On Tuesday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann implied that the Senate Judiciary Committee deliberately timed its hearing on the controversial NSA spying program to "bury" the story as…
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July 18th, 2006 11:10 PM | Brad Wilmouth
July 18th, 2006 5:56 AM | Matthew Sheffield
Remember the Adam Clymer incident? Back when George W. Bush was running for president, he called a New York Times reporter an obscenity in what he thought was an unmiked remark to Dick Cheney. For…
July 17th, 2006 9:58 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Joe Wilson wants the world to know that in the wake of the disclosure of his wife's identity, he and Valerie have been threatened, and not just by "Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity listeners."
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July 15th, 2006 5:14 PM | Brent Baker
Tom Brokaw's two-hour Sunday night special, Global Warming: What You Need to Know, may be airing on the Discovery Channel, but NBC News, a co-producer of the program, is adopting it as its own even…
July 14th, 2006 7:47 AM | Tim Graham
The latest e-mail from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is signed by Rep. John Murtha, in which he repeats the Karl-Rove-air-conditioned-fat-backside line he used on the Olbermann…
July 14th, 2006 1:52 AM | Brad Wilmouth
In March 2004, when the Bush campaign ran ads showing a brief image of a flag-draped body being removed from the World Trade Center wreckage, the media played up charges by Bush critics that the…
July 13th, 2006 10:45 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Valerie? Joe? Are you listening? Let me offer some well-intentioned advice. When liberal Larry O'Donnell - he of the infamous anti-Swifty meltdown - goes on Keith Olbermann's Countdown and calls…
July 12th, 2006 2:29 PM | Rich Noyes
So now even the Left’s most bizarre fantasies are regarded as "news" by the producers at MSNBC? No, I don’t mean Keith Olbermann luxuriating in John Dean’s attempt to portray conservatives as…
July 12th, 2006 12:01 PM | Ian Schwartz
In the "Worst Person in the World" segment on Tuesday night's Countdown, Keith Olbermann poked fun at FOX News' spokeswoman Irena Briganti in an altered image that portrayed her as female version…
July 12th, 2006 10:10 AM | Tim Graham
The "Conservatives Without Conscience" tour continued last night on "The Daily Show" with Jon Stewart last night. Like Keith Olbermann, Stewart honored Bush-hating author John Dean and…
July 11th, 2006 12:43 PM | Ian Schwartz
The New York Times ran a sycophantic story on the "success" of "Countdown" and how it has become the "centerpiece" of MSNBC's lineup. Throughout the article, columnist Bill Carter discusses Countdown…
July 11th, 2006 3:39 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann hosted former Nixon White House counsel and frequent Bush administration critic John Dean to talk about his latest book attacking conservatives…
July 11th, 2006 12:45 AM | Matthew Sheffield
The death of Ken Lay, the founder of the now-defunct energy company Enron, aroused a lot more passions than a typical CEO's passing would. Apparently, many liberals out there are letting their…
July 10th, 2006 6:35 AM | Tim Graham
Rod Nordland, the chief foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine and their Baghdad bureau chief from 2003 to 2005, gave an interview to Foreign Policy magazine in which he declared that "It's a…
July 7th, 2006 11:57 AM | Greg Sheffield
If anyone says Rupert Murdoch's media outlets go easy on conservatives, his New York Post has been willing to run plagiarism challenges brought against Ann Coulter by former University of…
July 7th, 2006 7:06 AM | Mark Finkelstein
It's one thing for Keith Olbermann to take snide shots at President Bush. He doesn't hold himself out as an objective journalist, after all. But Dana Milbank is, in theory, not a partisan…
July 4th, 2006 7:54 AM | Tim Graham
The top of Tuesday's Washington Post carries the headline "Mexico Girds for Legal Battle As Election Yields a Near Tie." But the caption nearby under pictures of the candidates reports: "Felipe…
July 2nd, 2006 4:15 PM | Noel Sheppard
Most who watched the various talking heads programs on Sunday know that a hot topic for discussion was the New York Times article last Friday concerning the NSA using a Belgian banking cooperative…
June 29th, 2006 5:20 PM | Rich Noyes
So much for the loopy Olbermann-esque spin that it’s just conservatives hoping to “stoke the base” who are distressed by journalists’ leaking of government secrets.
Veteran NBC News…
June 29th, 2006 12:45 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann set a new standard for spin that would even make the famous Black Knight character from Monty Python's Holy Grail blush. Reacting to the…
June 28th, 2006 1:08 AM | Brad Wilmouth
Rush Limbaugh the target of gunfire from gun enthusiasts? Evidently this is a thought MSNBC host Keith Olbermann finds entertaining, as evidenced by the opening teaser of his latest edition of…
June 28th, 2006 12:42 AM | Brent Baker
The White House criticism, of the New York Times over its story disclosing an ongoing anti-terrorism effort to track financial transactions, sent MSNBC's Keith Olbermann into a tizzy Tuesday night as…
June 26th, 2006 9:10 PM | Mark Finkelstein
It became a laugh line long ago: "If we can't [insert your favorite dubious activity here], the terrorists will have won."
But that didn't prevent Keith Olbermann from trotting out the…
June 22nd, 2006 10:24 PM | Brent Baker
Of the three broadcast network evening shows Thursday night, only the NBC Nightly News reported the late Wednesday afternoon revelation by Senator Rick Santorum and Congressman Peter Hoekstra, Chair…
June 17th, 2006 7:08 AM | Tim Graham
Staring hard at the forthcoming cover of Olbermann's book "The Worst Person in the World," doesn't it appear, oh so poetically, that the cover seems to be applying that honor to Olbermann himself?