Does MSNBC Have Double Standards for Inappropriate Political Remarks?

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kinda

February 8, 2008 - 20:03 ET by botg

obvious

Supreme Court,  National Security,  Borders,  Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.

Another button

February 8, 2008 - 20:14 ET by ThisnThat

Yeah, the vote options should have been:

o Yes

o No

o Duh!

___________________________________ 

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A no brainer

February 8, 2008 - 20:34 ET by kg

A no brainer

Of course they do...what's

February 8, 2008 - 20:06 ET by bigtimer

Of course they do...what's the first clue?

..

February 8, 2008 - 20:13 ET by dervish

Wow. I've never seen a unanimous poll answer before (66 votes at this point).

One "Undecided" vote now -

February 8, 2008 - 20:21 ET by Chris Norman

One "Undecided" vote now - must be Balboa.

Or

February 10, 2008 - 08:47 ET by sentforth5

Maybe Leon?

It would be great if Fox

February 9, 2008 - 01:28 ET by kg

It would be great if Fox News got wind of this poll and did a brief story with the graph. Way too funny.

Good idea-

February 9, 2008 - 11:07 ET by dervish

I just put the link in the "You report" file on their website. We'll see what happens.

Exhibit A: Keith Olbermann

February 8, 2008 - 20:15 ET by Matthew Sheffield

A short excerpt from his long history of offensive remarks:

 

Matthew.... Thank

February 8, 2008 - 20:18 ET by bigtimer

Matthew....

Thank you.

Some of us have very long memories too...all of this is rich. 

However, NONE

February 9, 2008 - 00:13 ET by Cape Conservative

of these warranted even a slap on the wrist, much less demands of an apology or being kept off the air!!!  Bias???????????????????

Most of those comments

February 9, 2008 - 00:23 ET by balboa

Most of those comments aren't that bad, certainly not worth suspension. Neither was Shuster's comment.

100% yes WOW ; The next 4 years we are going to see apologies

February 8, 2008 - 20:18 ET by upcountrywater

like never before... I'm sooo sorrie, REALLY I AM

Apologies as in the movie "A Fish Called Wanda"

I'M SO FU**ING SORRIE..failing about the room.

It's JUST starting, and it will continue, on and on...

 

iranian uranium; iranian uranium, inanian uranium..

 

4 (unthinkable) H-bombs, NOW THAT'S SOME CHANGE

Keep the change Bob. h/t Sam Peckinpah

Could we change the headline,

February 8, 2008 - 20:30 ET by FastEd

to "Does MSM(Lsm) Have a Double Standard??"

There is no sense in being stupid, if you can't prove it! - my dad V

Two no votes now. A couple

February 8, 2008 - 20:51 ET by Chris Norman

Three no votes now. A few people's mouses must've slipped. I can't believe anyone could be so stupid and obtuse, otherwise.

Well Chris...razey is back,

February 8, 2008 - 21:00 ET by bigtimer

Well Chris...razey is back, then there is Sy, I haven't seen Leon today, but I have seen a couple others that I think would vote that way if ya know what I mean....lol.

Oh yeah, and Leon too. Okay,

February 8, 2008 - 21:10 ET by Chris Norman

Oh yeah, and Leon too. Okay, I take my comment back. :)

Undecided, can't make a decision votes.

February 8, 2008 - 21:02 ET by Scrapiron

"One Undecided vote now - must be Balboa"  Na, B Hussein Obama has slipped on here and voted. He holds the record for making 'non decisions' by voting 'here' so many time in his short political career.

I'd say....

February 8, 2008 - 21:03 ET by Prester John

....the Ayes have it.

MSNBC is pure as the driven snow job

February 8, 2008 - 21:33 ET by Lame Cherry

Ah brilliant question Mr. S........as the key word is inappropriate and we all know that it is appropriate to call Coulter a whore and nazi when a liberal like Shuster does it.

So there is no double standard, he just can not get caught on air doing it to lolita Chelsea because that is how the liberals in the media all refer to women as whores off camera.
It is why they never blink about gangsta and their "hos".

It is how they all think and talk of women.

 

 

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Well...

February 8, 2008 - 21:52 ET by AtillaKahuna

I had to vote "yes" since there wasn't a choice for:

"No $hit Sherlock, where'd you get your first clue?"

Sorry for the profanities....

Kahuna

There are persons...who see not the full extent of the evil which threatens them; they solace themselves with hopes that the enemy...will be merciful.

Thomas Paine, Dec. 23, 1776

Oh please, Shuster getting

February 8, 2008 - 23:00 ET by dscott

Oh please, Shuster getting his fingers wrapped by MSNBC is a two-fer, it appeases the Clintons while at the same time gives Shuster cover to criticize Obama at the appropriate time.    Lord Sidious / Darth Vader 2008  Long Live the Empire!  Come to the Dark Side, it is your Destiny.

The Fineman comment re:

February 8, 2008 - 23:28 ET by Norto

The Fineman comment re: Romney?

No No No

February 9, 2008 - 00:15 ET by Cape Conservative

Romney is a Republican!!!!  Doesn't count!

MSNBC?

February 9, 2008 - 00:20 ET by candance

I didn't know they had any standards, much less double standards.

This whole thing with Shuster wasn't done for integrity. I guarantee someone in the DNC made a phone call and demanded it.

Shuster was tired of being seen as the third wheel to Joe and Mika, so he wanted to say something cool and he took it too far.

"Does MSNBC Have Double

February 9, 2008 - 01:46 ET by HumanEvents

"Does MSNBC Have Double Standards for Inappropriate Political Remarks?"

This question would be another good one along the lines of "Is the Pope Catholic"? and "Does a bear **** in the woods?"  :)

 Also, this part of the question alone --> "Does MSNBC Have Double Standards" is enough to qualify as a no-brainer yes answer.

MSNBC double standards

February 9, 2008 - 01:47 ET by PrairieSky

2% no and 1% undecided...Who ARE these people???

Must be the trolls that

February 9, 2008 - 02:04 ET by HumanEvents

Must be the trolls that come here.

You mean ...

February 9, 2008 - 05:15 ET by thoridfly

... the cockroaches, liberals, and Democrats?

 

My Guess...

February 9, 2008 - 09:54 ET by capav

Shuster and Olbermann.  After all, Morning Joe talks about this site, so I'm sure it's checked on a regular basis.

Shuster oozes...

February 9, 2008 - 07:09 ET by Parker1227

...with self-righteous Leftist intolerance and contempt. He's an Olbermann wanna-be. Remember the sleazy trap he set for Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn - trying to embarrass her because she couldn't name of the last soldier from her district killed in Iraq?

Objective reporter?

He brings shame to the profession.

 

Well, yeah --

February 9, 2008 - 11:00 ET by dervish

"He brings shame to the profession."

But when has that ever disqualified anyone at MSNBC?

David Shuster Suspension

February 9, 2008 - 12:05 ET by Marty Davis

 Marty's Media Manifesto

Twelve years ago two upstart cable TV networks manifested in the cosmic etherland. Fox News and MSNBC joining "serious news" CNN. What has happened since is nothing short of a journalistic breakdown.

The decline and fall of American television news standards was chronicled by Paddy Chayefsky in his prescient script for the 1976 movie "Network" directed by Sidney Lumet. The greedy, corrupt, amoral TV network sacrificed news anchor Howard "I'm Mad As Hell" Beale to the Gods Of Ratings by letting the "Mad Prophet Of The Airwaves" say and do anything on the air.

It took two years for the new cable TV networks to start slip slidin' away. The seminal (no pun intended) event was the 1998 Clinton/Lewinsky sex scandal. The wall-to-wall news coverage of the 1994 O.J. Simpson slow speed freeway police pursuit and the subsequent murder trial provided a glimmer of what was to come.

With the suspension of MSNBC's David Shuster for his on-air Chelsea Clinton comments, it behooves the TV news industry to conduct an inventory of standards and practices.

To invoke a Clintonesque phrase: It's time to end "the politics of personal destruction." Journalism has been jettisoned in pursuit of ratings.

It is time to reign in the likes of Fox News Bill O'Reilly, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews and rewrite the attendant philosphy, practices, and standards banning no-holds-barred slander.

It is time to call a truce between warring cable TV networks, and show hosts. New ground rules must be enacted to set clear boundaries governing appropriate and inappropriate on-air behavior, opinion and analysis.

The David Shuster incident is opening the door for network news management to collectively agree that enough is enough and declare a truce to restore television news to the level of credibility the networks - and viewers - deserve. To invoke a diplomatic term: peaceful coexistence.

Let us embrace the "civil" in civilization.


 

 

 

Marty Davis 

http://www.chickaboomer.blogspot.com/ 

That's why

February 9, 2008 - 11:18 ET by Jimmybob

That's why I have totally blocked any NBC channel from my TV. Won't watch it. Even if football is on. Besides, I have the NFL channel so I won't be needing it next year.

Voters

February 9, 2008 - 14:30 ET by Chaitealover

At this time, 10:26 am PT, I see 43 "noes" and 15 "undecideds," but not one comment explaining those votes. Can only be liberal trolls, who wouldn't recognize a remark that insults conservatives if it bit them on the a**

Chai

“...Bury me on my face,” said Diogenes; and when he was asked why, he replied, “Because in a little while everything will be turned upside down.”

All I read was "Does the

February 9, 2008 - 19:06 ET by wiwf

All I read was "Does MSNBC have double standards..." That's all I need to read to vote yes.

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