In an article by Lloyd Grove of The Daily Beast, MSNBC president Phil Griffin denies that the network has a liberal ideology, instead calling it a “progressive sensibility.” Grove writes: Where some Republican operatives and office-holders see MSNBC as a liberal-Democrat collaborator of the Obama White House—with a promotional catchphrase, ‘Lean Forward,’ that echoes the slogan of President […]
Maybe he’s getting mellower as he gets older. Nevertheless, former CBS Evening News anchor Dan Rather surprised conservatives and liberals alike when he defended Fox News against charges that it is part of the Republican Party. Rather was asked about the Fox-GOP connection in an interview with Larry King: KING: Do you think the thought […]
Chris Matthews, who earlier on Monday attacked RNC chairman Reince Priebus on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program for playing what he called the race card, met his match on Monday night on Hardball when he continued harping on GOP racism, only to be called out by Newt Gingrich for his “racist thinking.” Matthews used Mitt Romney’s […]
Chris Matthews devoted most of his show to the Republican presidential campaign and seemed particularly irked that Donald Trump has injected himself back into the campaign with the announcement that he will moderate a GOP debate at the end of the month. Matthews: How did the party of Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt and General […]
Last week on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” (with guest host David Shuster) on Current TV, liberal comedian Janeane Garofalo discussed what she said was the double standard in favor of the Tea Party and how the media help them. Shuster: Well how does it work, then, for Father of the Year Joe Walsh? I mean, he […]