MSNBC No Evil

by digby

Apparently MSNBC’s agenda is to be as obnoxious as possible at least half the time.

Yesterday, we had two examples of jackass style “journalism” starting with Tucker Carlson, whose ratings are so low rated that his Youtubes actually have more viewers than his show, hosting his BFF, long time GOP dirty trickster Roger Stone. Roger, you may recall has formed a neat new political group called “Citizens United Not Timid, a 527 Organization To Educate The American Public About What Hillary Clinton Is.” (I’m sure the t-shirts are selling briskly.)

Here he is calling Hillary a hack who believes in virtually nothing (which is actually mild considering the t-shirts) — and raising the possibility of Barack being assassinated if he meets with foreign leaders. Really edifying stuff:

And then we have Matthews, the man who just a week ago publicly proclaimed that he gets a zing up his leg when he hears Obama speak, morphing into Sean Hannity and browbeating some poor obscure state senator from Texas for not knowing Barack’s legislative record:

CNN is generally better, although I must say that one of the blessings of the primary coming to a close with Senator Obama as the nominee would be that alleged Hillary expert Carl Bernstein could go back to drinking alone in front of the TV instead of appearing on it.

Here’s a little homework assignment from Digby: watch the movie “Network” again. We all need to get in shape for the general. Cable news actually seems to be getting worse.

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