'Honor of Our Lifetimes' for All Left-Wing MSNBC Anchor Team
Abandoning any pretense of balance, MSNBC's Inauguration coverage will be quad-anchored by four left-wingers: the network's three night time hosts -- Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow -- plus regular analyst Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post. Plugging the team at the end of the 7 PM EST Hardball on Monday night, Matthews trumpeted how “this is one of the great opportunities…
Olbermann Calls for Prosecution of Bush, Invokes Nazis and Slavery
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered his latest "Special Comment," in which he called on President-elect Barack Obama to prosecute President Bush and administration members on a charge of torturing prisoners, and invoked extreme examples such as slavery leading to the Civil War, and the handling of Germany after World War I leading to the rise of Nazism and World War…
Maddow Bashes Fox News Then Admits Never Seeing One FNC Program
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow bashed competitor Fox News at a Television Critics Association gathering Thursday before she told a small group of reporters she's "never seen a show on Fox at any time ever.” I kid you not.Must be quite a talent to have strong opinions about something you've never actually experienced firsthand, dontcha think? Such was reported by The Hollywood Reporter's James Hibberd…
MSNBC Smears Cuban-Americans in Weekend At Bernie's/Fidel Report
Is the Cuban government pulling off a Weekend At Bernie's scenario with a deceased Fidel Castro in the role of Bernie? That is the rumor floating around South Florida. MSNBC has reported on this possibility but in doing so they have smeared Cuban Americans with a complete lie which WBPF-TV where they got the report eventually corrected (emphasis mine). WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Fidel Castro hasn't…
O’Reilly Slams NYTimes and NBC News for 'Disgusting Display of Propa
On Wednesday’s The O’Reilly Factor, during the show’s "Talking Points Memo," FNC host Bill O’Reilly slammed the New York Times and NBC News, presumably referring to MSNBC hosts like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow, accusing them of having "damaged their own country in a disgusting display of propaganda and outright lies" by "convincing the world that the USA is a nation of torture, a country…
Time TV Writer (and Obama Voter) Scorns MSNBC for 'Blatantly Triumphal
Time TV writer and blogger James Poniewozik raised eyebrows when he reported that although he voted for Barack Obama, MSNBC's gleeful Obama coverage makes him sympathetic to Americans whose legs are not so thrilled. He disdained their "blatantly triumphalist" promos as worse than Fox News, and suggested MSNBC is wildly inconsistent for first suggesting that Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann aren…
MSNBC, Starbucks Brew Up Obama Watching Parties
Are you a latte liberal who can't make the pilgrimage to D.C. for the Obama inauguration? Or do you think that if you did, you'd in the January chill without your mid-day brew? Well, MSNBC is looking out for you!The Obama leg-thrill network has teamed up with Starbucks Coffee to open more than 600 java joint locations in New York City, Seattle, and San Francisco.Not into coffee? MSNBC also has…
Maddow Blames Bush for Destruction of New Orleans and WTC
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow used the occasion of President George W. Bush's final address to suggest that he was to blame for the destruction of New Orleans as well as the felling of the World Trade Center.In her Thursday program after the President's farewell to the nation, with a photograph of Bush in the right of the screen that included the disgusting caption "Goodbye, Good Riddance," Maddow…
MSNBC to Air Obama Inauguration in Movie Theaters
Yesterday your humble correspondent chronicled how Comcast is airing an all Obama all the time channel up through the inauguration to satisfy those you with the need to worship Barack Obama non-stop. Well, now MSNBC has gone above and beyond the call of duty in Obama glorification. According to Paul J. Gough of the Hollywood Reporter, that cable channel is making it possible for folks not…
'Hannity' Premiere Beats King and Maddow Combined
Don't listen to folks in the media claiming conservatism is either dead or dying, for on Monday night the premiere of Fox News's "Hannity" attracted more viewers than CNN's "Larry King Live" and MSNBC's "Rachel Maddow Show" combined.And, in the critical demographic of folks aged 25-54, host Sean Hannity, now flying solo without longtime co-host Alan Colmes, bested his liberal competition by wide…
