After Five Weeks MSNBC's Matthews, O'Donnell, Schultz and Sharpton Still Haven't Reported Solyndra
It is now five weeks since the solar company Solyndra declared bankruptcy.
Despite the Obama administration lending this failed company $535 million dollars, and a growing scandal involving the White House, MSNBC's prime time hosts Chris Matthews, Lawrence O'Donnell, Ed Schultz, and Al Sharpton have yet to say one word on the subject.
Even ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked the president a question about this matter during his ABC News/Yahoo online interview Monday.
But the MSNBC prime time hosts, with the exception of Rachel Maddow who discussed Solyndra once, have thoroughly boycotted this story.
Exactly how do the heads of MSNBC and parent NBC condone such overt bias in their prime time programming?
Is this a "news network" or the president's propaganda arm?
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Noel, did you expect anything different?
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 10:20am.
I mean as much as I like to criticize them for this obvious omission it's really sad that they can even report on it even in the least with their usual spin. I guess we can take them being silent as a deafening sign of presumed guilt. However, if this somehow blows over or goes in their favor I for one will not be surprised if they revisit this issue as some sort of conspiracy by us conservatives.
This means that the Solyndra scandal is REALLY BAD
Submitted by needle on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:20am.
What this means is that there is no way to spin this issue without taking on collateral damage. So that is interesting.
Now that sunny weather is diminishing for the next several months; it looks as if the only "news" coming out of these "news" people will be bashing of Republicans, in a even-handed way (in other words, as many right jabs as left jabs), natch.
Of course, the economy could turn around, or a megaton of platinum and gold could fall out of the sky on government land in North Dakota. But I doubt it.
- Looking forward to the self-annihilation of the Manipulated Stories Machine.
It's obvious
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 10:33am.
They are positioned to shape opinion rather than inform.
Go down the list. Each have their own demographic to whom the Democrat leadership wishes to deliver a message.
I think they overdo the representation of red-nosed drunks, though.
The common thread among these enemies of our nation...
Submitted by Thalpy on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 10:36am.
The common thread among these enemies of our nation is that they are liars. After these many weeks should we expect them to experience some sort of epiphany or come to Jesus moment in their lives? Don't count on it. These people are not enemies of the state; they are truly our enemies and should be treated as such.
That's alright, they're names
Submitted by jessieH on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 10:37am.
That's alright, their names are on the list of treasonous media reporters.
And this is surprising?
Submitted by KyWriter on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 10:41am.
Useful idiots.
You want a real laugh, check out The Five on Fox.
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 10:50am.
The token liberal on the show is none other than Bob Beckel, Michael Moore's little brother.
The show keeps covering the Solyndra Scandal, but when they do Little Bobby refuses to participate. He does everything but hold his breath and lie on the floor kicking. I mean, I know 10 year old kids with more maturity than this lard ass.
Of course, he is a democrat political consultant who I believe started his career in the Jima Caata White House, so he obviously suffers from arrested emotional development. It is really a comedy show when he starts his antics. For the life of me, I don't know why one of the very attractive ladies on the show doesn't just beat the Shiite out of him on live TV.
What's even more puzzling is why Fox pays him, except that he is a prime example of what a bunch of complete idiotic communist morons make up today's Democrat Party.
Keep it up, Bubble Butt. You lose more votes for Bambi every time you open your mouth.
Fickle Beckel
Submitted by jon_torlin on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:09am.
There was a good example of that yesterday where Eric Rolling was wearing this goofy little hat with a bumper sticker that said something to the effect of "Are you better off now than you were 4 TRILLION dollars ago?" Drove Beckel NUTS!
And you're right, he'll be sitting there, even at one point seemingly dozing off and I gotta tell ya, I kinda feel sorry for the guy, he doesn't have a prayer when surrounded by Andrea, Dana, Greg, and Eric, he's severely outnumbered there and out-powered when it comes to the facts. Unlike George Will on the ABC show, it might be 4 liberals to 1 of him, but that's just about even odds right there and he still comes out ahead.
-Jon
They need to name the show "The Best View."
Submitted by Newsbubba on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:20am.
I'll continue to watch as long as the "quality" of the ladies on the show stays at the current level, and one of them continues to occupy the end chair at the table. As long as that is the case, this show will really have legs!
I can even put up with Michael Moore's little brother, Bobby, for that.
they have done nothing illegal, wrong, incorrect,
Submitted by alvin on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:10am.
The US Department of Energy (DOE) exercised proper oversight and due diligence in approving a $535 million loan guarantee to solar panel maker Solyndra, said a former senior official in the agency during the Clinton and Bush administrations who helped create its now-embattled loan guarantee program
“If you look at DOE, best I can determine they have done nothing illegal, wrong, incorrect,” said Walter Streight Howes, the first director of the DOE loan guarantee program under President George W. Bush.
As for the controversial March restructuring of Solyndra’s financing that Republicans have said may have violated the law, Howes said he probably would have done the same thing given what he knows
“It was probably a good gamble and it didn't put the government at a diminished position,” he said.
http://platts.com/PressReleases/2011/100311b/No
As usual alvin you miss the point...
Submitted by gmaniac1 on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:24am.
you saying that the government did no wrong is not different from someone assigning guilt. That is why they call it an investigation genius. Just because some high up government official said he would do the same thing doesn't make what this administration did an absolute.
Secondly, the premise of this particular blog entry is once again, for the children in the back row, liberal hypocrisy. Since this has turned into a major issue, as it should, all media outlets should be involved with reporting this as news. If this were Bush you could guarantee that this same people would make this part of their 24 hours news cycle.
Don't skirt the facts, alvin
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 1:06pm.
Whether any illegality is uncovered or not is not the issue. The Solyndra case is an example, at the very least, of Obama's poor executive judgment in 'investing' our tax dollars, with the strong possibility that he and his Energy Secretary overrode the halt placed by the Bush Administration (Jan 13, 2009) and the advice of Obama's own advisers, including Geithner and Summers. Secretary Chu even dismissed the advice of his own DoE personnel who were managing the program to pump more money into Solyndra after it had already defaulted on the $535 million guaranteed loan.
And Solyndra is but one example coming to light regarding the wildly poor 'investment' of taxpayer dollars into weak businesses of Democratic campaign donors. Yes, there is the stench of cronyism afoot, alvin.
The big lesson RE-LEARNED is that when government picks winners and losers in the commercial world, it tends to pick the losers, and that costs us $ billions.
AN UPDATE: . . . And the Energy Department was preparing to loan another $469 million to Solyndra despite its failing operations and despite the advice of both economic and political advisers looking out for the President.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/solyndra-e-mails-dept-of-energy-w...
So, can this Administration be entrusted with the stewardship of our national treasury? The answer is a definitive "No!" It is either incredibly incompetent, or incredibly corrupt, or possibly both.
Let's see who -- if anyone -- is held accountable for the Solyndra debacle. My guess is that Chu may throw himself under the bus.
Two Decades Ago There Would Be No Reporting
Submitted by Avitar on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:15am.
The stories that broke this year are the sort of things which were "spiked" for half a century in the United States media. People must understand history and that for much of the twentieth century the United States had no free press. Younger people some time think us old geezers are talking about press bias when we complain about how it was. We are not talking about bias though that was in every report.
We are talking about a country where the most important story in the country could be spiked and none of the citizens hear of it. When the United State defaulted on the Panama Canal debt is undercut the dollar and togeather with the social spending of the Great Society lit the fuse to the inflation of the nineteen-seventies. No more than one person in a hundred ever heard about the default at the time and the reporting of the debt ceiling debate made no refferance to the requirement the United States was under to pay the bonds in the Nineteen-Sixties in ounces of gold. Only Reagan and a few public figures spoke about it and then I have only heard recordings, I have nerver seen a report on his speaches mention that as one of the topics covered.
There are many other topics that the media would not mention and we are all profoundly greatful to News Busters and the other Internet sources together with talk radio and FOX news for end running the media blockade.
Deception
Submitted by aposematic on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 11:17am.
All the real news MSNBC deems fit to hide. No amount of truth or facts will sway MSNBC's talking heads from their hiding the deception that is Obuma's evil ways!
Simple explanation
Submitted by Mister Orange on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:00pm.
Matthews is still giddy over Obama's election.
O'Donnell, being Matthews' fill in, must follow his lead.
Schultz is as hard-core liberal as they come. So much so that his teleprompter doesn't even recognize negative comments concerning liberals.
Sharpton is black. Oh yes he is.
Well let's just hope
Submitted by hbnolikeee on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:30pm.
that after the responsible parties are fired and fined, the MSM will have something somewhere relevant about all this to report.
little Al...
Submitted by Rackie on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 12:36pm.
"say wuut?"
Slilence of the Slams
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 1:04pm.
What they are not saying is worth a thousand words. They cannot even defend it with their usual equivocation, because they know they can't make anything stick to Bush.
To more fully comprehend the Left, one must read “Leftism As Psychopathy” by John Ray, M.A., Ph.D. Caution, it might scare you a little bit.
http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
To be fair, Sharpton couldn't even pronounce 'solyndra'
Submitted by SickofLibs on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:20pm.
.
Which shows how truly dumb Sharpton is---
Submitted by matthewdean on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 7:11pm.
cuz he has a niece by that name. :o)
MD
MD....Sharpton may be dumb, but he is exceedingly bright
Submitted by Rush Fan on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 12:16am.
for a Liberal. ♥♥ :-) ♥♥
HA...HA...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 12:21am.
HA.
Jer
I forgot to add the caveat that my comment above excludes,
Submitted by Rush Fan on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 1:32am.
of course, my NewsBusters' buddy Jer, who is more a Blue Dog moderate than a full-blown liberal. ♥♥ :-) ♥♥
That's better, R F...you are now cleared to continue
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 10/06/2011 - 1:57am.
with the relentless and merciless pounding of Rev. AL. At your discretion.
Jer
Don't blame them
Submitted by dan iroticiv on Wed, 10/05/2011 - 2:35pm.
Don't blame MSNBC, they make no pretense anymore to be anything else than shills for this administration. However, I do blame conservatives/republicans who go on that silly station and don't scream solyndra at every question. I do blame republicans and conservatives who go on the big three morning network shows and don't ask about the double standard in reporting the wall street protest vs the tea party protest. For some reason, when republicans go on these shows they get defensive, and apologetic. Newsbusters does a good job in exposing the bias, but newsbusters needs to put pressure on the politicians to call out the bias on the show. Stop answering their stupid bias questions and call out the bias live and in color. The people are with them, stop being afraid of the media, and stop playing nice with these cowards.