On Wednesday's Hardball, MSNBC's Chris Matthews depicted Bush as a proverbial Nero, fiddling as Iraq burned and claimed Bush was led into war by "jugheaded neo-conservatives." Matthews also…
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December 14th, 2006 5:22 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
December 12th, 2006 9:32 PM | Mark Finkelstein
How out there is Eric Alterman? MSNBC, the network of Keith Olbermann, he who has accused Pres. Bush of fascism and called for his impeachment - fired him, presumably for being too extreme.
…December 12th, 2006 4:10 PM | Mark Finkelstein
Good-natured advice to reporters making headlines by exposing the ignorance of government officials on national security matters: keep your facts straight yourselves.
There's been a rash of…
December 12th, 2006 12:46 PM | Brian Fitzpatrick
Did you know that the War on Christmas, the misbegotten movement to ban nativity scenes at City Hall and replace “Merry Christmas” with “Happy Holidays,” is in full retreat? The media are turning…
December 11th, 2006 11:09 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Monday's Countdown during the show's regular "Oddball" segment, while reporting on the controversial decision of the Seattle-Tacoma Airport to remove its Christmas trees from public view rather…
December 9th, 2006 2:00 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann again discussed whether President Bush is the "worst ever" President, inspired by comments from Republican Senator Gordon Smith that leaving…
December 8th, 2006 11:02 AM | Geoffrey Dickens
MSNBC's David Shuster routinely spews the typical liberal spin his boss, Chris Matthews, likes to hear but sometimes Shuster goes a step beyond to uttering statements that make the viewer ask, "…
December 7th, 2006 11:03 PM | Tim Graham
Editors at the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post each used the reverential term "wisdom" to define the findings of the Baker-Hamilton commission -- suggesting that the current drift of…
December 7th, 2006 1:57 PM | Noel Sheppard
Wednesday, December 6, 2006, will certainly go down in history as the day the media used the release of a bipartisan report on the Iraq war as a way to thoroughly lambaste the president of the…
December 6th, 2006 10:15 PM | Brad Wilmouth
On Wednesday's Countdown show, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann reported the recent deaths of 10 American troops in Iraq by commenting that they had "paid the ultimate price for President Bush's execution…
December 6th, 2006 2:35 PM | Al Brown
The ink is barely dry on the Iraq Study Group's report and the mainstream media has already decided that the "bipartisan consensus" is gospel.
Just in case any neanderthals who might question this…
December 6th, 2006 12:31 AM | Brad Wilmouth
You know you're liberal if even a liberal media watchdog group calls you liberal -- that is, unless you're MSNBC's Keith Olbermann. While Olbermann denies displaying a liberal bias on his show,…
December 5th, 2006 10:53 PM | Tim Graham
It's understood there's a professional partnership between Newsweek and NBC/MSNBC, but it really seemed like the crew at Today on Tuesday were pounding consistently on the…
December 5th, 2006 9:50 PM | Brad Wilmouth
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, who regularly uses his Countdown show to ridicule President Bush, on Tuesday finally included the President in his list of nominees for "Worst Person in the World." For…
December 5th, 2006 7:45 PM | Mark Finkelstein
No Chris Matthews, no problem. The regular host of MSNBC's Hardball might be taking a post-election break, but the show hasn't missed a beat when it comes to liberal bias. We detailed here the…
December 5th, 2006 12:11 PM | Geoffrey Dickens
In a special edition of MSNBC's Hardball College Tour former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw went on diatribes against the President's war policy, comparing it to Vietnam, praised "rock star"…
December 5th, 2006 10:25 AM | Noel Sheppard
For a man that is averaging a paltry 600,000 viewers an evening, he sure is full of…himself. MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann sat down with the folks from Radar Online for an interview published Monday (…
December 4th, 2006 4:36 PM | Brian Fitzpatrick
“'Values' Voters Fade as Factor in U.S. Campaign,” crows an October 17 Reuters headline. If this is true, it isn't happening by accident. With the November elections looming, the biggest players…
December 4th, 2006 2:25 PM | Matthew Sheffield
The furor sparked by NBC News's self-important declaration that Iraq is now in a "civil war" is further proof that for all the chest-beating new media types sometimes do about displacing the MSM,…
December 2nd, 2006 11:29 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Friday's Countdown, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann attacked FNC's Bill O'Reilly, calling him a "holy you-know-what liar" because O'Reilly recently bragged that he had voiced the need for tough…
December 1st, 2006 2:08 PM | Scott Whitlock
Ever wonder what makes Keith Olbermann such a fine journalist? Well, according to the former sportscaster, it’s the fact that he doesn’t "make the facts up" like Rush Limbaugh does.
PBS host…
December 1st, 2006 12:58 AM | Amy Ridenour
The Laurie David/Al Gore/Keith Olbermann/Washington Post v. National Science Teachers Association controversy continues, with Science magazine weighing in with facts that don't look so good for…
December 1st, 2006 12:49 AM | Brad Wilmouth
On Thursday's Countdown, two days after comparing Newt Gingrich's ideas on free speech and anti-terrorism measures to Naziism, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann aimed his latest "Special Comment" rant at…
November 30th, 2006 9:33 PM | Brent Baker
On Thursday's Countdown, MSNBC's Keith Countdown made Brent Bozell, President of the Media Research Center which runs NewsBusters, the “winner” of his nightly “Worst Person in the World.” Bozell's…
November 30th, 2006 11:44 AM | Greg Sheffield
Yesterday John Gibson, host of "The Big Story" on Fox News, wondered if a national TV network, NBC, should make the country's foreign policy.
Let me introduce you to somebody. His name is…