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Wikileaks: The Finger-Pointing Begins

The National Journal is reporting: “The latest WikiLeaks document dump, publishing the details of more than 250,000 confidential U.S. diplomatic cables, has member of Congress blaming both the whistle-blowing website and the U.S. government for somehow allowing it to happen.

Tower Topples Wrong Way During Demolition

NBC News: The former Ohio Edison Mad River Power Plant’s 275-foot smoke stack in Springfield, Ohio falls toward spectators and surrounding buildings as it falls the wrong way during its demolition, Nov. 10, 2010. There were no injuries reported in

Christine O'Donnell: The Next Political Celebrity?

Part I: Part II: Christine O’Donnell sat down with Jay Leno on the “Tonight Show;” the conversation was cordial and the topics were, shall we say, familiar. In Part I, watch for when O’Donnell says she thinks Karl Rove is

NY Times: Olbermann Apologizes to Viewers, But Not to MSNBC

From the New York Times’s “Media Decoder” blog: In an aggressive statement questioning the legitimacy of his two-day suspension from MSNBC, Keith Olbermann addressed his viewers Monday night, saying that they were responsible for returning him to the air following

Phil Griffin, MSNBC Prez, Should Bring Back Olbermann

The electronic media was abuzz on Friday with huge news of MSNBC’s President Phil Griffin and his decision to indefinitely suspend their prime time firebrand Keith Olbermann from the flagging cable news network. This story was so big that CNN

Olbermann Suspended from MSNBC Indefinitely

MSNBC has suspended prime-time host Keith Olbermann indefinitely without pay for making political contributions. Politico reported Friday that Olbermann contributed to the campaigns of three Democratic candidates this fall, including one on the same day he appeared on Olbermann’s “Countdown”

Olbermann Suspended from MSNBC Indefinitely

NEW YORK (AP) – MSNBC has suspended prime-time host Keith Olbermann indefinitely without pay for contributing to the campaigns of three Democratic candidates this election season. Olbermann acknowledged to NBC that he donated $2,400 apiece to the campaigns of Kentucky

NBC's Weak Post-Election Analysis of The Tea Party

Writing at NBC’s First Read, Alexandra Moe presents such a biased analysis of the Tea Party’s impact on the 2010 mid-terms, it’s either pure agitprop, or she left Curly, or Shemp and Larry out of her full last name. For

MSNBC Leans Forward And Pukes On Its Shoes

Working as a reporter for the election night coverage on Glenn Beck’s Insider Extreme webcast the other night, I spent five solid (and painful) hours tuned in to the cable network that uses the word Progressive so often that one