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Email-gate: MSNBC-Politico Focus on Possible Negatives . . . For Palin
One or more people hack Sarah Palin's email account and publish her private correspondence on the web. So MSNBC and Politico naturally want to know if. . . Palin did anything wrong and whether there might be anything embarrassing to her in the purloined e-letters. Discussion of possible negative implications for Barack Obama? Zilch.Talk about blaming the victim. Norah O'Donnell, subbing for…
CBS: Financial Crisis A ‘Game-Changer,’ Obama ‘Surge’ in Polls
At the top of Thursday’s CBS Early Show, co-host Julie Chen teased an upcoming segment on how the Wall Street financial crisis is affecting the presidential race: "Game-changer, as Wall Street falters, Barack Obama surges ahead in our latest CBS News poll." During the segment, correspondent Chip Reid declared: "...the new CBS News/New York Times poll suggests that momentum has switched back to…
NBC CEO: 'Incredibly Comfortable' With Olbermann's 'Tremendous Emergen
On Tuesday, Jeff Bercovici of Portfolio.com buttonholed NBC President and CEO Jeff Zucker at a Portfolio panel discussion about media mergers and acquisitions, asking "if he thought the increasing identification of MSNBC with liberal politics was a good thing for the network's business prospects." Zucker sounded like a satisfied liberal: The fact is MSNBC in the last 12 months has been the…
ABC's Snow to Biden: Why Aren't You 'Further Ahead In the Polls
"Good Morning America" reporter Kate Snow on Thursday nervously quizzed Senator Joe Biden as to why the Democratic presidential ticket isn't further ahead. In contrast, co-host Diane Sawyer grilled John McCain on abortion and overturning Roe V. Wade when he appeared on Wednesday's program. Snow skipped that particular issue while talking to Biden. Instead, she fussed, "He [Barack Obama] was with…
Chris Matthews Blames Republicans for Banking Crisis
MSNBC 'Hardball' host attacks congressman, calls Bush administration handling of crisis a 'Katrina moment.'
Open Thread
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: what would you do to solve the current financial crisis?It's easy to point fingers at greedy bankers and Wall Streeters, as well as accuse Congress and the White House for the problems we face in the financial services industry. BUT, it's more difficult to offer solutions.Now's your chance.
Olbermann Uses False Information From Daily Kos To Smear Palin
After apparently taking erroneous information from the far-left-leaning website ThinkProgress on Tuesday to falsely accuse Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin of slashing her state's Special Olympics budget, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Wednesday called the governor a liar in a rant with potential ties to a Daily Kos posting hours earlier.During his truly tasteless "Bushed" segment,…
Cafeteria Journalism: NYT Suggests Pro-Choice Democrats Are Church-Fri
New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick reported on Tuesday that more Catholic Democrats and Hillary voters he studied in Scranton, Pennsylvania -- much touted as the scene of the Irish-Catholic upbringing of Joe Biden -- were leaning McCain after Catholic Democrats like Biden and Nancy Pelosi have been scolded by Catholic bishops for their proclamations about abortion on television. But…
Oops! Nets Wrong On Warming; Arctic Ice Still There
Wrong again! It must stink being a network global warming alarmist. They just can't seem to get their stories straight. It's only been a couple months when the networks were screaming about Arctic ice disappearing this summer. And, no surprise, they were entirely wrong. By 1.74 million square miles.As Maxwell Smart used to say: "Missed it by that much."Less than three months ago, NBC's Anne…
