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« on: May 09, 2016, 09:25:00 PM »

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Funny that he said this on MSNBC.  Tongue
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« Reply #1 on: May 09, 2016, 09:26:41 PM »

Bu.....but I though MSNBC was the left's Fox!
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« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2016, 09:29:21 PM »

Bu.....but I though MSNBC was the left's Fox!
It is, they just suck at it.
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« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2016, 09:30:47 PM »

Bu.....but I though MSNBC was the left's Fox!

MSNBC has moved far to the right under Comcast ownership. Also they have a rather striking pro Hillary bias in the primary.
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« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2016, 09:32:13 PM »
« Edited: May 09, 2016, 09:36:20 PM by Meclazine »

CNN are probably there.

It's not that they are pro-left. It's more a case of that they wont report bad news on Hillary or Good news on Trump.

Facebook are accused of the same thing:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/05/09/former-facebook-staffers-say-conservative-news-is-deliberately-suppressed.html?intcmp=hplnws

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« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2016, 09:33:18 PM »

Bu.....but I though MSNBC was the left's Fox!

MSNBC has moved far to the right under Comcast ownership. Also they have a rather striking pro Hillary bias in the primary.

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« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2016, 09:37:04 PM »

Bu.....but I though MSNBC was the left's Fox!

MSNBC has moved far to the right under Comcast ownership. Also they have a rather striking pro Hillary bias in the primary.



In all fairness, MSNBC's lineup over the past couple of years has shifted to the right, if only from them continuing to ax the more left-wing hosts and shows. Two of their three most popular shows (Hardball & Morning Joe) have pretty significant right-wing tilts either in an absolute sense or a relative sense.
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« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2016, 09:42:23 PM »

^ Matthews is the most partisan person on MSNBC.

MSNBC has too many "real news anchors" - Mitchell, Jansing, Williams, Todd, Maddow, Hayes, heck even O'Donnell on occasion. They need to cut it down to no more than 3 to be the alternate fox. Fox has Kelly and possibly Baier and Wallace.

At least MSNBC has made sure that just like Fox, they only have 1 "opposite ideology person". MSNBC has Scarborough, FOX has Greta.
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« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2016, 09:44:18 PM »

Because MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS aren't enough networks that are already left-wing...
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« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2016, 09:44:57 PM »

^ Matthews is the most partisan person on MSNBC.

MSNBC has too many "real news anchors" - Mitchell, Jansing, Williams, Todd, Maddow, Hayes, heck even O'Donnell on occasion. They need to cut it down to no more than 3 to be the alternate fox. Fox has Kelly and possibly Baier and Wallace.

At least MSNBC has made sure that just like Fox, they only have 1 "opposite ideology person". MSNBC has Scarborough, FOX has Greta.

Greta really isn't liberal though, at least not to me.

Because MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS aren't enough networks that are already left-wing...

CNN isn't really left wing....
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« Reply #10 on: May 09, 2016, 09:45:48 PM »

Because MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS aren't enough networks that are already left-wing...

Being hopelessly neutral and afraid to call out Republican BS doesn't make them left wing...
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« Reply #11 on: May 09, 2016, 09:46:23 PM »

In what universe is Chris Matthews rightwing? Sometimes the things you people say...
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« Reply #12 on: May 09, 2016, 09:46:40 PM »

Because MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS aren't enough networks that are already left-wing...

Corporate media by definition cannot be left-wing.
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« Reply #13 on: May 09, 2016, 09:47:30 PM »

In what universe is Chris Matthews rightwing? Sometimes the things you people say...

It's Jfern.....
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« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2016, 09:47:36 PM »
« Edited: May 09, 2016, 09:52:19 PM by Santander »

MSNBC is only the left-wing Fox in primetime and Al "Token Black" Sharpton's hour on Sundays that nobody watches. Morning Joe alone is 15 hours a week of centre-right programming, of which there is no equivalent on FNC. Actually, Morning Joe is arguably in the political zeitgeist more than the rest of MSNBC's programming combined...

And yes, Democrats already have the friendly mainstream media. Liberals don't have any major broadcast/cable networks, but they're a minority of the Democratic Party...
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« Reply #15 on: May 09, 2016, 09:50:29 PM »

MSNBC has moved right but is still well left of center. Matthews was clearly pro-Clinton but Hayes clearly gushed over Bernie for months and now seems to have evened out.

CNN isn't habitually left, it is sensationalist and will milk whatever story sells, sometimes against right, sometimes against left.
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« Reply #16 on: May 09, 2016, 09:53:17 PM »

I read that Ed Schultz is now apparently a pro-Trump, pro-Putin guy on RT.
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« Reply #17 on: May 09, 2016, 10:07:31 PM »

I read that Ed Schultz is now apparently a pro-Trump, pro-Putin guy on RT.
Ed Schultz is a great guy - one of the few left-of-center media figures in the country who represents blue-collar union folks and not coastal liberals.

MSNBC has too many "real news anchors" - Mitchell, Jansing, Williams, Todd, Maddow, Hayes, heck even O'Donnell on occasion. They need to cut it down to no more than 3 to be the alternate fox. Fox has Kelly and possibly Baier and Wallace.
You think Megyn Kelly is more of a "real news anchor" than Chris Wallace, Brit Hume or Shep Smith? FNC actually has more "real" journalists than most people give them credit for. (Lawrence O'Donnell and Chris Hayes are utter hacks)
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« Reply #18 on: May 09, 2016, 10:28:49 PM »

No more cable news networks, thanks.
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« Reply #19 on: May 09, 2016, 10:44:40 PM »

B-b-b-but the LIEberal media!
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« Reply #20 on: May 09, 2016, 11:01:52 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks
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« Reply #21 on: May 09, 2016, 11:15:16 PM »

For a time I hoped MSNBC could fill the space in-between the superficial and false "objectivity" of the mainstream media and the off-the-rails, reactionary and brainless TYT.  But they seem to be foundering lately.
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« Reply #22 on: May 09, 2016, 11:38:37 PM »


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« Reply #23 on: May 09, 2016, 11:52:38 PM »

Bu.....but I though MSNBC was the left's Fox!

MSNBC is the Democratic Party loyalist network, but just because they have a Democratic bias does not mean they are a liberal network, because 9 times out of 10 the Democratic Establishment is Right-Wing.
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« Reply #24 on: May 09, 2016, 11:58:58 PM »

MSNBC needs to have a rant about how Santa is "just white, he just is!" Then they'll reach FOX level.
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