Playing off Keith Olbermann's "Worst Person in the World" shtick, some clever fellow started a petition recently at WorstBailoutIntheWorld.com calling on the "Countdown" host to return his recent…
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April 29th, 2009 1:18 PM | Ken Shepherd
April 29th, 2009 12:14 PM | Dan Kennedy
April 20 was certainly a red letter day for America.
That was when President Obama held his first photo-op cabinet meeting, noisily giving them their marching orders: find ways to save $100…
April 29th, 2009 10:55 AM | Noel Sheppard
As the Fox News Channel continues to be berated by America's new president along with his Party and liberal media minions, the cable network keeps drawing in more and more viewers.
In fact,…
April 28th, 2009 1:18 PM | Brent Baker
A look back to May of 2001, when Republican Senator Jim Jeffords switched from Republican to Democrat, likely offers a preview of the themes the press corps will advance again in covering Senator…
April 28th, 2009 12:45 PM | Scott Whitlock
"MSNBC News Live" anchor Contessa Brewer on Tuesday speculated as to whether supposed obstructionism by congressional Republicans may end up hampering the response to the swine flu outbreak.…
April 28th, 2009 10:01 AM | Jeff Poor
It was just a question of time. While it was hard to know where it would come from (although MSNBC is always a safe bet), someone was going to make the entire swine flu pandemic a partisan…
April 28th, 2009 8:49 AM | Jack Coleman
It's not often I hear three jaw-dropping claims in the course of a single day.On "The Rachel Maddow Show," this can happen in a matter of minutes, especially when author Ron Suskind is the guest.…
April 28th, 2009 2:08 AM | Brent Baker
“President Obama is getting more coverage, and more positive coverage, from the media than his two predecessors,” FNC's Bret Baier related during Monday's “Grapevine” segment in summarizing the…
April 27th, 2009 3:47 PM | Jeff Poor
NBC Universal and its networks have been criticized for the global warming alarmism it parades on a regular basis. However, now the criticism is coming from its own affiliates.
Prior to…
April 27th, 2009 11:14 AM | Jeff Poor
It's a response that might incite laughter, as it did from conservative pundit Monica Crowley and MSNBC paleocon talker Pat Buchanan. According to Newsweek's Eleanor Clift, the current problems…
April 26th, 2009 5:30 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann and Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter seemed to take turns reining in each other’s conspiracy theories as the two discussed the latest on former Vice…
April 26th, 2009 12:46 PM | Jeff Poor
At a time when Americans increasingly aren't buying into the theory of anthropogenic global warming according to a recent Rasmussen poll, NBC and its cable news network MSNBC are bringing out the…
April 25th, 2009 11:48 PM | Jack Coleman
Updated with addendum, 2:30 p.m. Sunday --All men lead lives of quiet desperation, according to Thoreau. Suffice it to say the observation would not remain among Thoreau's best known unless there…
April 25th, 2009 2:12 AM | Warner Todd Huston
The newest false meme invented by the Old Media is this claim that ex-presidents and ex-vice presidents have some sort of "tradition of silence" where it concerns commenting on those that take…
April 24th, 2009 10:42 PM | Brent Bozell
Nobody tunes into a beauty pageant and expects a public-policy discussion that could be mistaken for C-SPAN. The long-standing perception about the question-and-answer section at the end is that…
April 24th, 2009 7:55 PM | Jeff Poor
Separating personal feelings from straight-up journalism is something MSNBC anchors have had trouble with in the past, and David Shuster is no exception.
During MSNBC's daytime news…
April 24th, 2009 11:47 AM | Ken Shepherd
While President Obama was extoling the virtues of wind power in an Earth Day speech, his Justice Department lawyers were attempting to scuttle a lawsuit filed in federal court against Iran by…
April 23rd, 2009 9:11 PM | Jeff Poor
It has been something that there have been rumblings about, but no one has really put the x's and o's together entirely - that General Electric (NYSE:GE) is using its media arm, NBC Universal to…
April 23rd, 2009 7:38 PM | Amy Ridenour
As readers here know from Noel Sheppard's report last night, at yesterday's annual GE shareholder meeting, CEO Jeffrey Immelt was challenged on the subject of media bias at GE-owned NBC, CNBC and…
April 23rd, 2009 2:58 PM | Scott Whitlock
"Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough on Thursday attacked misinformation spread by a guest during a segment on the previous day's "Hardball." Ex-CIA agent Bob Baer appeared on Chris Matthews'…
April 23rd, 2009 2:11 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann mocked Ronald Reagan as "dead," and called him a "lousy President." After reading a quote from Warren County, Ohio, commissioner Mike…
April 23rd, 2009 10:00 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
An overly eager Chris Matthews, on Wednesday night's "Hardball," actually raised the prospect of prosecuting George W. Bush and Dick Cheney over the CIA interrogation memos as he pressed …
April 22nd, 2009 10:37 PM | Warner Todd Huston
Apparently viewers are getting tired of the cutsey, smugness that is Rachel Maddow, and not just a few of them either. Ratings for the already low rated Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC have shown a…
April 22nd, 2009 8:05 PM | Noel Sheppard
UPDATE: Audio of crowd booing GE CEO available here.
General Electric held its annual shareholders meeting Wednesday, and attendees apparently were very upset with the increasing leftward…
April 22nd, 2009 4:20 PM | Seton Motley
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Lamestream Media The media coverage of the more than 800 Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party protests that took place in all fifty states on April 15 ranged from…
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