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…
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August 28th, 2010 1:52 AM | Brad Wilmouth
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
Editor's Note: For the list of NewsBusters T-shirt contest winners, skip to the end of this post.
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…
August 17th, 2010 9:18 PM | Brent Bozell
It was deceptive. At a White House dinner with Muslims celebrating Ramadan, Barack Obama finally weighed in on the Ground Zero mosque controversy. Incredibly, he lectured Americans about the…
August 17th, 2010 7:26 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann delivered a "Special Comment" in which he invoked Nazi Germany and suggested that blocking construction of a mosque near Ground Zero could be…
August 13th, 2010 12:14 PM | Noel Sheppard
Keith Olbermann on Thursday cherry-picked an article by former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich to make a pathetic case that Republicans are targeting and blaming unemployed Americans for the…
August 13th, 2010 10:18 AM | Jeff Poor
Whenever Fox News host Glenn Beck raises the history of progressives and eugenics, or the possibility that eugenics is part of the motivation of a legitimate policy debate, the left-wing has a…
August 13th, 2010 12:00 AM | Jeff Poor
Whenever Fox News host Glenn Beck raises the history of progressives and eugenics, or the possibility that eugenics is part of the motivation of a legitimate policy debate, the left-wing has a…
August 12th, 2010 1:48 PM | Lachlan Markay
There's a phrase that has been conspicuously absent the media's coverage of the recent flap between White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and those he dubbed the "professional left": civil war. In…
August 12th, 2010 11:00 AM | Tim Graham
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann named MRC president Brent Bozell Wednesday's "Worst Person in the World" for my NewsBusters post on Jon Stewart's sneering attack on conservatives as supposedly being…
August 12th, 2010 9:35 AM | Julia A. Seymour
This is a historic year for the largest government program: Social Security, which turns 75 in just a few days. The program is also running a deficit for the first time since 1983, and ahead…
August 11th, 2010 5:04 PM | NB Staff
It may well be Dan Rather's finest hour. Make that his finest five seconds.
The disgraced former "Evening News" anchor apparently has a brief cameo in "Skyline," an alien invasion flick…
August 10th, 2010 2:23 AM | Noel Sheppard
Keith Olbermann on Monday revised history to praise former President Bill Clinton and bash former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
In the opening segment of MSNBC's "Countdown," the host railed…