Video: Rachel Maddow’s Statement on Keith Olbermann
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All I can say is that I hope Olbermann comes back to MSNBC, but I am glad that MSNBC operates completely differently than Fox News. This situation should obviously, clearly, without a doubt illustrate that fact to anyone who ever again defends the GOP bias at Fox News by saying MSNBC is exactly the same for Democrats.
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- If you want to call MSNBC and give them feedback, you could call Phil Griffin at 212-664-4444 or email him at: phil.griffin@nbcuni.com
- Remember when Pat Buchanan defended Hitler in his column and wasn’t suspended? That was awesome, MSNBC. Also… There’s the Comcast thing, too. [BobCesca]
- During the 2009-2010 election cycle, more than 30 Fox Newsers have endorsed, raised money, or campaigned for Republican candidates or organizations in more than 600 instances. [MMFA]
- “Insiders we’ve talked to say Olbermann won’t be back.” [TVNewser]
- Another Scarborough political donation: this one made in April of this year for $5,000 to a GOP candidate in Alabama. Combined with his 2006 contribution of $4,400 to a GOP congressional candidate, Scarborough has donated at least $9,400 to Republican candidates as an MSNBC host — more than the amount that led to Keith Olbermann’s suspension. [DailyKos]
Which is precisely the goal. MSNBC can now get away with all the liberal bias they want, the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars in in-kind donations to the most liberal candidates and politicians out there, and all they have to do is say, “but we have rules against political contributions!” With Fox, you know where they stand, and you can take their statements with as big of a grain of salt as it takes. With MSNBC, there are far too many people who buy this BS idea that they’re objective and nonpartisan. Those people take what MSNBC says as gospel truth– one reason why so many Democrats were surprised by last Tuesday’s results.
I’m not sure who was “surprised” by last Tuesday’s results when you look at historical losses of seats in the president’s party in midterm elections. The correct word may be “disappointed” more than surprised. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/data/mid-term_elections.php
Rachel Maddow on the difference between Fox & MSNBC: “Here’s the larger point, though, that’s going mysteriously missing from the right-wing cackling and old media cluck-cluck-clucking: I know everyone likes to say, “Oh, cable news, it’s all the same. Fox and MSNBC — mirror images of each other. But if you look at the long history of Fox hosts not just giving money to candidates, but actively endorsing campaigns and raising millions of dollars for politicians and political parties — whether it’s Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck or Mike Huckabee — and you’ll see that we can lay that old false equivalency to rest forever. There are multiple people being paid by Fox News to essentially run for office as Republican candidates. If you count not just their hosts but their contributors, you’re looking at a significant portion of the entire Republican lineup of potential contenders for 2012. They can do that because there’s no rule against that at Fox. Their network is run as a political operation. Ours isn’t. Yeah, Keith’s a liberal, and so am I. But we’re not a political operation — Fox is. We’re a news operation. The rules around here are part of how you know that.”
No one in their right mind takes ANY cable news operation as “gospel truth” — or any ONE source of news as such. But far too many in the Fox News viewing audience take that channel hook, line and sinker — including Beck’s insanity. That’s the problem. MSNBC’s and CNN’s audiences aren’t the problem.
You must not have heard Nancy Pelosi’s gem on election night: “We’re on pace to maintain the majority in the House of Representatives.”
According to your link, the last time there was such a massive change in a midterm election was 1938. You can’t chalk up this year’s results to normal midterm backlash against the President’s party.
What matters more for getting votes? A single person donating a couple thousand bucks, or that same person convincing thousands of people to give? It’s obviously the latter, and MSNBC does it just as much as Fox News: http://viralfootage.com/?p=9395
This is not the problem. Everyone knows that Fox News is biased towards the right. Fox News viewers EXPECT Fox News hosts to support conservatives. The problem is that MSNBC does exactly the same thing, but tries to hide behind a false claim of objectivity. It’s ridiculous that Maddow would deny that Fox News is a news organization for doing things that MSNBC (and Maddow herself) also do. It’s also ridiculous that anyone would buy that kind of self-serving crap.