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I just voted for John McCain as to "Who did the better job connecting with the crowd?" Then, I saw the question: "Who won the presidential debate?" Here is what I saw: (checkmark) Barack Obama Thanks for voting! View other people's answers below.

Chris Matthews: Building the Thrill Liberal hypocrisy in motion. A NewsBusters production.

Brian Williams is the only network anchor who hasn’t had a shot at interviewing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and the NBC anchor wants the McCain-Palin campaign to know he’s ready to do it –- they just have to say the word. “I have access to the three metropolitan airports,” Williams told David Letterman on Friday night. “I cannot wait to interview Sarah Palin. “You know, Katie’s airing Part 17 tonight,” he joked. “And Sarah Palin and Charlie Gibson are in a pottery class together, so I’ve been shut out so far.”

It's not like we haven't seen this before. But this time it was so incredibly blatant that it raises the question: why have Olbermann on the air at all? Why not just let Markos Moulitsas be the guy who hosts Countdown and runs MSNBC?

After the vice presidential debate Chris Matthews criticized Sarah Palin for, of all things, looking into the camera because it made her look like a "dolt." In fact, the "Hardball," host took several stylistic shots at Palin that implied the Alaska Governor wasn't very intelligent. Audio here When guest panelist Roger Simon noted Palin looked directly into the camera, Matthews observed: You know what I think of people when they come on "Hardball," and they look at the camera, I think they're dolts. In addition to the "dolt," remark Matthews viewed Palin's performance as "so reciting," and "automatic," "like a...

Fox News Capitalizes on Election in Ratings Race By Michele Greppi The wild rides of the campaign for president and the economic turmoil boosted Fox News Channel’s prime-time block to fourth among all cable channels for the third quarter, extending its streak as the highest-rated cable news network to 27 consecutive quarters. According to data from Nielsen Media Research, FNC averaged 2.2 million total viewers in the 8-11 p.m. daypart for the just-concluded quarter. CNN ranked ninth among all cable channels for the quarter with an average 1.3 million viewers, its biggest quarter since the Iraq war began in early...

When the Dow was down 777, they had it in big graphics, but when it went up 485 the next day, it was nowhere to be seen. Today, they showed the Dow until it started going back up, and then it was gone.

How unbalanced was MSNBC's "Race for the White House" panel this evening? The two Obama-friendly panelists—Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post and Richard Wolffe of Newsweek—were ostensibly offset by Philly radio talker Michael Smerconish and Independent Women's Forum head Michelle Bernard. But channeling Dem congressman James Clyburn on this morning's Today, Smerc called the House Republicans "sophomoric." That was nothing. One-upping Smerconish in the pejorative department, Bernard said that every recent McCain move has been "like an epileptic fit." Joe Scarborough, putting in a long day's work and subbing for regular host David Gregory, teed up Bernard's snipe with a...

On Friday's "Hardball," Chris Matthews interviewed a number of student members of the group Concerned Youth of America. One of those students -- Caroline -- is his daughter, a student at the University of Pennsylvania.

"Do we have a point of view with our shows?" MSNBC President Phil Griffin asked. "Definitely. But we've established ourselves as a news organization, NBC News, as uncompromised and as good as anybody in the country." “For her part, Maddow said she doesn't think of her show as a platform from which to espouse her political viewpoints. "I certainly have beliefs and opinions, just like anybody does," she said. "But I don't have an agenda. Still, there's no question that Maddow's unrestrained indignation at Republican policies is a big part of her appeal. On a recent night, in discussing Iraqi...

Aren't Chris Matthews and Hardball the champions of the little guy? You know, those folks, embittered by the bad economic times, who get exploited off by questionable financial institutions? So why does Hardball have as a sponsor a lender with a target market of the down-and-out, that charges borrowers . . . over 99% per annum in interest? [Large screencap showing fine print after the jump.] There I was watching this afternoon's Hardball, when, just after Matthews got through playing [for the umpteenth time today on MSNBC] clips from Tina Fey's latest Sarah Palin impression, on came an ad for...

During Friday’s post-debate coverage on MSNBC, Chris Matthews portrayed Barack Obama as appearing "more presidential" while he complained that John McCain "was crunched over, almost grumpy in physical manner," as he contended that McCain "may not have been presidential." Matthews also complained that McCain did not look at Obama at all during the debate, a theme which Matthews touched on repeatedly that night. Matthews: "[McCain] may not have been presidential, however. Not once tonight, in an hour and a half, did he look at his opponent. He was crunched over, almost grumpy in his physical manner. I think a lot...

A disgraceful performance on MSNBC by Chris Matthews, who alongside his ideological partner Keith Olbermann, was recently called on the carpet by his bosses for their partisan chit-chat and were removed from election night and debate coverage. Doesn't seem to have worked. When he was engaging a guest, he said which candidate would you like to have in your face for 4-8 years? He then replied for the guest, "or is he too troll-like?". He continued in this vein for a good three or four sentences, each more unprofessional than the other.

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WASHINGTON - The cable network MSNBC on Friday stopped airing a commercial by two liberal groups that makes an issue of John McCain's past bouts with skin cancer and demands that he release his medical records to the public. "The ad had not been thoroughly vetted prior to air, and has since been removed from our commercial rotation," NBC spokeswoman Allison Gollust said in an e-mail. She did not elaborate. The ad displays black and white close-up images of McCain and the scars related to the removal of melanomas from his face. A spokesman for one of the groups, Democracy...

<p>NEW YORK — NBC News reporter Luke Russert said he made a "dumb" misstatement on the "Today" show Wednesday when he suggested that smart people supported Barack Obama for president.</p> <p>Almost immediately, Russert took a hazing in the Web world. Wrote Tim Graham of the conservative Media Research Center on the NewsBusters blog: "Out of the mouths of young, untrained reporters come the unspoken beliefs of the liberal media."</p>

In March, 1778, MSNBC ran one of their famous non-biased television segments on Valley Forge. The transcript follows.

With two weeks under her TV belt, Rachel Maddow has become a bonafide hit for MSNBC. Last week the program was #2 in cable news in both the A25-54 demo and in Total Viewers at 9pmET, beating CNN's Larry King Live. FNC's Hannity & Colmes was the top-rated broadcast at 9pmET. On Friday, Maddow's was the #1 show in the demo at 9pmET topping a Hannity-less H&C. Last Tuesday and Thursday, Maddow's program was the #1 show on MSNBC. In the two weeks since Maddow took over the 9pmET slot, the program's nine shows have averaged 556,000 demo viewers and...

This is a video that should make the rounds again from the primaries when Democrats were eating eachother alive over Obama's accomplishments on MSNBC. We find a Hillary supporter not falling for it and we find a Democratic congressmen who can not name one accomplishment. Of course Keith Olbermann comes to Obama's defense.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZTo0iGc_Dw I pray someone from the McCain campaign uses this footage in an ad shortly.

The troubled mortgage finance giant announces restructuring of organization with more direct reports to CEO.WASHINGTON (AP) -- Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae, taken over by the government earlier this month, announced Friday the resignations of four senior executives and said it was restructuring its organization. The company, the biggest buyer and guarantor of home loans in the country, and its sibling Freddie Mac (FRE, Fortune 500) were taken over on Sept. 7 in a rescue plan that eventually could require the Treasury Department to put up as much as $100 billion for each of them over time if needed to...

"...Getting to the bottom of evolution...Genetic study investigates the origin of the anus...research is opening a lively debate on the origin of the anus...Today, two evolutionary biologists have published genetic evidence in Nature1 that they claim refutes the leading theory of anal evolution..."

Don't get me wrong. I don't mean to suggest Mike Barnicle's nearly as deep in the tank for Obama as Chris Matthews, for whom he subbed for on tonight's Hardball. Mike's actually refreshingly down-the-middle compared to the regular host. Still, when at the very end of this evening's show Mike asked a question of Jill Zuckman, the Chicago Tribune reporter on the Palin beat, wondering [hoping?] whether the wild enthusiasm for Sarah has run its course, he got an answer that I don't quite think he was expecting. View video here.

We learn this from Drudge: MOVE OVER, OLBERMANN, RACHEL MADDOW TOPS MSNBC RATINGS! [AND SHE BEATS LARRY KING, TOO] CABLE RACE, TUES, SEPT 16 HANNITY/COLMES 3,136,000 O’REILLY 3,060,000 GRETA 2,908,000 HUME 1,977,000 COOPER 1,828,000 RACHEL MADDOW 1,801,000 SHEP SMITH 1,724,000 KING 1,710,000 OLBERMANN 1,635,000 GRACE 1,166,000 DOBBS 1,156,000 HARDBALL 821,000 Poor Keith. Rachel Maddow’s got the juice. She just might be MSNBC’s Sarah Palin. Which would make Olbermann, presumably, Joe Biden?

Looks like Olbermann isn’t starting the week off on a good foot. The Edward R. Murrow Apparition was unable to claim his usual #2 spot at 8PM in 25-54 last night. (That's Olbermann's primal scream Rorschach inkblot). Placing fourth on Friday during a big night of news – Hurricane Ike, Olbermann was not able to climb back to his perch. Instead, he was #3 last night in his time slot, behind Nancy Grace. Monday 8PM 25-54 Ratings: FNC’s O’Reilly Factor: 773,000 in 25-54 demo (had 3.5 million viewers last night) Headline’s Nancy Grace: 586,000 in 25-54 MSNBC’s Countdown: 571,000 in...

You'd think Chris Matthews would learn his lesson. First he insulted Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell as "showcase appointments," only to apologize for it later. Then, on Tuesday's "Hardball" he essentially called Sarah Palin an empty "vessel" with no "independent thinking" of her own, just "like a Clarence Thomas." [audio excerpt available here] Matthews made the following gaffe during a discussion about Sarah Palin's readiness, on the September 16, "Hardball":

Andrea Mitchell today stated that "all of us" originally thought John McCain had made a political mistake when he changed positions and came out of in favor of expanded oil drilling. On her 1 PM EDT MSBNC show today, Mitchell was chatting with former Clinton press secretary Dee Dee Myers and Republican strategist Doug McKinnon . The subject was the just-announced Dem energy plan, that makes some limited provision for expanded offshore drilling. Mitchell made no bones of the fact that the politics now favor the advocates of expanded drilling, and that Dems were caught off guard. ANDREA MITCHELL: Dee...

Sorry for this vanity, but I am about to explode. Yes, I have turned them off. I may even bleep MSNBC from my lineup. But, it galls me that these smug, condescending, arrogant airheads get the time that they get. It's criminal.

On the September 12 edition of Hardball, Chris Matthews so twisted what Governor Sarah Palin said in reply to Charlie Gibson's question about Israel's defense decisions that her reply is hardly recognizable in Matthews' hands. By slyly adding his own additions to Gibson's question and Palin's reply, Matthews attempted to make Palin look naive on the foreign policy question. In essence, Matthews lied about what Palin said. Matthews made a knot out of Palin's words, like taking a straw and tying it in a knot. It's still a straw, but it is no longer useful for what it was intended....

Surprisingly good

http://www.mikefrancesa.com/wordpress/?p=1129I can't take it anymore, why do I watch. Matthews just blatantly lied about this part of the interview: The bias continues, here is what Chris Matthews said on Friday’s edition of Hardball: Chris Matthews: What did you make her of answer when she was asked four times by Charlie Gibson, what would you do if the government of Israel….called us up and said we are ready to hit Iran, we think we got the bead on where their nuclear facilities are, we want some help with AWACS, some intelligence, we want some radar, we want some refueling help. And...

But big questions remain: Is this Palin bubble going to burst, and if so, when? And if it does burst, will it be a full-fledged bust? Will the collapse be reminiscent of famous internet bubble stock drops like DrKoop.com and Pets.com? Or will there be a soft landing, like with AOL and Amazon?

Call this the meeting of the minds - should it ever happen, but the host of CNN "Lou Dobbs Tonight" has a message for MSNBC's "Countdown" host Keith Olbermann. Lou Dobbs, a self-described ‘independent populist' that espouses his anti-free trade and protectionist viewpoints on CNN nightly, appeared at the Family Research Council's Values Voter Summit. It was there that Dobbs revealed his disdain for Olbermann. "Did somebody mention Keith Olbermann?" Dobbs asked rhetorically. "By the way - I was delighted to hear that - well, let me say, let me put it this way just very clearly - I'm a...

Naming Palin's pro-Israel views and twisting her comments on a "war" with Russia, MSNBC's Chris Matthews accuses the McCain campaign of "indoctrinating" her into a neoconservative. Matthews makes his claims while interviewing Former Alaska Gov. and Palin opponent Tony Knowles. "Do you think she's being submitted to [an] indoctrination program, she talked last night with Charlie Gibson like a real full-blown neoconservative." "Where do you think she is getting this from? Is she getting this from Randy Scheunemann, the neoconservative lobbyist or former lobbyist for the government of Georgia." "Is she willing to simply repeat, recite, parrot if you will...

Olberman is a GIANT GASBAG (remove G add S before B) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odb09esH8z4 Watch if you dare, prepare to be MAD.

absolutely horrifying scenes, but Olberman's rant against RNC is turned on his head.

MSNBC is now rebroadcasting NBC's Today Show coverage of September 11 as the news was breaking on live TV.

But 9/11 has become a brand name. A Republican campaign slogan. Propaganda of the lowest form. 9/11 has become 9/11 with a trademark logo. 9/11 (TM) has sustained a president who long ago should have been dismissed, or impeached. It has kept him and his gang of financial and constitutional crooks in office without — literally — any visible means of support. The political party in office at the time of the attacks, at the local, state and national levels, the party which uniformly ignored the warnings and the presidential administration already through twenty percent of its first term and...

by Chris Spangle ~ September 10th, 2008 Obama is apparently taking advice from Keith Olbermann these days. At 6:03 in this video, Olbermann implores Obama to start proclaiming ENOUGH, more. Start being angry So Obama took his advice, and proclaimed ENOUGH during his piggish press conference today. Go to the 1:45 minute mark.

At a Friars Club roast of Hugh Hefner three weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, comedian Gilbert Gottfried not only pushed the envelope, he set it on fire. He was at the podium, about to launch into the abundantly filthy “Aristocrats” joke that inspired an entire documentary film, when he mentioned that he had tried to get a direct flight “but they said they have to stop at the Empire State Building first.”

NBC/NJ’s Matthew E. Berger reports that Palin couldn’t wait to descend down the stairs from her campaign plane lat night. The plans called for her to wait for the media and staff to leave first, set up, and then allow the doors to open for a grand entrance. But the sight of her family, and several thousand of her Alaskan brethren waiting for her on the tarmac of the Fairbanks airport, was too much. Palin could be heard nearly squealing with delight in the front of the plane at the sight of three of her children at the foot of...

The executive suite at MSNBC is the last hardened corner of America to concede that maybe Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews are nowhere close to the textbook definition of detached, "straight news" anchor. Their decision to abandon what was tenderly called their anchoring "experiment" only acknowledges that the idea was a bust: MSNBC was regularly coming in dead last among the commercial cable-news and broadcast-news network covering the conventions. NBC News is coming to the realization that Olbermann and Matthews aren't only suppressing MSNBC's ratings on election and convention nights, they're ruining whatever credibility NBC's brand retained. When the boos...

The drama began on Sunday, Aug. 24, at a panel discussion in Denver among Sunday political talk show hosts. There Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell asserted that throughout the primaries MSNBC had favored Barack Obama over his preferred candidate Senator Hillary Clinton. Afterward, Tom Brokaw defended NBC News reporters but acknowledged feeling that certain anchor-pundits had crossed a line. “I think Keith has gone too far,” said Mr. Brokaw. “I think Chris has gone too far.”

We thought Olbermann was bad in covering the two conventions, but his performance tonight on Countdown was even worse. Sadly, this is not surprising given how he has been demoted at MSNBC because he is too extreme even for their management! Tonight Olbermann shamelessly accused our military men and women of a "massacre of civilians" in Azizabad, Afghanistan. (Excerpt--read the rest at Not WRIGHT for America)

....The Democratic convention was a disaster for MSNBC. With Olbermann and fellow Obama-lover Chris Matthews in the anchor chairs, the network became a glass case exhibiting a zoo of dysfunctional egos within. Olbermann and Matthews bickered all week. At one point, Olbermann made fun of Matthews by making a flapping-gums hand gesture, prompting Matthews to say, “You made that sound, Keith. I can do the same to you.” Olbermann also sparred with Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough. After Scarborough noted that McCain had gained in the polls, Olbermann muttered, “Jesus Joe, why don’t you get a shovel?” (the implication being...

<p>By Howard Kurtz The decision by MSNBC to yank Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews from anchor duty during live political events did not exactly send a thrill up the leg of liberal bloggers. A number of them denounced the cable channel yesterday ...</p>

At the risk of sounding agonizingly trite, let me take a moment to say that MSNBC's Keith Olbermann is a colossal jackass. He is, too, a liar and an undisciplined dullard. (The extraordinarily obvious is sometimes more beneficial than the simply obvious). Mind you, his opinions in and of themselves alone don't prompt me to this conclusion. Rather, it is his vile and disgraceful tendency to resort to disgusting personal attacks, unsubstantiated falsehoods, and a lack of professionalism that too often has him emoting like a pre-pubescent, foot-stomping little girl demanding a replacement light bulb for her E-Z Bake oven....

Less than a week after Sarah Palin's vice-presidential acceptance speech allusion to the liberal media prompted chants of "NBC, NBC, NBC" from Republican convention goers, MSNBC has dropped Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as co-anchors of its major political coverage. The outspoken pair will return to their roles as spirited commentators, the network formally announced Monday - to be replaced for the duration of the campaign by NBC White House correspondent David Gregory. The move has become a political showcase of its own, however, with some observers blaming the proverbial "right-wing conspiracy" for the decision. "The right dictates MSNBC's programming...

Staying at the Ritz Carlton Pentagon City in The DC area and found that the hotel does not Carry the Fox News Channel anymore. Talk about bias by a first class Hotel! The Carry MSNBC,CNN and 4 or 5 middle eastern chanels and Al Jezeera. Having stayed at this hotels over the years I find them to no longer being Fair and Balanced. Yes! I did leave a message for the Manager about my disapointment.

Chris Matthews, on Monday night's "Hardball," speculated that Republicans were playing the race card, when they made fun of Barack Obama's experience as a community organizer. In a segment with NBC's Chuck Todd and pollster Stuart Rothenberg, Matthews suspiciously noted that Republicans like Sarah Palin and Rudy Giuliani, at last week's GOP convention, were "giggling" over the "community organizer" title as he pondered: "Is this the new 'welfare queen?'" The following exchange occurred on the September 8 edition of "Hardball": CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah but also, Chuck, and this is tricky business. She's [Palin] rural, she's white, she's from out in...

MSNBC said Monday that it will replace the team of Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann as anchors of its live political coverage for the rest of the presidential campaign season. David Gregory, NBC News’ chief White House correspondent, will be the primary host of coverage of the presidential and vice presidential debates coming up over the next two months, as well as election night, said Phil Griffin, MSNBC’s president. The decision was first reported in Monday’s editions of The New York Times and The Washington Post...