How can President Obama know when the thrill is gone? When the kindest of responses from his fiercest apologists, the mainstream media, was a long, collective, disappointed sigh to his speech concerning the BP oil spill. CNN has a rather
The question is meant only half-facetiously, of course. Under the current rules of engagement between the media and politicians, it is never right to punch a reporter. Treat him or her with contempt, dripping condescension, sarcasm, obfuscation, hostility, Heep-ish like
It’s become a familiar story: confronted with almost any form of opposition, the self-righteous left skips over the informed-debate part of the political dialogue and immediately resorts to vitriol, if not outright violence. The “peaceful” and “tolerant” mask slips, and
Chuck Todd: “When you hear this critique, ‘When will the Democrats stop blaming Bush…” Pelosi: “I haven’t heard that”
The MSNBC host repeats misleading statements, myths and talking points about ACORN in an attempt to prove an oblique point about congressional reaction to BP disaster.
Since he was so effective in leading the defeat of Scott Brown in MA (oops, make that SENATOR Scott Brown), we welcome Kieth Olbermann’s newest target, NV Senate candidate Sharron Angle to the club of fine Americans slimed by the
While Chris Matthews is fretting about “the rise of the new right” in an upcoming June 16 MSNBC special that’s sure to be a paranoid, lunatic-fringe load of laughs, maybe he should include this footage of the scene outside Rep.
The President of the United States is looking for an ass to kick. “I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar,” he said Monday, “we talk to these folks because they potentially have the
On the June 8th “Morning Joe” round table. Discussion of the Drudge Report’s headline describing President Obama’s salty language as “Going Street” Joe Scarborough: “I thought we were beyond this…”
Hollywood leads young women to believe that to be somebody the public needs to know who they are through a media outlet. Unfortunately, for some young women wanting to be in the spotlight, that entails lifting their shirts–or worse, while
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy MSNBC: Nevada Republican Sharron Angle is on a roll. The former assemblywoman is surging in late polls of the state’s three-way Senate primary battle. She has backing from
By now if you are a political junkie you know that the Queen of the White House press corps, Helen Thomas, was heard to voice the anti-Semitic sentiment that all the Jews in Israel should “go back to Germany and
In light of this story today, what are we to make of this story by Ken Paulson, the president of the Newseum? At a time when America seems polarized over virtually every major issue, there’s one thing that politicians of
In the week since Israel tried to exercise its right to self-protection and ended up as the object of near-global scorn we have noticed a gigantic coverage void from the showbiz news outlets like MSNBC and Comedy Central. Thankfully we
Just a couple of days after the Mideast peace-threatening incident between Israeli commandos and the “peace flotilla” headed to Gaza, Charlie Rose nabbed a great “get” yesterday when he reeled-in VP Joe Biden for an exclusive one-on-one interview. Yes, Charlie
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy TVNewser: “CNN’s 8 o’clock news programs haven’t failed because they are competing with opinion and interpretative news programs,” Olbermann said. “They’ve failed because CNN hasn’t figured out that
NewsBusters: Chris Matthews got off one of the all-time whoppers on this evening’s Hardball. Seeking to explain why the Clintons have managed to stay together while the Gores haven’t, Matthews claimed that Bill and Hillary are “committed to the core
It’s a beautiful Sunday afternoon here in Malibu, California. A school of dolphins frolic in the ocean, visible from the deck of my two story beach house. I’ve invited over my good friend; author, television personality and all around swell
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy The New York Times: The decision to abandon the top kill technique, the most ambitious effort yet to plug the well, comes as the latest in a series
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Over the past several months I have had the honor of being Big Journalism’s official Correction Alpaca. I’ve requested over two dozen corrections at Big Journalism and many others on Big Hollywood, Twitter, and via email. Some of the news
MEMORANDUM To: Eric Boehlert, Media Matters From: David Axelrod Personal and Confidential SUBJECT: BREITBART “O’Keefe’s humiliating guilty plea”–is that the best you could do? Perhaps I didn’t make myself clear yesterday. We don’t want to embarrass Breitbart; we want to
As if we needed one, here’s another item showing bias in the way the mainstream media covers the controversial Arizona illegal immigration law. Many major news organizations, including, MSNBC, CNN, and USA Today for example, covered a story about a
Things were going so well for David Shuster at the start of the year. On January 26, James O’Keefe, chief ACORN-buster, and several of his friends had just been arrested for “breaking into” the office of Senator Mary Landrieu. The
