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| Pa. Governor: MSNBC is "the official network of the Obama campaign" |
| 2008-08-25 |
| Michael Calderone, Politico Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell was supposed to give "closing remarks" during this afternoon's Shorenstein Center-sponsored panel discussion with all three Sunday show moderators -- NBC's Tom Brokaw, ABC's George Stephanopoulous and CBS's Bob Schieffer -- but instead, he opened up a can of worms about bias in 2008 election coverage "Ladies and gentleman, the coverage of Barack Obama was embarrassing," said Rendell, in the ballroom at Denver's Brown Palace Hotel. "It was embarrassing." Rendell, an ardent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter during the primaries, now backs Obama in the general election. Brokaw and Rendell began debating campaign coverage, including the on-air comments by Lee Cowan, and when MSNBC came up, Rendell went after the cable network. "MSNBC was the official network of the Obama campaign," Rendell said, who called their coverage "absolutely embarrassing." Chris Matthews, Rendell said, "loses his impartiality when he talks about the Clintons." At that point, PBS's Judy Woodruff, who was moderating the moderators event, said: That was met with applause from the crowd of big-time media figures, which included Arianna Huffington, Gwen Ifill, Al Hunt, and Chuck Todd. "You tell 'em, Judy!" "He is a heretic! Off with his head!" "Burn him at the stake!" "We can't have steak, we're vegans." "Oh. Well ... boil him in soy milk, then!" Woodruff allowed Brokaw to respond, and in defending the network, he said that Matthews and Keith Olbermann are "not the only voices" on MSNBC. Coulda fooled me. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 Fa |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-08-25 15:57 |
| #5 They really hate it when you call them on it. It's almost like you're questioning their objectivity or...something. Add Rendell's name to the future show trials list. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-08-25 15:21 |
| #4 And some guy named Jared Bernstein says McCain won't be a good President because he's Rich and is out-of-touch with middle-income Americans, unlike Obama. I barfed. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2008-08-25 15:11 |
| #3 Gee, there are so many. It's so hard to choose just one. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-08-25 15:05 |
| #2 Woodruff told the sitting governor of Pennsylvania to sit down and shut up at an event he had been invited to? Wow. I can't stand Fast Eddie, but that's all kinds of wrong. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-08-25 11:04 |
| #1 A lot of the Clinton folks stated that the Fox News Network was the only channel that gave objective coverage during the Dem Primaries. |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-08-25 08:53 |