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June 6th, 2007 12:38 PM | Ken Shepherd
June 6th, 2007 7:13 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Not that there had been much doubt as to where MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski stands politically . . . . As we have noted before, today wasn't the first time that the daughter of Jimmy Carter's erstwhile…
June 5th, 2007 3:03 PM | Brent Baker
In what will surely be one of the largest ever, if not the largest, in-kind contributions to a presidential campaign if Al Gore decides to run, NBC Universal announced late last week that its…
June 5th, 2007 3:48 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann pushed the theory that the recent announcement of a terror plot involving JFK Airport was politically timed to benefit the Bush administration,…
June 5th, 2007 2:00 AM | Ken Shepherd
An update to my earlier post that I figured would do just as well as a fresh item.
USA Today's "On Politics" blog, "TV Newser," and The New Republic's "The Plank" contain explanations from…
June 4th, 2007 5:08 PM | Ken Shepherd
Conservative blogs are abuzz with a controversial remark MSNBC's Joe Scarborough made on his Friday "Morning Joe" program about Jeri Thompson, the wife of former Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.), who…
June 4th, 2007 6:56 AM | Tim Graham
Phil Rosenthal interviewed NBC anchor Brian Williams for the Chicago Tribune, and Williams professed that he leaves any temptation to deliver commentary at home:
…June 2nd, 2007 7:57 PM | Noel Sheppard
Better get those potables, combustibles, and sharp objects stowed, and stowed quickly, sports fans, for this one is destined to evoke uncontrollable fits of laughter.
To set this up, did you…
June 1st, 2007 5:55 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Chris Matthews began his interview of Dan Bartlett by singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" in his honor. He ended with an apparently heartelt plea that Bartlett, who today announced that he will…
May 31st, 2007 1:35 PM | Scott Whitlock
On Thursday, all three network morning shows covered the announcement that former Senator Fred Thompson would be entering the 2008 race for the White House. And while CBS downplayed the news and…
May 29th, 2007 9:03 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Yes he leans left. But MSNBC host Chris Matthews was manifestly offended by the Mexican audience at the Miss Universe pageant that booed Miss USA. The Mexicans were adding insult to injury, since the…
May 28th, 2007 1:44 PM | Noel Sheppard
It’s been a full 48 hours since antiwar icon Cindy Sheehan publicly announced that she was leaving the Democrat Party due to Thursday’s bipartisan agreement on an Iraq war funding bill.
Yet…
May 26th, 2007 3:38 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown on MSNBC, Newsweek senior editor/MSNBC political analyst Jonathan Alter charged that, in signing the compromise bill on Iraq War funding, President Bush is "signing the death…
May 26th, 2007 10:30 AM | Scott Whitlock
"Get the Hint? Wink Wink? Nudge Nudge?"
Katie Couric may be many things (don’t call her perky), but she’s not subtle. The "CBS Evening News" anchor touted a new special on Walter Cronkite,…
May 24th, 2007 2:28 PM | Mark Finkelstein
During Monica Goodling's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee testimony Dem congressman Steven Cohen of Tennessee quizzed the former Justice Department official regarding her Christian…
May 24th, 2007 11:28 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann attacked Congressional Democrats for their "betrayal" of the voters for making a deal with President Bush on funding this "war of lies," and even…
May 23rd, 2007 9:53 PM | Mark Finkelstein
When it comes to anti-war politics, Rosie O'Donnell is one bedfellow Chris Matthews would gladly do without. The MSNBC host made that crystal clear on this afternoon's Hardball. Matthews played a…
May 22nd, 2007 10:19 PM | Brent Baker
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann on Tuesday night teased his “Worst Person in the World” segment by plugging “comedian Rush Limbaugh with a strong entry tonight whining that nobody at MSNBC actually hears him…
May 21st, 2007 4:23 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Don't you dare call Mika Brzezinski a mere newsreader. Beyond simply enunciating words off the teleprompter, the MSNBC host doesn't hesitate to share her [left-leaning] views with viewers, too.…
May 21st, 2007 2:46 PM | Justin McCarthy
On the May 21 edition of "The View," co-host Rosie O’Donnell responded to the fall out from her moral equivalency rant on Thursday. Rosie claims some cable news outlets "twisted" her words, and…
May 21st, 2007 9:09 AM | Mark Finkelstein
Trying to stir trouble for Rush Limbaugh this morning over his "Magic Negro" parody about Barack Obama, "Today" relied on misleading comments from a left-wing outfit without bothering to mention its…
May 20th, 2007 12:18 PM | Noel Sheppard
Here’s something you don’t see every day: three media members – two from liberal press outlets – agreeing that Fox News actually did something right.
Yet, that’s what happened on CNN’s “…
May 18th, 2007 12:00 AM | Jan LaRue, Esq.
Recall the nutrition nannies who told us 20 years ago to stop eating butter fat and start eating margarine with trans fats? They should have admitted they fumbled the facts and dropped out of…
May 17th, 2007 5:58 PM | Scott Whitlock
On only his second day as a Don Imus-substitute, NBC reporter David Gregory proved that he can promote Democratic talking points in any medium. For the Thursday edition of "Gregory Live," which is…
May 17th, 2007 5:11 AM | Lynn Davidson
What does it say when porn-peddler and sex-shop owner Larry Flynt treated Jerry Falwell’s death with more class than CNN? As Newsbusters reported yesterday, during “…