'Today' Spouse Segment: Bill the Thrill, Thompson the Troublemaker

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

A Google alert this morning brought an article about a speech in which NBC's Lester Holt claimed that he and his MSM colleagues "are perfectly capable of putting [their] personal bias aside." Holt went to state that "the level of organized attacks against news organizations from the blogosphere and even from competitors in recent years is unprecedented and disturbing."

Less than an hour later there was Holt on the Today show . . . which proceeded to run a segment typifying the very kind of bias he claims the MSM is "perfectly capable" of putting aside.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Double-standard bias ping to Today show list.

[Bahbah]

We are in for nearly a year of this.

[nyyankeefan]

anything on the lib/dem biased nbc networks will be for lib/dems and against republicans.....even the pres of msnbc has openly admitted the station is left leaning....and yet they call themselves neutral unbiased non-agenda journalists!!!!!

[donnab]

NBC= NUTTY about BILL CLINTON

[Turret Gunner A20]

Is anybody at all surprised by this hypocricy?

[savedbygrace]

Mark, Mark, Mark, (sigh)

Lester only said they were CAPABLE of putting their bias aside. He didn’t say they WOULD put their bias aside.

Parse, parse, parse.

;-)

[Miss Didi]

We are in for nearly a year of this.

I say let the Drive-Bys gush...how much will the American people be able to stand?

[stratboy]

Gee, they wonder why network viewership is way down. So myopic that they can't see their own bias.

However, I must agree the the "NO ORDINARY SPOUSE" caption. That is because he isn't one. I don't think that it is normal for a spouse to run around like an unneutered dog mounting anything in heat.

[Always Right]

The MSM is not biased, they just know Democrats are perfect angels and Republicans are total devils and they report as such. That is just good reporting, right?

[Boston Tea Party]

Who the heck is Lester Holt?

[freedom1st]

If Lester Holt were truly unbiased when it came to candidate’s spouses, he would interview Kathleen Willey about her new book regarding Bubba’s attack of her. She was on Michael Medved’s radio show yesterday. Her description of how Clinton molested her and the threats she has received from agents of the Clintons (Bubba and Hill) to keep quiet about the attacks were chilling.

[trisham]

It’s what we expected: no surprise here.

[freespirited]

Lester Holt claimed that he and his MSM colleagues "are perfectly capable of putting [their] personal bias aside."

Okay, so why don't they do it more than once in a blue moon?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

My bad ;-)

[italianquaker]

Why do repubs keep making fools out of themselves by going on these idiotic and biased shows?

[tioga]

Before I found the conservative blogs, news sites and FR, I was soooo depressed by that kind of commentary. I was beaten down..... NOT anymore! Praise God, I found FR.

Bill the Thrill...is really more like “Bill the Drill”...LOL
Thompson the Troublemaker? Mmm.......how about Jeri Thompson, First Lady? I like the ring to THAT. Imagine tiny tots romping the halls of the White House and NOT Bimbos for Bill like last time. Works for me.

[Brilliant]

“the level of organized attacks against news organizations from the blogosphere and even from competitors in recent years is unprecedented and disturbing.”

i.e. “we can dish it out, but we can’t take it.”

[Mo1]

Hey Lester .. if you and your MSM colleagues can’t be honest with yourselves ... how can you be honest your viewers and readers

Majority of the country is old enough to remember the Clinton years .... so please stop treating us like we are children

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Lester Holt claimed that he and his MSM colleagues "are perfectly capable of putting [their] personal bias aside."

Claiming that you "are perfectly capable of putting [their] personal bias aside" is an expression of your own subjectivity, neither more nor less. Consequently it is utterly unsurprising to learn of any other subsequent manifestation of that subjectivity.