Tonight was excellence in broadcast journalism. Instead of playing the waiting game until the heat got to high, like Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann took the bull by the horns and made an on air apology tonight. The apology wasn’t for something Keith did, but rather for something Lawrence O’Donnell did. Last night on Countdown O’Donnell […]
Media Matters has launched a campaign against Chris Matthews and his constant sexist comments. Plutonium Page has more.
Joe Conason sums it up perfectly: The polls that had showed Barack Obama well ahead of Clinton were not so much wrong as misleading — or at least badly interpreted by journalists too eager to write Clinton’s political obituary. In fact, the polls correctly measured Obama’s share of the vote. What happened during the contest’s […]
Dom Imus didn’t leave MSNBC – he just turned into Chris Matthews. Here’s Matthews this morning saying that Hillary is only where she is today because Bill screwed around. Jane tells MSNBC that they have a gender problem. I think it’s time for them to kick Matthew’s hardballs off the air for good. UPDATE: Tucker […]
Please check your sources! While discussing Jerry Falwell with Chris Matthews, host Contessa Brewer quoted this article from Whitehouse.org in saying that Falwell was the “Executive Director of Global Policy”. Apparently Contessa doesn’t realize that whitehouse.org is a satirical site, and her producer has never heard of whois, which tells you who the domain is […]
Matt Damon told Chris Matthews yesterday that he would like to see Dick Cheney under oath, testifying about the intelligence leading up to Iraq: This is the first time I have seen Damon become political. Ben Affleck has been very outspoken against the administration, and there has even been rumors of him entering politics. It […]
Last week there was a buzz on the blogosphere, mainly from the right, that Olbermann could be losing his job. We now find out that is no where near the case, and him along with Chris Matthews are the only two protected from changes right now: If NBC’s selection of Dan Abrams, an on-air anchor, […]
Raw Story has uncovered this interesting report about Chris Matthews A new report advanced to RAW STORY Thursday suggests that Chris Matthews, the star of the Sunday talk show circuit’s Hardball, has accepted hefty speaking fees from an array of conservative trade associations. Matthews has given speeches to at least ten major conservative trade associations […]
OK I have to really get something off my chest. The arrest of those three college students arrested in Alabama has really got me thinking. I pointed out in my original post on the subject how it had become a right wing conspiracy theory. If you frequent political forums, like I do, then you would […]
The radical right has been trying to pin the church fires in Alabama on the left. Even Chris Matthews had his little go at it. Now it turns out they did it as a “joke”. This from the AP: Three college students, including two aspiring actors known around campus as pranksters, were arrested Wednesday in […]