Some cable personalities have gone well beyond the role of mere interviewers in stoking political passions.
Conservative writers, radio hosts and cable personalities — emboldened by the president himself, who has called it a witch hunt — have repeatedly sought to discredit the inquiry, its investigators, the mainstream news accounts of it, and the lawmakers on Capitol Hill who are demanding more answers.
The Colbert Report was a Daily Show spin-off that parodied the conventions of television news broadcasting, particularly cable-personality political talk shows like The O'Reilly Factor and Glenn Beck.
Is it worth fighting for a world where a famous person can pound his pud to a basic cable TV personality and graphically describe his fantasy in the clear light of day?
Steve Rattner, a former Obama official and current cable news personality, has also been attacked by the president.
That year he published his first cookbook, the best-selling Emeril's New New Orleans Cooking, and Lagasse became a cable television personality, joining the Food Network.
Drag queens were in abundance, along with some boldface names: the fashion designer Michael Kors; the gossip columnist Michael Musto; the writer Lynn Yaeger Nickelson Woosterr, a vice president at J. C. Penney; and the cable television personality Robin Byrd.
If, as Tim Gunn, the cable television personality, pointed out, Nancy Pelosi can consistently find the sweet spot of feminine style — chic and tough and alluring and rarely in peril of veering into the dominatrix territory occupied some other highly placed political types — why must Hillary Clinton always end up looking like Bea Arthur in "Maude"?
A camera will be trained on a cable news personality scrolling through online escort ads, making for better B-roll than anything resembling journalism.
The foreign policy analyst and cable news personality has scoffed at the idea that an independent counsel would spend time looking into the matter, arguing that it would be crippling to the intelligence community and a waste of time.
