Trouble at MSNBC?
August 28th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »I’ve never had much respect for Keith Olbermann whose rants against the President I’ve always found grating and out of place on a news program, however if a Politico article outlining tensions at MSNBC is accurate I may need to start looking at Chris Matthews in a similar light:
During Tuesday night’s broadcast, both Olbermann and Matthews took shots at Howard Wolfson, the Clinton campaign’s former communications director, criticizing him as a Republican collaborator because of his work as a Fox News analyst.
Matthews called Wolfson a “little toy soldier waiting on the shelf,” while Olbermann compared him to “Tokyo Rose,” the woman who delivered propaganda over the airwaves during World War II.
It’s the sort of coverage I expect from Olbermann, but I’m disappointed in Chris Matthews, a man I’d previously held in high regard.
The story also outlines a series of on-air exchanges between Joe Scarborough and David Shuster that included allegations of bias and at one point Shuster walking off the set. Of course this isn’t the first time Shuster has gotten himself in trouble, back in February his comment about Chelsea Clinton being “pimped out” by her mother’s campaign resulted in his temporary suspension from the network.
Hopefully MSNBC will be able to get their act together in time for the Republican Convention next week in St. Paul, but with the tone of coverage we’ve seen thus far I’m not optimistic.
So long as they don’t touch Scarborough’s “Morning Joe” program I’ll at least be mollified. I tune in each and every morning.
UPDATE: The Wall Street Journal weighs in with a story published today on the clashing personalities at MSNBC.
