I have been extremely displeased with MSNBC political coverage.

[boston bean]

I think anyone who has been watching recently, and who will be honest, the coverage has been slanted with a bias for Obama and against Hillary.

Keith Olbermann's interview with Hillary after the Florida primary was disgraceful. I wish I could find a clip of it somewhere. He was dripping with animosity.

Joe, Mika, Schuster and Geist have all been plugging away for Obama.

And I don't even have to mention Matthews.

I do not know the reason for this, but it is true and if I were an Obama supporter I would hope that I could be honest about that.

Now with all that said, I don't want to see Shuster be punished further. I think he made a bad judgement in using the word pimp, and his argument that Chelsea owes him an interview is a bit egotistical, but I do think he has been a good strong liberal voice for us.

I wish all the MSM would try to be fair to each candidate. But I know that wish will never come true. So if it continues to be so blatant on MSNBC I will really have to make a decision on whether I trust their reporting and whether I want to support them with my viewership.

[goldcanyonaz]

1. We need to get a list of their sponsers together and boycott them with letters telling them why.

[neutron]

21. Cable News is Declaring War on America

Anyone who thinks this is a "Clinton" issue is not thinking.

Cable has gone after every one of our candidates.
They have to be stopped.

[Prefer]

2. I agree

they are shills like the rest. everyone has an angle...

[neutron]

20. CNN is also pulling s*t

we cropped cable, and now want to find another political
website for news.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/09/clinton-could-pull-out-of-msnbc-debates-over-anchors-comments/#comment-499082

[thunder rising]

3. Maybe people just don't like Hillary because she's just like Bush abusing her position.

[libertee]

4. now there's an unintelligent observation...good grief..and so it goes to McCain ..default.

[daa]

5. You must mean universal health care and tax cuts for the rich?????

[Saturday]

6. And maybe we should be able to make up our own minds about that

and not have MSNBC tell us what to think.

[Evergreen Emerald]

7. There was a time when DU supported those who stood up to the propaganda machine

what happened to those people?

[zabet]

17. They mostly support Obama

and since the media blitz favors
their candidate by tearing into
his opposition, I do not expect
them to stand up until the propaganda
machine attacks their candidate.

Recall this article?
Recall that Rove is now in the media
background now...recall his wish for
a permanent repuke majority...recall
that Rove is a master of manipulation...
______________________________________
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/69681/

"Why Rove Is Cheerleading for Obama
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson, New America Media. Posted December 4, 2007.
Rove thinks Obama is easier prey for the GOP than Clinton."

" The clinical hate for Clinton in some circles dripped off shock jock Don Imus's lips his first day back on the job. Imus picked up the throw-away line from the late avowed Clinton basher Jerry Falwell who likened Clinton to the great Satan a couple of years back and refused to take it back when he got flack for it.

Rove also knows something else about Hillary. While she bottoms out on the issue of likeability, polls also show that voters like her for her strength and experience. And top gun Democrats will back her to the hilt. Despite a ton of negatives, these are the qualities that ultimately powered Rove's boss back into the White House."
__________________________________________

That gives me the impression that the GOP is setting
Obama up for the slaughter. They have definitely had
a 'kid gloves' policy about Obama, when blitz
style attacks in the media on Hillary are the norm.

[kurth]

8. What position is she abusing?

Senator from New York?

[Windy]

9. Keith has never promoted himself as an objective journalist.

he is no different that an talk show emcee or John Steward for that matter.

I watched the interview after Florida. He asked some genuinely good questions. A LOT of people, other than die hard hillary supporters questioned her motive there.

Keith is one of the few dem pundits out there who gets it right. We don't need to marginalize him because he just happened to not agree with Hillary on her tactics or some position statements.

Is it now becoming "you are a traitor" if you don't support Hillary without question?

This attitude is getting very scary and is sounding eerily familiar!

[boston bean]

12. not true, he can question all he wants, it's the way he did it and as an obama supporter you

probably enjoyed it.

[beberocks]

10. I noticed the same thing. Makes me think that something is up.

At first I thought that the networks wanted more of a horse race so that slanted coverage towards Obama. Now I'm wondering if this isn't out of the Rove playbook--make sure the media builds up Obama just to tear him down because he is the candidate that can be beaten by McCain. If you think I'm wrong, why was it that the talking heads on MSNBC were trying to make HRC's Florida win into a loss by talking it down. If Obama had won Florida by double digits (as Hillary did), they would have been beside themselves. Notice how no one made much of Michelle Obama's statement that she was not sure she could support HRC if HRC was the nominee? If Bill Clinton had said that there would have been non-stop coverage about how Bill was going to leave the Dems if HRC isn't the nominee. Way too biased for just normal the normal bad reporting we get, there is something bad going on.

[realFedUp]

11. I'm frankly tired of the whole men's club attitude in this country

in religion, in politics, in our cultural references
etc.
We really need to get to a feminine perspective
again to start the healing. And I'm not talking
about those women who mimic men on msnbc.

[Zueda]

13. Look for more media personalities to show bias...

I'm sure a lot aren't to happy with the Clinton camp. From all accounts I've heard, the Obama camp 'butters up' media and the Clinton camp 'beats em down'. I guess we'll see how each tactic works when all is said and done.

"True, This! —
Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch-enchanters wand! — itself a nothing! —
But taking sorcery from the master-hand
To paralyse the Cæsars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! — Take away the sword —
States can be saved without it!"

[neutron]

15. The Media operates for Corporate

they're going to naturally go after our strongest candidate.
They do this every 4 years.
Clinton is unusual in that she is fighting back.
KUDOS to HRC!

[Zueda]

16. Not unusual...Bush/Rove uses this tactic.

[jonnyblitz]

14. it's become rabidly anti-Hillary but it is still the more interesting

one to watch, IMHO, due to the eccentric array of characters that appear on the various shows. Even the commentators I can't stand or are bat shit crazy make interesting foils. for "politics as entertainment" I like MSNBC. Also, many people I really DO like appear on MSNBC. If I were a loyal, hardcore Hillary supporter I would hate the station and probably not watch it either. I understand that.

[Submariner]

18. It's called Clinton fatigue

It's contagious from being around since 1992.

[neutron]

19. It's called BIASED MEDIA fatigue