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December 22nd, 2008 9:16 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Howard Kurtz features Mika Brzezinski in his WaPo Media Notes column this morning. Between a book deal and the syndication of her new radio show with Morning Joe partner Joe Scarborough, Brzezinski…
December 21st, 2008 11:12 AM | NB Staff
It's week 16, and Joe's got it covered below the fold.
Pigskins and Politics: Week 16 Joe Concha
For many of you, the weather outside is frightful, thereby making football watching…
December 19th, 2008 9:33 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Lynn Sweet wants the Obama team to come clean over its contacts with Blago. David Shuster has a different concern. He's hoping the media won't get "adversarial" once the Obama folks get around to…
December 19th, 2008 6:19 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Thursday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann disputed Vice President Cheney’s recent contention that history would likely judge the Bush administration more favorably than current…
December 19th, 2008 4:11 PM | Brad Wilmouth
During this week, NBC’s Tonight Show host Jay Leno took a couple of noteworthy jabs at the anti-Bush mainstream media in America, on Monday joking that the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at…
December 19th, 2008 2:38 PM | Jack Coleman
The only things certain in life are death and taxes, Franklin famously observed.To which I'd add a third possibility, one qualifying at least for the status of near-certainty -- liberals…
December 18th, 2008 2:49 PM | Scott Whitlock
On Wednesday's "Nightline," co-anchor Terry Moran could barely restrain his amusement over the shoe throwing incident on Sunday involving an Iraqi journalist and President Bush, asserting that it…
December 18th, 2008 1:48 PM | Paul Detrick
Full disclosure, you can take the day off.
CBS's "The Early Show" included a statement in its Dec. 18 report on the Big 3 bailout from "auto industry analyst," Dan McGinn. Letting the…
December 18th, 2008 12:25 PM | Jeff Poor
In an attempt to play Main Street against Wall Street, Rachel Maddow mocked and criticized the rate at which Goldman Sachs was taxed this year.
The MSNBC host of "The Rachel Maddow Show"…
December 18th, 2008 12:20 PM | Ken Shepherd
In what's certain to be an article that can be recycled every Christmas season, Newsweek's Daniel Stone offers Ebenezer Scrooges throughout the land an easy excuse for regifting. You're not being…
December 18th, 2008 11:59 AM | Jeff Poor
In an attempt to pit “us” against “them [Wall Street]” Rachel Maddow mocked and criticized the rate at which Goldman Sachs was taxed this year.
The MSNBC host of “The Rachel Maddow…
December 18th, 2008 10:27 AM | Noel Sheppard
Aside from MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, there is possibly no greater and more outspoken media critic of the Bush administration than CNN's Jack Cafferty who on Wednesday read some of the most…
December 16th, 2008 4:26 PM | Ken Shepherd
Was Time magazine's Jay Carney hired by the Obama transition as Joe Biden's director of communications in order to keep a tight lid on the Beltway's greatest gaffe machine?
Washington Post…
December 16th, 2008 9:03 AM | Matthew Sheffield
If you are even an occasional viewer of CNN, chances are you have not been able to escape a commercial for the channel's "Planet in Peril" two-hour homage to environmental alarmism.
Despite…
December 15th, 2008 5:28 PM | Mark Finkelstein
It's times like this that make me wonder whether I inhabit a universe different from that occupied by the MSM. This morning, discussing Pres. Bush's reaction to the flying shoe incident, I wrote…
December 15th, 2008 2:13 PM | Jack Coleman
Must have been that full moon. Or "fool full moon" as Rachel Maddow stumbled in referring to it.
If the Newseum is accepting suggestions for exhibits, a possibility comes to mind -- the…
December 15th, 2008 11:09 AM | Mark Finkelstein
MSNBC has banished the last bastion of objectivity from its line-up of evening hosts. The network has announced that David Shuster [file photo] will be replacing David Gregory as host of '1600…
December 12th, 2008 5:09 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Which would be the safer place to be for a political figure who's received death threats?:a. A school concert in a public venue.b. A press conference in the company of the President-elect of the…
December 12th, 2008 11:34 AM | Jack Coleman
Maybe there's hope for some of those immersed in left-wing media.
Liberal radio host Ed Schultz has been decidedly skeptical about claims emanating from the Obama inner circle about whether…
December 11th, 2008 9:57 PM | Brent Baker
Certainly delivering a unique take on the Blagojevich case, in a Thursday night story on why Illinois politics are so corrupt, NBC reporter Lee Cowan characterized the Governor of Illinois as a…
December 11th, 2008 1:01 PM | Ken Shepherd
"I will say that when I started [at MSNBC] in 2003, nobody spoke to me for six months. I was a strange man in a strange land," Joe Scarborough is reported to have told Time magazine.
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December 10th, 2008 7:03 PM | Jack Coleman
Yes -- "perhaps." Hard to believe there are people who harbor doubts about this. Not so shocking to learn they dwell on the left side of the aisle.Former "Wonkette" blogger Ana Marie Cox, a…
December 10th, 2008 12:01 PM | Mark Finkelstein
This is just too perfect. Earlier today, noting that none of the network morning shows explicitly identified Rod Blagojevich as a Democrat, I wondered out loud how the MSM would treat a…
December 9th, 2008 5:33 PM | Brent Bozell
The nation’s economy is causing great anxiety, and no corner seems untouched by the blight of layoffs, or the fear of further stock-market erosion. It probably should come as no surprise that in…
December 9th, 2008 4:35 PM | Seton Motley
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The new moderator of Meet the Press is a good fit on The Olbermann Network
Editor's Note: This first appeared this morning in Human Events.
More Than Mere Shouting Distance From…