James Lee, the crazed environmentalist that took hostages at Discovery Channel's Maryland headquarters only to be shot and killed by police Wednesday, was "awakened" by Nobel Laureate Al Gore's…
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September 2nd, 2010 9:59 AM | Noel Sheppard
September 2nd, 2010 8:54 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday’s Countdown show, responding to conservatives who wanted President Obama to give more credit to President Bush for apparent successes in Iraq, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann sarcastically…
September 2nd, 2010 7:25 AM | Melissa Clouthier
One failure of logic is to generalize from the anecdotal to the whole. Conservatives, who know rules of logic -- we have Thomas Sowell after all (see what I did there?) -- understand this. So,…
September 1st, 2010 11:15 PM | Noel Sheppard
Keith Olbermann on Wednesday cherry-picked an Associated Press article in order to accuse former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson (R) of attacking Vietnam veterans.
For some background, AP's Mike…
September 1st, 2010 5:05 PM | Noel Sheppard
Glenn Beck on Wednesday blasted MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell for dismissing the size of the crowd at Saturday's "Restoring Honor" rally as "just the flow through traffic of tourists."
On…
September 1st, 2010 2:29 PM | Jeff Poor
Jan. 20, 2009, was supposed to be the start of a new post-partisan political climate in Washington. To some journalists, that day was confirmation that a message had been sent that the people’s…
September 1st, 2010 7:52 AM | Mark Finkelstein
NBC's Richard Engel has done some good reporting from Iraq. But scratch the reporter's surface, and you find a political partisan eager to echo the anti-Bush party line. Witness his exchange…
August 31st, 2010 9:38 PM | Brent Baker
President Barack Obama's decision to include, in his Tuesday night address from the Oval Office on the end to the “combat mission” in Iraq, a sentence respectful toward former President George W.…
August 31st, 2010 1:16 PM | Brad Wilmouth
While MSNBC host Keith Olbermann was recently dismissive of conservatives for highlighting radical Islam’s persecution of homosexuals in some countries, the Countdown host also has a history of…
August 31st, 2010 11:20 AM | Brad Wilmouth
Appearing as a guest on Friday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, during a discussion of conservative talker Glenn Beck’s "Restoring Honor" rally, Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson dismissed Dr.…
August 28th, 2010 1:52 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann either showed his ignorance of conservative ideology, or he made his latest deliberate distortion to attack conservatives as he suggested…
August 27th, 2010 2:32 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Thursday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tied together Republican opposition to same-sex marriage, the Ground Zero mosque, and illegal immigration, as he charged that "the…
August 27th, 2010 7:53 AM | Mark Finkelstein
When Joe Scarborough wondered out loud "how many times can you set your hair on fire?" before viewers stop being shocked, you might have thought he was talking about Keith Olbermann, the man whose…
August 26th, 2010 6:30 PM | Lachlan Markay
UPDATE (7:05 PM): Color of Change's executive director responds. See his response, and my response to his response, below the fold.
Reading through material from the "Turn Off…
August 26th, 2010 10:34 AM | Lachlan Markay
UPDATE (11:26 AM): Was Joe Scarborough mocking Schultz on air the day after his outburst?
Ed Schultz may have finally lost it. He has reportedly been neglected by MSNBC brass. The…
August 26th, 2010 7:51 AM | Jeff Poor
It was a performance that even liberal bomb-thrower Keith Olbermann said was over the top immediately after the fact - the May 2009 White House Correspondents' Dinner, which Wanda Sykes took some…
August 25th, 2010 10:13 PM | Noel Sheppard
Former New York Governor George Pataki on Wednesday got into a heated discussion with Chris Matthews over the Ground Zero mosque and the Republican opposition to it.
In the middle of his…
August 24th, 2010 9:41 PM | Jeff Poor
It is vile bitterness put on display for America every night of the week - even though not as many people tune in as they do to his competitor. But, still Keith Olbermann seems to obsess over the…
August 21st, 2010 11:52 AM | Noel Sheppard
Keith Olbermann on Friday evening once again stuck his foot in his mouth on national television when he bashed Ted Nugent for appearing at Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally next Saturday.
…August 20th, 2010 5:50 PM | Lachlan Markay
Let it never again be said that no line of attack is too low for Keith Olbermann.
On Tuesday, the MSNBC libtalker distanced himself from comments made the week prior about Fox News host Bill O'…
August 20th, 2010 5:35 PM | Kyle Drennen
During the 10 a.m. ET hour on MSNBC, anchor Chris Jansing spoke with Islamic scholar Hamza Yusuf Hanson about the Ground Zero Mosque controversy, who proclaimed: "I think there's a lot of fear....…
August 20th, 2010 4:09 PM | NB Staff
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All good things must come to an end, and so it is with Five for Five.
In our final…
August 19th, 2010 3:37 PM | Kyle Gillis
If the Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA) received a dollar every time someone in the media bashed Fox News, they’d never worry about fundraising again.
On the August 18 edition of ‘…
August 19th, 2010 8:10 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Gee, I wonder which network Joe had in mind . . . Joe Scarborough likes Haley Barbour. But he doesn't like the "optics" of the southern governor running for president against Barack Obama. …
August 18th, 2010 3:36 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann used a clip of U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Tim Osborn, stationed in Iraq, commenting on how he had previously felt that the war in Iraq "wasn’t…