Meet Your New Lou Dobbs: This John King Guy!
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Everyone very politely say “hello” to John King, who will be taking over journalism now that Lou Dobbs is no longer with us. King’s current gig is hosting State of the Union, which exists. According to Michael Calderone, one of “the good ones” at POLITICO: “The move reflects the network’s stated ambitions to be viewed as non-partisan in the evenings, as opposed to MSNBC and Fox, which boasts more outspoken commentators on the left and right.” However, Lou Dobbs will secretly stay on as Legitimate John King. [Michael Calderone]











Due to not watching much teevee your Wonkette editors were generally spared the spectacular series of meltdowns Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann enjoyed during the conventions, but we understand it was pretty nuts:
No wonder Fox’s hurricane coverage won the news-channel ratings sweepstakes: They know what the people want, and the people want news correspondents subjected to life-threatening winds and debris. There’s actually a clip reel on the Fox News site that is nothing but wet whipped men. It’s like weatherporn bukkake, only with less dignity.
Yes, we saw this blind item in the NYDN yesterday: