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Check out the screengrab after the jump. Before Chris Hayes uttered word one of commentary about Hermain Cain's speech suspending his campaign, he reacted with derisive laughter. Hayes, host of a weekend MSNBC show, was serving as analyst on Alex Witt's show as they broke down the Cain announcement. Hayes went on to mock Cain and his speech as a "bizarre charade" and a "freak show," along the way laughing once more, this time at the notion Cain might have a career as a motivational speaker. View the video here.

When it comes to Barack Obama, MSNBC is the network of thrills and chills . . . Chris Matthews famously said he felt a thrill going up his leg listening to an Obama speech. Now, MSNBC anchor Alex Witt has been similarly moved by Obamian oratory, declaring this morning "I got a few chills" listening to PBO's "very powerful" speech on immigration. Witt described her sensations to MSNBC DC bureau chief Mark Whitaker. View video here.

watch as he crosses a line, that line which states "Thou shalt not speak ill of The One": Did you catch the MSNBC anchorette quickly step up and speak on behalf of the Obama administration? So telling... of course, anyone who disbelieves that MSNBC is anything but a megaphone for Obama needs his or her head examined but still, it's eye-opening to hear someone just come right out there in the open with it.

Here is video of an MSNBC report where reporter Nora O'Donnell is on air from Alaska talking about activities surrounding Gov. Sarah Palin's handover of power to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell tomorrow as she steps down from the Governor's post. At the end of the piece, O'Donnell then proceeds to tell anchor Alex Witt about a hotel in Alaska she has been staying at, and jokes: "Pat Buchanan is still sleeping upstairs -- no, I'm just kidding, we didn't bring Pat with us... You know, he wishes he were here, because as you and I both know, he is a...

File this one under “Deluded Expectations.” During MSNBC’s coverage of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, daytime anchor Alex Witt seemed frustrated that the election of Barack Obama 23 days earlier — and the accompanying “global outpouring of affection, respect, hope” — had not caused an end to terrorist violence. Talking with correspondent John Yang, who was covering the Obama side of the story, Witt conceded that while “you certainly can’t expect things to change on a dime overnight....There had been such a global outpouring of affection, respect, hope, with the new administration coming in, that precisely these...