UPDATE: More good MSNBC feud stuff from Jossip. And (via Michael Calderone), the WSJ’s Rebecca Dana thinks that this public/private war might be due to the absence of the late Tim Russert and the vacuum left in his place.
There is a third network for cable news, and they are… well, MSNBC. Sure, they’ve dropped the MS, and sometimes NBC must feel that way, but they’ve adopted the sportscaster Keefums Olbermann and his better shtick, and they’ve surrounded Keefums with a supporting cast befitting the man with half O’Reilly’s ratings.
They are having a series of spats at the third-rate[d] news network, heedless of Axelrod’s please for “unity.” Matthews and Keefums are having at it. Olbermann and Scarborough are getting nasty. Scarborough has launched into David Shuster. Matthews and Keefums have vented about Hillary’s old com director Howard Wolfson signing on with FOX, and Wolfson has struck back.
Jon Stewart, alas and at last, has put it all into perspective (via Michael Calderon):
Of course Stewart, once an MTV VeeJay, maintains that Obama would be a “far less imperious” President than is Bush. Does he know what the term means?
Moe Lane
Steve Maley
Dan McLaughlin
Neil Stevens
Daniel Horowitz
That was an all too perfect metaphor
Brian Simpson (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 1:51PM EST (link)both for the shot at MSNBC and the Democrat primary.
They picked the less experience candidate over the seasoned pro. When it came time for the new guy to deliver, he split.
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I got nuthin.
NightTwister (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 1:56PM EST (link)In a nutshell, that’s Obama’s platform.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. – Winston Churchill
You Forgot Brokaw
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 2:11PM EST (link)Olbermann is now feduing with Brokaw, which may be the most ridiculous feud of all.
I just hope implodes enough to kicked off for football. Oh please god let KO be gone for football season.
You Forgot Brokaw
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 2:14PM EST (link)Olbermann is now feduing with Brokaw, which may be the most ridiculous feud of all.
I just hope implodes enough to kicked off for football. Oh please god let KO be gone for football season.
Olbermann like Obama is an empty suit
JSobieski (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 2:18PM EST (link)who couldn’t out argue a paper bag.
The more Olbermann is seen, the better. If I had any respect for NBC (and I think Tom was the better of the three news anchors for much of my adult life), its absolutely gone.
Keith Olbermann is an instrument to marginalize the left—a 100% tool. He probably hangs out with Michael Moore.
My rules of the road for primary season.
Rule #1: Vote for YOUR first choice in the primaries
Rule #2: Vote for the R in the general.
Rule #3: Don’t let anyone convince you to violate Rule #1 or Rule #2
Rule #4: When in a center-right argument, reaffirm Rules #1-#3–it will help us all to get along better.
Rule #5: If you are using the language of the left, you probably aren’t furthering conservativism
Rule #6: The priority is issues first, candidates second, and supporters third. Nobody is bigger than the issues. Conversely, if you spend your time focusing on supporters, you are wasting everyone’s time.
STOP THE MADNESS!
A reduction in the rate of spending increases is NOT a cut!
In-state tuition for illegals is NOT amnesty!
Requiring someone to pay their medical bills is NOT an individual mandate!
Reducing tax rates is NOT a tax increase!
Priceless
Maggie_in_Indiana (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 2:35PM EST (link)All of these clips would make a good ad as well about the MSM in the tank and on their bias
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Every four years
kowalski (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 2:36PM EST (link)Every four years, all of the horse(((t in America reaches the end of its usual travel through our collective national colon, and expresses itself in all its fragrancies through the television networks we use to broadcast it to us.
The twist is that now Jon Stewart is the Official Taster of Collective Dung, and more than the usual number of talking heads are clawing at each other’s throats.
It all makes sense, because the Democrats have worked with every fiber of their being to create this situation for the past eight years — now that they’ve succeeded in turning America into the world’s most pampered and overfunded fistfight, they want to be elected to lead the Congress and the Executive Branch.
Just say no. We don’t need them, and we shouldn’t have them.
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What's even more transcendent
kowalski (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 2:41PM EST (link)Is that Recreate ’68 is so pathetic and packed with p*y internet losers that they couldn’t even find the stones to break into something with a brick, like John Cusack said would feel so good. Cusack thinks it should feel good to throw a brick at the wrong people, and I know he’s there in spirit at least. Meanwhile the millionaire sleazoids like Stewart are commenting on Comedy Central and raking in the cashola.
Aaaaaah. Gotta love America. Bong hits for everyone! It’s the DNC!
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And it's even more beautiful
kowalski (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 2:56PM EST (link)Because Chicago’s mayor Richard Daley has said that there will be no dissent on Barack Obama!
Daley wants to run America like he runs Chicago, where all of the aldermen agree with him or you never hear from them again.
Now, the true spirit of Martin Luther King was peaceful dissent, as far as I know. Richard Daley understand that in order to get what you want, people need to be hit with spiked pipes™.
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BTW there's a good article
kowalski (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 3:08PM EST (link)There’s a good article at NPR that supplies some, at least a tiny slice, of the background you need to understand why Richard Daley says the things he manages to grunt past his lips.
He understands very pointedly that his Power is Everything, and that’s why anyone who lives in Chicago and dissents from having Barack Obama as the Democrat nominee isn’t talking very loudly right now.
It’s almost as though they don’t exist.
Yep. That’s pretty much how Chicago is run right up to this moment.
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Thanks
moderich (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 5:02PM EST (link)This campaign season is wearing me down, so I really appreciated clip – funny and sharp.
“Austere, intolerant, well-armed, and blood-thirsty, in their own regions the Wahhabis are a distinct factor which must be taken into account” – Winston Churchill, 1921
This afternoon was a hoot on MSDNC
bk (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 7:03PM EST (link)There were all these variety of nutcase protesters in the background. At least one had a bullhorn and they were often yelling in unison. “Tingle” Matthews and the guests had to scream into their mikes to be barely heard above the din. It was awesome.
ooh ooh
bk (Diary) Thursday, August 28th at 7:58PM EST (link)What’s that called? Is it a Kowalski^^3?