Dear MSNBC: You suck.

[Lesleymo]

I watched a few minutes of Morning Joe just now. Mistake.

First they discussed a poll that showed 26% of Americans blame Obama for the country's problems, as opposed to 46% or 49% (I forget) who blame Bush. Absolutely NO discussion of the fact that more blame Bush than Obama. NO discussion of the fact that, hello, the problems clearly started during the Bush administration, regardless of who Americans choose to blame.

The whole discussion was "Gee, Obama's number has doubled from 13% to 26% in the last six months. Let's talk about what a failure he is."

Then they starting talking about health reform and it got even worse.

Maria Bartiromo brought up the tax cuts for small businesses that will help them insure their employees. "Well gee," she says, "first they have to buy the insurance. So it kind of sounds like a fee to me."

Voila! A tax cut becomes a fee. A president who accomplishes one of the most significant legislative advances in decades becomes a failure.

And THIS is the liberal media?

[malaise]

1. If 26% blamw him then 74%

don't blame him or have no opinion. Fuck the hacks and spinners!

[SusanaMontana41]

39. Exactly.

It's Joe Scarborough. Consider the source.

I won't throw MSNBC overboard just because of one idiotic morning show. We'd lose Keith, Ed, Dylan and Rachel, too.

[DrDan]

2. building up those ratings?

[HipChick]

3. MJ is Republican am spin central ...

[sendero]

4. There IS no liberal media..

... and that includes NPR.

Really, turn this stuff off. It is nothing but blatant propaganda. The fact that more than 10% of Americans actually watch this drivel is testament to the mass idiocy of this country.

[RKP5637]

6. +1, n/t

[YOY]

7. When NPR has a 20 minute editorial sticking up for Rush Limbugh it's not liberal anymore.

Good call.

[Atman]

11. People forget that Bush replaced the NPR board with a largely GOP panel

And a GOP CEO (or whatever his official title is). Just sayin. NPR hasn't been "liberal" for years. It's one of the great media myths.

[Enthusiast]

23. And why hasn't Obama

replaced the replacements?

Good will won't count with purveyors of lies, distortions and misinformation. And no one does it slicker than NPR. When Juan Williams is your token liberal how are you any better than Fox?

[City Lights]

26. Great question. nt

[YOY]

30. This is what I ask every goddamn time I turn on the radio...then off.

n.t.

[YOY]

27. I never thought I'd scream at NPR.

I had to turn it off last week when they were interviewing some bible thumping evangelist Republican senator as to his disagreement with separation of church and state as some sort of debatable item.

Presenting his BS as some sort of legitimate discussion item was appalling.

[Enthusiast]

29. It has gotten to be that bad.

Imagine, NPR.

[Atman]

35. It's a brilliant strategy.

If by "brilliant" you understand it really means "evil."

The crazies on the right still think NPR is "liberal," so they don't listen. Meanwhile, most of the "Eastern Liberal Elites" don't realize that NPR is now just another mouthpiece for the GOP, and they listen thinking that they're somehow more informed than the common man...yet they're getting the same right-wing bullshit that Fox and MSNBC spew. So they tend to think it's more mainstream commentary. It is anything but.

[YOY]

38. Yeah but I hear some corncob trying to tell me that his disbelief of seperatation of church/state...

Especially when it's being obviously presented as some legitimately possible and very functional alternative...

Kind of a dead givaway.

[Enthusiast]

21. Obviously. nt

[patrice]

15. That's THE Fact! Don't eat this bullshit.

[tom_paine]

37. +1,000,000

[PCIntern]

5. Bartiromo should at least shower, wash her hair, and brush it

before she appears on TV...

She's a shill..."Dems have done nothng"..."Oh yeah they did Healthcare"...

Dope and incompetent and not too bright.

[CTyankee]

25. She's looked worse, if you can believe it. I skipped the show todaybecause

I saw that she would be there. I've seen her looking like she had the worse hangover in the history of humankind...she has nothing to say and nothing to add.

I look for when Lawrence O'Donnell, Elizabeth Warren, Katrina VandenHeuval and Eugene Robinson (plus Anthony Weiner) will be on.

[HipChick]

31. she looked horrible...red nose...

did the make-up person just not have enough products to cover up how awful she looked..

[deacon]

8. Again, they are just part of the problem. By not getting to the heart of issues,

they stir up the Violent Right Wing.

[Atman]

9. Maria is horrible. Second only to Buchanan in vitriol and misinformation.

When their guest said that things may not be as bad as the panel was making out to be once people realize there was no socialism or totalinariasm and their taxes won't be raised, she blurted "Yes they will! Their taxes are going up!" with that vile, disgusted look that seems permanently glued to her face. No counterpoint that HER taxes might go up because she is very wealthy, but REGULAR PEOPLE's will not. No mention of the huge MOE of the polls they're showing, which essentially demonstrates a potential 50% approval for the president over 48% negative. Nope, that would destroy the gloom and doom scenario they're painting. Bartiromo comes across as simply mean and selfish. IOW, a typical Republican.

[Supersedeas]

34. typical morning propoganda from the television media outlets...not just MSNBC

[Echo In Light]

10. When defense contractors own & control the media

[bluedeminredstate]

12. They do suck.

Mika spent most of Tuesday morning spewing fake outrage that the "hate" on the left wasn't being covered like the vitriol coming from the teabaggers was. She held up the "DEATH THREAT" to Eric Cantor as though that trumped all the incidents from the last two weeks and never once mentioned the fact that the nut who threateded Cantor had previously threatened President Obama, Pelosi and Reid. No matter what was being discussed she managed to bring the conversation back to the DEATH THREAT of Eric Cantor. No one on the panel corrected her even though it had been reported on MSNBC that this lunatic had a history of threats and he wasn't a leftwing hater.

[spanone]

13. i'd rather have root canal with pain enhancing drugs

don't you love how mika is supposedly the 'liberal' one and nothing could be farther from the truth.

[Enthusiast]

24. She acts totally subservient

to Joe. Just like Juan Williams is the token liberal on NPR.

[City Lights]

14. The earliest I turn on msnbc is when Ed comes on.

I haven't watched mourning ho-jo in over two years. Ditto for daytime msnbc. They add nothing of value to the conversation. If I wanted to read GOP talking points, I'd go to the rnc website.

[patrice]

16. Don't let people who are your intellectual inferiors tell you what's goin' on.

[Stinky The Clown]

17. I've always contended that MSNBC is actually worse than FOX

With FOX, it is clear, even to a moron, "how they roll" (gawd I hate that term). MSNBC plays to the left and stocks the prime time pond with liberals, but they keep the spew going as on mourning Blow.

Maria Bartoromo is a despicable person who gets far too much air time.

[Florida Blue]

20. Lately I have watched som faux morning news

Usually after about five minutes of Joe(R=Dead Intern) makes me puke, and I think you are right. six to nine on msnbc is worse than fox.

[Stinky The Clown]

36. It is even more than that .......

JoeScum is the face of it. But the organization's bias is what I find troubling. They do the liberal stuff to get ratings. Their bias when the chips are down is hard right.

[get the red out]

18. I'm glad I'm not the only one disgusted

The way they spin stupid polls, when you don't even know how the question was asked, hell most Democrats who favor the health care bill weren't excited that the President "handled" it by trying to include the ignorant party of hate to begin with, so was I thrilled with his "handling", no. Am I happy they got it done, YES!

I am grateful that almost no one watches that ignorance anyway. Mika makes me want to smack her, and I prefer not to have violent thoughts in the morning.

[Enthusiast]

19. Yeah!

And we have MSNBC as the "liberal" station -- a counterbalance to Fox.

My theory is the media is our greatest challenge. Every single TV discussion, on every network, is framed in favor of the GOP/corporate view with the exception of the Ed Show, Ratigan, Olbermann and Maddow. I won't include Matthews because he is a Reagan Democrat and his show often takes a GOP turn.

And yes, it is disgusting. Even NPR and C-Span are now tainted. They knew what they were doing clear back in the 1980s when they did away with the fairness doctrine. Apparently it was all part of the plan. These people are fascists. Better start to believe it because it is a fact.

[blm]

22. Fact: There is no liberal media. There is only CORPORATE MEDIA that does what their owners order.

.

[JBoy]

28. Baritomo lost any credibility on the health care subject after her discussion with Anthony Weiner

where she asked him "if Medicare is so great, why aren't you on it"?

Anthony Weiner is 44 years old.

[Daphne08]

32. Bartiromo is a harpy. n/t

[Iggo]

33. Why in fuck would you watch that shit?

[meeshrox]

40. Yep...gave Schmo up last week

I watch MSNBC sometimes in the evening...Rachel and Ed mostly. Still, don't want to give them the ratings...vote with your remote!

Joe is a schmuck...he's a spineless repuke that likes to "stay neutral" just until the end of the conversation and his real opinion in as the last word.

[Lesleymo]

41. I'm done with Shmo. Done.

His show just raises my blood pressure, which I might possibly be able to afford now that I have a full-time job which thank God includes health insurance. I'll watch my DVR's of Colbert while I "put on my face" in the morning from now on.

[meeshrox]

42. That's a great idea!

I've been looking for something to listen to...I already hear NPR in the morning when I get to work and the Weather Channel is getting lamer. Hmm...I think my Cosmos DVDs are a good start. :) Thanks!

[O is 44]

43. Don't watch you'll be a much happier person n/t