Doris Kearns Goodwin

Barnicle on Bloggers: 'Many of Them Crazy, With Access to Computers'
By Mark Finkelstein | August 6, 2008 | 10:23 PM EDT
Be with you in a sec. Gotta finish this bag of Cheetos.  Man, what a mess down here in Mom's basement. Let's see, where were we? Barnicle.  Right. Bloggers. Doesn't think much of us. On this evening's Hardball, decrying the decline of bi-partisanship, Barnicle put much of the blame on the blogosphere.

Subbing for Chris Matthews, Barnicle had as his guest historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. The jumping off point was a clip of Obama saying he could imagine naming McCain as his head of Homeland Security.  Barnicle wondered whether that was feasible in what he sees as a hyper-partisan age, and pointed the finger largely at bloggers.  Kearns Goodwin suggested that despite the difficulties, she could imagine either of the candidates reaching out to his opponent.  That prompted Barnicle to let loose on bloggers, casting them as largely a bunch of loons with too much time on their hands.

View video here.
Morning Joe's Lib-Heavy Lineup
By Mark Finkelstein | May 20, 2008 | 11:35 AM EDT
Doesn't Mika Brzezinski have any Republicans in her Rolodex? With Joe Scarborough home in Florida awaiting the birth of a baby, Mika has been filling in as anchor, and I sense doing much of the show's booking [mention is often made of her work in that regard]. Today's guest lineup consisted of six Dems/liberals versus a sole Republican, brought in almost at show's end.

Here's the list, in order of appearance, of today's political guests coming from outside the NBC/MSNBC family [Chuck Todd and Andrea Mitchell also appeared as guests, and Harold Ford, Jr. and Pat Buchanan served as panelists]:
  • Jonathan Capehart--WaPo editorial writer
  • Ted Sorensen--former JFK speechwriter
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin--historian and former LBJ aide
  • Tom Daschle--former Dem senator [check out the spiffy red spectacles]
  • Terry McAuliffe--Clinton campaign chairman
  • Jon Meacham--Newsweek editor and contributing editor of the center-left Washington Monthly
  • Mitt Romney--former GOP presidential candidate
Essay: So Much More Than Just the New York Times
By Seton Motley | February 27, 2008 | 9:01 AM EST

Standard-free journalism on parade all day on NBC's Sunday

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Forgotten But
Not Gone
It was another do-as-we-say, not-as-we-do day for the National Broadcast Company this past Sabbath.

Over the weekend NBC offered up their latest versions of Tim Russert's Meet the Press and the Chris Matthews Show -- the latter being political television's answer to Jerry Springer. In them we were treated to two more glittering examples of all that is wrong with the Jurassic Press.

That being the woeful lack of journalistic ethics demonstrated by those at the heights of the media mountain, and the utter shamelessness they and their colleagues exhibit upon their being outed as amoral hacks.

NBC News Historian Sucks Up To Hillary
By Geoffrey Dickens | August 7, 2007 | 5:47 PM EDT

Whenever NBC News needs someone to put the current presidential campaign into historic context they usually go to liberal historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and in recent days, on two different NBC News outlets, Goodwin has delivered with her unique historic and liberal perspective on Hillary Clinton.