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9 January, 2009

Posts Tagged ‘Hardball’

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 [...]



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 [...]



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 [...]



Keith Olbermann The Left’s Rottweiler

By Denis Campbell • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Features, Politics
Keith is my kind of guy. Creative, completely unmanageable, he says what he feels in the moment and wears his outrage like his very large heart on his 6’ 3” tall sleeve. Physically imposing, he has spent much of the last year teaching the left that if you’re in a gunfight, you’d better bring along [...]