This was inevitable. MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel’s coverage of the That experiment appears to be over. After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent [...]
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A Word About the Anti Clinton Media
Reporting from Denver Howard Wolfson went to Fox for a reason. Keith Olbermann, once again, illustrated why. Anyone going at Wolfson for being on Fox definitely didn’t see the primary media coverage through Hillary eyes. Fox will never be pro Democratic, but they were fair to Clinton during the primaries, along with CNN, which Olbermann [...]
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The Media’s Clintonitis
Reporting from Denver John Harris has got it and it’s lethal. … .. It also requires them to embrace a generational transition in which the Clintons — whose political personas once stood for youth and the excitement of change — are cast as sunset figures, two conventional politicians in their sixties being shoved aside by [...]
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Mike Allen Reports Old News in Order to Hit Hillary
Reporting from Santa Fe, New Mexico Bad journalism gets a lot of attention. That’s especially true on a day when everyone is waiting for veep news. There’s nothing yet to report. So, some rehash old stories. Via Mike Allen. Clinton was never vetted. The dream team is dead. This was reported weeks ago by Mike [...]
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Bill Clinton, Race Baiting and Phallic Symbols
“I am not a racist.” – William Jefferson Clinton (Interview with Kate Snow, ABC News) You know Democrats are in trouble when the only two-term Democratic president since F.D.R. is reduced to stating he’s “not a racist.” Especially when this president was championed by the African American community during his presidency, right up until Jesse [...]
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The Race Issue, Up Front and Ugly
The latest salvos between these two camps started when John McCain’s ad “Celeb” hit the airwaves. People said it was such a silly ad. Unfortunately, it worked, because Barack Obama took the bait and then amped it up. “Nobody thinks that Bush and McCain have a real answer to the challenges we face. So what [...]
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ObamaSmear-o-Rama
Malik Obama gives an interview to Israeli Army Radio. The Jerusalem Post listens and crafts quite a yarn. It’s now being spread, with the media and bloggers and wingnut radio hosts playing a bad game of telephone. “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – [...]
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These Days, McCarthyism is Big on the Web
Are you or have you ever been a Hillary Clinton supporter? If you are, beware. Mwaaahhaaaa. The sexist screed merchants are going to get you. We’ll “discover” who you are and divulge everything about you! Regardless that it’s already been known for years. It’s the new McCarthyism. We’ll smear your name and reputation in hit [...]
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Clinton’s Internet Director Challenges Bloggers to Cover Obama Campaign Tactics
Well, this is a first. Peter Daou is Clinton’s Internet director. I just found out that he has sent out an email to a group of bloggers with a challenge: “I challenge my online friends to call this “full assault” on Hillary’s character for what it is.” I got a copy of the email he [...]
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Keith Olbermann is No Edward R. Murrow
updated below, and cross posted on Huffington Post “Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.” – Edward R. Murrow Last night on “Countdown” Keith Olbermann announced he would do a “special comment” pontificating about the Clinton campaign, [...]
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Harold Meyerson’s Clinton Race Smear Scrubbed from American Prospect Site
update Yesterday, Washington Post columnist and American Prospect editor Harold Meyerson, who just endorsed Obama, put up a post that caught my attention and reminded me of how dirty tricks and smears begin. The title was: “Hillary Plays the Race Card.” I still call Los Angeles home after living there for 18 years, so when [...]
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American First, Democrat Second
I have to ask people attacking Bill Clinton, which has become the cool thing to do everywhere, if his politics is “old” why has Barack Obama and his campaign been engaged in the same type of politics since the beginning (from June 2007, D-Punjab, or Obama’s false charge that Bill Clinton made money on 9/11). [...]
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Richard Cohen Swiftboats Obama
Richard Cohen Swiftboats Obama updated Okay, so I’m just a Scot-Irish broad who is a rebel Episcopalian to boot, but Mr. Cohen’s column today is nothing short of religious bigotry at its worst. He’s insinuating that if Barack Obama doesn’t disavow his spiritual leader and his home church then he’s an anti-Semitic. Words fail me…. [...]
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Obama Plays the Race Card
Jesse Jackson, Jr. set it up on MSNBC the morning after Mr. Obama’s surprising loss in New Hampshire. But those tears also have to be analyzed. They have to be looked at very, very carefully in light of Katrina, in light of other things that Mrs. Clinton did not cry for, particularly as we head [...]
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Chris Matthews: ‘Castratos for Clinton’
Chris Matthews not only has disgraced himself on “Hardball” with his Clinton marriage obsession, but talking about Bob Kerrey being a “castrata” in a “eunuch chorus” because he is supporting Clinton proves he has lost his mind. That he also reinvigorated the old ball busting stereotype for strong women did not go unnoticed by some [...]
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