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Thanks...I just checked out the Frontpage article and its a good, long read on Kaplan's extreme partisanship.
Here's the start for those interested.

By Lowell Ponte

FrontPageMagazine.com | February 18, 2004.

Frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12234

MSNBC DIED THIS WEEK, but few have yet noticed.

"Third among cable news networks, this joint venture begun in July 1996 by Microsoft and General Electric, owner of NBC, has lagged far behind rival Fox News Channel and CNN in viewers. But it has offered an alternative source of viewpoints, ranging from "Hardball" hosted by veteran Democrat Chris Matthews to "Scarborough County" hosted by former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough from the conservative Florida panhandle.

"It was time for a change, to bring a new perspective to the channel," an NBC executive this week reportedly told the New York Times. This "new perspective" will be a new President and General Manager of MSNBC – Richard N. Kaplan.

With Kaplan's entrenchment, MSNBC will, like the other establishment networks, almost certainly become just another cookie cutter stamping out a daily batch of predictable one-sided, pro-Democrat, anti-Republican, pro-Leftist propaganda.

Rick Kaplan, 56, is a huge, energetic bear of a man who got into the wrong profession a third of a century ago. Ever since, he has tried to twist his jobs as a broadcast news producer and executive into the role he wanted instead – partisan political operative, Leftist ideologue, and, since 1977, political ally and intimate friend of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

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..."