And on MSNBC, you got practically every conceivable expression of venom against Brown and anybody who voted him. From Maddow's dark suspicions that the election was rigged -- she cited complaints about a grand total of six ballots out of about 2.25 million cast -- to Olbermann's suggestion in the video up above that the same Massachusets voters who went for Barack Obama by a 62-28 percent margin had suddenly realized they helped elect a black guy and went Republican in repentance, the network's coverage was idiotic, one-sided and downright ugly.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
MSNBC revealed
This is a surprisingly even-handed look at the way Fox, CNN and MSNBC covered the Brown win on election night. This writer actually sees MSNBC for the pathetic vicious left wing shill that it has become. As much as people criticize Fox, and I can't say that I always appreciate Beck and Hannity (eg. Beck's ridicule of Brown's teasing his daughters on election night), Fox at least has a stable of both rabid and reasonable left wing commentators. Favorites (because they tend more toward the classic Democrat philosophy rather than vicious partisanship) include Kirsten Powers, Juan Williams, Alan Colmes and even Bob Beckel. Read the article here:
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