the 8:00 to 9:00. So anyway—
KELLY: That’s really good. So I’m going to tune her in, too.
REGIS: Yeah. Yes, Amy Goodman.
REGIS: ...it's refreshing!
This is a good reminder that most of America has little connection to solid sources of information like Amy Goodman's Democracy Now. It's a funny clip. But I'm glad he plugged her show. If Regis' demographic actually tunes in that'd be a great thing.
Here's to Marlo and Phil seating Regis next to more progressive people.
Shall we start a list of recommendations for them?
They're both incredible idiots!
To which Kelly Ripa responds:
"PBS...is there shopping involved with that? 'Cause I know in a democracy you go shopping, right? Who's Phil Donahue?"
Yes Regis is refreshing! But it was painful to watch Kelly strain to find something, anything to say and interrupt Regis every time she had nothing to say because she is supposed to talk but doesn’t know how.
Kelly: OH Regis,tell me everything,and start from the beginning.
Regis: Well....first the earth began to cool....
Kelly: Yes..go on.....
I know they're silly but it would be funny to get their schtick on Hugh's list. Talk about naughty!
I agree with Dan at #2:
If this can bring in a wider audience to Amy Goodman, then hats off to Regis for bringing it up the way he did.
Is Kelly a little Bonkos?
Easy on Reeg.
Don't forget one of the true progessives is Casey Kasem.
And Ripa is no Hasselback last I heard.
kelly is amazing how she covers for that old alta kaka. regis needs to call it a day. his schick isn' t funny anymore. it's just so sad.....
it's "alte kocker" and "shtik"-if you're gonna use Yiddishisms, spell'em right, or at least close. Source:"The Joy of Yiddish", Leo Rosten.
Kelly Ripa seems proud of the fact that she comes across as a bimbo. One wonders when she last cracked open a book on a serious topic.
I was so happy to hear that Phil Donhue made a documentary on Iraq. I am going to goggle it now. On Marla sitting Reg next to Amy...Fabulous...And him saying it on air, giving times etc...well done. Peace, Love, Health and Happiness to all of you and yours....Spead the word...The Sleepers Have Awoken...
I'm glad Amy's getting more exposure. She's a national treasure
OH PLEASE, you gaggle of nasty old hens!
The old oblivious MSM man gave a NICE plug and all you can do is find fault with it. HE'S not part of the problem, his company is. HE went out of his way to say something nice and help a PROGRESSIVE information source.
CHRIST.
I've never been a fan of old regis, and don't even know what compelled me to watch this clip but....this clip plainly shows two individuals that are unaware becoming aware of the fact that they ARE unaware. Furthermore they then invite their unaware audience to share in their new awareness of being unaware.....lol.. Seriously though..this is something that is a bit late in coming but is very much needed for that middle america segment that is only now waking up to the realities of american foreign demestic policy. Let's hope this spreads. And now old regis can firmly claim he did his bit to help fellow americans...heh
Dan Vera @ 2:
Definitely sounds like a plan.
And you're quite right. 90% of America still believes there are 'rules' to prevent the "news" people from misinforming them, and if they 'heard it on the news'; then it must be fact beyond reproach. A plug for solid info is good stuff, especially from someone relatively well known and respected.
The clips are downloadable now, The post was supposed to go up on Saturday, but it got posted by accident...
I always thought Kathie Lee was a right wing nutjob myself. She donated to Guliani and Liz Dole in the past. Now she donates to Hillary. Not enough separation for my tastes, but it is a start. If the mainstream air-heads are waking up, more power to them.
I'm happy to see that Regis and Kathy know how shallow their "existences" are. No wonder they make the big bucks and have nice comfortable
lives. Once again, stupidity and greed are their own rewards.
#2 Dan Vera wrote:
"This is a good reminder that most of America has little connection to solid sources of information like Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now."
Or blogs. Or BBC. Or CNN International. Or Asia Times Online. Or the Reuters web site, before its chopped up and mistranslated on US TV.
"It’s a funny clip."
Actually it makes me sad.
Think about it - what % of US population gets their news from the idiot tube. Now compare this to the miniscule % that reads blogs on the internet - political blogs no less.
(here I am shamelessly whoring my blog):
http://americangoy.myblogsite.com/
Hats off to Pacifica Radio and Democracy Now!
Very, very emotional clip. Is this how they conduct this show? Very emotional. Not very factual.
These people have been on since i was a teen, i think. Jesus! Had i watched tv all this time you could make a bar of soap out of my brain stem and noone would notice.
This gives me hope. All the jibber-jabber we all talk about over and over and over in our little circles is trickling down to the bottom feeders. Keep talking folks and eventually they will begin to replicate it as well. I hope Kelly tunes in, finds a cause, burns her bra and camps out with Terence McKenna in the fifth dimension...then she will have reached a time we call "the nineties."
"24 sufimarie Says:
This gives me hope. All the jibber-jabber we all talk about over and over and over in our little circles is trickling down to the bottom feeders. Keep talking folks and eventually they will begin to replicate it as well. I hope Kelly tunes in, finds a cause, burns her bra and camps out with Terence McKenna in the fifth dimension…then she will have reached a time we call “the nineties.”
I wish i was smart enough to see that. I see two pathetic people who are apparently very popular beating themselves over the head for never doing anything to an audience who adores them because they have done even less.
Could I offer not one negative comment has provided substance?
Poor Kelly , at least she had the best line " being the weakest link at the table " geesh . Is there somebody holding these guys hand , away from the show . Regis ever hear of IRAQ or Afghanistan ...evidently not .
If you put together Regis ,Oprah , the super model with the big ego , Rachel Ray audiences , you'll have the biggest collection of uninformed , damn come to think of it , a Cave Man would have better chance of surviving , if these clowns were on their own .
I guess surviving Bevis and Butthead didn't do the human race any good .
"9 whizkid Says:
Easy on Reeg.
Don’t forget one of the true progessives is Casey Kasem."
That is the biggest lie i have heard today. He visited the shelter i helped run and totally freaked.
"26 whizkid Says:
Could I offer not one negative comment has provided substance?"
Offer all you want. I could give a 30 minute discourse about everything i know about bathtub mold and come up with more substance than this clip.
Sorta like a phalanx of Ralphies here.
People who thrash out against there own.
Jesus. All they did was talk up Amy.
Unless you're tories.
I am a big Amy Goodman fan. I find it outrageous that people of wealth, people who spend their lives going over the minutia of how to present infotainment to a vast audience of people are woefully unaware of their own ignorance. When suddenly they stumble across it they have an epiphany!
Well good, i hope this is the beginning of a learning curve for them. Unfortunately, i doubt it. I hope i am wrong.
He being Reeg or Kasem? Re:zoites
Give your 30 minute discourse.
I can't even tell what your bitch is about.
Regis Philbin? Casey Kasem? Amy Goodman?
With so much to bitch about why would you include any...or me?
I am not angry with you, Whizkid. I have had previous experiences with celebrities confronted with reality. They go one of two ways, in general. Either they look at things seriously and confront them and do something about them or they go to pieces as these two did in this segment of their show and then forget all about it.
Forever.
xoites
Don't look the gift horse in the mouth.
If somebody came by the shelter and freaked its better than had they said KMA.
You could be around Alzheimer patients or the poor. This administation could care less about either.
OK. We have clarified.
You get Regis or Casey or Martha Stewart to stop by... you show gracious welcome.
You endure whatever to accept all support.
With charity. With social cause. With politics. Accept the helping hand.
Right out of Saul Alinsky.
Well, maybe i am spoiled. We had Martin Sheen, Cher, Brian Denehey and may others stop by. Cher raised money and made a movie about a homeless man suspected of murder being inocent, Martin Sheen played the lead role in a tv movie about the group i worked with and went on to get arrested again and again in protests against homelessness, nukes and the school of the Americas. I won't mention the ones who cried and went home.
If Regis is serious about becoming educated then he will listen to or watch Amy Goodman and talk about what she says on his show. If he just listens and says nothing for a while that would be a plus, but after watching him i am wondering if he can make the adjustment.
When i was younger and deep into the homeless movement Gary Trudeau started writing in Doonesbury about homelessness and it was great writing and i thought to myself, "Shit! Homelessness will soon be a thing of the past! It has hit mainstream consciousness!"
Thirty years later not much has changed.
My point is, just because Regis just mentioned Amy Goodman to thosr many million viewrs in what i consider to be a very odd way does not mean that many of those veiwers will tune in. Worse, since those viewers have been conditioned to think about anything BUT reality by shows like this one, it will probably turn them off.
Is Kelly Ripa really stupid like that or is it just a character she's playing?
She'd have to be a little more shrewd I'd assume to get that job... so I'm guessing it's an act? Or a joke I'm not getting?
Jokes on me. I was not born a cute blonde woman with a spoonful of brains or i might be rich. On the other hand she was not born me, in which case she might be pissed off but at least have an idea of what the hell is going on.
Cher is a dear. So is Trudeau.
These people who have a daily TV show to do you are lucky to get a mention.
I'm telling you we're streets ahead from a year ago.
Keep up the good work.
I want my country back, Whizkid. These shows you say we are lucky to get mentioned on are why we lost it.
By the way
THIS!
http://www.democracynow.org/
Should be up there at the top of this post.
And maybe this should have been the open thread:
U.S. Soldiers Stage Mutiny, Refuse Orders in Iraq Fearing They Would Commit Massacre in Revenge for IED Attack
http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/21/us_soldiers_stage_mutiny_refuse_o...
The shows that lost it for us are the vessels we use to turn back the momentum.
Did either of us tell Reeg to talk about Amy?
Yet he did.
Wonder if REgis and Kelly really should watch Democracy Now. It might ruin their mood. I know it ruins mine. I always end up angry or sad or depressed, in a "good" way but still. Reality is no fun.
Whizkid, there is a saying about seeds. You can plant one but without nourisment, sun and water it can not grow. Reegis is not a seed. He is far from a nurturer. He was confronted with the reality that he has wasted countless hours on tv telling people how to be consumers. Unfortunately, he will get over it and go on. His viewers, for the most part will not even grasp what the hell he was talking about and those of us who have viewed this clip need not congratulate ourselves because we have gained nothing UNLESS by some miracle Reegis takes it upon himself to become informed and active.
I doubt it. He is making a lot of money doing what he has been doing for quite a while.
"45 galmud Says:
Wonder if REgis and Kelly really should watch Democracy Now. It might ruin their mood. I know it ruins mine. I always end up angry or sad or depressed, in a “good” way but still. Reality is no fun."
No it is no fun but then you need to write about it or talk about or do something else about it.
Become a nurturer and inform people about what you do know and learn more.
Democracy isn't fun.
See "The Stooges".
Its hard work.
You gotta call television networks and shit.
Do you think Regis (or Ripa) watches/reads Naomi Wolf? http://youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc
Listen up people.......IS it already too late? http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-461990723502527420
Is it already too late?
Are we dead yet?
I posted Naomi on my site on the 20th. She is very good.
The epitomy of the shallow,fluff, stupid , out to lunch attitude that has got this country in a mess.
Yes, Johnny, then again this country has us as well.
Speaking bout calling a TV network. They hate it.
Get the main switchboard and ask for the "producer" of a show.
They put you right through.They hate it when they pick up the phone and there you are fact checking every piece of BS they just aired.
Just dial 411 ask for FOX or whoever then the producer or news producer of a show.
There always have been and always will be a segment of the population out there oblivious to the peril we all face. The Constitution was writen in their midst, the Revolution occured around and without them and our civil liberties exist despite them.
I do not ask the trees for any more support than i would any of them.
Fox News should not be called. They should be tarred and feathered and riden out of town.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Gil Scott Heron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTCQSk2l8bc
What I really refer to is calling cnn & nbc.
Back in '88 and 92 I'd get them on the phone.
They'd be all apologetic. Sorta.
"Gee. We have to have the democrat defend himself before we do".
The Democrat has to spend all their time with every lie the right puts out.
Just the stupidest journalism you ever heard of.
Today its far worse.
After eight years of coverup for the worst president ever, lay waste to those news producers. The FOX POS in particular.
Hey. You'll get an intern.
They'll put you into Roger Ailes voice mail.
I swear to God.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Gil Scott Heron
The RevoLution will be YouTube'd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVuDURUKegI
See? LOL :)
They covered up for Reagan and Bush Senior too.
What's the word?
Johannesburg.
Gothcha my brother.
Lets see action.
Against the media.
But what to do?
How do we do it non violently?
Should we picket them? Block their doors? Sit in their offices?
Sit in their studios?
Make news they can't ignore?
Buy the other leading brand?
WHAT?
When you call the network producers use terms like "their disregard for the electorate". In a kind way.
Talk about how they "plump up support for a man who was never elected".
This will resonate.
Ask they be sure the producer gets your message.
"68 whizkid Says:
When you call the network producers use terms like “their disregard for the electorate”. In a kind way.
Talk about how they “plump up support for a man who was never elected”.
This will resonate.
Ask they be sure the producer gets your message."
Good thinking. After that i suggest we go out and have cupcakes. That'll show 'em!
Dear Fox News,
I fear you have a certain disregard for the electorate. Would you mind regarding us for a change?
Sincerley,
The Hopelessly Optimistic
Did you gt into high school yet?
Dear Fox News,
We feel it is important to tell you that on this coming Thursday we are coming to shut one of you stations down. Guess which one?
Sincerly,
The Informed Public
I like that, that has resonance!
xoiles
OK.
You are a troll, torey, or Ralphie.
Gotcha.
How you people go all evening...as if.
Dig that Huckabee huh.
A troll?
Are you shitting me?
Would you kindly reach inside your head, find a brain cell and rub it against another and tell me where you came up with that one?
You want to call the media and pleasantly explain that they are disregarding us and expect to change anything more filthy than a diaper?
I am seriously talking here in an open forum/thread about going after the largest propaganda tool in the country, Fox News. Please don't take me lightly. If you have the guts to be polite to these people you have the guts to confront them as well.
How serious are you, Whizkid? I am not asking you to do anything ilegal. I am asking you to expand your options and your creativity.
I am also asking you, me and anybody else to be non violent.
An Agent Provocateur would try to incite rage and violence. I am asking for serious input on how to end the endless unprovocked propaganda war against common sense in America without violence, but forcefully and with all due seriousness.
The crickets are chirping, Whizkid.
"Balls," said the Queen
"If I had two I'd be King!"
And the King laughed
Not because he wanted to
But because he had two!
We need some balls around here or this country is going to be a greater place to leave than it already is.
Good night, Whiz. Try to resist sleeping with your Bat Phone.
#12 Kelly Ripa is a very smart woman. Do not confuse the character she plays on TV from real person.
That is beautiful. Slipping in something about Amy Goodman, a woman of real substance, on this chatty, goofball show. Those two are smarter than they appear. They know they can sneak a little truth in their corporate show if they frame it as "Gee, I met this nice lady who has a show. How neat!"
Nice job, Regis. You're a dork, but I love you for this.
I don't give them that much credit Hubcap Halo. If Regis had a real clue about what he was actually saying he'd probably not have mentioned it. That or his corporate owners would have nixed the entire conversation before he brought it up.
But I'm glad he got the opportunity to mention it to the sponge minions who watch their show. Who knows. Maybe some of them will watch and it will spark something in their brain.
Personally I expect a few of them to tune in to the show, discover what it is and get upset because it isn't an hour of ridiculous pap like the regis show.
hubcap halo @ 84:
Yep, my thoughts exactly...nice job. Not necessary for him to get into detail of what viewers may be enlightened to should they watch--just let them tune in.
We can only wish they are both hearing, seeing and reading things that in some way makes them feel a need to speak out, ever so meekly?
Hard to do on a showcase for consurmerism and the neocon agenda.
Wonder if either is holding any of that bad paper chimpy mentioned this week?
Me, too! I watch it daily, it's the best news on TV. And the 2 best channels are Free Speech TV & LINK-TV. DISH channels 9410 & 9415. DirecTV only has LINK-TV on 375.
I'm a big fan of Amy Goodman's show which I usually watch on VDC.com. I think its great that Regis worked Democracy Now into his ramblings. I bet it was unexpected to Live's usual audience. In fact, I would bet they were surprised that he didn't mention Fox News or some other right wing propaganda channel.
To those that would throw stones, it's ok to laugh and be stupid occasionally. Their show is low-brow, but with what's happening in today's world, sometimes it's good to have a low-brow laugh. I'm not a regular watcher but they can be pretty funny at times, stupid funny, but funny just the same, and sometimes I like stupid funny, it keeps me sane.
Anonymous @ 38:
I wonder the same thing. Ripa hosted SNL a few years ago, and did a great job. Totally upended my opinion of her.
Regis: "Oh does PBS have some radio thing too?"
This is beyond embarrassing.
Raw history that everyone must read about the early days of our country, this is not the same history we were taught in school that the oligarchs had spun up for us.
An eye opener at the very least.
Link
Email the show and let them know thattheyshould give another heads up for Amy and Democracy Now.
http://bventertainment.go.com/tv/buenavista/regisandkelly/feedback.html
It may be best to send an email after the holidays. I sent this:
I am so happy you mentioned Amy Goodman. Her show is soooo good. I hope you watch or listen once or twice. You will be hooked.
Please mention her name again. It would open your audience up to some very interesting news that they don't get anywhere else.
Thank you so much. Hugs and kisses.
And will send some more at the beginning of the year along with my emails to MSNBC tell them what an asshole Tucker is and how much better Rachel Madow is...
Anonymous @ 38:
No, I think she's really that stupid. This is the same chick who went ballistic over Clay Aiken putting his hand over her mouth.
Global warming, shredded constitution, endless war, Clay Aiken putting his hand over Kelly's mouth. 4 defining moments of the new century.
Okay, I'm going to give them both a break because Regis has terminal Alzheimers and Kelly is a midget, but you would have thunk that somebody on the show would have tipped them off.
Who the hell doesn't this guy know at all? Every single guest that comes on there that isn't 75 years old is someone he's completely oblivious too. Then he goes into tangents about the actors and singers he remembered from old Hollywood. Can't someone give him some notes about his damn guests?
Considering he can't figure that out on a taped TV show, I'm not that surprised here.
It seems there are some progressives who have lost their sense of humour. They were parodying themselves; when Kelly says, I don't know how you can stand to watch us, that was funny, it was a very funny bit, not side-splitting, but funny. Plus if they reached just one viewer to tune in to a more progressive show, great!!
So, to all my progressive friends who have forgotten how to laugh I think a steady diet of The Marx Brothers and Monty Python is in order, plus a little Bill Hicks so you can see it's possible to be funny and political at the same time.
BTW Regis gets extra props for not only plgging Amy Goodman's Democracy Now show, but also Phil Donahue's upcoming Documentary. Way to go Regis and Kelly.
Now lets see if we can get Noam Chomsky as a guest on the show
Mikey @ 3:
I know but at least they admitted it and went on to plug Amy.
These airheads are small time compared to the real dolts, racists, and propagandists in the MSM:
www.mediamatters.org
Then go to Misinformation of the Year.
Acting Patriotic @ 49:
Great links, thanks.
For some reason, I think if a teacher played that google video in their classroom today they could be jeopardizing their job.
What's the name of the planet these beings come from?
I seem to recall reading that Ripa is from a blue-collar, Democratic, progressive background. As someone upthread mentioned, she's no Liz Hasselbeck, a hard-core reich-wing Bushevik. But it's hard to keep track of all the blonds-on-a-stick these days.
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I have never seen two such empty-headed, boring, numbskulls. And Americans love to watch that crap and go to see them. Actually I have a great idea: Why don't Primal Scream therapists force their clients to watch this? Next time please spare us.
Regis is smart enough to know a thing or two about Iraq if he mentions Phil Donahue's documentary on it, which WILL be an honest and forthright examination of this war. You can bet on it. Phil Donahue, to date, has given perhaps the best televised argument against the war in Iraq when he made Bill O'Reilly sound all the more foolish in some rant filled, finger pointing tirade he threw on "The Factor" in defense of it. Donahue just made his argument so convincingly, it was a superb job
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Weird how a couple show-biz nothings admits 'we are cotton candy pushers' to a TV audience that reacts by laughing. I wonder if their audience had bad dreams last night?
I thought this was very cute... the hosts laughed at themselves for being so shallow... and they gave cudos to Amy Goodman for her work... and even cudo to "heady" people like the ones that come here to this site...
I did have to laugh at Regis' questions about PBS also having a radio program, though...
Maybe if Regis watches Amy in the morning, then he can enlighten his own audience in turn... one can only hope.
Relax Kelly. You're the weakest link wherever you go.
I could only watch about half of the clip. Those are two of the most superficial, artificial people I have ever had the misfortune of listening to. It's no wonder this society is in the shitter.
It is wholly depressing that there are people in this country that actually think that Kelly Ripa is intelligent or sincere about anything. She is nothing but a cardboard cutout personality providing short term amusement for mindless automatons who should have about two million better things to do (masturbation being just one preferable example) than watching that video slime.
jesus f*cking christ.. what absolute f*cking morons. poor amy. regis philbin is now and has always been a hollow headed idiot who has only ever wanted one thing and one thing; fame. he and the rest of the daytime idiots scatterered all over the dial continue to live in their pretend world of sunshine and american apple pie and it's pathetic and embarrising. i say again; poor amy.
Any of you folks who actually believe that Kelly Ripa or any of the adoring fans who hang on her blathering will be able to follow Democracy Now for more than 15 seconds, much less tune it in at all, are kidding yourselves.
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Che's Lounge @ 113:
Not true. I work with people who come from all types of socioeconomic, educational and intellectual backgrounds. There are some who are beyond hope, but there are many others (the majority) who really do want to make sense of the disasters that have befallen them. If some of these people are encouraged by the likes of talk show hosts to listen to people like Amy Goodman, that's fine with me. They do want to know why things have gotten so bad. They have lost faith in the loud mouth radio hosts, FOX and mainstream media. Your post implies most people are zombies, most people are not.
People criticizing Philbin and Ripa for their style of show are missing the mark. They host a morning talk show that has little if any political bent. Politics aren't a part of that formula. As much as we all are concerned and involved in our various causes, some things do exist as simple entertainment. Regis and Kelly fall into this category. Criticizing them for the content of their show is pointless. It's not intended to feature politics.
If you read the transcript, you'd see even Regis is aware enough to admit to, and self-deprecatingly joke about, his lack of knowledge about world events. But then goes on to plug a very good media source in Democracy Now. Instead of criticizing a talk-show host for being a talk-show host, we should be grateful Democracy Now got such a wide-audience plug, and be coming up with ways to continue this type of thing.
Also, props to Phil Donahue and Margot Thomas for setting the stage.
I thought it was hilarious, they debased themselves quite cleverly and plugged a "liberal" media source. You hyper-critical folks need to consider at least a low-dose Xanax prescription really. Are you that tightly wound? I feel sorry for you.
I don’t know . . .
I thought this was undoubtedly one of the most enlightening clips of Regis and Kelly that I have ever seen..
They pointed out that they are better known than most commentators, because they are on television all the time, but compared to some of their lesser known competitors, they know nothing.
When the president of the country is in the same position, this may not seem to be such a damning confession, however, as an indictment of the people who are responsible for programming the networks, it is a most devastating admission, especially during a time of war.
As a snippet of a program aimed at a demographic with which I have little contact, this clip was far less depressing than previously, when C&L posted clips from The View.
It's a sad statement of the reality of mainstream media that they would be so uninformed as to the existence of meaningful programming.
odanny @ 107:
Donahue said in an interview that his upcoming documentary "Body of War" is about a soldier, Tomas Young, who was shot during the battle of Sadr City [the same battle that cost Casey Sheehan his life]. The shot paralyzed him from the waist down. Afterwards, he began to question why the U.S. went to war against Iraq and has now become an outspoken critic of the occupation. Surprisingly, Fox News. com, which has seen the film, has praised the documentary, saying that it "works" on a number of levels.
That was a cute clip. A simultaneously profound revelation for the hosts.
Hey, it's free advertising. And really, Regis sounded pretty intelligent to me. Give the guy some credit. He's just doing his job and sneaking in a little light along the way.
FreeThought @ 103:
Philbin. The planet Philbin. It orbits a star called Regis Gigantum in the constellation of the Great Toad.
PBS radio??? Does Regis get out much? Guess not.
That was great. That was the best plug I've ever seen. Anyone can preach to the choir, but to employ the Socratic method with such mastery of self-deprecation and deference to their audience's taste - now that just takes someone very special.
I agree with some people here needing Xanax. If you honestly think that a human interest variety show that covers top selling baby toys and haute couture socialites is the equivalent of The Factor because they don't decry the Iraq war... you need a vacation, some time away... maybe just sit down and watch Regis for a change of pace? Just a suggestion... before your head explodes.
I recall the time many years ago when I was introduced to the work of Amy Goodman. It was like walking through a door into another world. What a revelation! What joy! I've been hooked ever since. My hope is that Regis, Kelly and any number of their audience can experience the same.
If anything, these guys are the opposite of the in-your-face redneck style forum that is pervasive throughout the US media. People around the world think that American news is a circus side show. These two seem to actually have standards, tact, and professionalism.
Do you honestly believe they had a "revelation" on air that they know nothing? Come on now... at one point Kelly even holds up the cue cards. This was part of their appeal to their audience, not to insult them but to gently nudge them to find out about world events. The fact that they gave out a plug to PBS on commercial network television is remarkable in it's own right. I don't see that very often. He gave out the airtime for Democracy now *several* times in a style that reminded me of how pastors oftentimes plug church services. "8 to 9... and if you miss the 8 to 9, there's also a 9-10" Implies we should make this part of the schedule, tells us how long it will take, and presents an alternative that gives us even less excuse not to do it. That's how you plug, folks.
But anyway, if I wanted to add some class to the MSM, Regis could stay. He's not the problem. The problem is that we have to get our news from the Colbert Report and the Daily Show in this country, as wonderful as they are, that's really the problem.
So Regis wants to be informed, to hear something other than Corporate pap. Good for him.
whizkid @ 26:
"Amy explains she has a show on PBS where she covers global events."
And . . . ?
Isn't it sad? Shows how the wealthy people are not in touch with reality, nor do they care. These two people do not represent most of America. These two people do not represent the norm, or middle class America. Who are these people that watch these two idiots?
It reminds me back when fomer President Bush Sr was President and he was surprised to see computerized registers in grocery stores. They had been out for the l2 years but it was the first time he had ever seen them.
A gentle nudge which is really quite effective promotion. Free ad for Democracy Now complete with options as to time slots and media.
Kelly's father is a Democratic politician in South Jersey. He is a Freeholder (County commissioner for you non- New Jersey people. Before that he was active with the unions.
I wish Kelly would know more about what her father stands for.
Heraldblog @ 91:
As my girlfriend and I originally watched the clip, she commented on Ripa's job requirements by referring to a book Joey Heatherton had written and the comments on Regis therein. (I don't recall Heatherton ever having been one of Regis's sidekicks but then I've never followed his show.) Heatherton allegedly wrote the job overtly entailed being a sweet fluffyheaded blonde and more or less subserviently demurring to Regis, and so on.
...Preparing to mention it here, I brought this conversation up and my lady further commented, 'Look what happened to Kathy Lee Griffith...' (??? -I've no clue, and she's rolled over back to sleep...)
The only reason why they're giving Amy props is because their producers know bloggers like John will promote their show by writing about them, to which they'll have more viewers to dumb down with nonsense.
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