Gregory Sign-off: 'Thanks for Washington

February 12th, 2008 4:52 PM
OK, it was probably just a Freudian slip by someone with the Potomac Primary on the noggin. But perhaps big-government loving MSNBC should consider it as its official new sign-off. In any case, here's how David Gregory said goodbye at 3:59 PM ET at the end of his stint as network host this afternoon:DAVID GREGORY: That's going to do it for me. My colleague Norah O'Donnell will take over our…

Reuters Reporter Works Obama Campaign Into BlackBerry Outage Story

February 12th, 2008 4:37 PM

Bernard Goldberg Attacks MSNBC's Double Standards

February 12th, 2008 4:17 PM

Hillary Suggests Fox News Fairer to Her than MSNBC

February 12th, 2008 2:45 PM
The Democrat presidential candidates refused to participate in debates sponsored by the Fox News Channel. Yet, Hillary Clinton believes the supposedly conservative cable network is actually treating her better than liberal rival MSNBC. Ain't that a kick in the head? As reported by Politico Monday evening, John Harris interviewed the presidential candidate, producing the following delicious…

Klein Can't Comprehend Why 'Fairly Moderate' Hillary Riles Republicans

February 12th, 2008 2:25 PM
How deep into the Dem mindset is Joe Klein? The Time columnist can't figure out why Hillary Clinton drives Republicans round the bend. Klein candidly admitted so today, chatting with Brian Williams on MSNBC.BRIAN WILLIAMS: On the Republican side, does John McCain blunt back the attack, the insurgents on the right?JOE KLEIN: I think to a certain extent he will. He'll have a lot more -- you know…

The Obama Flag Flap

February 12th, 2008 1:25 PM
The blogosphere began buzzing yesterday afternoon because of a Cuban flag superimposed with a picture of Che Guevara that was flown in an volunteer, unofficial office for Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama in Houston, Texas, captured by a local Fox News affiliate. Allahpundit likened it yesterday to be the equivalent of flying a Timothy McVeigh flag in a John McCain office, and…

No Peace Yet: So-Called 'Conservative' Attacks Radio Hosts as 'Oprah-l

February 12th, 2008 11:01 AM
Doesn’t look like an olive branch to me. Writing in today’s (Tuesday's) Wall Street Journal, novelist and sometime Republican activist Mark Helprin (not to be confused with Time magazine’s Mark Halperin) takes a series of insulting personal shots at the radio talk show hosts who’ve criticized John McCain for his numerous anti-conservative positions.Helprin, whose last big political job was…

NYT Columnist Paul Krugman: Obama Supporters Are Like Nixon

February 12th, 2008 9:57 AM

Contessa, Closet Conservative

February 11th, 2008 5:35 PM
I wouldn't want to create problems for Contessa Brewer [file photo]. But again today the spirited MSNBC anchor said something that made me wonder whether she might be a closeted conservative in the belly of the liberal beast.Janet Huckabee, responding to Brewer's question on the possibility that her husband would withdraw from the presidential race, drew a contrast between the Romney and…

Another Flag Issue for Obama

February 11th, 2008 5:12 PM

Pimp Gate Update: MSNBC's Ethics Don’t Extend to Bush Twins

February 11th, 2008 1:20 PM
As NewsBusters has been reporting, MSNBC's reaction to David Shuster's "pimped out" Chelsea Clinton comment is an extraordinary example of the double standard that exists at this admittedly left-leaning cable network. In fact, the goings-on since Shuster first made this remark last Thursday make it crystal clear that potentially insensitive comments directed at the Clinton family are thoroughly…

Day Before Potomac Primary, WaPo Laments 'Frustration of Being Illegal

February 11th, 2008 10:45 AM
Non-naturalized immigrants, especially illegal ones, can't vote in federal elections. Nonetheless, the day before the so-called Potomac Primary (D.C., Md., and Va.), the Washington Post devoted a 22-paragraph Metro section story to "The Frustration of Being Illegal."The story, by staff writer Marcela Sanchez, aims at tugging at the heart strings by recounting the plight of one immigrant who fears…

Couric Injects Silly Girl Talk in '60 Minutes' Interview with Clinton

February 11th, 2008 6:07 AM
60 Minutes on Sunday night ran back-to-back interview segments with Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton and while Steve Kroft's session with Obama provided a friendly forum in which Kroft admired how “through twelve long months of mind-numbing, muscle-aching, adrenaline-fueled monotony and exhaustion, there has been barely a misstep” by Obama, it was devoid of anything approaching the giddy girl…

Obama Beats Out Clinton and Carter for Second Grammy

February 10th, 2008 10:14 PM
So, you think Nobel Laureate Al Gore is the only Democrat that can win meaningless awards from sycophantic Hollywoodans?Well, think again, for on Sunday evening, presidential candidate Barack Obama (D-Ill.) won his second Grammy in three years (first win pictured to the right). Deliciously, and possibly a foreshadowing of things to come, Obama's victory came at the expense of a Clinton. As…