Self Described Neo-Con To Take Over Today Show

It's not bad enough that we have to put up with Fox News, the majority of AM radio and now PBS run by the radical wingnuts of the right now TVNewser tells us that they are taking over the Today Show as well. From the TVNewser piece: This morning I asked: "How are Today Show staffers responding to Noah Oppenheim's new producer position?" Some people are clearly unhappy. "How is the hell did Noah Oppenheim manage to fall into a producer position at the Today Show?," an e-mailer asks. "[At MSNBC] he was a joke...Even his own staff hated him. He didn't know the first thing about television." So how did he fall into the job? Perhaps here's an answer: "He used to work for [Executive in Charge of Today] Phil Griffin at MSNBC, so it makes sense, but it's an odd first move for Phil," an insider writes in. "Those liberals over at the Today Show will try and kill him." I wonder how Steve Capus feels? After all, Oppenheim left MSNBC in the wake of his infamous Weekly Standard piece, "when Nightly News executive producer Steve Capus and anchor Tom Brokaw complained openly that the article was unseemly coming from a NBC-affiliated news producer," the NY Observer reported in February. I hear that Capus has already been dissing Oppenheim. Another insider said he wonders what Brokaw would think... * Here is Oppenheim's Weekly Standard piece. Read it and come to your own conclusion. * Oppenheim is a "a self-identified neoconservative and onetime producer for Scarborough Country," the Observer adds. If they keep this up all we will have left is reality TV. Especially since the mainstream networks are all corporate owned, and they seem to even design their news programs to appeal to the baser side of life. After all it IS more important to report on "the runaway bride" and Michael Jackson rather than the illegal occupation of Iraq or the lies and manipulations of the Bush administration.