Showing posts with label MSNBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label MSNBC. Show all posts

Friday, May 6, 2011

Video: Condolezza Rice vs. Lawrence O'Donnell




Lawrence O'Donnell was badly out gunned and out matched by Condolezza Rice.  At times it was like watching an old fashion school teacher discipline a wayward child.  It is a shame more Republicans don't know how to argue like Rice does. Then again most Republicans don't have a bachelor's degree at age 19.


The best part of the interview is when Rice mocks the idea that Sadam Hussein could have been toppled by Egyptian style protest.  O'Donnell totally set himself up with that question.


As brilliant as Condolezza Rice is, I do have to question her intelligence for wasting her time doing an interview with MSNBC.  Given MSNBC's tiny audience and O'Donnell's hyper partisanship, what was Rice hoping to accomplish?  Then again, one of the Bush administration's biggest failings was their complete inability to handle the biased media.


Via: The Blaze

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Angry white man Ed Schultz to host MSNBC's The Black Agenda

The left loves to paint conservatives as a bunch of angry white men. Yet, the poster child for angry white men shows up nightly on MSNBC in the Ed Schultz Show. YouTube is littered with clips of this angry white boy having a meltdown. So, how does an angry white man get to host a MSNBC segment entitled The Black Agenda? Inquiring minds want to know.
The Blaze: Why why why is Ed Schultz hosting a special on MSNBC called ‘The Black Agenda?


Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

What is even more ironic about Ed Schultz hosting The Black Agenda, is that MSNBC did not miss a single opportunity to question the whiteness of the TEA Party movement. Heck, they even made stuff up. Yet, when it comes to racial bean counting in their own backyard, mum is the word. Hypocrisy thy name is MSNBC.

Via: The Blaze

Friday, November 19, 2010

MSNBC suspends Joe Scarborough


Politico: MSNBC said Friday that it is suspending “Morning Joe” co-host Joe Scarborough for two days after he acknowledged giving eight previously unknown $500 contributions to friends and family members running for state and local offices during his tenure at the network, a violation of parent NBC’s ban on political contributions by employees without specific permission from the network president.
“I recognize that I have a responsibility to honor the guidelines and conditions of my employment, and I regret that I failed to do so in this matter,” Scarborough said in a statement. “I apologize to MSNBC and to anyone who has been negatively affected by my actions,” he said, adding that after he was made aware of some of the contributions, he called MSNBC President Phil Griffin “and agreed with Phil's immediate demand of a two-day suspension without pay.” [MORE]
This seems fair enough to me.  If Keith Olbermann had to take a two day break so should Scarborough or anyone else who violated the policy.  However, I still think MSNBC should rethink that policy.  Both Olbermann and Scarborough are not reporters, they are partisan commentators. Everyone knows their political leanings, so why all the fuss about donations?

I wonder when Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow will get their two day unpaid vacations?

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Leftist cartoonist Ted Rall calls for violent revolution on MSNBC


Wow, the hypocrisy is off the charts with this video. Especially at the 4:20 mark where this guy quotes John Locke! MSNBC and many lefties were absolutely wet the bed blabbering about “sedition” whenever anyone on the right spoke in these terms.  Now here is this ding a ling saying the exact same things.  The only reason why they are comfortable with this type of talk is because the end result will be socialism.

Ted Rall isn’t just flirting with the call for violence in this video.  In his book the Anti American Manifesto, he openly calls for it.
Verum Serum: Ted Rall has a new book out titled The Anti-American Manifesto. In it he makes an explicit call for a violent socialist revolution from within. In case you think this is all a big joke, here’s an excerpt from the book:
We are here because the U.S. is going to end soon. There’s going to be an intense, violent, probably haphazard struggle for control. It’s going to come down to us versus them. The question is: What are you going to do about it?…
Christian fundamentalists, the millennial end-of-theworlders obsessed with the Left Behind series about the End Times, neo-Nazi racists, rural black-helicopter Michigan Militia types cut from the same inbred cloth as Timothy McVeigh, allied with “mainstream” gun nuts and right-wing Republicans, have been planning, preparing, and praying for the destruction of the “Godless,” “secular” United States for decades. In the past, they formed groups like the John Birch Society and the Aryan Nations. Now the hard Right has a postmodern, decentralized non-organization organization called the Tea Party.
Right-wing organizational names change, but they amount to the same thing: the reactionary sociopolitical force—the sole force—poised to fill the vacuum when collapse occurs. The scenario outlined by Margaret Atwood’s prescient novel The Handmaid’s Tale—rednecks in the trenches, hard military men running things, minorities and liberals taken away and massacred, setting the stage for an even more extreme form of laissez-faire corporate capitalism than we’re suffering under today—is a fair guess of how a post-U.S. scenario will play out unless we prepare to turn it in another direction…
A war is coming. At stake: our lives, the planet, freedom, living. The government, the corporations, and the extreme right are prepared to coalesce into an Axis of Evil. Are you going to fight back? Will you do whatever it takes, including taking up arms?…
The millions of partisans who follow Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and right-wing televangelists happen to be the best-armed people around, and they despise just about everyone who doesn’t think and pray like them. They will see collapse as affirmation of their beliefs that secular liberalism is destructive. They will also see it as an opportunity to create a new, ordered world atop the ashes. They will act to stop teenage sluts from getting abortions, teach niggers a lesson, and slaughter those spics, dots, and everyone else who doesn’t fit into their vision of what and who is right…
I want to kick people in the ass. To get them thinking. To get you thinking. I want you to understand the situation—your situation. I want you to see that revolt is a good idea, and that it has never been more necessary. I also want you to size up the opposition (both the government and 28 The Anti-American Manifesto the extreme right): They will never get weaker.We have as good a chance at taking them on as ever.
That’s a small sample of chapter one. He’s not kidding. He wants a war. He even uses al Qaeda sleeper cells as an example. […]
Something the left might want to think about before they consider Ted Rall’s advice.  First, the left is grossly outnumbered in this country.  Those who would revolt for socialism probably account for less than 20%.  Second, those place that would be friendly to the idea of revolting for socialism have long ago given away their 2nd Amendment rights to even make such an option credible.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Keith Olbermann to return on Tuesday


Just when you thought the air waves would be less polluted, Keith Olbermann makes a return.
Mediate: You know all that talk about whether Keith Olbermannwould ever be back on MSNBC?
Well whoever speculated about that (me) was totally off – Olbermann will return to Countdown Tuesday night.
From Phil Griffin, President of MSNBC:
After several days of deliberation and discussion, I have determined that suspending Keith through and including Monday night’s program is an appropriate punishment for his violation of our policy. We look forward to having him back on the air Tuesday night.
I think the whole Olbermann suspension thing is just more proof of MSNBC being in desperate need of new management.   Did anyone really believe that all of a sudden MSNBC would concern itself with “journalistic independence”?  If that was remotely a real concern for MSNBC, we never would have been treated to Frat Night last Tuesday.

Via: Mediate

Saturday, November 6, 2010

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell: “I am a socialist”

The Blaze: On Friday’s “Morning Joe” MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell made a startling admission: “I am a socialist.”
The statement from the regular host of “The Last Word” came as he was chiding contributor Glenn Greenwald from Salon.com for apparently being a liberal hiding behind the word “progressive.”
“I am a socialist. I live to the extreme left, the extreme left of you mere liberals,” he said: 
This clip is worth watching for two reasons.  First, the actual admission from O’Donnell that he is a socialist and second the clash between two lefties of why Democrats got “The Shellacking”.

It is refreshing to hear O’Donnell flat out admit what he is, too bad more lefties don’t just fess up about. I never thought I would see the day, but I have to agree with Lawrence O’Donnell on this one.  The Blue Dogs did not lose for being conservative, they loss because they failed to live up to being conservative.  They ran in their districts as conservative leaning Dems, then got elected and voted for a socialist agenda.  This is what you call “bait and switch” and Americans tend to get pretty pissed off about that. O’Donnell is also correct to point out that if only hardcore lefties ran the Democrats would never have been able to create a majority.

This battle between Lawrence O’Donnell and Glenn Greenwald over who is to blame for “The Shellacking” is one I expect will play out over and over again over the next two years.  Already we are seeing this battle start to form over the nomination of Pelosi as Minority Whip (I pray the far left wins that one J) .
Below is the full exchange between O’Donnell and Greenwald.  It will give you a better idea of the battle that is to come.


Friday, November 5, 2010

Keith Olbermann gets suspended for political contributions to Dems


Well, I’ll be damned!
Politico: MSNBC host Keith Olbermann has been suspended indefinitely without pay after POLITICO reported that he made three campaign contributions to Democratic candidates.
MSNBC President Phil Griffin said in a statement Friday: “I became aware of Keith's political contributions late last night. Mindful of NBC News policy and standards, I have suspended him indefinitely without pay."
Olbermann made campaign contributions to two Arizona members of Congress and failed Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Conway ahead of Tuesday’s election.

Olbermann, who acknowledged the contributions in a statement to POLITICO, made the maximum legal donations of $2,400 apiece to Conway and to Arizona Reps. Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords. He donated to the Arizona pair on Oct. 28 — the same day that Grijalva appeared as a guest on Olbermann’s “Countdown” show.
NBC has a rule against employees contributing to political campaigns, and a wide range of news organizations prohibit political contributions — considering it a breach of journalistic independence to contribute to the candidates they cover.
A few quick points:
  1.    I am not buying for one second that MSNBC did not know Olbermann was giving to the Dems.
  2.    I think this suspension is just MSNBC keeping their options open for find a better replacement.
  3.    NBC has rules concerning “journalistic independence”? You could have fooled me!
  4.    Did anyone check for political contributions from Chris Matthews?


Moe Lane offers up a suitable replacement for Olbermann and as luck would have it, he is recently unemployed too!

Via: Poltico

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Fox News election coverage vs. MSNBC

The results are in and not only did Fox crush the competition (again), lefty critics are saying Fox’s election coverage was “fair and balanced”.
Mediaite: But don’t just take our word for it, read what other media critics had to say. Writing for Time’s Tuned In blog James Poniewozik seemed to agree that Fox News was fairer than the lot:
To be fair, NBC did join coverage earlier, after an all-new Biggest Loser.) Fox News, for all its image as the Republican-friendly network, actually seemed to have the most reserved coverage in tone of the three big cablers, going with a more reserved set and less flashy graphics (granted, by cable news standards) than its competitors. A whiteboard was even employed.
Credit where due, Fox also had a more, well, balanced panel much of the night than its competitor MSNBC. Holding forth from left of center for Fox were the recently-high-profile Juan Williams and Democratic political guru Joe Trippi. MSNBC’s main lineup, on the other hand, was basically its center-to-left lineup of nightly hosts: Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell.
Politico also drew a similar distinction between the coverage and analysis provided by MSNBC and Fox News:
Although Fox News took the most criticism during this campaign season for its alleged bias, it was MSNBC — whose new “Lean Forward” tagline inspired CNN’s promo — that wore its point of view most on its sleeve Tuesday night.
MSNBC’s election coverage was led by a panel comprised mostly of its opinionated prime-time hosts (Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow and Lawrence O’Donnell, along with frequent contributor Eugene Robinson), with nary a conservative voice in the mix. In contrast, Fox News’s was provided by two anchors from its straight-news dayside, Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier, along with a panel that included conservatives like Karl Rove as well as liberals like Juan Williams. Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity stopped by only briefly.
During the commercials on Fox, I would flip to MSNBC and CNN.  On CNN, I thought I was watching the morning commute on the NYC subways.  Their studio was jammed packed with pundits.  It was impossible to tell what was going on there. 

On MSNBC, it was like watching a bunch of teens talking smack in the locker room, complete with dick jokes.


This is news? This isn’t even decent commentary.  What this is is sour grapes on steroids!  If MSNBC really wants to live up to their new “lean forward” motto, they might start by ditching these pathetic clowns for some more credible personalities.  There are lefties out there that know how to make sane and credible arguments as well as conduct themselves in a professional manner.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Video: Michele Bachmann to Chris Matthews; How’s that tingle in your leg?

Big Journalism: Rep. Michele Bachmann went on MSNBC for an interview with Chris Matthews tonight and handled him with dismissive tone the hack deserved. All he wanted to do was bait her with unprofessional journolisty questions about whether or not the new Congressional majority would investigate Democrats for “un-American activities.”
What Matthews is referring to is a now infamous 2008 “Hardball” interview where Matthews laid a trap for Bachmann, she admittedly stepped into it, and of course two years on, even though she took the comment backand admitted she should’ve been better prepared before agreeing to do the interview, Matthews is still trying to use the gotcha as a way to paint her — as the Left does all Republican women — as a loon.
Tonight, again and again and again, as the left-wing MSNBC fever swamp chuckled in the background, Matthews attempted to insult and bait Bachmann by repeating the same “un-American” question at least three times. But Bachmann was obviously prepared this time and wasn’t about to give Matthews even a moment of satisfaction.
Keeping her composure, the Congresswoman stayed on message about the economy until Matthews became so frustrated he outright insulted her (to the delight of his cohorts) by asking, “Are you hypnotized?”
Bachmann got the last word in, though, when she asked Matthews something to the effect of how that leg thrill was doing on a night like tonight. That shut the fever swamp up.[MORE]
Kudos to Bachmann for bringing up the tingle, but I have to ask why is she wasting her time giving interviews to MSNBC? Memo to Bachmann: Take a page from Sarah Palin and forget giving interviews to clowns.  There is nothing to be gained by going on MSNBC. Did you hear them snickering in the background?  Considering their messiah has been rebuked, you would think they would stop their clowning around.


Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Ed Schultz: One Nation rally bigger than Restoring Honor rally



I just got through saying that MSNBC would do well to ditch Ed Schultz. This kind of delusional BS is exactly why I said that. Aerial photos show without a doubt that the One Nation rally was significantly smaller. Yet, here is Ed trying to pull a Crooks and Liars.

Sorry Ed, but with BS like this you are not ready to take on the big boys at Fox.

Video h/t: The Right Scoop

MSNBC to come out the ideological closet?


New York Times: MSNBC, once the also-ran but now the No. 2 cable news channel, has a new tagline that embraces its progressive political identity.
The tagline, “Lean Forward,” will be publicly announced Tuesday, opening a planned two-year advertising campaign intended to raise awareness of the channel among viewers, advertisers and distributors.
The tagline “defines us and defines our competition,” said Phil Griffin, the president of MSNBC, his implication being that the Fox News Channel, which is No. 1 in cable news and a home for conservatives, is leaning backward. Fox’s best-known tagline is “Fair and Balanced.” […]
Ms. Otterman’s lesson from that research: “All we have to do is tell our story to more people.”
She added in an interview, “It’s not that the look is changing. It’s not that the programming is changing. It’s that we’re going out and telling people about it now.”
The resulting ads are not day-and-date promotions for specific programs; rather, they are emotional set pieces about the national debate that moves America forward. The MSNBC brand “is about ideas and change and making the country a better place,” Mr. Griffin said.
“It’s an umbrella that’s pretty wide, but that does have a progressive sensibility,” he continued. “We’re confident. We’re strong. Let’s not live in the past, let’s not live by fear.”
Believe it or not I say “Bravo”! One of the most insulting and maddening things about the media is the silly game they play about being impartial. I don’t care whether they lean left or right, for God’s sake be upfront about it!
If MSNBC wants to be the premiere "progressive" cable news station, they would do well to bring in some more credible on air personalities. Aside from Rachel Maddows, the lineup is full of clowns.  If I were a lefty, I still would not like Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews or Ed Schultz. Instead, I would much rather see personalities who had their act together and who had a certain sense of credibility. Keith Olbermann's, Chris Matthews' and Ed Schultz's numerous on air faux pas have rendered them complete clowns.
I think if MSNBC is serious about improving their standing in the cable news war, they will eventually realize a new lineup is in order.  Rich Sanchez need not apply.

Monday, September 27, 2010

MSNBC? What’s that? Poll: Only 12% rely on MSNBC for their news


Every time I have been subjected to watching MSNBC News, I have always said to myself; "who the hell can watch this crap"?  Today, I get my answer, not many.
Politico: More people are getting their news about the upcoming election from cable television than any other source, and from Fox News more than any other cable channel, according to a POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll released Monday.
The poll found that 81 percent of those polled get their news about the midterm elections from cable channels, like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, or their websites, compared with 71 percent from national network news channels, such as ABC, NBC or CBS, and their websites.Among cable news channels, Fox was the clear winner, with 42 percent of respondents saying it is their main source, compared with 30 percent who cited CNN and 12 percent who rely on MSNBC. 
The most delicious part of the poll is when pollsters asked about cable news and talk radio personalities
Fox’s opinionated personalities were also rated as having the greatest positive impact on the political debate in the country. Bill O’Reilly was rated as having, by far, the greatest positive impact, with 49 percent of respondents rating him positively, and 32 percent negatively.Glenn Beck was the second most-positively rated personality, with 38 percent of respondents saying he had a positive impact, and 32 percent saying he had a negative impact.[...]
Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was the third-most-positively ranked, with 36 percent saying he has a positive impact on the discourse, but his negatives far outweighed his positives, with 52 percent saying he has a negative impact.
MSNBC’s personalities were largely ranked as unknown by respondents: 70 percent said they had never heard of Ed Schultz, 55 percent said they had never heard of Rachel Maddow and 42 percent said they had never heard of Keith Olbermann.
[Snicker] Sorry, but I have to laugh over that one. Didn’t Ed Schultz just say the other day that he too could draw crowds like Glenn Beck?  Poor Ed, he may want to start with something less prodigious, like getting someone to watch his nightly ranting.  Otherwise, he could end up all by himself shouting on the Mall and everyone wonder who is that fat slob?
Read the Politico piece and check out the full results of the poll. Oh, and does anyone want to take a guess at what O'Reilly's Talking Point Memo will be about tonight ;-)

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

I Call BS! Ed Schultz says he can out draw Glenn Beck


When it comes to toot one’s own horn, there are two types of people. There are boasters and there are BS-ers. The difference between the two is accomplishment. For example, when Steve Jobs boasts about the performance of the new iPhone 4G, he had the wild success of the previous iPhones to back him up. Now, when you don’t have anything to back up your claims you sound like MSNBC talker Ed Schultz:


Where has this guy ever drawn a crowd anything near the size of Beck’s rally?  I don’t think Schultz even has 300,000 regular listeners on either of his shows. The most telling thing about Schultz’s statement is need for union help to pull it off.

SCHULTZ (07:00): Hold it right there! Before we get to her answer, I could get every union head in this country, I could organize every progressive group in this country, the main bloggers. This could be The Ed March. Folks, 300,000 people on the heels of six months' promotion, that ain't no big shakes!

Six months' promotion, NBC News says 300,000 people. I bet I could do that! I bet I could do that with this radio show and my TV show and six months' production, six months' promotion, if I had the budget I could equal that march. I know I could!

I guarantee you, I could do more than 300,000! It ain't a big deal!

I say go for it Ed! I don’t think he could even get a 100,000 people, even with Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow helping (and make no mistake Maddow would draw the lion’s share out of the three).

The only thing  better than seeing Ed Schultz totally fail, would be the meltdown he would have from being publicly humiliated.



UPDATE: Even Glenn Beck is laughing



Monday, June 21, 2010

Mika Bresinski Admits to Using White House Talking Points



I give Mika an “A” for not even trying to pretend she is working with the White House.  Jammie Wearing Fool tells us this isn’t the first time she got busted using White House talking points.  She also used them to defend ObamaCare. I also recall how nut job Ed Schultz spilled the beans on how both Mika and Joe Scarborough both take direction from the White House

Mika can read all the talking point memos she needs to, no one is really watching that show anyway.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Keith Olberman and Chris Matthews Slam Obama’s Oil Spill Speech

The Kool Aid must be wearing off big time! 
Real Clear Politics: Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and Howard Fineman react to President Obama's Oval Office Address on the oil spill. Here are the highlights of what the trio said:
Olbermann: "It was a great speech if you were on another planet for the last 57 days."
Matthews compared Obama to Carter.
Olbermann: "Nothing specific at all was said."
Matthews: "No direction."
Howard Fineman: "He wasn't specific enough."
Olbermann: "I don't think he aimed low, I don't think he aimed at all. It's startling."
Howard Fineman: Obama should be acting like a "commander-in-chief."
Matthews: Ludicrous that he keeps saying [Secretary of Energy] Chu has a Nobel prize. "I'll barf if he does it one more time."
Matthews: "A lot of meritocracy, a lot of blue ribbon talk."
Matthews: "I don't sense executive command." 



I have not seen all of Obama’s speech, but from what I saw Obama’s solutions seem better suited from what might be done AFTER the oil spill is brought under control rather that how to get the situation under control.   Obama and his administration are still clueless about what the appropriate role for government should be in this situation. There still seems to be this stupid and irresponsible idea to leave BP running the show.

As far as Olberman and Matthews are concern, these two hacks are a day late and a dollar short. Both of these clowns did everything they could to shill for an Obama presidency.  They foolishly believed that a man with no executive experience and no major accomplishments could somehow magically solve the major problems facing America. Now a situation has arisen where you simply cannot fake executive experience and these asses are braying at the moon.

I have little doubt that both Olberman and Matthews will be back to playing their roles as Obama apologists come 2012.

Video h/t: The Right Scoop 

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer: “hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country”


We all knew that when the video tape of the white guy changing shirts came out, there was going to be some on the left who salivated at the thought the car bomber might be a Tea Partier.  But to actually hear one admit their dismay is rather shocking. 
Radio Equalizer:  CONTESSA BREWER (7:06): I mean the thing is is that and I get frustrated and there was part of me that was hoping this was not going to be anybody with ties to any kind of Islamic country because there are a lot of people who want to use this terrorist intent to justify writing off people who believe in a certain way or come from certain countries or whose skin color is a certain way. I mean they use it as justification for really outdated bigotry.
And so there was part of me was really hoping this would not be the case that here would be somebody who is not the defined. I mean he’s accused he’s arrested you know I don’t want to convict him before it’s time to do so. He’s the guy authorities say is involved. But that being said I mean we know even in recent history you have the Haitari militia from Michigan who have plans to let’s face it create terror.
That’s what they were planning to do and they were doing so from far different backgrounds then what this guy is coming from. So, the threat is not just coming from people who decide that America is the place to be and you know come here and want to become citizens. Obviously this guy did.

People want to use terrorist intent to justify bigotry? Umm, perhaps the real thing is some people on the left want to use any excuse to justify their own bigotry of the right.  How anyone can watch MSNBC and think they are getting unbiased news is beyond me.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

Thou Shall Not Mock The Main Moonbat At MSNBC!

Thou Shall Not Mock The Main Moonbat! This is the decree handed down from on high at MSNBC.  Donny Deutsch had to learn this lesson the hard way
A weeklong anchoring stint on MSNBC by Donny Deutsch ended abruptly on Wednesday, and four people briefed on the decision said the cancellation stemmed from an unflattering mention of that channel’s No. 1 anchor, Keith Olbermann, a day earlier.
Mr. Deutsch had labeled his hour on MSNBC “America the Angry,” and Mr. Olbermann was shown briefly in a series of clips of media figures during a segment that pondered what role the media plays in fomenting the public’s anger. The four people briefed on MSNBC’s decision said Mr. Olbermann’s anger about the segment prompted the cancellation of the weeklong “America the Angry” series. […]
MSNBC should not have bothered with the decree, because the cat is out of the bag. Everyone knows Keith Olbermann is the angry white male of the leftwing. Heck even his own colleagues know it, even it they cannot say it.


Related Posts with Thumbnails