I think that MSNBC made a business decision for better or for worse. Matthews, unfortunate for him, also made a business decision to sit beside the crazy fella.

No way, when he spoke out against the chosen one, it was only to save his sorry butt as he knew they were way over the line. Mathews is more astute version of Colmes, Oby is just a ,,??? help me out here.

Seriously, if you think MSNBC is reconsidering their network’s obvious liberal bias, think again:

Wow, who saw this coming?

Is Matthews collateral damage here?

It’s hard to feel too badly for him but, I have to say, he was starting to look a little like a hostage toward the end of MSNBC’s coverage of the GOP convention. Just before they were about to sign off on Wednesday, when Olby was worriedly predicting that community organizers all over America would rise up against Rudy and Palin’s repeated taunting (still waiting on that), the look on Matthews’ face was priceless.

Both Olbermann and Matthews are verbose, obnoxious, rude and downright mean partisans.

sinsing on September 8, 2008 at 6:27 PM

This OT, but Alan Colmes drives me nuts! I am seriously thinking of starting an Olby Watch blog on Colmes. He was just on and is “asking the tough Sarah Palin questions” with the nice lady who wrote that book on Palin. She’s in Alaska and can hardly hear him and he’s doing his usual sarcastic grilling.

::stabs leg with knife as typing::

*watches the yuotube video where Chris Mathews insulted Michelle Malkin.* Never mind. F* him.

wise_man on September 8, 2008 at 5:56 PM

*Watches the youtube where Jon Stewart skewers him and his stupid book.* Feel much better.

Olbermann, on the other hand, showed that he is nothing more than a whore. I’ve said before that if O’Reilly had been on MSNBC first and had taken up the liberal cause, Olbermann would have gladly gone to Fox, sucked up to Sean Hannity and been Fox’s conservative guy. Olbermann is a trained monkey with no ethics whatsoever. I pray this new liberal chick gets insane ratings and they dump his ass. That is all NBC wants, someone who is a better draw then that idiot.

“Is Matthews collateral damage here?”

No. Mom said once, “Remember when you asked if you could jump off the bridge Jimmy jumped off? Well, Jimmy’s dead.”

Well, Mom didn’t really (have to) tell me that but Matthews is a big boy and he should have known better than to jump off the bridge Olby did.

Olbermann…I’ve never been able to figure out whether his bile is real, or just a shtick that he figured America was ready to buy, and that’d be saleable long enough for him to get filthy rich off of it. I’ve generally leaned toward the latter, and I still think that’s the case. He’s gone too far to ever be considered a serious newsman, but maybe he figures that he can always go back to sports.

Memo to Keith: my guess is that Sarah’s done with that, maybe she’ll be NBA commissioner after a couple terms in the Oval Office. Just hopin’.

If it’s not illuminating to present two sides of an issue, I don’t want to,” she said.

om what I’ve seen the remaking of MSNBCs image is going to take more than this.

They need to rethink this whole balancing Fox thing. Fox balanced them… and yet it didn’t even really slant very far right at all.

So jumping off the left side of the cliff like they did… well it’s going to take someone who actually knows where the middle is to fix MSNBC and I’m not seeing anyone qualified.

petunia on September 8, 2008 at 6:05 PM

The Normal media all of them, CBS, NBC, ABC are slanted left of normal public audience.

MSNBC does NOT even need to exist! Its rabid propaganda thats all it is, FOX News is what i would call, Center Right(where the American electorate is, the country MOST OF THE PEOPLE are center right thats just reality)

Unfortunately, we are stuck with a liberal press, liberal late night talk show hosts and comics, liberal day time talk show hosts… a liberal entertainment industry, it’s so out of sink with what the people are, you know how the saying goes, power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, the media is corrupt and has been exposed in a major way, everyone knew it before it was obvious but people just stood by and accepted it, and said “oh well.. theres nothing we can do..” .

Maybe Chrissy’s next leg tingle will be at the hands of Olby shaking his pant leg looking for some respect. Or something.

Hey, you have immigration on your mind, but WTH does that have to do with Olby and Matthews? I guess I’d have to ask Hitch. He knows these things.

Look, MSNBC must have gotten significant flak to admit to any degree at all that Olby was giving Republicans ammunition, since in reality they could care less what Republicans think. They gambled on wild putrescent nutroots/truther hate carrying the day, and it didn’t work out — yet. Olby gets yanked from what’s laughingly called the straight news — for now.

Matthews, who pretty much sold whatever integrity he had left over the last years (I think he had some, at least in the dim past, maybe) This is his reward for not bailing out when he saw the handwriting on the wall — someone who could carry the crazy further and more vitriolically than he. He made himself the fallguy. No pity.

Rovin on September 8, 2008 at 6:50 PM

He was so mad at me! :)

Marsh on September 8, 2008 at 6:16 PM

I’m not suprised…

Um..I find it hilarious that he would say that, given that on that infamous night, I watched him sign off (about 1:00 a.m.) with him plugging the 9/11 remembrance show that he will we doing on Thursday..ask my cat if you don’t believe me because the water I had just sipped flew out and landed on him!

Pam on September 8, 2008 at 6:45 PM

Pam “sprayed” her cat and two dogs got neutered—-on to globel warming!

They must live in a special kind of hell.