UPDATE: Senator Bernie Sanders agrees with the Hag; wants NBC/Comcast merger stopped in light of Olbermann’s firing…. “Comcast has not closed the transaction for NBC Universal and has no operational control at any of its properties, including MSNBC… We pledged from the day the deal was announced that we would not interfere with NBC Universal’s [...]
One can hardly argue that something awful hasn’t happened to our news media in the last few decades, but those actually in the media still steadfastly, and at times almost comically, refuse to see it. In short, a calculated plan by the right, beginning in the 1970′s, has reached glorious fruition in 2010: the right [...]
Somewhere along the way, the television bobbleheads who are technically supposed to be reporting the “news” gave up entirely on that worthy endeavor in favor of talking about their favorite subject… themselves. Oh, they often elaborately pay faux homage to “real Americans,” meaning those reliably hypothetical wretched souls who don’t happen to rake in millions [...]
UPDATE: The waterboarding segment was featured, as I’d hoped, on Countdown tonight. (link in comments) Not that I think this occurrence was directly attributable to the Hag… For weeks now, Keith Olbermann has been beating the drum to have Sean Hannity waterboarded, to a degree that almost seemed undignified, that is until today. You [...]