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8 January, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘Chris Matthews’

Chris Matthews Is Becoming The Left’s Bill O’Reilly

By Charley James • Nov 21st, 2008 • Category: Media
by Charley James
As a progressive, one of the things that I appreciate about MSNBC’s evening line-up is that although its people have a liberal point-of-view, they stick to actual facts rather than slide down into the slimy half-truths and outright lies that Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the other on Fox’s right wing mouthpiece network [...]


Spooky Halloween Talking Points

By Denis Campbell • Oct 31st, 2008 • Category: Features
The Last Campaign Weekend…
Happy Halloween, here are the points for this, the last Friday before we know the result. 
• Scary News That’s Fit to Print
The New York Times reports: the tab for the presidential campaign approaches a shocking $2 billion. Clearly, the system must be fixed.
• Most popular Halloween themes: 
Obama and McCain pumpkin carvings, Sarah [...]


Pay No Attention to the Man Behind the Curtains!

By Denis Campbell • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Features
 

by Denis Campbell
Toto (John McCain and Barack Obama) grabbed at his pants leg as his voice boomed, “I am the Great and Powerful Financial Oz!” Or so Hank Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs wanted to say while his puppet, still President George W. Bush made a 2-minute appearance and his surrogates warned Democrats to [...]


Maddow Head-to-Head with The King, Winning Hearts and Minds

By Denis Campbell • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: Media
 

Rachel Maddow in her second week is winning hearts and minds away from the King and even beat her buddy Keith Olbermann in the ratings giving MSNBC a solid 1-2 punch. MSNBC continues to grow viewers and present NBC with headaches because the right wing attack dogs succeeded in banning their hosts Olbermann and Harball’s [...]


When Will Mainstream Media Do Their Job?

By Denis Campbell • Sep 6th, 2008 • Category: Business
 

CNN’s Campbell Brown made headlines by asking tough questions of a McCain surrogate, letting the poor guy twist and embarrass himself, continually counter-punching with the same unanswered question. It was brutal and much needed (like the poor guy eviscerated by Chris Matthews on MSNBC’s Hardball trying to label Obama an appeaser like Chamberlain in WWII [...]