“Slime a Republican, be a hero to the left.”

Gee for a moment there I thought you were talking about John McCain.

MSNBC, on the other hand, floundered for years, experimenting with different formats and attracting little in the way of respect or attention . . .

UNTIL! Somebody at NBC got the idea of putting on Keith Olbermann not merely to compete with O’Reilly but actually to pick a fight with him. What must have seemed, even to the NBC suits, as a hail mary pass at the time worked beautifully, and MSNBC has become the liberal alternative to the Vulpines (although they can claim Tucker and Morning Joe when the conservatives complain) and, in fact, seems to have become the unofficial hdqs. for the Obamamanians (hence Mr. Schuster’s failed attempt at hipper than thouness). So, it seems that MSNBC is the go-to place not for what most of Americans would consider the liberal point of view, but actually for the point of view of one faction of liberalism (something Fox never has attempted). To complain of differential treatment by the “liberal media” for Jenna and Barbara Bush compared with Chelsea Clinton totally misses the point. Bush-twin bashing, despicable enough, was widely indulged in by those suffering from “Bush Derangement Syndrome.” Chelsea-bashing is being indulged in by one segment of the liberal media. That, to my knowledge, has never happened before.

And while all this has been going on . . .

CAZART! CNN, apparently under orders to simply report the news, has been doing just that, relatively free of bias and with the always on the job Wolf Blitzer, and that cool exploding map–and great reporting by John King, Dana Bash, Candy Crowly, Jessica Yellin (victim of the Wrath of Bill Clinton), et al.

Hillary boycott these taste less media; no reason to stand for this kind of journalism.

if we’re really at a place where women don’t need to consider their vote for a woman with their own womanhood in mind…the way the media is acting is certainly making us realize that if it’s okay to demean our first female candidate for president based on her gender, the rest of us (women) dont have a shot in hell.

and those women who don’t think this matters at all….it won’t matter until we elect a female president in spite of what these misogynistic boneheads do.

but right now, women, voting for another women, IS important. right now as women, we can be divided and conquered. and that’s always been our weak point, hasn’t it? that we can’t put aside petty shit and get the team agenda forward?

men have always been able to rally around something that may not be their explicit desire, but they can see the forest through the trees, and are able to coalesce to get toward a certain end goal.

women, need to be more vocal in condemning misogynistic speech and bias, especially right now, i’ve never quite experienced this like this, in my lifetime, where talking heads everywhere think it’s a-ok to insult and undermine a woman like this.

it reminds me of the clip i saw of barbera walters first appearence as a network news anchor, and the horrific way she was treated on air.

right now it seems as though nothing has changed…

I think MSNBC did the right thing, as newscaters should be professionals. An accidental gaffe on a rare occassion is one thing, but KO is unprofessional every single night.

Who could possibly take MSNBC seriously if it continues to employ unprofessional people?

Olberman has actually attained a comedic status as far as I’m concerned. I always tune in to watch his rants, as his version of the “truth” is always entertaining.

This is nothing new for Shuster, though. Previously he’s ranted about how evangelicals like to torture Muslims just for fun (here), praised a juvenile obscene college newspaper editorial while bemoaning the fact that not enough students are in the street protesting the Iraq war (here), and used Truther loons as his source for wildly inaccurate stories (here). Almost makes his pitiful gotcha game with Representative Blackburn look trivial.

But now he’s crossed the line…he’s said something the Clinton campaign (all hail and bow down) dislikes. So he’s off the air until he learns to slant his reports properly. Sort of “sensitivity training” for leftist teleprompter-readers.

MSNBC suspends David Shuster for distasteful comments, while retaining Keith Olbermann who makes slanderous statements.

Mrs. Clinton who has made a career or making prositution allegaations about her husbands bimbos and victims. all of sudden object to misogynic remarks. Pot, kettle, black.

Using a prostitution metaphor for the daughter of a presidential candidate is a surefire way for a journalist to get into trouble.

Just ask Madame Hillary!