To: Oeconomicus who wrote (151000 ) 12/26/2002 3:57:51 AM From: craig crawford Read Replies (1) | Respond to but wait! bill o'reilly has the number one cable news program! he's not jewish! he's irish! gee, why then does o'reilly always stick up for israel and the jews? maybe someone should ask his jewish producers stacey hochheiser and dan cohen .cohen .levine . let's add oppenheim or oppenheimer to the list. you know, like the oppenheimer behind the a-bomb or the oppenheimer mutual funds.Rising CNBC star Chris Matthews and his program Hardball devoted enormous effort to the White House scandal this past year and the effort paid off. Hardball’s primetime audience doubled and now reaches more than 600,000, with a second late night airing capturing another 300,000. Those are big numbers for cable news, which usually enjoys an audience the size that a newspaper fetches in Harrisburg, Pa., or Yakima, Wash.Hardball Senior Producer Adam Levine credits the story for giving the show a big liftoff, but predicts the future will focus more on the coming elections, tax cuts and social security reform. “We do politics, but for the past year the political story was this — unfortunately.” prospect.org But Perle's own chutzpah and simple media sloppiness play even more important roles. Overseas and in defense community publications like Defense Daily and Air Force Magazine, Perle is routinely identified as what he is: the chairman of the Defense Policy Board and one of Rumsfeld's senior advisers. But producers and reporters in the mainstream press almost always identify him as a "former assistant secretary of defense," as he was dubbed on Hardball in late November. Hardball producer Noah Oppenheim equivocates as to whether Perle's misdirected identification served Perle's purpose or the show's own: "It's the kind of thing we would probably mention if we knew." In any case, Oppenheim continues, it's not as though Perle was on to talk about administrative policy.
