After floundering around for almost a decade, the executives as MSNBC made a smart business decision to try and carve out a liberal/left audience. Niche-marketing works if you can find the right audience and match them with the right product.

But it's not a smart decision - or an ethical one - to continue to claim that Keith Olbermann is a news anchor or that Chris Matthews can somehow be an objective moderator of a Republican debate.

If Olbermann and Matthews want to be advocates for liberal positions, fine. But they have no business anchoring the news desk after a debate or moderating one either.

BTW, I understand that O'Reilly will be addressing Matthews' remarks re the "criminality" of the White House this evening.

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It is appalling that Msnbc still call themselves a news network. Credibility = 0

Chris Matthews? Wouldn't that be like Savage and Coulter moderating the Democrats' debates?

I agree that a news organization with an obvious partisan bias shouldn't host a debate with the party that they show bias toward. That is why the dems decided not to participate in the Fox debate.

Might as well go for the gold and let Code Pink moderate.

Wouldn't be much of a debate, but it would show them up for the single issue fools they are and totally discredit them beyond their current level.

To me the debates won't really start until the fields at least get cut in half, unless they are willing to spend multiple hours at debates now to get anything beyond a rehearsed soundbite.

The Republican candidates appear before a rabid Matthews but the Democratics are afraid of Fox.  What does that say about a future Commander-in-Chief?

The Republicans in this debate need to put themselves ALL UNITED on the  SAME reservation and simply say anytime Chris Matthews opens his mouth,

Co chair, we do not recognize the biased Mr. Matthews, so is there something you would care to lead in this debate?

Even Ron Paul could probably be GOP long enough not to have a Jeff Rense meltdown and start saying he agreed with Matthews.

This is a perfect opportunity to drive the debate, show liberal bias in what the GOP is up against and how literally looney tunes the left is as well as MSNBC in what it considers "fair".

Stop playing their game GOP and get on the same team in making the opposition THE THING YOU ARE RUNNING AGAINST instead of bashing each other......that is how you win this as Reagan said, "I PAID FOR THIS MICROPHONE!"

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Gee, here's a perfect opportunity to force a liberal sleazebag off the air. All the Republican candidates have to do is REFUSE TO BE MODERATED BY MATTHEWS. Sound too much like common sense? The stink that this would make would then allow Republicans to PLASTER THE INTERNET and EVERY INTERVIEW THEY GIVE, with some biased stupid liberal remark that Matthews made. In a week he'll be FIRED because the wealth of information would be just too much. This is how the democrats are going after YOU! As Sean Connery asked Kevin Costner in "The Untouchables", "WHAT ARE YE PREPARED TO DO?"'

Save you breath, I'll answer.. The feckless, useless, fake Christian ( Guiliani, McCain, Romney), cult belonging to( Romney), abortion supporting (Romney, Guiliani), HOMOSEXUAL PROTECTING ( Romney, Guiliani), will SAY NOTHING and DO NOTHING and show up like the stupid morons they are. When they FAIL to TAKE THIS MATTHEWS TURD OUT...You will understand why I resigned from the Republican Party and became an independant, after "Dubai" and Grandma Meyers.

Don't get your hopes up and have a nice day.