Day Deux of the "MSNBC Booed Bush" controversy, and Joe Scarborough was looking to make up ground . . .
For those who missed the story, in a burst of candor "Morning Joe" host Scarborough…
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August 17th, 2007 12:26 PM | Mark Finkelstein
August 17th, 2007 2:02 AM | Brent Baker
The MSNBC staffers who booed President Bush in 2003 were just following the tradition set in 2000 when those at the NBC News flagship cheered on Al Gore. In the wake of Joe Scarborough's revelation…
August 16th, 2007 6:36 AM | Mark Finkelstein
UPDATE: Joe and Mika discuss this NB item. Video (0:57): Real (1.55 MB) or Windows (1.78 MB), plus MP3 (435 kB).
Joe Scarborough has pulled back the curtain on the liberal bias at MSNBC,…
August 16th, 2007 3:10 AM | Brent Baker
Only days after Newsweek was embarrassed when its own columnist, Robert Samuelson, excoriated the magazine for a “fundamentally misleading” and “highly contrived” cover story meant to defame the…
August 15th, 2007 9:17 PM | Mike Bates
ABC7 Chicago's Andy Shaw reported today on a Democratic rally at the Illinois State Fair. Speaking was former steelworker Steve Skvara, who the mainstream media made an instant celebrity, not to…
August 15th, 2007 8:31 PM | Brent Baker
Katie Couric found it newsworthy Wednesday night that former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's resignation letter from nine months ago did not include the words “war” or “Iraq.” Picking up…
August 15th, 2007 12:30 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday's MSNBC Live with Dan Abrams, host and MSNBC general manager Abrams opened his show lambasting Karl Rove, tagging him the "Constitutional Crippler" for accusing judges of "bending the…
August 14th, 2007 8:50 AM | P.J. Gladnick
With the announcement of Karl Rove resigning his position from the White House, it is time to revisit that infamous report by MSNBC's David Shuster who on Keith Olbermann's Countdown show on May 8…
August 13th, 2007 12:24 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
Talking like a Democratic congressman eager to get Karl Rove's scalp, Chris Matthews seemed to be urging Democrats to grill the President's adviser on the "witness chair." On this morning's Today…
August 13th, 2007 3:40 AM | Brent Baker
The left-wing AFL-CIO union labor and Human Rights Campaign gay rights forums with Democratic presidential candidates held last week “suggest to me that the Democratic base is really the middle…
August 13th, 2007 1:35 AM | Brent Baker
Word came Sunday that entertainment industry titan Merv Griffin passed away at age 82. Back in October of 2003, when CBS planned to air a derogatory mini-series about Ronald and Nancy Reagan, The…
August 12th, 2007 9:44 AM | P.J. Gladnick
Apparently Hardball host Chris Matthews has a bit of a problem keeping his lust in check on the air. On Friday evening's Hardball, Matthews was interviewing CNBC's Street…
August 11th, 2007 12:28 PM | Noel Sheppard
So, have you heard that Fox News' Bill O'Reilly isn't fond of liberal bloggers?
In case there was any confusion about this issue, the outspoken host made it quite clear on Thursday…
August 11th, 2007 11:06 AM | Scott Whitlock
Those Nutty Christians
On Tuesday’s "Nightline," co-anchor Martin Bashir filed a report on businessman Tom Monaghan, founder of a Catholic university in Florida and a community that will…
August 10th, 2007 7:49 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Just when you thought the MSM couldn't sink any lower . . .
Could there possibly be an American who doesn't admire the Reverend Billy Graham? Apparently, yes. Have a look at the cover of…
August 10th, 2007 6:04 PM | Dan Gainor
The media have found their new poster boy to rail against the coal industry.
MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," but with Allison Stewart filling in for an absent Olbermann, had anti-coal…
August 10th, 2007 3:33 PM | Mark Finkelstein
You might consider that speculating about a candidate's sexuality would be off limits in the responsible media. Yet that's just what happened on MSNBC this morning.
Chuck Nice is a…
August 10th, 2007 12:40 PM | Jeff Poor
The media have found their new poster boy to rail against the coal industry.
MSNBC’s “Countdown with Keith Olbermann,” but with Allison Stewart filling in for an absent…
August 10th, 2007 11:00 AM | Mike Bates
On Tuesday, retired steel worker Steve Skvara tearfully asked Democratic presidential candidates, "What's wrong with America? And what will you do to change it?"The question was, according to a…
August 10th, 2007 10:13 AM | Rich Noyes
Many Americans do not believe the news media are fair, accurate or even moral, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center. The poll of 1500 Americans conducted late last month found that…
August 9th, 2007 12:25 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Forget Nurse Ratched. Pat Buchanan and Willie Geist have birthed a new metaphor for Hillary Clinton: the mean schoolmarm.On "Morning Joe" today at about 6:55 A.M. EDT, the pair were discussing the…
August 9th, 2007 10:07 AM | Noel Sheppard
Two military veterans almost came to blows on MSNBC's "Hardball" Wednesday evening as they debated the war in Iraq, and what presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (D-New York) would do if…
August 8th, 2007 9:15 PM | Brent Baker
Tremendously exaggerating the number of Americans who lack access to health insurance, CBS on Wednesday night trumpeted the cause of an AFL-CIO member who denounced the United States for not…
August 8th, 2007 4:03 PM | Justin McCarthy
CBS, the Rathergate network, offered up another misleading report. The August 8 edition of "The Early Show,"at 7:09 AM, edited a Hillary Clinton quote from the August 7 AFL-CIO debate to portray…
August 7th, 2007 11:54 PM | Brad Wilmouth
Keith Olbermann a "fair and balanced" journalist for a day? Did the sweltering Chicago temperatures somehow get to him? The MSNBC host who is notorious for anti-Bush, anti-conservative rants…