The Washington Post has
a great article up on the channel's devolution into an arm of the Obama campaign. The most shocking moment is below.
But news and opinion often seem to merge on primary nights. MSNBC's coverage is anchored by Matthews, a onetime Democratic operative, and Olbermann, the "Countdown" host who recently finished one anti-Bush commentary by instructing the president to "shut the hell up."
On election nights, Griffin says, Matthews and Olbermann "put on different hats. I think the audience gets it. . . . I see zero problem." MSNBC, he adds, offers "a little irreverence, entertainment, and sometimes it's even borderline dangerous."
REALLY? THAT'S the excuse they are giving?
Lets set aside for a moment that these men anchor a news broadcast that's supposed to be non-partisan when they clearly are not. That's a news network, it can be rationalized away, even if the above is such total bull---- that there are fertilizer companies in the midwest who want to contract MSNBC so they can get a cut of "the good stuff". Instead lets remember these people were once picked to MODERATE A GOP DEBATE. Who did the dems get? Brian Williams, Mr. Serious News Journalist. Who did the GOP get? A Man who recently called General Petraus, who gains wide acclaim as a man of honor from bot sides of the isle, one of "the worst people in the world", and a man who famously said Obama sent a "thrill up his leg."
Lets imagine if the opposite had happened on the right-leaning channel, Fox. Lets say the republicans debated and they got Chris Wallace, someone who's universally respected and actually a registered democrat despite being the lead political moderator on "the republican channel". Then lets say when the Democrats walked out there moderators were Sean Hannity and Bill O'Riley. Anyone see a problem here? What if CNN had a democratic debate run by Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs? Or a republican one hosted by Paul Begala and Donna Brazile?
It is THIS reason why MSNBC is the most horrifying channel of the
infotainment age. At least Fox and CNN can find a line of demarcation between there opinion people and there news people. MSNBC is too busy setting out the tenants of the church of Obama to notice they've thrown journalistic integrity out the window.
And that's why MSNBC is (to steal a phrase from the odious Mr. Olbermann) THE WORST NEWS NETWORK IN THE WORLD!!!!
