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…
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July 12th, 2006 2:29 PM | Rich Noyes
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?
June 17th, 2006 5:06 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On MSNBC's Countdown show on Friday, substitute host Brian Unger featured a softball interview with Democratic Congressman John Murtha during which Unger queued up Murtha to attack the Bush…
June 16th, 2006 1:09 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On MSNBC's Countdown show on Thursday, substitute host Brian Unger suggested President Bush views American troops as "expendable" as he picked up on an erroneous report by the Washington Post that…
June 15th, 2006 10:05 AM | Noel Sheppard
On Wednesday, NewsBusters reported how MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann sent an e-mail message to a viewer in which he debased colleague Rita Cosby as well as his boss at the time. Lloyd Grove of the New…
June 14th, 2006 2:35 PM | Noel Sheppard
Don Kaplan of the New York Post has a great column today about the failing cable station MSNBC, and quite appropriately asks why we need it (hat tip to TV Newser):
“‘It's really running…
June 14th, 2006 1:49 PM | Noel Sheppard
Apparently, Countdown’s Keith Olbermann doesn’t play well with others – color me shocked.
According to Lloyd Grove of the New York Daily News (hat tip to TV Newser), MSNBC’s Olbermann sent…
June 14th, 2006 9:46 AM | Noel Sheppard
In America, people are innocent until proven guilty, unless of course they are Republican.
No finer example of such legal relativism has occurred in recent memory than the case of President…
June 13th, 2006 10:24 PM | Brent Baker
MSNBC Countdown fill-in host Brian Unger on Tuesday night asked David Shuster about how “your sources seemed to indicate that Karl Rove would be indicted. What happened?" In fact, back on May 8, as…