An extraordinary thing happened on Friday's "Countdown": host Keith Olbermann actually included a Democrat Congressman in his "Worst Person in the World" segment.
Of course, it would have…
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June 28th, 2008 2:20 PM | Noel Sheppard
June 28th, 2008 11:09 AM | Noel Sheppard
Just two weeks after getting into a brouhaha with Huffington Post editor Rachel Sklar, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann has found himself in a tussle with one of the chairmen of the Netroots, Salon's Glenn…
June 27th, 2008 9:41 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Michael Smerconish is thinking of voting for Obama. The Philly talk radio host let it be known while subbing for Dan Abrams on tonight's "Verdict" on MSNBC. He actually did so, chatting with Ron…
June 26th, 2008 3:37 PM | Jeff Poor
It may be less efficient and more intrusive than other forms of alternative energy, but harnessing the power of wind is “every bit as serious” as other options, according to MSNBC “Countdown…
June 26th, 2008 3:22 PM | Justin McCarthy
If an elected official in the United States, at any level, promises to "rip apart" six year old rape victims, then describe in vivid detail how their lives would be ruined, one would assume such a…
June 25th, 2008 9:41 AM | Brent Baker
Peter Boyer's profile of Keith Olbermann in the June 23 New Yorker magazine, “One Angry Man,” contained a bunch of noteworthy revelations, such as: ♦ Olbermann wanted to be more vulgar in his “shut…
June 24th, 2008 12:00 PM | Jeff Poor
On the same day Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee condemned oil speculators, the “CBS Evening News” and ABC’s “World News” blamed oil speculation for a large chunk of the…
June 23rd, 2008 12:40 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Mike Barnicle has some campaign advice for John McCain: don't say anything about Obama's questionable connections. The former Boston Globe columnist, with a heartfelt second from Mika Brzezinski,…
June 22nd, 2008 3:45 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, during a roundtable discussion of Barack Obama's running mate possibilities, correspondent Andrea Mitchell argued that one of the "minuses" for Obama choosing…
June 21st, 2008 3:00 PM | Noel Sheppard
Want to know just how in the tank MSNBC's Dan Abrams is for Barack Obama?
On Thursday's "Verdict," the network's former general manager actually tried to deflect criticism from Michelle…
June 21st, 2008 11:22 AM | Noel Sheppard
As my colleague Brent Baker previously reported, Wolf Blitzer opened Friday's "CNN Election Center" with Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama's disgusting warning that the Republicans will…
June 20th, 2008 2:52 PM | Noel Sheppard
Although MSNBC and NBC officials are flatly denying the allegations, the New York Post on Friday reported that Keith Olbermann is threatening to quit if he's not promoted to host "Meet the Press…
June 20th, 2008 2:42 PM | Tim Graham
In 1992, reporters like Joe Klein and Sidney Blumenthal were mocked as Clinton Conformity Cops, telling other journalists that the goal of electing Bill Clinton was too important to create any…
June 20th, 2008 10:39 AM | Noel Sheppard
Almost two years ago, NewsBusters wondered when media would begin reporting Enron's ties to higher oil and gas prices.
Recently, we've gotten our answer: when it could be blamed on the…
June 19th, 2008 7:37 PM | D. S. Hube
An article at CBSNews.com and MSNBC.com utilizes the claims of a scientist with some very questionable ideas and theories. In this case it's "seismic activity is five times more energetic than 20…
June 19th, 2008 11:50 AM | Ken Shepherd
Today Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama issued a statement that he will forego the public financing system for the general election. His announcement goes back on a pledge to use public…
June 18th, 2008 5:37 PM | Lyndsi Thomas
The Obama campaign is trying to re-create Michelle Obama after her stumbles on the campaign trail, and the mainstream media are more than willing to pitch in.
…June 18th, 2008 1:05 AM | Brad Wilmouth
When Georgia Republicans ran an ad against former Senator Max Cleland, which included a photograph of Osama bin Laden, attacking the Democratic Senator's numerous votes to apply labor union rules…
June 17th, 2008 11:27 PM | Tom Blumer
An unbylined Associated Press report yesterday, at least as carried at MSNBC, acknowledges improvement, and then explains why it's not going to get much future coverage from the wire service as…
June 17th, 2008 9:57 PM | Brent Bozell
The day after Al Gore endorsed Barack Obama in Detroit, MSNBC kept repeating the allegedly big news with the on-air question "Will Gore Help or Hurt Obama?" Left out of that question: Who cares?…
June 17th, 2008 5:47 PM | Ken Shepherd
Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani is the latest Marine to turn out not to be a "cold-blooded killer" that the media and Democratic politicians painted Marines charged with the Haditha "massacre" to be.…
June 17th, 2008 3:56 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Simple mistake, or wish fulfillment? Appearing on MSNBC this afternoon, a Washington Post reporter claimed the paper's latest poll results showed Barack Obama with a "big lead" over John McCain…
June 17th, 2008 3:05 PM | Noel Sheppard
Here's something you don't see every day: four people on MSNBC agreeing that an ad attacking Republican presidential nominee John McCain is a "cheap shot."
Yet, that's exactly what…
June 16th, 2008 11:00 PM | Brent Baker
NBC anchor Brian Williams on Monday evening rued that Afghanistan “is too often called the other war or perhaps even the forgotten war” when “in the month of May, for the first time ever, American…
June 16th, 2008 8:44 PM | Brent Baker
Just under a year after NBC turned over more than 75 hours of air time on several of their channels to Al Gore's “Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis,” Monday's NBC Nightly News…