Olbermann's Sick Obsession
What's up with Keith Olbermann's strange obsession with STDs? A few months ago, the Countdown host invoked "syphilis" in slurring Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck. Olbermann had venereal disease on the noggin again tonight . . . Trying to trash Tucker Carlson for accepting sponsorship for his new Daily Caller website, Olbermann suggested that, for money, Carlson might consider endorsing "gonorrhea…
Newsweek's Fineman: 'Pretty Much Everybody' Favors Dems Vs. GOP's 'Te
Newsweek’s Howard Fineman appeared on Tuesday’s Countdown show on MSNBC to discuss Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s controversial remark that Barack Obama does not have a "negro dialect," and, when asked by host Keith Olbermann why Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell refused to comment on the subject, Fineman argued that Republicans are afraid to engage Democrats in a battle over the issue…
Mass. Anxiety Attack
How panicked are top Dems at the prospect that Republican Scott Brown will do the unthinkable and win the special election for the open Senate seat in Massachusetts? Enough that Harry Reid, despite his desperate fight to save his own skin in Nevada, has returned to DC to do what he can to help the hapless Dem candidate, the charisma-deprived Martha Coakley, hang on. Enough that NBC political…
Matthews: Neo-Cons Took Cruise to Alaska to Find Empty Headed Palin
Provoked by charges made in Game Change that Sarah Palin had to be tutored in basic foreign policy facts, Chris Matthews, on Tuesday's Hardball, took shot after shot at the former vice presidential candidate's intelligence as he wondered, "Is it possible that her head was really that empty?...Has she ever taken an SAT afternoon exam?" and mocked "Don't put her on Jeopardy!"Matthews invited on…
The Uncivil Rachel Maddow
A brief (and humorous) hypothetical: What would the reaction of the mainstream media be if Sean Hannity took the video of President Obama’s obeisant greeting of the Japanese Prime Minister, and turned it into a video loop to be played in the corner of the screen whenever Obama was the subject du jour?MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow did a very similar thing with Republican National Chairman Michael Steele…
Matthews: How Can Palin Be A Pundit? She Doesn`t Know Anything
NewsBusters on Monday assured readers that liberals would be enraged by the announcement that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was becoming a contributor to the Fox News Channel, and MSNBC's Chris Matthews didn't disappoint. While speaking to guests Chuck Todd of NBC and Howard Fineman of Newsweek, Matthews, during a segment specifically designed to belittle the intellectual capacity of the…
Remember Wright? Mika Says Obama 'Worked For Decades' To Transcend Rac
Does the name Jeremiah Wright ring a bell with Mika Brzezinski?The Morning Joe co-host sought today to explain the pass Pres. Obama gave Harry "negro dialect" Reid by claiming that PBO has "worked to transcend racial issues for decades." The skeptical look on Joe Scarborough's face [see still after jump] as Mika uttered her assertion was priceless. Let's take a stroll down memory lane with Rev.…
Clyburn Seems To Say 'Negro' Now Okay
Somebody owes Rush Limbaugh a big apology. Remember all the flak he took over his 'Barack The Magic Negro' parody—which was riffing off an LA Times op-ed by a black author who used the same term? Turns out, using "Negro" isn't objectionable. Don't take my word for it. Ask Rep. James Clyburn, former Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and current House Majority Whip.Clyburn made his…
Black Professor: If White Republican Said What Reid Did It Would Be Hu
On Monday, a far-left leaning black college professor stated what few in the liberal media dare: if a white Republican said what Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) did about presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008, it would be huge news.Speaking on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson elaborated, "They would be making hay out of it, calling for his resignation. I…
Bolton Slams Olbermann on Pantybomber Conspiracy Theory
Former American Ambassador to the UN John Bolton took MSNBC's Keith Olbermann to task last week for accusing US intelligence agencies of deliberately ignoring red flags that led to the failed Christmas day bombing plot (h/t Johnny Dollar). Olbermann suggested that the CIA and other agencies might have been engaged in some sort of turf war, and allowed the plot to move forward. He insinuated that…
Fineman: Republicans ‘Are About Division & Fear,’ Bush Wanted to
Appearing as a guest on Thursday’s Countdown show on MSNBC to discuss Obama's latest speech on terrorism, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman charged that, referring to Republicans, "they’re about division and they’re about fear." At one point, Fineman even made it sound as if President Bush had been obsessed with leaving office before the next terrorist attack just so he could "claim he kept us safe," as…
Letterman and Homer Simpson: Widescreen TVs Invented To Accommodate Ol
The folks at CBS's "Late Show" took a shot at Keith Olbermann Thursday with the help of cartoon character Homer Simpson.Commemorating 20 years of "The Simpsons" being on air, Homer was asked to give Thursday's Top Ten list.The topic: "Top Ten Things I've Learned From The Last 20 Years of Television." At number seven was "Widesceen televisions were invented to accommodate Keith Olbermann's…
Epic Double Standard: Lefties Once Outraged by Possible Kudlow Senate
Given the well documented "revolving door" between the media and the Democratic Party (particularly the Obama administration), it's hardly surprising that MSNBC "The Ed Show" host Ed Schultz has been approached about a run for the Senate from North Dakota. But it's still hard to swallow the left's hypocrisy concerning who can make the jump from journalism to politics. On his Jan. 6 broadcast,…
