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5 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘MSNBC’

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 [...]



Hypocrisy 101

By Denis Campbell • Jun 27th, 2008 • Category: Features
North Korea lost Axis of Evil membership yesterday for producing a paper list in exchange for a sweetheart deal for jet fuel and yet still… refine Uranium. George Bush stood on the floor of the Israeli Knesset last month playing an obscene partisan game invoking Holocaust imagery while denouncing Barack Obama as an “appeaser” for [...]



Mission Accomplished 5 Years Later…

By Denis Campbell • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Lead Story
On 1 May 2003, President Bush stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier in San Diego in front of 5,000 soldiers and Declared “major combat operations in Iraq have ended.” Mission Accomplished said the banner behind their Commander in Chief. Every night MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann signs off his Countdown show by saying “That’s it [...]