August 24, 2007 - 9:07am
Should McQueeny host Power & Politics while he's advising Lautenberg?
By Wally EdgePoliticsNJ.com media blogger Debbie Borie-Holtz has a tough, but fair, column up today on the many hats of the multi-talented Jim McQueeny. There is no doubt that McQueeny is a key member of U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg's political team, and has been for more than two decades.
When Lautenberg came out of retirement in 2002 to run for the U.S. Senate in a five-week campaign, McQueeny took a leave of absence from his gig at News 12 New Jersey, where he hosts the weekly Power & Politics show.
Now that Lautenberg is running for re-election, and since McQueeny has been actively participating in Lautenberg campaign strategy sessions, it raises an interesting point: when should McQueeny take another leave from his News 12 post?
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Yes, he should ...
It's a conflict where he can use guest choices, lines of conversation, and questioning to slant the coverage.
Is he definitely running?
Maybe McQueeney is waiting to see whether or not old Frank is really running! By the way, saw Lautenberg on the news touting increase security for the tunnels. Nice to see him out and about even if it was only a Path ride from his place in NYC!!
I guess he'll go back into hiding now until the April filing deadline?
Who cares?
It is not like nobody knows which way the show is bent. Only hacks watch it and they are savvy enough to not to mistake it for actual journalism.
"Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." ~ ~ Mark Twain
FL
Is definatly running. And he prob should not host the show to avoid any negative apperences
McQueeney and the fossil
Fossil Frank and McQueeney are obviously working together so he shouldn't be on the air. McQueeney is an awful host anyway. The show stinks, his skit are not funny and he only asks softball questions. He makes Michael Aron look like a tough interview. The Fossil is such a poor candidate that his ego won't let him retire at 84... You need a crow bar and hammer to pry these people off the payroll.
McQueeny
Nah!!!!!!!!!!
One DOPE advising another......
I have the Dish. Better service, better picture.
Who gives a crap about news 12.
Hacks
Who gives a crap about the 4 hacks that keep posting on this site?
If memory serves me correct,
If memory serves me correct, when Lautenberg entered the Senate race in '02, McQueeny voluntarily stepped aside.
I'm sure he would do the same in this instance.
"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."- Winston Churchill
McQueeny
The really the hard-to-grasp concept here is that anyone actually watches News 12's programming. McQueeny, in other words, preaches from a backwater of the airwaves. Few people spend their Sunday morns with this tired old hack, really.
What about Steve Adubado? (SP?)
You can't get more connected to the Democrat Party than he is. Who cares? That's why we have the internet to counter Public Funded TV.
Why do we sill fund it with the current fiscal crisis?
Restore the profit motive!!!
"If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" ~ Psalm 11:3