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I can't stand Rachel BUT I watched the video-Keith broke the rules and I don't believe he will come back-why? His ratings have been in a free fall and I think MSNBC is looking for an excuse to cut ties with him just like NPR and Juan-they were looking for a reason. When it all comes down to it, it's business..MSNBC is looking to up the ratings.
Olbermann is a pretty sorry excuse for a news commentator; he's unprofessional, arrogant, pompous, a wind bag, childish, possibly even slightly unstable. And he sucks. But that's pretty much valued at MSNBC. But I'm not sure he did anything wrong. MSNBC makes no bones about being in the tank for the far left. They don't care if it hurts ratings or turns away viewers. So why is Olbermann donating to certain candidates suddenly an issue?
All the networks donate money or favors and have sponsors who donate money to political organizations.
He may have wanted a leave of absence for medical reasons or to get away and they used this as an excuse. His show has really been bad, for quite soem time, although I gotta say his replacement last night was BAD. It was like watching a high school kid audition do some standup and try to be taken seriously.
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William Kristol of FOX carried the water for Bush's war crimes in Iraq.
William Kristol also is chairman and co-founder of PNAC in 1997, the war conspiracy cabal that brags membership of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, et al that conspired Iraq War prior to the Presidential election of November 2000:
She explains why Olbermann was suspended and the differences between MSNBC and Fox. CNBC employees are not under the same contract. She also says that this is a temporary suspension.
"Let this incident lay to rest forever the facile, never-true-anyway, bullpucky, lazy conflation of Fox News and what the rest of us do for a living," she said. "I know everybody likes to say, 'Oh, that's cable news, it's all the same. Fox and MSNBC, mirror images of each other.' Let this lay that to rest forever. Hosts on Fox News raise money for Republican candidates. They endorse them explicitly, they use their Fox News profile to headline fundraisers. Heck, there are multiple people being paid by Fox News now to essentially run for office as Republican candidates....They can do that because there's no rule against that at Fox. They run as a political operation; we're not."
But hey, be fair and balanced, Fox isn't the only one!
Seems like a fairly new phenomenon that we now have a political movement led by a TV "news" outlet -- that usually happens elsewhere.
...Greenwald noted the similarities between Fox News' overt role in U.S. politics with places like Venezuela, where the opposition TV station led the failed 2002 coup attempt against Hugo Chavez, as well as Italy, where Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, a media magnate, uses his TV ownership to agitate. "Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch are really using that model to organize and galvanize this protest movement," wrote Greenwald.
"There is no news in the truth and no truth in the news." - Russian saying as Russia had two well-known "newspapers", Pravda and Izvestia. Pravda means "truth," and Izvestia means "news."
This one sound familiar?
All news must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those toward whom it is directed will understand it... Through clever and constant application of news, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise
"Let this incident lay to rest forever the facile, never-true-anyway, bullpucky, lazy conflation of Fox News and what the rest of us do for a living," she said. "I know everybody likes to say, 'Oh, that's cable news, it's all the same. Fox and MSNBC, mirror images of each other.' Let this lay that to rest forever. Hosts on Fox News raise money for Republican candidates. They endorse them explicitly, they use their Fox News profile to headline fundraisers. Heck, there are multiple people being paid by Fox News now to essentially run for office as Republican candidates....They can do that because there's no rule against that at Fox. They run as a political operation; we're not."
Pot, kettle......
Joy Behar raised $150k + for her political opposition. Where does that fact belong?
Joy Behar raised $150k + for her political opposition. Where does that fact belong?
I don't know, where?
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