Joy Behar, who can not get the United States Constitution straight yet still claims to be smarter than the average American, considers talk show king Rush Limbaugh a "joke." On the September 18…
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September 18th, 2008 2:58 PM | Justin McCarthy
September 18th, 2008 1:18 PM | Tim Graham
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…
September 18th, 2008 12:08 PM | Jeff Poor
Like a steamroller, MSNBC host Chris Matthews ran over Rep. Eric Cantor, R-Va., in an interview about Sen. John McCain, the GOP and the nation’s economic problems.
The “…
September 18th, 2008 10:23 AM | Noel Sheppard
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'…
September 18th, 2008 7:59 AM | Mark Finkelstein
"Shovel your ratings" appears to be Morning Joe's subliminal message to Keith Olbermann today. With the latest ratings showing Rachel Maddow's new MSNBC show beating Olbermann's Countdown, the MJ…
September 17th, 2008 5:01 PM | Noel Sheppard
As NewsBusters previously reported, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann accused Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin Tuesday of cutting in half her state's funding for the Special Olympics.
Not only is this…
September 17th, 2008 12:10 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Tuesday’s Countdown show, Keith Olbermann referred to Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly as "inducers to violence" as the MSNBC host, during the show's "Worst Person" segment, attacked…
September 17th, 2008 10:35 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Kerry distorts, takes out of context, and mistakes all the time, but these are not central to his efforts to win. We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but…
September 17th, 2008 7:38 AM | Tim Graham
Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik argued on his blog at the Sun website on September 8 that MSNBC was "paying for its Olbermann sins." Zurawik wrote that while CNN was earning a reputation for…
September 16th, 2008 4:15 PM | Tim Graham
Now, an update on the Palin tanning-bed "scandal." On Countdown on Monday night, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann tried to sound the alarm of elitism on the Governor's personal tanning bed – it's like an…
September 15th, 2008 10:22 AM | P.J. Gladnick
It's been less than a month since Barack Obama has picked Joe Biden to be his running mate and already there are calls from liberals, made desperate by Obama's plunge in the polls, to replace…
September 15th, 2008 4:03 AM | Warner Todd Huston
You... yes, you reading this right now. McClatchy wants you to know you are mean to them, your mistrust of them is merely egged on by a sly political tactic, and you fall for it because you only…
September 14th, 2008 6:52 PM | Mark Finkelstein
How offensive was Donna Brazile's line about Jesus being a community organizer and Pontius Pilate a governor, uttered to make an invidious comparison between Barack Obama and Sarah Palin? Enough…
September 12th, 2008 5:22 PM | Jeff Poor
Call this the meeting of the minds - should it ever happen, but the host of CNN "Lou Dobbs Tonight" has a message for MSNBC's "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann.
Lou Dobbs, a self-described…
September 11th, 2008 10:09 AM | Rusty Weiss
Keith Olbermann is a man of little integrity. Yet from a journalistic aspect, he does exude an air of intelligence, and is a very well spoken, albeit lame, excuse for an anchor.
Olbermann, who…
September 10th, 2008 4:51 PM | Brent Bozell
The executive suite at MSNBC is the last hardened corner of America to concede that maybe Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews are nowhere close to the textbook definition of detached, "straight…
September 10th, 2008 3:38 PM | Brad Wilmouth
Tuesday's Countdown show on MSNBC showed a portion of Keith Olbermann's interview with Barack Obama in which the Countdown host ridiculously claimed that Obama was "just about 100 percent on the…
September 10th, 2008 10:02 AM | Brad Wilmouth
Monday night featured MSNBC hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow finding fault with Sarah Palin's religious beliefs and some of the teachings of her former church in Wasilla, Alaska, as the two…
September 9th, 2008 8:28 PM | Mark Finkelstein
As everyone knows, conservatives are a distinctly disagreeable bunch. Mean-spirited knuckle-draggers, pretty much. It's therefore a shock to come across one who's actually likeable. At least if…
September 9th, 2008 1:18 PM | NB Staff
"The idea to make these guys [Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews] news anchors, I don't know who came up with this idea. It's sort of like people who believe if you add water you get sea monkeys.…
September 9th, 2008 12:35 PM | Noel Sheppard
On Monday, Fox News's John Gibson gave credit to NewsBusters for the demotions of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann from their positions as co-anchors of MSNBC's election and debate coverage.…
September 9th, 2008 11:27 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann tagged conservative talk radio hosts Mark Levin and Sean Hannity as "lunatic right-wing" hosts, and Hannity as "not-so-smart." Responding to…
September 9th, 2008 5:05 AM | Tim Graham
Eric Alterman's book What Liberal Media? really set off a competition on the loony left to see who could more energetically deny obvious reality. Check this out:
I'll just add, for the…
September 9th, 2008 12:00 AM | Jan LaRue, Esq.
Where in blazes is Global Al Gore when the planet really needs him? The CO2 emissions emanating from some major gasbags in response to Gov. Sarah Palin's nomination are off the charts. If the heat…
September 8th, 2008 10:25 PM | Tim Graham
On Monday, The Boston Globe greeted the debut of hard-left Air America host Rachel Maddow’s new show on MSNBC with a bouquet of praise. She’s not only "a key face of the new, feisty, ratings-…