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Sunday Insight 3/4/07

Be sure to tune into Sunday Insight with Charlie Sykes this morning.  Jeff Flemming, who is a hired PR guy for Dennis Troha, is on the air.  He spins so much that he actually gets dizzy and falls off the stage and breaks his facade. 

10:00 AM.  Channel 4.

Posted by Owen at 0822 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. I understand that Charlie needs to balance the opinions on his program, but Flemming should be forced to stand-down on the Troha discussion or any other topic where he is a paid spokesman.  If for no other reason than the show should not be a free commercial for Flemming’s clients.

   Posted by Headless Blogger on March 04, 2007 at 0846 hrs
   
   
   

2. As long as his paid status is properly disclosed, which it was, I don’t have a problem with it.  At least there are three of us sitting there refuting his spin.

   Posted by Owen on March 04, 2007 at 0955 hrs
   
   
   

3. Unfortunately, the rest of the panel is too polite and lets Flemming get away with a lot of spin, unsubstanitated propaganda and interuptions of other’s points.  You need a Bill O’Reilly on the panel to shout over him once he gets started.

   His Cheap Shot of the Week at the end of the program is always allowed to go unrefuted.

   Posted by Headless Blogger on March 04, 2007 at 1105 hrs
   
   
   

4. Owen - Charlie did a good job of snapping Flemming’s leash when he went into that tinfoil hat rant about Steve Biskupic.  I actually found some of Flemming’s other arguments to be valid.

   But it is absurd that he got away with that cheap shot about the U.S. Attorney firings on the program of a man sharing a microphone with Jeff Wagner.

   Posted by Headless Blogger on March 04, 2007 at 1136 hrs
   
   
   

5. Yeah, Bill-O would add a lot of class to Chuck-O’s show.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 04, 2007 at 1312 hrs
   
   
   

6. Flemming has to be hoping that Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid will notice him.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 04, 2007 at 1317 hrs
   
   
   

7. I’m with Headless on this—we only have half an hour minus commercials, intro, etc. (now we’re down to about 22 minutes) to try to hear (cut a couple more minutes for when everyone is talking at once) what almost half a dozen people have to say.  So I tune in to hear something that couldn’t have been quite predicted beforehand, something more about a topic than I already knew, some insight (now, there’s a good name for a show) that wasn’t seen or sufficiently emphasized before.

   What a PR pro will say, can say, about a client is pretty predictable—no insights or side points, off message, to be seen there.  So that’s several more minutes of the show (now we’re down to less than half of the half hour) spent unwisely, which may make me switch to a Sunday gardening show on HGTV to see if there’s something there that I didn’t know.  If not, at least that sort of show can give me a glimpse of spring.

   That’s aside from the conflict of interests question, which is far more complicated.  But just for bottom-line reasons alone, don’t bore the audience with the predictable, with what we already know even before the show tapes two days before.  Surprise us, provide us with—y’know—insights.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on March 05, 2007 at 1252 hrs
   
   
   

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