MSNBC, the New Clinton News Network?

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | 2/18/04 | Lowell Ponte

[Bluntpoint]

Keyes was much smarter than me. At least that was his message time and time again.

[arasina]

It almost looks like they are trying to fail!!!!

The probably are, just so they can say "right wing" Dennis Miller wasn't what the people wanted. FNC should've nabbed him and done the show right.

Welcome back, by the way. :o)

[arasina]

Oh whoops. Caught the date too late. Need more coffee.

[Cold Heat]

Thanks howlin for putting the debacle into perspective.

I caught a few minutes of IMUS this morning and he was slamming Mathews for his rants and obvious partisanship yesterday.

Even said" Mathews was going to marry Richard Clark" or something to that effect.

The libs are so desperate to run a cable channel into the ground in order to spread their liberal lies to a few more unsuspecting viewers.

You can really smell the desperation now. One can only hope that the average Joe can see through the veil.

[kcvl]

2000: Kaplan stayed overnight in the White House for a second time. “No, I do not feel embarrassed, ashamed or compromised in any way, shape or form,” Kaplan said after President Clinton gave his daughter Alexis, 21, a two-and-a-half hour White House tour.


BRUCE MORTON: The Clintons? Well they had all those coffees which were fund-raisers. Sleepovers, between July 1, 1999, and August 31, 2000 when Hillary Clinton was running for the Senate, 404 slept over. And some of them were contributors, gave her campaign (UNINTELLIGIBLE) roughly $600,000. There were lots more celebrities. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Actor Steven Spielberg, actress Meg Ryan, actor Danny Devito, newsman Walter Cronkite, and newsman Rick Kaplan who used to work here and dignitaries like the king of Spain. But hey, they were mostly friends.

[Wait4Truth]

I am one of those that has now completely boycotted MSNBC. After listening to Imus's anti-Bush rants and Chris Matthews' diatribe against President Bush and Condi Rice yesterday, I have no use for the channel anymore. I will never watch them again.

[maica]

Thanks for the ping. I am going to print this out to show people who think that I am overly sensitive to media bias.

Beside the partisanship on "news" programming, we now have the blatant insertion of anti-Bush commentary in regular programming.

Scarborough has sold his soul to keep his show, or he was a fake conservative when he was a congressman from the Florida panhandle.

My TV goes off at 10pm now.

[mewzilla]

Wonder if his slamming will tone down a bit.

I haven't heard him slamming Kaplan of MSNBC lately...

[mewzilla]

of=or

[snooker]

The change is dramatic ... Mathews has moved from spin to just making it up. Last night's dumball lead was bombshell, Bush knew. Aug 6 memo, blah blah blah.

What crap.

[NYC Republican]

I can't stand Imus, but I can't believe I just listened to him blasting Matthews, saying he was disgustingly partisan and that his performance yesterday was disgraceful. To criticize a fellow "news"-show host, wow.

[BlueAngel]

Bump!

[Wait4Truth]

Good for Imus for a change...he has been on the Kerry bandwagon for awhile now and has been calling the President and his staff really ugly names. I have also heard him call Scarborough a moron back when Joe was still acting like a Republican. Joe has since sold his soul and now doesn't sound much different than a RAT hack. He has disappointed me greatly and I stopped watching his show quite awhile back. MSNBC will now be a total cesspool with Kaplan at the helm.

[NYC Republican]

Never mind bud. He jut turned around and said we'll never get the truth from Bush. He defends Kerry saying that he made a mistake in voting for the war, but that it was an honest mistake. What a senile bastard.

[leadpenny]

I can't stand Imus, but I can't believe I just listened to him blasting Matthews . . .

You know why I'm laughing. Imus is like the reason there are "rubber-neckers" when there is an accident six lanes away in the opposite direction highway lanes.

[Wait4Truth]

I'd like to see ALL freepers boycott MSNBC. I doubt that will happen but that is my wish. Matthews, especially, has totally gone over the edge. Saying yesterday that "Bush knew" and continueing to have the whining widows on has just been pathetic. The widows are on the Today Show this morning, criticising Condi and the Bush Administration. The media has only one goal: destroy Bush and rewrite the Clinton presidency. We must not allow them to succeed.

[EllaMinnow]

Shameless self-promotion of my Boycott MSNBC thread.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1114089/posts

[Wait4Truth]

No surprise with Imus...clinton gets a pass on Bin Laden...that's the whole gameplan. Nothing else matters. Don's touting of Kerry makes me sick. Like I said, I won't ever watch that channel again.

[kcvl]

ABC News President David Westin, the same man who has regularly promoted former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos, was instrumental in bringing Kaplan aboard.

[auboy]

Along his Leftward way, Kaplan has tarnished the reputations of broadcast network news departments from ABC to CNN….and he is about to do the same to ruin MSNBC. Our only consolation is that his partisan propaganda will be infecting one of the tiniest audiences in all of television. The larger lesson is what this reveals about an NBC willing to hire such a person to run one of its networks.

Hiring Kaplan is not a sound business decision. Sounds more like a death wish.