Can you imagine a famous, former-President Clinton supporting, liberal Hollywood producer calling MSNBC "completely out of control" and saying she'd "prefer a lunch date with right-leaning Fox News star Sean Hannity over left-leaning MSNBC star Keith Olbermann?"
Well, as amazing as it might seem, that's what happened at a luncheon in Beverly Hills on Monday where one of America's most well-known liberal television producers, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason of "Designing Women" fame, tore into the journalistic embarrassment known as MSNBC.
As Reuters reported, Thomason asked attendees to "stop the demonizing" as she surprisingly claimed "Democrats have been worse than Republicans as far as personal attacks on candidates are concerned" (emphasis added, h/t NBer zachlind):
In a room full of television industry executives, no one seemed inclined to defend MSNBC on Monday for what some were calling its lopsidedly liberal coverage of the presidential election.
The cable news channel is "completely out of control," said writer-producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, a self-proclaimed liberal Democrat.
She added that she would prefer a lunch date with right-leaning Fox News star Sean Hannity over left-leaning MSNBC star Keith Olbermann.
Olbermann was criticized by many who attended Monday's luncheon sponsored by the Caucus for Producers, Writers & Directors at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The event was dubbed "Hollywood, America and Election '08."
Bloodworth-Thomason and others seemed especially critical of the way MSNBC -- and other media -- has attacked Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin while demeaning her supporters.
"We should stop the demonizing," she said, adding that Democrats have been worse than Republicans as far as personal attacks on candidates are concerned. "It diminishes us," she said of her fellow Democrats.
Bloodworth-Thomason even suggested a defense of Palin and her supporters should be written into TV programing, just as she went out of her way to portray Southern women as smart in her hit TV show "Designing Women."
Imagine that.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters. Follow him at Facebook and Twitter.
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Has the MSM bubble burst?
October 28, 2008 - 09:14 ET by goldenthroatThis is interesting. The Bible warns that a house divided against itself will not stand. Has the MSM finally gotten fed up with their own?
My question is: where were these left-coast, bleeding-heart, "do as I say, not as I do" liberal voices when all of this was coming down the pike in the first place? Apparently, they have a much higher tolerance for their own.
"Don't crush that dwarf! Hand me the pliers!" - Firesign Theatre
I'll put $500 on this
October 28, 2008 - 09:29 ET by SickofLibsWORST: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason
Oh, yeah, sure now, with a
October 28, 2008 - 10:05 ET by Chris NormanOh, yeah, sure now, with a week to go...
Still, I must salute Ms. Thomason for finally recognizing a creep when she sees one.
McNotObama '08
All this coverage is like
October 28, 2008 - 10:40 ET by TangoUniformAll this coverage is like an "in the tank" basketball ref. When the game is in doubt the foul calls come fast and furious for his team. When the game is out of reach there will be lots of makeup calls. So in the end, the stats for calls will look even.
The MSM in this next week will begin to try to rehabilitate itself, to some degree. So after January, they will show that their critisizism in the end was equal.
The MSM has become a trough of slobbering pigs who have no journalistic ethics. Poor Hillary. Now she knows what it must be like to be a Republican.
Well put
October 28, 2008 - 11:30 ET by owlpelletsTU,
My sentiments exactly. The msm MUST be held accountable for what they have done. After the election watch the rats diving from the sinking ship try and cash in with book deals explaining the corruption of our election process. I will refuse to buy or read anything written by these skanks after-the-fact. Right now, 90 of my news comes from NB, Hot Air, and am radio. That is pretty much all I need.
I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
Wait a minute
October 28, 2008 - 11:49 ET by Secret ConservativeSo now they're ADMITTING they write their political opinions into the plotlines of their shows??? I thought all these Hollywood writers and producers insisted their shows are completely fair and balanced.
Bloodworth-Thomason must be a PUMA, still PO'd because the candidate is Barack instead of Hillary.
Someone should ask Ms.
October 28, 2008 - 12:07 ET by maggieqpublicSomeone should ask Ms. Bloodworth-Thomason how she feels about the demonization of Juanita Broadrick, Kathleen Willey, Jennifer Flowers, Paula Jones….