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Hours after it was announced that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann was suspended indefinitely for violating NBC's rules concerning campaign contributions, his buddy Rachel Maddow came to his defense by pointing numerous fingers at Fox News personalities that have made their own political donations. In fact, she concluded the show bearing her name Friday evening with a seven minute segment excoriating…

It's strange how this "mandate" thing works, at least at the Associated Press. In Ohio, Republican John Kasich defeated incumbent Democratic Governor Ted Strickland on Tuesday with a victory margin of about 2.5%, or almost 100,000 votes. Strickland is the first incumbent Buckeye State governor to lose a reelection bid since Democrat John Gilligan lost to Republican Jim Rhodes in 1974. In that…

For the second time in two weeks, a devout liberal exposed just how little Bill Maher actually knows about politics. When the "Real Time" host arrogantly told his guests that people voted for Republicans this past Tuesday because President Obama "didn't back the public option" during the healthcare reform debate, Time's Fareed Zakaria marvelously informed the comedian just how wrong he was (…

Are you an elected Democrat?  Someone who managed to survive the whacking this week, but is still looking forward to early retirement beginning in 2012?  We've got the perfect political consulting firm for you: Grayson-Uygur . . . Sitting in for Ed Schultz this evening, Cenk Uygur embraced Dem loser Alan Grayson's hyper-confrontional campaigning style, while adding a suggestion all his…

If you needed any more proof of liberal media bias, you got a perfect example on Friday's "Hardball." A few minutes after host Chris Matthews excoriated conservatives for criticizing Barack Obama for spending so much money on his upcoming trip to India, the MSNBCer, with a big smile on his face, launched into a two-minute attack on former President George W. Bush (video follows with…

Worked into a tizzy over conservative radio talk show hosts and a Republican congresswoman complaining about the reported cost of President Obama's state visit to India, MSNBC's Chris Matthews today suggested racial animus -- against President Obama and the country of India -- played a role in the criticism. Yet at the same time Matthews put down Indian journalists by suggesting their reporting…

MSNBC's "Jansing & Co." zoomed in on rifts developing within the Republican House majority Friday morning – but ignored a growing spat between Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats who don't want her to continue as the party's leader in the House. With the headline "GOP Civil War?" anchor Chris Jansing explored the conflict between upstart Tea Party Republicans and the establishment. Rep.…

During her 1PM ET show on MSNBC on Friday, host Andrea Mitchell decried President Obama showing willingness to extend all the Bush tax cuts: "We got the big hint from Robert Gibbs yesterday that that is now on the table as far as the President's concerned. How does extending tax cuts for the very – the wealthy, the millionaires, how does that help the unemployed?" Mitchell directed that…

On Thursday, conservative talk-radio host Mark Levin asked his listeners to call the office of Sen. John Cornyn (who leads the National Republican Senatorial Committee)  and ask "why he is not sending money and lawyers to Alaska to help Joe Miller in the counting of write-in votes,” and insisted  "The test for the NRSC is what it does for Joe Miller in Alaska — this is the key fight.” In…

  So true to character, Maureen Dowd weighed in on the election, and got it wrong. See, she believes the vote wasn’t about Obama, it was about gullible voters.

Editor's Note: MRC President Brent Bozell issued the following statement in reaction to news that MSNBC had suspended Countdown host Keith Olbermann "indefinitely" for donating to three Democratic candidates in violation of NBC's policy. In October, Olbermann had blasted political donations from Fox News owner News Corp, slamming Fox as "a media outlet that has now put its money where everybody…

"Did Hispanics Save Harry Reid?" Newsweek's Arian Campo-Flores asked in a November 3 The Gaggle blog post. Campo-Flores answered in the affirmative,  noting that Reid enjoyed anywhere from 68 to 90 percent support from Hispanic voters, depending on the exit polling model: According to election-eve polling and analysis by Latino Decisions, a surveying firm, Hispanics chose Reid over Angle…

For the record and public amusement, we have the video of Keith Olbermann's October 7 grandstanding on the need for national legislation to restrain a "national cable-news outlet" for donating to federal candidates. Two of his questions to Congressman Jim Clyburn now look even stranger in the light of Olbermann's donations. OLBERMANN:  What is the Democratic strategy, the political strategy,…

Updates abound. Check below the fold for much, much more. MSNBC suspended Keith Olbermann indefinitely today after news broke that he had given the maximum allowable contribution to three Democrats without disclosing it to his viewers. CBS News reported on the suspension about 20 minutes ago, with a more detailed statement from MSNBC brass: "I became aware of Keith's political…