MSNBC's goal for the day: Only show Republicans speaking.

[usregimechange]

Even while Whitehouse is speaking, they are playing clips from Sessions earlier comments.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Hopefully that will come to an end from 6-11 PM EDT

[emulatorloo]

6. HA HA, that can be pretty hit and miss!

Has Tweety had his meds today?

Did KO get a mean twitter?

[emulatorloo]

2. BUT MSNBC is the LIE-BERAL Fox!1!?!1

This is pretty much their modus operandi -- lots of free time for Republicans to spew their BS unchallenged,

[KonaKane]

3. NPR pulled this shit when Howard Zinn died

Instead of a nice piece on his life, they had fucking DAVID HOROWITZ on, the outspoken rabid wingnut.

Oh, and they got an earful from their listeners. I'm not sure it did any good.

[izquierdista]

4. They've been coopted

I quit listening to them for news around 5 years ago, when it was clear that they they understood the talking to they had by their sponsoring foundations and agreed to roll over. That was about the time they put Bob Edwards out to pasture.

[BrklynLiberal]

10. NPR is no longer PUBLIC radio....

Their corporate "underwriters" are in charge

[KonaKane]

13. Well that explains it.

I've heard about their tilt lately, but I guess all it takes is following the money.

[Blue Owl]

5. Spin is in.

Reality has left the building.

[emulatorloo]

7. "We make our own reality" - some bush era guy in some real good Ron Suskind article

EOM

[BrklynLiberal]

12. YEP. the Sunday NY Times Magazine Section

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html

In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.

The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''

Who besides guys like me are part of the reality-based community? Many of the other elected officials in Washington, it would seem. A group of Democratic and Republican members of Congress were called in to discuss Iraq sometime before the October 2002 vote authorizing Bush to move forward. A Republican senator recently told Time Magazine that the president walked in and said: ''Look, I want your vote. I'm not going to debate it with you.'' When one of the senators began to ask a question, Bush snapped, ''Look, I'm not going to debate it with you.''

[emulatorloo]

16. Thanks for putting up the link and the quote! n/t

[Scurrilous]

8. @#$% Liberal Media!!1!

LOL

[Beaverhausen]

9. it's all about the ratings

seeing Senators praise Kagan won't get eyes on the network.

[DainBramaged]

11. And they made us look.

They achieved their goal. The Pukes won't watch, so why not piss us off to get us to watch.


:shrug:

[jp11]

14. I can't stand when they or CNN are the only one's covering something

press conference, etc and they interrupt to spout their garbage. I want to hear what is going on not what your talking head idiots have to say about it.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

15. OUR NATION IS DESTROYED

[City Lights]

17. One reason why I pretty much have the corporate nooze media on ignore.

They're a huge part of the problem.