Talk:The McLaughlin Group

message: I'm from the UK and watch this show on CNBC Europe. I've heard that the broadcasts on US public service stations are sponsered by General Electric (which owns NBC). I'm just curious that this seems to be primarily going out on public broadcasting channels yet is also carried on CNBC Europe and some US NBC stations. Is it simply because GE/NBC are covering some of the production cost? Or is there a more complicated arrangement? -- Matthew Humphreys 10:23, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Stacks77 14:25, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: US sponsorship

message: It's been a while since I've seen the show, so I can't speak to whether or not this Monica creature has replaced Tony Blankley - somebody who has more access to watch it than I do (on at a remarkably terrible time on my PBS affiliate) can address that.  However, the plagiarism cite and indictment have nothing to do with the show, and if they are to be added to the encyclopedia, I suspect they would be better housed in the article on the subject herself.Cool moe dee 345 (talk) 14:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Any one know why Tony left?139.140.178.121 (talk) 04:36, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Far as I know, his contract was up. They don't do this show for charity, you know. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 05:22, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

text: It finally happened. The "Monica creature" finally gave a compliment to President Obama... sort of. I was about to fall on the floor when she said, "I have to give him credit for" ... but my exhuberance was short lived as she continued... "giving credit to President Bush for," putting in place the flu preparedness procedures. I won't comment on why the latter was ridiculous, as it would be political and inappropriate here. But I do think it's valid to continue to say that she simply will never say anything good about the current administration. --Njsustain (talk) 19:01, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Without going into specifics, I want to note that both Crowley and Buchanan's remarks lately (within the show, but especially elsewhere) have taken away the legitimacy of the group. I have no idea why McLaughlin keeps them on, why Eleanor agrees to stay as the sole voice of moderation, and believe that when McLaughlin can't go on... which, let's face it, can't be that many more years... there will be no interest in continuing this farce. Sorry for giving an opinion, but this is the talk page, and it is a verifiable fact that this voracious watcher of ten years has switched to "Meet the Press." Njsustain (talk) 18:27, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent Changes

message: There are a great deal of unverified claims/OR in this article.  Pretty much every section is lacking when it comes to citations (there are only two for the entire article).  --Tom (talk - email) 04:29, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  OR 

message: The show which aired August 19, 2016 was introduced (iirc) by the president of a CHICAGO public tv station, claiming that the original show began in CHICAGO. If I've got that right. Inexplicably, the website video is NOT of the show I watched (it also is a show from 1985, but iirc the show I saw was from 1982 but definitely not the same one!) nor does the guy from the TV station introduce it. Anyway, this page claims it has always been out of Washington D.C. so we have a conflict. Also the link used to justify the show's Washington origin is dead (although his Washington Post obituary says the same thing...) Perhaps I've got it wrong...He was on AM Radio in 1980 and was fired from WRC AM (D.C.) "eventually" (according to his wikipedia page) so I may be wrong but I'd swear that the guy said Chicago... plus, that would explain the discrepancy between the show that aired on WVIZ (Cleveland, OH) 8/19/2016 and the show available on the Group's site: a difference in who owns the rights to the show, perhaps.173.191.76.80 (talk) 22:26, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello.  On the McLaughlin Group website and the McLaughlin Group YouTube page there is a show posted which originally aired 7/20/1985.  On the McLaughlin Group Fan Club Channel on YouTube there is a show posted from Chicago which aired in 1983 and it is introduced by a Public Television spokesman.  There are also early CSPAN clips posted on the Fan Club Channel as well as on CSPAN.   These postings may help resolve your confusion.  I am fairly certain the show originated in Washington, D.C. as most of these types of shows can more easily report the news by being inside the beltway and close to the action.  The reporters are on their beat.  I believe Morton Kondracke, Jack Germond, Robert Novak, and Fred Barnes were the original lineup and they all would've been working in D.C. and not in Chicago.  Dr. McLaughlin himself is from Rhode Island and ran for Senate there and worked for the Nixon Administration in the White House.   No one involved in the show has any ties to Chicago except for Clarence Page and I believe he spends most of his time in D.C. working for his Chicago newspaper employer. Ozmaweezer (talk) 16:33, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sponsors and Origin 

message: Both the Youtube and Twitter have been deleted. Website stops on the December 25th. What is going on? Tom Rogan also removed reference to the group on his twitter wall. Devilmanozzy (talk) 08:54, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Cancelled?