On Thursday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann seemed to mock John McCain's military service as he quipped that McCain was "awol" for not showing up for a Senate vote on providing…
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May 23rd, 2008 2:01 AM | Brad Wilmouth
May 22nd, 2008 1:07 PM | John Stephenson
I just wanted to provide a little follow-up to Brad Wilmouth's excellent coverage of Keith Olbermann's outrageous performance of telling the President to "shut the hell up". If you didn't hear…
May 22nd, 2008 10:44 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Zbigniew Brzezinski says that since we talked to Likud, we should talk to Hamas. And Kevin Spacey, who has trouble keeping his disputed primary states straight, suggests that his "Recount" plays it…
May 22nd, 2008 8:53 AM | Brad Wilmouth
Two years ago, after FNC's Bill O'Reilly erroneously stated that American troops had massacred Nazi German troops at Malmedy, Belgium during World War II, even after the FNC host corrected the…
May 22nd, 2008 3:31 AM | Brent Baker
Actor Kevin Spacey, who stars as Al Gore adviser Ron Klain in HBO's Sunday night Recount film about the 2000 post-election battle in Florida, conceded on Wednesday's Countdown on MSNBC that “the…
May 21st, 2008 8:26 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Charlie Crist, Bobby Jindal and Mitt Romney better hope John McCain isn't banking on Tony Blankley for guidance on his Veep pick. Newt's former press secretary is blah—at best—on all three.Blankley…
May 21st, 2008 7:00 PM | Brent Baker
As noted earlier by Brad Wilmouth, Marc Ambinder revealed today, on his blog for The Atlantic, that his colleague at National Journal, Linda Douglass, a long-time CBS News and then ABC News…
May 21st, 2008 1:43 AM | Brad Wilmouth
During MSNBC's live coverage of the Kentucky and Oregon Democratic presidential primaries on Tuesday, NBC's Andrea Mitchell seemed to take seriously suggestions by Hillary Clinton "loyalists" who…
May 20th, 2008 9:31 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Even before I heard Chris Matthews mention it, it struck me too . . .
Among the visuals a big-time campaign carefully choreographs is the human backdrop when the candidate speaks—…
May 20th, 2008 11:35 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Doesn't Mika Brzezinski have any Republicans in her Rolodex? With Joe Scarborough home in Florida awaiting the birth of a baby, Mika has been filling in as anchor, and I sense doing much of the show…
May 19th, 2008 11:09 PM | Noel Sheppard
It appears the New York Post's assessment that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is on the verge of another professional meltdown was quite prescient.
On Monday's "Countdown," answering to criticism…
May 19th, 2008 6:29 PM | Mark Finkelstein
="right">Can it be coincidence that on the day it's reported that Keith Olbermann is feuding with Chris Matthews, the Hardball host goes out of his way to shine up the clown prince of Countdown?As…
May 19th, 2008 6:12 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
On Monday's "Hardball" Chris Matthews scolded the Georgia Republican Party State Chair for comparing John McCain to Jesus but back in 2007 the MSNBC host declared of Bill Clinton: "There are times…
May 19th, 2008 2:17 PM | Noel Sheppard
People that have been following the career of MSNBC's Keith Olbermann are fully aware that it's only a matter of time before he has a professional meltdown forcing him to once again change jobs.…
May 19th, 2008 7:54 AM | Tim Graham
Washington Post media writer Howard Kurtz reported on Monday’s front page that the on-screen feud between FNC’s Bill O’Reilly and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann has spurred high-level calls between the…
May 17th, 2008 9:11 PM | Noel Sheppard
Conservative radio talk show host and Constitutional lawyer Mark Levin on Friday called for MSNBC to suspend Keith Olbermann as a result of his deplorable remarks concerning American soldiers and…
May 17th, 2008 3:55 PM | Noel Sheppard
In today's "Can You Believe This Gall?" moment, Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama has actually blamed Fox News for his likely loss in next week's Kentucky primary.
Can someone…
May 17th, 2008 11:52 AM | Noel Sheppard
Although it's been a constant theme of the Clinton campaign to accuse the media for being in the tank for her Democrat presidential opponent, it is nonetheless deliciously ironic to see the woman…
May 17th, 2008 10:41 AM | P.J. Gladnick
Dan Abrams, apparently still smarting from the castigation he received in April from Karl Rove, just cannot let go. Despite the fact that the "high level" Republican operative, Jill Simpson, who…
May 16th, 2008 7:12 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
The 9a.m. hour of Friday’s MSNBC News Live featured only slanted coverage of President Bush’s remarks to Israel's Knesset including "Hardball" correspondent David Shuster’s…
May 16th, 2008 12:00 AM | Robert Knight
The TV news networks and other major media followed the typical gay script in reporting the California Supreme Court's 4-3 ruling Thursday striking down the voter-approved marriage law and…
May 15th, 2008 4:38 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
Over a graphic which read “Pres. Bush Invokes Nazis While Criticizing Obama’s Foreign Policy,” MSNBC sought to hype Democratic reaction to President Bush’s speech in Israel…
May 15th, 2008 7:58 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann's latest "Special Comment" attack on President Bush accused the President of "panoramic and murderous deceit," and of "creating" an America…
May 14th, 2008 7:46 PM | Mark Finkelstein
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It wasn't just Barack Obama's candidacy that John Edwards endorsed tonight. It was also the worldview that sees the United States as a "bully." Consider these lines from Edwards…May 14th, 2008 11:43 AM | Jeff Poor
It’s not quite Birkenstocks and tie-dyed T-shirts, but presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) has shown he’s willing to go the extra mile to embrace the global…