Written by PeacockWatch on November 3, 2009.
It interesting that MSNBC can jump on the bandwagon criticizing Fox News for not being a news bureau. Keith Olbermann’s program on November 2nd was an amazing display of being an excellent and dogmatic spokesperson for the Democratic Party. MSNBC should actually be paid for the service they perform for the White House. Oh, we almost forgot. MSNBC is owned by GE so they are, in effect, being paid by the White House. After all, hasn’t Jeffrey Immelt, GE’s CEO, spent several nights at the White House (along with George Soros). Perhaps that explains everything. We wonder what happened to the principle of not only avoiding impropriety but also avoiding the appearance of impropriety.
Olbermann performed his usual great service on behalf of the Democratic Party by launching attack after attack on Sarah Palin who he calls that hockey mom from the north. That wouldn’t be a sexist comment, would it, Keith? I’m sure it wasn’t because you criticized sexism so strongly later in your Democratic Party promotion hour.
Keith Olbermann goes on later to say that Scozzofava dropped out of the upstate New York race because of poor fund raising and influence from Sarah Palin who he defined as Miss Hateful and Divisive. He goes on to wonder why Palin pushed another Republican woman off the cliff. I guess he didn’t figure out what most others found to be obvious. Scozzofava is a Democrat trying unsuccessfully to disguise herself as a Republican. Guess you missed that Keith.
Olbermann and MSNBC are so far left that they think Sarah Palin is far right. This got PeacockWatch to thinking about the perspective of MSNBC. Indeed, during the program these MSNBC spokespeople for Obama opined about how Obama is reaching out to moderates. That finally explains everything. MSNBC and the White House are so far left that they think left of center Democrats are moderates. Perhaps we need to refer to history for perspective. Didn’t Obama have the most liberal voting record in the Senate? Of course, that was only true when he voted. If the people that Obama is reaching out to are moderates instead of liberals then he must have very short arms or Obama and his team can only be defined as Socialists. Or perhaps they are much farther to the left than Socialists since so many members of the White House inner circle are professed Marxists. No wonder Olbermann and MSNBC and the White House think Palin is far right. I once worked with someone who was very far left. When I told him that he was clearly a far left liberal he responded that he was insulted, that liberals are far too conservative and that he was a socialist. At least he knew what he was and was honest about it.
This all helps PeacockWatch to understand the opinion expressed during Olbermann’s hour of liberal power that the Republican Party has declared war on moderates. Particularly pithy was the MSNBC observation that the Republican Party is not big enough for the Twitter and Facebook poster child from the north and Scozzafava. If moderates are defined as those who Obama is reaching out to then Olbermann is probably right. There is no room for those types of moderates in the traditional Republican Party.
Olbermann’s perspective is made clearer minute after minute and night after night. One of his pronouncements this night is that the Republican Party doesn’t qualify for party status when only 19% of Americans are Republican. Pew strongly disagrees with Olbermann by a large margin. Learn to use Google, Keith.
This last bit of time with Olbermann and MSNBC has been like a trip through the looking glass. Watch out, Alice.
Written by PeacockWatch on October 27, 2009.
MSNBC is so much in the tank with the Democratic Party that they are indistinguishable from each other. Clear evidence is presented in this video infomercial for the health care public option sponsored by the White House and the Democratic Party.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#33486356
After watching this, PeacockWatch is compelled to ask how MSNBC can be allowed to retain its license as a news agency. How can Keith Olbermann be regarded as anything but the spokesperson for the Democratic Party and the health care public option?
If you watched the first 30 seconds of this video, that could have been written by Harry Reid, you saw Olbermann setting the stage for eight minutes and seventeen seconds of blatant support for Harry Reid and the public option. No reporting. Just an eight minute seventeen second commercial that MSNBC provided for free to the Democratic Party.
Throughout the video, which is mostly a pat on the back for, and a love fest with, Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer, Olbermann doesn’t even try to contain his enthusiasm for the Democratic Party and the public option.
In the last 15 seconds Olbermann and Schumer are actually congratulating each other for the around the corner success of the public option. Schumer says to Olbermann “there will probably be some twists in the road that you and I don’t anticipate”. Olbermann responds, “Well, to the degree that congratulations are in order, my congratulations to you, Senator Schumer of New York.”
This is reporting? We have seen paid political advertising that is less biased.
It is interesting that on the same MSNBC web site page there is a video condemning Fox News. That MSNBC video starts out with “If you are a journalist you are supposed to have a healthy adversarial relationship with the people and institutions that you cover.”
PeacockWatch agrees. We suspect that Fox News agrees. MSNBC, by their own definition, is not a news organization and is absolutely hypocritical. Thank you MSNBC for helping us make our point.
Written by PeacockWatch on October 25, 2009.
The following is taken from http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights.html.
During the debates on the adoption of the Constitution, its opponents repeatedly charged that the Constitution as drafted would open the way to tyranny by the central government. Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution. They demanded a “bill of rights” that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens. Several state conventions in their formal ratification of the Constitution asked for such amendments; others ratified the Constitution with the understanding that the amendments would be offered.
In our various editorials PeacockWatch has expressed our concern about what amounts to a new tyranny. This new tyranny is best expressed in the attack by the new administration and its czars on capitalism, democracy, the constitution and specifically the first two amendments under the bill of rights to our constitution. One of these attack occurred in just the last few days when the administration tried diligently to ban Fox News from participation in White House pool interview. Thankfully, all of the media banned together to stop this move which may not have been a violation of the First Amendment but was certainly in violation of the spirit of the First Amendment. Hail to the press for this one-time victory.
Interestingly enough, the reason given for banning Fox News from this pool interview is the declaration by the White House that Fox News is not a news organization because of their supposed support for and bias toward the Republican Party. Keith Olbermann couldn’t wait to jump on, or is it continue to be the driver of, this White House bandwagon. Mr. Olbermann and MSNBC feel that they now have the golden opportunity to declare themselves number one in cable news because the White House has declared Fox News to not be a news organization. On their web site MSNBC states “With Fox News exposed as a political advocacy organization and not a news channel, that leaves msnbc as the #1 most watched news channel on cable”. This article on the MSNBC web site will lead the reader to the following video link. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/vp/33389812/ns/msnbc_tv-countdown_with_keith_olbermann#33389812
The Pew Research Center is generally regarded as an excellent and objective polling group. Perhaps MSNBC should look at the results of the latest Pew studies regarding MSNBC. If it is fair to declare Fox News to be a political advocacy organization for the Republican Party then it might be even more fair to declare MSNBC an arm of the White House staff.
MSNBC needs to go back to the principles on which this country was founded. MSNBC seems to spend a lot of its time fighting with Fox News while at the same time acting as a full time supporter of the Obama White House. Perhaps MSNBC should reflect on the following quote from Thomas Jefferson rather than joining with the increasingly closed White House to declare Fox News not to be a news organization.
“The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary to keep the waters pure.”
Who is it that is more afraid of Fox News? MSNBC or the White House. Or are the two indistinguishable from each other? Or perhaps MSNBC is simply afraid of , and stridently against, the same thing the White House is afraid of. Open competition in a free enterprise system.
Written by PeacockWatch on October 17, 2009.
