Olbermann, Matthews out... and Obama should breathe a sigh of relief
Meanwhile, it shouldn't pass notice that Keith Olbermann- who would have been fired if he had shown nearly as much partiality between baseball teams while a sportscaster as he showed between politicians not merely as a commentator, but as a news anchor- has been removed by MSNBC from his position as the latter.
The question is why he was ever allowed to compromise MSNBC's credibility by being assigned as a "journalist" to begin with- and even more amazingly, how he was allowed to be so patently non-objective in that role for so long.
Chris Matthews, whose embarassing favoritism toward Barak Obama during the Democratic primary (he famously remarked that every time he heard The One speak, he had "a thrill run up my leg"), was a model of objectivity and decorum next to Mr. Olbermann. But he, too, has been quite rightly removed from election night anchoring duties.
Here is a fine article by Michael Graham of the Boston Herald on the damage Barak Obama's acolytes in the MSM are doing to his cause.
And before anybody even says it, it would make no sense for MSNBC to try to carve out a niche as the Fox News of the Left. That's a niche it already occupies- along with NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and the rest of he MSM.
MSNBC has simply become embarassingly obvious about its bias- obvious enough that it's had the good grace to be embarassed at what it's allowed itself to become.
The question is why he was ever allowed to compromise MSNBC's credibility by being assigned as a "journalist" to begin with- and even more amazingly, how he was allowed to be so patently non-objective in that role for so long.
Chris Matthews, whose embarassing favoritism toward Barak Obama during the Democratic primary (he famously remarked that every time he heard The One speak, he had "a thrill run up my leg"), was a model of objectivity and decorum next to Mr. Olbermann. But he, too, has been quite rightly removed from election night anchoring duties.
Here is a fine article by Michael Graham of the Boston Herald on the damage Barak Obama's acolytes in the MSM are doing to his cause.
And before anybody even says it, it would make no sense for MSNBC to try to carve out a niche as the Fox News of the Left. That's a niche it already occupies- along with NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and the rest of he MSM.
MSNBC has simply become embarassingly obvious about its bias- obvious enough that it's had the good grace to be embarassed at what it's allowed itself to become.
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