On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:11 AM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > Not to be snarky, but the news here for me is that there is a late night > (early morning, apparently) satirical news program on Fox News called Red > Eye. I literally have never heard of this program. A search of the archives > of this list yields what appears to be one rather oblique mention of it by > Dave Bruggeman on Jan 24 of this year, but I'm sure I had no idea what he > was referring to at the time > > "Isn't Red Eye a dumber version of McLaughlin with celebrity guests? > Issue Two, much of the CNBC and FBC programming seems to be financial > versions of a dumber version of McLaughlin." > > I thought Fox had given up on satirical news programs, mostly because (and > again I mean this literally, though now I feel like that Rob Lowe character > on Parks and Recreation) their popular "striaght" news commentary programs > like O'Reilly and Beck already fill that niche for them. > > I take it this is more an attempt (successful, at least in my case) to > raise their name recognition that to seriously accuse Leno of Joke stealing.
It's been on for years -- by which, I mean, I only know of this show because Greg Gutfeld has been popping up in my feed of various liberal sites for years -- as in "can you believe Greg Gutfield did/said something stupid/offended some group/leered at some woman's chest"? Wikipedia says since 2007, to which I say, wow! -- Wesley McGee http://www.ambivi.com http://drawing-a-blank.tumblr.com -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
