Ladies And Gentlemen, Your Liberal Media

The GOP spinmeisters have gotten to MSNBC, who are dropping Olberman and Chris Matthews as their election coverage hosts.

MSNBC is removing Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as the anchors of live political events, bowing to growing criticism that they are too opinionated to be seen as neutral in the heat of the presidential campaign.

David Gregory, the NBC newsman and White House correspondent who also hosts a program on MSNBC, will take over during such events as this fall's presidential and vice presidential debates and election night.

The move, confirmed by spokesmen for both networks, follows increasingly loud complaints about Olbermann's anchor role at the Democratic and Republican conventions. Olbermann, who regularly assails President Bush and GOP nominee John McCain on his "Countdown" program, was effusive in praising the acceptance speech of Democratic nominee Barack Obama. He drew flak Thursday when the Republicans played a video that included a tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks, saying that if the networks had done that, "we would be rightly eviscerated at all quarters, perhaps by the Republican Party itself, for exploiting the memories of the dead, and perhaps even for trying to evoke that pain again. If you reacted to that videotape the way I did, I apologize."

Matthews, who has criticized politicians in both parties, drew less criticism for his convention role but became a divisive figure during the primaries when he described how he was inspired by Obama's speeches and made disparaging remarks about Hillary Clinton, for which he later apologized.

In May, MSNBC President Phil Griffin said in an interview that during live events Olbermann and Matthews "put on different hats. I think the audience gets it. . . . I see zero problem."

And yet FOX News, an entire network that really IS the propaganda arm of the Republican Party, operates with impunity. Olbermann's days are numbered, as is Matthews, as is Rachel Maddow. There's no room for a liberal viewpoint on American news channels. The GOP is always right, the Democrats are always scum.



The fix is in folks. McSame's had an 11-point turnaround in the Gallup polls since Labor Day. It's time for Obama and Biden to go to work. There's no way they can get a positive message out anymore, because any message positive to the Democrats is "proof of liberal media bias."

If they don't start fighting back NOW, it's over. McSame will run away with this.

And we will have earned our fate.