Originally Posted by Bucco

has been often the butt of jokes on here along with sarcasm and plain hate talk over the years. I never got much involved simply because I do not watch cable news much at all.

Today, I noted the following while doing some web browsing....

[B]"Ed Schultz apologized on Tuesday for playing a clip of Texas Gov. Rick Perry out of context.

On Monday, Schultz played footage of Perry seeming to refer to President Obama as a "big black cloud" over America. Schultz said this was evidence of latent racism in the Republican field. In fact, Perry was talking about the debt, not Obama. On Tuesday, Schultz acknowledged his mistake--but stressed that he thinks there is ample evidence to bolster his claim that Perry is trying to smear Obama"


No mention of any company discipline...or a statement criticizing the obvious, if you read the article, editing of a news item to slant it. As a matter of fact, NOT MENTIONED AT ALL on MSNBC that I could see !

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_929066.html

Then I proceeded to check their take on the Presidents vacation. There was an article, tame on any criticisms, but while it could have said that other Presidents were subject to the same criticisms in the past, it mentions in passing the President Clinton used to poll to determine where to go and then this...

"Former President George W. Bush was criticized for spending nearly 500 days at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, during his two terms in office. He was there in August 2001 when he received a CIA briefing paper warning him of al-Qaida's intentions to strike the United States — just over a month before the Sept. 11 attacks would occur. And in 2005, he remained on vacation after Hurricane Katrina swamped New Orleans and devastated the Gulf Coast. His presidency suffered from his response to the storm and his decision to not immediately return to Washington."

Quite detailed I thought for the idea of the story.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44172678

Then to Chris Matthews part of the website...and these were the front stories...

"Is Perry taking his accusations too far"

"Bachman makes a mistake about Elvis"

"Some Republicans to avoid open town halls"

"Are the GOP candidates too radical"


These were on the front page...if you search you will find

"When will Bachmann's hypocrisy end" among others,none about new jobs, none about the budget problem, none about the cost of the health care bill.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/

This network is so skewed that watching it for any length of time and not checking legimate news sources will simply brain wash you.

I know that networks have their bias, but this, to me anway, is so far over the top it is just plain ridiculous. This is from TODAY...no gathering..just browsing.


I am making an assumption here that those of you who are on here bashing Fox, must watch this claptrap...please explain how this network is even close to informative on anything ?