An extraordinary thing happened on Friday's "Countdown": host Keith Olbermann actually included a Democrat Congressman in his "Worst Person in the World" segment.
Of course, it would have…
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June 28th, 2008 2:20 PM | Noel Sheppard
June 28th, 2008 11:09 AM | Noel Sheppard
Just two weeks after getting into a brouhaha with Huffington Post editor Rachel Sklar, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has found himself in a tussle with one of the chairmen of the Netroots, Salon's Glenn…
June 26th, 2008 3:37 PM | Jeff Poor
It may be less efficient and more intrusive than other forms of alternative energy, but harnessing the power of wind is “every bit as serious” as other options, according to MSNBC “Countdown…
June 25th, 2008 9:41 AM | Brent Baker
Peter Boyer's profile of Keith Olbermann in the June 23 New Yorker magazine, “One Angry Man,” contained a bunch of noteworthy revelations, such as: ♦ Olbermann wanted to be more vulgar in his “shut…
June 24th, 2008 12:08 PM | Scott Whitlock
Former top Democratic aide-turned ABC journalist George Stephanopoulos on Tuesday spun Barack Obama's repeated exclusions of Muslims as a way to "combat this issue" that he is a follower of Islam…
June 20th, 2008 2:52 PM | Noel Sheppard
Although MSNBC and NBC officials are flatly denying the allegations, the New York Post on Friday reported that Keith Olbermann is threatening to quit if he's not promoted to host "Meet the Press…
June 20th, 2008 2:42 PM | Tim Graham
In 1992, reporters like Joe Klein and Sidney Blumenthal were mocked as Clinton Conformity Cops, telling other journalists that the goal of electing Bill Clinton was too important to create any…
June 20th, 2008 10:39 AM | Noel Sheppard
Almost two years ago, NewsBusters wondered when media would begin reporting Enron's ties to higher oil and gas prices.
Recently, we've gotten our answer: when it could be blamed on the…
June 18th, 2008 1:05 AM | Brad Wilmouth
When Georgia Republicans ran an ad against former Senator Max Cleland, which included a photograph of Osama bin Laden, attacking the Democratic Senator's numerous votes to apply labor union rules…
June 17th, 2008 5:01 PM | Justin McCarthy
Does Barbara Walters refrain from publicly airing her personal opinions? The veteran journalist said just that on the June 17 "View," though the evidence does not back her up. Discussing the death…
June 16th, 2008 11:00 PM | Brent Baker
NBC anchor Brian Williams on Monday evening rued that Afghanistan “is too often called the other war or perhaps even the forgotten war” when “in the month of May, for the first time ever, American…
June 16th, 2008 10:20 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Don't feel bad for Geraldine Ferraro. Looks like the Hillary supporter who got into hot water back in March for claiming Obama's race was an advantage has landed on her feet, scoring a gig with…
June 15th, 2008 5:10 PM | P.J. Gladnick
A profile of MSNBC host Keith Olbermann by Peter J. Boyer in the current edition of the New Yorker gives us a good clue as to why the man known for his laughable impressions of Edward R. Murrow is…
June 14th, 2008 1:32 PM | Noel Sheppard
It seems not everyone in the liberal blogosphere is smitten with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann.
Take for example Huffington Post editor Rachel Sklar who on Thursday called out the insufferably…
June 14th, 2008 1:10 PM | John Stephenson
Watch this video where Chris Matthews displays his utter lack of class with Keith Olbermann. While almost every other journalist and blogger on both sides of the political spectrum are giving…
June 14th, 2008 10:44 AM | NB Staff
For general discussion and debate. Possible talking point: who will replace Tim Russert as NBC's Washington bureau chief and "Meet the Press" moderator?
As you might imagine, the Kossacks…
June 13th, 2008 11:35 AM | D. S. Hube
We've seen Chris "Thrill Going Up My Leg" Matthews. Keith Olbermann admits to MSNBC viewers that his network doesn't give a "hard time" to Democratic candidates. Olbermann defends Barack Obama by…
June 12th, 2008 7:15 PM | Terry Ann Rendon
Sounding like an impeachment obsessed left-wing blogger Jack Cafferty askedon CNN.com "Why won’t Congress consider impeaching Pres. Bush?" In his June 12th blog posting he writes, "House Speaker…
June 12th, 2008 6:06 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown show, during the show's regular "Worst Person in the World" segment, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, who rarely hits liberals during the segment while he often targets…
June 12th, 2008 2:18 AM | Brent Baker
Channeling Keith Olbermann, David Letterman on Wednesday night proposed to guest Scott McClellan that President Bush and Vice President Cheney “just couldn't care less about Americans” since “all…
June 8th, 2008 10:21 AM | Noel Sheppard
Keith Olbermann is not good for the news industry.
Such was the opinion of former Los Angeles Times television critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Howard Rosenberg in a rather scathing article…
June 6th, 2008 10:38 PM | Brent Baker
Erroneously recounting a Tuesday NewsBusters post I wrote about how, unlike ABC and CBS, the NBC Nightly News did not report the lowest U.S. death level in May for any month since the war in Iraq…
June 5th, 2008 6:16 PM | Jeff Poor
One of the major criticisms in the 2008 presidential election cycle has been about the media bias in favor of liberal Democratic Sen. Barack Obama. Former MSNBC show host Tucker Carlson, now…
June 5th, 2008 5:23 PM | Ken Shepherd
Freshly posted to Robert Cox's Olbermann Watch blog: news of a FIFTH tax warrant surfaces for MSNBC's bombastic uber-liberal Keith Olbermann.:
Olbermann Watch has confirmed that the New York…
June 4th, 2008 4:49 PM | Justin McCarthy
"Fox and Friends" called out left wing anchor Keith Olbermann on his own lies. The co-hosts on the June 4 edition of "Fox and Friends" discussed the TV Newser story that NBC veteran Tim Russert is…