When Politics is Personal, Slapfighting is Inevitable…and Fun to Watch!
MS-NBC has easily the most partisan and openly left-leaning group of journalists of any news network. The powers that be at NBC made that decision on purpose, to combat what they see as a similar right-wing bias among Fox journalists.
The only problem with that is eventually those considerable egos were going to start to conflict with each other. What the network execs at NBC forgot to take into account is that, on the left, politics is intensely personal. It’s not that way on the right, which is why the more conservative pundits on Fox can share the same stage without getting into slapfights.
I’m not shocked that the Obama-loving Olbermann and Matthews aren’t getting along with the more skeptical Scarborough and the other journalists like Brokaw and Mike Murphy who at least make an attempt to be objective in their reporting. David Shuster is just a down-the-line leftist who carries the same ill-informed scorn for anyone not parroting the party line, which doesn’t put him on any particular side but does put him at odds with the barely-centrist Joe Scarborough.
Let’s also not forget that the network still hasn’t decided to permanently give anyone the spot as host of Meet the Press, which is by far the top perch at NBC. That’s a plum that the egotists who currently host shows on MS-NBC just can’t resist trying to get, preferably by shanking the competition in the kidney on the air.
I’m sure all this infighting during the DNC alarms some progressive somewhere. For the rest of us, it’s just a lot of fun to watch – like watching the big pie fight at the end of am episode of The Three Stooges.
Other Posts of Interest:
- More Journalists Shot at By Russian Troops. Still No Word from the MSM
- Barack Heads to Europe, and His Prideful Retinue Rides Along
- NBC’s Mitchell Shills for Obama, Says John McCain is a Big Old Cheaterface
Category: 2008 Democratic National Convention, Oh, THAT liberal media.
