MSNBC

I’ve been watching Morning Joe for over an hour and they didn’t mention the killing of the Washington State cops or Huckabee’s involvement. They talked about Huckabee being the front runner in the GOP polls for 2012 and him maybe not running, but it wasn’t until guest Donnie Deutsch mentioned the case that Scarborough could bring himself to talk about it for 10 seconds. I guess they can’t be bothered to talk about one of the biggest stories in the nation now.

Adding….They are getting ready to cover the White House party crashers again, after spending about 30 minutes last hour on it. No wonder Morning Joe is the worse rated morning show on TV.

While many on the left side of the blogosphere seemed to enjoy Chuck Todd, I have never liked him. I don’t believe he is the “political insight machine” that so many credit him with and here is more proof of it:

John Cole, who caught this little tweet of <cough> brilliance from Todd, says this:

I guess he didn’t pick up on the fact that if they had failed to get the 60 votes, HCR would, for all intents and purposes, be dead in the short run, as the Republicans would filibuster. That is why this is such a big deal- they have overcome the obstructionism of the GOP, and the debate can advance.

Although in fairness to Chuck, he may be more concerned with why Obama didn’t reach out more to President McCain. Not to be too subjective, or anything.

When we see something as important as health care reform clear another hurdle then it is reason to celebrate. Todd’s just pissed because he doesn’t have some big failure to go on about. Screw the millions whose lives will be improved by this reform – Chuckles just wants something to give him more ratings and air time, and the more this babbling idiot is on TV the dumber America becomes.

It’s just another reason why my TV doesn’t turn to MSNBC as much as it used to.

We have heard that phrase a lot lately when it comes to the banks, but what about the media? What would happen if 1/4 of the U.S. media went bankrupt? With a proposed take over of NBC by Comcast that could easily become a reality:

By next week, cable giant Comcast is expected to announce a deal to buy NBC-Universal, the biggest proposed media merger in recent memory. Comcast, the largest cable company and the No. 1 Internet service provider in the nation, would take over the NBC empire: a television network, Universal Studios, MSNBC, CNBC, USA Network, Telemundo, the Weather Channel, Hulu.com, 27 television stations and a host of other properties. UPDATE: The merger was rumored to be announced as early as Sunday, but related negotiations with Vivendi have delayed the announcement.

This train wreck of a deal will hurt all over. It will mean increased costs for cable television service; currently free online NBC content locked behind a pay wall; less opportunity for the distribution of independent media; even fewer choices and less programming diversity. On average, nearly one quarter of all channels offered to cable subscribers will be owned by the bloated Comcast.

We already know MSNBC has a history of promoting racism by giving constant airtime to Pat Buchanan, but now this atmosphere of promoting racism has floated on over to CNBC. Chris in Paris has the details:

What an amazingly ignorant thing to say. The CNBC editor rips Meb Keflezighi for not being American-enough and as a ringer for winning marathons. Forget that his family left Eritrea as refugees, and he attended high school here and then became a naturalized US citizen over ten years ago. Yes, that is the clear sign of a ringer. Who out there doesn't flee war just to win a race?

Keflezighi won the New York Marathon this weekend and many have been praising the fact that he was the first American to do so in nearly 3 decades. Some how though he isn’t “American” to Darren Rovell, the CNBC editor who wrote:

It's a stunning headline: American Wins Men's NYC Marathon For First Time Since '82.
Unfortunately, it's not as good as it sounds.

Meb Keflezighi, who won yesterday in New York, is technically American by virtue of him becoming a citizen in 1998, but the fact that he's not American-born takes away from the magnitude of the achievement the headline implies...

Given our disappointing results, embracing Keflezighi is understandable. But Keflezighi's country of origin is Eritrea, a small country in Africa. He is an American citizen thanks to taking a test and living in our country.

Nothing against Keflezighi, but he's like a ringer who you hire to work a couple hours at your office so that you can win the executive softball league.

The positive sign was that some American-born runners did extremely well in yesterday's men's race.
If any of them stand on the top step of the podium in Central Park one day, that's when I'll break out my red, white and blue.

I wonder what Comcast thinks about this racism problem at a company they are looking to take over? MSNBC and CNBC have no both given platforms to known racists, and apparently without any remorse. Perhaps its time for people to turn off these networks and show them that the American people won’t tolerate it anymore. While MSNBC is the only cable news network I can tolerate, I have cut my daily viewing of them by over 75%. They feel mighty enough to bash other networks for obvious race baiting tactics, yet they won’t acknowledge their own problems. I wonder if Keith Olbermann will even mention this guy in World’s Worst? It has all the key components to attract Olbermann – racism and sports. Somehow though I doubt it will happen.

How dare President Obama invite the MSNBC hosts and not anyone from FOX. Bush would have never done that!

Oh wait….

Another just now moment from Morning Joe. Erin Burnett was on doing her morning economic talk. She then turned to the news that Comcast is looking to buy NBC Universal, something that NBC Universal is strongly denying. Right in the middle of the talk Morning Joe went straight to commercial. When they came back they didn’t even mention the weird break.

It could have been a programming error, but those are generally followed by an explanation. Instead it appears the the higher ups at MSNBC don’t want this news being reported.

I just noticed this article via AmericaBlog:

Some Democrats, led by Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), are pushing for an official censure of Wilson, with a floor vote on the resolution coming as early as Tuesday.

And the Politico has it wrong. James Clyburn is not asking for censure of Wilson. Instead he is one of the Democrats asking for the much less severe punishment of a “resolution of disapproval” (for more on that check out Greg Sargent’s post). Here is a video of James Clyburn appearing on Hardball last week to discuss his desires in handling Wilson:

Pat Buchanan is out in a full court press defense of Adolf Hitler, arguing that Hitler never wanted war. Why does MSNBC continue to give credit to this hate monger? Its time for them to cut Buchanan loose and let him go to a network he can feel right at home at – FOX.