Is MSNBC being rewarded for having backed Obama? That's what Jim Pinkerton suggests. On this evening's Fox News Watch, the columnist and New America Foundation fellow cited the news that GE…
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November 15th, 2008 7:47 PM | Mark Finkelstein
November 15th, 2008 3:54 PM | Noel Sheppard
It appears Rosie O'Donnell has changed her tune about Sarah Palin being "Harriet Miers with a better ass" for the controversial comedienne now wants to have a beer with the Alaska governor.
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November 14th, 2008 6:08 AM | Tim Graham
In an interview with Victor Balta of Comcast.net, openly gay talk show host Ellen DeGeneres effusively praised Keith Olbermann's November 10 special comment denouncing the passage of Proposition 8…
November 13th, 2008 11:45 AM | Ken Shepherd
Imagine if you will, President Bush or Gov. Sarah Palin saying the following in a sit down interview or a Sunday morning show appearance:
We had a crisis, we kicked it down the can....…
November 12th, 2008 1:51 PM | Jeff Poor
It seems General Electric, the parent company of NBC Universal, has decided to make its “Green Week” a pre-holiday tradition. Another installment of the environmentally-conscious week of…
November 11th, 2008 5:57 PM | Tim Graham
On Monday night’s edition of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, radical MSNBC/Air America talk show host Rachel Maddow rehashed the antiquated argument that since conservatives do not believe…
November 10th, 2008 4:54 PM | Justin McCarthy
Stay tuned! With Democrats poised to control both the legislative and executive branches of the government, Keith Olbermann promises to be just as tough on them as they were on Bush and the…
November 6th, 2008 4:41 PM | Tim Graham
Just after MSNBC declared an Obama victory in the 11pm hour Eastern time on Tuesday night, the liberal network's tributes to the history (and the defeat of prejudice and the "right wing") flowed…
November 6th, 2008 3:54 PM | Brent Baker
Catching up with Newsweek's Howard Fineman on Wednesday's Countdown, he came across as a parody of an in-the-tank for Barack Obama journalist as he gauzily proclaimed: “Obama's changing everything as…
November 5th, 2008 9:21 PM | Mark Finkelstein
If Keith Olbermann is going to engage in violent fantasies about Sarah Palin, can't he at least come up with some original material? On tonight's Countdown, Olbermann drooled at the prospect of…
November 5th, 2008 12:05 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Sure, there was the little matter of a presidential race to be settled. But tuning into MSNBC this evening, there was also the suspense of seeing whether another spat would break out between…
November 4th, 2008 5:37 PM | Mark Finkelstein
It's taken them awhile, but good to see that MSNBC has now seamlessly integrated its own promotional advertising with that of the Obama campaign.An MSNBC promo that just aired, touting the network…
November 4th, 2008 12:38 PM | Paul Detrick
An Obama victory could boost conservative talk show hosts according to CNBC's "Squawk Box" this election day. The show was more skeptical over the future of left-wing talk. Always with the…
November 4th, 2008 12:05 PM | Paul Detrick
An Obama victory could boost conservative talk show hosts according to CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on election day. The show was more skeptical over the future of left-wing talk.
“Who is…
November 3rd, 2008 5:54 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and "News Live" on Sunday and Monday repeatedly played clips from Sen. John McCain's appearance on the November 1 edition of "Saturday Night Live" for a combined total of 11…
November 2nd, 2008 11:11 AM | NB Staff
Joe Concha's Pigskins and Politics follows:
Pigskins and Politics: Week 9
The NFL salary cap, which also serves as the cornerstone of Obama's economic policy in terms of redistribution…
November 2nd, 2008 9:50 AM | Noel Sheppard
"Saturday Night Live" absolutely skewered MSNBC's Keith Olbermann last night accurately depicting the "Countdown" host as a pompous, dishonest buffoon who regularly takes things completely out of…
October 31st, 2008 11:42 PM | Tom Blumer
Busybody Keith Olbermann couldn't wait to see how Saturday Night Live was going to portray him. So, says Politico.com's Michael Calderone, he apparently breached the show's (I thought) tight…
October 31st, 2008 4:49 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Thursday’s Countdown show on MSNBC, New York Times columnist Frank Rich charged that it looks "morally bad" and "idiotic" that Republicans have not elected a black candidate to federal office…
October 30th, 2008 2:15 PM | Rich Noyes
As longtime NewsBusters readers are painfully aware, the supposedly objective news media have showered Barack Obama with fawning press coverage throughout his campaign for the White House. (That,…
October 29th, 2008 9:43 PM | Brent Baker
Chris Matthews came aboard the shortened Countdown after MSNBC, unlike FNC and CNN, aired the Obama campaign's half-hour infomercial on Wednesday night, and oozed over how “it was romance. It was…
October 29th, 2008 6:45 PM | Mark Finkelstein
O beautiful for spacious skies,For amber waves of grain,For purple mountain majestiesAbove the fruited plain!America! America!God shed his grace on thee.
Has Chris Matthews heard America the…
October 29th, 2008 3:20 PM | Jeff Poor
What do you get when you combine critique from a left-wing storefront and an off-base conclusion with a dose of overbearing hyperbole? A three-minute segment on MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith…
October 29th, 2008 7:04 AM | Tim Graham
We missed one spot where NBC anchorman Brian Williams whined about having to wait 55 days for an interview with Sarah Palin, an October 22 appearance on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show. When Maddow…
October 28th, 2008 10:42 PM | Brent Bozell
The election results aren’t in yet, but there is one set of surveys with an unmistakeable conclusion. Everyone should be forced to admit that the publicists formerly known as the "news" media have…