Ed Schultz to MSNBC?

[trojanrabbit]

I'm not willing to call MSNBC "mainstream media"

How can it be mainstream when (at least where I am, and we're supposed to be pretty blue here in the People's Republic of MA) you have to subscribe to Comcast's digital tier to get it? Not so for CNN & FNC. Comedy Central would be more "mainstream" IMO than MSNBC.

 

[Don62]

That's an utterly ridiculous generalization and one that can easily be disproved by MSNBC's blatant Obama kissing.

I was watching "Morning Joe" on MSNBC for a couple of hours this morning and he sure as hell wasn't doing any "Obama kissing." Scarborough is very critical of Obama--and any Democrat, for that matter.

And that was MSNBC, I was watching. Wasn't it, Don?

Chris Matthews, Keith Olber-dork, Rachel Maddow, plus Dan Shuster, Obama's press aide.
That's four liberals - in Prime Time - to one a.m. host.
Sounds balanced to me.

Shuster misses no opportunity to "correct" righties when they point out The Promised One's many gaffes and errors.
"He didn't thank himself on that prompter. It was all in jest." Then show the video, Obama-dork.

 

[listener-in]

And those incidents make the mainstream media "conservative?"

It’s not just “those incidents” that make the mainstream media conservative. I could have mentioned a handful more, but the number of such identifiable instances in which dissenting voices were driven off the airwaves has never been huge since the days of McCarthy.

No, the much more rampant abuse has been taking place on the quiet, completely out of public view, in the shape of an indefinable number of liberals who are never invited onto the air in the first place. If they’re not on, they can’t be fired. It’s well known that as the Bush administration whipped up Iraq war fever, the cautionary voices in our media, including the “liberal” NPR and New York Times, were far outnumbered by those who took the pro-war line. Even among the few critics allowed on the air before or after the invasion, the majority didn’t think the invasion was mistaken or wrong – they only faulted the tactics.

Chris Matthews, Keith Olber-dork, Rachel Maddow, plus Dan Shuster, Obama's press aide.
That's four liberals - in Prime Time - to one a.m. host.
Sounds balanced to me.

So MSNBC now has a few liberals? Not before time, and not before management deemed it politically safe. And why on earth are you so scared of four (as defined by you) liberals? Because maybe your side dominates broadcast and cable media just a little less than it did before? By the way, as long as you are naming names, you may as well get them right to preserve any credibility you have left (excuse that last word.) The name is David Shuster.

Let there be no doubt that, given an excuse, corporate ownerships could again be cowed into silencing voices of moderate left opinion while allowing the extreme right free rein.

 

[Don62]

Corporate ownership, that's another topic. Corp. ownership has kept voices on both sides off the air.

MSNBC appears very unbalanced in the evenings. I rarely see any opposition on the 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. shows, and if there is opposition, the guests are sneered at.

Say what you will about Fox and CNN, but at least the opinion evening shows there feature guests of the opposite viewpoints. Those leading networks hardly are a p.r. arm of a certain political party, something that mental midget on MSNBC is constantly charging.

Funny how he makes that unsubstantiated attack when Olberdork's own show seems like an echo chamber of the White House, reading talking points from Move On.org and that smear merchant Media Matters, and going after "that evil right-wing opposition."

 

[DToTheJ]

MSNBC appears very unbalanced in the evenings. I rarely see any opposition on the 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. shows, and if there is opposition, the guests are sneered at.

Say what you will about Fox and CNN, but at least the opinion evening shows there feature guests of the opposite viewpoints. Those leading networks hardly are a p.r. arm of a certain political party, something that mental midget on MSNBC is constantly charging.

Well, whatever the formula is, it's working for MSNBC, as CNN will finish 3rd among the cable news networks for the first time in its history:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090327/ap_en_tv/tv_cnn_in_third_4

MSNBC President Phil Griffin has some choice words for CNN in light of this news...

The article speculates that due to the success of even Olbermann's replay at 10 PM (ET), plans to start a new show - possibly hosted by Ed Schultz, the original subject of this thread - will be put on hold for now...

 

[DToTheJ]

Keith Olberdork has become the p.r. machine for the Obama administration.
Every night, it's "how dare those evil Republicans speak up against this messiah..."
No matter the Obama mistake, Keith is there to rebut it and line-up a dozen reasons why the Republicans are all wet and that Obama's mistakes weren't errors.

I can't think of one time where the former sports hack went after or called Obama on something wrong the rookie did.

One time last year, Obama was one of Keith's "Worst Persons in the World"... because he forgot his wedding anniversary...

And a couple of weeks ago, guess who landed in Dan -- excuse me, David Shuster's "Hypocrisy Watch"? That's right... President Obama!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9haer4KGAg