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The right dictates MSNBC's programming decisions
Salon.com ^ | 09/08/08 | Glenn Greenwald

Posted on 09/08/2008 8:16:22 AM PDT by bigbob

MSNBC's announcement that it is replacing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews with David Gregory as anchors for its main political events (the upcoming presidential debates and election) vividly illustrates several long-obvious facts. First, nothing changes the behavior of our media corporations more easily than vocal demands and complaints from the Right, which petrify media executives and cause them to snap into line.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election08; matthews; msnbc; obama; olbermann; propagandists
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A goofball reaction to the MSNBC yanking of chains - who knew the Right commanded such power over the Media? Even stronger than Hillary? Yeah, right...
1 posted on 09/08/2008 8:16:23 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: bigbob

I am now in the TWILIGHTZONE. somebody bring me back to the world I was born in.


2 posted on 09/08/2008 8:17:52 AM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (McCain-Sarah 08...Dont stop believin....)
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War is peace, freedom is slavery, blah blah blah...

Ol' Sockpuppet is at it again. The hysteria of the far left elite is getting really amusing.

3 posted on 09/08/2008 8:18:49 AM PDT by thecabal (Conservatives who don't live up to the liberal caricature are now hypocrites.)
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To: bigbob

Gawd, they are REALLY desperate now. So all of a sudden the Right commands the MSM. Talk about intellectual disconnects!!


4 posted on 09/08/2008 8:19:22 AM PDT by szweig (Had it up to here)
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To: bigbob

If we have that much power, let’s get his goofball face off Sunday Night Football while we’re at it.


5 posted on 09/08/2008 8:19:22 AM PDT by scottinoc
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To: se_ohio_young_conservative

This is not the reality I used to know.


6 posted on 09/08/2008 8:19:22 AM PDT by Petronski (Zero-bama. All this time we thought it was an "O" but, nope, it's just a "0".)
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To: bigbob

What a lame attempt to bring criticism to the GOP. As if anyone is going to buy into it.


7 posted on 09/08/2008 8:19:34 AM PDT by sarasota
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To: bigbob

Hmmm. Looks like the left wing flops are flipping out. Must be a delayed reaction to a bad acid trip in the 60’s.


8 posted on 09/08/2008 8:19:38 AM PDT by screaminsunshine
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To: bigbob

All your talking moonbats are belong to us.


9 posted on 09/08/2008 8:19:41 AM PDT by avacado
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"The right dictates MSNBC's programming decisions"

Spoken like a complete lying Marxist sub-human.

10 posted on 09/08/2008 8:21:17 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.)
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To: Petronski
This is not the reality I used to know.

Post of the day! Thanks for the belly laugh.

11 posted on 09/08/2008 8:21:41 AM PDT by OSHA (framing it as though you've magically neutralized any potential negative eventuality)
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To: bigbob

This equates with Biden’s comments on MTP where he said that the recent success in Iraq was because they were finally doing what he told them to do two years ago.


12 posted on 09/08/2008 8:22:06 AM PDT by Mr. Binnacle (Sarah Palin is Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan in a sports bra!)
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Seriousy. If the right was controllng msnbc, why would Gregory be there? LOL


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13 posted on 09/08/2008 8:22:08 AM PDT by smith288 (Maverick - Barracuda 08! Http://www.cafepress.com/smith288)
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To: bigbob

If there’s one thing the right has been clamoring for, it’s more David Gregory.


14 posted on 09/08/2008 8:22:26 AM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (Jesse Jackson talks about neutering Obama, but Sarah Palin actually delivers.)
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To: bigbob

Are you kidding me? Look at the sudden turnaround from the leftist MSM regarding Palin. PMSNBC and all the others received their marching orders from Obama, and no one else.


15 posted on 09/08/2008 8:23:04 AM PDT by rintense (Palin 2012 for President!)
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Greenwald should just ---- off. What an idiot. The minute Palin was announced MSNBC put a graphic on the bottom that said, "How many houses will Palin add to the ticket?", or something like that. If FOX ever did something so outrageous, the left would howl to the rafters and you'd never hear the end of it.

After the 9/11 tribute ran, at the convention, Olbermann went on a gloomy rant "apologizing" for the "images".

MSNBC is so in the tank for Obama that after the Messiah's acceptance speech in the Barackopolis, Bill Maher joked about how Olbermann and Matthews wanted to have sex with him.

And then there's the "thrill up the leg" of Matthews, for his bi-racial fantasy man.

Matthews was on Leno the other night and he was practically drooling over Obama and dripping scorn for Republicans.

This should be allowed by a major cable network who then want to be considered "fair" during things like the debates?

If they want to be in the tank, let 'em, it's their network, but they shouldn't then be surprised if the other side calls them on their rank partisanship and overwhelming bias.

16 posted on 09/08/2008 8:23:21 AM PDT by Boagenes (I'm your huckleberry, that's just my game.)
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To: bigbob

Nutroots.


17 posted on 09/08/2008 8:23:34 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: FormerACLUmember

A completely absurd premise.


18 posted on 09/08/2008 8:23:45 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: screaminsunshine

or a reaction to Sarah :)

She didnt give em hell. She just told the truth and they thought it was hell. As Harry Truman would say.


19 posted on 09/08/2008 8:24:05 AM PDT by se_ohio_young_conservative (McCain-Sarah 08...Dont stop believin....)
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To: thecabal

Salon.com, the online magazine of choice for metro sexual and homosexual family hating Dagon worhipping,pseudo intellectuals who need to vent after jumping rehab with Bob Beckel and sharing cab fare to latest “stand with Al Qaeda Rally”.


20 posted on 09/08/2008 8:24:59 AM PDT by redstateconfidential ("Go to the mattresses")
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