Sure, the sitting Democratic governor of Illinois has been arrested and charged with attempting to sell Barack Obama's Senate seat. But enough about that. Jay Leno is starting his show 90…
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December 9th, 2008 1:42 PM | Mark Finkelstein
December 9th, 2008 1:34 PM | Tim Graham
Sorry for the late arrival on this quote, but on Friday afternoon, CNN anchor Kyra Phillips demonstrated the perils of live television in the immediate aftermath of O.J. Simpson's sentencing:…
December 9th, 2008 11:38 AM | Warner Todd Huston
Media ignored Guv's party today, but also links to Rezko corruption and Barack Obama and his chief strategist David Axelrod during presidential campaign.
As folks in Illinois were waking…
December 9th, 2008 11:26 AM | Tom Blumer
(Also, see Matthew Balan's NB post on CNN.com's Name That Party Blagojevich whiff, and related posts by Mark Finkelstein and Warner Todd Huston.)
Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was…
December 9th, 2008 7:28 AM | Tim Graham
As the baton passed to David Gregory at NBC's Meet the Press, NBC couldn't stop from shamelessly selling itself as a gift to America. On Monday's Today, Tom Brokaw exclaimed about filling the late…
December 9th, 2008 12:00 AM | Erin Brown
On an issue as controversial and divisive as Proposition 8 and gay marriage, sound journalism demands balance. But the Associated Press' Dec. 9 story on “calling in gay” includes opinions only…
December 8th, 2008 6:25 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Contessa Brewer has suggested that Pres. Bush should be ashamed of his administration's decision to exempt the chemical perchlorate from federal regulation. Speaking with a Republican guest this…
December 7th, 2008 10:35 AM | NB Staff
If it's Sunday during football season, it's Joe Concha:
Pigskins and Politics: Week 14Joe Concha
Quite a week for the NFL: Steroid suspensions in three cities, Plaxico Burress…
December 5th, 2008 10:53 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
With more and more reports coming out that MSNBC's Chris Matthews is actively looking to run for Senate in his home state of Pennsylvania, questions about a conflict of interest have been raised.…
December 5th, 2008 10:42 AM | Noel Sheppard
If "Hardball" host Chris Matthews is indeed going to challenge Arlen Specter for his senate seat in 2010, he must resign his position with MSNBC.
So say a growing chorus of observers from…
December 5th, 2008 10:35 AM | Tim Graham
National Review Online posted a symposium Friday on whether a Chris Matthews U.S. Senate campaign is the real deal. Former Senator Rick Santorum finds it plausible: “Since Chris would have no…
December 5th, 2008 8:43 AM | Jeff Poor
Representing your constituents’ interest is simply code for taking an ideological position, according to CNBC “Street Signs” host Erin Burnett.
Burnett appeared on MSNBC’s…
December 4th, 2008 6:25 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On Thursday night's "Hardball," Chris Matthews actually praised Sarah Palin for her ability to draw a crowd and even pegged her as the early frontrunner for the GOP nod in 2012, "Who’s gonna beat…
December 4th, 2008 5:01 PM | Seton Motley
Budding United States Senate candidate and still current MSNBC Hardball anchor Chris Matthews finds few things in life as thrilling as President-elect Barack Obama. Republican in-fighting,…
December 4th, 2008 4:38 PM | Paul Detrick
"Talk about too big to fail," said managing editor of Time Richard Stengel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Dec. 4, who was on the program promoting the latest cover story for the magazine entitled, "The…
December 4th, 2008 4:22 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann compared Republican Senator Saxby Chambliss’s 2002 campaign against then-Democratic Senator Max Cleland of Georgia to a "turkey-killing…
December 4th, 2008 1:59 PM | Jeff Poor
You can always count on Michael Moore to offer an outrageous left-wing point-of-view.
Moore made two appearances on cable talk programs Dec. 3 – first on MSNBC’s “…
December 4th, 2008 12:34 PM | Scott Whitlock
On Thursday's "Morning Joe," after being told that a critique of his on the auto industry bailout sounded very similar to one made by liberal filmmaker Michael Moore, MSNBC political director…
December 3rd, 2008 5:25 PM | Rich Noyes
When it comes to building a quota Cabinet that fulfills liberal demands for “diversity,” Barack Obama is far smoother than the “artless” and “calculating” Clintons were back in 1992, NBC’s Andrea…
December 3rd, 2008 11:35 AM | Jack Coleman
Hey gang, didya hear the news? It's official, according to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC -- we're in a recession!
Maddow could barely contain her mirth on her cable show Monday in conveying word…
December 2nd, 2008 9:26 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Admission: Lawrence O'Donnell is emerging as one of my favorite media liberals. On the one hand, almost exactly one year ago, his anti-Mormon rant spurred me to action. But lately, watching him as…
December 2nd, 2008 1:24 PM | Noel Sheppard
Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens and Salon's Joan Walsh squared off Monday evening on MSNBC's "Hardball," and things deliciously got personal.
The topic on host Chris Matthews' mind was…
December 2nd, 2008 9:07 AM | Dan Gainor
When Barack Obama touted his plan to “spread the wealth around,” conservatives worried about the creep of Socialism – or Socialist creeps – coming to Washington. But as millions of zealous…
December 1st, 2008 10:53 AM | Rich Noyes
File this one under “Deluded Expectations.” During MSNBC’s coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, daytime anchor Alex Witt seemed frustrated that the election of Barack…
November 30th, 2008 5:06 PM | Noel Sheppard
The folks at "Fox & Friends" had some fun at Chris Matthews' expense Sunday morning, and managed to mock some other high-profile, liberal media members while they were at it:
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