April 10th, 2011

Mark Cuban on CNN’s Reliable Sources

Highlighted excerpts of CNN’s Reliable Sources, hosted by Howard Kurtz, are available after the jump. A full transcript of the program can be found here.

HIGHLIGHTS

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban on deliberately provoking a $25,000 NBA fine by tweeting:

“I did it because it would jack up the number of Twitter followers that I had.”

EMBEDDABLE VIDEO: Mark Cuban’s $25,000 tweet

EMBEDDABLE VIDEO: Mark Cuban vs. sports bloggers

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Radio host Bill Press on Glenn Beck leaving Fox News:

“I think he had this messianic complex.  I really think he started to take himself too seriously.”

EMBEDDABLE VIDEO: Does Beck need Fox or does Fox need him?

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Politico’s Julie Mason on the threatened government shutdown:

“Every veteran journalist in Washington knew exactly how this was going to turn out.  We were joking about it.”