On Friday’s Countdown show, while appearing as a guest, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman, also an MSNBC political analyst, contended that, regarding her level of experience, Sarah Palin "makes Barack…
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September 1st, 2008 5:18 PM | Brad Wilmouth
September 1st, 2008 3:53 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Given Hurricane Gustav, the GOP convention—and the MSM's inherent inclination to underreport good news from Iraq—a major story is not getting the attention it deserves. Here's how President Bush…
September 1st, 2008 12:20 PM | Mark Finkelstein
The MSNBC promo bills the network as "the place for politics." Looks like it's the place for rib-ticklin' comedy, too. Check out Keith Olbermann's side-splitter from the ad:KEITH OLBERMANN: This…
September 1st, 2008 10:23 AM | Noel Sheppard
As Hurricane Gustav wreaks havoc on New Orleans as well as the schedule of the Republican National Convention, right-thinking Americans awoke to some good news Monday: MSNBC's Keith Olbermann will…
August 30th, 2008 9:23 PM | Brent Baker
Stunning Fox News Watch host Bill Hemmer, panelist Jim Pinkerton, picking up on a NewsBusters post with video (“Maher: Matthews and Olbermann 'Were Ready to Have Sex with' Obama”), from just hours…
August 30th, 2008 12:48 PM | Brent Baker
The media in general, and MSNBC in particular, are so far into the tank for Barack Obama that even the far-left Bill Maher, on his HBO show Friday night, recognized “there is a problem...with the…
August 30th, 2008 11:08 AM | Jeff Poor
If you put controversial left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore and MSNBC "Countdown" anchor Keith Olbermann in the same setting - there's bound to be some sort of lunatic remark made. Their…
August 30th, 2008 12:13 AM | Jeff Poor
Sometime you really have wonder at what cost some are willing to see their political ideology advanced.
To liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, the bounds are seemingly…
August 29th, 2008 4:00 PM | NB Staff
On August 27th, during MSNBC's Dem convention coverage, Keith Olbermann makes a hand gesture to Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) mocking Chris Matthews "go[ing] off at…
August 29th, 2008 10:25 AM | Mark Finkelstein
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Peggy Noonan made a serious point about MSNBC's slanted coverage, and I suppose seriousness compels me to mention it first. But please do yourself a favor and stay tuned for the…August 29th, 2008 7:26 AM | Noel Sheppard
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann made his support for Barack Obama even clearer Thursday when moments after the junior senator from Illinois accepted his party's nomination as president, the "Countdown"…
August 29th, 2008 2:33 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
Chris Matthews has had it with Karl Rove, and he told the Reverend Al Sharpton, during MSNBC's live coverage of the Democratic National Convention on Thursday night, to "beat" Rove in Ohio, "…
August 28th, 2008 11:23 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Chris Matthews shook the proverbial fist at this detractors as he delivered the following praise of Barack Obama's acceptance speech on MSNBC's live coverage of the Democratic National Convention…
August 28th, 2008 10:46 PM | Mark Finkelstein
How does Keith Olbermann view pre-Obama America? Apparently akin to the Soviet Union, and South Africa under apartheid. Here was his statement from the top of tonight's DNC coverage.CHRIS MATTHEWS…
August 28th, 2008 9:14 PM | Ken Shepherd
At about 7:45 p.m. EDT on August 28, a camera panning the crowd outside the outdoor MSNBC set in Denver caught a man holding up a "9/11 Was an Inside Job" sign. Another sign urged a Maddow/…
August 28th, 2008 3:47 PM | Noel Sheppard
As more and more media outlets begin to notice the feud going on between some of MSNBC's highest profile on air personalities, a question begins rising to the surface: just how serious is it?
…August 28th, 2008 1:15 PM | Noel Sheppard
The blow-up that is occurring on MSNBC is beginning to draw attention from media members including the former co-anchor of the "CBS Evening News" Connie Chung who advised those involved in the on…
August 28th, 2008 12:13 PM | Matthew Sheffield
One thing the ongoing feud between MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann has demonstrated that politics can get very personal. Both anchors are very committed Democrats yet seem to despise…
August 28th, 2008 8:05 AM | Mark Finkelstein
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Update | 10: 30 AM: Scarborough acknowledges Biden's 'F' rating. At 8:36 AM EDT, Joe said that "a blog" had attacked him, noting Biden's 'F' rating from gun owners. View…
August 28th, 2008 1:36 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
Chris Matthews liked the pick of longtime Senator Joe Biden for Barack Obama but the prospect of John McCain picking a veep, of similar voltage on the Republican side, like Minnesota Governor Tim…
August 27th, 2008 10:50 PM | Mark Finkelstein
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Few Republicans have made it onto MSNBC air during the network's Dem convention coverage, but even that is apparently too much for Keith Olbermann. As Chris Matthews was…August 27th, 2008 10:36 PM | Noel Sheppard
On Wednesday, NewsBusters asked: Is the hatred [Keith] Olbermann has been spewing on virtually a nightly basis beginning to take its toll on his fellow on air personalities presaging a looming…
August 27th, 2008 8:49 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Another chapter in the ongoing Matthews-Olbermann feud? Yesterday, a catfight broke out between the two when Olbermann suggested Matthews had stolen an idea from two female pundits, and later…
August 27th, 2008 3:57 PM | Kerry Picket
Mainstream news anchors covering the Democratic National Convention are getting more impatient by the day as the McCain campaign broadcasts ads using Hillary Clinton's own words against Democratic…
August 27th, 2008 3:34 PM | Noel Sheppard
As my colleague Mark Finkelstein reported Tuesday, MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann labelled long-time Hillary Clinton advisor Howard Wolfson a Tokyo Rose-like traitor due…