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Posts Tagged ‘MSNBC’

Sarah Palin’s Feminine Wiles Fall Short

By Sharon Kyle • Sep 29th, 2008 • Category: Politics

by Sharon Kyle
Shortly after the Katie Couric-Sarah Palin interview, a slew of reports hit the Internet assessing the VP candidate’s performance. Try as I might, I was hard pressed to find a single report that looked favorably on Palin’s delivery. Slate’s Christopher Beam said that Palin resembled, “a high-schooler trying to BS her way through [...]



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 [...]



Rachel’s Third Night

By Denis Campbell • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Media

The Rachel Maddow Show moved into the MSNBC sandbox playground Monday night and, as usual, was a breath of fresh air sandwiched between the two toughest lefties Countdown’s Keith Olbermann and Hardball’s Chris Matthews.
Rachel has been a hit on Air America Radio bringing gravitas and style to the otherwise ranting progressives (of which I am [...]



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 [...]



Tough for Convention Telly Abroad

By Denis Campbell • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Politics Too

Ten years abroad and I have to say it is getting better. I now have C-SPAN and MSNBC streaming live convention feeds on each computer, CNN is taping on SKY+ in case Mr. Sandman calls before 5 am local time. The DNCC have an amazing online HD Player for streaming video that is better than [...]



Jon Stewart Rips Television News

By Denis Campbell • Aug 26th, 2008 • Category: Innovators

Yesterday at the University of Denver, Jon Stewart ripped the 24-hour cable news beast for the current campaign craziness. We’ve often chastised the media here for the 600 word newsfeed rip, place two opposing quotes, add an expert opinion and presto! News.
Jon has a history of trying to get news outlets to do their job [...]



Perception, Terrorism and Race

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics

In America’s heartland, anything that paints Barack Obama as (place your fear mongering adjective here) passes as “God’s honest truth” even when proven a lie. MSNBC reported yesterday, “Gerri Kish, (is) 66-year-old (and) born in Hawaii, read both of Obama’s autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she [...]



Gun Nut Lobby Stuffs Chip ‘n Dale’s Tree with Guns

By Denis Campbell • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Politics

This is a crazy battle as Dan Abrams showed on this clip…

Flush with victory from the US Supreme Court overturning the Washington DC handgun ban, the gun lobby set it sights on Disney’s theme parks in Orlando. Disney, the self-proclaimed “world’s happiest place” has a long-standing policy expressly forbidding (with zero-tolerance) the possession and use [...]



Thank You Keith Olbermann for Both Inciting Right and Left

By Denis Campbell • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Reflections

Talking ‘With’ Rather Than ‘At’ Each Other on the Campaign Trail
This e-magazine had its busiest day ever last week by mentioning one man’s name – MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. I happen to like the guy and his work even if he periodically goes off the emotional deep end. Keith is mostly honest, open and brutal and [...]



McCain’s Straight Talk Express Flipped Then Flopped

By Denis Campbell • Jul 1st, 2008 • Category: Features, Politics

When will the Dems learn to that bringing a knife to gun fight is not very smart? When will they learn to play the refs better (the media) for the free ride John McCain continues to get whilst Obama supports the FISA bill only to catch the corporate thieves in criminal liability when elected and [...]