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Post by jerseyhoya34 on Sept 7, 2008 21:53:22 GMT -5
News ois breaking tonight that Olbermann and Matthews will be less central to MSNBC's coverage of the debates, after what bigwigs considered to be a shoddy convention performance. Maybe they can put Joe Scarborough in charge so coverage is truly neutral.
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Post by strummer8526 on Sept 8, 2008 8:56:15 GMT -5
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Post by Boz on Sept 8, 2008 9:04:23 GMT -5
I think Matthews & Scarborough hosting together would be a vast improvement over Matthews & Olbermann.
Scarborough is definitely a Republican, but he also definitely hates George Bush & the neocons and he calls out Republicans on a lot of issues. Matthews I think, as I have said before, has gone off the reservation a bit in the past few years, but even though he's a fairly liberal Democrat, I do remember that he was one of the Clinton administration's harshest critics. I think he is capable of looking at both sides evenly. Keith is not.
So, I think you'd get a pretty fair balance out of those two together. Almost as importantly (or maybe more importantly), they are both likable. Even when I disagree with Matthews, which is most of the time, I still enjoy watching him (well, OK, not always).
I don't find anything likable about Olbermann. He really has become the bizarro Bill O'Reilly, which I guess was his goal, but I'd be just as upset with Fox if they had O'Reilly hosting their political coverage.
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Post by kchoya on Sept 8, 2008 9:40:55 GMT -5
Why would they need to make any adjustments? |
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Post by Bando on Sept 8, 2008 9:49:51 GMT -5
Why would they need to make any adjustments? When Bill Kristol is anchoring your convention coverage, we've got problems. |
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Post by kchoya on Sept 8, 2008 9:52:27 GMT -5
Why would they need to make any adjustments? When Bill Kristol is anchoring your convention coverage, we've got problems. I'm sorry, I thought Brit Hume (at least during prime time) was the anchor. I didn't realize Bill Kristol had taken over. Of course, it's hilarious to see the liberals now whining that the reason McCain-Palin is surging is because of the media  www.huffingtonpost.com/adam-mckay/were-gonna-frickin-lose-t_b_124772.html |
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Post by hifigator on Sept 8, 2008 11:53:27 GMT -5
Boz, I wouldn't go so far as to call Chris Matthews "likable." That is a stretch for sure, but he's no Olberman.
kc, don't confuse Bando with facts; that might wreck the utopian Never-Neverland he has in his convoluted mind.
Somewhat off subject, I really do like Brit Hume. I think we all know that he is a conservative thinker, but the difference is that he realizes that he is a newscaster not a journalist -- something that has always managed to elude the Brokaws, Jennings, Rathers etc... of the world.
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